Chapter 56: Dividing the Prey (Part 2)
At Aunt Caihua's urging, Lu Xiaoxiao went back to the house to change her clothes. She didn't even have time to eat breakfast before locking the door and going to the threshing ground with Aunt Caihua.
When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the threshing ground, she saw it was packed with people. She thought that people from the three teams must have all come, but she didn't know if there would be enough prey to share.
Lu Xiaoxiao was pulled by Aunt Cauliflower to squeeze in. Just when she felt that she was about to be squeezed into a meat patty, she was taken to the front by Aunt Cauliflower.
Wow! Lu Xiaoxiao was shocked to see the prey all over the ground. She was so surprised that she couldn’t help but think to herself, this is too much.
Lu Xiaoxiao counted and found that there were twenty-three wild boars, including eighteen adults and five young wild boars. They must have destroyed the entire wild boar den. I have to say, kid, you are really smart.
After seeing the wild boar, Lu Xiaoxiao looked at other prey, including wild goats, roe deer, pheasants, hares, and some she didn't recognize. In short, the quantity was huge. Fortunately, there were many people who went there, and each of them was tall and strong with great strength, otherwise they would not be able to bring these things back.
Lu Xiaoxiao saw several people weighing the prey, and three people were registering with small notebooks. It was estimated that these three people were the accountants of the three brigades. It took them a long hour to finish counting the prey.
Lu Xiaoxiao saw the captains and accountants of the three teams walk up to the platform and signal everyone to be quiet. Then the captain of the first team spoke on behalf of the team, "I'm sure you all know why we asked everyone to come here today. That's right, it's to divide the meat as you all thought. Everyone who went hunting this year was great. They took down a wild boar den and caught a lot of other prey. All together, it's about 9,000 kilograms. When everyone packs up these prey later, it will be about 8,500 kilograms.
Just now, several of our team leaders and the accountant discussed that there are a total of 268 households in the three brigades of our village. Each household will get 25 kilograms. In addition, those who go hunting will get 10 kilograms each, and the educated youth will get 10 kilograms each. We will stew the remaining 500 kilograms tonight and have a big pot meal together. Do you agree?"
Everyone was so excited after hearing what the captain said. They all shouted excitedly: "Captain, we will listen to you. We will divide it however you say."
Several team leaders and accountants were very happy to see that everyone agreed with their method, so they let everyone start to work, some boiling water, some plucking hairs, some dissecting. Everyone worked together, the scene was very lively, and everyone was filled with joy and happiness everywhere.
After more than four hours of hard work, all the prey was finally processed. The next step was to divide the meat. The three butchers in the village were each accompanied by a team leader and an accountant.
First, ten kilograms of wild boar meat was distributed to each person who went hunting. The meat was all fatty pork belly. People nowadays prefer fatty meat to lean meat, but no one had any objection to this way of distribution. After all, this was what people had risked their lives to hunt.
Then the meat was divided among households. Each household sent one person to line up to receive the meat. Each household received 15 catties of pork and 10 catties of meat from other prey. During this period, there were a few unscrupulous and cheap people who wanted to take all the pork, but they were scolded by the captain. It really proved that there are all kinds of birds in the forest.
After the villagers had divided the meat, it was the turn of the educated youth. Each person received five kilograms of pork and five kilograms of meat from other prey. Since they had hardly contributed any effort and were not villagers, they had no objections when it was their turn to divide the meat. After all, who could resist meat?
(End of this chapter)
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