"Lin Feng, you're truly amazing!"
"How did you do it? That's incredible!"
The villagers surrounded Lin Feng, expressing their joy. Lin Feng heard them and smiled calmly.
"Thanks to the traps in the back mountain!" Lin Feng nodded with a smile at everyone and brought Fu Wenwen to the village chief's side.
The village chief glanced at the two of them, waved his hand, and the villagers immediately quieted down, waiting for the chief to speak.
"Everyone knows that this wild boar was caught by Lin Feng and educated youth Fu in the back mountain. The process was very dangerous, so I hope you won't think you can defeat a wild boar yourself and go up the mountain privately! You are not like Lin Feng, so don't do anything foolish!" The village chief first warned everyone.
"Village chief, we would never dare! Please don't worry!" Zhang Cuihua shouted, and the crowd laughed and chimed in. "That's right, that's right, we definitely won't go!"
"Just keep that in mind!" the village chief nodded. "Lin Feng has brought such a large wild boar to the village. Now, I want to ask for everyone's opinion: do you want to divide the meat or sell it and divide the money?"
"Divide the meat! Such a large wild boar can yield a lot of meat!"
"Wild boar meat has a gamey smell, it's better to sell it and get money!"
"Let's divide the meat! Dividing the meat is better!"
"Let's divide the meat..."
The majority of the villagers agreed to divide the meat. This wild boar, weighing over 400 jin, would give everyone a good portion! How much would they get if they sold it? It's better to have meat to eat!
No matter how tough wild boar meat is, it's still meat!
"Divide the money! Divide the money!" A voice in the crowd stood out, and everyone looked towards Lin Dawei. They instantly rolled their eyes and turned away, ignoring him.
It wasn't surprising at all that Lin Dawei would be shouting for money.
"Since everyone unanimously wants to divide the meat, let's call the butcher to divide it!" The village chief also ignored Lin Dawei, as if he couldn't hear his shouts. He asked Zhu Di to invite the butcher.
"Divide the money! Divide the money!" Lin Dawei cried out in despair. No matter how loud he shouted, no one paid attention to him. In a fit of anger, he said.
"Lin Dawei, forget it! Don't you know about the majority ruling? Everyone wants meat, and you want money! I'll give you two jin of pig intestines later, and you can sell them yourself!" the village chief said calmly, glancing indifferently at Lin Dawei.
"Why should I get pig intestines! I want that good meat from the belly!" Lin Dawei said angrily.
"It's because I'm the one who brought this meat. It's good enough that you get a little. If you're not satisfied, you can refuse it!" Lin Feng stood beside the village chief and said to Lin Dawei without politeness.
"You ungrateful wretch, I shouldn't have taken you in back then!" Lin Dawei gritted his teeth and cursed, pointing at Lin Feng.
The villagers gave Lin Dawei a cold look. "Since you dislike it so much, then get lost!"
Several men immediately stepped forward and dragged Lin Dawei out. Everyone had tolerated him for too long. "A beast like you who sells his daughter doesn't deserve to eat the wild boar meat Lin Feng brought!"
Lin Dawei was thrown aside by a few people, and the villagers immediately applauded. "Well done, that's how it should be done!"
"You..." Lin Dawei got up, wanting to say something more, but a few men glared at him menacingly. Lin Dawei didn't dare to curse anymore and resentfully retracted his finger.
Everyone simply ignored him. Soon, the butcher was invited over, along with a cart. Seeing the bloodstains all over the butcher's cart and the strong smell of blood, the crowd couldn't help but step back.
The butcher, with a beaming smile, was astonished when he saw the over 400 jin wild boar.
"Good heavens, what a specimen, this must be over 400 jin!" The butcher's eyes gleamed.
Because the wild boar was too large, the butcher directly took out a large knife to bleed it. However, there wasn't much blood left. With the last breath, the butcher swiftly dispatched it with a single blow.
Fu Wenwen watched as the butcher skillfully scraped off the thick, needle-like bristles. Then, he brought over hot embers to burn off the remaining tough hairs that couldn't be scraped. Finally, he opened the carcass. The entire process was executed with fluid precision.
If it weren't for the extreme bloodiness, just watching the technique was quite de-stressing.
Fu Wenwen watched as he divided the wild boar into large pieces, then looked at the village chief. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
The village chief immediately asked the butcher to cut out ten jin of the best meat and, in front of everyone, handed it to Lin Feng. "Take this. This is your accomplishment, and you deserve to get the first share!"
"Then I shall accept it!" Lin Feng smiled slightly and held up the wild boar meat to everyone.
After Lin Feng took his ten jin, the village chief took out the work-point record compiled by Fu Wenwen. "First, we'll distribute it to the strong laborers in the village based on work points. I'll call out names, and then you come up!"
As soon as they heard it was based on work points, everyone had no objections.
Knowing that the village chief was always fair, everyone patiently waited for their names to be called. When their names were called, they smiled and ran up.
Fu Wenwen looked at Lin Feng, and he asked with his eyes what was wrong.
"The village chief is truly remarkable!" Fu Wenwen said with a smile.
Lin Feng looked at the village chief calling out names and smiled slightly. "In my memory, neighboring villages have had riots due to disputes over how much of the resources they received. But in our village, such things rarely happen. The village chief always manages to gain everyone's respect."
"Every household has laborers. The elderly and children don't eat much. If it were distributed by head count, some people would surely be unhappy. But distributing by work points, no one feels it's unfair. Every time the village chief asks for something, no one refuses," Lin Feng said with a smile.
"Who wouldn't love a village chief who manages so well and is fair and just?" Fu Wenwen looked at the village chief. "Having such a village chief is a blessing for everyone."
"If there's anyone in this village I care about, it's the village chief alone," Lin Feng said slowly. "Without him, I might not have survived."
"The village chief is also your benefactor," Fu Wenwen looked at Lin Feng, and he nodded.
After everyone had received their satisfactory portions of wild boar meat, Fu Wenwen's eyes lit up as she saw the pig trotters that no one wanted. "No one wants these?"
"Usually, no one wants them! Do you want them?" The village chief nodded. Everyone had meat, and for the leftovers, whoever wanted them could take them.
"I want them!" Fu Wenwen grinned. "Give me all the offal too!"
The butcher was stunned and looked at the village chief. The village chief nodded, and everything was given to Fu Wenwen.
On the way home, Lin Feng looked at Fu Wenwen's happy expression, a little confused.
Wasn't the ten jin of pork he had more delicious than pig trotters?
"Isn't this meat good?" Lin Feng scratched his head and asked in confusion.
"Why wouldn't the meat be good? Didn't you get the best pork belly?" Fu Wenwen looked at Lin Feng in surprise. Lin Feng pointed to the offal and pig trotters in her hands.
"Oh! These are good things too! Go borrow some soybeans from Aunt Tian next door!" Fu Wenwen said with a smile, instructing Lin Feng.