Chapter 242 Meeting
Zhang An was talking to Su Ying next to him while lining up in the crowd to share the meat.
Although he came here at six o'clock, there were many people who came earlier than him.
At this moment, there are twenty people lining up in front of Zhang An. At this speed, it will probably take a while before it is his turn.
"Anzi, you go to the front and share it first. I'll change places with you and play with their aunts."
It's just that Sister-in-law Zhou who was at the front of the queue saw it. After Zhang An, come and find Zhang An.
It means asking Zhang An to take her place, and she will switch over.
"Sister-in-law, you go and divide it first. I'll be fine if I wait a little longer."
Although Sister-in-law Zhou said she wanted to chat with the maids next to her, Zhang An knew that she wanted to Let yourself divide the meat first.
Zhang An had nothing to do at night and was not in a hurry, so he was embarrassed to ask Sister Zhou to give up his position.
There is a reason why everyone comes so early, some people haven't even had dinner yet.
Isn’t it just to come here early so that I can be at the front of the queue and get some fat meat to take back and cook for oil?
This wild boar often runs around in the mountains. It doesn’t have much fat on its body, and only a few people can get it.
Zhang An’s family has no shortage of lard, so he won’t rush to compete with others for fat meat.
And he didn't really want to come over to share the meat, but Su Ying had never seen meat being shared, nor had she ever eaten wild boar.
So Zhang An took her for a walk and gave her some wild boar meat to cook for her to try.
"Don't be polite to my sister-in-law. You should hurry up and take Xiaoying back. There are so many mosquitoes here. Don't you feel sorry for your wife?"
Sister-in-law Zhou spoke. At that time, Zhang An was also urged.
There are fields and dams next to the drying area. At this point, the sun goes down and mosquitoes start to come out.
The weather is hot now. Su Ying is wearing a short-sleeved dress, and there are already many mosquitoes surrounding her.
"Thank you, sister-in-law. I'll go over first."
In order to prevent Su Ying, who has delicate skin and tender flesh, from being bitten by mosquitoes, Zhang An changed places with Sister-in-law Zhou.
"What's the point of thanking you? Look at Xiaoying's hands. If she gets bitten, I'd feel bad if you don't feel sorry for me. Go ahead."
Zhang An Xiao After the couple left, the group of women began to talk in a non-vegetarian manner.
They were embarrassed to speak just now because Su Ying was here.
They have no face to say this in front of someone’s new daughter-in-law.
And they know that Su Ying is a teacher, and they all want to maintain a positive image in front of Su Ying.
After all, their children will definitely go to school in the village in the future, and they can’t let the teacher know that they can’t control what they say.
Zhang An walked to the front, and it was his turn before there were many people in line.
“Zhang An is here, you have the virtue to give him a good place.”
Seeing Zhang An coming, the old uncle turned around with a smile and asked Lin Youde to cut Zhang An's flesh.
The old uncle is not afraid of others saying that he takes care of Zhang An. After all, one of the pigs is surrounded by Zhang An's big dogs.
“No, uncle, just give me a whole piece of pork belly. I really don’t need that old fat meat.”
Zhang An’s house is not short of lard, and it is enough for daily meals. Very.
If you really cut him a big fat piece of meat, he really wouldn’t like it.
In his heart, pork belly is better and tastes delicious.
"You kid won't appreciate it. This fat fat can produce a lot of oil."
Zhang An started to speak, and Lin Youde got him a piece of good pork belly.
“Our family has enough lard. Let’s leave this fat to other families in the village who need it. Then let’s go back, uncle.”
Carrying the pork, Zhang An and his uncle Lin Youde said hello and took Su Ying home.
Zhang An didn't think of sharing the meat last year because he felt that wild boar meat was not as fragrant as local pork.
In the past two years, his family has eaten too much local pork, and he wanted to try it for a change.
Only then did he understand why wild boar meat in later generations could be sold so expensively.
Because everyone has money, living conditions have improved.
It's not much different from what he is now. It's all caused by eating too much on weekdays.
When he got home, Zhang An wanted to put this piece of meat in the refrigerator.
"Xiao An, don't put it in the refrigerator yet. I took it to wash up the fishy smell."
Wang Fang quickly took the meat from Zhang An's hand and carried it to the kitchen. Cleaning process.
“It’s still fresh meat now, so it needs to be washed better. After it’s frozen, the fishy smell won’t be removed after washing.”
This meat is still fresh meat now, and the cells are still good. , it will be easier to handle after washing and removing the smell.
But if you put it in the refrigerator until tomorrow, it will not be so easy to remove the smell.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, when the pork in the village was probably finished, Zhang Jianwen came to the door.
"Uncle is here." Zhang An found a bench and handed it over.
"No need to pour water. I'm here to see your dad. I want to call some of the village leaders to go to the village committee for a meeting. Zhang An, you will come over later."
Zhang Jianwen saw Su Ying getting up to help pour tea, and he quickly told Zhang An and his family.
Hearing the call for a meeting, both Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo agreed, and Zhang Jianwen went to call the others.
This meeting was not held at Zhang Jianwen’s home, but at the village committee office.
Zhang An and his father had just arrived at the village committee for a while, and everyone else came slowly.
“Everyone is here, let’s talk things over early and go back to bed early.”
Zhang Jianwen paused, poured himself a glass of water with the teapot, and then handed it to Others.
"Everyone has also seen that the mountain rollers have begun to go down the mountain. We encountered quite a few of them today."
"Although we could see them in the past years, they were only at one end and two ends. I didn't expect that the village was quiet. A few years ago, they started making trouble again.”
“But this year is different from previous years. From Wild Boar Rock to Tunluopo Valley, a lot of people have been ruined by them.”
"The group we saw today consisted of more than a dozen people. If they hadn't been scared away by the firecrackers, these two groups might not have been able to survive today."
Although Zhang An did not go to what happened today, he was there. The family has heard Zhang Jianguo talk about it.
Coming down from Wild Boar Rock, large areas of the valley have been flattened by wild boars descending from the mountain.
And today they went to the mountains and encountered a group of more than a dozen wild boars.
This is because everyone brought cannons there, which frightened the group of wild boars and fled in all directions.
Finally, everyone found an opportunity to kill the two lone wild boars.
Although when the whole village just divided the meat, everyone was very happy.
But Zhang Jianwen really couldn't rest assured, because these mountain rollers were already in and out of Tunluopo.
It is no longer in the mountains, it is all valleys, and there is not a single forest at all.
"So I came to see you today to discuss the autumn watch. We can't let them continue to destroy the corn in the ground."
The autumn watch means vigil, many years ago , wild boars come down the mountain every year, and can even come to the entrance of the village.
At that time, every year the village would arrange for people to be on duty in the evening to guard the crops in the fields. It's just that the mountain rollers haven't been out in the mountains very often in recent years, so the village has not arranged to continue the autumn vigil.
The autumn value is related to the harvest of every family in the village, so the old uncle mentioned it, and everyone basically had no objection.
"Jianwen, I think this year's autumn value may not work."
At this time, Mr. Huang on the side took a puff of the cigarette rod in his mouth and slowly said to everyone.
“You should have seen today that the valleys near Wild Boar Rock are basically not even good.”
"When I went into the mountain the day before yesterday, everything was fine and nothing happened. It must have been these two days that caused trouble to the mountain rollers."
"Even the group we met today, in just a short time I definitely won’t be able to do this in two days. I think there must be other groups of pigs coming down the mountain.”
After hearing what Mr. Huang said, everyone was surprised. If there are other groups of pigs. It would be bad going down the mountain.
No one doubted Mr. Huang’s statement.
Because this old man is one of the most powerful villains in the village.
“It is estimated that there are still about twenty days before the break of the valley, and those beasts will definitely continue to come out, so I think the most important thing at the moment is to find out how many mountains have rolled down the mountain this year. "
"And now that we don't have guns in our hands, it will be troublesome to encounter them at night."
At this point, everyone was silent.
Yes, during the autumn season in the past, everyone brought someone with them.
But now everyone has all the fire sticks in their hands.
If everyone really goes to the field for autumn duty at night, if they encounter a group of mountain rollers, they won’t even be able to run away.
“So my old man thinks that we can organize people to feel out the bottom of these beasts during the day, but in the end we still have to ask the town for help.”
“Based on my past experience, this year There are at least 20 or 30 mountain rollers coming down the mountain. Without the Armed Forces, we can’t fight these beasts on our own.”
“It’s probably that we haven’t entered the mountain in the past few years. Go find them and let them recover.”
Since the last time the armed forces came to clean up, the mountains have been quiet for almost ten years.
In the past few years, it was basically after they came down from the mountain that the village organized people to take action.
So after so long, their population is estimated to have recovered.
In the past, if there were only these twenty or thirty mountain rollers, everyone would go and shoot them with muskets.
But now that everyone has nothing to worry about, it might be a bad thing if something happens.
"The second master is right, I was negligent and did not consider this aspect."
After listening to Huang Erye's speculation, Zhang Jianwen became a little scared.
If there are really so many mountain rollers going down the mountain this year, then it would be too dangerous to go there every night for seven or eight people.
Beasts like mountain rollers have poor eyesight during the day, but they are very alert at night.
"We won't go to the autumn vigil this time. I'll go to the town tomorrow to report the matter."
Zhang Jianwen thought for a while, this autumn duty must not continue.
Whenever someone in the village gets into trouble because of the autumn weather, it is difficult for him to explain to the villagers.
"But what you always said, Second Master, is that before the armed forces come, we need to find out the background of these beasts."
"So I will trouble Second Master to take care of you tomorrow. People go to the mountains to search, and when the people who come to help come later, we will give them a pot.”
If you want to take people to the mountains to find out the traces of wild boars, Huang Erye is undoubtedly the most suitable person.
The old man knows the mountains better than anyone else, and everyone is willing to listen to what he has to say.
"That's no problem." In response, Mr. Huang readily agreed.
The old man has always been unambiguous about matters in the village.
Others in the village didn't have any objections. It was impossible not to go. After all, the crops were in the fields.
It is the best result for everyone that we do not have to go to the autumn watch at night. It is much safer during the day.
“But everyone must remember, after discovering the mountain rollers, don’t scare them.”
“In all of them, safety is the most important thing. If we don’t have any guys, we have to Be submissive and don’t risk your own life.”
If you don’t have a guy in your hand, you have to be submissive. This is the truth left by our ancestors.
"That's it, I'll notify everyone to come over tomorrow morning, and then we will confirm the people who will enter the mountain."
After Zhang Jianwen warned everyone a few words, the meeting ended and everyone went back to their homes. .
But before leaving, Mr. Huang ordered some of Zhang An’s big dogs to be killed.
Because they have several big dogs in the mountains, it is much easier to find wild boars.
So on the way home, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo, father and son, were talking about some things to pay attention to.
Tomorrow we have to organize people to go into the mountain. At least one of them, the father and his son, have to go.
Because if the village wanted to take their family there, it would definitely not be possible if no one from their family could go.
"You are back, Xiao An. Boss Lu just called you. You will call me back later to ask what happened."
Back home, Zhang An I heard from my mother that Fatty Lu called.
"Yeah, okay, I'll call over and ask."
We have to go into the mountains tomorrow, so we definitely won't have time, so Zhang An is going to call over and ask right now.
"Is there anything else that happened when the village asked you to come this time?"
After Zhang An went upstairs, Wang Fang asked Zhang Jianguo what he said in the meeting today.
Because usually when something big happens in the village, people will be called to the office for a meeting.
For other small things, we just go to Zhang Ping's house to eat melon seeds, and everyone will discuss it and it will be done.
"Hey, it wasn't the wild boar coming down the mountain that caused the trouble."
As he spoke, Zhang Jianguo explained the matter to Wang Fang and Su Ying at home.
Zhang An’s family’s valleys are all on the Yanzi Rock side, so they don’t care much about the mountains on the Wild Boar Rock side.
And the fact that the wild boar rock field was ruined happened in the past two days, and it has not yet spread in the village.
"Then you and Xiao An will also go with the dog tomorrow."
Hearing about going into the mountains to find wild boars, Wang Fang and Su Ying frowned at the side. Wrinkled.
It doesn't matter if they go into the mountains on weekdays, but they are not at all worried about going into the mountains to find wild boars.
When Zhang An came back last year, Wang Fang was frightened because he was covered in pig blood.
Now that Wang Fang thinks about it, she still feels a little scared.
Now that Wang Fang heard that her son and man would go into the mountains with the villagers to look for wild boars tomorrow, Wang Fang's heart began to twitch again.
But she had no choice but to say no, because this was a village matter and could not be shied away from.
Besides, we are all from the same village. Everyone else has gone, why can’t your family go?
"You don't have to worry this time. We just went into the mountains to see where the wild boars are. If we really want to fight, we have to wait for the comrades from the Armed Forces to come over. We don't have muskets, so we can't fight them."
Even though Zhang Jianguo said it very easily, Wang Fang still didn't let go.
(End of this chapter)