The little girl pointed out with a tigerish head and said:
“The old women in the village have killed my sister, I will kill them!”
Geng Xiaoyun spoke so vividly that everyone in the room was amused:< br>
"Really or not, is there really such a thing?"
Geng Xiaoyun waved his hand: "No! We do have some shy and shy people there, but ah! Most of them are bold, courageous, and energetic!"
Lu Miao smiled, rolled her eyes, and interjected:
"Whether it's true or not, you can tell by looking at Xiaoyun?"
"Hey! It's true!"
< br>There was another burst of laughter in the room.
January 19, 1977, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
The county equipment team officially stopped working two years ago.
Fu Jingyou received his salary and various ticket subsidies, and walked around the county department store that day, tying large and small bags to the front and rear of his bicycle and taking them home.
When he got home, he set up his bicycle and was responsible for unloading the packages. Lu Miao stood at the table and was responsible for unloading the packages.
“What did you buy in these big and small bags?”
“We have everything for food and use. It’s time to buy new year’s goods.”
Lu Miao glanced at him angrily, then took a few raisins and tasted them.
The raisins are soft and a little chewy, and have a good sweet taste.
Lu Miao grabbed some and put it in a small bowl, letting Dabao and Erbao grab it and play with it.
"There is almost a whole month until the Chinese New Year. If you buy these now, they will be all gone in a few days."
Fu Jingyou smiled and picked up Erbao from the fence and kissed him:
"It goes into your stomach, not into other people's stomachs. You just buy it after eating. It's not worth it."
And I will definitely have to make a trip to the county a year ago.
The office issued a lot of subsidy tickets, many of which were about to expire.
While talking, thinking of Lu Miao’s sewing and learning to make children’s clothes, Fu Jingyou said:
“I have saved a lot of money this year, and I will buy you one at the end of the year. Sewing machine, do you want it?”
Lu Miao shook his head: "Let's wait until after the college entrance examination! What if you really pass the exam? It's not easy to take such a big guy out. It costs more than 100 yuan..."
Fu Jingyou had a different opinion: "Yeah. It’s not difficult to carry. We will just disassemble the machine when the time comes. We will bring the metal part ourselves and send the other parts to the post office.”
Fu Jingyou thought it through very well.
Because there is no doubt that Lu Miao will definitely pass the exam.
“Don’t buy it yet…”
Lu Miao still shook his head and insisted:
"I just sew for fun, and I don't really want to be a tailor, so I won't do that for now."
Fu Jingyou gave up then, Then he said something else:
"The equipment team is on holiday and nothing happened a year ago. I'm thinking that it's almost cold now, so I'll find someone to come over and kill the pigs tomorrow."
"Kill so early?"
In previous years, the team would kill pigs during the last few days at the end of the year.
Although the meat won’t go bad if it’s cold, it will definitely taste fresh and delicious.
Fu Jingyou held Erbao’s butt with one hand and held Erbao’s back with the other, swinging him around and whistling and teasing:
“Kill one head first, and keep some fresh food at home for uncle. Some of it was sent home, and the rest was made into bacon, hung to dry, and some were sent to the capital city before the end of the twelfth lunar month."
The rest will be killed at the end of the twelfth lunar month.
The two pigs at home were raised earlier than other families in the team, so they naturally became fatter after raising them for half a year.
At that time, half of the pig will be handed over to the task, and the remaining half will be kept at home to eat slowly.
The advantage of widespread promotion of pig farming is that everyone can eat meat by the end of the year. In addition, pork can be bought and sold privately.
The superiors turn a blind eye and won’t say much.
Fu Jingyou has always been responsible for taking care of the pigsty on his way to and from get off work. Lu Miao usually only throws in some vegetables and some swill to feed.
She didn't like the pigsty, so she didn't care much about the affairs there.
Seeing that Fu Jingyou had already made a plan, Lu Miao stopped talking and just listened to his arrangements. Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao agreed on the idea and went to the team to find help after dinner at night.
We made an appointment to start work at 5:30 the next morning.
Fu Jingyou stopped by He's house and told him about killing a pig, and asked Chen Guifen to go there tomorrow to help.
In the countryside, pigs are killed early in the morning, but the children were asleep at that time, so Lu Miao definitely couldn't figure out what was going on.
Chen Guifen understood and reassured him that he would definitely go tomorrow morning.
After staying at He's house for a while, Fu Jingyou went home.
It was said that the pigs would be killed at five o'clock the next morning, but Fu Jingyou got up at four o'clock.
It was pitch dark outside, Lu Miao was pressed into her hair by him, and she woke up from the pain:
"So early?"
"Yes."
Fu Jingyou stroked her forehead and pressed the quilt tightly on her shoulders:
"I need to prepare first, for a while It’s still early to get started when people arrive, why don’t you sleep a little longer?”
“Well...”
Lu Miao yawned and rubbed the side of her face against his palm, still confused.
"You messed with the stove, it's a little cold..."
"Okay."
Fu Jingyou put a new piece of coal in the stove and turned up the damper. Go out and be busy.
Lu Miao turned around, took Dabao, who was sleeping on the back side of the bed and was covered with a small quilt, into his arms, kissed him, and continued to sleep.
The little guy probably nestled in his mother's arms because of nature. He was so sleepy that he couldn't stop his little hands from grabbing at him.
Lu Miao took his little hand out of his arms and replaced it with a finger for him to hold.
Fu Jingyou set up an earthen stove at the door, took off the two pots in the kitchen and set them up in front of the door.
Halfway through the work, he guessed that the newly replaced coal was burning, so he quietly entered the room and turned back the stove damper.
Going out of the room again, just in time to catch up with Chen Guifen.
"Has Miao girl gotten up?"
"I didn't let her get up. The little brat made a fuss last night, so let her sleep a little longer."
Chen Guifen nodded, tied up her clothes and got busy. stand up.
It was just half past four, and Chen Guifen also came over in advance to prepare.
The workmen came at five o'clock and wanted to boil a pot of tea and boil the water for scalding the pig.
Chen Guifen first filled two hot water bottles at home.
A hot kettle is placed in the main room, and visitors can pour it themselves when they are thirsty.
Another kettle was gently put into the room.
Looking back, Lu Miao got up, which was convenient for drinking and making milk for the child.
Gradually more and more people came to the door.
Lu Miao always heard the sound of someone shouting and talking, and couldn't sleep well.
Simply calm down and prepare to get up after getting warmer.
In front of the door.
Fu Jingyou removed a door panel of the main room and set up the door panel with two benches. Fu Jingyou and two uncles went to the pig pen to catch pigs.
The Fu family’s pigs were raised in the autumn last year, and they took more than half a year to raise than other piglets that were caught in the spring.
The two pigs are much longer than the pigs raised by other people in the team. They are estimated to weigh 250 or 280 kilograms.
Looking fat.
The uncle who came to help praised him when he saw it:
"This pig is really well raised. I haven't seen such a fat pig in some years! Xiaoliu, your family is killing pigs today. Pork is also for sale, right?”
Fu Jingyou selected the pig, drove the pig to the corner of the pig pen and said:
"Let's take a look first. We'll give some to the Yue family, and sell the rest if we have any."