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Chapter 17 Unlucky

The river beach is very lively, and the whole village is surrounded by people, just like watching pigs slaughtering during the New Year in the countryside. The noisy voices of speech resound throughout the mountain village.

Almost an hour later, the wild boars were slaughtered and packed in baskets and placed them neatly on the river beach. The noisy villagers no longer made noises and slowly surrounded them, staring at the wild boar meat in the baskets and were very excited.

"Okay, now we start to divide the meat. Xiaoxu has already said that the amount of meat will not be too much or too little. You can choose which kind of meat you need, don't squeeze it. Every household has a portion..."

After Uncle Ma finished speaking, someone stood up from house to house, and several men began to divide the meat according to the population and requirements of each family.

Chen Xu stood by and watched, and soon he found that almost everyone had chosen the fattest meat and lard, and no one wanted the lean pork leg pork ribs, and the meat splitters were also fair. While cutting the fat meat, they would more or less match some lean meat, so that the people in front would not divide all the fat meat!

There are only seventeen families in the whole village, and the total population of men, women, young and old is less than 80 people. On average, one pound per person is only 70 to 80 kilograms of meat, and this pound is only half a pound of the future market. The net weight of meat after the whole wild boar is peeled, internal organs, and head and feet is at least 150 kilograms, and less than a quarter of the distribution is distributed.

Soon every household received a few pieces of meat, big and small, and carried them in their hands with straw ropes, and adults and children were smiling happily.

However, Chen Xu felt that there seemed to be too few differences.

The main reason is that the people in the entire village look like ragged clothes like beggars, but none of them look clean and tidy.

Everyone is thin and has a dirty face, and men are a little better, especially women and children, all of which are malnourished.

But after thinking about it, Chen Xu gave up the idea of ​​each family having a few more kilograms of meat.

Poverty will not be changed just because he has a few more kilograms of meat. If he wants to change this kind of poverty, he must find a way elsewhere.

Next, you have to go to the town to sell meat. Maybe you can see if there is any way to get rich. Since ancient times, doing business has been the fastest way to get rich!

After the meat was divided, the people on the river beach began to disperse and go home one after another.

Some families with stronger labor capacity changed more than three or five kilograms of meat, but the remaining one was more than one hundred kilograms. As for pig internal organs, each household would be more or less divided after cleaning them. Chen Xu specifically told him to leave a few kilograms of large intestines for himself, and then he would carry the pork and lift the snake and go home first.

Xing'er, who came back with her, jumped and shouted excitedly, yelling to leave the fattest meat. When the meat was being divided on the river beach, several men also intentionally or unintentionally left a few large pieces of the fattest meat for Chen Xu.

Chen Jiangshi watched her son pick out large pieces of fat meat and put it in the vine basket, and was both excited and scared, and kept wiping her tears secretly.

She and Xing'er weed the wheat fields on the river beach. As a result, Niu Dashi came over and told her that Chen Xu killed a big wild boar worth thousands of pounds and a big snake worth seven or eight feet long by one on the mountain. Chen Jiang was not happy at the time, but he almost fainted when he saw him black!

When he hurriedly left his daughter and ran to the foot of the mountain, the gathering people added fuel to the fire to describe the situation he saw on the mountain. As soon as a few and a half-year-old boys came down from the mountain, the wild boar had turned into tens of thousands of pounds in their mouths, and the big snake had also turned into more than ten feet.

She waited at the foot of the mountain for half an hour in a panic. When she saw the wild boar and the big snake carrying down the mountain and the safe and sound Chen Xu, Chen Jiang's heart was relieved. She fell on the ground like exhaustion and was helped and sent back home. She didn't even look at the lively pig slaughtering and pork splitting on the river beach. She was afraid that her son would accidentally have an accident, and the family would be completely ruined.

"Mom, let's stay at home. You can boil the fat into oil and store it. I will bring some salt from the market town and eat it slowly."

After Chen Xu finished speaking, he took out the big pig's head and stuffed it into Niu Dashi's arms who had been excited and excited as if he had eaten chicken shit. "Dashi, I'll give this pig's head to you!"

"What? Really... Really?" Niu Dashi almost fainted by this sudden happiness. He could hardly say anything with his arms around Zhutou.

Chen Xu nodded and expressed his affirmation. Niu Dashi rolled his eyes and leaned against the apricot tree and gasped.

A pig's head is at least dozens of kilograms. Even if it is not worth it, it can sell two or three stones of grain in the market town. It is definitely a fortune for poor families. Moreover, it can be eaten with meat dishes that can be eaten for half a year after pickling them.

"Xu...Brother Xu, why are you so kind to me?"

"Why are we polite? Be kind to my sister in the future!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

The wild boar is extremely stupid, and the pig head is not delicious and difficult to make. Chen Xu thinks that people who cook a whole frog are just right in terms of IQ.

"Don't worry, I will treat Xing'er well. The first year I married me will definitely make you an uncle!" Niu Dashi nodded excitedly.

Chen Xu glanced at the knife placed in the meat basket, sighed in his heart and held back.

It is very tiring to talk to such people who have too small brain capacity. It is unlucky to be widowed before getting married.

The town is almost twenty miles away from the village.

(Note: One foot is about 23 cm in later generations during the Qin and Han dynasties, six feet is one step, and three hundred steps is one mile. One mile is counted as 415 meters, while one mile in later generations is 500 meters, so the difference between the two is not large.)

A group of people were carrying wild boar meat and carrying big snakes, walking swaying on the winding mountain path.

It was almost noon now. The sun was shining, the sky was high and the earth was vast, the trees were lush, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, and the world was peaceful and harmonious. If it were placed in later generations, it would definitely be a wonderful time to go out for a jungle.

But for Chen Xu and his group of people, they had to speed up to reach the market town.

The temperature is already very high on this day, and fresh meat is not durable and will deteriorate over time.

Also, the smell of these fresh meat may attract jackals, tigers and leopards. In this era, the huge Chinese land had only a population of 10 to 20 million, and most of them were concentrated in big cities and plains. The mountainous areas were small and scattered, and various wild beasts were rampant, and large wild beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards were everywhere, and one or two people dared not go far.
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