Chapter 65: Partnering for Big Things

“Okay, you provide the seasoning, I’ll provide the salt.” Yang Mumu took out a large bag of salt and placed it on the side. The two squatted by the stove, scooping hot water to wash the meat, and then applied salt and seasoning to the meat.

 Song Yan, Xia Zhizhi, He Yuan, and even Liu Qingwan came to help. Before long, they had finished preparing all the meat and marinated it in basins, waiting to hang it up after work in the afternoon. During the afternoon work period, when Yang Mumu patrolled to Gu Xingzhou’s side, she lowered her voice and said to him as she passed by, “I found out where Lu Qianyao provoked the wild boar den.

 There are still two pigs in that den. How about we team up and sneak over there after work this afternoon? I know someone in the black market who can sell the meat to. How about we split the money in half?” Yang Mumu also had the idea of taking a walk in the wild boar den, which could also be considered as eliminating harm for the team.

So much grain in the fields couldn’t be allowed to be ravaged by wild boars. She blinked her eyes and agreed, lowered her head, pretended to write and record in her notebook, and whispered back, “Okay, let’s go after work. Meet at the place where we hunted the wild boar today.”

 The two reached an agreement. Yang Mumu took the notebook and continued to walk forward, loudly praising the comrades in this area, “You are doing a great job. I’ll go get you some cold boiled water.

 Everyone take a sip, take a break, and then continue to work hard.” “Okay, thank you, Recorder Yang.” The working members responded happily, working even harder. After work, Yang Mumu finished her work, said hello to the captain and Uncle Qianjin, turned around and left, avoided the crowd and entered the mountain.

 On the way, she took out the back basket and firewood knife prepared in the space and carried them on her back before heading towards the agreed place. When she arrived, Gu Xingzhou was already waiting there.

 Seeing her come, he stood out from behind the tree. He also carried a back basket on his back, but he had a bow and a bucket of arrows hanging on his side. The arrowheads were actually made of fine iron, very sharp.

In this era, iron was the most precious. If the hunters in the mountains wanted to use bows and arrows, they basically used wooden arrowheads that they had sharpened themselves, and the style was very simple. “You can also shoot arrows?” Yang Mumu touched the bow and arrows he was carrying with some surprise.

 It was an old thing, a bit of patina, looking like it was often used by him. “Yes, I learned it from my grandfather when I was a child, and I still have some accuracy. I saw that there were many mountains in the commune where I was going to the countryside, and I thought I could use it, so I specially wrapped this thing in a quilt and carried it with me when I went to the countryside.”

 Gu Xingzhou smiled and patted the arrow on his side, and looked at the forest in front of him. “Look, it can be used today, let’s go, enter the mountain.” “Okay.” Yang Mumu looked inside with a firm expression, without saying much, taking advantage of the fact that it wasn’t completely dark yet, she would finish it as soon as possible and go back to rest.

 Gu Xingzhou led the way in front, reminding her of the road conditions while walking, and also picking up dry firewood.

Halfway there, Gu Xingzhou stopped in front and pulled Yang Mumu to his right to protect her, “Wait, there’s a snake!” Yang Mumu poked her head out and looked to the left, and happened to see a yellow snake with horizontal and vertical stripes and black spots hanging on a tree branch in front of her.

The snake’s body was as thick as three fingers.

“Oh, this rat snake is really fat.” Yang Mumu’s eyes shone with golden light, and she slurped her saliva, thinking of when she was in the orphanage when she was young and had nothing to eat and was so hungry, she caught a rat snake in the field to fill her stomach.

 At that time, she ate roasted snake segments, and she smeared a handful of salt on it, which made her so fragrant, it was her most profound memory. She missed that taste a bit. “It’s okay, I’m not afraid, it’s not poisonous.”

Yang Mumu waved her hand at him, her eyes shining brightly as she stared at the snake and moved forward, “I want to eat roasted snake a bit.” The snake felt the threat and ran away. “Okay, then let’s eat it, wait for me.”

 Gu Xingzhou smiled dotingly, took out the arrow from his side and shot it over, quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly, hitting the snake’s seven inches that was running away. The snake struggled a few times and stopped moving.

When shooting the arrow, he also deliberately adjusted the position, facing his best-looking forty-five-degree angle towards Yang Mumu’s direction.

Yang Mumu was indeed handsome, and was stunned, her mouth opened as big as a duck egg, and exclaimed: “Oh my god, you are too amazing, this is not a bit accurate, you are clearly too accurate, a trained person, you can shoot so accurately even when the snake is running, handsome!

” Yang Mumu looked at him, her eyes full of amazement. Who would have thought that a person who looked like a vase did things that had nothing to do with a vase, it was too unexpected for her, too cool, she liked people who looked good with such a contrasting personality.

 This made Yang Mumu suddenly curious about the friend in front of her, wondering what other skills he had that would amaze her in the future, she was a little expectant. Gu Xingzhou was happy in his heart when he heard this, and was even happier when he saw her reaction, and showed a happy smile. Very good, keep it up.

 He praised himself in his heart, ran over to pick up the snake, and shook it gently in front of Yang Mumu.

“Thank you for the praise, the others are not important, it’s good to be able to hit it, now we have snake segments to roast and eat, how about roasting it after we get the wild boar?” Gu Xingzhou asked for her opinion.

Yang Mumu looked at the sky and nodded, “Okay, let’s continue walking, let’s get the pig and then consider the others.” Gu Xingzhou put the snake in a cloth bag before putting it in his back basket, and the two continued walking.

 Yang Mumu saw a lot of herbs on the ground, and felt a little pity in her heart. It was too late now, so she could only find a chance to come and dig them later.

She took out her notebook and drew the location of the herbs in the notebook while walking, using the tree as a reference to draw the key points. Seeing this, Gu Xingzhou also silently helped her remember in his heart.

The two walked very quickly, and arrived in front of the wild boar cave in less than a while. There were a lot of wild boar feces nearby, and there was also a pile of fresh pig manure on the side of the cave entrance. It could be said that the air near the cave faintly had the smell of a pigsty, which drilled into the nose with breathing.

Yang Mumu looked at a small cave on the left and a large cave on the right in front of her. There were traces of wild boars living at the entrances of both caves, and occasionally she could hear humming sounds coming from inside.

 “We’re here, this is it. There is a very large sow in the big cave, which is a bit bigger than today’s boar, estimated to be more than 300 pounds, and there is a boar in the small cave, which is about 200 pounds. We should be able to exchange a lot of money for taking the two pigs out.” Gu Xingzhou pointed to the two caves and introduced them to Yang Mumu in a low voice.

 “Let’s smoke them out, let’s do it one by one, let’s get the big one first, and then get the small one after we’re done?” Yang Mumu said while cutting the raw cogon grass next to her. “I’ll listen to you, I’ll lure them to the entrance, you wait here, let’s try to seal their throats with one knife.

” Gu Xingzhou looked at the cave entrance in front of him, took out the dry firewood he brought, and then picked up the grass that Yang Mumu cut and mixed it together to tie the grass balls. He stopped after tying several dry and wet mixed grass balls. He walked towards the cave entrance holding the grass balls.

 “Be careful.” Yang Mumu whispered a word of advice, her eyes focused on the movement in front of her. After a few minutes, there was a big movement, and a group of black shadows rushed out of the cave

. Seeing this huge thing clearly, Yang Mumu’s eyes widened. God, it’s not a wild boar!