70: Raising a wife, the whole village is inhaling the aroma of stewed meat.

"You should go yourself; I'm afraid you'll get lost in the mountains!"

Chen Gengsheng said with a look of impatience, his face also looking listless.

"Brother Geng, look, that's Zhou Qingwen's path into the mountains. Let's pretend we run into him, okay?"

"Ye Jinmin, I'll trust you one more time! Let's go!"

Chen Gengsheng, carrying his hunting rifle, followed Ye Jinmin into the mountains.

Little did they know, Zhou Qingwen had already gone into the mountains in the middle of the night, and was now quite far away from them.

For the time being, the two of them will find it difficult to catch up.

Zhou Qingwen was deep in the mountains when he spotted the wild boar and was preparing to throw darts...

"Whoosh!"

A wild boar: "Bang!"

It fell to the ground, and the other wild boars squealed and ran away.

Zhou Qingwen slightly curled the corners of his mouth, looked around to make sure it was safe, then bled the wild boar before tying it to a tree branch.

This makes it easier to carry. If you carry a wild boar directly, you're afraid you'll have to keep taking it out of your sight, because it's easy for it to slip and fall if you carry it directly.

Here's how to tie it with a branch to secure it!

Then he carried the wild boar on his shoulder and started walking back.

After crossing two mountains, we spotted the two people who had been hunting for free.

Zhou Qingwen took a detour to avoid the two of them.

These two aren't very good hunters, but I've heard they like to sneak into the hunters' prey.

So, he's not a good bird!

Zhou Qingwen returned to the village in the evening, and a large group of children who had just come home from school immediately gathered around: "Wow! What a huge wild boar!"

"Third Uncle, will we be able to eat some meat?"

"Haha, I've paid enough meat for the village. Here's what we'll do: if you want to eat meat, just tell your family. One work point can be exchanged for one ounce of wild boar meat."

Zhou Qingwen steadied the wild boar and headed home, answering the child's question along the way.

"I'm going to find my mom to exchange my work points for meat!"

A group of children excitedly ran over, shouting, "Me too!"

"Me too!"

Suddenly, only Zhou Jinfeng was left beside Zhou Qingwen: "Third Uncle, will I be able to eat meat? Should I exchange my work points?"

"You silly nephew! You're my own nephew. Your parents work for my wife every day to earn work points, so you can eat as much meat as you want!"

Zhou Jinfeng swallowed hard: "Really?"

"That's right! When has your third uncle ever lied to you?"

"Hey! There's meat to eat!"

"Jinfeng, go and call your dad and second uncle back. Ask them to help deal with the wild boar!"

"Alright, all set!"

Zhou Jinfeng ran quickly to call for help, but he tripped and fell on the ground. Zhou Qingwen said with concern, "Slow down."

"I'm fine!"

Zhou Jinfeng ran quickly again.

Zhou Qingwen went home, where Liu Yue'e had already returned and was helping Yu Yalan cook a pot, making corn porridge and steaming a bowl of egg custard on top.

"Honey, I'm home. Pour me a glass of water, I'm so thirsty."

"They're here!"

Yu Yalan first poured a glass of water in the kitchen, scooped some cold water from a large bowl of cooled boiled water, and added half a glass of hot water.

After adjusting the water temperature, take it out.

Liu Yue'e also put down her firewood and came out to look.

"Oh my, so many wild boars! Why didn't any of your children come back with you today?"

"There are many on the road."

Zhou Qingwen took the water from Yu Yalan, gulped it down, and then said, "I told them that one work point could be exchanged for one ounce of wild boar meat, and they went to find the adults at home."

"Are you stupid? One work point equals one ounce of pork? Isn't that cheaper than selling it?"

Liu Yue'e couldn't help but feel sorry for her.

"Mom, they're all from the same village. If we give them a little something extra, the kids will eat a little better. They're all at the age where they're all growing taller, so there's no need to be too fussy."

Liu Yue'e laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid they'll exchange all your wild boars?"

"Hehe! Once I've exchanged them all, I can just hunt wild boars again next time. I can afford to exchange for this one now!"

"Kid, you've got potential!"

The two elders of the Zhou clan, Zhou Shengkai and Zhou Shengfang, came over together.

"Oh, what brings you two elders here? Please come in and have a seat."

Liu Yue'e stepped forward and said, "Young man, go and greet them. I'll serve the tea, and Xiaoya will watch the work in the kitchen."

"Okay, coming right away."

The two elders of the Zhou family calmed down and said, "We just heard that the third brother hunted a wild boar, so we came to check. It's nothing serious."

Zhou Qingwen tightened his grip slightly. In front of the clan elders, he was indeed a junior: "Clan elders, you've come at this time, I'm afraid there's something you need us to do?"

Zhou Shengkai walked to the stone table in the courtyard and sat down, saying, "We'll talk about this when your dad comes back."

"Hey, Mr. Zhou, have some water first."

A short while later, Zhou Feitian returned.

Zhou Shengkai then slowly explained the situation to Zhou Feitian.

It turned out that someone from the Zhou family had told them about Zhou Qingwen being able to exchange work points for meat, and that they couldn't let someone take all the wild boar meat at once.

Zhou Qingwen was, after all, the strongest hunter in the village.

What if someone exchanges all the wild boar meat for it?

Doesn't that make wild boar meat seem cheap?

They worked peacefully in the village, earning work points, but they used those work points to allow some unscrupulous people to take away the game that Zhou Qingwen had worked himself to the bone to hunt in the deep mountains.

Zhou Qingwen is young, but not stupid.

He wanted all the villagers in Zhouzhuang Production Brigade to have meat at least once.

However, human greed is insatiable!

According to reliable sources from the Zhou family, several people planned to exchange a lot of work points for wild boar meat, and then send it to the cooperative to resell!

Zhou Qingwen was also sitting at the stone table listening.

At this point, Zhou Qingwen said, "Then it's stipulated that each household can only receive two work points! And two ounces of meat!"

Zhou Shengkai looked at Zhou Qingwen approvingly and said, "Very good! Qingwen is a promising young man!"

Zhou Qingwen gave a slight smile: "It's Qingwen who has troubled the clan elder. I'll cut some meat and take it back with me. The clan elder should eat the meat and take care of his health."

"Oh, there's no need for this meat. It's my duty as a clan elder to worry about the Zhou family."

Zhou Feitian looked at it and said, "Qingwen said that meat should be given to the clan elders, so we should listen to Qingwen on this matter."

However, the rule that each household could only receive two ounces of meat was still to be done according to the clan head's wishes, with the Zhou family making the distribution collectively and the brigade leader keeping a record.

Zhou Shengkai nodded: "Then let's arrange it this way, that's fine."

Sure enough, a few troublemakers tried to exchange 100 work points for wild boar meat.

The captain gave them a lecture.

The head of the Zhou family also refused outright.

Those people were traveling with the two hunters.

In the end, they didn't even get a single work point to redeem.

Everyone in the village cursed them to death.

In the end, they couldn't fight against the whole village and had to leave in disgrace, without getting a single piece of meat.

The other villagers were overjoyed.

Although it only earns two work points, the cut meat, when taken home, helps the children grow taller.

Moreover, everyone received the same two work points, which made everyone feel comforted and happy.

Otherwise, if someone gets more, everyone will be envious, and the children won't be happy about it.

Now, the children are all excited and grinning from ear to ear when they hear they can have meat porridge for dinner.

Luo Qing, Ye Hai, and Chen Buhui, who wanted to exchange 100 work points for meat, left angrily and gathered together, saying, "What should we do?"