vrcanaries Chapter 289 Killing Pigs
Chapter 289 Killing Pigs
Everyone studied very hard.
Zhou Guo looked back and saw that they were huddled together, working very seriously. He smiled knowingly and went deeper into the woods with his knife on his back.
She had the same meal as when she separated from Zhou Dacang at noon. The only two instant snacks left in her bag were given to the 88 or 89-year-old man. After half a day, he only drank that little bit of vegetable soup. It was like he had eaten nothing and she even felt hungrier!
Got to find something to eat.
She flew back and forth in the woods, and in just a quarter of an hour she had reached the top of another hill. The noise of the children was no longer audible anymore.
She ran around in the woods for a while, shot three pheasants, and took down two rabbit nests, a total of ten rabbits, six big ones and four small ones, and she took them all.
They can take the younger ones home and raise them. It only takes some time to cut some grass. Rabbits are very fertile. The number of rabbits in their family has doubled in just a few days, and they are showing a trend of continuing to reproduce.
There’s only this much, not enough for so many people.
She had no choice but to run deeper into the forest for about a quarter of an hour. The further she went, the fewer traces of people she saw.
We came to a small valley with a small pond in it. From afar, we could see that the sun had already set. Many animals gathered by the pond, drinking water in groups.
Delighted, she pushed aside the leaves and looked over. There were deer, roe deer, hyenas, wild boars, and even a few leopards.
"It turns out that animals really don't attack each other when they drink water."
Before he could finish his words, he saw the roe deer, which had just finished drinking water and had not walked far, being chased by a leopard that was ambushed on the other side and was running all over the mountain, rolling and crawling.
Well, it really means not attacking when drinking water, it really means that literally.
She cut a wooden stick as thick as her arm, sharpened both ends, and rushed forward while the leopard was drinking water.
As it rushed over with great momentum, the animals near the pond were frightened and fled in all directions. The originally noisy place became empty in the blink of an eye.
Even the leopard that was drinking water was frightened by the noise and ran away.
Zhou Guo couldn't see anything else and just ran towards the wild boar. The wild boar was big, with lots of meat and oil. If they couldn't finish it in one meal, the leftovers would last them a long time.
A wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms was pierced by her sharp wood, and the pig's blood gushed out. She felt distressed and said, "I should have used my fist to knock it unconscious and then killed it. The pig's blood would not have been wasted, as it would have been a big meal."
She saw several leopards in the distance slowly turning their heads to look at her, and took a tentative step towards her. The forest was beginning to get dark.
The wild boar was tied up with vines and dragged back and forth at a rapid speed.
The big wild boar was clanging around in the woods, and no one knew where its skin was bumped or where it was broken.
She didn't care. It was dead anyway, and it would be put into the pot when it was brought back. Why bother with all this?
She ran forward with all her heart, while keeping an eye on the back. After running for a few miles, she didn't see any leopards chasing her. She finally let go of the worry in her heart. Although she could defeat them, it would take a lot of effort to defeat several leopards. If she delayed any longer, it would be dark.
With a string tied around his body and a big wild boar in his hand, he returned to the place where the trap was set. It was already dark and he could not see anything more than two meters away in the forest.
When the children in the distance saw her coming back, they all cheered, "Where have you been? Why did you take so long to come back?"
"Don't go into this forest alone. It's very scary. There are wolves in it. Last time, an adult, a man, couldn't bear it and went into the mountains to dig a trap. As a result, he never came out. I think he was eaten by wolves or big insects in the mountains. We never dare to go in. We just find some wild vegetables outside to fill our stomachs. We have enough to eat."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone crowded up and looked at the things hanging on her body and the huge thing she was dragging behind her, and they all fell silent.
Looking at the big wild boar behind her, her eyes widened.
Zhou Guo dragged the wild boar to him and said to them, "Let's go back and kill the boar before it gets completely dark."
Everyone: "..."
“…Oh my god, you actually caught a pig all by yourself. This pig is so big and heavy, how did you drag it back?!!”
As soon as these words came out, everyone came back to their senses and exclaimed, "Really? I've never seen anyone go into the mountains alone and catch a pig. A few years ago, a group of villagers went into the mountains to pick mushrooms and later encountered a wild boar. Two people were carried out, and a group of people couldn't do it. How did you catch this big wild boar by yourself?"
"I almost think I'm dreaming. Hey, pinch me and see if it hurts."
……
The sun had completely set, leaving only a last bit of afterglow in the sky. There were only a few scattered lights in the entire county town, and it was as deserted as a wilderness.
The dilapidated temple was bustling with activity at this moment. All the broken jars that were picked up were used and placed on rows of fires. The jars were filled with water.
Several people were guarding the fire and adding firewood to the flames.
Water was still being fetched outside, and all household items were used, including two broken buckets, individual bowls, and bamboo tubes. More than a dozen people were busy coming in and out in a hurry.
Zhou Guo took out a few live rabbits from his bag. He liked the few remaining little ones in the temple as soon as he saw them and stroked their fur lovingly.
She smiled. Sure enough, children all like these little things. Then she heard them say:
"Will this little rabbit be able to eat a lot of meat when it grows up?"
"We can't eat them even if they grow up, but we can let them give birth to little rabbits, and the little rabbits will give birth to little rabbits. If we give birth to lots and lots of them, we will have lots of rabbit meat to eat, and we can sell it and earn money to buy food."
Well, foraging for food is the nature of all living things, food is the first necessity.
While she was at it, she started to process the rabbits and pheasants, leaving four or five people to watch them. If the condom could fit something in the future, they would be able to clean it up themselves.
Several adults gathered around her, watching her skillfully skin and pluck the hair, and suddenly said, "So rabbits need to be skinned. We caught one before and burned off the hair, then chopped it into pieces and cooked it. It was delicious, but there were some tiny hairs on it that weren't cleaned up, but it didn't affect the taste at all. My brothers and sisters kept nagging for it after eating it for so long."
As Zhou Guo peeled the skin, he said, "Although you can eat more skin by doing this, it's not much. If you can peel off the fur, even if you sell it raw, you can get a few coins. If you process it well and sell it as cooked skin, you can sell a skin for more than ten or twenty coins, which is not a small amount."
When they heard that a rabbit skin could be sold for so much money, several people were so surprised. "It's so expensive. Can we learn how to process the skin?"