Chapter 291 Half and Half
Before Gao Mingcheng returned to the village, the villagers cried and cursed in front of the destroyed vegetable fields every day. After Gao Mingcheng came back, the whole Gaojia Village was filled with the aroma of meat, and everyone had a smile on their face.
Meat is not afraid of going bad in winter. If you can’t finish it, you can pickle it with salt and make it into wind-blown meat.
In some places, the meat is made into smoked meat, which is more fragrant, but people in Gaojia Village generally think that it is unhealthy, so they choose to make it into wind-blown meat.
Air-blown meat is more convenient than smoked meat. Cut the meat into pieces and marinate it. Tie it with a rope and hang it in a cool and ventilated place, then wait for the meat to dry.
Not counting the first wild boar he killed, Gao Mingcheng killed eight more wild boars in the mountains. All of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. Some were beaten by villagers and were in poor condition. When he encountered them, he simply killed them and brought them back.
When such a murderous god as him entered the mountain, the wild boars were scared and ran away when they saw people. They did not come down the mountain for two days.
Since there was too much meat to eat, Gao Mingcheng was very generous. He gave ten kilograms of meat to his parents, grandmother, Gao Shouwang, and Zhang Chengyuan, and two kilograms to his cousins. He also gave some leftover pig offal and bones to poor families in the village, such as the fool's family.
Under his care, every household in the village benefited.
A large amount of meat needed to be processed urgently, but since no one was at home, the meat could not be kept at home. So Gao Mingcheng hung some meat in the utility room. The meat was not salted and was cut into long strips and hung on wooden beams. It was food for the two dogs.
The two dogs can jump onto a wooden rack, then raise their heads and bite off a piece of jerky.
As for the remaining meat, he had to take it to the county for processing.
At that time, a portion of it will need to be given away as gifts. Gao Guobing's family will need to send more, Xiao Jinfeng's family will also need to send some, and a few kilograms will also need to be sent to Gao Mingli who lives alone.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Gao Mingcheng drove a tractor to the county. The tractor's bed was filled with a lot of meat, vegetables and eggs, but because it was covered with oilcloth, people who didn't know the situation would not guess what it was.
Everyone in the village knew that he had killed several wild boars, but no one knew exactly how many, because Gao Mingcheng always went hunting in the mountains alone with his two dogs. In addition, his home was at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain, so after hunting a wild boar, he would carry it directly home and no outsider would see it.
Although everyone envied Gao Mingcheng, because of Gao Mingcheng, not only did they have meat to eat, but the wild boars were also scared away and dared not come down the mountain to steal food. This could be considered a lot of benefits.
When passing by a garment workshop in Greater Khingan Range, Gao Mingcheng got out of the car again, took a large bag of vests and put it in the truck bed. He told Gao Shouwang that he would settle the bill next time, and then continued driving away.
When they arrived at Junling, Gao Mingcheng parked the tractor on the side of the road again and decided to deliver a few pounds of meat to Huang Dazhi's family.
Huang Dazhi has money in his pocket, but the money comes from illegal sources, so he dares not spend it. Although his family lives better than before, it is still just that.
Gao Mingcheng sent over a few pounds of fatty pork belly. Huang's father and mother were very grateful. They wanted to invite Gao Mingcheng into the house for tea, but Gao Mingcheng refused and just waved his hand and left.
He drove all the way to the county, parked the tractor in the alley behind his house, and took out the key to open the door.
He unloaded most of the meat as well as various vegetables, eggs and vests brought from the village, temporarily piled them in the backyard, and then called many people to come and deal with them.
It happened that the store was not busy at that time, and Xuanyuemei heard the sound and trotted over.
When she saw the table full of meat, her eyes widened.
She knew that Gao Mingcheng had returned to the village to hunt wild boars, and she also knew that Gao Mingcheng was good at hunting wild boars, but she was still shocked by the mountain of meat.
"How did you get so much meat?"
"I killed eight wild boars. I gave some away and left some for the Black Tiger Elf. These are for our family to eat. You can decide how to deal with them. There are also some in the car, which are for giving away." Gao Mingcheng explained, and then said, "I may not go home for dinner tonight."
After saying that, he went out.
Manyumei began to sort the pile of meat. In addition to the cleaned leg meat, ribs, lard, etc., there were also some offal with good taste, such as heart, liver, and tripe, as well as some hairy pig's feet and two intact pig heads.
Although there is a sense of achievement, many beauties still feel the pressure of processing.
Although the weather was cold and the meat spoiled slowly, it still had to be dealt with quickly. She walked around the kitchen and found three packets of salt, but these three packets of salt were far from enough!
So she had to go to the nearby grocery store to buy salt, and then start cutting the meat for marinating.
When marinating the meat, I found that the basins at home were not enough.
"Oh." Xuanyuemei sighed happily, and then hurriedly ran to buy a basin. After marinating the meat, she could leave it alone for the time being.
Pig hearts and livers do not need to be cleaned much, but pig stomachs are a little more troublesome. In addition, pig feet and pig heads are not easy to clean either. You have to burn the hair off with fire and then scrape the skin clean with a knife.
In the front shop, the voice of Gao Shufang entertaining customers could be heard, and in the backyard, the sound of chopping meat could be heard continuously.
On this side, Gao Mingcheng had already driven a tractor to the police station’s family compound.
At this time, it is time to get off work. Even if Gao Guobing is not at home, Zhao Dongmei should be at home.
Gao Guobing's new house has been renovated a long time ago, but they have not moved in yet because living in the staff quarters makes it more convenient for work. They plan to move in before Gao Hong goes home to visit his relatives.
When Gao Mingcheng went over, Zhao Dongmei was indeed at home, picking vegetables and chatting with her neighbors. Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming over, Zhao Dongmei was quite happy and said, "Mingcheng, you are a very busy man now. I haven't seen you for a long time."
"I heard that there are wild boars in the village who came down the mountain to steal vegetables. How is it now? Is the damage serious?"
"Aunt." Gao Mingcheng greeted her and called her, then said, "The damage is still serious, but we have killed a few wild boars together, so things should be better in the short term. I brought you wild boar meat."
As he spoke, he lifted a corner of the oilcloth on the truck bed and took out a pig's foot with a large piece of leg meat attached, which weighed about thirty pounds in total.
In addition, he took out a pig's head.
Pig ears and pig lips are delicious, and pig brains are also very nutritious. Chinese people believe in replenishing the body with like. If you have waist discomfort, eat pig kidneys to replenish it. If you have heart discomfort, then... eat hedgehog hearts!
The kind that is swallowed alive!
At first, Gao Mingcheng had no idea that hedgehogs were full of treasures. When he met a hedgehog in the mountains, he was too lazy to catch it because it had too little meat. But when he was driving his car outside, he heard from others that eating a hedgehog's heart alive could cure heart disease!
Gao Mingcheng was skeptical about this, but some people believed it firmly. Those who had heart patients at home even tried every means to catch hedgehogs in the mountains.
Hedgehogs are not easy to catch, and even if you catch them, they are not easy to kill. After killing them, you have to eat the still-beating heart of the hedgehog alive, which is actually a challenge for both family members and patients.
The thought that flashed through Gao Mingcheng's mind only lasted for a brief moment, because he took out another pig heart and handed it to Zhao Dongmei.
When Zhao Dongmei saw the wild boar meat he sent, her eyes lit up with surprise and she couldn't contain her smile.
As for the neighbors next door, they were extremely envious.
"Oh, why did you send so much?" Zhao Dongmei was happy but puzzled.
"We've killed several wild boars, so please send me more, auntie. If you can't finish them, you can pickle them with salt and make them into wind-blown meat for New Year's Day." Gao Mingcheng said with a smile.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to wait until the New Year, as Gao Yue will be back tomorrow! With him around, we can't keep this little bit of meat anymore! I'll go to the meat processing factory to buy more when Gao Hong comes back!" Zhao Dongmei said with a smile. Because there were too many things, Gao Mingcheng held the pig's feet upside down in one hand and the pig's head in the other and helped to deliver them upstairs.
Zhao Dongmei followed with a basket of vegetables, saying, "Mingcheng, let's eat at home today. Your uncle also said last time that he hasn't eaten with you for a long time."
"Okay, but I have to deliver some meat to other people, so I'll come back later." Gao Mingcheng didn't argue with Zhao Dongmei. If Zhao Dongmei wanted to keep him, then he would stay, because Zhao Dongmei had a cheerful and generous personality and was not the kind of person who would say false polite words.
Sure enough, Zhao Dongmei smiled even more. She said, "Okay, I'll cook first, and come over when you're done!"
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded and went downstairs.
He first delivered a few pounds of meat to Gaomingli, and then came to the transportation company. Today, Xiao Jinfeng happened to be in the office. When he saw him delivering the meat, he immediately asked, "Did you go back to the village to hunt?"
"Yes, but I was forced to do so. The weather was dry this year and there was less food in the mountains. The wild boars were so hungry that they came down the mountain to eat vegetables. Most of the vegetables in my family's garden went into the wild boars' stomachs. They ate my vegetables, so I had no choice but to eat their meat."
Gao Mingcheng's words were humorous and Xiao Jinfeng was also amused.
Gao Mingcheng gave Gao Guobing the front leg, and gave Xiao Jinfeng the hind leg, which was still the pig's foot with a large piece of leg meat, and also a pig's head.
Pig heads are delicious, but too troublesome to prepare, so he only kept two for himself and gave the rest away.
"Let's have dinner here tonight. Mingwan's car is expected to be back soon." Xiao Jinfeng invited.
But Gao Mingcheng refused and said with a smile: "You are too late. I have to go to Uncle Guobing's house for dinner tonight."
Xiao Jinfeng didn't dare to compete with Gao Guobing for the person, so he just smiled and said nothing.
"By the way, I received a call from Fan Chengyao. He said he was very grateful to you and hoped that you could spare time to help him drive the car to transport goods in the future. I rejected this for you, but he said that after the New Year, you promised to make another trip for him to help him send his son back to his grandparents." Xiao Jinfeng said, looking at Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng nodded. He did agree to this, but only for Fan Licheng's sake.
Fan Chengyao's business is not so clean, he must have enemies. Although he is in the underworld and believes in not sparing his family members from harm, sometimes in order to force the other party to submit, he would attack the other party's wife and children, which is not uncommon.
Gao Mingcheng thought Fan Licheng was an interesting kid, and he was reluctant to see him in danger.
Xiao Jinfeng smiled, as if he had guessed something, and said, "I knew that the child was very well behaved! Didn't he cause you any trouble on the way?"
Gao Mingcheng said, "No, I sent him there and then took him back, and I felt at ease. By the way, Brother Xiao, do you know what kind of business that Boss Fan does? I won't go into details, but next time you take over his business, you must tell the driver to protect himself no matter what happens. At the critical moment, you can abandon the car and run for your life."
Hearing this, Xiao Jinfeng raised his head and looked at Gao Mingcheng, and found that his expression was very serious and he didn't seem to be joking at all.
He couldn't help but feel a little nervous and asked, "Why do you say that? Is there something in the car that shouldn't be there?"
Xiao Jinfeng asked cryptically, and Gao Mingcheng answered even more cryptically: "Not sure, just a reminder."
He knew all the drivers at the transportation company and they were his former colleagues, so he didn't want any of them to be involved in scandals and get into trouble.
Xiao Jinfeng pondered, and thinking back to what Fan Chengyao had said to him on the phone, he gradually came up with a guess in his mind.
"Okay, I understand." Xiao Jinfeng said so. As for what he would do, Gao Mingcheng didn't know for the time being.
After delivering the wild boar meat, Gao Mingcheng did not stay for long. After chatting for a few words, he said goodbye and left.
Xiao Jinfeng looked at his departing back and lowered his head to look at the landline phone on the table.
But in the end, he chose not to make the call.
The goods from Fan Chengyao are delivered once a month, and they have just been delivered now. Maybe the situation will be different next month.
There was some affection between them after all, so in the absence of solid evidence, Xiao Jinfeng was willing to pretend that he knew nothing.
But he still had to take Gao Mingcheng's reminder seriously, because he didn't want anything to happen to his company's drivers.
When Gao Mingcheng returned to the police station's family compound again, Gao Guobing had already returned home.
Gao Guobing had known for a long time that Gao Mingcheng had sent wild boar meat, so he called him over to talk. Of course, he talked about some recent events.
Then Gao Guobing said, "I plan to move the day after tomorrow. If you are free then come and help me!"
Gao Mingcheng immediately said: "Sure, I'm always free, I'll drive the tractor over when the time comes!"
Gao Guobing laughed, just because Gao Mingcheng had a tractor, which made it convenient for him to move things.
He said: "Huang Dazhi has performed well in the bureau, but housing allocation is based on seniority. The reason I moved out early is that after I move out, a new colleague will move in. Their son is grown up, and it is not suitable for him to sleep in the same bed with his parents."
Gao Mingcheng said: "Just follow the rules. As for Dazhi, I plan to lend him some money so that he can buy a house outside. He is not young anymore, and it is time for him to get married and have children."
Gao Guobing nodded, agreeing.
Huang Dazhi is a new recruit and also an auxiliary police officer, so it is difficult for him to get a housing allocation. The reason he can live in the house he has now is because it is too bad and no one else wants it.
"What are you two talking about? It's time to eat, bring the dishes!" Zhao Dongmei's voice came from the kitchen, and Gao Guobing stood up immediately.
But Gao Mingcheng was faster and went to the kitchen to help serve the dishes before Gao Guobing.
After running twice to get all the dishes ready, Gao Mingcheng said, "Auntie, come and sit down!"
"Okay, I'll come."
Gao Guobing also came over with a bottle of Si Te wine. Since he didn't have to be on duty that night, he could have a few drinks. Gao Mingcheng naturally drank with him, and even Zhao Dongmei drank half a glass.
Zhao Dongmei can drink, but her alcohol tolerance is average. Her favorite is sweet wine, which tastes sweet and has a mild aftertaste.
The meal was extremely sumptuous. Gao Guobing and Zhao Dongmei treated Gao Mingcheng like their own nephew. There was no barrier between the three of them and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
An hour and a half later, Gao Mingcheng, satisfied with his meal and drink, was ready to leave.
"There are only two little girls at home, I have to go back early to take care of them," he said.
Zhao Dongmei agreed with this and therefore did not force the guest to stay.
After saying goodbye to the two elders, Gao Mingcheng went downstairs alone.
But before he walked out of the family compound, he heard Huang Dazhi calling him.
Huang Dazhi stood quietly in the dark corner. Seeing Gao Mingcheng looking back at him, he immediately whispered, "Mingcheng, come to my room for a moment."
So Huang Dazhi took Gao Mingcheng to the room where he lived. Since this room was not intended for living, there were no electrical wires, and Huang Dazhi relied on kerosene lamps for lighting.
There was a kerosene lamp lit in the room, the light illuminating the darkness in the room, but the surroundings were still dark. With the help of the light of the kerosene lamp, Huang Dazhi took out a jade pendant with a strange shape and handed it to Gao Mingcheng.
"This is something I got recently. You have good eyesight. Please take a look at it."
Gao Mingcheng took the jade pendant and observed it carefully under the kerosene lamp. He found that there was some uncleaned yellow soil in the gaps of the jade pendant, as if it had just been dug out of the ground.
Gao Mingcheng had dealt with antiques in his previous life. Although his eyesight was not as good as those of masters, it was still better than that of ordinary people. After taking a closer look, Gao Mingcheng initially guessed that this should be an antique that had been unearthed not long ago.
The jade should be mutton-fat jade, but he didn't quite understand what dynasty it came from and what the jade pendant meant.
"Where did you get it?" Gao Mingcheng asked in a low voice.
Huang Dazhi did not hide it from him, but said: "At this time of the year, there are gambling houses everywhere. Recently, the task of the bureau is to catch gamblers everywhere. Every now and then, we can catch a gambling gang and confiscate a sum of gambling money. This jade pendant was found by me during one of the arrests."
"The gambling house owner learned the news a few minutes in advance, so he asked the gamblers to leave and hurriedly hid the gambling money in a hole that had been dug long ago, then covered it with soil and stood on top of it."
"When we rushed in, we didn't catch everyone, and we spent a long time looking for the gambling money. Finally, I found that the soil under the man's feet was not right, as if it had just been turned over, so I took a hoe to dig it up, and sure enough, I found the gambling money was inside."
"It was dug up by several other colleagues at the time. After we found the gambling money, we were about to escort the people back to the police station. I was walking at the back and happened to find this thing in the soil. At the time, I thought it was not money, so I picked it up and did not hand it in."
"The more I looked at it, the more I felt something was wrong. I thought it might be an antique! But it's been a few days since the incident, and I can't tell the bureau about it now."
Huang Dazhi explained the whole story, looking a little distressed.
At first, he really had no intention of stealing it, but he spotted it with his sharp eyes and thought it was a small thing, so he picked it up.
After listening to it, Gao Mingcheng also expressed his own guess: "This may be an antique, but I can't say exactly what it is or how much it is worth."
When Huang Dazhi heard that it was an antique and might be valuable, his eyes lit up. He lowered his voice and said, "Ming Cheng, you know a lot and have many connections. You take this thing. If you sell it, we'll split the money in half!"
Gao Mingcheng hesitated for a few seconds and agreed to Huang Dazhi's proposal.
"Okay, I'll look for some information first to see what this thing is and whether it is valuable. This thing looks like it was just unearthed not long ago, I think... if you have time, go to the place where they arrested people last time and see if there is anything else in the soil." Gao Mingcheng said, and Huang Dazhi also thought of this and decided to go and take a look regardless of whether there is anything else.
So he nodded and said, "I'll take some time to go and have a look tomorrow!"
(End of this chapter)
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