I brought a Jurassic

Chapter 58 Bitterness

"Nothing happened. We just ran into a large herd of wild boars. We killed three large wild boars and brought them all here. The road was full of trees and there was no good way to go. So we were delayed for some time."

At this time, the villagers who cared about Wang Luo noticed the big sled behind him.

"Oh my god, you killed this! Isn't this the wild boar king that came out to kill young plants last month? You actually killed him?"

The sharp-eyed villagers immediately recognized the wild boar with two large tusks at the top of the sled and exclaimed in surprise.

"It's really this beast!"

"It's finally possible to rid our village of a pest. Otherwise, this guy would come out every year and destroy our crops."

Everyone was obviously happy to see this big guy.

“Is this guy famous?”

Wang Luo asked them in confusion.

"It's more than just famous. In this forest, tigers and wolves are a minority after all. As long as there are people, they won't come out to attack easily. But this wild boar is different. It's really not picky about food. It eats everything. Especially when it's time to harvest crops, it gets even worse. Especially this guy, every year he brings a group of wild boars out to make trouble. It's okay to eat a little, but he is a scourge. As long as this group of guys enter the farmland, the crops will definitely be destroyed.

We were still thinking about getting rid of this guy during the autumn harvest this year, but we didn't expect you to solve it for us ahead of time. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!"

Uncle Liu held Wang Luo's hand and shook it to express his gratitude.

"It was just a coincidence. After entering the mountain, I found a water body. This guy was wandering around with his offspring and wife. I liked it at first sight. It was too big, so there was a lot of meat. I killed it with three shots. Haha, I didn't expect to get such a big harvest. Let's carry it back to the village and clean it up. We can take the good meat to the capital to exchange for food for you, but some offal can't be wasted. Clean it up and have a good meal."

Wang Luo waved his hand happily and said to the villagers.

"Listen to Comrade Xiao Luo, go back to the village, kill the pig, and eat the meat!"

No one dared to be happy rashly. After all, they were not very familiar with Wang Luo. In addition, the meat was for the soldiers, so they could not help much and just acted as porters. Although they wanted to eat it very much, they still looked at Uncle Liu who was familiar with Wang Luo.

Uncle Liu also knew what everyone meant. He hadn't tasted meat for several months. Since Wang Luo said so, he didn't need to be polite and just eat.

"Okay, everyone help carry it. Thanks to Comrade Wang Luo, we can eat meat today!"

At the command, a group of villagers rushed forward, carrying and moving things, and went down the mountain happily.

When they reached the river halfway, Wang Luo took off his clothes and dived into the river in front of a group of villagers. Before long, he saw several grass carps and carps weighing more than ten kilograms being thrown onto the shore.

"Let me add a dish for everyone. Today's wild boar has some fat, which is perfect for cooking fish. It's delicious!" During the famine years, everyone knew that there were many fish in the river, so everyone could just catch the fish and eat them. However, unless you are a fool, everyone understands that this matter is not that simple.

Let’s not talk about whether it’s easy to catch fish. Even if you catch it, what can you do? Fish has a fishy smell. When cooking, you must add a lot of seasonings. In the famine years, it was difficult to get all the seasonings such as oil, salt, MSG, onion, ginger and garlic. Without these seasonings, even if you have a fish, it’s hard to eat. You have to add salt when you dry it, otherwise it will really become a smelly fish.

Now the monthly edible oil ration in cities is three taels of oil per person. Yes, that's three taels of vegetable oil. Not to mention rural areas. Most areas are still eating in collective canteens, and everyone's income is settled based on work points. Every penny has to be calculated, so people at this time are willing to buy fat meat, so that they can make animal oil.

It is impossible to stir-fry as it consumes too much oil. The main dishes are dried sweet potato steamed buns and black pickled vegetable strips, which are already good meals. Most of the time, they still have to mix in wild vegetables. What's more, some people eat eaves grass, which is the old-style houses without tiles in the early days. The roofs are covered with wheat straw, which is called eaves grass when it rots.

When you really need to cook, such as when you have guests or during the Chinese New Year, you can use chopsticks to gently scoop out some of the oil from the jar and put it into the pot. This is adding oil, especially during the Chinese New Year. People eat cabbage, potatoes, and radishes, but these are not often eaten, especially in rural areas. These three dishes are mostly supplied to cities.

Although the vegetables are grown by farmers, it does not mean they can eat them. They can only get some during the Chinese New Year. The best New Year's Eve dinner is cabbage dumplings with a little meat oil. The flour for making dumplings is not even pure white flour. It can be seen how hard life was for rural people in that era.

To sum up, even if you can catch fish in the river, you can’t eat them because they are too fishy and you will vomit after eating them, so it’s better not to eat them.

In the later period of Siheyuan, Qin Huairu was still yelling about the malnutrition of the Thief's Stick and the need for nutritional supplements. Haha, he was just spoiled. If you have the guts, let him come to the countryside and try it. Let him starve for three days first. Forget meat, he wouldn't even mind steamed buns made of wheat bran.

We caught these three wild boars today. Although they are wild boars and there is almost no fat, at least we can extract some fat, so we caught a few fish for the villagers to taste.

"It's a bit too fuel-intensive. Normally, no one wants to eat fish no matter how hungry they are!"

Uncle Liu looked distressed.

"Look at how hungry everyone is. We have a rare opportunity to improve our food supply, so let's not waste it!"

Wang Luo advised helplessly.

"Come on, since you brought these here anyway, let's improve them!"

Everyone went directly to the collective canteen. Village men, women, old and young, who had heard the news a long time ago, swarmed over. They had not had a good meat meal for several years, and they had not expected that the food in the collective canteen would be improved today. They had to all participate.

The rural men of this era were known to be all-rounders. They were proficient in fighting, farming, building houses, raising pigs, and slaughtering pigs. As soon as the wild boars were unloaded, hot water began to boil, and they shaved the pigs' hair and cut open their stomachs. It didn't take long before the wild boars were cleaned up.

"I stress this again. Don't touch the good meat. It's for our soldiers. Today, thanks to Comrade Wang Luo, each of us can eat some pork offal and drink some bone soup. Later, all this good meat will be sent to the capital. Comrade Wang Luo said that half of the harvest will belong to our village. When the time comes, we can exchange it for food, so we won't starve and can survive until the autumn harvest. Do you understand?"

Liu Dabo emphasized it.

(End of this chapter)