When Li Wen and his father returned home, it was just time for lunch.

"Masters, you are back!"

Mother walked out of the kitchen, looked at Li Deyou and others sitting in the front concierge and rested, and asked.

"Well, today is not bad. I handed in the pig early, and the pig subsidy was exchanged for sixty pounds of cornmeal," Li Deyou said as he kicked the bag under his feet.

Li Wu quickly picked up the food and carried it to the kitchen.

"Oh!" Our family's food problem has been completely solved this year, and my second aunt is very happy.

Cui Yanzi's family is a farmer in the middle of the mountain. The production team does not have much land in total. It is still dry land and depends on the weather for food. They can only grow one crop of wheat a year, and they have to leave it fallow after the summer harvest.

Cui Yanzi has never had a full meal since she was a child. She spends her whole day wandering around in the mountains and forests with her family, looking for some wild fruits to fill her stomach. Every winter is a difficult time.

Therefore, after the second aunt Cui Yanzi married into the Li family, she cherished food very much.

"Alright, from the second brother's family, you and the second brother's family will share these dozens of kilograms of cornmeal, and then send it to your parents' family."

"Our village is doing well this year, but your parents' side is having a harder time," the old lady said with a smile.

"Thank you mom!"

The second aunt's eyes instantly turned red. Every winter, their family ran out of food, so they had to borrow food from everywhere, or even use money to buy resold food.

But people in the mountains have little land, so they usually rely on mountain goods and buying stations to exchange for food. Winter lasts for four or five months, so how can they have so much money to buy food. So Cui Yanzi has to save money every winter to give to her parents' family.

Get some food.

The old lady also knew the situation and always turned a blind eye and never cared about it.

This year, the second aunt's brother Cui Dashan and Li Wen were trading mountain goods, and Li Wen also exchanged some food stamps for Cui Dashan. So the second aunt has been very kind to Li Wen in the past few months, and she always sticks to Li Wen for anything delicious.

, even my own children complained.

There are only two siblings in Cui Yanzi's family. Cui Yanzi is married off. Now including the children and parents, there are only seven people in total. Fortunately, the old lady and the old man are still young and strong, so the pressure in life is not very great.

Li Wen's grandfather's family is much worse off. Although Li Wen's grandfather's family lives in a village in the town, they can't handle the large population!

Li Wen's three uncles have sixteen children, and they are all young. They all eat with their mouths open. The situation at home has not been very good in the past few years.

The mother also nodded and thanked the old lady, and the two sisters took the bags and divided the cornmeal between them.

After dinner, his father and his second uncle were weaving straw mats, while the old lady and the others were mending clothes. Li Wen got up early in the morning and worked hard for a long time. After dinner, he felt a little sleepy and returned to his room.

Fortunately, my father and my second uncle had worked in the city before, so at least the clothes and bedding at home were in place, so everyone would not be afraid of the cold when they went home in winter.

However, in winter, it is not possible for one person to sleep in the same room at night because there is not enough firewood for lighting the kang.

Recently, every night, Li Wen and his eldest and second brothers have been living in the same house. They light a kang and save a lot of firewood. There is not much corn stalks distributed in the village.

But it’s not very cold at noon, and there’s no kang, so Li Wen usually stays in his own room, which is quieter.

Lying on the kang, Li Wen looked at everything in the space with his mind.

In the past few months, Li Wen rode his bicycle to the county cultural center every weekend to participate in the writing association's studies.

Eggs, rabbits and honey would be secretly exchanged with a group of young people, and a lot of them were exchanged and a lot of bills were exchanged.

On weekend nights, Li Wen did not go home and secretly went to the night market to empty out all the thousands of kilograms of giant pumpkins in stock.

In these famine years, food was really valuable. A twenty-pound pumpkin actually cost ten yuan. Later, I couldn't help but exchange all the corn and wheat in stock.

The price of food is terrible. A pound of flour costs more than 2 yuan, and a pound of cornmeal only costs 80 cents.

Li Wen knew that this was the last year. After next year, the country would pay off its debts, and there would no longer be so many famines. The price of food would return to normal levels, and by then the black market price would be two or three times more expensive.

In the past few months, Li Wen had successively saved thousands of dollars, and some bills that were about to expire were secretly exchanged for money by Li Wen on the black market.

Speaking of the black market, it is indeed dangerous. When he went to the black market in the early morning several times, Li Wen was targeted by plainclothes red-sleeved soldiers. Fortunately, Li Wen had space and escaped.

The black market in the middle of the night was even more dangerous. One time, Li Wen couldn't hold back and sold a hundred kilograms of flour. Before he left the black market, he was held down by three young men. Fortunately, Li Wen had an electric baton and was able to escape.

Another time, it was even worse. He was actually targeted by a leader of the black market. Good guy, he had several pistols pointed at his head.

Someone caught him off guard and held him down, pointing at his head. In his previous life, Li Wen was a teenager who was one of the most popular teenagers in society. He had never seen such a battle, and his legs were a little weak.

It's hard to expose the space at this time, so you can't bring people in. He also tried it, but it didn't work. He was completely finished!

The leader took out the money notes from Li Wen's pocket, slapped Li Wen hard in the face, and knocked Li Wen to the ground.

While several people were laughing, Li Wen threw a bag of flour from the space and spread it.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he turned the corner and returned directly to the space, and then escaped.

From then on, Li Wen never went to the black market again. At most, he just watched some things in the market and secretly exchanged them with others.

In addition to the food in the warehouse, the things Li Wen grew himself have basically been traded, and he can no longer continue.

If heaven wants people to perish, it will make them crazy. Li Wen, you understand this truth. It’s enough to stop it and gain a lot.

Now at the front door, there are not many big fish left in the fish pond, and the fry are still small and will probably take more than half a year to breed.

There are more than 80 rabbits left. These rabbits can really reproduce. One litter takes more than a month. It weighs four to five kilograms in two to three months, which is very fast. Li Wen has been buying more rabbits recently, and there are still so many.

There are now eighty or ninety chickens, ducks and geese, which provide Li Wen with several kilograms of eggs every day, which is very good. There are only a few roosters, and they are all eaten or traded by Li Wen.

Li Wen plans to keep the rest for the hens to trample on eggs. Next year he plans to raise some chickens and sell the chicken chicks. This can be sold openly without being caught for speculation.

The goat was brought down from the second floor by Li Wen. It was inconvenient to put it in the corridor. Li Wen tied the goat to the door, but the door couldn't be opened anyway.

The pigs in the back aisle are now almost 200 kilograms. Li Wen plans to raise them again and find someone to slaughter them after the new year.

These pigs Li Wen are fed with concentrated feed. They are fed corn and pumpkin every day, and pig grass is also vegetables. They are treated very well. I don’t know if the family outside will hug him if they know it.

A day in winter is very short. It gets dark at five o'clock in the evening. There are no entertainment activities now and there is no electricity in the village. Everyone goes to bed early.

The next day, at dawn, there was news in the village that the New Year pig was going to be killed.

Also, it's already mid-January, it's the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it's time to kill pigs in the village.

Li Wen's family also joined in the fun. After all, he also had his big fat pig, and I was waiting to share the meat with them.

When we arrived at the entrance of the canteen, there were already many women waiting to boil water, and three racks for killing pigs had been set up.

Today, my fourth uncle Li Delong went out with two other people in the village who knew how to kill pigs.

After a while, a dozen big men came out carrying three big fat pigs, and among them was the big fat pig from Li Wen's family walking in the front.

Everyone put the fat pig on a stone platform. There were four or five young men behind, some holding the pig's body and some pulling the pig's legs.

I saw Li Delong muttering something in his mouth and then stabbing the pig in the heart with his knife. The pig struggled for a few times and died immediately. The woman on the side hurriedly took a basin and started to collect the pig's blood.

Little Li Juan watched her big fat pig being killed and shed tears of sadness.

After a while, all three pigs were killed. The villagers stepped forward to help, pouring boiling water on the pigs and scalding the pig hair. Li Delong and others continued to kill the pigs.

In more than two hours, all eight fat pigs were slaughtered. This year, an old sheep was also killed in the village.

The pig hair was softened and shaved clean, and the original black pig was now white and clean.

The butchers cut the pork into pieces and that's it. The women started cleaning the pig waste.

Next, the meat was weighed. Three farmers who raised two pigs wanted to share the meat with the village, and Li Wen's family was one of them.

First, the pig farmer's three pigs were weighed separately. Li Wen's pigs have a total of more than 150 kilograms of clean meat, which means that more than 70 kilograms of meat must be divided among their family and forty or fifty kilograms among other families.

"Wow! There are so many."

Everyone in the village is envious, but today it is Li Wen's family who is not so hostile. Besides, this is the skill of Li Wen's family. In recent months, Li Wen has been spending a lot of money to buy sugar in exchange for pigweed, and everyone knows it.

"Lao Wu's family, your family has made a lot of money this year! My mistress said that your family also has a big fat pig." A woman in the village said.

"Awen raised that pig himself. He said he still had a lot of fodder at home, and he wanted the pig to grow longer. He refused to kill it, and there was nothing we could do."

"This kid invested more than ten yuan in that pig, but he didn't let it be killed during the Chinese New Year. I don't know what he was thinking," his mother Wang Chunmei said. ωωw..net

"That's right. Your pig is only six months old. You have invested so much and it is gaining weight now. It would be a pity to kill it," the woman said.

"Next year when things get better, we have to apply to raise a pig, but we can't catch one ourselves." The villagers commented with envy.

"Mom, it's close to eighty pounds of pork. We can't eat that much. Why don't we exchange it with the village."

"Let's exchange one pound for five pounds for the pig head, and exchange one pound for four pounds for the pig head. Let's replace it with half of the meat. When we go back, I will braise these and they will be no worse than fat meat, and we will also win over the villagers." Li Wen suggested.
Chapter completed!