The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 61: Crying

The officials were afraid that the Zuo clan members would clash with the mountain people.

They even set up a barrier inside the cave.

The villagers looked even worse than the prisoners when they entered the bat cave.

Only the children had raincoats to wear.

The rest of the people looked like they had just been pulled out of the river.

The men were all dressed in shorts and barefoot, and their whole bodies were soaked.

I wonder how rushed they were when they left home.

He only brought a few pieces of leather and a few jars of salt with him.

There was nothing there, not even rice or noodles, not even meat or vegetables.

The cave, which was quiet just a moment ago, immediately became lively with the arrival of the villagers from Shitouzhai.

Fortunately, this bat cave is big enough.

They were separated, but not crowded.

The cordon was set up from the stove that was built last night.

at this time.

On the six stoves, large iron pots were bubbling and simmering with meat broth.

The officials didn't have the skill of butchering pigs like Xi Shi (a famous butcher), and they couldn't wait for her to return before they could finish.

They simply and brutally skinned the wild boar family, emptied their internal organs, and chopped them into chunks of meat the size of a child's fist.

Fresh meat without ice is difficult to preserve and must be eaten as soon as possible.

The two leaders then ordered the large bones that had been removed to be cooked together with the chunks of meat!

When the mountain people entered the cave, the wild boar meat had already changed color from being cooked.

Wild boar meat doesn't taste that great, and the hunters didn't particularly like it.

They barely glanced at the pot.

Right across the safety barrier, they spread the animal hides on the cave floor and began discussing the division of labor for chopping wood and hunting.
After Gan Minglan and She Shi and others brought back two baskets of wild vegetables, they also started to get busy.

As before, clean the lotus root thoroughly, blanch it, and then make a cold salad.

They also found some wild onions and wild garlic today, which will add more flavor when mixed with wild lotus root.

I was busy for about half an hour.

When the wild boar meat was cooked until it could be pierced with chopsticks, Gan Minglan threw a large handful of dog rice grass roots, which she had washed clean in the valley, into the pot.

Once the grass roots had dissolved in the broth, I gently stirred them a few times with a spoon.

A rich, savory aroma of pork filled the entire cave.

The children of Shitou Village twitched their noses when they smelled this odor:

"Grandpa! I want to eat meat. Go and get me a bowl of meat!"

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Gou Dan wants to gnaw on a big bone! They have big bones!"

"Father, Father, aren't the wild boars in this forest from our Stone Village? How dare they slaughter our wild boars! Go and get our boars back!"

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The officials and adults of the Zuo clan were busy dividing the meat.

I didn't really notice the shouts of the children from Shitouzhai.

Their dialect has a heavy accent, and outsiders can't understand them unless they speak Mandarin.

The children's feelings are different.

This is the age when they are protective of their food.

Although they didn't know what the children on the other side were shouting, their expressions and tone made the children instinctively feel uneasy.

The old man who had dealt with the officials before shouted a lot in the local dialect, and he was quite agitated.

It's not hard to guess that the goal is for adults to keep an eye on their own children.

Several of those who made a big fuss immediately received a slap from their own fathers!
Those seemingly simple-minded mountain men, with their憨憨 (honest and simple) smiles, actually hit the children quite hard. "Slap! slap! slap!"

"clap clap"

"clap clap"

Just hearing the sound makes me feel pain!

Fatty and the other kids stared wide-eyed:

The scene of those guys acting crazy across from me looks so familiar!

Aren't they the same people who were clamoring to eat meat not long ago?
Think about how greedy they were back then, and then look at the guys across from them still drooling and licking their fingers.

We're kindred spirits!
A few teenagers came up with a plan.

After the meal was served, they took their bowls and squatted down in the public area closest to Stone Village to eat heartily.

While eating, he clicked his tongue in amazement:
"This isn't just pork bone soup, it's heavenly soup! It's much more delicious than the ginseng chicken soup, pigeon soup, and mutton soup I've had before!"

"Slurp. A sip and my stomach feels warm, I'm even sweating! I also got two big chunks of pork bone meat, this meat is so chewy! The more I chew, the more fragrant it becomes!"

"Tsk tsk, it smells delicious! Wild boar meat from Stone Monkey Mountain, it's so fragrant it's making my tongue almost malfunction!"

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Their deliberate showing off made the children of Shitouzhai cry again.

If it weren't for the seventy uniformed officers maintaining order at the scene...

The children's own fathers would rush over to grab a bowl of bone broth for their kids.

No wonder they were so impatient.

The aroma of meat emanating from these pots is simply irresistible!
Smelling this, even if you were eating dragon meat, you probably wouldn't taste anything good.

The little ones' eating habits were somewhat exaggerated.

For children in the mountains, it was nothing short of torture.

The mountain people were puzzled: When did the wild boar meat from this forest start to taste like this when stewed?

No! No! No!
They must be cooking the wild boar meat wrong!

Or maybe these people put some kind of magic potion in the meat!

Even a chance encounter can be a kind of fate.

Besides, there was indeed a lot of meat today; even if they ate to their hearts' content, they couldn't finish it all.

The Huang family chief generously offered to share a pot of food with the villagers to satisfy their cravings!

In Shitouzhai, the men quickly devoured the entire large pot, meat and broth!
On behalf of the mountain people, Old Zhong repeatedly expressed his gratitude and praised them, saying, "I've been eating wild boar meat all my life for nothing. You have a descendant of the imperial chefs among you!"

He said a whole bunch of nice things without asking for money.

They praised the two leaders until they were in high spirits.

He started chatting with the old man around the fire.

The leader surnamed Mao: "Do you know what the situation is like up the mountain and down the mountain right now?"

Old Zhong: "There aren't many trees on this mountain range. Whenever there's a heavy rain, mud and rocks are washed down from the mountaintop or halfway down into the valley by the flood."

It looks like the mountain path in this canyon won't be usable for another year or two!

From our hilltop, we could see the Ru River swelled up, and the area below was a vast expanse of white! Not only the village, but several nearby counties were flooded, and we don't know how many people have died.”

The two leaders, who had already prepared for a detour, were dumbfounded: "The county town... the county town is flooded?"

Old Zhong shook his head: "Ruzhou has high mountains and many rivers. Not only the county seat, but the prefectural city is even lower in elevation."

The leader surnamed Huang was extremely anxious: "We originally intended to take a shortcut through this canyon, but after hearing what you said, old man, doesn't it mean that even taking a detour is no longer an option?"

Old Zhong squinted and nodded: "Right now, everything is flooded. Even if you go down the mountain, you won't find a way! You'll have to wait until the rain stops, the floodwaters recede, and then there will be a path to follow."

The thought of being trapped in this cave for who knows how many more days made the two leaders increasingly uneasy.

But worrying won't do any good.

They all sighed in unison, their faces contorted in misery.

(End of this chapter)