Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 397: Wild Boar Meat Sausage (1)_1

Chapter 397: Chapter 397: Wild Boar Meat Sausage (1)_1

Yang Bao nearly smashed his cup when he heard the news, and stormed over to the Wang Family. By the time he arrived, a crowd of villagers had already gathered at the doorstep, eager for the spectacle. There, in front of everyone, Yang Bao demanded to know the whole story.

As for the incident of stealing the prey from the dogs and then trying to extort the Mo Family after being injured by the tiger, Wang Dali and his companions were too slow to cover it up, let alone bring it up themselves. Yang Bao, however, wasn’t about to let them off that easily. Seizing the moment, he wanted them to admit their wrongdoing. When the village rules were set, he would use these men as an example to purge the village of its crooked and perverse influences.

Having served as the village head for over a decade, Yang Bao had his methods. With just a few words, he pressured Wang Dali and the others into spilling the whole story.

Learning that their escape from the tiger’s jaws, with only minor injuries, was thanks to the Mo Family’s big dog and the other thirteen mongrels who had bravely distracted the tiger, Yang Bao wished he could expel this bunch from Liu Yang Village once and for all. But as the village head of Liu Yang Village, he couldn’t do that.

The onlooking villagers, however, had no such reservations. They looked at Wang Dali and his lot with undisguised disdain. What kind of people were these, stealing even from dogs, and after the Mo Family’s big dog had fought desperately to save them, instead of being grateful, they had the audacity to run to their rescuers’ home in the middle of the night to extort silver, no better than beasts.

The thought of having to coexist with such selfish people filled everyone with disgust, as if they had swallowed flies. They were deeply wary of Wang Dali and his companions.

Even those with thick skins like Wang Dali’s group felt highly embarrassed under such loathsome gazes.

Angry as he was, Yang Bao couldn’t ignore the situation. Considering that Wang Dali’s right leg injury, an open wound from a fall, needed to be dealt with, it took him some effort to reconcile the opinions of both parties. Finally, the villagers agreed to compensate Wang Dali with five hundred Wen money.

For a peasant family, a year’s expenses amounted to no more than two taels of silver; five hundred Wen was quite substantial. But Wang Dali, a greedy man by nature, always wanted more. In his view, five hundred Wen was far too little. The villager who had pushed him had little money to spare, and this push had cost five hundred Wen, leaving the perpetrator full of regret and resentment—regretting the act of violence and resenting Wang Dali’s insatiable greed.

Constrained by the authority of the village head Yang Bao and fearful of being held accountable for the extortion attempt on the Mo Family, both parties compromised and repressed their anger. But this incident solidified the enmity between their two households!

Yang Bao, seeing the situation resolved, pretended not to notice and walked away. He still had to discuss village regulations with the respected elders, hoping to have a decision by the end of the year to punish the likes of Wang Dali and provide an explanation to the Mo Family.

At that moment, Mo Yan was in the kitchen with Aunt Lixiu’s nephew, Aunt Cai, Mrs. Xiong, and Mrs. Zhou, all busy making sausages, unaware of the drama unfolding at the Wang Family’s place.

The casings and pork for the sausages came from the large wild boar, weighing between three and four hundred pounds, that Little Flower and Dabai had brought back from the hunt. The snow hadn’t stopped for days, so the boar had been preserved in the snowbank until the previous morning when the snow ceased. Mo Yan then asked Lin Yong for help, and he skillfully skinned and gutted the boar.

Compared to the fatty domestic pigs, wild boar meat was generally tougher with a strong gamey odor, but once properly processed, the dishes made from it were far more flavorful than those from domestic pork. Excluding the offal, feet, head, and other scraps, there were nearly three hundred pounds of pure wild boar meat. The Mo Family had an abundance of different game and chicken meat, never lacking in meat consumption, so Mo Yan decided to turn all of the wild boar meat into sausages. They could not only keep them for themselves to eat over time but also give them as generous gifts to their close friends for the New Year.

Aunt Cai, however, was very reluctant as she cut the boar meat into small pieces. With a pain in her voice, she said, "Yan girl, even if you want to make sausages, why not sell the boar and buy domestic pork instead? Making all of this into sausages seems such a waste!"