My Wife Is the Capitalist Heiress of the 1970s - Chapter 32
Zhou Yuanchao was gutting the wild boar with a butcher’s knife, while Zhou Wenshan watched curiously from the side. Neither the Zhou Wenshan before his transmigration nor his predecessor had ever seen a pig being butchered.
As for whether he will take the college entrance exam in the future, that’s obvious. He will definitely take it, but it’s only 1975 now, and there are still more than two years until the college entrance exam.
With his current memory and learning ability, preparing six months in advance is more than enough.
Moreover, there are many treasures on this mountain. Who knows when he might find some hundred-year-old ginseng or thousand-year-old lingzhi.
Wouldn’t that make you rich?
Zhou Yuanchao sliced open the wild boar’s belly with a knife, and the still-warm internal organs rolled out one after another—intestines, stomach, heart, liver, lungs—making Dahei and Dahuang drool with envy, their tails wagging as fast as propellers.
Zhou Yuanchao tossed the intestines in front of the two hunting dogs, “Big Black and Big Yellow, go eat!”
Dahei and Dahuang quickly got up and eagerly began eating the freshly cooked pig intestines, making satisfied whimpering sounds.
Zhou Wenshan had originally wanted to ask his father if he wanted to keep some pig intestines to cook for himself, but then he decided against it.
Maybe the intestines of wild boars taste different from those of domestic pigs. Besides, it’s troublesome to prepare, and nowadays very few people eat intestines because they think they’re dirty!
We kept the pig’s heart, liver, and kidneys, and gave the pig’s lungs to the two hunting dogs as a reward.
If it weren’t for Big Black and Big Yellow, they might not have found these two wild boars today.
It’s fair to say that Dahei and Dahuang are the biggest contributors today.
Zhou Yuanchao was very quick and efficient. Slaughtering a pig seemed simple enough; all he had to do was cut it open.
There were no facilities for removing pig hair on the mountain, so we had to wait until we got down the mountain.
Just as Zhou Yuanchao was about to take the knife to gut the little wild boar, Zhou Wenshan held out his hand to him, “Dad, let me try this little wild boar!”
Zhou Yuanchao was taken aback, and subconsciously handed over the knife. “Slaughtering pigs is very dirty. Do you want to learn?”
Zhou Wenshan chuckled, “I can’t expect Dad to do everything himself, can I? What if I need to go hunting in the mountains someday? It won’t hurt to learn!”
“That’s true. There will be a time when you have to go up the mountain by yourself. I’ll tell you how to kill him. Make the cut from the navel, about three inches down. Keep your hand steady… Yes, that’s it!”
Finally, under Zhou Yuanchao’s command, Zhou Wenshan managed to process the small wild boar, a process that took longer than Zhou Yuanchao had processed the large wild boar.
After killing the wild boar, the two took out their water bottles to wash their hands. They used laundry detergent twice, but their hands still smelled of blood.
With these two wild boars, their hunting trip up the mountain for the day was basically over. Even after removing their internal organs, the two wild boars together weighed about 200 jin (100 kg) including bones and meat!
They’ve only been up the mountain for less than two hours. If they hurry back, they might still have time to go home for lunch.
The pig’s heart, liver, kidneys, and stomach were wrapped in a burlap sack and placed in a bamboo basket.
These things alone could last for several days.
After getting everything ready, the two men prepared to carry the wild boars down the mountain. They were only two wild boars, so they didn’t plan to use a raft to pull them down.
Zhou Yuanchao said, “I’ll carry the big wild boar, you just carry the little wild boar!” After saying that, he reached out to lift the big wild boar.
Zhou Wenshan spoke first, “Dad, I’ll carry this big wild boar, you carry the small one!”
Zhou Yuanchao looked at him with surprise, “Can you carry it?”
With a single lift of his hand, Zhou Wenshan easily hoisted the 200-pound wild boar onto his shoulder.
Zhou Yuanchao was stunned. Even he couldn’t do that. How did this brat manage to do it?
This requires a lot of strength to do; it seems Wenshan is quite strong.
Zhou Yuanchao hesitated for a moment, then picked up the little wild boar and followed Zhou Wenshan down the mountain.
The little wild boar weighed only about 50 pounds, and he carried it without any effort at all.
Zhou Wenshan, who was ahead of him, carried a load of over 200 jin (approximately 100 kg) on his shoulder and a basket on his back containing pig offal, yet he carried it all without any effort.
Going up the mountain is difficult, and going down the mountain is also difficult, especially when carrying a wild boar, the speed of going down the mountain is not much faster.
It was almost midnight when I got home.
They carried the wild boar down, and many villagers saw it. Seeing their catch, they were all filled with envy.
“Yuanchao, you’ve only been up the mountain for a short time and you’ve already hunted down two wild boars. That’s impressive! Your family is in for a treat this time!”
“Isn’t this Wenshan? He can carry such a big wild boar, that’s amazing!”
“Brother Yuanchao, what should we do with these wild boars? Should we give some to the village?”
It’s clear that everyone is craving meat.
Zhou Yuanchao laughed and said, “After we finish lunch, we’ll take out half a carcass of game meat and give it to the village. Each family will get at least a pound of meat!”
Everyone was overjoyed, exclaiming, “Brother Yuanchao is so righteous!”
Back home, Zhou Wenshan pushed open the courtyard gate and shouted, “Mom, Xiaowan!”
Liu Cuihua ran out of the kitchen, followed by Zhang Minghui and Chen Wan, who were preparing lunch.
“What’s wrong? Why are you back so soon? Did something happen?”
Before Liu Cuihua even came out, he asked anxiously.
Then, the next second, they saw Zhou Wenshan carrying a large wild boar on his shoulder, and Zhou Yuanchao carrying a small wild boar followed behind him into the gate.
Liu Cuihua’s eyes widened in surprise, “You’ve only been up the mountain for a short time, and you’ve already encountered a wild boar?”
Chen Wan and her sister-in-law’s eyes were also sparkling, and their faces were full of joy.
Zhou Wenshan, carrying the wild boar, said to Liu Cuihua, “Mom, find something to sit on!”
Liu Cuihua snapped out of her daze, “Oh, I’ll go get it!”
After saying that, he went inside and found an old wooden plank, which he placed on the ground.
“Put the wild boar down quickly, it’s tiring to carry it!”
The two placed the wild boar on the wooden board, and Zhou Wenshan took out the wild boar’s internal organs from the basket on his back.
“Mom, what about pig heart and liver? We can use these to stir-fry!”
Zhou Yuanchao took out a piece of pig liver and cut a piece of meat from the wild boar, which weighed about a pound. “I’ll take the two hunting dogs to Liu Neng and some meat with them. We were able to kill these two wild boars today thanks to the two hunting dogs!”
Liu Cuihua naturally wouldn’t object. After Zhou Yuanchao delivered the hunting dogs to Liu Neng’s family, she, Chen Wan, and Zhang Minghui worked together to deal with these things.
We hunted two wild boars, so of course we have to cook something delicious for lunch.
I stir-fried pork liver with scallions. Luckily, the scallions in the yard were growing just right, so I just pulled out two.
I stewed another pig’s heart soup, and then cut half a pound of meat from the wild boar along the incision I made earlier.
Stir-fry some chili peppers and pork!
I was planning to stir-fry some cabbage and have some pickled vegetables with it for lunch.
This time, all the dishes were replaced with meat.
A short while later, Zhou Wenhai returned from the field. Since the field wasn’t busy, he could manage the work by himself.
Seeing the two wild boars in the yard, a look of surprise appeared on his face. “Wenshan, did you and Dad hunt these on the mountain?”