met free Chapter 560: Year of the Pig
Chapter 560: Year of the Pig
Lin Yihui first went to the bathhouse to take a shower, cleaned himself up, and then went to the cafeteria to get some food. After he was full, he took out some stationery to write a letter to his family. Except for the time he sent a letter and money home when he first arrived here, he never sent any more letters. His family should have guessed that he was on a business trip and it was inconvenient for him to contact home.
Now that I'm back, I naturally have to tell my family so that they don't have to worry.
The next day, Lin Yihui sent the letter to the mailroom and asked them to send the letter and the money.
On this day, a new tractor driver from the Harvest Brigade drove his newly bought tractor into the village. In fact, the day after the money for growing watermelons was distributed, Captain Qian arranged for people to repair the road, widening and straightening the main road in the village, and then applied to buy a tractor.
He also arranged for his son to learn how to drive a tractor. Everyone understood the principle of keeping things within the family, so Captain Qian naturally would not miss such a good opportunity.
Until now, we have finally bought a tractor. From now on, not only will it be convenient for everyone to travel, but it will also be convenient for the team to do things. We no longer have to ask others for help when buying fertilizers, seeds, or doing anything else.
When the tractor entered the village, everyone went crazy and ran after it. Captain Qian came over to stop everyone and asked everyone to be careful, as it would be a serious matter if they were crushed by the tractor.
The tractor driver drives the tractor into a thatched shed that has been built in advance, so that it is not exposed to the sun or rain, and the tractor will not break down so quickly.
After the tractor stopped, everyone went forward to check it out. They stretched out their hands and gently touched the tractor for fear of tripping it.
After watching for a while, everyone lost interest and dispersed.
After the rice is dried, everyone puts it into bags, weighs it, and then loads it onto a tractor to pay the grain tax. After all, it is not always possible to wait for the transport team's vehicle, as the transport team still has to finish their own work and can only come to help transport the grain when they are not busy.
It is better to pay the public grain early and feel at ease.
After paying the public grain tax, we distributed food to everyone. Wheat here is planted in winter and harvested in early summer, so the food distributed at the end of the year does not include wheat flour, but only rice, corn flour, soybeans, sweet potatoes, peanuts...
Anyway, there is a little bit of everything, mainly rice, cornmeal, sweet potatoes and other things that can fill the stomach, the others can only be used as snacks to satisfy your cravings.
After receiving the food, Song Lan and Zhou Bai came to help them deliver the food back. Although they didn't work much this year, they still earned five work points a day regardless of whether they worked or not, which was equivalent to paying them wages, so the three of them also received a lot of food.
When they got home, the three of them carried their food into their respective rooms and kept them separate for safety. This was how Wenxi had always stored food.
Qin Mi will come here at night, so her food cannot be stored in the system warehouse now. We will just have to eat her food first.
It was the end of the year and Qin Mi had a lot of things to do. Wen Xi often asked him not to come, but he insisted on coming, so Wen Xi didn't say much and just let him do it. He would know when his body couldn't take it anymore.
After the food was distributed, Tian Shengnan and Song Lan went to ask Captain Qian for a family leave and a letter of introduction, because Song Lan was going to Tian Shengnan's home to meet her parents, but she didn't know whether they would get married in the countryside, or...
After all, there is less than a year left before I can return to the city.
Since Zhou Bai didn't go home, Tian Shengnan asked him to help get the meat when it was distributed, and then helped them marinate the meat so that they could come over after the New Year to eat it.
We have raised a lot of pigs this year. Even if the task pigs are handed in, there will be a lot of pigs left, and everyone will get a lot of pork. Tian Shengnan and Song Lan will not refuse even the pork.
After all, pork is not easy to eat these days. Villagers can only eat pork when it is distributed at the end of the year!
When Tian Shengnan and Song Lan left, they did not ask anyone to see them off. Instead, they carried the mountain products they had exchanged from the village and the mountain products they had made themselves, and set off to ride on an ox cart. With an ox cart, they did not have to trouble others to see them off.
In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the villagers were busy slaughtering the New Year pig. Before dawn, the outside was already bustling with activity. Many people were not afraid of the cold and went there early to watch the fun.
The temperature in the morning might be around minus five degrees Celsius, and your nose would be frozen and painful as soon as you go out. Wen Xi quickly ran into the kitchen and lit a fire.
Even if the hot water in the thermos is not finished, Wenxi will replace it with freshly boiled water every morning.
Winter mornings are best suited to eating hot food. After Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue got up, Wen Xi brought out three servings of potato flour and poured them into a large bowl.
The potato noodles are slightly spicy, and the plump round noodles are dyed with red oil, which looks very tempting. There are also fried tofu, shredded wood ear, lettuce and a few slices of ham in it.
This is what Wenxi stocked up from outside stores. She stocked up 100 portions of each of the mildly spicy and original flavors of each item on the menu. She herself can't stand the medium spicy and extra spicy ones, and she probably doesn't think many people can accept them either. It would be a waste if she stocked them up.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue rubbed their hands and ran into the kitchen, quickly fetched hot water to wash up. When they came for breakfast, they saw potato flour that they had never seen before. They were both a little surprised, but they didn't ask any questions.
They have eaten so many delicious foods with Wen Xi that they had never seen before.
While having breakfast at home, I could occasionally hear the screams of pigs coming from the village. Everyone has been busy for a year just for this day, and no one would think that the noise was disturbing.
"Xiaoxi, when are we going over there?" Shen Jiaojiao picked up a piece of vermicelli and started eating it. The vermicelli was very soft and smooth. She slurped it into her mouth in one go. It was very fresh and fragrant.
"Now we can get one pig for every pig slaughtered. We don't have to wait as long as before. We can get pork anytime we want. But I want to wait until later to see if I can buy spare ribs and offal. So there's no rush. It won't be too late to go after lunch. By then, a few pigs should have been processed."
This year, the three of them will be celebrating the New Year together, so naturally they have to prepare some good things. They can't just eat pork, right?
In the morning, Wen Xi took out three cups of hot pearl milk tea, poured them into the teacup, and asked Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to come over to drink milk tea. The three of them sat together and drank hot milk tea.
After lunch, three people went to the pig-slaughtering scene with backpacks and baskets. Some people had already taken their share of the meat and went home, so there were not so many people at the pig-slaughtering scene.
Wenxi and the other two walked to the back of the line and lined up obediently.
Although they don’t know how much pork each person can get this year, Wenxi is not in a hurry. They will know everything when it’s their turn.