Chapter 16
This wild boar has a total of eight or nine hundred kilograms. Even according to Chen Xu's estimate, the weight of the later generations is nearly two hundred kilograms, which is definitely a big guy.
Moreover, according to the statements of several middle-aged villagers who went up the mountain to help carry wild boars, Chen Xu was quite grateful and scared at this time.
Wild boars live in family life. This is an adult boar, perhaps looking for food near the cave. Suddenly, a big python was about to steal the food from the small wild boar in the cave. Then he fought a life-and-death battle with the big wild boar, fighting from the cave to the bottom. The final result was to both die, and then Chen Xu picked up a big leak.
However, Chen Xu was lucky. When he went there, the sow might have been so scared that he had run away with the piglets, but in a hurry, two smallest ones were left behind. They were also caught from the cave by the villagers who went up the mountain. They were tied to Chen Xu's small yard.
But what should we do with the big wild boar and a big snake in front of us?
All the villagers looked at Chen Xu.
This era is no longer the primitive commune era. Private ownership has long replaced the common relationship. In other words, the big wild boar and the big snake are both Chen Xu's private spoils. However, according to the traditions of the village, the villagers can still get a part. After all, everyone has made efforts, and it took more than a dozen people more than an hour to pull two wild animals down the mountain.
"Uncle Ma, how should I assign it?" Chen Xu turned around and asked the oldest Uncle Ma in the village.
Chen Xu knew nothing about the customs and habits of the Qin Dynasty and did not have much desire to possess food.
He has already learned about the situation in the village these days, so he can only describe it in one word, that is poverty. If he had to use a few more words, it would be poverty and poverty.
Basically every household is similar, and there is no so-called furniture at all. Apart from the clay pots used for cooking, many of the bowls used for eating are stone bowls or just bamboo tubes, chopsticks are thin bamboo sticks or branches, and labor tools are mainly based on hands. Except for every household with one or two bronze hoes, there are not even complete knives and axes.
Chen Xu never expected that the Qin Dynasty people were so poor.
"The skin of the mountain pear must be peeled off intact. After the nitrate is made, you can sell it at a good price in the market town or even the county town. Basically, the family will not have to worry about eating and drinking a year." Uncle Ma thought for a while and said.
"Where is the big snake and the mountain pear?" Chen Xu nodded and asked.
"Snake meat is tender and difficult to capture. It is very rare to use it to the market town. If you take it to the market, you should be able to sell it for a lot of money. If you don't have oil and meat, you won't be able to distinguish it. The fat and fat of the mountain peas are added together. Each family is a pound of one and a half pound of men, a pound of women, a half pound of children, and a girl only divides the internal organs. If you think it is not enough, you can exchange wheat beans for one stone, and you can exchange five pounds of meat. You can wait until the wheat beans are harvested before you compensate Xiaoxu's family..."
Uncle Ma is still very prestigious in the village and is also the oldest man. Moreover, this distribution method seems to be a conventional habit, so after Uncle Ma finished speaking, no one expressed dissatisfaction or objection, but instead nodded.
"Xiaoxu, you have no objection to this assignment, right?" Uncle Ma looked at Chen Xu after he finished speaking.
Chen Xu secretly estimated and said, "Uncle has no problem assigning it, but I want to add it!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Chen Xu thought it was fine, everyone would be able to eat the fat that they had not had for a long time today. When they thought of the fragrant fat meat whirling in the jar, everyone's throats began to shiver, and the children began to swallow their mouthfuls.
Many children in this village have never eaten this big fat meat, and adults can't eat it once every few years.
Chen Xu looked around and said loudly: "But today, no matter whether adults or women, each person is one and a half pounds, and a child, no matter whether men or women, one pound, and other pig heads and internal organs are distributed separately. If you want more, you can exchange them according to the way you were just now..."
"Xiao Xu, this will break the rules!" Before Chen Xu finished speaking, Uncle Ma quickly reminded him in a low voice.
It’s not that Chen Xu was angry because he changed his distribution rules, but that after Chen Xu distributed this way, it would be difficult for other people in the village to get prey again.
The so-called rules are what everyone should abide by.
The rules that have been agreed upon as customs cannot be changed at will. Once it is broken once, it will be difficult to continue. Which rules will the villagers follow in the future?
Also, there is a difference between men and women, a difference between old and young, and labor abilities are also different. Unified distribution of quantity will also cause bad effects. People's hearts are separated from their belly, and everyone thinks differently. Many times, it seems kind but often leads to very bad results.
"Uncle, don't worry, I have something to do this time, and ask everyone for help!"
Chen Xu nodded and continued to shout, "These preys are actually not mine, but I found them. Today I will allocate more meat to everyone. I have something to ask everyone for help. The first is that my family is preparing to build a house. Everyone knows that I have cut down a few days and they are still falling on the hillside. I need someone to carry it back. In addition, building a house requires manpower. Even if the extra meat is paid for everyone, the second is that the remaining meat needs to be brought to the market town for sale, and people will also need help carrying it over. Of course, it will not make everyone work in vain. At that time, according to the sales situation, some meat or coins may be distributed..."
When Chen Xu spoke, the villagers whispered, of course they were more excited and joyful about Chen Xu's distribution.
According to the tradition of the village, Chen Xu's family wanted to build a house. Even if they didn't pay wages or meat, they would still help when they greeted him. Although it was a bit far and difficult to walk on the road, it only took one or two hours to go back and forth. It was not a big deal for rural people in this primitive state.
The meat belongs to Chen Xu. Since he wants to distribute it like this and the reasons are sufficient, no one will object again.
Next, under the command of Uncle Ma, several men and a group of half-aged men in the village began to sharpen their knives, and then set up a wooden frame by the river beach, hung up the wild boar, and then peeled it open.
Five or six men worked around for half an hour before peeling off the pig skin intact, and then arranged a few women to take it for pre-treatment. After scraping the fat on it, they had to rub it repeatedly with wood ash, and finally used bamboo poles to spread it open and dry it, but it took several days.
After the internal organs were dug out, they were thrown to a group of women to take them to the river to clean and sort them. The pig heads and legs were cut down and placed next to them. The oil, fat, lean meat, pork ribs, spine and other parts were also divided according to the conditions of different fat and thinness and placed in different baskets.
Chapter completed!