Return to the small mountain village in 1986

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

At this time, Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu were still sleeping soundly and didn't notice at all.

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

With the arrival of winter, the food in the mountains decreases, and wild boars begin to come down from the mountains in the middle of the night to eat vegetables.

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

Most of these wild boars move at night. When people arrive at the vegetable fields in the morning, they can only see a mess and cannot catch the wild boars at all.

Most people would not dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night. Even if Gao Fuqiang and his family had many brothers and had blunderbuss in their hands, they would not dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night.

When he returned to the village this time, in addition to making arrowroot powder, Gao Mingcheng also planned to hunt a wild boar. He heard that wild boars had come down the mountain to eat vegetables, so he immediately decided to go into the mountain to teach the wild boars a lesson.

It is not quiet in the mountains at night.

The cold wind blew through the hills, and the branches swayed, making bursts of sound. Especially the bamboo forest makes a sound like waves, one wave after another.

In winter, insects and beasts are no longer active, but there are also small animals that move quietly in the darkness, taking advantage of the cover of the night to secretly look for food.

Wild boars are the best among them, and because there are no wild beasts in the mountains, wild boars are the kings. They often move in groups and pairs, and their movements can be heard across the mountains.

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

In the middle of the night, it was the time when wild boars were active, so we quickly found traces of wild boars. This group of wild boars was not many, only five or six. They headed straight to one place with a clear goal at this time, because they were on their way. Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to take action, but followed quietly with his two dogs.

About three minutes later, the wild boars came to a depression at the foot of the mountain. There was a shallow water source, and a lot of wild vegetables grew near the depression.

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

There are also cold-resistant wild vegetables in the mountains, such as walnuts, shepherd's purse, false dandelion, nightshade, wild onions, etc., and after the rain, there are also ground vegetables that will appear in the fields in the mountains.

Geophylla generally grows in humid and humid places. It is actually a combination of algae and fungus. Therefore, it has no roots and leaves and is dark black. It can grow all year round. It will dry up in sunny days, but it will dry up after rain. It will absorb water and expand, just like fungus.

In the past, whenever it rained, children would go to the fields in the mountains to look for local vegetables. Gao Mingcheng often looked for them when he was a child, but he didn't like eating them.

To be precise, it’s not that I don’t like eating, it’s that I don’t like washing!

The ground vegetables are very dirty and very troublesome to wash.

And after he could make money, he was too lazy to go into the mountains to get wild vegetables to eat. You can eat wild vegetables fresh if you add enough seasonings, but most wild vegetables are actually not delicious, otherwise they would not be just wild vegetables and not cultivated into cultivated vegetables.

At this time, Gao Mingcheng was about a hundred meters away from the wild boar group. From a distance, he saw the wild boars lowering their heads to eat food.

But even though they are eating, they are actually quite alert. If there is any disturbance, they will disappear in a flash.

But if you make them angry, they will even rush you and knock you to the ground with their mouths.

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

His movements were so light that even the alert wild boar did not notice it for a moment. When the wild boar was only about ten meters away, Gao Mingcheng stopped moving forward.

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

When he found the target, the javelin in his hand was shot out without hesitation. A sharp sound broke through the air, and the javelin was already stabbing the head of one of the wild boars.

When the wild boars sensed the danger and fled in panic, a eating wild boar fell to the ground.

At this time, the black tiger and the elf couldn't hold back. They barked and rushed towards this side. The noise they made made the escaping wild boar run faster.

There was a hurried sound, and when the sound dissipated, the wild boars were gone.

Gao Mingcheng stepped forward to check his prey. Since the javelin penetrated directly into the head of the wild boar, the wild boar died without much struggle.

He pulled out the butcher's knife from his waist and quickly bled the wild boar before it cooled down.

Taking advantage of the bleeding time, he pulled out the javelin.

The tip of the gun was stained with blood, making the blade even more chilly.

This hunting was very fast. It took less than an hour from the start to the present. The main reason was that wild boars were active in the second half of the night. It was easy to find traces of wild boars. Moreover, wild boars ran to the foot of the mountain in search of food, so Gao Mingcheng picked it up. A bargain.

After the blood flowed out, Gao Mingcheng did not waste any time. He carried the wild boar on his shoulders and held the javelin in his free hand.

"Black Tiger, Elf, go home!"

Following his shout, one person and two dogs climbed over the hill and walked towards the house at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.

When I got home, it was still dark.

Gao Mingcheng put the wild boar in the yard, went to fetch water to wash his hands first, and then cooked the porridge, so that when Duo 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 was probably born this spring. It only weighs about 120 pounds now.

Wild boars are ferocious, especially large wild boars, and are very difficult to deal with. Even if Gao Mingcheng has good physical fitness and strength, he is not willing to provoke big wild boars. It’s not that he can’t afford to offend them, but the meat of big wild boars is not delicious!

Therefore, most of the targets he chose were around a hundred pounds. He felt that such wild boars were the most delicious and easy to handle.

Their local wild boars are not very ferocious in terms of size, appearance or aggressiveness. The biggest difficulty for ordinary people to hunt wild boars is that although wild boars are short-sighted, they have a good sense of smell and hearing. Once there is any disturbance, they will run away quickly. If it falls, no one can catch up.

The second thing is that if a wild boar is angered, it will overturn people. If the situation is serious, it can also kill people.

After Gao Mingcheng obtained the two pages of gold foil, his physical fitness improved day by day, and with the help of two good dogs, he dared to go hunting alone in the mountains.

Although the fur of the wild boar on the ground was not particularly rough, Gao Mingcheng decided to peel it. It was 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 board. After skinning, he placed the wild boar on the large wooden board and cut it up. Although his movements were as gentle as possible, the lights in the yard and the intermittent sounds still woke up Du Mei. She turned her head and looked at the window with light, and found that Gao Mingcheng was no longer in bed, so She had a guess in her mind and immediately put on her clothes quietly and went out.

When she walked out of the room and came to the yard, she saw Gao Mingcheng skinning the wild boar attentively. He was very familiar with his techniques. He held the skin of the wild boar in one hand and cut the wild boar with a knife in the other. , the skin was peeled off very well, and the skin was very clean, with not much minced meat remaining.

Hearing the footsteps, Gao Mingcheng looked up and said with a smile, "Did I wake you up?"

Seeing the wild boar, many beauties looked surprised, but they still complained: "You don't even tell me what you do. I didn't even know you were going to go hunting in the mountains today! If I knew, I would prepare it for you in advance." Some food.”

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

Gao Mingcheng, on the other hand, thought that many beauties didn't understand what he wanted to do, or couldn't get involved at all, so what could he do if he told her?

Let’s just say no more.

With the experience of his previous life, Gao Mingcheng explained with a good attitude this time: "I'll tell you in advance, I'm afraid you'll be worried, and I don't want you to get up so early."

Hearing Gao Mingcheng's words, Duomei suddenly felt warm in his heart.

She immediately said: "Have you boiled the water? If not, I will boil it now. I will use hot water for washing later."

Knowing that Gao Mingcheng hadn't boiled the water yet, Duo Mei went to the kitchen to light the fire, wash the pot and boil the water.

She boiled a large pot full of water. There will definitely be more water later, and the extra water can be used to wash her face.

After the water was heated and a few thick firewood were stuffed into the stove, many beauties came back to the yard, ready to help with the work.

All the wild boar offal were piled in a basin. Many Mei rolled up their sleeves and began to clean out the clean offal first, such as pig heart, pig liver, pig lung, etc., and then put the pig stomach, small intestine, and large intestine together. I'll have to take it outside for processing later.

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

The stove is relatively small and can only burn pig tails at most, so this requires another fire.

With the concerted efforts of the two, the wild boar has been almost dealt with.

At this time, it was getting brighter.

Gao Mingcheng put down the knife in his hand and said, "Duomei, are you hungry? Let's eat porridge first and continue working later."

Many Meishen helped with the work as soon as they got up. By now, they were indeed hungry.

So the two of them walked into the kitchen and simply ate porridge with pickles. The pickles were not brought back from the county, but Duoyu gave them a plate, and Chen Dasong's family also gave them a plate.

I had just eaten porridge, and Xiao Xuxu woke up!

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

"Okay!" Duo Duomei nodded. Once little Xuxu wakes up, she won't be able to work. The child is still young and is very clingy to her mother. She calls her mom at all times. Sometimes Duo Mei and Gao Mingcheng stand together. If Gao Mingcheng didn't take the initiative to tease Xiao Xuxu, so the first person Xiao Xuxu was looking for must be Duomei.

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

On the big wooden board, the wild boar meat has been divided and placed piece by piece. 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 outside the house. These internal organs contained wild boar food residue and feces, which had to be removed outside.

After cleaning out the dirt inside, turn it over to make it easier to clean.

People in later generations, as their lives improved, used flour to wash pork belly, but it was never that luxurious now, so they used clean plant ash to wash it. Pour the plant ash into the basin and squeeze it hard with your hands. Wash off the mucus on the surface of the pork belly.

Wash it with plant ashes, then wash it with salt, and finally blanch it in water, take it out and wash it once, and it's almost clean.

Actually, Gao Mingcheng doesn't do this job very often. When he hunted wild boars before, he always called many people from the Yu family and Chen Dasong family to help him. Then he would just add more bones to the water.

But this time the pig was not big, and he had many beauties to help him. It was so early in the morning that he was too lazy to call for help.

Gao Mingcheng had just washed the pig's waste here, and many beauties over there asked him to go pick some mulberry leaves from the field.

Frost mulberry leaves are a kind of medicinal material, but many people use mulberry leaves not for medicine, but for wrapping pork kidneys and cooking them before eating.

Knowing that Duomei planned to cook pork kidneys for Xiao Xuxu to eat, Gao Mingcheng went to pick mulberry leaves without saying a word.

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

At first they were planted in the yard, but by chance, an old man in the village disappeared. His father learned that he was planting mulberry trees in the yard, scolded him, and asked him to transplant the mulberry trees.

Mulberry trees are easy to survive. Now, they have grown into a big tree. The mulberry leaves on the tree are also very dense. Unfortunately, this is a male tree and it does not grow mulberries!

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

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

Wild boar meat is eaten directly when sliced ​​and fried, and the taste is not very good. However, if you follow the New Year pig method and stew it, then cut it into pieces and fry it, the taste will be better.

When Gao Mingcheng returned with the mulberry leaves, Duomei had already cut the pork kidney in half and removed the meat inside.

There are some white tendons inside the pork kidney, which taste fishy and cannot be bitten. Therefore, in order to have a good taste, this part must be removed. The remaining pork kidney will be soft and delicious.

The pork kidney is divided into four small pieces, each piece is wrapped with seven or eight mulberry leaves, and then carefully clamped into the stove with tongs. It cannot be placed in an open flame. It must be wrapped in hot ashes with sparks, and then simmered slowly. Ripe.

The pork kidneys and eggs cooked 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 more eggs to eat.

"Watch the heat, I'll go outside to light a fire and burn the hair off the pig's head and pig's feet." Gao Mingcheng picked up a box of matches and walked outside the house. (End of chapter)