Chapter 68: Call It a Day

Yang Mumu looked at the wolves surrounding her, five gray wolves, all with green eyes, growling at them. “We have to make a haul.

” With one hand, she took out the rolling pin she had drawn from the turntable from her basket, and with the other, she held a firewood knife. Gu Xingzhou held a bow and arrow, and the two stood back to back. He nocked an arrow and said in a low voice, “Action.” “Okay.” Before the wolves could surround them, the two made their move.

Gu Xingzhou fired two arrows at once, each hitting its mark. Yang Mumu moved both hands together, the rolling pin extended, one rolling pin for each, and a knife to cut each throat. The five wolves were not enough for the two of them to fight, and all fell to the ground.

Yang Mumu took out a handkerchief to wipe her tools, and then helped Gu Xingzhou pick up his arrows. After the tools were taken care of and the scene was cleaned up, she tied the five wolves into a string, and the scene of this great harvest was delightful.

“Let’s call it a day.” Gu Xingzhou carried his basket and bow and arrow on his back, and discussed with Yang Mumu how to sell the prey on the ground.

“My plan is for us to go through the mountains and transport the goods to the mountain near the brigade. I found a hidden cave there. Let’s put the meat in it first. I’ll take some things to the town first and bring people over directly, so they can transport it themselves.

In the meantime, you can go back to the educated youth center to rest. If anyone asks, at least you can cover for me. What do you think?” “Okay, let’s do that.” Yang Mumu agreed, and the two began to act. Gu Xingzhou went to push out the flatbed cart he had hidden nearby in advance, and put the cattle and wolves on the cart.

 As for the other two pigs, Yang Mumu used branches and vines to weave something like a big mop, wide at the bottom, with sacks and weeds tied under the branches and vines, and the handles tied together on top.

All the two pigs were tied to the vine mat, and people could easily take them away by dragging the front handle. Gu Xingzhou and Yang Mumu were both very strong, and it was easier to move with the help of tools.

Gu Xingzhou pushed the cart, Yang Mumu dragged the pigs, and they took turns carrying them, both very relaxed. Before long, they arrived at the secret cave that Gu Xingzhou had mentioned. Yang Mumu found that Gu Xingzhou’s bicycle was also placed here, and she looked at Gu Xingzhou with even more admiration.

“I didn’t expect you to be so considerate, you have everything prepared.” “I put it here when you registered your work points.

 I thought there would be a harvest, so I put the car here first.” As Gu Xingzhou spoke, he took out two sacks and put all five wolves into the sacks, and then tied them to the bicycle. Yang Mumu saw that he took out a bag of black pot soot from his bag again, smeared it on his face, and his whole face became dark, revealing a mouthful of white teeth to speak to her, very much like the Black Man toothpaste advertisement.

 This outfit is quite interesting. He pushed the bicycle out of the cave and said to Yang Mumu, “I’ll take this batch of wolves over first, and put the other things here first. You go back first and wait for my good news.”

“Okay, go ahead, be careful.” Yang Mumu waved her hand and watched his back disappear. After he disappeared, she put the things in the cave into the space first. Although the cave was hidden, it was better to be safe than sorry.

 After packing her things, Yang Mumu tidied herself up and went back to the educated youth center to see what was going on.

 The yard was also very quiet. The old educated youths were busy washing, mending clothes, and preparing to go to work tomorrow. The new educated youths were so tired on their first day of work that they were lying on the bed rubbing their legs and hands to relax. Only one or two were wandering outside.

Yang Mumu was not worried about anyone suspecting her at all. There was a cover before. Gu Xingzhou’s excuse was to go to town to buy things, and Yang Mumu’s excuse was that there was too much wild boar meat and not enough firewood to smoke, so she went into the mountains to pick up firewood.

She walked in generously. The firewood on her back was not a small amount. The firewood was too high above the basket, and it was all thick dry branches and other good firewood. When the people in the yard saw Yang Mumu carrying a full load of firewood back, they all praised her for being so capable, and asked her where she had picked up so much good firewood.

 This firewood would be useful for the winter, and it could also be used to bake fire in the winter after burning. Yang Mumu perfunctorily brushed it off, and when asked where, she said “Guess”. The others smiled and made up their own minds.

 Lu Qianyao came out of the bathroom and saw Yang Mumu, covering his neck to avoid her. Yang Mumu looked at him and smiled, “It’s good to remember, you have to remember in the future, don’t mess with me, I won’t show mercy.” Lu Qianyao ran back to the house with his clothes and basin in a hurry.

Song Yan, who was washing clothes, said to Yang Mumu, “Sister, the food from noon is warming in the pot for you, remember to eat it, and Brother Zhou’s food is also warming together, don’t put out the fire, keep warming it.” “Okay.” Yang Mumu put all the firewood on her back in the place where she stored firewood.

After coming back, she simply put the pot on the stove to boil water, and boiled more by the way, and boiled Gu Xingzhou’s share together. Taking advantage of this time, Yang Mumu took out her own lunch box from the pot and ate.

After washing up briefly outside, she went into the house and closed the door, lit a kerosene lamp in the house, and turned off the light after a while. In the eyes of others, she was already asleep. In fact, she was ready for everything, counting the time when Gu Xingzhou was about to come back.

 At this time, the educated youth center outside was almost quiet, no one was wandering outside, and several houses had turned off the lights and went to sleep. She entered the space, manipulated the space to move out through the crack in the door, and left the educated youth center.

 When she arrived at the cave, she put all the things out and squatted inside for a while. Gu Xingzhou rode back on his bicycle.

 Seeing that she hadn’t left, he felt a little distressed. “Why don’t you go back? It’s so dark here alone.” “I went back once, but I’m worried about you. How is it going on your side? Have the people arrived?”

Yang Mumu looked at him and asked, “They’re here, over there. Don’t worry, they’re reliable. I used to go to my dad’s unit for training, and he’s a friend I met in the army a long time ago.” It was hard to tell that Gu Xingzhou was a military kid. No wonder his combat power was so high and his strength was so amazing.

 It turned out that it was because he had been trained since he was a child. However, even though Gu Xingzhou said he was reliable, he took out the soot from the bottom of the pot and handed it to Yang Mumu.

 “There are a lot of people and a lot of talk, so it’s best to put some on.” “Okay.” Yang Mumu grabbed a handful of soot from the bottom of the pot and smeared it randomly on her face. Only after she smeared it evenly on her face so that people couldn’t recognize her did Gu Xingzhou nod with relief.

“Smear it evenly, let’s move the things over.” Five people came over, led by a burly man with a lot of muscles, named Liu Feng, known as Brother Feng. This was a friend Gu Xingzhou had known before.

 After Gu Xingzhou threw the things on the ground, the people on the other side took over. Weighing and calculating the money, they got busy. No one asked a question or said a word, just doing their own thing.

The big wild boar weighed 330 pounds, the small one weighed 250 pounds, and the wild bull was indeed close to a thousand pounds, weighing 958 pounds. Gu Xingzhou and Yang Mumu discussed the price with Liu Feng on the side.

The prices on the black market were much higher. In the supply and marketing cooperative, pork required meat coupons, and the price of meat in different locations was different, ranging from 40 cents to 70 cents per pound, and beef sold for 75 cents or more.

 On the black market, pork without meat coupons sold for 1.30 to 1.78 yuan, and beef sold for more than 2.10 yuan per pound.

Considering these prices, as well as the factors of the pigs and cattle not having their internal organs removed or their hair removed, the two sides finally agreed that the price of a whole pig without hair removal would be 90 cents per pound. The whole wild bull, also without bones or hair removal, would be purchased at 1.40 yuan per pound.