Chapter 18: Distributing meat to villagers, Diao Chan entrusted for life

Inside the courtyard.

Duan Yu held a dagger, skinning and plucking the wild rabbits, pheasants, and the leopard.

Duan Yu was a novice with a bow and arrow.

But when it came to using a dagger, Duan Yu was definitely an expert.

Although there were guns in modern warfare.

The dagger was still a required course.

For indoor close-quarters combat, the dagger was absolutely the best choice.

Therefore, Duan Yu handled the dagger very skillfully.

His skinning was also very professional.

Since seeing Duan Yu, the smile on Diao Chan's pretty face had not faded.

While adding firewood to boil water, she watched Duan Yu skinning the game with focus.

Her eyes were full of love.

Outside the fence, there were still many children and villagers from the village watching.

Duan Yu's physique was already outstanding.

Coupled with the fact that he had brought back so much game at once, it immediately caught the attention of the whole village.

Even the village elders and the township assistant had come.

It was the first time in her life that Diao Chan had been watched by so many people.

Some were praising Duan Yu for being capable.

Others were saying that Diao Chan had found a good man.

The young men in the village were even talking about learning to hunt from Duan Yu.

The elders and the township assistant even had the intention of letting Duan Yu serve as the township's patrol officer.

Everything felt too sudden, too happy.

"Chan'er, take this butchered meat and distribute it to the neighbors."

"Didn't you say last night that the neighbors have taken good care of you all these years?"

"We can't store this meat, and if we don't finish it, it will spoil before long."

"It's better to share it with everyone."

"Firstly, to thank everyone for their care over these years."

"Secondly, it can also improve neighborly relations."

Duan Yu had butchered the leopard meat.

The leopard was not large; after removing the skin and internal organs, it was only about forty or fifty catties.

It was divided into more than twenty portions by Duan Yu.

Each portion had about two catties of meat and bone.

Diao Chan listened and nodded gently, saying, "I will listen to Big Brother Duan."

Duan Yu smiled, then turned back and beckoned to the neighbors outside the fence.

"Everyone, come in."

"I have already divided this meat; everyone come in and take some."

"Thank you all for taking care of my Chan'er for so many years; Duan has no way to repay you."

"Everyone take this meat and share it."

Duan Yu said loudly.

Beside him, upon hearing Duan Yu say "my Chan'er," Diao Chan's pretty face turned as red as a ripe apple.

She pursed her red lips and lowered her head shyly.

But the smile at the corners of her lips was very sweet.

The villagers outside the courtyard were a bit embarrassed and shy at first.

Duan Yu held a portion of meat in his hands.

After opening the courtyard gate, he placed it into the hands of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old youth.

The youth's name was Stone.

He looked honest and sturdy.

Duan Yu remembered that Diao Chan had said before that this youth named Stone often helped her carry water.

"Big... Big Brother Duan, can I learn to hunt from you?"

Holding the leopard meat, Stone looked at Duan Yu with some timidity.

Standing over one meter eighty, nearly one meter ninety, Duan Yu carried a sense of oppression in front of any villager.

Coupled with the fact that Duan Yu could hunt a leopard alone, the people in the village looked at him with some fear.

"Sure, when there's an opportunity, I'll teach you."

Duan Yu reached out and rubbed Stone's head.

Stone immediately sniffed his nose with gratitude and nodded vigorously.

Several other youths around Stone's age, seeing that Stone had spoken and actually received a response, also gathered their courage and said they wanted to learn to hunt from Duan Yu.

In this era, fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys were no longer children.

They were even starting to serve corvée labor.

Carrying the burden of a family.

Compared to boys in junior high school in later generations, fourteen or fifteen in this era were already adults.

With several young people from the village talking to Duan Yu, the other villagers were not as afraid as before when they saw Duan Yu speaking with a smile.

So they all stepped forward one after another.

Duan Yu took the meat handed over by Diao Chan and gave it to the villagers one by one.

By the time the last portion was distributed, most of the villagers had dispersed.

The leopard meat was finished.

However, there were still two wild rabbits and two pheasants.

Duan Yu prepared one of them and asked Diao Chan to take it to make soup to nourish her aunt's body.

Then he roasted a rabbit for an extra meal in the evening.

They didn't cook porridge in the evening, but cooked a meal of wheat rice.

Until dinner time, Diao Chan's uncle Li Gouer had not returned.

Duan Yu did not wait any longer. ===== CHAPTER 20 =====