Dinner was really late, because Gao Yuan didn't come back from Pingshang until late. Gao Yun had already heated the rice twice, and when he saw Gao Yuan coming back, he quickly put the food on the table, a simple cold salad of wild vegetables, and a stewed wild boar with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, a steaming big pot, before he ate it, Gao Yuan shouted fragrant, and after eating a few bites of pork, he was full of praise, and the chopsticks did not leave his hand.

Gao Yun eats Sven, although Zhou Nan is the commander of the kitchen, he can't help the temptation of deliciousness, he really admires himself too much, and he can satisfy himself with the meals he directs. But the most important thing is that the material is good, the real game, mushrooms, bamboo shoots are picked by Gao Yun himself, the boar is just slaughtered today, only ginger slices, wild garlic, salt are put in the soup, the soup is fresh and rotten, plus the crisp and tender bamboo shoots, how to eat is not greasy.

During the meal, Gao Yuan sighed with satisfaction: "In previous years, every time there was a winter, some people starved to death and froze to death, and it was not easy for people in the mountains." With you this year, we are blessed to be in Gaojiazhai. As long as the grain is harvested and the firewood is prepared at home, the New Year will always be safe. I just don't know what the people in other villages are like. ”

Zhou Nan asked: "The mountains are bitter, but there are also benefits in the mountains; But when you go outside, it's better than in the mountains to survive the winter, and if you can't do it, you can go to a big family to do a job, and you can also stutter food. Why didn't anyone go out? ”

Gao Yuan said: "It's bitter in the mountains, it's just harder, two more trips to the mountains, more mountain goods, and you can get by; But if you go outside, those old men are more vicious than the boar and the tiger, the boar and the tiger, if you don't provoke it, it won't hurt you, those who are officials, big households, eat people more vicious than tigers. With that, he continued to eat.

Gao Yun saw that Gao Yuan didn't want to say anything, so he said to Zhou Nan: "Most of the people who live in this mountain come in from outside to escape the military disaster, or they were forced to live by the old men outside, so they fled here." ”

Zhou Nan said to Gao Yuan: "Our brothers, wouldn't we be happy to live a carefree life on this Wuzhai Ridge?" Gao Yuan smiled: "But it's very good!" Dalang, you are a homeless person, why don't you live here, if you dislike it, I will find a few people to help you build two new houses. Our brothers live happily in this mountain. Wait another day, I'll take you to Lao Zheng Tou's house to steal two jars of wine, and I'll spare Lao Zheng Tou this year, haha. ”

After resting for a few days, another wild boar came down the mountain to spoil the crops in the field, Gao Yuan called the hunters again, talking about catching the wild boar again, this time the hunters laughed and laughed one by one, competing to go, and there was no longer the solemn fear of the last time. Gao Yuan said to everyone: "Several households in the village have been looking for me for the past few days, saying that there is also a scourge of wild boars on the southern slope, and there are sporadic mountain boars coming down the mountain in Erdaoliangzi in the north. It seems that this boar is rushing to give us meat to eat. ”

Zuo Xiaosi stood up excitedly, patted his chest and said, "Brother Gao, this time I came to catch the wild boar on the southern slope." Make sure to catch it clean. ”

Gao Yuan said briskly: "Okay." This time, it's up to you to take the rest of you. Be sure not to be hurt by a boar. Also, use the wooden cage in Erdaoliangzi again, and the scattered wild boar is also meat. ”

Zuo Xiaosi nodded again and again, and said: "It's still the method taught by Brother Zhou, catching a boar like this is like killing a pig raised by yourself." ”

Zhou Nan reminded: "Don't be too greedy this time, don't set the mechanism too heavy, it's good that seven of the ten boars can go in." ”

Everyone laughed when they said this, Zuo Xiaosi looked embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Not this time." ”

Zuo Xiaosi, a good hand at burying the mechanism, has the experience of the last time, after a few nights of waiting at Erdaoliangzi on the south slope and the north mountain, he was carried down the mountain by the hunters with eight big pigs and more than ten small pigs tied up.

It's still the old rule, everyone gathers on the road to divide the meat, and this time even the mountain god grandfather, who has not seen meat all year round, got a big pig's head and three incense sticks of incense to worship. More than a dozen little boars were fed together with the last batch. The people in the village all know that these 30 or so little boars are what they will eat when they are not green and yellow in the future, and they look like treasures. The people in the village are simple, and no one steals them. A few old men with no children and no daughters in the village guarded all day, and no one dared to steal them.

The matter of Gaojiazhai connecting the boar to a pot still spread in Wuzhailing. The people of other villages in Wuzhailing, like Gaojiazhai, were also troubled by wild boars, so they all came to ask for advice. At the beginning, Zhou Nan patiently explained, and after a long time, Zhou Nan was overwhelmed. Anyone who says a simple thing ten or eight times will be annoyed. Zhou Nan and Gao Yuanyi are all poor people living together, and catching boars is not an ancestral stunt, so they asked Zuo Xiaosi and Zhou Xing, and a few others with good legs and feet, to the other four villages in Wuzhailing, to find the person in charge of their village, and tell them that if the village wants to catch the boar and eliminate the harm, then ask each village to elect a few representatives, and before noon the day after tomorrow, they will come to Gaojiazhai together, and everyone will teach each other about catching boars. Of course, the cottage that did not come to ask for advice was happy, and the village that had already been there was also worried because it was ineffective to catch the boar in a cage, and they were embarrassed to ask again.

Although it was the end of summer on this day, there was no summer heat in the mountains, and the people selected by each village gathered on the flat in front of the mountain temple in Gaojiazhai, and there were more than a dozen people in total. They are all shrewd and capable people in appearance, and at first glance they are the best hunters in the stockade. Gao Yuan pulled Zhou Nan and introduced Zhou Nan to a man in his thirties, lean and bright-eyed: "This is Feng Wu of Chazigou, who is the most shrewd, making him have good knife skills and dare to fight the wolves alone." In front of Zhou Nandao, who was also in his thirties, Zhou Nan saw that the man was tall, with thick and powerful exposed arms, a scar on his face, and his eyes were calm and attentive, and he didn't like to talk. Gao Yuan introduced: "This is Yang Shi'an of the tiger's mouth, walking four at home, people shouting Yang Si, a man at the upper end of Wuzhai Ridge, the tiger's mouth is the farthest away from Gaojiazhai, but there is no chance to meet each other on weekdays." Zhou Nan and Yang Shi'an exchanged admiration for a long time. Gao Yuan pulled Zhou Nan to the middle of the two young men, both of whom were in their twenties, Gao Yuan took the arms of the two young men and said: "These are the two brothers Wang Zengxiang and Wang Zengrui of Da and Xiaolantai, both of whom are good at hunting in the mountains." Zhou Nan greeted each other with these two people again.

There are more than a dozen people here, and there are also Orions who meet on weekdays in Gaojiazhai to accompany each other, and they are all young people, and they have not met for a long time.

He was a guest from afar, Gao Yuan had a bold personality, took out fifty catties of meat from home, and begged for three jars of wine from Lao Zheng Tou, which is easy to say, and promised that no one would go to Lao Zheng Tou to steal wine and drink this year, and Lao Zheng Tou gave it. There were pheasants, mushrooms, and wild vegetables in the mountains, and everyone started to set up three tables of open-air banquets.

After everyone sat down, Zhou Nan was not familiar with everyone, so he stood up from Gao Yuan, raised a bowl and saluted everyone first, and all the hunters also drank it all. Gao Yuan said loudly to everyone: "I am Wuzhailing, the neighborhood is watching, and the generations are good, and now Zhou Dalang has a good way to let my Gaojiazhai crops not be harmed by the boar." Thinking that the villages were generally harmed in previous years, I asked you to come over, tell everyone Zhou Dalang's method, go back and implement the law, discipline the boar can not be harmed, and ensure that the old and young men and women of Wuzhailing can collect more food and spend a full winter. ”

A man in his thirties with a scumbag face shouted loudly: "Gao Dalang, you talk a lot, don't you ask Dalang to talk about it soon." Gao Yuan looked at it and said with a smile: "Feng Wu, you are in a hurry, I'm afraid that the boar will be lively these days, right?" I want to learn but I don't have wine and meat to invite, but I want Lao Tzu to invite you. Gao Yuan scolded with a smile, then waved his hand and asked Zhou Nan to start talking.

Zhou Nan made a group of moves, and then explained to everyone. In order to make these people more understanding, Zhou Nan also asked Zuo Xiaosi to make a small cage out of twigs and explain the key points of production one by one. Hearing this, the Orions nodded their heads.

Only a few hunters who had already come to ask for advice, but did not catch the boar when they went back, waited for Zhou Nan to finish speaking, and hurriedly asked: "That's how my family does it, why don't the boars come in?" ”

After listening to him, Zhou Nan asked about the details again, and said: "The boar has a smart nose, and it is necessary to cover up the taste on the cage in order to have an effect." He also told everyone that they had placed the wooden cage for the first time and kept it all night but did not catch the boar, and said: "The first time I didn't catch it, I had to continue to put food in the wooden cage, and the boar was accustomed to it, most of them entered the wooden cage, so that the mechanism would be stimulated, and the boar was caught. The hunters who had put the wooden cages and failed to catch the boars suddenly realized and nodded frequently.

A few more people asked, and Zhou Nan pointed out the details of their mistakes one by one. After the explanation, all the hunters said: "This time I go back, it is necessary for the boar to look good." ”

The business has been completed, under the leadership of Gao Yuan, you are not welcome, and everyone eats cups and plates, so they leave one after another. Before leaving, all the hunters said goodbye to Gao Yuan, Zhou Nan, Zuo Xiaosi and others one by one.