Chapter 2242 Catching Wild Boars
The mountain behind Feng Jiachong is the same valley where Feng Yiping and his old scalper spent several winter and summer vacations together. Now, not even Feng Yiping nor the cattle can enter.
This valley, which used to have only some short shrubs and patches of thatch, now really doesn't look like a valley.
The bushes on the outside are on average as thick as Amanda's arm and as tall as Huang Jingping. As for the bushes further inside and above, they are all covered by entangled kudzu vines.
The kudzu vine grows so well that there are often ridges in the center, and the highest point is not even shorter than the ridge next to it.
As for what's down there, no one dares to go in and see what's going on there.
Even if the villagers go to the mountains to collect kudzu vines in order to process them and sell them to furniture factories, they will not take the idea of kudzu vines like this and will only pick those that look small in scale.
The roads that everyone used to trodden now don’t even have any trace left.
After people voluntarily quit the forest and stopped asking for help from the mountains, kudzu vines and unknown shrubs quickly became dominant here.
When Feng Yiping and others were young, these things could not grow at all. During their infancy, they would be cut down and either fed to pigs or turned into firewood.
In this sense, even these plants must be born at a good time if they want to develop.
But to Amanda, it was all so beautiful.
These pristine mountains and the mountains she often visited that had undergone artificial intervention were completely different concepts.
The mountains where her grandparents live and the mountains where she often goes can be said to be completely different ecosystems.
She was used to seeing all kinds of forests and gardens, but this was the first time she had seen a valley dominated by vines like this.
"Wow, what a beautiful flower,"
"Wow, butterfly,"
"Mom, mom, are those grapes? Those are grapes," she asked excitedly as she looked at the green wild grapes that were as big as her thumb.
Huang Jingping watched her put her little hand on her mouth, moving her mouth, and said angrily, "You are swallowing saliva, right?"
"Huh? No," Amanda wiped her mouth.
"Haha," Feng Zhenchang laughed, "In this aspect, he is quite similar to your dad, he especially likes to eat sour food."
"Just wait." He tied up his trousers, got outside, and quickly picked back a large handful of red fruits, which looked similar to mulberries, but were smaller than mulberries.
He ate one himself first, "It's sweet, try it."
Amanda grabbed a handful without hesitation, "Well, it's so delicious,"
"These, when your father was young, you couldn't even grab them," Mei Qiuping said.
At that time, there were so many people in the village and everyone ran towards the mountains. There were not as many wild fruits as there are now. It was really not Feng Yiping's turn.
"He said that he would often have to take Wen Hua and Wen Hui into the kudzu vines," Huang Jingping said.
"Yeah, I used to be stupid and bold, and I wasn't afraid of what was inside. But when I entered junior high school, my courage suddenly became less courageous. Later, I even refused to go in even to death,"
"You are sensible now," Feng Zhenchang picked up Amanda, "Look up there, let's go quickly, okay?"
Above, by the original pond, a large circle of people gathered, talking and laughing loudly.
In the circle they were surrounding, there seemed to be the sound of pigs braying.
"Wow," Amanda immediately understood what was going on, "Mom, hurry up, we caught the pig."
Feng Dongzheng ran down, his face shining with joy, still the same as before, with a cigarette in his ear, "Niece, can I come and hug you?"
Amanda has not been picky since she was a child, so she immediately switched from her grandfather's arms to her cousin's arms, "You caught it, right?"
"You'll see it soon," Feng Dongzheng said.
Several of Feng Yiping's cousins, including Dong Ming and Hua Fu, and Feng Zhenchang's nephews were there, as well as some young men. They were obviously here to watch the fun.
"Let, let, let our little princess have a look," everyone smiled and made room.
What they were surrounding was a large pit that was more than one person tall. In the pit, a large wild boar and three small wild boars were spinning in circles.
The little wild boar was barking uneasily, while the big wild boar was relatively calm, only barking a few times from time to time, and then running towards the pit.
But this is not the first time Feng Dongzheng has done something like this. The walls of the pit are slightly tilted inward, so how can it rush out?
"Is this a wild boar?" Amanda wasn't afraid at all. "It's so dirty."
The bodies of some wild boars were covered in dirt and grass, so they were indeed a little dirty.
Feng Zhenchang and the others also caught up, "Oh, it's a sow, not too young."
"Yes, I'm lucky. The sow weighs at least 300 kilograms, and she also brought three small ones with her." Feng Dongzheng was very happy. For a pig farm, there are really not too many sows.
"Where are the other places?" Feng Zhenchang asked.
"I've seen it, but it doesn't work. I'll fill in all the holes later,"
Feng Yiping made a promise easily. He didn't even come back, but he let these cousins work hard.
Amanda stared at the small ones at this time, "Uncle, they are so cute, can you give me one?"
Everyone was dumbfounded. They really couldn't see how cute those three little wild boars were.
The pig's snout is also very sharp, and the hair looks very hard. There is not much fat on the body, and it looks very thin, which makes it look more fierce.
Besides, raising wild boars, isn't that a joke? If it grows up a little, it will bump into a strong Chinese character and it will be knocked away.
Huang Jingping knew that the little guy was just looking for novelty, "Amanda, you know, this is a protected animal, we can't keep it at home,"
"Oh, like those animals in the zoo?" Amanda said.
"Yes,"
"Niece, tell me which one you like, I will help you take good care of it, and you can go to see it every time you come back in the future," Feng Dongzheng said generously.
"Really? Let me see," Amanda looked at it for a while, pointed to the fatter one and said, "That's it,"
"Okay, I remember it, do you want to give it a name?"
"Well," Amanda pursed her lips and thought for a while, "I want to call it Xiaohei,"
"Haha," her grandparents, and several cousins laughed at the same time.
Amanda's naming skills are truly inherited from her father.
When Feng Yiping was a child, he gave more than one piglet the name Xiaohei.
"Okay, I'll let it calm down after seeing enough," Feng Dongzheng picked up the blowpipe next to him, aimed for a long time, and finally blew an anesthetic needle just behind the big wild boar's ear.
This big wild boar, which didn't take the people above it seriously on the flat ground, persisted for a while, and finally fell down unwillingly.
Before falling asleep, it probably thought, this is a real pit!
Everyone waited for a long time before going down the ladder, first holding down the three small ones, tying their two hind legs with a wide band, putting them in the basket, and finally gathering the four hooves of the big wild boar together, tying them up, and then pulling them up with great effort.
But even if the wild boar was already sleeping soundly, Amanda still had no chance to get close to it.
However, she found something fun again.
Feng Dongming scooped up a lot of duckweed from the pond next to him, which was just enough to feed the pigs. Then, he said, "Hi," cast a net, and immediately caught two fat crucian carps.
Amanda clapped her hands, "Wow, Mom, look, it's fish,"
It was the first time she saw such a fishing scene.
With such a hard-working supporter, Feng Dongming immediately got excited and cast three nets in a row, catching eight fish.
These are good things, truly pure wild, and in such a pond on the mountain, there is no pesticide pollution, and there are no heavy metals.
"Enough, enough," Feng Zhenchang said.
This pond is now ownerless, that is, it belongs to everyone, and it's not good to catch too much.
So on the way home, Amanda was very busy. She had to go to see the two fish in her grandfather's bucket, and then she had to go to see the tied up Xiao Hei.
But Xiao Hei didn't like her look, and she couldn't even touch him.
"Mom, why does Xiao Hei look so angry?"
"I don't know," it's not good to tell her about freedom at this time.
"Well, I know," Amanda thought for a while, "It must be angry that its father didn't come with it,"
Huang Jingping couldn't help laughing again, do you think Xiao Hei is you?
"Niece, are you happy today?" Feng Dongzheng, who was happily taking turns to carry the female wild boar, asked her.
Amanda pouted, "Dad is not here,"