When Li Long arrived at Small White Poplar Gully the next morning, Li Jianguo immediately told him to take the cleaned little wild boar and more than half of the big wild boar back with him.
"Keep the little one at your place. Cook it for Xiaoxia to build up her strength, and let Old Gu have a taste too. He's hardly ever had a young one." Those were Li Jianguo's exact words.
"The big boar's meat isn't tough either. Take it home and have your elder sister-in-law stew it so you can eat it over time."
Gu Xiaoxia was about to give birth, and Li Jianguo felt this was exactly when she needed nourishing food.
Li Long saw that the meat seemed to have been soaking in cold water all along, with the water changed from time to time. He immediately fished it out, asked Lao Huang for some salt, rubbed a layer over it, then hurried back in the Jeep.
When the Jeep reached the Big Courtyard, Sister Yang had not returned yet. Li Long put the little wild boar in a large basin of water, then drove to the Free Market and told Sister Yang, who was selling meals from her cart.
Sister Yang was ready to stop selling and go back to deal with it, but Li Long quickly stopped her and told her there was no hurry.
Only then did he drive back to the Fourth Team.
His mother, Du Chunfang, was chopping pig feed in the yard. Neither Dad nor his elder sister-in-law was there, and the tractor was gone too.
"Your elder sister-in-law drove the tractor out to the fields." Du Chunfang was delighted to see Li Long back and told him, "Your dad and Daqiang's dad went to Stone City to sell