It was definitely a wild boar!
Wild boars are nocturnal animals, generally coming out to forage in the morning and evening, and sleeping in dense foliage during the day.
Qiu Yan was both surprised and delighted. She turned to look at her younger sister in the tree, signaling her not to be afraid, and then continued walking towards the wild boar. She raised her sickle and, with all her might, stabbed it into its carotid artery...
The sleeping wild boar suddenly let out a scream, the intense pain causing it to open its eyes instantly.
The wild boar screamed and howled in pain, seemingly never expecting to be slaughtered while it was peacefully sleeping, and its anger was hard to quell.
At that moment, Qiu Yan ran a few steps, chose a short tree nearby, grabbed it with both hands, and jumped up, her whole body was on the tree.
The wild boar wanted to find someone to take revenge, but after running around in all directions, it couldn't find anyone.
The irritable creature circled the surrounding trees repeatedly, while beneath it lay a pool of blood.
On the other side of the tree branch, Qiu Ling'er's eyes were wide open. From her sister killing the pig to climbing the tree, and then to the wild boar running around, she seemed to have forgotten to breathe, and her whole body was trembling.
Her sister's actions just now really frightened her. The villagers all know that wild boars are ferocious animals with immense strength. Ordinary people can easily be killed by them if they are not careful.
My sister's courage is extraordinary!
Qiu Yan looked at the wild boar beneath her, and followed its steps, changing trees several times in succession.
Fifteen minutes later, when the wild boar was exhausted, Qiu Yan took out her sickle and swung it straight into its neck again.
With a gurgling sound, blood gushed out, and after spinning around several times, the wild boar collapsed to the ground with a thud, still struggling.
Realizing that the wild boar was no longer a threat to her, Qiu Yan climbed down the tree trunk, found a long branch, and poked the wild boar a few times. Instantly, the wild boar saw Qiu Yan and, with all its might, kicked off in pursuit.
"Sister, be careful!" Qiu Ling'er's heart suddenly raced. Seeing this, Qiu Yan took off running and leaped onto a tree once again.
The wild boar followed her steps, thud...
It crashed into a tree!
After it fell this time, it never got up again.
Qiu Yan quietly observed the wild boar's body until it had completely died before she climbed down from the tree again.
"Sister, is it dead?" Qiu Ling'er asked.
“Dead.” Qiu Yan stared at the wild boar, her eyes gleaming with gold—it was all pure silver.
The wild boar died, and then another problem arose.
This wild boar must weigh at least 200 pounds. How are they going to bring it home?
Just as she was thinking of the Li family's donkey cart, she heard footsteps coming from ahead.
Could it be that the wild boar's cries attracted the wild animals?
As Qiu Yan was thinking this, she looked warily into the distance and saw a tall figure appear in front of her.
"Uncle Li, it's you."
At this moment, Li Zheng was carrying a wild roe deer on his back.
Li Zheng came over after hearing the wild boar's screams and smelling the blood all around him.
He was taken aback when he saw the bloodstains on the ground, then looked at Qiu Yan and asked in confusion, "Did you kill this wild boar?"
Qiu Yan nodded, "Yes, Uncle Li, could I borrow your donkey cart?"
Li Zheng couldn't believe that this delicate girl could actually slaughter a wild boar. This was just too... illogical!
He was puzzled, and after asking around, he learned that Qiu Yan had killed the wild boar using only a sickle.
"I'll carry it back for you... Please wait a moment, I'll be right back."
After Li Zheng finished speaking, he put down the roe deer and went into the bushes ahead.
Qiu Yan nodded and looked up. In the bushes ahead, there were several tall pine trees. Li Zheng stopped in front of two of them.
Behind the pine trees was a... tomb mound made of towering rocks?
Qiu Yan's heart trembled slightly as she gazed at Li Zheng, her mood becoming heavy.
Beside the tomb, there grew a patch of red spider lilies with only withered leaves.
Li Zheng cleared the weeds in front of the grave, sat on a stone in front of the grave, coughed lightly a few times, and sat in a daze for a long time, holding the yellow soil in front of the grave.
Little Ling'er blinked, her eyes reddening as she thought of her deceased parents.
When Li Zheng arrived, he was accompanied only by his family of three. Qiu Yan thought and thought, but she couldn't recall any relatives in the nearby mountain village, let alone what kind of experiences he had gone through.
Knowing that Uncle Li didn't want anyone to disturb him at this time, Qiu Yan waited quietly.
Fifteen minutes later, Li Zheng returned.
After turning back, he bent down, used a little skill, and with one effort, hoisted the wild boar onto his shoulder.
"Let's go." He maintained a serious and indifferent expression, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts.
Qiu Ling'er's mouth formed an "O" shape; Uncle Li's strength was astonishing.
Qiu Yan secretly praised him, thanked Li Zheng, and insisted on putting the wild roe deer into the basket, pulling her younger sister along behind her.
Along the mountain path, villagers came and went, gathering firewood and digging for wild vegetables. They all looked at the wild boar on Li Zheng's shoulder with envy, but no one greeted Li Zheng.
Quite a few people greeted Qiu Yan, and Qiu Yan responded to each one.
The villagers were a little surprised that Qiu Yan and her sister would travel with Li Zheng, and that they weren't afraid of him or felt bored.
Li Zheng carried the wild boar for a while without batting an eye, only slightly out of breath.
The three returned to the Qiu family's old courtyard shortly after 9 AM.
Li Zheng released the wild boar directly into Qiu Yan's yard.
At that moment, Ye heard the commotion outside the door and entered Qiu Yan's courtyard.
When villagers passing by saw the wild boars in Qiu's old courtyard, they couldn't help but stop and linger, and some even went into the courtyard to see what was going on.
Qiu Ling'er gesticulated animatedly as she recounted her sister's actions one by one, a sister she was now very proud of.
Upon hearing this, Ye was filled with disbelief and a sense of lingering fear.
The surrounding villagers assumed that Li Zheng had hunted the wild boar. Like Ye Shi, they were incredulous, whispered among themselves, and then left.
"Qiu Yan, you should think twice before you act in the future. What do you plan to do with this wild boar?" Ye asked. Usually, Li Zheng would take the Li family's prey directly to Baiyang to sell at the market.
Qiu Yan thought for a moment. The wild boar was quite large, and it wouldn't be appropriate to take the whole thing to Baiyang. "We'll process it first, then take it to sell."
Speaking of selling, she turned to Li Zheng and asked, "Uncle Li, have you ever hunted wild boar before? What's the price you usually get?"
As Qiu Yan asked the questions, she silently estimated the price in her mind.
In this era, a pound of pork cost about fifteen coins. After processing, a wild boar could yield about 150 pounds of pork, which would amount to at least two ounces.
Qiu Yan was carefully calculating her finances, thinking about how she could work harder in the future to see if she could finish building the new house before the end of the year, when she heard Li Zheng reply casually:
"A wild boar can sell for six hundred coins."
"Six hundred coins?" Qiu Yan was somewhat uncertain.
"Yes, six hundred coins. I've sold them three times before, each time delivering a whole one directly to the butcher stall in the market."
Qiu Yan fell silent. The six hundred coins were far from what she had expected, and she was speechless.
Uncle Li, you've been scammed, do you know that?
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