Chapter 10

Chen Hongfu turned his head to Su Xinghui, "Little Su, you haven't seen a wild boar, right? Let's go, let's go see the wild boar caught by Zhongfu."

Zhao Zhongfu stood up, "Yes, let's go to my house to see the wild boar."

Su Xinghui had naturally seen wild boars with his own eyes in his previous life. Not to mention dead ones, he had seen live ones several times. However, at this time, he could only pretend to see a wild boar for the first time and followed them excitedly.

Zhao Zhongfu's house was not far from the village committee. Several people arrived in a few minutes. Entering the courtyard of the Zhao family, which looked very historical, they saw Zhao Zhongfu's wife standing in the courtyard. She was a simple farm woman. Seeing guests coming to her home, a shy smile appeared on her face. Zhao Zhongfu led Chen Hongfu and Su Xinghui into the kitchen. They saw a half-grown wild boar on a large cutting board, looking like seventy or eighty jin. Now the wild boar had been gutted, and various internal organs were placed on the side, cleaned up, just waiting to be put into the pot.

In addition, there were two cleaned wild chickens, a wild rabbit, and a fat little beast shaped like a large mouse on the cutting board. Su Xinghui, who had lived here for a few years, recognized that it was a bamboo rat.

A bamboo rat was an animal that lived in bamboo forests and fed on bamboo. Its meat carried a kind of bamboo fragrance, which was the favorite wild game of the locals. The mountains south of Yezhugou were full of bamboo forests, so there were bamboo rats growing. However, in recent years, the number of bamboo rats had become increasingly rare, and it was not easy to catch one.

Seeing these wild games in Zhao Zhongfu's house, Chen Hongfu and Su Xinghui both understood that this was definitely not as simple as Zhao Zhongfu accidentally catching a wild boar. It must have been painstakingly prepared by these village cadres just to let Chen Hongfu agree to reduce the villagers' retention and coordination. This made Chen Hongfu silent.

Zhao Zhongfu shouted to his wife, "Xiao Qin, the distinguished guests are all here. Hurry up and tidy up. The distinguished guests want to drink here later."

Xiao Qin agreed. Zhao Zhongfu led several people to his main room to sit down. He got two more large enamel mugs, scalded them with boiling water, poured a cup of cold boiled water for Chen Hongfu and Su Xinghui, and the other village cadres were not so particular. If they wanted to drink water, they poured it themselves.

Fang Youcai saw that Su Xinghui had nothing to say and was afraid of neglecting him. He smiled at Su Xinghui, "Little Su, how did a college graduate from a prestigious university come to our poor mountain gully? This is a waste of talent."

As soon as Xia Lan heard this, her eyes lit up, "Is this the new college student in the township? No wonder I don't know him!"