265. Divide the meat
In order to transport all the sand wolf meat and fur back to the village of Wall, the three young men had to throw thirty bags of sulphur ore on the way.
Although the Gobi Desert is almost unpassable, Charley has covered the sulphur ore bags with limestone blocks so tightly that they look like a grave bag from a distance, except that a wooden cross is not inserted in it, and twenty horses carry loads of supplies through the barren land.
Because of the delay on the road for most of the day, it took the three young men nearly three days to return to the village of Wall, when the horse team full of supplies appeared in the village, almost all the villagers were boiling, everyone gathered around the horse team, followed the horse team to the threshing floor, next to the threshing field is the village to store public supplies, the old village chief personally unscrewed the heavy door lock, bags of sulfur ore into the warehouse.
Selena, dressed in a long, washed and somewhat whitish linen dress, wore her hair tucked over her head, and followed the old village chief with a sheepskin ledger in her hand.
At this time, she began to carefully check the number of sulfur mines, and when she passed by Surdak, Selena walked up to Surdak unabashedly, she was only half a head shorter than Surdak, she stared at him with a hint of tenderness in her eyes, reached out and touched the sleeve of his torn coat when he fought with the sand wolf, as if there were countless words in her eyes, but she didn't say anything.
Signa was still hidden in her skirt, and the little girl secretly lifted Selena's skirt and squatted on her double. Between his legs was Surdak a sweet smile, a smile that seemed to melt all the snow and ice in the world.
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When everyone saw the wolf skin on the horse's back, they knew that the three young men had encountered a sand wolf on the way.
According to Surdak's advice, he only said that a trap was set up on the way to hunt a dozen sand wolves, and the seventeen wolf heads were neatly placed on the stone table at the edge of the threshing floor.
The old village chief walked to the front of the wolf heads, counted them one by one, and saw the wolf head of the sand wolf king at the very edge, he slowly sat next to the wolf head, stroked his fingers on the three scars on the wolf head's face a few times, and then took out his pipe, sat there alone and smoked a bag of cigarettes silently, everyone in the village knew that the old village chief posed like this, which meant that he was in a bad mood, and no one dared to touch the head at this time.
There are three big stoves on the other side of the grain field, usually when the village kills sheep and drinks sheep soup, these three big pots are used to cook soup, so there is a wooden lotus table next to the big pot, fortunately, this lotus table is relatively strong, with the help of the villagers, all the wolf meat is piled on it.
At this time, everyone was waiting for the old village chief to share the wolf meat, but no one was willing to invite the old village chief over.
Natasha and Rita stood in the middle of a group of young women, looking at Surdak standing on the grain floor from a distance, little Peter wanted to break through his mother's arms, but was held by Natasha, Surdak stood in front of the meat case, beckoned to Rita and Natasha, and then went to ask the old village chief to distribute the wolf meat.
There are very few opportunities to eat meat in the village, the land here is barren, and the villagers who have a little more can only raise a few chickens and ducks in their own yards.
Throughout the year, the villagers of Wo Village stew a whole fat chicken only on the night of the harvest festival, or have a good meal during the first heavy snowfall.
Surdak walked up to the old village chief, and saw that the tobacco in his pipe was about to burn out, and the old village chief's eyes finally fluctuated, and he lifted the wolf king's lips again, but unfortunately the flesh here was stiff, and he could not see the full picture of this canine tooth.
The old village chief sighed lightly: "When I was young, I also liked to hunt around with a hardwood bow on my back, at that time, the barren land was still full of sea buckthorn grass, far less desolate than now, I and a few partners rushed to hunt limestone iguanas on the Gobi Desert in autumn, and a graystone iguana could be exchanged for a bag of wheat......"
Now a graystone iguana still seems to be able to come back with a bag of wheat.
The old village chief tugged at a tuft of white hair above the wolf king's eyes, and said to Surdak:
"You see the hair on its eyebrows has also become grayish, that's right, when I was young, I saw this sand wolf bite another sand wolf to death in another duel, and it was cut this wound on its face, at that time we thought it would not live long, several partners around us didn't hold back for a while, and rushed up to pick up the corpse before it was completely cold."
“…… It lay on the ground covered in blood, and when a few of us walked in, it suddenly stood up, and knocked down four of its companions in one go, and the rest of us didn't know how they escaped, and then every year when it hunted graystone iguanas, it returned to the barren land with the wolves, and after so many years, we were all old, and we didn't expect to wait for the day when it was beheaded. ”
The old village chief closed his eyes, as if the believers were praying sincerely.
"Uncle Bright, everyone is waiting for you to share the meat!" Surdak reminded from the side.
The old village chief collected his grief and sadness, took a deep breath, and then said:
"Let's go, divide the meat!"
He knocked the ashes off the pipe, then stood up and said to Surdak, "Take out half of the wolf meat, cook it and dry it, and take it back to the sulphur mine, and I will find someone to cut the meat and cook it." ”
He pointed in the crowd, and the selected village women came out quickly, no one complained that they were selected by the old village chief to work, and the old village chief gave them eight wolves, and asked them to make all the wolf meat into salted jerky, leaving eight ordinary sand wolves, and the old village chief found another group of village women, and asked them to cut these bone-in wolf meat separately, and wait for the meat to be divided......
The old village chief pointed to the last corpse of the wolf king and said to Surdak: "Don't divide the meat of the remaining wolf king, after you keep a part, it will be of great benefit to your body, and the remaining wolf king meat can also be sold in Hailansa City, this powerful monster meat will not be much cheaper than the salamander." ”
Surdak thought of the underground market in Highlandsa City, where the magician called the Sand Wolf King, who didn't like the earth system.
Surdak looked at such a large pile of sand wolf meat, touched his nose with some distress, and said to the old village chief: "There is no need to sell it, since we have started to hoard sulfur mines, these meats have been divided, I heard that wolf meat is sour and hard, and it can't be boiled." ”
The old village chief smiled noncommittally before he said, "That's true, but it also depends on who cooks!" ”
After saying that, he turned to Selena, who had finished the account, and ordered, "Selena...... You're in charge of the stew, and the village is going to have a good meal tonight. ”
Serena raised her noble swan-like snow-white neck, and a pair of big bright eyes fell on the old village chief, and happily agreed: "Got it, Uncle Bright! ”
She leaned down and sniffed the wolf meat before turning to do some preparations.
The old village chief stood in front of the meat table, and while splitting a wolf's leg with an axe, he told Surdak how to store the sand wolf meat: "This sand wolf meat is slightly salted and hung in the flue on the top of the fireplace, and it can be stored until this time next year, and a piece of it can be removed when you want to eat it, and this smoked wolf meat is also unique to this area of Paglos Mountain." ”
It turned out to be smoky! Surdak thought as he helped the old village chief break the hind legs of a wolf.
The old village chief's speed was not ordinary efficiency, he easily cut off the first wolf leg and handed it to an old man who was over half a hundred years old, and whispered in his ear: "Don't be in a hurry to eat it when you take it home, leave it until the snow closes the door in winter, bake a piece of wheat cake, cut a piece of smoked sand wolf meat, and you won't feel ......hungry for a day."
After the old village chief said this, he looked around the crowd again, opened his throat and shouted loudly to the young people gathered together in the outer circle: "Rita, Natasha, what are you doing hiding in the back, hurry up to the front and get the meat......"
When the village distributes materials, it is basically sorted according to the status of the village, so as to avoid the disadvantaged groups from being the first to get the meat, but to be hated by others.
Rita and Natasha were startled when they heard the old village chief's shout, and then they made sure that the old village chief was shouting to themselves, and then they came out of the crowd, obviously not experiencing such a battle, and secretly aimed at Surdak.
The old village chief didn't cut the ordinary sand wolf meat, and directly patted the wolf king on the side, and said to Rita and Natasha: "This wolf king's meat belongs to you......"