The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 122 Killing the Wild Boar
At around ten o'clock, Jiang Cheng came out of the street office.

Director Li did not take Jiang Cheng’s fish, not because the fish was not good, but because he needed to coordinate the timing well.

When paying respects to the deceased, people are arranged to bring supplies at almost the same time. Fresh products like fish will go bad if they are not distributed on the same day when the weather is hot.

This is the same as the pig blood produced by slaughtering pigs in the meat processing plant. In order to avoid waste, it is directly supplied to factories and some units that can process it that morning.

When the street office prepares relief items, they always choose those that are easier to store, at least to ensure that there are no problems when they are distributed.

This time, Jiang Cheng's fish was not used, but Director Li knew that he could get fish, so he asked him for some. It was not to be used as a consolation gift, but it could be used as welfare.

Jiang Cheng promised to send the fish to Director Li when he got it. The amount of fish required now is small, so Jiang Cheng is not very interested, but it is still necessary to maintain the relationship.

After leaving the neighborhood office, Jiang Cheng went home. He didn't want to stay at home, but to go out for a drive.

Jiang Cheng remembered that the last time he went to the rubber factory to transport goods, he passed by a place with few people and a dry well. He thought of going there to deal with the two wild boars in the space. In fact, on the way to transport fertilizers, he also saw cellars in some places. But they were too shallow to control the wild boars.

After returning to the car park, Jiang Cheng wanted to say hello to his family before leaving. But after thinking about it, he decided not to do so, as he would be back soon after going out, so he drove off immediately.

After more than 20 minutes, they found the place where they found the dry well last time. In fact, there were houses not far away. Jiang Cheng blocked one direction with his car, and then loaded the bullet with his air gun.

The well is only three or four meters deep. Perhaps because water was found at the beginning, they did not dig too deep. Later, it dried up for some reason and was abandoned. And looking at the structure of the wellhead, it looks quite old, not like a well dug after liberation.

A wild boar was released instantly and fell from the well mouth to the bottom. As expected of its thick skin and flesh, it was fine after falling from a height of three or four meters, and immediately roared at the bottom of the well. This may also be related to the soft soil at the bottom of the well. If it fell from a height of three or four meters on concrete, the wild boar would also be hurt.

Jiang Cheng fired a shot directly, hitting the target accurately, and then he was dumbfounded. Because it hit the back, there was only a bloody wound, but the wild boar was still alive and well. It was also because of the short distance, and even if it was an air gun in this era, the power was not small.

If the distance was farther, even if he hit the vital parts, he might not be able to kill it. Jiang Cheng fired several more shots, especially at the head. Even so, he could not kill it immediately, and had to wait for the wild boar to die slowly.

Jiang Cheng killed one and just put it on the ground because he felt the wild boar's body temperature and it was still warm. He planned to take one to his workplace for processing in the afternoon. It would be difficult to explain if he took a dead wild boar with a warm body temperature.

The second one was also taken out and shot directly at the head. Jiang Cheng finally understood that this air gun was fine for shooting small animals, but for big ones it was better to use traps or powerful guns.

This afternoon he went to ask Director Liu at his unit if he could get him a rifle.

If Director Liu couldn't help him get a rifle, he would find time to go back to Jinhe Village and ask Secretary Wang Zhongmin to get one. In the militia of the commune, everyone used rifles, which could be used to go into the mountains to arrest criminals and kill people.

In Jiang Cheng's original owner's memory, some people in their commune were kind enough to have rifles in private, so he didn't believe that the secretary of the commune couldn't help him get a rifle to play with.

Two wild boars were killed. Jiang Cheng in the 21st century had never eaten wild boar meat. But the original owner of this body had eaten it, and in his memory, wild boar meat was delicious.

But Jiang Cheng couldn't completely believe the original owner's memory, because it was a memory that everything tasted good when there was no fat in the stomach. Just like Zhou Lingying can now chew on steamed bread and eat it as deliciously as chewing on big meat bones, the way she eats will make you mistakenly think that cornmeal steamed bread is delicious. Just like in a certain era, everyone pursued game. Now Jiang Cheng has at least eaten pheasants, wild ducks, rabbits and various birds, and to be honest, the taste is really not as good as the ones raised at home.

But one thing we have to say is that poultry that is not fed with feed, even a simple stewed chicken will be very delicious.

The sound of gunfire should be heard by people nearby, but this is not in the city center. People who know guns can tell whether it is an airgun or a rifle by the sound, and it is obvious from the sound itself.

There are birds in many trees in the city, but even shooting birds with air guns is not allowed on some streets. They will not catch them deliberately, but they will take care of them if they see them.

In the suburbs, you can often hear the sound of gunfire, and many people play with guns. They can also take sparrows back home to improve their lives.

So Jiang Cheng was shooting here and no one came to check what he was doing.

After killing the wild boar, Jiang Cheng drove back. Back to the old place where he parked his car, under a big shady tree, Jiang Cheng got out of the car and took out some water chestnuts.

Tender water chestnuts do taste good when eaten raw, a bit like the crispy and sweet taste of raw chestnuts.

When Jiang Cheng got home, he saw that his door was very busy. Many children were standing in the corridor next to his door, reading comic books. However, the price of reading comic books was to help Zhou Lingying catch insects to feed the chickens, so it was not free.

Several children were standing together reading a book, some of them were not from this yard. They must be children from nearby who heard that there were picture books to read here and came to read them too.

Zhou Lingying was weighing lotus root starch for her neighbor. It was a bit expensive. But it takes ten kilograms of lotus root to make one kilogram of lotus root starch, and it was not easy to make. The key was that it could be stored for a long time if it was well preserved, and lotus root starch was only available in Hangzhou when the season came.

"Jiang Cheng, what are you eating? Water chestnuts. I haven't seen them for sale at the market these past two days."

Zhou Lingying saw Jiang Cheng coming back. She had just sold the lotus root powder to her neighbor and had weighed it and received the money, so she walked up to him. However, her attention was attracted by what Jiang Cheng was chewing. Seeing what Jiang Cheng was holding in the net bag, she immediately took it and said.

"I just went to Xihu District for something. They sell this there. You~~." Jiang Ben originally wanted to ask him to try it and see if it tasted good, but Zhou Lingying had good teeth and had already bitten one open and put the water chestnut meat inside into her mouth. He could only continue to say, "It tastes good, right?"

"Hmm, it's delicious. I'll give you one." Zhou Lingying nodded, then immediately took one out of the net bag, bit it open, and stuffed it into Jiang Cheng's mouth.

Eating water chestnuts has become an imported food. Jiang Cheng clearly saw that Zhou Lingying's mouth was touched when she bit it. But Jiang Cheng didn't dislike it. He even wanted her to feed him other things. For example, when eating a watermelon, he would let her bite it off and feed him.

Jiang Cheng returned to the room, and Zhou Lingying followed him in. She told Jiang Cheng that Zhu Lan's mother-in-law came to her first and bought ten kilograms of lotus root starch at once, and then other neighbors came to buy one after another.

Except for Li Meihong's family, people from other households in the yard came to buy houses.

Wang Yuzhen, a neighbor who lived in the same row, also came to buy, but Zhou Lingying felt that she seemed to be a little strange in front of her. In the past, Wang Yuzhen would chat with Zhou Lingying for a while when she saw her, but today she just bought lotus root powder and left.

(End of this chapter)