In the middle of the night, Gao Mingcheng got up quietly.

At this time, many Mei and Xiao Xuxu were still asleep, and they didn't notice it at all.

Gao Mingcheng dressed lightly, then went into the kitchen to wash, ate some hot water and bread, and after being half-full, he took a javelin, led the black tiger and the elf, and walked towards Oxtail Ridge.

With the onset of winter, the food in the mountains decreased, and the wild boars began to come down in the middle of the night to eat vegetables.

When I was chatting with people in the old village before, I heard that some people planted vegetables at the foot of the mountain were gnawed by wild boars.

Most of these wild boars move at night, and when people arrive at the vegetable field in the morning, they can only see a wolf, and they can't catch the wild boars at all.

Ordinary people don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night, even if they are rich and strong, they have many brothers and have birds in their hands, they don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night.

This time back to the village, in addition to making arrowroot powder, Gao Mingcheng was also going to hunt a wild boar, and heard that there were already wild boars coming down the mountain to gnaw vegetables, so he immediately decided to go into the mountains to teach the wild boars a little lesson.

The mountains at night are not quiet.

The cold wind blew through the hills, and the branches of the trees swayed and made a loud noise. In particular, the bamboo forest makes a sound like waves, wave after wave.

In winter, insects and beasts are no longer active, but there are also small animals that move quietly in the dark, taking advantage of the darkness of the night to secretly forage for food.

Wild boars are the best of them, and because there are no beasts in the mountains, wild boars are kings, and they often move in pairs, and they can hear their movements across the mountains.

The black tiger and the elf are also old friends with the wild boar, and as soon as they entered the mountain, they began to smell the smell of their old friends, and took Gao Mingcheng all the way to find their old friends.

In the middle of the night, it was the time when the wild boars were active, so they quickly found the traces of the wild boars, this group of wild boars was not much, only five or six, they went straight to a place with a clear goal at this time, because they were in a hurry, Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to make a move, but quietly followed behind with two dogs.

After about three minutes, the wild boars came to a depression at the foot of the mountain, where there was still a shallow water source and near the depression, there were many wild vegetables.

Don't think that there are no wild vegetables in winter, it's just that there aren't so many varieties compared to spring.

There are also cold-resistant wild vegetables in the mountains, such as black cabbage, camellia, false dandelion, nightshade, wild onion, etc., and after the rain, there are ground vegetables in the mountains.

It is actually a combination of algae and fungi, so it has no roots and leaves, it is dark black, it can grow all year round, it will dry up on sunny days, but it will absorb water and swell after rain, like fungus.

In the past, whenever it rained, the children would go to the mountains to look for vegetables, and Gao Mingcheng often went to look for them when he was a child, but he didn't like to eat them.

To be precise, it's not that I don't like to eat, but I don't like to wash!

The ground vegetables are very dirty, and it is very troublesome to wash.

And when he can make money, he is even more lazy to go into the mountains to get wild vegetables to eat. Wild vegetables, if you put enough seasoning, you can eat fresh, but most wild vegetables, in fact, are not delicious, otherwise they would not be just wild vegetables, and they have not been cultivated into grown vegetables.

At this time, Gao Mingcheng was about a hundred meters away from the wild boar herd, and he watched from a distance that the wild boars were all bowing their heads and eating food.

But don't look at them eating, in fact, they are quite alert, once the wind blows, they can run away from sight.

But if you provoke them, they'll even run at you and knock you to the ground with their mouths.

Gao Mingcheng patted the heads of the two dogs, signaling them to stay where they were with his eyes, while he carried a javelin and quietly approached the wild boars.

His movements were very light, even if it was an alert wild boar, he didn't notice it for a while, and when the wild boar was only about ten meters away, Gao Mingcheng stopped moving forward.

After he stood still, the javelin in his hand was slowly raised, and a pair of eagle-like eyes were looking among the wild boars, looking for the best target.

When he found his target, the javelin in his hand did not hesitate, and instantly came out of his hand, and there was a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and the javelin was already stabbing at the head of one of the wild boars.

When the boars sensed the danger and fled in panic, a wild boar that was eating had already collapsed to the ground.

At this time, the black tiger and the elf couldn't hold back, and while the dog barked, they rushed towards this side, and the movement made the fleeing wild boar run faster.

There was a rush of noise, and when the sound had cleared, the wild boar herd was gone.

Gao Mingcheng stepped forward to check his prey, and because the javelin pierced directly into the head of the wild boar, the wild boar did not struggle much and died directly.

He pulled out the pig-killing knife at his waist, and while the wild boar was still cold, he quickly bled out.

Taking advantage of the bloodletting, he pulled out the javelin.

The head of the spear was stained with blood, adding a chill to the blade.

This hunt is very fast, from the start to the present, it is less than an hour, mainly in the second half of the night wild boar activities are frequent, it is easy to find the traces of wild boars, and wild boars are running to the foot of the mountain to find food to eat, so Gao Mingcheng is a bargain.

After the blood ran out, Gao Mingcheng did not delay, carrying the wild boar on the ground on his shoulder, and holding the javelin in his free hand.

"Black Tiger, Elf, go home!"

With a shout, one man and two dogs climbed over the hill and walked towards the house at the foot of the Oxtail Ridge Mountain.

When I got home, it was still dark.

Gao Mingcheng put the wild boar in the yard, first went to fetch water and washed his hands, and then cooked the porridge, so that after many Mei and Xiao Xuxu got up, they would have hot porridge to eat.

The wild boar he hunted was a male wild boar, but it should have been born in the spring of this year, and it was only about 120 catties until now.

Wild boars have a fierce temperament, especially large wild boars, it is very difficult to deal with, even if Gao Mingcheng has good physical fitness and great strength, he is not willing to provoke the big wild boar, not that he can't afford to provoke it, but the meat of the big wild boar is not delicious!

Therefore, most of the targets he chose were about 100 catties, and he felt that such wild boars were the most delicious and easy to handle.

Their local wild boars, whether it is body size or aggressiveness, in fact, are not very fierce, ordinary people hunt wild boars, the biggest difficulty is that although wild boars are short-sighted, but they have a good sense of smell and hearing, once there is a wind and grass, they quickly run away, people can not catch up at all.

The second is that if the wild boar is angered, the wild boar will overturn the person, and in serious cases, it can also kill the person.

After Gao Mingcheng got those two pages of gold foil, his physical fitness was getting better and better day by day, and he was assisted by two good dogs, so he dared to go into the mountains to hunt alone.

Although the fur of the wild boar on the ground is not particularly coarse and hard, Gao Mingcheng still decided to peel it, which is definitely more convenient than boiling hot water and scalding and shaving.

So he went to the utility room to get tools, a complete set of pig-killing tools, and a large wooden plank, and when he had peeled the skin, he put the wild boar on the large wooden plank, and then divided it.

Although his movement had been as light as possible, the lights in the courtyard, as well as the intermittent sound, still woke up many Mei, she turned her head to look at the window that let in the light, and found that Gao Mingcheng was no longer in bed, so she had a guess in her heart, and immediately quietly put on her clothes and went out.

When she walked out of the door and came to the yard, she saw Gao Mingcheng focusing on peeling, his technique was very familiar, holding the peeled boar skin in one hand, and cutting the boar with a knife in the other.

Hearing the footsteps, Gao Mingcheng looked up and said with a smile: "Woke you up?" ”

Seeing the wild boar, many beauties were surprised, but they still complained: "You don't tell me when you do anything, I didn't know that you were going to go into the mountains to hunt today!" If you knew, I'd prepare something for you to eat in advance. ”

Gao Mingcheng smiled embarrassedly, and suddenly remembered that many beauties in his previous life had also accused him, saying that he was arbitrary and did not consult her or say anything about anything.

And Gao Mingcheng thinks that many of the things he wants to do don't understand at all, or can't intervene at all, so what can he do with her?

I just won't talk about it.

With the experience of his previous life, this time Gao Mingcheng explained with a good attitude: "I told you in advance, I was afraid that you would worry, and I didn't want you to get up so early." ”

Hearing Gao Mingcheng's words, many beauties suddenly felt warm in their hearts.

She immediately said, "Have you boiled water?" If not, I'll boil it now, and I'll use hot water when I wash it. ”

Knowing that Gao Mingcheng hadn't gone to boil water yet, many beauties went to the kitchen to light the fire and wash the pot to boil the water.

She boiled a large pot full of water, and there must be more water to use later, and the extra water can be used to wash her face.

After the water was hot and a few sticks of coarse wood were stuffed into the stove, many beauties returned to the yard, ready to help with the work together.

All the boar offal are piled up in a basin, and many beauties roll up their sleeves and begin to clean out the clean offal first, such as pig heart, pig liver, pig lung, etc., and then put the pig's belly, small intestine, and large intestine together, which will be brought outside to be processed.

In addition, the pig's head, pig's feet, and pig's tail also need to be burned off with fire.

The stove is relatively small, and at most it can only burn the pig's tail, so this one has to be burned with another fire.

With the combined efforts of the two, the wild boar has been almost disposed of.

At this moment, the sky also brightened.

Gao Mingcheng put down the knife in his hand and said, "How beautiful, are you hungry?" Let's eat porridge first and wait before we move on. ”

Many beauties get up together and help with things, and now, they are indeed hungry.

So the two walked into the kitchen and simply ate porridge with pickles, which they did not bring back from the county, but a plate of jade was sent by a lot of jade, and Chen Dasong's family also sent a plate.

I just ate porridge, but Xiao Xuxu woke up!

Gao Mingcheng said: "You go and dress your son, take him to wash his face and eat porridge, and I'll do the rest!" ”

"Okay!" Many beauties nodded, once Xiao Xuxu woke up, she couldn't work, the child was still young, very sticky to her mother, she called her mother at every turn, sometimes many beauties and Gao Mingcheng stood together, if Gao Mingcheng didn't take the initiative to tease Xiao Xuxu, then the first person Xiao Xuxu was looking for must be a lot of beauty.

But men work outside, and women take care of the family and children, which can be regarded as a division of labor formed over thousands of years.

On the big wooden plank, the wild boar has been divided and placed one by one. In the morning light, the color is very beautiful.

Gao Mingcheng picked up the basin containing the pork belly, small intestine and large intestine, and walked towards the outside of the house, these internal organs were full of wild boar food residues and feces, and they had to be outside.

After cleaning out the dirt inside, turn it over again, which is more convenient to clean.

In later generations, people had a good life, and they all washed the pork belly with flour, but this time it would never be so luxurious, so they washed it with clean plant ash, poured plant ash into the basin, and twisted it vigorously with their hands to wash off the mucus on the surface of the pork belly.

Wash the ashes of the plants and trees, wash them with salt again, and finally blanch them and wash them again, and they are almost clean.

This work is actually not often done by Gao Mingcheng, before he hunted wild boars, he called many people from the Yu family and Chen Dasong's family to help with things, and when the time comes, he will give some more bones into the water.

But this time the pig is not big, and there are many beauties to help, and he is too lazy to call someone to do things early in the morning.

Gao Mingcheng had just washed the pigs in the water, and many beauties over there called him to go to the field to pick some mulberry leaves and come back.

Frost mulberry leaves are a medicinal material, but many beautiful mulberry leaves are not used to make medicine, but to wrap the pork kidneys and simmer to eat.

Knowing that many beauties planned to simmer the pork kidneys for Xiao Xuxu to eat, Gao Mingcheng didn't say a word, and went to pick mulberry leaves.

This mulberry tree was dug up from the mountains and planted here before.

At first, it was planted in the yard, but then it happened that there was an old man in the village who was gone, and his father learned that he was planting mulberry trees in the yard, scolded him, and asked him to transplant the mulberry trees.

The mulberry tree is easy to survive, and now, it has grown into a big tree, and the mulberry leaves on the tree are also very dense, but unfortunately, this is a male tree, it does not grow mulberries!

Gao Mingcheng reached out and picked some mulberry leaves, and then took them home.

There was still a fire burning in the stove, and this time Duomei poured clean water again, and threw a few large pieces of pork into the large iron pot and simmered.

Wild boar meat is directly sliced and fried and eaten, and the taste is almost good, but according to the practice of the New Year pig, after stewing, it is cut into pieces and fried, and the taste is more delicious.

When Gao Mingcheng went back with the mulberry leaves, many beauties had already cut the pork kidneys in half and removed the meat inside.

There are some white tendons in the pork kidney, which tastes very fishy and can't be bitten, so in order to have a good taste, this part must be removed, and the remaining pork kidneys will have a soft and delicious taste.

The pork kidneys are divided into four small pieces, each wrapped in seven or eight mulberry leaves, and then carefully clamped into the stove with tongs, not placed in an open flame, but wrapped in hot ash with sparks, and then slowly simmered.

The pork kidneys and eggs simmered in this way are not only fragrant, but also very nutritious.

Gao Mingcheng watched many beauties put the pork kidneys into the stove, so he took out three more eggs, and simmered some eggs to eat by the way.

"You look at the fire, I'll go outside and burn the hair of the pig's head and pig's feet." Gao Mingcheng picked up a box of matches and walked outside the house. (End of chapter)