Chapter 1057: Using a dog as a donkey

From Wang Li's words, one could tell that this child, Wang Li, was still too honest. He had been hanging around Wang An every day, yet he hadn't learned the essence of doing things from Wang An.

So, after Wang Li finished speaking, Wang An rolled his eyes at him and said:

"Whatever she says goes? In that kind of situation, who knows if she saw it wrong? Besides, it doesn't matter if it's not the same one. This big boar is huge, it has a bullet hole on its forehead, and these two big fangs—they're almost as big as an invasion knife. This big boar is definitely much more vicious than the one they saw."

Wang Li blinked his eyes and said, feeling a bit embarrassed:

"But what if another group runs into that big boar and ends up killing it? What then?"

Wang An waved his hand upon hearing this, looking completely indifferent as he said:

"That's none of our business. There are so many wild boars in these mountains, you can't kill them all. Isn't it normal for someone to kill a big boar? Can they swear that the boar they killed is the one that gored Li Tie?"

Wang Li opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something else, but Wang An continued:

"Just do as I say and get its head off quickly. You don't need to worry about anything else."

Wang Li nodded, stopped arguing, and turned to walk toward the horses.

In truth, Wang An knew why Wang Li kept making excuses; it was simply because the boar's armor was too thick. When Wang Li had gutted the boar earlier, it had been a real struggle.

And now, to make matters worse, Wang An was asking him to take the pig's head off.

One had to know that the armor on a pig's neck was even thicker than that on its belly, so one could imagine how much effort it would take for Wang Li to get the head off.

However, since Wang An didn't want to do the work, Wang Li had no choice.

This was a classic case of "the big lazy one ordering the small lazy one, and the small lazy one just staring in frustration."

Wang An looked at Wang Li's back and smiled, then focused his attention on cutting meat from the boar.

When Wang Li returned, he was carrying a large broadaxe, marching toward the boar with a menacing air.

Wang An stopped after cutting off a portion of the meat, because he and Wang Li had only ridden one horse each into the mountains this time. If they cut too much meat, the horses wouldn't be able to carry much more while also carrying the riders.

But if Wang An had to lead the horses back the whole way, he felt a bit lazy.

Yet, as Wang An sat there looking at the remaining meat, he felt it was truly a pity to leave it on the mountain.

The main thing was that the many dogs at home needed a significant amount of food every day. Although Wang An's family had money and grain, they couldn't afford to keep up with such consumption every day.

After a moment of thought, Wang An turned his gaze toward Da Hei and the other dogs.

Since the meat was going to be used to feed the dogs anyway, shouldn't they contribute some effort?

Thinking of this, Wang An suddenly said to Wang Li, who was swinging the broadaxe:

"Fifth Brother, what if we unload all the meat and let this pack of dogs help carry some back?"

As soon as Wang An said this, Wang Li couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. His broadaxe swung off-course, chopping off half of the pig's ear, and the blade embedded itself into the armor on the pig's head.

It had to be said, the broadaxe was quite sharp.

Seeing this, Wang An couldn't help but say:

"Damn it, watch what you're doing! What if that axe had landed on your foot?"

Wang Li looked down at the broadaxe, smiled at Wang An, and then asked with a face full of confusion:

"Let the dogs carry the meat back? Is that even possible?"

Wang An pointed at the pack of dogs and said with a righteous air:

"Look, there are 18 of them, including the wolves and dogs. If each dog carries 10 jin of meat and each wolf cub carries 5 jin, that's 160 jin. This pig looks huge, but there isn't actually that much meat. The horses carry some, the dogs carry some, and we won't feel bad about throwing away the remaining bones. Isn't that great?"

To be honest, Wang An came up with new ideas every day, and most people couldn't keep up with his train of thought.

Fortunately, Wang Li was already used to it. He looked at the dogs lying on the ground, then at the boar, which was now less than half its original size, and said:

"Yeah, Fourth Brother, that's great."

After speaking, Wang Li continued to swing the broadaxe.

Wang An also thought for a moment and then took action.

He found a linden tree, used his invasion knife to peel off a long strip of bark, and then divided this piece of bark into strips about 2 centimeters wide before heading toward the next linden tree.

He performed the same operation on the next tree, counted the number of bark strips, and continued to the next one.

In this way, Wang An prepared several dozen bark strips before he stopped peeling.

Of course, Wang An's purpose in preparing these bark strips was just to use them as ropes to tie the meat and hang it on the dogs.

After all, with so many dogs, it would be too wasteful to cut up the hemp rope they had brought into the mountains.

It had to be said, linden bark was truly good stuff; it was soft enough and very resilient. Cutting it into strips to use as rope was absolutely excellent.

After finishing with the bark strips, Wang An cut the meat into uniform sizes, each piece about 5 jin, then poked a hole in each piece and tied it with one end of a rope. Of course, the other end of the rope also had to be tied to a piece of meat of the same size.

In this way, a total of 28 pieces of meat, grouped in pairs, were all tied into 14 sets in this manner.

Following this, Wang An cut 8 smaller pieces of meat, each about 2 jin, and similarly tied them into four sets of two.

Finally, he placed the ropes with the meat onto the dogs and used another rope to connect them across the dogs' bellies, and the task was complete.

Watching the dogs carrying the meat, looking very reluctant, Wang An couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Wang Li looked at the dogs' resentful faces and couldn't help but laugh too:

"Fourth Brother, you're really using dogs as donkeys, hahahaha."

Wang An said with a smile:

"Anyway, they're carrying the meat for themselves. Even if they're being used as donkeys, they're being used as donkeys for themselves, hahahaha."

After laughing, Wang An carefully collected the pig gallstone hanging on the tree branch. The two of them put the remaining meat and the pig head on the horses' backs and headed straight down the mountain back to the dugout.

On the way, perhaps because they were carrying meat, the dogs weren't active at all, just following along step by step.

As soon as they returned to the dugout, Wang An said to Wang Li:

"Fifth Brother, unload the meat from the dogs and keep watch here for a while. I'll take this pig head back and see what Sun Physician thinks, and if he can divide those 10 mu of land between us."

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