Chapter 31

Back home, the whole family was busy!

Two boars, one sow, and three yellow-haired ones—this harvest was quite large!

When the village organized autumn or winter hunts, even if it was counted on the hunters, there wouldn't be this many!

However, Wang An didn't have much joy; these pigs were hunted too excitingly. This can't be called hunting at all; this is called risking one's life!

But seeing the smiles on his family's faces, Wang An finally felt a bit of comfort!

After watching for a short while, he found that his father was dealing with the internal organs. Now there weren't even enough basins at home to hold the organs, so they were using baskets!

Seeing Mu Xueqing unloading the meat, he suddenly thought of his father-in-law's family. With so many pigs, they must be shared!

Thinking of this, Wang An said to Liu Guilan: "Mom, keep one large yellow-haired one after gutting it, don't peel the skin, and also leave that smaller boar, put it there after gutting it!"

Liu Guilan stood up and asked suspiciously: "What for? You cleaned it up neatly, do you want to clean it yourself?"

Wang An rolled his eyes and said: "Tomorrow after the guests are gone, I'll send it to my father-in-law's family the day after tomorrow. I see my brother-in-law is idle every day, let him tinker with it himself!"

Liu Guilan looked at Mu Xueqing upon hearing this. Her idea was to send some meat to the in-laws when the time came!

But Wang An's idea was actually better, but in front of Mu Xueqing, she still scolded: "When sending things to your father-in-law, shouldn't it be cleaned up neatly before sending? How can you let them clean it themselves?"

Wang An said indifferently: "It's fine, if you don't believe me, ask Xueqing. Besides, sending it whole shows that I, the son-in-law, am sincere! Hehehe..."

Mu Xueqing didn't speak, but nodded, obviously approving of what Wang An said!

Whole, although it still needs to be cleaned, visually, it gives a greater impact!

Liu Guilan looked at Mu Xueqing again, and seeing her nod, she went with the flow and said: "That's fine, I'll listen to you two, and it saves me the effort of peeling the skin!"

Several people worked together to put the boar, which hadn't been carried into the house yet, on the large wooden rack outside used for drying wild vegetables.

Wang An also carried out the large yellow-haired one that had already been carried into the house and put it in place!

He also covered it with a reed mat to prevent it from being eaten by rats! The rats in the countryside are quite rampant; if the pig were bitten into a mess, it would be embarrassing to give as a gift!

Wang An thought about it after returning to the house, and took out a roe deer and a pheasant, hanging them in the shed outside, intending to send them to his father-in-law together!

Then he worked with his family for a long time before cleaning up all four pigs, the roe deer, and the pheasant!

Dinner was eaten very late, and the food was quite simple. The staple food was cornmeal porridge and cornmeal cakes, the dishes were cabbage and potato stewed with meat, and radish strip pickles!

After the awkwardness of this day and the life-risking excitement of hunting the pigs, Wang An really didn't have the passion or thoughts for that, so he hugged Mu Xueqing and fell into a deep sleep!

In the morning, the whole family got up quite early because they were hosting guests today.

The two little girls, under Liu Guilan's scolding, put on their clothes with sleepy eyes, as if they would continue to sleep if they weren't careful!

After eating breakfast early, Wang Dazhu went out to invite the guests.

Wang An originally planned to invite Li Biao, but after yesterday's events, forget it; they are incompatible, it's redundant!

Thinking about the preparation for the banquet, Wang An found that he had forgotten an important major event!

A banquet, a banquet, there is no banquet without wine! There is no wine at home!

In this era, wine is a scarce resource. The main thing is that the wine at this time is all distilled from grain!

It is normal not to have enough grain to eat; if you want to distill wine, what the hell are you going to distill without grain!

Pondering the wine, Wang An greeted his mother and Mu Xueqing and went out.

In this era, there are many craftsmen in every village—carpenters, blacksmiths, barefoot doctors, etc., are basically in the village, and there are even more people who know how to distill wine!

What Wang An wanted to go to was the home of a person in the village who was famous for distilling wine, Han Shuisheng. Han Shuisheng, about 60 years old, nicknamed "Big Wine Vat"!

He knows how to distill wine and can drink even more. It is said that because he loved wine like his life but had no money to buy it, he specifically learned to distill wine. He is also a talent!

Arriving at Han Shuisheng's house, he saw Han Shuisheng in the shed, tinkering with a large pile of sweet potatoes.

In the countryside at this time, every household has a private plot, usually half for vegetables and half for sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Han Shuisheng is different; he only grows a small amount of vegetables, mostly sweet potatoes, and he also opened a piece of wasteland on the hillside to grow sweet potatoes!

The quality of sweet potatoes on the hillside is not very good; some are as thin as chopsticks, some are as big as fingers, and the largest are as big as corn cobs, but they have too many whiskers, and they don't look delicious.

And these unpalatable sweet potatoes are not for eating, but for distilling wine!

"Uncle Han, busy?" Wang An entered the yard and greeted him with a smile.

Han Shuisheng is not tall, just over 1.6 meters. At this age in the countryside in this era, he is already an old man.

People are accustomed to calling them "Old Man So-and-so" when chatting; there is no derogatory meaning, it's just a noun! But he certainly wouldn't say that to his face!

Seeing Wang An, Han Shuisheng knew he was here for business, shook the dirt and sweet potato skins off his body, and stood up with a smile.

He said: "The eldest son of the Wang family is here!"

"Yeah, I'm thinking about Uncle Han's wine!" Wang An continued to say with a smile.

"Hahaha, there are quite a few people thinking about Uncle's wine!" The old man was very confident in his craft.

"That's right, in these ten miles and eight villages, who doesn't know that Uncle Han's wine is the real top-notch stuff?" Wang An complimented him with a smile while giving a thumbs up.

"Hahaha, Uncle likes to hear you chat the most among the young people in this village!" The old man was very pleased with Wang An's words.

"Mainly because I'm honest and never talk nonsense!" Wang An laughed seriously.

"Haha... I won't bullshit with you anymore, how much wine do you want to buy?" The old man asked.

In this era, grain is in short supply, so grain coupons are needed, and bulk white liquor in the supply and marketing cooperative not only requires coupons, but the price is not cheap, 6.5 mao per jin!

And this kind of self-distilled wine, because it doesn't require coupons, is even more expensive!

"Since I'm here, I have to get more. How much is it per jin, Uncle?" Wang An asked.

"Corn wine is 8 mao, sorghum wine is 1 yuan, sweet potato liquor is cheaper at 6 mao per jin," the old man replied.

Wang An thought of the deer penis and deer bones at home; it would be a pity to sell them. Who knows when he will be able to hunt a deer next time! It's better to soak them in wine!

He also thought of his father at home and how he craved wine that day, and said: "Give me 50 jin of sorghum wine, and 50 jin of sweet potato liquor!"

"How much? What are you doing with so much wine?" The old man asked in shock.

In this era, when people buy wine, it's because they have guests at home, buying two or three jin. How could anyone buy wine like this!

Wang An didn't hide it and told him about hunting the sika deer, and also said he wanted to soak it in wine! But he didn't mention the leopard!

The value of the leopard is too high. If it spreads, there will definitely be many people who want to see the leopard skin, which is both troublesome and attracts people's attention!

"Oh, I didn't expect that there is another hunter in our Kaoshan Village!" The old man praised with a smile!

"What hunter! That deer was injured by a large animal, otherwise how could I have hunted that thing!" Wang An said hurriedly.

He knows exactly what he is! What kind of hunter! Except for his marksmanship, he's just a novice!

Wang An paid for the wine and bought two large jars that could hold 50 jin of wine and two small jars that could hold 20 jin from the old man!

They were all pottery jars, the large ones were 1 yuan, the small ones were 5 mao.

Using the small wooden wheelbarrow the old man used to push wine, he carefully pushed the wine home!

He had to be careful; these pottery jars were really not very sturdy!!

This result is really too bad!

I'm a little embarrassed!

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(End of this chapter)