Chapter 13: Killing the Pig 4
Gao Yuan and Zhou Nan looked at the group of wild boars, and "bang" for a while, constantly rushing into the wooden cage. On several occasions, Zhou Nan was worried that the boars would break through the stake trap and escape. It wasn't until Zuo Xiaosi led those hunters yesterday that Gao Yuan grinned and said to these hunters with a smile: "Everyone, don't be polite, pick up the big shots, and keep the little mountain boar alive." At the sound of the order, everyone began to look for the target, and the "massacre" began. The distance was close, and they didn't worry about being hurt, this was probably the easiest time these hunters shot the boar, and for a while they could only hear the howling and wailing in the wooden cage.
After a quarter of an hour, there were only about fifteen or six small boars left in the wooden cage, all of which were small boars with stripes that had just been a few months old, and they seemed to have been injured by mistake.
The hunters put away their bows and arrows and waited for a while, the wild boars in the cage with arrows fell down and didn't snort, Gao Shouzhong was anxious to open the trapdoor, Zhou Nan was still not at ease, and hurriedly called Gao Shouzhong to let him wait. The dying boar is the most ruthless, don't hurt the boar in the end, it's not worth it. Zhou Nan found a long branch, and beat the big mountain boar that fell to the ground one by one through the cage, and only when he saw that there was no movement, he was relieved. Gao Yuan and all the hunters have moved, first through the cage with a rope to the little boar lasso, and then open the door, people go in to bring the little boar out, with a rope to tie the little boar four kicks, the remaining cage in the big boar is too heavy, the hunters found a wooden stick, the big boar four horses hooves tied tightly, and then hung on the stick, carried down the mountain. Among them, there was the white-haired boar that injured Zhou Fu, the fangs were a foot long, estimated to be more than 700 catties, and it was impossible to lift it, Gao Yuan had to let people take out the four planks in the cage, and the white-haired boar monopolized a plank, and the remaining three planks also put a few big boars on them, and dragged the planks down the mountain one by one with ropes.
After counting, a total of eight large boars, 14 medium-sized boars, and 16 small boars were captured alive. This is completely to wipe out this super-large herd of wild boars.
By the time the hunters were sweating and dragged the prey to the bottom of the mountain, it was already dark. The people in the stockade had already learned from the hunters who had returned first with the little boars. Gaojiazhai immediately became a sensation.
In previous years, when I hunted wild boars, I only hit one or two sporadically, and I had to lose several hunting dogs, and sometimes I hurt people, just like Zhou Fu, who was injured by wild boars every year. The people in the village used to work hard for the boar to spoil the crops every year, but at most they scared the boar away, but people can't stay up with the boar every night, and in the end there is no way to take the boar. Where is it like this time, it is simply a pot of these wild boars.
This year's crop was saved, and there were 22 large boars and 16 small boars. The young hunters all raised their eyebrows, and their faces were full of smiles.
This time to hunt wild pigs, in addition to some hunters that Zhou Nan had seen in Gao Yuan's house, because they wanted to cut down trees and dig pits, Gao Yuan called some young people in the village, some with knives, some with bows and arrows, and some who were not hunters, but only cut trees and dig pits with strength, and some who heard the news and went up the mountain to help carry the pigs. Everyone's face is full of flowers, even if there are no hunters at home, no one who participated in this hunt, it is a good thing that the crops at home are saved.
Running around in the stockade, Gao Yun also heard the movement and came to the ping. Although she had listened to Gao Yuan and Zhou Nan discuss what wooden cage to catch wild boars a few days earlier, she didn't take it to heart, she just felt that it was just a child's play. I just heard from the people in the village that there was a large group of wild boars, and Gao Yun was also happy. Seeing Zhou Nan, Gao Yun took advantage of people's inattention and came to Zhou Nan, with a smile in his eyes, and whispered mischievously: "Brother Zhou is so cunning and insidious. After speaking, without waiting for Zhou Nan to speak, he turned around and walked away. Zhou Nan didn't expect Gao Yun to comment on his initiative so much, so he had to laugh twice.
On the central flat of the village, there is a flat plot, in the north of this flat land, a stone house is built, it is a mountain temple, it is the place where the people in the cottage usually use to worship the mountain god, the cottage is poor, and the place of worship of the mountain god is naturally shabby. Now in front of the mountain temple, there are men, women and children gathered in the village, and in the middle is the wild boar that is placed one by one, from large to small, placed in two rows. Lao Zheng Tou helped Zhou Fu and rushed over. When Zhou Fu saw the white-haired boar, he put aside Lao Zheng's head, stepped forward and kicked the white-haired boar twice, causing everyone to laugh.
Looking at the gathered crowd from afar, he jumped on a protruding boulder on the edge of the flat ground, and shouted: "Hello townspeople, the first few times I hunted wild boars, I didn't stop talking about it, and I hurt people." This time, thanks to Zhou Dalang's good strategy, he removed the harm for everyone. The old rule, this time's prey, Zhou Dalang will share it with everyone! After speaking, he jumped off the stone and said to Zhou Nan with a smile: "Dalang, how do you divide it." Everybody listens to you. ”
Zhou Nan didn't expect that there was still this rule in the mountains, he looked at the people around him, everyone looked at him, these people, some he knew, and some he didn't know, he looked at Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan just said: "Old rule, you are the main person in charge of this hunting, and you will assign it." ”
If you say it, you don't say it, how do I know what the old rules are? Zhou Nan muttered in his heart, and was hesitating, Gao Yun pulled his sleeve beside him, Zhou Nan walked two steps over, Gao Yun whispered in a voice that only Zhou Nan heard: "Those who see have a share, how much is up to you." After saying that, he turned around and walked away. In front of everyone's eyes, while everyone was waiting for Zhou Nan's distribution plan, a girl stepped forward and whispered a few words, if it weren't for Gao Yun seeing Zhou Nan at a loss and not knowing how to divide it, she wouldn't have acted like this anyway.
Fortunately, everyone is used to the innocent behavior of these young people, and they are all waiting for Zhou Nan to be assigned, but they don't care. Zhou Nan thought for a while, and said to the men, women, and children on the lawn: "This time it's all up to everyone to help, and it's not something I can do alone." These wild boars are slaughtered uniformly, and each family has a share of the meat, which is generally divided equally; The pig offal and pig skin were distributed by the big brother to the hunters who initially participated in the hunting of wild boars, and the small wild boars were distributed to the village to send people to feed together, and when the green and yellow were not harvested, they were killed and eaten. ”
Immediately, the crowd cheered, not only for Zhou Nan's generosity and fairness, but also because Zhou Nan also thought about everyone that in the future, those little mountain boars and others would be raised, and life in the village would be difficult, so they would not worry about no help. The simplicity of the mountain people is fully revealed at this moment. Those who did not participate in the hunt and received pork did not have the ugly expression on their faces, and those who worked hard did not have any resentment on their faces. In the era before Zhou Nan, this was simply impossible, and the people at that time, if they got it, would only be too little forever; If you don't get it, you will try to mess things up, and no one will get it. In the era before Zhou Nan, it was not enough to be rich and rich in materials, but people still felt that they had little. The ancients are really right, do not suffer from widowhood but from inequality. If people's hearts are not right, there will never be justice.
Young people are always so energetic. Although he didn't sleep all night, Gao Yuan and a group of young hunters, and then the other young people in the village, began to skin and divide these wild boars in a corner of the lawn. The young people did it, and Lao Zheng Tou and a few older people distributed it to each family, and each household took away the dozens of catties of wild boar. A group of hounds excitedly gathered around, and the hunters threw a few bones to reward them from time to time.
I got sixty or seventy catties of wild boar at once, and went back to marinate it into bacon, which was enough to eat until next spring. People were all smiling. As the people from near and far gradually dispersed, Zhou Dalang's praise for his good scheming spread everywhere, and in their opinion, Zhou Nan was already a member of their Gaojiazhai.
To be honest, Zhou Nan himself didn't expect to take this super-large group of mountain boars in one litter, he expected that it would be good to catch a dozen of them. The descendants of the wild boars are prosperous, and the ecological environment is gratifying! Looking at the harvest of a busy night, Zhou Nan suddenly felt a sense of excitement and complacency in his heart.
This is still the scene that Zhou Nan has seen the most people when he came to this era. Usually live on this hillside, come and go is always these few, even other houses are rare, just this Gaojiazhai, are divided into upper, middle and lower three slopes, each slope can also be divided into east, west and south three sides, and the scene of the kind of family connection in the rural areas of the South Hebei Plain is too different.
Gao Yuan has been leading the group of hunters to be busy, the meat is divided, there are internal organs, skins, and the site has to be cleaned up, Zhou Nan is bored to stay, so he will go back first. Zhou Nan didn't take the pork and pork skin distributed to Zhou Nan home, and took them directly to Gao Yuan's house. He has become accustomed to treating Gao Yuan's house as his own home, firstly, he does not catch fire, he always eats at Gao Yuan's house, and secondly, he is very afraid of loneliness when he is alone. He needed to keep himself busy all the time, and he was afraid of the spread of his thoughts when he was quiet. That was the biggest pain in his heart.