After practicing the Qigong method, Wan Tang did some basic physical training, and then came out of the forest and went back to the house to wash. After a while, he took a roasted sweet potato in his mouth, took a woodcutter, and carried a bamboo basket with a lid into the woods.

Every adult in the stockade was assigned a corresponding production affair, and Wan Tang's job was to feed the pigs.

One day two years ago, Brother Liu, who was in charge of arranging traps and collecting prey on weekdays, suddenly returned to the village from outside with a shout, and then summoned Wan Tang and a few other men to go to a certain trap together.

When they arrived at the scene, everyone's faces were full of joy, because there was a big wild boar lying in the trap pit, and there were four little pigs around the pit!

You don't need to guess this situation to know, it must be that the mother pig has fallen into a trap, and the piglets are reluctant to leave, which makes the people in the village pick up a big bargain.

What a loving and righteous family of five! The corners of everyone's mouths couldn't help but shed tears of emotion.

In extraordinary times, no one is overflowing, no one is commanding, everyone rushes up, very tacit division of labor and cooperation, catch the piglet of the piglet, set the sow of the sow, less than half an hour, the five pigs were tied up and brought back to the village.

Seeing these pigs, the sixth master immediately said, don't look at the big wild boar's hard mane, dark gray skin and prominent fangs, but it is actually a domestic pig that has lived a long life, and it is very likely that it ran out of a farmer's house when the "white night" came.

Regardless of its wild boar and domestic pig, everyone just wants to eat meat quickly, and Wan Tang, who has long forgotten what pork tastes like, can't wait to gnaw those live pigs on the spot!

But in the end, the sixth master still proposed to leave two little pigs, a male and a female. He thinks that with the herd habits of pigs, it is not good that there will be other pigs nearby, and when the time comes, they can be bred and give birth to a large litter to raise, and then everyone can have meat to eat every three or five times.

This proposal is very forward-looking, but how to raise and who will raise it is a big problem, after all, with the current level of materials, it will be able to feed the people in the village, and there is no guarantee of how much to eat.

The sixth master waved his hand: "This is simple, these pigs can feed themselves in the field, and they can starve to death when it is our turn to raise them?" Pigs are also omnivores, they can eat anything messy, sweet potato vines, sweet potato leaves, water hyacinth, and then cut some grass, occasionally find some wild fruits, catch some insects, mix them together and cook them to make them full. As for who will raise it, isn't Wantang just right? ”

Everyone thought about it, Wan Tang has not had a suitable position to arrange him since he woke up, and he used to be able to barely play with a children's pistachio, but now he has nothing to do in the village all day long, like a streamer, wasting a good labor in vain.

At this time, Wan Tang didn't listen to what the audience was talking about, he only had boiled meat, braised pork, and fried pork in his mind...

Seeing that Wan Tang didn't react, the sixth master thought that he was unhappy, so he spoke again:

"If you don't wait to eat more, anyway, no matter how you look at it, you are related to pigs, when you were a fool before, our village is equivalent to raising a pig, you are good, it is equivalent to a pig running away." Now that I've caught two more, it's like exchanging one pig for two pigs, so it's best to leave it to you! ”

The logical relationship in these words is obviously a bit serious, but when Wan Tang heard the words "eat more", he already nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, causing him to not hear the latter words clearly at all...

As a result, Wan Tang became a swineherd.

Relatively speaking, the work of the 10,000 swineherd is quite simple, mainly responsible for the three meals a day for the two pigs, and occasionally clean the pigsty. As the sixth master said, on weekdays, the sweet potato vines, sweet potato leaves, and other plants with leaves in the village are collected, add some water to cook into a pot of porridge, and occasionally go to the stream to pick up some water hyacinths, catch some insects in the forest to supplement them with some protein eggs, so that the two pigs have eaten very happily, but if you want to raise the pigs how fat, it is indeed a bit difficult to cook without rice.

But fortunately, everyone's purpose is mainly to keep the pigs alive, and they can have the opportunity to breed in the future.

But Wan Tang was actually quite attentive to these two pigs, and even named them "Xiaobai" and "Xiaohua" respectively. Because he knows that the existence of these two pigs can make the villagers have an illusion from the bottom of their hearts to some extent: their group of people is not completely separated from the human world, and Dongfang Village is just a small village in a remote mountainous area, everything is still hopeful, and everything can be looked forward to.

Therefore, in order to make these two pigs grow better and look more festive, Wan Tang went to the forest every three or four days to get some insects or wild fruits or something, and gave them a tooth sacrifice.

And today has been three days since the last tooth sacrifice, Wan Tang calculated that it was time to get some delicious food for the pig brothers and sisters, so he came to the forest again with tools.

He was in a good mood, because the last time he came here to look for pig food, he found a quagmire, and then dug up a lot of fat insects there, and also found a lot of young leaf plants on the edge of the quagmire, all of which the pig brothers and sisters like to eat.

Wan Tang knew that today would be another fruitful day, so he hummed a certain tune that he didn't know what he was singing all the way, and his feet with flip-flops were very light.

"Xiao Wan!" A familiar voice came from behind.

Wan Tang stopped and turned around, and found that it was Brother Liu, who was closely followed by a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, who was a stone.

When they approached, Shi Shi stood up from behind Brother Liu, carrying a bow made of bamboo in the village, with a smile on his black face, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and shouting humbly: "Brother Tang." ”

Hey, this generation...

Wan Tang answered, greeted Brother Liu again, and saw that they seemed to be in a hurry, so he asked suspiciously, "Brother Liu, what are you going to do so early?" He knew that Brother Liu was in charge of the traps and animal traps on the periphery of the village, but he would definitely not go out so early on weekdays.

Brother Liu rolled up the corners of his trousers, then pointed to the stone, and said: "This kid has been pestering me all this time, saying that he wants to learn to be a trap and hunt with me. ”

Wan Tang looked at the stone while listening, this child was also brought back from outside by the sixth master, because he didn't like to talk very much when he first came, so everyone called him "stone", until now this child sometimes talks with a little stammer.

Wan Tang advised: "It's a good thing to want to learn things early, but you must learn by heart, learn the technique with your Uncle Liu, and strive to catch two more pigs in the future, so that they can marry Xiaobai Xiaohua and give birth to a large litter of piglets, so that you can eat pork often!" ”

The stone didn't speak, still with a silly smile.