Chapter 35034. We are all relatives, you won’t refuse to lend it to me, right?
"No, I feel at ease with a knife in my hand."
Lei Li stood up as he spoke, but his footing slipped and he lost his balance. Zhou Yi immediately dropped his knife and went to help him up, half believing and half doubting, "Are you really okay?"
"It's really okay."
Lei Li waved his hand away, stood up steadily, picked up the machete again, pointed to the edge of the mountain and said, "Go back this way. There are fields right outside. It's a bit of a detour, but it's safe."
"I see."
Zhou Yi followed Lei Li carrying the wild boar, worried that Lei Li would step on empty air and fall again, but he walked very steadily, as if he was not the one who had just been gasping for breath.
Out of the woods.
Lei Li went down to the canal in the field and washed his face with water to wipe off the blood stains on his face. He then took off his coat and rubbed the splashed blood with canal water.
Seeing that it was not so bloody and terrifying, Lei Li put his coat back on.
Two people walked towards their home along the ridge of the field.
Although it was afternoon and the sun was already very bright, there were still several families in the fields watching over their seedlings. They were wearing big straw hats, and one man even had a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth.
Gui Fulang is also here.
He also brought his own tiger cub.
Tiger Boy was in his mischievous mood. While Gui Fulang was picking up snails, he ran around in the field and pulled out the seedlings, mistaking them for weeds.
Gui Fulang was so angry that he grabbed his ear and scolded him.
As he was cursing, the sound died down. Hu Wa's eyes rolled around, and he turned around, broke free from Gui Fulang's hand, and ran away, leaving a trail of footprints in the field.
But Gui Fulang had no time to scold him.
Gui Fulang's eyes were fixed on the thing on Zhou Yi's shoulder. A wild boar! Is that a wild boar?!
A big wild boar!
Even in the county town, you only see a wild boar once a year, let alone in this remote area. It is a big deal if someone kills a wild boar during the New Year. This person directly carried a wild boar.
"Brother Li!"
"Mr. Kururi!"
Gui Fulang shouted hurriedly, his face full of smiles. Without even washing the mud off his hands, he ran to Lei Li and Zhou Yi, blocking their way.
His eyes were fixed on the wild boar. "Brother Li, where did this wild boar come from?"
"They killed him on the mountain."
Lei Li glanced at him coldly, grabbed Zhou Yi's hand, and tried to bypass Gui Fulang.
“Ouch, ouch…”
Gui Fulang quickly grabbed Lei Li's arm again, squeezing him hard as if to strangle him, with a smile on his face, "Brother Li... No, no, Brother Li is getting married, so I should call you Brother Li, haha..."
"Just say whatever you want to say."
Lei Li pulled out his arms and shook the grass knife and machete in his hands. The blades were sharpened to a white shine and stained with blood, which was terrifying at first glance.
"What you said..."
Gui Fulang took a half step back fearfully, but he still stared at the wild boar meat with reluctance, "Isn't uncle just concerned about you? After all, we are relatives..."
"relative?"
"Yes, yes, your mother and I are both from Shilihe Village. When you were a child, you called me Uncle Gui. Don't you remember?"
"I don't remember."
Lei Li laughed. "Since we're relatives, please lend me ten taels of silver for emergencies. We're relatives, so you wouldn't refuse, right, Uncle Xiaogui?"
"Uncle, how can I have ten taels..."
"Then you're mistaken. I don't have any poor relatives."
Lei Li had an expressionless face. He pushed Gui Fulang away, grabbed Zhou Yi's arm and walked away.
He didn't like Gui Fulang because he was a gossip. He would gossip about anyone who had any problems in the surrounding villages and would even exaggerate the situation when talking to others.
The person who has been criticized the most by Lei Li in recent years is Gui Fulang, who always says that he can't get married. Lei Li has married a son-in-law, and Gui Fulang says that it is difficult for him to have children and he doesn't know when he will be able to give birth to a boy or a girl.
Especially since his mother Liu Ye'er and Gui Fulang were from the same village. As soon as Gui Fulang saw Liu Ye'er, he wouldn't give in and kept calling his mother "Auntie" and then made a fool of himself.
Liu Ye'er didn't like to talk about these unlucky things with Lei Li. However, one time when she was sick and Lei Li went to wash clothes for her, she heard Gui Fulang's sarcastic remarks.
So Lei Li stopped letting Liu Ye'er wash clothes and washed them himself every morning. When he heard Gui Fulang talking nonsense again, he would throw stones at him and make him splash with water.
Don't say.
It was quite satisfying to see Gui Fulang being splashed with water but still being angry but not being able to say anything.
"Mr. Kururi!"
"Don't leave yet, Brother Li..."
Seeing Lei Lizhen leave, Gui Fulang stomped his feet in anger. He turned around and found that his own Tiger Boy was making trouble again, which made him even angrier.
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Such a big wild boar cannot be hidden, and Lei Li has no intention of avoiding people.
So Zhou Yi carried the wild boar into the village——
Parading in public.
Before dinner time, the whole Sanlihe Village knew that the Lei Li family had slaughtered a wild boar. In a short while, most of the adults, some of whom had live wild boars in their hands, ran to see the wild boar in amazement.
The children were ignorant and had no idea how hard it was to kill a wild boar. Seeing the adults go, they called the geese and dogs to join in the fun and even made up a nursery rhyme.
"Big boar, big boar,
Long ears and a fat butt.
Fragrant meat, eat more,
Even when my parents called me, I didn’t stop.”
This caused the adults to laugh and scold, and the children also laughed and ran around the villages and alleys to sing.
The village chief, who was out on business, heard the children and thought they were just playing. When he asked, even the village chief was alarmed.
"The Lei Li family slaughtered a wild boar?!"
"Lei Lizai's?"
Niu Dashu, his wife and children, Niu Ershu and Liu Xiaocao, who was holding Tao Ge'er, looked at each other for a long time, and the whole family ran to Lei Li's yard.
Squeezing through the crowd to take a peek inside——
Wow!
It really is a big wild boar!
There was a large wound on his neck, oozing blood, and several bloody knife wounds on his body, much larger than those of a domestic pig, and his eyes were as big as copper bells.
Like dying with eyes open.
The stare made people tremble in their hearts, but in the end, they were dead. The greed of taking advantage made the crowd unwilling to disperse for a long time.
"You said it was really Brother Li who killed him?"
"Is it his husband? No matter how fierce he is, he's still a brother. His husband looks like a hunter, so hunting wild boars shouldn't be a big deal..."
"Brother Li has killed people before, so killing a wild boar is nothing?"
"I don't know how to divide this wild boar. When we slaughter the New Year pig, we always let the villagers buy it first. Such a big wild boar, and we didn't raise it ourselves, so it should be cheaper than the New Year pig..."
"That's easy to say. If you have the guts, go ahead and kill me. I'm just worried you'll have money but no life to spend it on!"
Some people talk in a whisper.
Some people argue carelessly.
Especially Gui Fulang, fearing that Lei Lijia couldn't hear him, he shouted at the top of his voice, trying to pressure them with favors, "At least it should be two or three cents cheaper than the domestic pig..."
"You're such a big mouth!"
"I'm doing this for everyone's good..."
Lei Dashan was sitting on the doorstep weaving a basket, while Liu Ye'er was picking vegetables beside him. Zhou Yi was not there, so Lei Li sent him to the vegetable garden to fetch water for watering the vegetables.
Lei Li was sharpening a knife in the yard.
Faced with the chattering of the uncles, aunts and aunts who surrounded him, he said nothing, but just sharpened the butcher knife again and again, until it became shiny white.
"Quiet!"
The village chief cleared his throat twice and spoke, and the crowd gradually quieted down.
The village chief looked around the wild boar twice and said, "Dashan, Sister Ye'er, this wild boar was killed by your family. What do you want to do?"
Lei Dashan didn't even raise his head, "Listen to Li Ge'er, he killed the wild boar."
The village chief then asked, "What do you think, Li Ge'er?"
Lei Li said, "I'll give 50 kilograms to the village at the price of a New Year's pig, and I'll sell the rest in the county town tomorrow."
"Only fifty pounds?"
"Why is it the price of a New Year pig?"
"New Year pigs are seven cents a pound, not expensive. Last time at the market, someone was selling pheasants for fifteen cents a pound..."
Lei Li listened without saying anything.
He picked up the butcher knife, and the whitened blade flashed with white light, so sharp that it was terrifying. The noisy voices were startled for a moment, and then gradually died down.
"Okay, just as you say."
The village chief also thought the price was fair, nodded, and asked, "When will the sale start?"
"Now."
"become."
The village chief greeted the villagers, "If you want to buy pork, please come and line up. You are not allowed to buy more than you have. Just buy as much as you have at home."
Domestic pigs are usually sold at 8 wen per pound. New Year pigs are cheaper because they are from the same village, and are sold at 7 wen per pound. Game is expensive, and wild boars are even more expensive.
Pheasants can lay eggs, but they are not as difficult to catch as wild boars. They can be sold for fifteen cents per pound at the town market, while wild boars can be sold for at least ten cents.
Therefore, if anyone wants to make a profit from the price difference, they can buy all 50 kilograms of wild boar meat and then sell it at the town market or county town to make a small profit.
Lei Li ignored their noise.
Holding a butcher knife in one hand and a bucket of water in the other, he poured water on the wild boar, washed away most of the blood, and then began to dismember it.
He cut off a hind leg neatly, then divided it into several parts according to the body parts. Without even looking up, he asked, "How much do you want?"
"Two pounds."
Gui Fulang was so happy that he couldn't help but smile. He didn't know how he managed to get first place. He pointed at the fattest part of the hind leg and said, "I want the fat inside this piece. Give me more fat."
“…”
Lei Li cut him a pound of lean meat. Seeing Gui Fulang frowning in dissatisfaction, he said coldly, "Your family of five is worth one pound. Buy it if you want."
“…”
Gui Fulang choked, snorted, threw down seven coins, took the meat and left.
People in the village are very stingy when buying things.
People may not be willing to buy meat during festivals, let alone during non-festive times. Buying one pound of meat is considered a luxury. Gui Fulang buys two pounds and gives half of it to his mother's family.
His mother's family is not from Sanlihe Village.
"Next."
Lei Li had no expression on his face.
After watering the vegetables, Zhou Yi returned home and found a group of people queuing up to look in at his house. He felt a little strange. Then he saw that they were buying pork, and the quantity was limited, which made it even stranger.
Lei Li didn't need him to cut the meat, so Zhou Yi went to help Liu Ye'er light the fire and cook, asking, "Mom, it's hot in May, and the wild boars are not sold out in the village. Can we keep them until tomorrow?"
"Hang it in the village well. It's cool in there, so the meat won't spoil." Liu Ye'er said, "Turn up the fire. I'll make a soup with cauliflower and egg."
Zhou Yi likes this soup.
Liu Ye'er put a large handful of tender white cauliflower and cracked four eggs.
Four!
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