Chapter 1073: Using a dog as a donkey

From these words of Wang Li, one could tell that the boy was still too honest. He followed Wang An around every day, yet he hadn't learned the essence of how to do things from him.

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

"Whatever she says goes? In that 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 in its forehead, and these two big tusks are almost as big as a hunting knife. This big boar is definitely much more vicious than the one they saw."

Wang Li blinked his eyes and said with some embarrassment:

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

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

"That’s none of our damn 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 definitively prove that the one they killed is the same one that gored Li Tie?"

Wang Li opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something more, 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 fact, 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 remove the pig's head.

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 that head off.

But 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 relies on the small lazy one, and the small lazy one just stares in frustration."

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

When Wang Li returned, he was carrying a large splitting axe, marching toward the boar with a fierce expression.

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, the horses couldn't carry the meat while also carrying the people.

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

However, as Wang An sat there looking at the remaining meat, he felt it was a real shame to leave it on the mountain.

The main thing was that there were so many dogs at home, and the amount of grain needed to feed them every day was quite significant. Although Wang An's family had money and grain, they couldn't afford to waste it like this 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 axe:

"Fifth, what if we unload all the meat and let these dogs help carry some of it back?"

As soon as Wang An said this, Wang Li’s eyebrows twitched, and his axe swung off-course, directly chopping off half of the pig's ear, with the blade embedding itself into the armor on the pig's head.

It had to be said, the axe 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 axe, smiled at Wang An, and then asked with a puzzled face:

"Let the dogs carry the meat back? Can that work?"

Wang An pointed at the group of dogs and said with full justification:

"Look, there are 18 of them, including the wolves and dogs. If each dog carries 10 pounds of meat and each wolf cub carries 5 pounds, that's 160 pounds. 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 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 is great."

After speaking, Wang Li continued to swing the axe.

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

He found a linden tree, used his hunting knife to peel off a long strip of bark, then cut this bark into even strips about 2 centimeters wide, and walked to the next linden tree.

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

Just like that, Wang An made several dozen bark strips before he stopped.

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

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

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

After finishing the bark strips, Wang An cut the meat into uniform pieces, about 5 pounds each, 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 similar size.

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

Next, Wang An cut 8 smaller pieces of meat, about 2 pounds each, and tied them into four sets in the same way.

Finally, he placed the rope with the meat on the dog's back and used another rope to connect it under the dog's belly, and the job was done.

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 like donkeys, hahahaha."

Wang An said with a smile:

"Anyway, they are carrying the meat for themselves. Even if they are being used like donkeys, they are being used like donkeys for their own sake, hahahaha."

After laughing, Wang An carefully collected the pig sand hanging on the tree branch, and the two of them put the remaining meat and the pig head on the horse's back, then headed straight down the mountain back to the dugout.

On the way, perhaps because they were carrying meat, the dogs were not active at all, just walking back step by step.

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

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