When people are young, they don’t know the value of life. Some of them fight with each other, and some even commit suicide by drinking pesticides out of anger.
But as we get older, we become afraid of the coming of death. If we see people of the same age die, we will feel very sad.
The person was found dead early yesterday morning. It can be said that he died of old age, but he had been bedridden for some time before his death.
Now that Gao Mingcheng knew about it, he would definitely pay his respects and then ask if he needed help.
The answer was naturally that it was not necessary. Gao Mingcheng was a junior from the eldest branch of the family. The funeral was handled by people from the second branch of the family, and a funeral master of ceremonies was hired. When Gao Mingcheng arrived, a group of people were setting up a mourning tent in the yard.
After the mourning shed is set up, relatives and friends will come to pay their respects, and at this time it is necessary to prepare meals to entertain the guests, and the chef invited is Gao Yuanjian.
Gao Yuanjian had already decided on the menu and asked the family holding the funeral to prepare it. Except for the meat, which they had to spend money to buy, the rest of the vegetables were basically what they grew in their own fields. If they didn't grow any, they could buy some from other people in the village.
The expense of buying food and setting up a banquet would not be very large. The most expensive part of the entire funeral is still the digging of the ground, purchasing the coffin, and inviting the Eight Immortals to carry the coffin.
Gao Yuanjian knew how to steam wine, so he was also responsible for supplying the wine for the banquet.
Gao Mingcheng saw his father building a stove with stones and mud, so he went forward to help.
Gao Yuanjian glanced at him, lowered his head and continued to work. After the stove was built, Gao Yuanjian said, "Your aunt has been feeling a little unwell these days. Go see her later."
"Okay." Gao Mingcheng agreed immediately. This auntie was not his biological mother, but the wife of Gao Yuanjian's cousin, who was also Gao Mingcheng's aunt, but here they called her auntie.
Seeing that there were a lot of people working here and there was really no need for his help, Gao Mingcheng went to the aunt's house to sit down.
However, before going to his aunt's house, Gao Mingcheng first went to his grandmother's house and borrowed twenty eggs from her.
When an elder in the family is not feeling well, the younger generation cannot go to visit empty-handed. Gao Mingcheng doesn't want to go back to Niuweiling to get it, so he simply borrows it from his grandmother and returns it to her later.
Perhaps because he was not loved by his parents, Gao Mingcheng didn't get along well with these relatives. When he arrived at their home with twenty eggs, he first asked about their well-being for a while, and then they became speechless.
But I heard another piece of news from here. The aunt's youngest son is also going to get married this year. The date is set for the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month. She asked Gao Mingcheng to come to the wedding.
This was a happy event, so Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed.
After leaving his aunt's house, Gao Mingcheng listened to the funeral music coming from not far away, and thought about his aunt's son's upcoming marriage, and he couldn't help feeling deeply emotional.
Society is made up of countless individuals, and everyone has his or her own joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, as well as birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Gao Mingcheng stayed in the village for a few more days. After the deceased was buried and the tea seeds were shelled and dried, Gao Mingcheng prepared to go to the county.
As for the dried tea seeds, you can take them to the oil press now to squeeze out tea oil, but it is best to store them in a ventilated and dry place for one or two months, and then dry them in the sun for one or two days before sending them for oil pressing, because this way the tea seeds have the highest oil content and the oil quality is also good.
Gao Mingcheng didn’t know these little tips before. It was only after he pressed oil more times and talked with many people that he discovered that the oil yield was different when pressing oil at different times.
On the morning of the day he went to the county, Gao Mingcheng got up at four in the morning. He planned to take his two dogs into the mountains to hunt a wild boar.
The weather is getting colder, and the leftover wild boar meat can now be made into wind-blown meat.
It is the waxing moon recently, so in the second half of the night, the moon cannot be seen in the sky, and only a few stars can be seen twinkling faintly.
It was pitch black all around, and the mountains were like giant beasts crouching there. The mountain wind was howling, just like the breath of the beast, bringing a sense of oppression to people, warning them to stay away from here.
Gao Mingcheng climbed the mountain briskly with a javelin in hand. Black Tiger and the elf were not affected by the light and followed the scent left by the wild boar up the mountain.
The man and the two dogs were both very strong, and it only took them half an hour to climb over a hill. When passing a mountain ditch, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but slow down. This kind of ditch is where wild animals in the mountains often come to drink water.
But now this ditch seems particularly quiet, and obviously no animals have visited it yet.
Cross the ditch and continue climbing the mountain.
Lu Xun once said, there are no roads in the world, but when more people walk on it, it becomes a road.
This is very true. The mountains here are sparsely populated, so there are few people walking and naturally there are no roads!
Gao Mingcheng followed the two dogs, climbing hills and wading through water. From time to time, he had to use the javelin in his hand to push away the lush vegetation to make way for himself.
He was wearing an old coat, and even though he was very careful, it was occasionally scratched by branches. Fortunately, it was a thin cotton coat, so even if it was torn, the cotton inside would not easily fall out. If he was wearing a down jacket, as long as there was a hole, the down inside would fall out and the down jacket would be ruined.
After more than ten minutes, Gao Mingcheng finally made a discovery!
On a hillside, there are several piles of fresh wild boar feces! And there are also footprints left by wild boars on the ground!
Not only was Gao Mingcheng encouraged, but Black Tiger and the Elf also seemed to be energized and quickly ran towards the direction where the wild boar left its scent.
Not far ahead, there was a small group of wild boars scattered in the woods. Most of them used their noses and mouths to dig up the mud, dig out the roots in the soil, and then eat them.
Gao Mingcheng noticed that when a wild boar was digging the soil, some insects ran out from the soil, including a palm-sized lizard.
The lizard crawled out of the soil and tried to escape, but it was too late and was swallowed by the wild boar in one bite.
Wild boars are omnivorous animals and basically eat everything, not to mention geckos, even poisonous snakes will be eaten by wild boars. When food is scarce in winter, wild boars will use their developed sense of smell to find snakes hibernating in caves. Once they find one, they will eat the whole snake in one bite, after all, it is a rare delicacy.
Gao Mingcheng was quite calm when he saw the wild boar eating the lizard, but when he noticed that the wild boar was digging for Poria cocos, he became uneasy!
This patch of Poria cocos is wild. When Gao Mingcheng collects it in autumn every year, he does not collect all the wild Poria cocos in the mountains. He has to keep some for seeds and use them to grow Poria cocos in the spring of next year.
But now the Poria cocos that he was reluctant to pick has become food for wild boars!
"Black Tiger, Elf, go!" Gao Mingcheng patted the two dogs' heads and ordered in a low voice.
In fact, he hid in the dark and threw the javelin secretly, which had a higher hit rate, but in this way, Black Tiger and the elf would not be able to get training.
Black Tiger and the Elf were also very brave and immediately rushed out like rockets.
However, the two dogs did not have much deterrent effect. Most of the wild boars in this group were boars. When they saw the two dogs rushing towards them, they were not afraid at all and even charged towards the dogs.
"Woof woof." Black Tiger and the Elf barked immediately. After a brief panic, the two dogs tacitly bit a piglet.
In the animal world, the strong prey on the weak. Even when lions are hunting, they will not directly attack the most ferocious males, but will instead target the old, weak, sick, disabled, and young.
The piglet should have been born in the spring of this year, when the meat was tender and delicious. Gao Mingcheng was also very satisfied with this prey. Unfortunately, the wild boar he encountered today was too fierce. Black Tiger and Elf were knocked away by a boar just as they bit the piglet.
In terms of impact force, the two dogs were naturally no match for the boar, so they could only retreat step by step.
Seeing that Black Tiger and the Elf were at a disadvantage, Gao Mingcheng, who was hiding in the dark, quietly made a move!
With a "whoosh" sound, a javelin, with the sound of breaking through the air, stabbed towards one of the ferocious boars.
With Gao Mingcheng's strength and accuracy, the tip of the gun pierced directly into the wild boar's eye socket and went straight into its brain, almost killing it with one shot. The wild boar fell down twitching and gradually stopped breathing.
This sudden murderous intent finally scared away the other boars, and they ran away immediately. However, Black Tiger and the Elf wanted to take the opportunity to reverse their previous decline and continued to chase the piglet.
When the black tiger jumped up and bit the piglet's neck, the elf finally arrived and bit the piglet's hind leg, or to be more precise, its anus.
The anus was tender, and the elf's sharp teeth bit it and immediately broke the skin. The elf tasted the blood of its prey and began to bite it more excitedly.
The piglet's anus was severely damaged. It fell to the ground and struggled in pain, wailing. However, the black tiger was still biting its neck and it couldn't break free.
When Gao Mingcheng saw the elf's battle record, he couldn't help but feel his anus tighten.
The fate of this little pig was already sealed at this moment.
Although the elf couldn't dig anus, the piglet's anus had been bitten to pieces by it, and the black tiger was also biting the piglet's neck.
The situation remained deadlocked for several minutes and ended with the piglet's death.
"Woof woof!" The blood-soaked black tiger and the elf called out excitedly to Gao Mingcheng, as if seeking credit.
"Well done!" Gao Mingcheng praised and decided to leave more meat for the two dogs.
He walked forward, pulled out the spear, then lifted the wild boar. After estimating its weight, Gao Mingcheng decided to bleed and gut the boar on the spot.
Because Gao Mingcheng estimated that this wild boar weighed more than 400 kilograms, the heaviest wild boar he had ever killed.
As for the little pig, it would weigh at most a little over 100 kilograms.
But the two together weighed more than 500 kilograms. Although he could carry it, there was no need to work so hard.
If the bleeding and disembowelment were done on the spot, it would at least be much less severe.
Although it was decided to deal with it on the spot, Gao Mingcheng still moved the wild boar to a nearby ditch first, where the terrain was flatter and there was water, making it easier to clean.
Gao Mingcheng first processed the big wild boar by draining its blood and then cutting it open. After the knife cut open, the inside was hot and still steaming.
Gao Mingcheng first cut two pieces of pork belly and gave one to Black Tiger and one to the elf.
The two dogs immediately half-prostrated themselves on the ground and started eating.
Seeing how they were eating with gusto, Gao Mingcheng's stomach was growling with hunger.
I just looked at the raw meat in my hand, thought about it, and decided not to eat it.
They don't have the habit of eating raw meat or raw fish. In his previous life, Gao Mingcheng followed the fashion and ate sashimi, but he couldn't accept it whether it was salmon or tuna, as long as it was raw, and he always felt that the taste was very strange.
Never mind, enduring hunger is also a kind of practice!
After brainwashing himself, Gao Mingcheng continued to work.
The whole body of a pig is a treasure. Except for the pig manure, the rest of the internal organs can be eaten. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng took out the pig's stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, and cut off a piece of chrysanthemum.
Of course he would not throw away the pig stomach, as it was delicious and was said to have medicinal properties. As for the large and small intestines, he thought about it and decided not to throw them away. He simply washed the dirt inside along the ditch and threw them into the snakeskin bag he carried with him.
He did the same with the big pig and the little pig. When he finished cleaning up, it was getting light.
The fish turns white in the east, and frost rises from heaven and earth.
Gao Mingcheng carried the wild boar on one shoulder, held the piglet in one arm, and held the javelin and snakeskin bag in his free hand.
In the white mist in the mountains, Gao Mingcheng, carrying a heavy load, walked step by step towards the foot of the mountain. The black tiger and the elf had already eaten and drunk their fill, and they even had the leisure to chase the hedgehog and the rabbit along the way, which made Gao Mingcheng very envious.
Man, your name is responsibility!
The responsible Gao Mingcheng could only grit his teeth and walk with big strides. In his mind, he thought of many beautiful people and Gao Shufang and others who saw the wild boar he killed and praised him, and he suddenly felt stronger.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go up a mountain but difficult to go down. Gao Mingcheng went up the mountain with ease, but when he went down the mountain, he had to carry a weight of nearly 500 kilograms and it took him more than an hour to get down the mountain.
Fortunately, Chen Dasong, who was guarding the chicken coop, was the first to discover the situation. He immediately dropped his work and ran towards Gao Mingcheng.
"Mingcheng, the wild boars you killed are too big! Ouch, you killed two!" Chen Dasong's face was full of shock, and he stepped forward to take the snakeskin bag and javelin from Gao Mingcheng's hand.
These two things were a bit too heavy for him.
Gao Mingcheng gently threw the wild boar to the ground and said to Chen Dasong, "Uncle, call someone to help with the work. Let's follow the old rules."
Chen Dasong nodded in agreement and ran home quickly.
He was going to call his family members and Zhang Chengyuan and the others to come and do the work. Two wild boars would be enough to keep them busy!
After returning home, Gao Mingcheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he was even hungrier. At this moment, he didn't want to eat porridge or cook noodles, but wanted to eat barbecue.
Action is worse than thought. He immediately cut off a few pieces of wild boar meat, and then cut off a pair of kidneys from the male wild boar, removed the smelly meat in the middle of the kidneys, cut them into flower pieces and marinated them with salt. Then he went to wash the iron skewers, which he bought specially for the convenience of grilling meat.
While he was busy preparing the barbecue dinner, the team that processed the wild boar meat had arrived. The first to arrive was Aunt Liu and her two sons. A little later came Zhang Chengyuan and Xuanyu, who also brought a small stone.
"Brother Mingcheng, what are you doing?" Chen Duoxi looked at Gao Mingcheng's provocative actions with curiosity.
Gao Mingcheng said generously: "I'm going to grill some meat. If you want to eat it, you can cut some for yourself, marinate it with salt and grill it."
Chen Duoxi's eyes flashed with joy, and just as she was about to agree, Aunt Liu said to her, "What are you doing standing there? Get to work!"
Turning around, Aunt Liu said to Gao Mingcheng in a gentle voice, "We have cooked porridge at home. The barbecue will definitely take a while. Have a bowl of porridge first to fill your stomach."
This double standard made Chen Duoxi grimace, but he didn't dare to say anything more and went to work obediently. (End of this chapter)
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