Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 15 Fighting for the Pig
Su Yaoguang dragging a wild boar down the mountain quickly attracted the attention of the villagers.

The villagers gathered around and asked how they got the wild boar.

Su Yaoguang pointed at the pig blood on her face and said with a bitter face, "It was bad luck. I encountered this thing while digging wild vegetables in the mountains. Fortunately, the environment at that time was convenient for hiding. After many twists and turns, I finally killed it. But it was really a close call. I thought I was going to die under the wild boar's hoof today."

"You are so lucky, girl. Did your husband do something? I see he has a wound on his arm."

"Luckily he helped me drag it, otherwise how would I have survived? Unlike some men, they watched us fight with wild boars with their eyes wide open, and they were very cruel."

As Su Yaoguang spoke, Jiang Yihui and Xiao Yanci came down the mountain. Both of them were covered in blood, and everyone knew who they were talking about without Su Yaoguang naming them.

Su Yaoguang dragging a wild boar was too conspicuous. The villagers soon learned that the two had encountered a wild boar while digging wild vegetables in the mountains, and that they had used the environment to their advantage to fight the wild boar. Not only did they survive, but they also got a wild boar for free.

That wild boar must have weighed two hundred pounds. Many villagers asked Su Yaoguang if he wanted to sell some of the boar meat, and if so, everyone wanted to share some.

Wild boar meat wasn't that tasty, so there was no need to keep it all, let alone drag it to the city to sell. Su Yaoguang decided to sell it for eight cents a pound, and anyone interested could come to her house to buy the meat.

Zhang Zhaodi was hanging clothes in the yard. When she saw Su Yaoguang covered in blood, she was so scared that her legs went limp.

"What's going on? Don't scare me!"

"That's not my blood, it's all wild boar's." Su Yaoguang dragged the wild boar in behind him. "Wangshu and I killed it in the mountains. Mom, get ready. The villagers will be here soon to buy pork. I told them it's eight cents a pound. It's such a big wild boar, and the three of us can't eat much, so we might as well just exchange it for money."

When Zhang Zhaodi heard this, she chanted "Amitabha".

Not long after, people from the village came to the door.

The wild boar was already dead and its blood had almost drained out. They only needed to boil water to remove the hair and then cut the wild boar into thin strips.

More and more villagers came rushing over after hearing the news. They saw with their own eyes that Su Yaoguang had cut the wild boar into pieces by himself, and the way they looked at Su Yaoguang changed.

"Aunt Wang, this one you picked is five pounds, and it costs forty cents in total."

"Yaoguang girl, please make it cheaper. You know my aunt's family is not well off."

"Aunt, I almost lost my life because of this wild boar. Look at our Wangshu, he's still injured. Don't we have to spend money to buy medicine for him?"

"Okay, okay, then can you give me this piece of pork liver?"

The other villagers also bargained with Su Yaoguang. Su Yaoguang's principle was that no money should be wasted, but he could add some other things. Of course, spare ribs and pig heads had to be bought with money.

Zhou Wangshu was collecting money nearby. He was very fast at calculating, and could quickly work out the amount no matter how much weight it was.

Just after selling half a pig, a noisy sound came from the door, and then Zhong Lanhua pulled Xiao Yanci in angrily.

"What are you doing in my house?" Zhang Zhaodi rushed forward with a knife when she saw her.

When Zhong Lanhua saw Zhang Zhaodi covered in pig blood and holding a bloody pig-killing knife in her hand, her arrogance dissipated a lot.

"Your pig is half ours, I'm here to get the pork." Zhong Lanhua said with her hands on her hips.

"Tell me, why do I have half of yours?" Su Yaoguang said, chopping off the pig's head fiercely, his eyes fierce. Zhong Lanhua swallowed her saliva, looked at Su Yaoguang's bloody face, pushed Xiao Yanci beside her and said, "You tell me."

Xiao Yanci frowned. Seeing so many people staring at him, and the fierce and aggressive village girl also looking at him coldly, he spoke reluctantly: "She killed the pig with our knife."

"Did you hear that? That's the reason." Zhong Lanhua said, her hands on her hips. "If it weren't for our knives, you might not be able to kill the pig, but you might even lose your own life."

"If I hadn't killed this pig, they wouldn't have been able to save their lives. So, I'm their savior, right? Shouldn't they give me a thank you gift?"

"Bullshit! I heard them say that if you two hadn't led the pigs there, they wouldn't have encountered such danger. My son is a scholar, preparing for the imperial examination. He just had such a shock that he's already talking nonsense. If anything happens to my son, your whole family won't be able to pay for it."

"A scholar? Oh, what a scholar! Your weak scholar was so frightened when he saw a wild boar that he peed his pants. He even pushed this man towards the boar, hoping to make him a scapegoat. Aunts and uncles, you must watch your children carefully. Don't let them stay with this scholar. Be careful, they might be the next one to get hurt."

"You're talking nonsense. Don't listen to her nonsense. No, why should I talk to you about this? I want to take this meat today." Zhong Lanhua said as she was about to rush forward to grab it.

Bang! A stone ricocheted towards me.

Zhong Lanhua felt pain in her knees, and she threw herself down and kowtowed to Zhang Zhaodi.

Su Yaoguang looked at Zhou Wangshu next to her and saw him secretly putting away his slingshot. She gave him a thumbs-up and leaned in to praise him, "Well done."

Zhou Wangshu said innocently, "She's so annoying. She wants to bully Yaoguang."

"Yes, those who bully us are very annoying. We must fight back when it's time to fight back." Su Yaoguang agreed.

"Oh, it's not even the New Year yet, and you're already starting to kowtow to me. Isn't that a bit too early?" Zhang Zhaodi laughed.

The villagers nearby also started laughing.

Zhong Lanhua had always been delicate, unlike most of the village women. Even though she was in her thirties, she looked like a young woman in her early twenties. Many of the village women resented her. But now that she had suffered a loss, they were secretly delighted.

Zhong Lanhua yelled at Xiao Yanci, "Are you blind? Hurry up and help me up."

Xiao Yanci came over and helped her up.

She scolded Zhang Zhaodi, "You are such a bully."

Su Yaoguang was impatient. He walked over with a knife in his hand and said to Zhong Lanhua, "Get out now, or I'll throw you out."

Zhong Lanhua felt scared when she saw Su Yaoguang.

Has this little girl been possessed by an evil spirit recently? Why are her eyes so scary?

"Miss, let's not talk about who is right or wrong in what happened on the mountain. No matter what, you used our knife, shouldn't you be compensated? Not to mention half a head, at least ten kilograms." Xiao Yanci thought he was polite and there was nothing wrong with his words or his etiquette, but the people around him looked at him with disdain.

"Is this guy stupid? Maybe Yaoguang used their knife, but if she hadn't found a way to kill the wild boar, they would have lost their lives. Yaoguang also said that it was good enough that they didn't ask for a thank-you gift, but they still had the nerve to come and steal meat. They haven't eaten meat in several lifetimes, and they are craving it like crazy."

Of course, the villagers helped Su Yaoguang. After all, if Zhong Lanhua took the pork, they would have nothing to buy. The children at home were still waiting for the pork to be cooked!
(End of this chapter)