The moment Lin Mo entered the courtyard, Jiang Ying noticed the several bulging burlap sacks he was carrying, and the colorful and beautiful feathers peeking out of his basket.
Feathers, a pheasant!
Although the production team had fish to eat these past two days, and we even ate rabbit a few times with the other educated youth.
There's no way you can ever have enough meat.
Besides, it was a wild pheasant she had never eaten before.
She missed out on eating the pheasant Lin Mo caught last time, and now that she saw it again, her mouth was watering.
Lin Mo went inside and then came out again immediately; it was unclear where he was going.
I circled around the Lin family's courtyard suspiciously for a while. The gate was locked tight, and the wall was difficult to climb.
She had no choice but to give up, and then quietly followed Lin Mo to see where he was going.
Lin Mo quickly arrived outside the village chief's house and called out through the window. A few minutes later, the village chief led the donkey cart he had borrowed from the team out of the yard.
They went west with Lin Mo.
It's obvious that the two of them had arranged it in advance.
Jiang Ying hesitated whether to continue following, but then she realized that since the two of them were leading a donkey cart, they must be using it to transport things that one person couldn't carry alone.
With that thought in mind, she decided to follow up a little longer.
The two people walking in front were unaware that they were being followed, while the village chief was only focused on his excitement.
We'll load the wild boar into the car and then head to the county.
Upon his return, he will officially become the first pig farmer in the village.
"Village chief, why do you seem so confident that this kind of pig can be traded for piglets?" Lin Mo asked, subtly probing as he walked forward with his head down.
The village chief glanced at him but didn't respond directly.
How much longer do we have to walk?
"It's quite far. It would take an hour or so to walk there, and then we brought a cart into the mountains, so it would probably take two hours." Lin Mo thought to himself that the village chief was probably hiding a lot of things.
The fact that the village chief was able to buy 2,000 jin of coal from the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday shows that he's the only one in the village with some resources.
I'll inevitably have to deal with the village chief a lot in the future, so I need to gradually figure out what he's really up to.
Wooden carts are difficult to access in the mountainous areas, and the journey is bumpy and difficult.
The wild boar has been stuck in that pit for so many days, and it hasn't even been fed two pounds of sweet potatoes a day.
In addition, it's cold in the mountains, and it gets even colder if you don't move around.
When the two men finally reached the edge of the pit, panting heavily, the wild boar was even weaker than before.
Lin Mo sat on the edge of the pit and kicked the pig's rump with his foot, but the pig didn't react at all.
It's a real shame. Raising pigs is a good thing, but I don't have the capacity to do it right now.
If this pig stays trapped like this for a few more days, it'll probably die.
Giving it to the village chief is the most cost-effective option now; otherwise, if he dies, his rotten flesh is inedible, and he won't get anything in return.
"Hey, we've had it for quite a few days now, it's all wilted," the village chief said excitedly as he peered inside.
"Alright, I was thinking about how to tie up the wild boars since they're so hard to tame."
After testing the waters and confirming that the wild boar was not capable of attacking, the two went down into the pit one after the other.
They tied it up with rope, and then the village chief came up first.
Lin Mo pushed the pig up from below, while the village chief pulled it up with a rope.
Finally, the two of them worked together to put the pig onto the donkey cart.
The village chief jumped onto the cart, said "Let's go," and then shouted as he drove the donkey away at breakneck speed.
He ran so fast that he was already dozens of meters away from Lin Mo.
Lin Mo was left alone in the ridge, exposed to the elements.
"Tch, look how excited you are."
Lin Mo rolled his eyes and kept looking up at the trees on his way home, thinking about taking some bird eggs with him.
Bird eggs are too small; three or four eggs are equivalent to one chicken egg.
Touching a few dozen is enough.
When I get home, I cook a pot of rice and fry some quail eggs. Eating the eggs with rice is also delicious.
After lying down for two days, Aunt Lin's pain subsided.
I've had more rest these past two days than ever before, and it's rare that I can sleep through the night without having to get up to fill in the kang (heated brick bed).
But after getting up, she couldn't see her son anywhere, inside or outside the house, and she couldn't help but worry about his safety.
When Lin Mo returned, it was already noon. His restless mother hadn't rested properly in the house; it was obvious she had gone to the production team again.
I was thinking of calling my mother back so she could rest for a few more days.
The autumn harvest had already ended ahead of schedule, so the remaining work wasn't too arduous.
Xiaohua wasn't home either; she must have gone with them.
Cook!
We collected nearly thirty bird eggs along the way, and fried half of them for my mother and younger sister.
The other half will be taken to the Su family after lunch, and two more rabbits will be brought along.
Trade with Su the carpenter for some narrow-mouthed bamboo baskets for scooping fish.
After deducting what was to be given to carpenter Su, there were still ten rabbits and five pheasants left in the house.
The younger sister was tasked with gathering grass for the rabbits.
The pheasants were tied up by their legs and placed behind the house to find their own food, while the younger sister looked after them.
Once things are better at home in a few days, we'll release them all into the yard.
The left side of the yard already had a coal shed, and another row of wooden sheds was built on the right side for raising livestock.
If I work hard and catch five more pheasants, and keep ten at home, I can ensure I have five eggs to eat every day.
If you want to eat meat, just kill a chicken!
After cooking the rice and frying a plate of bird eggs, I happily ate a large bowlful to fill my stomach before heading to Su the carpenter's house.
On the other hand, the village chief seemed to be able to do whatever he wanted without any problems.
He drove wild boars to the county in the morning, and just after noon, he returned with a cart full of whimpering piglets.
Jiang Ying, who was following the village chief, noticed that the village chief was leading a wild boar. After following for a while, she realized that the village chief was heading to the county, so she had to give up following him.
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