"Uncle, you should go back and have a rest too." Kang Suiyuan put the last basket of pork on the chopping board and covered the basket with a sieve to prevent it from being harmed by rats or cats and dogs.
"Mo Mo, what did you do at home today?" After returning to the house, Kang Mingyuan asked Qiao Mo while washing up.
"I went back to Yongxing Street today. I settled the clothes bill with my cousin this morning, and then went to my godfather's house to read in the afternoon. I didn't come back until dinner." Qiao Mo told him about his trip today. "Where did you go today? You hunted wild boars, so you must have gone deep into the mountains, right?"
"Well, in order to hunt more prey, we went into the mountains. The lower mountains are not as dangerous as the northern mountains. We wiped out a pack of wolves last time, so it doesn't matter if we go a little deeper." Kang Mingyuan said with a smile. They didn't even encounter a wolf today, which showed that no new wolf packs had come here.
"You've been tired all day, hurry up and wash up and rest." Qiao Mo nodded. "After the first month of the lunar year, when the meat at home is almost consumed, we'll go for a walk in the mountains."
"Okay, then we'll ask our eldest brother, second brother and cousin to go with us." Kang Mingyuan nodded and said they would pick a Sunday to go there.
The next day, the Kang family cut up the meat of a pig, rubbed it with salt and spices, and put it in a jar. After marinating it for a few days, they took it out to dry and smoke it to make bacon. In addition, after cutting up a pig, they kept some for themselves and gave the rest to others. The same process was done for the roe deer, pheasants and rabbits. Half of them were marinated to make bacon, and the other half were either eaten by themselves or given to relatives and friends.
The Wu and Qiao families were also relatives of the Kang family and were within the scope of gift-giving. That afternoon, they brought thirty kilograms of wild boar meat, ten kilograms of roe deer meat, and three pheasants back to her mother's home as gifts.
Qiao Mo knew that they were giving ten kilograms of wild boar meat, one kilogram of roe deer meat and a pheasant to the Wu family, Qiao Yuting and Qiao Yumu's family, but she was not close to Qiao Yumu, so she did not intend to give such an expensive gift.
They first sent ten kilograms of wild boar meat and a wild rabbit to the Wu family.
"Mingyuan and Xiaomo are back? Come in quickly." Seeing them coming back, Qie Ge smiled happily and quickly let them in. He happily gave them candies and melon seeds, and called Wu Yuanxin to pour them tea.
"Godfather, godmother, stop busying yourself. We still have to go to my aunt's place." Qiao Mo poured two cups of tea without waiting for Wu Yuanxin to do anything.
"Xiao Mo, is there something wrong with you guys coming back?" Wu Yuanxin knew that Qiao Mo had come back yesterday, so he must have something wrong with coming back today.
"It's nothing else. It's just that Mingyuan and his friends went to the mountain to hunt some game yesterday, and their family asked us to send some back." Qiao Mo said, pointing to the bag on the ground.
"Why did you send so much?" Wu Yuanxin opened the bag and saw the meat inside, and couldn't help but exclaimed. He knew that Kang Weimin had taken his sons and nephews to hunt yesterday, but he didn't know what the harvest was. He didn't expect them to send so much meat.
"We brought back two wild boars, three roe deer and some pheasants and rabbits. We made some bacon, kept some for ourselves and distributed the rest to relatives and friends. Godfather, the big piece is wild boar meat and the small one is roe deer meat," Kang Mingyuan explained.
"It's a good harvest. It seems that you showed your prowess in the mountains yesterday." Wu Yuanxin didn't bother to be polite with them.
"There are many people going there, and the wild boars are all rounded up. It's a pity that Mo Mo didn't go, otherwise the harvest would definitely be bigger." Kang Mingyuan said with a smile. In fact, they encountered a group of wild boars yesterday, but his father was cautious and didn't let them take risks, otherwise they would definitely have harvested more than two wild boars.
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