Chapter 256: Face
After finishing the rough work of bleeding and gutting the prey, a new problem was presented to the brothers.

There were ten pigs of different sizes, with a total of more than 1,000 kilograms of meat. Yue Feng led a hunting team up the mountain, including his second uncle, with only five people in total. It was quite difficult to collect the meat and pull it down the mountain together.

“Brother Feng, we killed so many wild boars in one go. How are we going to pull the meat back down the mountain? We only brought four sleds in total! I estimate that we can only bring back a little more than half in one trip!”

While a few people were resting and bragging, Xiaowen had already reassembled the disassembled wild boar skin sled he carried with him by chopping sticks.

Yue Feng did not rush to answer, but looked at Xiao Tao and his second uncle: “Second uncle, I’d like to trouble you to bring Xiao Tao to drag the sled on the ridge over there!

There is so much meat, it’s a bit hard to carry it home today! ”

The second uncle waved his hand nonchalantly: “Xiao Tao, you rest here, it’s just two sleds, I can drag them all here by myself!”

Xiao Tao shook his head repeatedly: “Second uncle, I’m not tired either. Come along and lend a hand. It’s hard to climb up the ridge by yourself, and two people can take care of you!”

“Okay then, let’s hurry back and drag the sled!”

The father and son greeted each other and immediately turned back in the direction they were being chased.

The people pulling the sled left temporarily, and Yue Feng began to think about how to bring the meat back later.

Judging from the value of the meat, pork from young pigs, such as yellow-haired pigs, gilts, and two-year-old pigs, is definitely of better quality and more valuable.

Of course, this is Yue Feng’s own value judgment system. If we consider the demand for meat from my grandmother’s family, boar is also meat. Most of the wild boar’s internal organs must be taken back, except for those given to the mountain god. Even the wild boar bones with meat must be taken back.

Yue Feng thought about it for a while, and then made a preliminary classification of the prey placed in front of him.

The largest sow must be taken back. The meat of an old sow is not so smelly and has the thickest fat. After deducting the internal organs and offal, it still weighs at least nearly 300 kilograms.

It was definitely impossible to pull this pig with a sled, so Yue Feng picked up the knife and small hatchet from his waist and started working along the sow’s spine.

After a burst of bone fragments flying everywhere, the huge old sow was forcibly cut into two halves by Yue Feng.

Now, half of it weighs about 150 to 160 kilograms, so it is not a problem to drag it down the mountain with a sled.

One old sow took up the carrying capacity of two sleds. On the remaining two sleds, Yue Feng roughly coordinated the meat of several other sows.

A sow weighing over 200 pounds will still weigh about 140 pounds after removing the internal organs and water. A two-year-old sow weighing 150 pounds will only weigh about 100 pounds after removing the internal organs.

With all this, two adult female wild boars and four yellow-haired piglets could be pulled down the mountain in one trip using four sleds.

Yue Feng asked Xiaowen to help, and soon divided today’s harvest into three piles.

The first pile was the sow meat brought down the mountain, the second pile was the remaining four boars, large and small, and the third pile was the wild boar viscera that had been taken out and hung aside and slowly frozen solid by the cold wind.

While waiting to go down the mountain, Yue Feng used a sharp knife to cut down a few bushes, tied the treetops with ropes to make a simple sled, and tied the other two yellow-haired boars to the sled.

The remaining idle person and four dogs can also provide some transportation capacity for dragging the prey down the mountain.

After the final count, there was only a pile of animal offal left on the mountain, plus two adult wild boars weighing more than 200 kilograms.

In fact, a wild boar weighing over 200 kilograms is about three and a half years old, but the secretion of male hormones has begun to affect the quality of the meat.

Between two evils, choose the lesser one and leave the two wild boars and a bunch of wild boars in the water on the mountain. Even if they are attacked by wild beasts at night, Yue Feng and his men can accept the loss.

After waiting for a while, my second uncle and Xiao Tao came back dragging two sleds.

“Second uncle, I have divided today’s harvest into piles. These offal and these two big boars will be thrown onto the mountain and buried with the snow. As for the rest, we can share them among ourselves and drag them away at once!” Yue Feng said, pointing at the prey on the ground.

“There are wolves in this mountain!”

Second Uncle looked at the two wild boars that Yue Feng had placed aside, and still felt a little uneasy.

People are like this. Once they have made a lot of money, they naturally don’t care so much about small money. Yue Feng led the hunting team to hunt pigs, kill bears, deer and catch lynxes. The meat of wild boars was of poor quality but had a strong taste. To put it bluntly, the status of wild boars in Yue Feng’s family was to provide food for the four wolf-blooded puppies.

But this is different for my second uncle.

He followed the village hunters up the mountain, but his hunting efficiency was far lower than that of Yue Feng and his friends.

Many times, after a whole day of working in the mountains, he didn’t get anything decent to gain. Occasionally, he was lucky enough to kill prey such as roe deer or wild boar. As a helper, he could only get a share of the money he earned from hard labor.

When Yue Feng came yesterday, the roe deer spine that his second uncle brought from home was the reward he got for going up the mountain. It was only slightly better than leftovers.

In comparison, two complete boars weighing at least 200 kilograms had to spend a whole night on the mountain before they could be picked up the next day. My second uncle couldn’t bear to think about it.

Yue Feng saw through his uncle’s thoughts and comforted him, “Uncle, don’t worry about so many things being destroyed by the animals in the mountains!
There is only this one wild boar in the surrounding area, and it is very likely that we have killed all of them. Even if a lone wolf finds the remaining meat and eats it, how much can it eat in one night?

There are so many offal, even if you just mess around, you won’t be able to consume much!
Besides, after we bury the meat in the snow, it is unlikely to be discovered by the wild animals in the mountains. We can set off early tomorrow morning when it is light, and we can drag everything back home after noon!
Even if some big beast really drags the boar away, there is no need to be afraid. We have so many guns and dogs in our hands. We can continue to fight later!
There are all kinds of things in this old forest. At worst, we can just look deeper. If we want to hunt, we can find it anyway!”

After Yue Feng’s persuasion, the second uncle finally agreed reluctantly: “Then let’s do as you say! Let’s divide up the things and see if we can make some room.

I am very strong, and if there is space, I will tie the boar’s hindquarters to the sled and drag it!”

When Yue Feng heard his second uncle say that he was strong and should carry more, his heart softened and tears almost came out of his eyes.

What’s the point of being strong? It’s not like we’re competing in strength on flat ground. It’s about dragging a sled up the mountain and down the ditch. My second uncle is just an ordinary man, so how much different can his strength be from those strong young men?

It’s because of this difficult world. Life is hard and we realize the preciousness of meat.

“Okay! Pack it normally first, and then when you have time, bring more!”

Soon, the brothers got busy and loaded the things roughly according to Yue Feng’s assignment. There was still some empty space on the largest sled, so my second uncle decisively took off the hindquarters of a big boar and tied them up.

After measuring it, the second uncle felt that it was easy to pull, so he took great pains to cut off the stomach of each wild boar. After stuffing the wild boar stomach, the second uncle tried to lift the front half of the big boar onto the sled. It was a complete boar, with only a huge head left in place.

“This wild boar’s stomach is a medicinal herb. After we get home and clean it up a bit, we can take it to the supply and marketing cooperative and sell it for money!” said my second uncle with great importance.

Yue Feng nodded: “Okay, load whatever you want. There’s still a little space on my sled. Put the rest here!”

After all this weighing and trouble, the prey was finally organized temporarily. Several people used knives as tools to cut a lot of snow and buried them on the prey that could not be taken away and on the water. Before leaving, my second uncle did not forget to draw a big circle on the ground around the snow pile of the prey.

The general rule in the forest areas of Northeast China is that a circle represents something that belongs to someone. If you come across someone who is not very particular about what he does, you can casually cut off some meat or a pig leg and take it away, but you cannot give it all to someone else.

Just like that, after a busy day, the five people and four dogs each dragged their prey back down the mountain.

According to Yue Feng’s expectations when he came, going down the mountain would not save much effort. After all, crossing mountains and ridges is not as smooth as the firewood roads built by the forest farm.

However, when going down the mountain, my second uncle did not lead everyone to take the original route up the mountain. Instead, they walked along a few gentle ridges, and pulling the sled down was almost effortless. Although the distance down the mountain was much longer, the walking speed was faster.

Just like that, the brothers, led by our second uncle, a local guide, went down the mountain in a mighty procession. Around 1:30 p.m., they stopped to rest and eat some dry food, and then continued on their journey.

At 3:50 in the afternoon, the formation of five people and four dogs, all carrying heavy loads and dragging a sled back to the village, had just entered the village, and the entire Daliushu Village was in an uproar.

It is not uncommon to hunt wild boars in the mountains. No matter summer or winter, there are always hunters who can drag back the meat of wild animals from the mountains.

However, hunting teams like Yue Feng and his team, who could catch seven or eight pigs every time they went into the mountains, had not been seen in Daliushu Village for many years.

At this moment, my second uncle was walking in the front, dragging the largest sled, with a face full of pride. When some villagers interrupted him, he said that this was the wild boar he had hunted with his nephew in the mountains, and that those who had nothing to do could go home to help and divide the meat later!

The rule that mountain wealth cannot be enjoyed alone is also applicable in Daliushu Village. Moreover, because the Meng family is a big family here, there are many relatives from the same clan, and everyone is very enthusiastic about sharing the meat from the wild animals they kill.

Soon, the hunting team was followed by many people. Many of them were familiar with Yue Feng’s grandmother’s family. After the sled arrived home, they all came to help with the arrangements.

My uncle and my grandparents, who had been waiting at home for news of the escape, were almost shocked when they saw Yue Feng and my second uncle dragging back so many wild boars.

Grandma was so excited that she even called out Yuefeng’s mother Meng Yulan’s nickname.

“The kid from Erni’s family is really capable. He brought back so much wild boar meat this time. We can have a good year!”

Yue Feng held grandma’s dry and thin hand and grinned: “Grandma, I’m thirsty, please boil some hot water for me to drink. You and grandpa don’t have to do the other heavy work, we young people can take care of it!”

“Okay! Okay! Grandma will boil some water for you right now. Come into the house and warm up first! Did you have lunch in the mountains at noon? If not, grandma will prepare dinner for you!”

“We’ve eaten, don’t worry! We go up the mountain often, we know the numbers!”

After much persuasion, Yue Feng managed to appease the grandparents at home.

We gave them the job of boiling water not because we had to force them to do it, but because there were too many people in the yard and it was difficult to see through the door. If someone scratched or rubbed the old couple, it would be bad.

There is strength in numbers, and soon with the help of my uncle and other neighbors, a rack for hanging wild boars was set up in the yard. Some good people even borrowed the hooks for hanging meat from the butcher in the village.

The wild boar meat in the sled was hung on the hook, and soon the wild boars caught this time in the mountain were lined up on the rack.

The yard was almost full of men, young and old, who came to watch and help. Every time a wild boar was hung on the rack, the crowd would cheer. By the time all the pigs were on the racks, the yard was already packed with people. It was even more lively than a village opera.

The nephew was very motivated and caught a big catch on the first day he went up the mountain, which made his uncle very happy.

After the meat on the sled was sorted, Yue Feng handed the meat-cutting knife to his uncle.

“Uncle, grandpa and grandma are old now, so you have to do the job of distributing meat to the old and young men! Distribute this headless boar to everyone first, and we can keep the rest for ourselves!”

Meng Fanqiu’s living standard in the village is only average, and so many people can’t come to his home on weekdays.

Now that the nephew handed the meat-cutting knife to his uncle, it was equivalent to giving him the opportunity to show up in front of the old and young masters.

As the eldest of the Meng brothers, it is appropriate for the eldest uncle to do this job. Even if he and the second uncle separate, the eldest brother will still be responsible for it.

Meng Fanqiu took the knife and nodded, then he mustered up his courage, stretched out his arm and pressed down.

“Gentlemen, please be quiet. While everyone is here, let me say a few words!”

Soon, the crowd quieted down. Everyone wanted to hear what this usually honest and decent man had to say.

“Today, our Meng family has shown our face in front of the old and young masters!
Thanks to the mountain god, Yulan’s son, my second nephew Yuefeng, brought his men up the mountain with the second brother and brought back so much wild boar meat. The young and old men in our back street can also take this opportunity to get together!
On weekdays, everyone has taken good care of our family. I, Meng Fanqiu, will always remember your kindness in my heart!
Today, I am the boss. Let’s share this piece of pork! Our family has made a lot of money, and everyone can enjoy the meat!”

A fan means splitting the pig in half along the spine, and each half is counted as a fan.

When they heard that they were going to share half a pig’s meat, the crowd cheered.

“Uncle, we have to open the pot today! Divide the meat and half a pig, we can’t live like this anymore!” When the sister-in-law of the former neighbor heard what her uncle said, she immediately started to make fun of him.

“That’s fine! My nephew handed the knife to me, so I have the final say!”

“Uncle, does our nephew have a girlfriend? Such a capable hunter must find a good wife. If a girl follows him, she will have a good life every day!”

“Hahaha, my nephew hasn’t gotten married yet, so I don’t know if he has a partner or not! But these kids haven’t started families yet, so if anyone has a good daughter, they can come to me and talk to me later!
If the personal problems of several children can be solved through the excitement of dividing the meat, it will be a good thing!”

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(End of this chapter)