Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 123 Hunting Wild Boars
When Liu Dongshan and his men arrived, six dogs had already pinned down the two pigs.

Liu Dongshan came forward and killed both pigs with one shot each.

On the other side, Xingjia and Xingye were lying in ambush on the hillside with muskets in hand.

Then I heard a loud noise and a few pigs ran over from a distance.

The two men hid quietly in the bushes, held their guns steadily, and pulled the trigger when a few pigs ran close to them.

The musket is filled with pea sand, which is sprayed out in a fan-shaped shape. Although the lethality of this thing is not too strong, it has a large attack area.

When the shot was fired, the wild boars screamed "Squeak" and several of them were hit.

However, the gun sand was not powerful enough to kill the wild boar, and it staggered and fled in all directions.

Xingjia fired the first shot, and Xingye immediately pulled the trigger, this time aiming at a wounded Ge Nian Shen.

After a gunshot, the man sank to the ground and couldn't get up.

The two brothers led their men forward, drew their knives, and directly killed the fallen wild boar. Then they cut open its belly, took out the internal organs and cooled it down.

Qu Shaoyang just happened to see the big running basket. That guy was really big, and the flesh on his body trembled when he ran.

Qu Shaoyang spotted the opportunity and shot the ball, which went right under the elbow before the basket. The ball went in through the narrow hole and out through the wide hole.

The thing running with the basket groaned, and its madly running body suddenly stopped and it fell headfirst into the snow.

There were a few pigs following behind the basket. Qu Shaoyang fired in time. After a few gunshots, two more pigs fell to the ground.

At this time, Qu Shaoyang heard gunshots from somewhere else and guessed that his master might be able to gain something.

As for Xingjia and Xingye, it doesn’t matter. We brought them up here to gain some experience. It would be best if they could beat them, but it doesn’t matter if they can’t.

Three pigs fell to the ground, and the harvest was already quite large. Qu Shaoyang handed the gun to the guy next to him to carry on his back, and quickly walked to the running basket.

Qu Shaoyang used his arms to flip the big running basket weighing five or six hundred kilograms over.

This move scared the guys following behind.

"Oh my god, is our boss so strong? Why didn't I pay much attention to him before?"

"I don't know. I never paid much attention to it before." Another one said in a low voice.

"What are you wasting time on? Why don't you come over here and gut those two pigs?

I will cover my stomach later, it will be fishy and smelly and it will be unpalatable, then I will leave it all for you to eat."

How could Qu Shaoyang not hear what they were mumbling about? So he put on a cold face and called people to come over to work.

Several of the guys shrank their shoulders and rushed forward to help. They gutted the three pigs, took out the internal organs and put them in the snow to cool down.

The pig's belly is propped up with a wooden stick, and snow is kicked into the belly to achieve the purpose of quickly cooling down.

Otherwise, the big basket will soon be filled up and you won’t be able to eat it.

Before the three pigs were dealt with, Liu Dongshan had already brought his men over. When they saw the big guy on the ground, they were all amazed.

"Oh my, I've never seen such a big pig. Wow, is it almost as big as a cow?"

"Master, how is it going over there? Did you get any results?" Qu Shaoyang wiped his hands with snow and asked.

"Yes, our dogs are really good. When I got there, they had already pinned the pig to the ground.

I went up and shot the pigs one by one, killing them directly. I had just fed them some dirty food, so I came to find you.

It seems that we have gained a lot today. I don’t know how the Xing family is doing.” Liu Dongshan briefly described the situation on his side.

As they were talking, a worker from the Xing family came over and said, "Boss, old boss, we killed a pig over there. It's not too big. It seems to be the one you said was heavy the previous year."

When Qu Shaoyang heard this, he became happy, "Oh, that's great, we have gained a lot today.

Well, let's clean up, chop some wood and make some sleds to drag all these pigs back. This time, we can have a good year."

When everyone heard this, they all laughed. After laughing enough, they hurried to work.

With more people, the work can be done faster, and in a short time, three simple sleds were made.

One of them was dragging the big running basket alone, and the other put the dead sow and the little yellow-haired pig in it.

Another sled was used to pick up Xingjia and the others, and then together they loaded the two pigs caught by the dogs.

After much effort, everyone finally dragged the sled out of the forest and returned home.

We can't just leave so many pigs there. We have to take them all out when we get home.

So, everyone set up two large pots with twelve seals in the yard and boiled hot water to remove the hair.

Qu Shaoyang said that there was no need to remove the hair, just skin it directly, which was too much trouble. The pig skin could be kept and was useful.

In this way, the Qu family yard was bustling with activity.

Large pots of water were boiled and poured over the pigs, and then someone took a knife and scraped the hair off the pigs.

On Qu Shaoyang's side, he peeled the skin of the running basket bit by bit and cut the meat into large pieces.

They couldn't bear to throw away the internal organs of several pigs, except for those used to worship the mountain gods and feed the dogs, so they brought all of them back.

It's just that the family is too busy right now and no one has time to clean up those things.

So they packed up the pig offal and put it in the warehouse to freeze it first, and then packed it up when they had time in two days.

"Shaoyang, leave a little yellow-haired mantis and the old year's rice, don't chop them up, just leave them as they are, water them, and put them outside to freeze overnight.

The rest were chopped into large pieces, placed outside, poured with water and frozen overnight.

There are so many that we can’t finish them all in a short time, so we’ll freeze them and eat them later.”

When Liu Dongshan saw that Qu Shaoyang was going to chop all the pigs into pieces, he suddenly remembered something and quickly told Qu Shaoyang to leave out the little yellow-haired pig and the next year's pig.

Qu Shaoyang didn't ask why, but just followed his master's instructions. He kept the yellow-haired fish and one head of the old year fish, chopped the rest, poured water on them, and put them outside to freeze.

In Northeast China, it is extremely cold outside during the seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month. Anything left outside overnight will be frozen hard and even a dog cannot chew it.

Everyone worked until the evening and finally managed to clean up all the pigs.

Liu Dongshan meant that the running basket was too big to be eaten, so it was just right to be used for cooking during the days before the New Year.

Wait until the Chinese New Year, then take out other meat and cook a few more delicious dishes so that everyone can have a good New Year.

Naturally, others have no objection to this.
Guys, it’s good enough to have meat to eat, why do you care about running baskets or sows and piglets?
However, the meat of the running basket was indeed hard and tough. Even after being stewed in the pot for a long time, it was still hard to chew.

Finally, Qu Shaoyang remembered that he had two jars of pickled radishes at home.

In the fall, we pickled sauerkraut. Since there were so many people in my family, there wasn’t enough cabbage, so we pickled some radishes and put them in the jar.

I only ate the pickled radish once. The meat inside was stewed till soft, but the radish was not mushy.

So, just mix these two together, turn up the heat, and stew them vigorously.

You know what, the meat was really stewed into a mushy mess when mixed with radish and pickled cabbage. Everyone found it delicious.

(End of this chapter)