Farming and reading family

It's different now than before.

In the past, every household in the village would contribute strong labor to hunt wild boars, and then the meat would be divided according to the number of people who contributed. Although each person got about the same amount, those who contributed more labor got more fat.

Now the trap was dug by the Chen family, and they can give them whatever they are willing to give them.

Moreover, after eating from the same pot for so long, the villagers are not as picky as before.

Gao E didn't expect to catch four wild boars at once, which was enough for them to eat for a while.

"Uncle Zheng, how do you think we should divide this pig?" Gao E asked Zheng Fengan first.

"This is a trap set by your Chen family. You can't say anything if you don't distinguish between people." Zheng Fengan said directly.

Everyone around laughed.

Although it makes me drool a bit, but think about it, this is the truth.

"I told you it's a village collective, so no one company can monopolize it." Gao E shook her head. "But now it's getting hot, and it's hard to store it if we divide it up. Why not just make it into smoked meat like before and let everyone enjoy it together slowly?"

"Okay!" The people around immediately agreed.

Everyone thinks that the Chen family is righteous. No one knows what those who were unwilling to join the village collective and left in the middle were thinking, but none of them had a good ending.

The Chen family had no objection to Gao E's decision. The trap was originally Gao E's credit.

This time, with Peng Can around, Lei didn't have to do it himself. Peng Can roasted the pig with hay, removed the hair, and gutted it, all done smoothly.

Just like before, Gao E processed the pig offal first.

Four sets of pig offal were boiled in a large pot, and the fragrance could be smelled throughout the whole village. In the evening, everyone in the village was given a portion of braised meat, and they ate it with great joy.

Gao E watched her family members pickling meat and setting up a shed to smoke the meat, and thought to herself that she had to find a way to buy salt.

If Luo Dagang hadn't brought that bag of salt, the salt in the house would have been used up long ago, especially after the spring, Gao E used more salt at each meal.

But it is not known whether the epidemic in He County is over. Even if it is over, Gao E, who used to buy cheap salt, finds it difficult to accept the high price of salt.

At the end, I started to wonder when Chen Ke would come back.

Because of these four wild boars, the food in Batou Village has greatly improved, which has led the villagers to dig several traps in places where wild boars are more common around the village, hoping to catch more of them.

That night, Gao E heard a noisy noise in the yard and heard people in the yard shouting that there was a monkey.

Gao E shouted through the window, "Don't worry about the monkeys, come inside."

No matter how much trouble monkeys make, they will only destroy some things. If people are scratched or bitten, it will be a big problem.

If you get infected with something, you may lose your life these days.

Chen Qing and the others, who were originally going to drive the monkey away, had to retreat back into the house after hearing Gao E say this, and listened to the monkey making all kinds of noises in the yard.

It was almost half an hour before the noise in the yard disappeared.

"No need to go out and look, let's wait until dawn." Gao E heard someone opening the door.

So the Chen family waited until dawn and came out of the cave. They saw that the yard was in a mess. The shed they had built for smoking meat was almost torn down, and the grass in the stable was scattered everywhere. The horse was frightened and kicked a pillar to break it, but fortunately the horse did not run away.

Fortunately, there was no food in the yard, otherwise it would have been wasted.

"Are those monkeys crazy?" Lei looked at the messy yard.

"Sister-in-law, go out and see if there were any monkeys in other places in the village last night." Gao E stared at the pond on the side.

Yang nodded.

The people at home began to clean the yard silently.

Gao E sat on a bamboo chair at the entrance of the cave and stared at the pond in the yard. When they first came here, monkeys also came to their house, but they came less frequently and then there were no more.

How come it suddenly comes again at the beginning of spring?

After a while, Yang came back and said, "The villagers said they didn't see any monkeys last night."

"That's because the monkeys ate fish here last year, and now they come out of the mountains again in spring." Gao E felt that this was the only possibility.

"What should we do then?" Yang knew about this.

Gao E was also a little distressed. Monkeys have high IQs, and people would have to avoid them once they appeared in groups.

"They didn't come last year because there were no fish. They came last night but there was no fish, so they shouldn't come again." Gao E could only think positively.

This is all the Chen family can do.

Monkeys are not like wild boars, which can be kept out by building a wall.

Moreover, monkeys hold grudges. If you don't scare them away once, they will take revenge.

Gao E didn't know how big the monkey group in the mountain was, so she didn't want to act rashly.

Zheng Fengan came in the morning and said that it is like this in spring, when many wild animals come down the mountain. When he was a child, when there were few people in Baotou Village, bears would also come down to the village.

Gao E didn't know whether this was to comfort her or to make her more alert.

Fortunately, no monkeys came in the next two days. Just when they thought the monkeys would not come, the monkeys kidnapped a child under two years old from the village and ran into the mountains.

Even if the monkey was discovered in time and people chased after it, the child would still be thrown to the ground by the monkey and could not be saved.

This made everyone in the entire Baotou Village angry. Monkeys had come to the village in the past, but they were not so arrogant.

"Maybe all the houses in the village were washed away, so those beasts felt there was no danger." Zheng Yicheng said angrily.

The woman whose child was snatched away cried heart-wrenchingly. It was a boy she had given birth to with great difficulty.

"What should we do then?" Guo Gaoying was angry.

Zheng Yicheng took a deep breath and didn't say what he was thinking.

I heard that when there is a famine, the villagers will unite to burn the mountains and catch monkeys. If the mountains are burned, the animals will have nowhere to hide.

But the mountains behind Baotou Village are too big, and there is no famine now, so no one would do such a thing as draining the pond to catch fish.

"Does the scholar's wife have any solution?" Tian said cautiously.

Everyone thought it was feasible, so they asked Zheng Yicheng to go and ask.

Gao E had heard that a child in the village was killed by a monkey and was thinking about this problem. Zheng Yicheng's arrival was a good opportunity for them to discuss it.

"Then set more traps," Gao E suggested. "But if we don't catch too many monkeys at first, they might go on a rampage and retaliate."

"Are we really afraid of a few beasts?" Zheng Yicheng said angrily. "If those beasts really dare to retaliate, we will kill them all."

Gao E is somewhat conflicted about animal protection, but Zheng Yicheng has no awareness of animal protection at all. For him, as long as the animal is not a human, it's fine.

Gao E nodded: "Then let's all think about it and make more traps and put some bait."

"Okay." Zheng Yicheng agreed immediately.

"And make more cage traps out of bamboo."

After discussing these, Zheng Yi organized the villagers to start working to catch these beasts as soon as possible.

Just when the people of Baotou Village were thinking about how to deal with the monkeys, Chen Ke and his men came back.

The three men came back after dark and greeted the villagers when they arrived at the cave. The villagers only knew that Chen Ke had gone to visit a famous teacher and nothing else.