(Only this chapter at midnight. The rest will be posted in the morning.)
When Li Long arrived with his rifle, leading Li Junshan and Li Junfeng over to the thing, he could see that it was indeed a wild boar.
It was a big one, probably over a hundred kilograms, even bigger than the boar they had butchered at home. It just looked far too thin. Although snow covered most of its body, they could tell it was long-bodied but not fat.
"Hey, Uncle Xiao Long, you've got great luck. You only just got here and already found a wild boar. This one's not small, either. You could get a hundred yuan or so selling the meat," Li Junfeng said with a smile.
Li Long shook his head, slung his rifle over his back, and walked over. He bent down to clear the snow off the boar, then saw what had killed it.
A fairly thick wire snare was wrapped around the boar's neck, cutting deep into its flesh. The other end was tied to a sapling as thick as an arm-it was clear that the boar had snapped the little tree clean off.
"This boar got caught in somebody's snare," Li Long said. "It broke the tree and ran here, probably trying to root around for something to eat. But the wire had cut too deep. It never got anything to eat, and who knows whether it starved or strangled."
"Who cares how it died? It's frozen. The meat's bound to be edible."
"With something like a wild boar, if you don't gut it after it dies, the blood stays in the meat, and it spoils from the inside," Li Long said, shaking his head. "This meat... probably isn't fit to eat."
"How can it not be? I don't