The end of the year is getting closer, and people in the production team are killing pigs every day.
Although the sound of pig braying is too loud, it is noisy every day, and the atmosphere of the New Year is quite good.
According to the task pig quota, the pigs submitted for the task must be at least 120 kilograms.
In the past, when the food station came to collect pigs, they would collect them as whole animals.
Half a head was slaughtered. There is really no precedent for this standard of collecting pigs.
The food station said it wouldn't work, so Fu Jingyou went to the He family.
The He family also had two pigs this year, and Fu Jingyou took one from the other side to hand over the task.
When he killed his second pig later, Fu Jingyou gave half a fan to the He family.
The weight of half a pig is definitely not as much as that of a whole pig, but it is better because it has more fat and is good meat. The He family has also had a mouth-watering New Year.
The back and forth between my family members is nothing.
The food station also pays money to collect pigs, ranging from 6 to 7 cents per catty depending on the grade of the pigs.
The pig that Fu Jingyou brought from the He family weighed 132 kilograms, which exceeded the basic standard for pig weight. It was certified as a second-level pig, and each kilogram was counted as six cents and three cents.
That works out to eighty-three dollars and six cents.
The sausage I made before was quite successful. Whether it is sliced and eaten with green garlic, or simmered on the side of the pot with rice, it tastes very good.
Fu Jingyou ate deliciously. When he killed the pig, he kept the pig intestines and made some with Lu Miao.
On New Year's Eve, Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao finished dinner, cleaned up, and carried the stove into the room.
The nuts, candies and other things prepared in advance were laid out.
Dabao and Erbao were sitting on the inside of the bed, grabbing candies and playing with them. Outside, Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao were nibbling on melon seeds. They took out all their accumulated income and carefully calculated the profit and loss of this year's income.
Fu Jingyou participated in the work of the county equipment team in early March and worked from March to the end of the year, a full ten months, not counting subsidies, with a bare salary of thirty-seven dollars a month.
After ten months, there are still three hundred and seventy yuan.
At the end of the year, the two pigs earned 216 yuan and 4 cents. Added up, the annual income was more than 580 yuan.
After excluding daily expenses, I still have 356 yuan left in my hand. These are all my income in 1976.
This does not include the ticket subsidies Fu Jingyou received.
Some of those tickets were for my own home, and some were exchanged for three or five yuan to others.
Some hard-to-get industrial coupons and the like are very popular on the black market...
"I spent almost three hundred yuan a year. I guess the combined expenses of several families in the team can't keep up with ours."
Lu Miao put the calculated amount of money into a bulging bag. Small pocket.
There are deposits from the past family.
Originally, it was more than 400 yuan. During the time when she was comatose after giving birth, she spent more than 180 yuan.
Now there are all kinds of people, with a total deposit of 600 in hand.
Fu Jingyou saw that her small pocket filled with money was almost full, and she felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction in her heart.
“It’s all spent on children and family, and you haven’t bought anything yet.”
Lu Miao glanced at him angrily:
“My things You buy a complete set every time you go out, what else can I buy?”
Fu Jingyou smiled, with a handsome and soft face:
"You can save money slowly, these are the things that should be spent."
Lu Miao nodded and counted a handful of scraps alone.
"This is ten yuan. I will go out to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow. Minmin and Minjie's New Year's money will come from here... I gave you one yuan last year, please give back one yuan this year!"
"The remaining money will come from here..." You can take what you got, and you will start working after the new year. There are children among your colleagues, and it’s only twenty-five cents. Please take a look at it.”
Lu Miao asked in a nagging voice:
"We are far away, and our colleagues don't even move around. You, the team leader, take the time to invite them to a state-owned restaurant for a meal."
"It's a good start to the new year. ""Okay. "
Putting the money away, the young couple each held a baby between their legs. They cracked a few melon seeds, peeled one and pressed it into the baby's mouth.
Dabao Erbao was waving his hands blindly, making melon seeds scatter everywhere.
There were delicious melon seeds in the back. The two boys picked them up gropingly, one hugged their mother's neck and stared at her mouth while eating the melon seeds.
One grabbed his father’s clothes and pulled at him, opening his little mouth and waiting to be fed.
“You brat, the greedy cat is reincarnated.”
Fu Jingyou patted Dabao’s butt, peeled two melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth.
The little guy was chewing melon seeds like a little mouse.
Even though there are only a few millet teeth, when people eat, they can slip away.
Fu Jingyou’s peeling speed couldn’t keep up with his eating speed.
In the end, there was nothing to do. Fu Jingyou stuffed a red date into Dabao and let Dabao hold it and nibble it.
Dabao was also easy to coax, so he took the red dates and sat down to gnaw them.
Lu Miao shook her head inaudibly, and was amused by the father and son, making her laugh softly.
The two babies fell asleep one after another. Lu Miao stayed with Fu Jingyou until after eleven o'clock, but she couldn't hold it anymore.
Fu Jingyou coaxed her: "You want to go to sleep first? I'll be fine in a moment."
Lu Miao asked him in a daze: "What else are you going to do?"
< br>"When the clock turns twelve, go out and set off a firecracker."
This is the custom.
I used to be poor and couldn't get even half a penny out of my hands, so no one would let me go.
This year, most of the people in the team got some money for their assignments. There should be quite a few people setting off firecrackers.
Lu Miao nodded drowsily. In just over half an hour, she wanted to hold on, but she still couldn't. She tilted her head and rested on Fu Jingyou's arm and fell asleep.
Fu Jingyou hugged her and listened to the clock in the main room ringing twelve times before carefully pulling out his arm.
He put on his clothes and took the firecrackers to the area near the threshing floor in front of the door to set them off.
Many people in the team don't have clocks at home, and Fu Jingyou is considered the leader.
He was the first to set off firecrackers, and the production team also followed suit one after another.
The new year and new atmosphere, 1977, officially begins at this moment.
Not only on New Year's Eve, many people in the production team set off firecrackers. On New Year's Day, they went from house to house to pay New Year's greetings, and there were many more firecrackers than in previous years.
Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou went to He's house to pay New Year's greetings, each holding one in their arms.
Along the way, I met other uncles in the team who came to pay New Year's greetings. They all praised the Dabao and the Two Treasures when they saw them.
“Look at this little face, this little chubby baby, it’s really rare.”
“Both little babies will grow up, Xiaoliu, Xiaoliu’s wife, I will be carved out of the same mold as you. Yes! "< br>
"Haha, it's..."
While walking and chatting to He's house, He Hongjin set off a large bunch of firecrackers outside the door. Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou were prepared and gave two small firecrackers in advance. Covered his ears.
Most of the large package of things that Tang Mei asked Fu Jingyou to bring back were children's things.
For example, tiger-head hats, tiger-head boots, little red coats, etc., are all double.
I came here today to pay New Year greetings, and I wore these. (End of this chapter)