Chapter 86: Sharing the Meat
So conflicts arose between the two sides.
The village party secretary waved his hand for everyone to be quiet.
The village party secretary is highly respected and has a lot of say in the village.
As soon as he opened his mouth, the noise stopped.
The village party secretary thought for a long time before making an arrangement: "Let's leave a big wild boar for the canteen to reward everyone during the busy farming season. As for the others...
According to the work done, it should be distributed to those who go to the mountains to hunt wild boars today."
After these words were spoken, although the two parties were still somewhat dissatisfied, they only murmured a few words in a low voice and stopped arguing.
Know when to quit. Not everyone is so shameless.
The hunt included five wild boars, a roe deer, five pheasants, and six rabbits.
As everyone knows, a small wild boar, a roe deer, four pheasants and three rabbits were hunted by Gu Cheng.
Naturally, whatever Gu Cheng got belonged to him. Seeing how capable he was, other people had no objection.
The village party secretary would not say anything either. He had already done a lot of good things for the village, so there was no reason for him to embezzle other people's things.
This way, Zhao Jianguo wouldn't have to waste any more time talking.
With so many people busy, several wild boars were slaughtered quickly.
Excluding the big wild boar handed over to the cafeteria, there are still three wild boars left to be distributed.
They took a large scale to weigh the three wild boars, two big ones and one small, and they weighed exactly 630 kilograms.
Including Gu Cheng and Zhao Jianguo, there were a total of twenty-eight people who went to the mountains to hunt wild boars.
The village party secretary didn't say much and distributed the pork directly according to the number of people.
All in all, each person can get exactly 22.5 kilograms of wild boar meat.
Gu Cheng got 20 kilograms of meat and a pig's trotter, and Zhao Jianguo got the same.
In addition to the pork, Gu Cheng also hunted a small wild boar weighing 112 kilograms and 48 kilograms of roe deer meat.
All together, it weighs about 180 kilograms of meat.
The four pheasants and three rabbits are all alive and can be kept for now.
The rest of the meat has to be disposed of today.
In this kind of weather, the only way to prepare meat is to salt it.
They didn't bring any salt with them, but fortunately salt isn't very expensive these days.
After dinner, Gu Cheng used a pig's trotter and two pounds of roe deer meat to exchange for ten pounds of meat pickled with coarse salt from the village canteen.
Seeing that he had a lot of meat, Zhao Jianguo started to wonder, "With so much meat, can you two finish it?"
I have to say, he is really jealous. This guy is simply too lucky, weighing 180 kilograms!
He and his wife, together, only had 1.8 jin of meat coupons per month, but 180 jin of meat was enough for them to eat for eight or nine years.
Gu Cheng rubbed the meat with salt and glanced at him: "Why, do you have any ideas?"
Zhao Jianguo's thoughts were written all over his face. He chuckled and said, "I was thinking, if you can't finish all the meat, why don't you consider exchanging it with the people in the orchard?"
Gu Cheng asked him, "Switch to fruit?"
Zhao Jianguo nodded and said, "If you're willing, we can exchange two kilograms of fruit for one kilogram of pork. You and your sister-in-law have picked a lot of fruit today, so we can just use the meat to pay for it."
Fruit is rare here. In fact, fruit sold at the supply and marketing cooperatives is a bit more expensive than pork. But if given a choice between fruit and pork, most people would choose pork.
Moreover, he gave Gu Cheng the lowest price for the fruit, so two kilograms of fruit in exchange for one kilogram of pork was reasonable.
Gu Cheng didn't respond, but just said, "Okay, I'll discuss this with Yin Yin later."
In fact, there is always enough meat to eat. Even if you don’t eat it, you can exchange it for food.
As for fruits, our family can afford them.
At this time, food is obviously more important than money.
Zhao Jianguo could understand him: "Then you two should discuss it carefully."
The meat he gave was enough to eat, but these days no one would complain about throwing away too much meat.
Only after Gu Yanyan fell asleep did Liu Yinyin have time to come over and help marinate the meat.
By this time, it was already very late at night. There were many people around, and the people from the secretary's family, after finishing their own work, came over to help.
It was almost twelve o'clock when all the meat was marinated.
After a tiring day, Zhao Jianguo went to rest after packing up. He rode his bike back to the orchard and went to sleep.
Liu Yinyin handed the newly made trousers and vest to Gu Cheng: "Go wash them first, wear the clothes and pants for now, and take them off and wash them for me when you come in later."
You definitely cannot go shirtless or show your thighs in someone else's home.
Liu Yinyin has already washed.
She could wear her clothes and pants, but not Gu Cheng. She had killed so many wild boars, and her clothes not only smelled bad, but were also stained with blood. She definitely couldn't wear them tomorrow without washing them.
"Where did the clothes come from?" Gu Cheng asked curiously.
Liu Yinyin blinked her eyes: "...your son has a new diaper, so I changed it into clothes."
Seeing Gu Cheng pick up the clothes and smell them, Liu Yinyin said unhappily, "What's wrong? You want to reject your own son?"
Her son's diapers are all made of good cloth, although... they do sound a bit smelly.
Gu Cheng shook his head and smiled: "No, I really can't smell it if you don't tell me."
After a tiring day, Liu Yinyin didn’t choose a bed and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
A dreamless night.
The next day, the family got up early in the morning.
Had breakfast at the party secretary's house.
Leaving two pounds of wild boar meat, the couple packed up the rest and went to the orchard.
Zhao Jianguo had just finished his breakfast. Seeing Gu Cheng coming with a bicycle, he said, "It's still early. The orchard's truck is empty. I'll tell the driver to take you back, but..."
They had a lot of stuff and it would be difficult to go back without a car. However, since they were not relatives or friends, it was impossible for the driver to help them for no reason.
Driving back and forth is not only tiring, but also wastes fuel. The driver should not bear this loss alone.
Zhao Jianguo didn't say anything else, but Gu Cheng and Liu Yinyin understood.
Liu Yinyin thought about it and asked, "Can we give him ten kilograms of wild boar meat?"
"Sure. Of course." Ten pounds of wild boar meat is a lot, and the driver will definitely be happy to help.
"By the way." Zhao Jianguo thought of something and asked again, "Have you two thought about what happened yesterday?"
The other employees in the orchard were very greedy when they heard that they had hunted wild boar yesterday, so they wanted to exchange a few pounds of meat to take home for food.
Zhao Jianguo himself felt that there was not enough meat, so naturally he was unwilling to share it with them.
So, I don’t know whether Gu Cheng and his wife want to exchange.
Gu Cheng nodded: "Both wild boar and roe deer meat are acceptable."
Ten kilograms were given to the driver, and there were still 120 kilograms of wild boar meat and 46 kilograms of roe deer meat.
He discussed with Liu Yinyin and decided to raise two pigs at home, so they could kill them and make bacon at the end of the year.
Therefore, there is no need to stock up on so much salted meat.
As for the pheasants and rabbits, they are all alive and can be taken back and raised, or killed and eaten fresh. Liu Yinyin doesn't want to give them to others.