Chapter 82

Chapter 82

"Look at the trouble you've brought to our village today. Although we ended up benefiting, I, as the team leader, absolutely do not support gaining benefits through such dangerous means. If this happens again, I won't share any of these large prey with you.

Everyone in the village will get an equal share."

The team leader warned Wang Shoucheng with a cold face.

Wang Shoucheng was the one who made the decisions for the Wang family, and he could see that clearly.

Hearing the team leader's words, Wang Shoucheng felt angry inside.

Does Chen think he wants to share the wild boar with everyone? Bringing trouble to the village? It's more like the village has brought trouble to their family!

What a bunch of ungrateful people.

Feeling resentful, Wang Shoucheng still smiled and apologized with a guilty look: "Team Leader, you're right. This was my lack of consideration. My daughters-in-law are all family-oriented and young. I sent them into the mountains to find some mushrooms, but they went too far.

That led to the wild boar incident last time.

This time, it might be the wild boar seeking revenge?

Rest assured, Team Leader, I won't let them cause any more trouble for the village."

"That's better. Alright, you should go back early. I still need to continue distributing the meat. Old Ma, take a set of the pig's innards, and give the rest to those who helped with the net today. There's no need to share with the Wang family anymore.

They've already taken quite a bit."

The team leader discussed with the person who slaughtered the pig.

Wang Shoucheng felt even more unhappy. The pig's innards should have been theirs.

What a loss!

"Older Brother, here's the pig leg." Holding the pig leg, Wang Shoucheng left the threshing ground in high spirits but didn't want to carry it himself anymore.

He tried to hand it over to Wang Qinghe.

Wang Qinghe dodged quickly, showing no intention of taking it.

Seeing Wang Shoucheng's confused face, Wang Qinghe said, "Dad, I'm too tired from going into the mountains today. Let Old Fifth carry it."

"How can I carry this thing?" Wang Qingqi complained.

The pork is delicious, but the wild boar smells strong, especially since it's still raw and unprocessed. He didn't want to carry it at all.

"How can you not carry it? When you married your wife, you carried her from her parents' house to ours, and you walked pretty fast then," Wang Qinghe asked him, puzzled.

Wang Qingqi almost cursed.

Is his brother crazy?

Can a wife be compared to a pig leg?

Seeing that Wang Qinghe had already walked far away, Wang Shoucheng handed the pig leg to his youngest son.

"Dad, I..." Wang Qingqi wanted to refuse.

"What? Do you want me to carry it? You ungrateful brat!"

"How could I? Dad, why does Older Brother act like this now? He doesn't help with work or hunting. He even refuses to store food with us. Why keep him around just to feed him?"

Wang Shoucheng looked complicated upon hearing this: "You don't understand. I have my reasons. Don't worry, once everything is arranged, he'll get what's coming to him."

"Dad, what were you and Mom discussing so urgently today?" Wang Qingqi asked about the matter that intrigued his wife.

Now, Wang Shoucheng's expression turned sour: "Are you trying to die? Curious about everything? Why don't you wonder when you'll give me and your mom a grandson? Don't mention this again!"

When Wang Qinghe arrived home, everyone was already in the courtyard.

It was quite dark, and it gave him a fright.

"Older Brother? Why did you come back first? Where are Dad and Old Fifth? Where's the meat?" Wang Qingfu, the second son, noticed that his older brother's hands were empty and felt something was off.

Usually, the meat would be in his older brother's hands.

What happened?

"The meat is with Dad and Old Fifth. I'm too tired today to carry it," Wang Qinghe said, heading into the house.

Wang Qingfu was speechless.

What does "too tired to carry it" mean?

His older brother could probably carry a whole cow by himself, so how could he not carry the meat?

How many trips will it take to bring it all back? And couldn't he at least help carry some?

Wang Qinghe entered the house, where Bai Xiuxiu was knitting socks. Seeing him return, she put down her work: "How did it go?"

"We got a pig leg and over three pounds of meat. They're probably planning to send some to the city," Wang Qinghe said while adding wood to the stove.

"No matter how much they plan to send away, our share shouldn't be reduced."

Bai Xiuxiu calculated how much they would receive and thought about making jerky out of it for the children to snack on.

Wang Shoucheng and Old Fifth returned soon after.

Throughout the journey, Wang Qingqi was both exhausted and overwhelmed by the smell, feeling like he was about to meet his great-grandmother.

He had just entered the courtyard when Wang Qingfu took the meat. Seeing that there was only one pig leg and a large piece of meat, he felt quite distressed.

Five pigs, and in the end, they were left with only this much?

Zhao Guifen had been suffocated by the smell of manure all day and was terrified by the rumors, leaving her in a foul mood.

Now seeing that the meat was divided into such a small portion, she immediately pointed at Zhao Cuihua and started cursing: "Why don't you just die? It was you last time, and it's you again this time! Are you afraid our family will prosper and live well? Twice now, are you even human?"

"Mom, what nonsense are you spouting? Why am I not human? There were so many wild boars; why don't you try chasing them? Besides, do those wild boars belong to your family now? Just because you say they do? What if they didn't? Would they have trampled me to death?"

Zhao Cuihua thought this whole family was crazy!

Zhao Guifen looked at the third daughter-in-law and found her increasingly annoying.

"Enough, what are you arguing about? This pig leg, I'll decide. We'll keep it and send it to the children's uncle tomorrow to finalize the job." Wang Shoucheng looked at the pig leg, his eyes filled with calculations.

Wang Qingfu was delighted upon hearing this and immediately wanted to take it to his parents' room.

Before he could move, Bai Xiuxiu and Wang Qinghe came out from the west room.

Bai Xiuxiu looked at the family and smiled. "Dad, I know you want to make the decision, but hold on. Didn't we agree that the harvest from the mountains should be shared? This pig leg needs to be divided too. If you want to send it to the city, first cut off our share.

Then send the rest."

Zhao Cuihua was suddenly energized upon hearing this. "We also want our share cut off; I'm not sending meat to anyone else."

"Cut off our share too," Chen Fang, supported by Wang Laosi, spoke up suddenly.

Wang Shoucheng wished he could smash the entire pig leg on his eldest daughter-in-law's head to stop her from talking.

She was their family's nemesis!

"How can we send it if we cut it all off? How can you be so selfish? When Lao Er and Old Fifth get better off, they won't abandon you?" Wang Shoucheng scolded his sons and daughters-in-law angrily.

Zhao Cuihua sneered. "Dad, don't fool us. City workers earn only so much a month; they might not even have enough for themselves. By the time they become successful, I'll be long dead!"

Bai Xiuxiu gave Zhao Cuihua an approving look and urged him, "Dad, instead of fooling us, why don't you cut the pork first?"