Dozens of kerosene lamps were lit on the open space in front of the brigade headquarters, illuminating the large open space as bright as day. More than twenty large wild boars were piled neatly on the open space. All the villagers gathered around, never taking their eyes off the wild boars.
There were eighteen big wild boars and seven small wild boars, half of which would be sent to the county.
"Captain, there are 25 wild boars in total. Hand over half of them to the county, or hand over seven small wild boars and five big wild boars." A villager interrupted and said that the big wild boars were much heavier than the small ones, so they could get more meat.
"You are the only one who is smart, but you think the people in the city are all fools." Mo Dashuan spat at him and pointed at eight big wild boars and five small wild boars: "Move these to the side. I will send them to the city tomorrow morning."
"Captain, why do we need so much? The county doesn't know that we have killed so many wild boars." Most of the villagers were reluctant. They took such a big risk to go up the mountain to kill the wild boars, but they just gave them away for free. The thought of doing so made them feel a little aggrieved.
"What do you know." Mo Dashuan ignored them. Ever since the incident with Fan Xiaojuan, he had learned his lesson. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. If someone is dissatisfied with him as the village chief one day and reports the matter to his superiors, that would be irrefutable evidence.
Moreover, a gleam of light flashed in Mo Dashuan's eyes. The county should at least show some appreciation for sending so much wild boar meat. He had heard that...
However, Mo Dashuan was still unsure about the matter and decided not to tell the villagers to avoid being disappointed.
"Okay, okay, everyone keep quiet. Each household will send a representative out. Once we have dealt with these wild boars, we will start dividing the meat." Mo Dashuan stood on the table with a loudspeaker in one hand. As soon as he finished speaking the last two words, the whole audience burst into cheers.
Unlike domestic pigs, wild boars cannot be scalded before hair removal. The skin of wild boars is very useful, so they must be peeled off with the hair and skin in advance. The villagers worked in groups of three or four, skinning the wild boars enthusiastically.
Everyone hadn't eaten yet, but when they thought about the wild boar meat that was about to be in their hands, they swallowed and quickened their movements.
Skinning, cutting open the belly and removing the internal organs are things that farmers are used to doing. It didn't take much effort and with everyone's concerted efforts, the wild boar was completely dealt with.
Ten big wild boars and two small wild boars were weighed with a grain scale after removing their fur and internal organs. The total weight was 1,234 kilograms. Four portions were distributed to the villagers. There were 43 households in Qingshan Village, and there were 227 villagers, including the elderly and children. On average, each person could get about two kilograms of pork. For the villagers, it was a pleasant surprise.
Especially for families with many children, such as the Jiang family, they were simply overjoyed.
Old Mrs. Miao estimated in her mind the amount of pork her family would get, her eyes narrowed into slits, and she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
"Captain, can we not have pork at home? I want to exchange the pork we were allocated for a wild boar stomach." Just as everyone was discussing happily, a timid female voice interrupted the conversation.
The speaker was a tall, thin woman wearing a thin winter coat. She was about 1.7 meters tall. In this age of lack of nutrition, most men were not as tall as her. That was why her thin bamboo-like figure, coupled with her trembling posture, was particularly eye-catching.
She saw that everyone turned their eyes to her, and she shrank her shoulders, wanting to bury her head in her chest, regretting what she had said.
Wild boar tripe is a treasure, because wild boars have a wide range of diets, including bamboo shoots, herbs, bird eggs, mushrooms, hares, mountain rats, poisonous snakes, centipedes, and anything edible. Wild boar tripe soaked in various Chinese herbal medicines for a long time contains rich trace elements and has a significant effect on stomach diseases.
Jiang Yilu remembered her. Her name was Yao Fang. She was also a poor person. She was born in a family in a neighboring village that favored boys over girls. When she was sixteen, she was married to Qingshan Village by her parents. It was not so much a marriage as it was selling.
Her husband's surname is Mo, and according to seniority, she can be considered as Mo Dashuan's niece-in-law, but the relationship is very distant. Jiang and Mo are big surnames in the village. If we talk about their relationship, they have the same ancestor hundreds of years ago.
Yao Fang was both lucky and unfortunate. The family that married her had only one son, but unfortunately he was a fool. Because no one was willing to marry her, their family agreed to the price offered by the Yao family and took Yao Fang back.
The old couple of the Mo family are kind people. Because they feel guilty towards her, they treat Yao Fang like their own daughter. The idiot of the Mo family, except that he is a little stupid, can do things within his ability on weekdays and even do some small jobs to earn some work points. He is not like other idiots who are crazy and cause trouble everywhere.
Yao Fang did not despise her foolish husband at all. She would keep him clean every day, cut his hair and trim his nails, and patiently teach him some common sense. Everyone envied the Mo family for having such a good daughter-in-law, and the Mo family was also grateful to this good daughter-in-law. If they had any good things, they would always remember to save a portion for Yao Fang.
After marrying into the Mo family, Yao Fang's life became more comfortable, and the family of four lived happily together.
Two years later, Yao Fang gave birth to a son who was healthy and lively, which made the old couple of the Mo family very happy. Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction. But one day, the fool disappeared, and when he was found, his body was already floating on the river.
The old man of the Mo family couldn't bear the blow and died of illness. The old lady of the Mo family also collapsed and fell on the bed. She had to be taken care of for eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. The family was completely ruined.
Over the years, Yao Fang had to take care of both the old and the young. Some people, seeing that she was young, advised her to remarry, but unfortunately she refused. No family was willing to let her marry with her mother-in-law and son, so she could only grit her teeth and carry on.
A few years ago, Yao Fang's parents came to the village and wanted to take Yao Fang back home, saying that they had found a family for her and had accepted the betrothal gift. That was the first time that the villagers saw this docile young wife explode. She ran out of the door of her house with a kitchen knife and chased her family for a mile. Since then, her family has never appeared again.
Jiang Yilu will remember this woman, not only because they had the same tragic family, but also because of Yao Fang's son - Mo Donglai.
Jiang Yilu looked at the woman standing in the crowd, lowered his eyes, and said nothing.
"Forget it, Captain, just pretend I didn't say anything." Yao Fang rubbed the corners of her clothes and said in a low voice.
Wild boar stomachs were so precious. Their family of three only had about 6 or 7 kilograms of pork in total. How could she bear to exchange the pork for a pig stomach? Yao Fang thought of her son tossing and turning on the kang with his hands on his stomach every night, pretending to be nothing in front of her. She closed her sore eyes tightly and cursed herself in her heart for being a useless mother.
"Take it--" Mo Dashuan picked out the smallest pig stomach. This pig stomach had very few carbuncles. Carbuncles are the buds in the pig stomach. The more carbuncles there are, the better the effect of the pig stomach is.
But even so, Yao Fang was already extremely grateful. She took the pig stomach, thanked Mo Dashuan repeatedly, and bowed deeply three times to the villagers. Seeing her crying with joy, the villagers who had originally complained were too embarrassed to speak.
This Yao Fang is really difficult.
"You want to cook this pig tripe for your family, right? Let him come to me first. I'll prescribe you a prescription. It might be more effective when combined with wild boar tripe." Bai Fangqiu said to Yao Fang with a kind look. If you use a lot of wild boar tripe, it will still have little effect.
After hearing what Bai Fangqiu said, Yao Fang nodded repeatedly in surprise.
This was just a small episode in the distribution of meat. Everyone was eagerly waiting for Mo Dashuan's next distribution.
"You may not know that this trip up the mountain was all thanks to Brother Huo Wu. We didn't do anything, but he killed all the wild boars. So the way I talked about dividing the money is a bit unfair."
Except for the people who went up the mountain with him, everyone was shocked by Mo Dashuan's words. It was a great skill for one person to defeat a group of wild boars. However, no matter how much they admired him, it was still not pleasant to see a reactionary who was sent down to reform take away most of the wild boars. These wild boars belonged to their Daqing Mountain. How could they let an outsider take all of them?
"But." Mo Dashuan gasped before he finished speaking, startling the villagers. "Brother Huo Wu said he doesn't need so much wild boar meat. He plans to give 80% of the wild boar meat he can get to the villagers."
Everyone looked at Huo Wu differently immediately. They thought people like Huo Wu were upright and noble, and they all apologized for their pettiness.
"Eighty percent likely, that's how much meat that would take." Old Mrs. Miao was heartbroken. In her opinion, the meat that Huo Wu got was her meat. Huo Wu couldn't cook, and her niece still lived in her house. It was up to her to decide what to do with the meat.
Most of the meat she had gotten was gone, and Old Lady Miao covered her chest with her hands, unable to breathe.
Gu Dongmei obviously had the same idea as Old Lady Miao. She glanced at Huo Wu who was standing beside her as if she was looking at a fool.
"Women are always long in hair but short in knowledge." Old man Jiang rolled his eyes at his wife and expressed his appreciation for Huo Wu's actions.
If Huo Wu accepted so much pork, he would immediately become a thorn in the eyes of the whole village, and their peaceful and stable life in the village would be disrupted. However, he only gave up a part of the meat, but in return he won the goodwill of the whole village. It was a win-win situation.
Jiang Yilu glanced at Grandpa Ruan and Grandpa Bai. They didn't seem surprised at all and it seemed that they had known about this for a long time.
Ruan Yuanjiang felt Jiang Yiliu's gaze, turned around and smiled at him kindly. Jiang Yiliu immediately returned a naive and childish smile. Ruan Yuanjiang's smile grew even brighter.
"We discussed it and decided that each villager who went up the mountain would get an extra 20 kilograms of wild boar meat. The rest of the pork, except for the one given to Huo Wu and his brother, will be divided equally among the villagers and the other half will be used to make pig-killing dishes. We haven't eaten together in a long time. Tomorrow, we will celebrate the New Year in advance and eat to our heart's content."
Mo Dashuan's veins bulged and he shouted into the loudspeaker, but was immediately drowned out by the cheers of the villagers.
The pig-killing dish, that is a memory from long ago. The older generation once tasted it, swallowed their saliva, and told the younger generation about the delicious taste in their memory.
While everyone was discussing tomorrow's pig-killing banquet, they were also lining up to get their share of wild boar meat.
Old Mrs. Miao took her family to lift the pork that was allocated to them. They looked at two full baskets of pork. One basket was already cut and divided, and the other contained a whole little wild boar, but without its skin and head. There were also two pheasants and a fat rabbit in it.
"Dashuan, this pork is not right. We don't have that many people in our family."
Each family can only take their own share. Huo Wu's share and theirs were separate. Logically, there shouldn't be so much meat. Old Lady Miao estimated that, including the second son's family, there were only twelve people in their family. Based on the number of people, they could only get more than 30 kilograms. Adding the share that Dahai got when he went up the mountain, it would be 50 to 60 kilograms at most. The little wild boar would be enough to account for this amount.
"Aunt Miao, you don't count Xiaobao too much. This trip up the mountain, besides Huo Wu, Xiaobao was the only one who killed a wild boar. This is what he deserves." Mo Dashuan said with a smile.
"What? Xiaobao killed him."
The Jiang family exclaimed, but there was no surprise. Their first reaction was anger. They glared at Jiang Dahai, saying that putting his son in a dangerous environment, was this what a father should do? They must teach him a lesson when they get back.
They were clearly planning to go back and teach Jiang Yilu, who had sneaked up the mountain, a lesson, but because of Mo Dashuan's words, a group of people immediately turned their guns and directed their anger at Jiang Dahai.
At this time, Jiang Dahai was still cheerful. He looked at the little wild boar in the basket with a proud smile on his face, unaware of the storm that was about to befall him.
This time, everyone returned home with a full load. In addition to their family, the Jiangtang family also had a great harvest. Everyone carried the wild boar meat they had received and walked home happily.
One can imagine the fragrant smell of meat that permeates the village tonight.
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