Chapter 92 Wild Boar
The pumpkins in the field have grown almost big recently. If we don’t pick them now, we will have to wait and eat old pumpkins.
Because he likes to eat fried tender pumpkin, Lu Xing often goes to the fields these days.
One day when she wanted to go to the field to pick vegetables, she saw a group of people standing on the roadside, watching something exciting.
"What's going on? What happened in the fields? Why are you all standing on the road?"
She looked inside and found a wild boar leisurely eating vegetables in the field. Next to it was a fence that had been smashed by it. It was not afraid of people at all.
Wild boars often come down the mountain to look for food in Xiaoshi Village, but usually in the winter when there is no food, or they sneak in late at night to eat a few bites.
It is rare to see a wild boar running down the mountain in broad daylight without any fear of people.
Some people wanted to go up and drive away the wild boar, but were stopped.
"Uncle, why did you stop me and just watch the wild boar destroy the crops in the field?"
The young man who spoke was scolded. "You don't know anything and you still want to rush forward. You're risking your life! That wild boar weighs three or four hundred pounds. If it hits you, you'll be dead."
"So, what's more important, the crops in the fields or you?"
"There are no hunters in our village. You might not even be able to cut through its skin with your hoe. Now we have to wait for the village chief to bring his stuff, and then we can drive it up the mountain."
As he was speaking, the village chief came with a torch.
A group of people holding torches formed a circle, leaving a gap to go up the mountain, and slowly drove the wild boar up the mountain.
During this process, no one dared to make a sound, for fear of angering the wild boar.
Fortunately, the wild boar had almost finished eating and was just a little impatient when being driven away. In the end, it followed the direction given by the villagers and went back to the mountain.
After the wild boar was sent away, the others had time to go to the fields to see their own losses.
The wild boar was very picky. It would not eat old or rotten vegetable leaves, but only the tender ones. It would take a few bites from each vegetable, and it even took a few bites of the tender pumpkin in Lu Xing's field.
"This damn beast, look what a mess it has made of my land."
Suddenly, someone shouted an angry curse from the side.
Lu Xing agreed. This damn wild boar not only ate the vegetables to pieces, but also trampled the entire vegetable garden into a mess, breaking many vegetables.
If this pig comes like this two or three more times, the vegetables that I have worked so hard to grow will be trampled to death by it.
"Village chief, there have been wild boars coming down to steal food these days. This is not a good thing. What do you think we should do?"
"That's right, Village Chief. If we keep letting the wild boars eat us like this, won't all our work for the whole year be wasted? All the vegetables in the fields will be ruined. What will we eat?"
Lu Xing asked the system to help scan the number of wild boars on the mountain. He didn't know if it was because the weather was too good this spring, but many wild boars mated and gave birth to many little wild boars.
No wonder the wild boars have to come down the mountain to look for food. There are so many wild boars on the mountain competing for food.
"Village chief, there have been a lot of wild boars coming down the mountain recently. I guess a lot of wild boar babies were born in the spring. If we don't deal with this, I'm afraid more wild boars will come down the mountain."
When Lu Zhengde heard this, he frowned and turned around to see who was lying. But when he turned around and saw that the person who was talking was Lu Xing, he swallowed the curse back.
He remembered that what Lu Xing had said before was true, and asked uncertainly, "Are there really a lot of wild boars in the mountains?"
"A lot. If we don't take any action, I estimate that more and more wild boars will come down the mountain."
As soon as these words were spoken, others also began to worry. No one in Xiaoshi Village knew how to hunt, and the wooden warehouse was also under control at this time, so they could only rely on the crude method of setting traps to catch pigs.
But no one in Xiaoshi Village knows this.
The village chief had no choice but to invite a hunter from outside the village. This man was an acquaintance of his, the man who had said he would introduce to Lianhua to live together.
Lu Xing remembered that he was fooled by a scammer at that time. Later, the scammer was caught. He didn’t know whether he had come to his senses now.
As soon as Hunter Wu entered the village, Lu Xing noticed the amulet hanging around his neck. Seeing Lu Xing, he ran over to thank her, "If you hadn't exposed that liar's true identity, I would probably have been deceived, let alone met this master now."
"This master gave me a talisman, which he consecrates once a month. After wearing it, I feel my luck has improved a lot."
Seeing his face full of piety, Lu Xing couldn't help but ask, "How much does it cost to consecrate the Buddha every month?"
"The master said that since I was so pious, he would only charge me twenty."
Well, at least it’s less deceptive than the previous one, so it’s an improvement.
Although Hunter Wu was always fooled in this regard, he was still good at his job of hunting.
After a few hours in the mountains, he tracked the tracks of a wild boar.
He took the young men from the village up the mountain for three or four days and carried down two big wild boars and seven or eight small wild boars.
The remaining wild boars were frightened and hid in the mountains. It seemed that they would not come down the mountain in the short term.
When we invited Hunter Wu over, we agreed that each of them would share the prey equally. He took some wild boar meat for his family and sold the rest to Xiaoshi Village.
Ever since the village chief invested in Lu Yuan's business in the name of the village collective, as his business grew bigger and bigger, there has never been a shortage of money in the village's public account.
This time, the village chief waved his hand and prepared to give each family a few pounds of meat from the wild boar they had hunted, so that they could go home and try it, and at the same time vent their anger for the crops.
Lu Xing's family also shared two pounds, but she didn't ask for more. Wild boar meat is also difficult to handle. The skin is thick and the pork is fishy. Young people may like the chewiness of wild boar meat, but older people generally can't bite it.
In order to try a piece of wild boar meat, Lu Xing used a small stove to stew it for several hours, and it was almost boneless by dinner time.
It would have been perfect to have a bowl of fragrant pumpkin noodles at this time, but all the pumpkins in the field were eaten by wild boars. The edible ones were eaten, and the inedible ones were trampled to pieces.
There was no other way, Lu Xing could only take it home and chop it up to feed the two little black pigs.
Thinking of this, she ate two more bites of wild boar meat.
After dinner, she still had to prepare dinner for two black pigs.
Because she didn't plan to keep any offspring, she had someone castrate the boar two months ago. After that, the two pigs gradually entered the meat-growing period, and they grew a lot by eating a lot.
Now each pig needs to eat a small bucket of feed for each meal, and it needs to eat three meals a day, and it cannot miss any meal.
Once, Lu Xing was chatting outside for a long time, and the pigs at home were so hungry that they kicked the door open.
Fortunately, I didn’t run far and found it again.
When she was feeding the pigs, Xiaobai and Xiaohua kept rubbing against her feet. They probably didn't have enough for dinner and wanted to ask for food.
Lu Xing shared some of the leftover wild boar meat bones with them. Xiaobai was quite interested in the bones and ran around with them in his mouth, as if he was looking for a place to hide them.
Xiaohua took two bites and found that the bone was too big for it to lick, so it gave up and ran to Lu Xing's arms to lick his fur.
But Lu Xing wasn't too worried about it being hungry. Although it had only been weaned for a short time, Xiao Hua was already able to catch prey. Many times when Lu Xing woke up in the morning, he saw it jumping down from the fence with prey in its mouth.
Sometimes I would bring one for Lu Xing as well.
After feeding all the livestock at home, it is almost time to go to bed.
Lu Xing has to go to bed early because he still has work to do in the fields and has to wake up at five or six tomorrow morning.
【Author has something to say】
Wild protected animals cannot be eaten!
In the 1990s, wild boars were not yet listed as protected species.
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