The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 126 Dissecting the Bear

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"Let's go, let's go to Yang Ming's house to eat bear meat..." Aunt Da Bao said, stepping forward to pull Zhang Xiaofei and rescue Liu Zhengfeng from the clutches of evil.

Liu Zhengfeng glanced at Aunt Dabao with unusual gratitude, but he didn't even have the courage to rub the sore spot.

"Aren't we still going to stew fish?" Zhang Xiaofei asked somewhat reluctantly.

"Our fish are alive; they can be kept alive for a couple of days to purge the mud. The bears are dead; they'll spoil in a couple of days. Besides, if we don't eat them, they won't save any for us. Those are wild bears; you definitely can't get them in the city," Aunt Da Bao said.

"Yes, we can't get any..." Liu Zhengfeng nodded repeatedly.

Forget wild bears, you can't even get to eat them, not even bears in zoos...

"Well, okay..." Zhang Xiaofei thought about it and realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"You all go quickly and help with some work. I'll broadcast a message over the loudspeaker..." Zheng Dabao said, walking out of his house and heading towards the brigade.

"Hmm...you guys hurry up and go..." Liu Zhengfeng waved to Aunt Dabao and Zhang Xiaofei with a smile on his face.

Aunt Da Bao took Zhang Xiaofei to Yang Ming's house, while Zheng Tong stayed at home with Liu Zhengfeng.

"Xiao Tong, you should go too... I'll go after I've cleaned up the rabbit..." Liu Zhengfeng said with a smile.

"Uncle, let me help you..." Zheng Tong said.

"No need, no need, you go quickly. That bear is huge, it takes a big pot to boil it, we need manpower..." Liu Zhengfeng pushed and shoved Zheng Tong out.

After sending Zheng Tong away, Liu Zhengfeng quickly closed the front door, rushed inside, and then shut the door tightly...

A piercing scream echoed through the room, its sound mournful and plaintive, yet carrying a hint of seductive allure, somewhat like the moaning of a female cat in heat…

Zhengjia Village was abuzz today. All the villagers who had joined the agritourism program rushed to Yang Ming's house. After all, eating bear meat is not a common occurrence. Who would want to mess with a big bear for no reason? Generally, if you encounter a bear, it's best to stay as far away as possible, as a raging bear is extremely dangerous.

However, some people are unhappy, especially those who did not join the agritourism program; they feel isolated.

"Honestly, this Aunt Liu is quite petty..." Yang Ming put his arm around Wei Qingqing and sat in the carport in the backyard, chuckling bitterly.

"There's nothing we can do, women are all petty. Although Aunt Liu is a village official now, she's only been a village official for a few days. She's been a woman for thirty years..." Wei Qingqing said.

"That's true..." Yang Ming nodded.

Originally, Yang Zhengfang and Yang Ming planned to invite everyone in the village, but Sister Liu volunteered to go to Zheng Dabao to make arrangements. As a result, she ended up inviting all the villagers who participated in the agritainment, which immediately limited the scope of the invitation.

"Hey! Yang Mingqing, are you two taking it easy? Hurry up and help, we're about to butcher the bear..." Aunt Liu said, peeking out from the back door.

"What help are you giving me? I'm exhausted..." Wei Qingqing complained. She and Yang Ming had come here because there were people in the house and the east room was tightly closed so as not to disturb Li Yuting.

"Hmph... You hosts are really unqualified. Everyone else is busy in front, you should at least come out and entertain them..." Aunt Liu said with dissatisfaction.

"Aren't there Zhang Yang and Fangfang already? Especially Fangfang, she used to be the sales manager of Longteng Real Estate Company, she's very good at dealing with people." Yang Ming had a lot of confidence in Sun Fangfang.

"You..." Aunt Liu glared at Yang Ming and shrank back.

"Dad's really something, always hiding from Foreman Huang, it's not a good thing..." Wei Qingqing sighed, thinking of Yang Zhengfang hiding in the backyard. "We're the ones who got ripped off so badly, how come we're the ones hiding from debt collectors now?"

"I feel like Foreman Huang is a piece of chewing gum; once you're stuck with him, he won't come off." Yang Ming was also speechless about Foreman Huang. You know, his age is about the same as his father's, so how could he do something like recognizing a godfather?

"Hehe, he was just following his father's orders, and he couldn't disobey his father's orders..." Wei Qingqing thought of Old Huang, that stubborn little old man.

"That's just the kind of person Grandpa Huang is, incredibly persistent in his work..." Yang Ming smiled wryly, "Only someone like that can become a master bird trainer..."

"Actually, it's not impossible to resolve this matter..." Wei Qingqing revealed a sly look.

"Oh?" Yang Ming's eyes lit up. "Tell me, how exactly do you plan to solve this? Just thinking about it gives me a headache..."

"Give Grandpa Huang some dragon eggs too, so he'll look younger. Then we'll see if he'll want to recognize our dad as his godfather..." Wei Qingqing whispered in Yang Ming's ear.

"I'm afraid this will make Grandpa Huang even more determined to have his son recognize our dad as his godfather," Yang Ming said.

"Why?" Wei Qingqing asked, puzzled.

"Why? Because only with this godparent relationship can he feel at ease..." Yang Ming said.

"Oh...that makes sense..." Wei Qingqing thought about it and realized that made sense.

"But what you said makes a lot of sense. This way, things will become more complicated, unlike the simple situation we have now, where Dad doesn't even have a chance to maneuver..." Yang Ming said.

"Want something complicated? Then bring Uncle Liu along too, and then, hehe..." Wei Qingqing smiled mischievously.

"Not bad..." Yang Ming's eyes lit up. "According to Grandpa Huang's theory, one should recognize a godfather to repay a debt of life-saving grace. If Grandpa Liu eats, then we also owe Grandpa Liu a debt of life-saving grace. Does that mean we should make Grandpa Liu recognize our dad as his godfather? If that's the case, then the two of them will be from different generations..."

"That's right...that's exactly the point..." Wei Qingqing quickly agreed, whispering to Yang Ming, "However, we gave the dragon egg to outsiders but not to our own relatives. Won't Mom and Dad have any objections?"

"We're protecting them. We're feeding our relatives dragon eggs, but we'll at least wait until the three dragon eggs in our space hatch into baby dragons..." Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing whispered to each other.

Two of the baby dragons hatched from those three dragon eggs have already been reserved. In the future, it won't be us attracting the world's attention anymore. If the breeding scale expands, it won't be a problem for the dragon eggs to become ordinary food or medicine on the dining table or in pharmacies.

At this stage, Yang Ming can only let people gradually know about the dragon egg within a small circle, but not to the point that it becomes known to the whole world. To be honest, even if someone really wanted to spread the word, it would be absolutely impossible, because there are many eyes watching everything here in the dark, protecting this place from being known to the outside world.

So the couple decided to give the dragon egg to Old Huang and Old Liu to eat.

"Grandpa Huang and Grandpa Liu should be in the mountains right now, we definitely can't find them. I'll go talk to Foreman Huang first and ask him to bring his mother and Grandpa Liu's wife over so everyone can get to know each other. Aren't we about to become godparents? We can't not meet the mothers of the people involved..." Yang Ming said, passing through the back door of the house and walking towards the front yard. He was going to the construction site to find Foreman Huang and ask him to bring his mother and Grandpa Liu's wife over.

"Okay, I'll go talk to my parents and ask them to cooperate a bit, so they don't mess up the show..." Wei Qingqing said, getting up and leaving the backyard, heading straight into the back garden.

"Da Han, why didn't you go to the Yang family's dinner party today?" Bao'er's grandma asked with a dark face as she strolled over to Zheng Da Han's house. Seeing Zheng Da Han sitting on the threshold of his own front door in a daze, she asked him.

"I'm not working for Brother Yang anymore, so what's the point of going back?" Zheng Dahan muttered.

Zheng Dahan had already been dismissed by Yang Ming. Actually, it wasn't that he was dismissed, but rather that Yang Ming told Zheng Dahan about Liu Sao's opinions of him, so Zheng Dahan resigned on his own.

"You idiot, they said all the villagers who joined the agritourism program. Didn't you join? What are you standing there for? You're a fool not to take advantage of a good deal..." Grandma Bao'er's face turned black with anger.

"I'm not going, it's too awkward... I don't want to face my sister-in-law. She gets angry when she sees me, and I can't make her angry. What if I get sick from getting angry? Especially at this time..." Zheng Dahan said in a muffled voice.

"You..." Grandma Bao'er was speechless and could only shake her head. "Then what are you planning to do? You've lost your job, how are you going to support your family?" Grandma Bao'er was still very concerned about this nephew.

"That's easy. I used to do what I do now, and I also run a farm stay business. I can focus on running a farm stay business." Zheng Dahan was quite optimistic.

"Didn't you work at that greenhouse owned by the man surnamed Yang for a while? If you ask me, why don't you build your own greenhouse? You'll have experience in managing it, and you'll definitely make money. Then you can demolish the old house and build a big brick house, and it'll be easier for you to get married in the future," Grandma Bao said.

"I don't plan to get married in my life..." Zheng Dahan said in a muffled voice.

"You..." Grandma Bao'er looked at her silly nephew's pathetic appearance and couldn't help but feel angry and resentful, thinking that this silly boy was beyond redemption.

"Auntie, I'll never get married again in this life. My brother passed away early, and you and sister-in-law had such a falling out. I'll take care of you in your old age..." Zheng Dahan said.

"No need, I don't need you to take care of me in my old age. You just need to take care of your own parents. We don't need you to worry about us..." Grandma Bao refused without even thinking.

"Heh..." Zheng Dahan gave a bitter smile, said nothing, and just lowered his head.

In Yang Ming's yard, a large crowd had gathered, all staring at the big bear lying on the door panel.

"I've finally solved it..." Old Zheng was a bit talkative today. It's true that he had only solved a bear once in his life, and that was twenty years ago. Now that he had the chance again, it would be a lie to say that he wasn't excited.

"Where did Yang Ming and Qingqing go? Why don't they come to check on us?" Aunt Pang muttered from the side.

"Don't bother looking for them. Yang Ming went to the construction site, and Qingqing went to the backyard. They're not interested in dissecting bears. We'll have to rip them off some bear meat. Remember, that bear paw is mine..." Zhang Yue also came over, her big eyes wide with curiosity.

However, not all girls are afraid of blood. Some girls are particularly interested in skinning or removing tendons from small animals.

Zheng Laonian, carrying a pig-slaughtering knife, plunged the tip of the blade into the bear's gaping throat. With a flick of his wrist, he disemboweled the bear. Zheng Laonian's skill was truly remarkable; not a drop of blood flowed from the knife, and the flesh beneath the skin remained completely undamaged, demonstrating the exquisite skill of his knife work.

Then, Zheng Laonian held a knife in one hand and pinched the flesh that had been cut open on the bear's belly with the other. With a quick slash at the junction of the skin and flesh, the bear skin separated from the bear's bone. Then, with a few more swift cuts, he peeled off the entire bear's skin.

The peeling process was quick and efficient.

Old Zheng tossed the bear skin aside, leaving it to be processed with alum by someone else. But Old Zheng began to work on the round, pinkish-white bear after it had been skinned.

Zheng Laonian first made a cut on the bear's neck veins, and blood gushed out immediately. Although the bear's capillaries were dry, its carotid arteries still contained a large amount of blood.

Fresh blood gushed out and flowed down the door panel into the large basin placed below. The flow of blood gradually slowed down, eventually filling the entire basin.

Once the blood has drained, someone will naturally carry the bear blood out for processing.

Old Zheng swung his knife and cut open the bear's belly. The heart, liver, intestines, and entrails immediately spilled out, looking extremely cruel. Old Zheng felt around in the intestines and entrails, then swung his knife to cut off a round, bluish-green sac of flesh, which was as big as two adult fists.

"Good heavens, this bear has a lot of guts, it almost burst. It must have been furious when it died..." Old Zheng exclaimed in surprise.

He spoke more today than he had in the previous week.

"Of course, this bear was shot twice, losing an eye. Of course it was furious..." Zhang Yang said, listening to Zheng Laonian's words.

"This bear bile, if you take it to a pharmacy, it'll cost several thousand or even tens of thousands..." Old Zheng exclaimed in surprise.

"Not only that, this bear was killed by a dog, so its death was rather unfortunate. That's why its gallbladder is exceptionally large, probably worth forty or fifty thousand..." Li Haishui's family also joined the agritourism project, but under his daughter-in-law's name, making them members of the Zheng family. Li Haishui, from the perspective of an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor, set a price for this huge bear gallbladder.

That said, the bear's death was indeed quite pathetic, especially since it was groped by a little puppy.

Old Zheng removed the bear's internal organs, intestines, and reproductive organs, and put them in another large basin, where someone else would clean them up.

Old Zheng cut off the bear's two front paws and threw them into a large basin that had been prepared nearby. Then he cut off the bear's two hind paws and threw them into the basin as well. Then, with lightning speed, he dismembered the entire bear, throwing pieces of fat into the basins. Once the basins were full, someone carried them away and put them into a large pot that had been boiling for a while to let them bleed a little. In this way, after the entire bear had been dismembered, it filled five large basins.

"These autumn bears are all plump and strong, they really produce a lot of meat..." Zheng Dabao watched from the side, feeling quite emotional. Killing one bear is equivalent to killing two pigs, and his words were full of envy.

"That's right, bears need to hibernate, how can they survive without fat?" Old Zheng was unusually talkative today, a stark contrast to his usual taciturn nature.

"Everyone, even though they said they'd treat us to meat, don't just bring your mouths! Anyone with some homemade wine, hurry up and bring a few jars..." Zheng Dabao shouted to everyone.

"Do you even need to tell me? We brought them a long time ago..." Aunt Fat said gleefully, pointing to a pile of jars placed at the base of the fence. "There are some from Iron Sister's family, some from Uncle Shuisheng's family, some from Wang Duo's family, and some from Dazhuang's family, Xiaofengzi's family, Laoshi's family, Baldy's family, and Pengzi's family. Enough to get you all drunk..."

"Why isn't yours on the list?" Zheng Dabao asked, glaring at him.

"Our family? Our husband doesn't drink alcohol, it's the same whether he drinks or not, we don't have that stuff at home..." Aunt Pang said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Anyway, whatever you say makes sense..." Zheng Dabao grinned, then turned to make arrangements elsewhere. He knew exactly what kind of person Aunt Pang was; she wasn't a bad person, but she loved to take advantage of others, and it wasn't worth arguing with her.

Aunt Pang stuck out her tongue at Zheng Dabao's back and made a funny face in a childlike manner before going off to get things done. She had a strong desire to command; if she weren't so uneducated and illiterate, she would have definitely competed with Sister Liu for the position of village chief.

"Hey, brothers, you guys are really amazing, you actually managed to kill a bear..." When Foreman Huang and Yang Ming arrived, the bear meat had already been put into the pot to cook. Only the people cleaning up the offal were still busy. The offal had to be cleaned up properly, because eating this stuff had to be hygienic.

When the villagers saw Yang Ming appear, they all greeted him cheerfully, and Yang Ming responded with a smile.

"It's nothing, it's all thanks to our brave little pup that we only fired two shots..." Yang Ming smiled modestly.

"Where's Dad? I can't find him." Foreman Huang looked around but couldn't find Yang Zhengfang anywhere.

"Uh... He also went up the mountain today, and he was a little tired, so he went to rest..." When Yang Ming heard Foreman Huang call him "our dad," he got goosebumps all over. His understanding of Foreman Huang deepened. This guy was quite thick-skinned and shameless.

"Oh! I see. I'm sure those two shots were fired by Dad..." Foreman Huang said with a serious expression.

"Uh! I fired a shot too..." Yang Ming nodded and corrected.

"How about I go check on Dad?" Foreman Huang said.

"No need, no need. He doesn't like being disturbed when he's sleeping, so I don't dare to go near him..." Yang Ming said.

"Oh! Never mind then. Let's sit down and talk properly when my mom comes..." Foreman Huang was actually very enthusiastic about recognizing Yang Zhengfang as his godfather. First, it was his father's strong request, and he couldn't disobey his father's orders. Second, recognizing a capable person as a godfather was definitely a good thing. Just because they had the medicine to reverse aging, let alone recognizing a godfather, he would even recognize an ancestor if his father agreed.

"Hehe, let's talk when Auntie arrives. Let's go inside now! We can discuss anything inside..." Yang Ming said with a smile.

"Sure..." Foreman Huang readily agreed.

So the two of them walked into the house.

The two did not go into the east room, but went to the west room. At this time, a group of people were already sitting in the west room, all of them children. Xiao Bao'er was like a little hostess, handing out fruit to the children. The children fawned over her, after all, she held the power over the fruit.

"Bao'er, go out and play with your friends. If anyone wants fruit, come back in and get it for them..." Yang Ming said.

"Oh..." Xiao Bao'er quickly greeted them, waving to the other children, "Let's go... let's go out and play..."

A group of children followed Xiao Bao'er and ran out.

"Brother Huang, let's sit down..." Yang Ming straightened the kang sheet that the children had messed up and greeted Foreman Huang.

"Look at you, why are you calling me Brother Huang? It's so formal. Just call me Brother, that'll be more intimate..." Foreman Huang complained, sat down on the kang (a heated brick bed), and without any politeness, took a big apple from the fruit basket, wiped it on his clothes, and then took a big bite. To be honest, the apple was quite mealy, but it was surprisingly crunchy when you bit into it.

"..." Yang Ming didn't say anything, but felt a chill in his heart.

"Brother, I'll introduce you to your sister-in-law in a bit..." Foreman Huang climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed) and sat cross-legged at the head of it. "Actually, your sister-in-law has been here for several days now. She wanted to thank our dad, but he gave her a dark look, so she didn't dare show her face. You know, the relationship between parents-in-law and daughter-in-law is usually not very harmonious."

"Hmm, I understand..." Yang Ming nodded repeatedly.

Generally speaking, in the last century, the relationship between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law was quite tense. This was due to the limitations of the era. Mothers-in-law who had been mistreated by their daughters-in-law often sought to make amends by targeting their daughters-in-law. At that time, women had a lower status, and there were many daughters. However, in the 21st century, people's minds have become more open, and the one-child policy has led to a significant decrease in the number of girls, resulting in an imbalance in the male-to-female ratio. Girls are now considered more precious, and they are often pampered princesses at home. It's already a good thing if they aren't unruly, let alone afraid of their mothers-in-law. That's absolutely impossible... As a result, the relationship between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law is more harmonious, and at least, large-scale conflicts are unlikely to occur.

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