The happy little days of the Ye family

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the happiest thing is the children in the village. Many of the candies, melons, and cakes bought in advance are eaten by these little brats.

Every day in the village, you can hear the screams of ghosts and wolves, as well as the little kids being chased all over the village. However, the kids don’t care about being beaten, and they still smile after crying.

There is no need to do farm work at the end of the year. These little guys in the village happily go out with two handfuls of melon seeds every day and wander around the village in groups.

With these naughty boys around, the village is abuzz every day, almost scaring the dogs in the village so much that they dare not go out.

Apart from the children in the village, the happiest people these days are probably Butcher Zhang and his family.

The end of every year is the busiest time for Butcher Zhang. Every household queues up to wait for him to kill the New Year pigs, and he kills several New Year pigs every day.

Killing a New Year pig costs 20 Wen in labor fees, and the hard work fee alone costs more than 100 Wen in a day.

The pigs raised by the villagers are kept and sold for money. In addition to the meat eaten during the New Year and the meat kept for bacon, most of the pork is also sold to Butcher Zhang.

Butcher Zhang has three sons and one daughter. The eldest son sells pork in the town, and he takes the other two sons to kill pigs in several nearby villages every day.

At the end of the year, people in the town also want to buy meat to take home for the New Year. Even though Butcher Zhang can receive more than two pigs a day, there is not enough meat to sell every day.

In addition to making money from killing pigs, Butcher Zhang also made money from selling meat. After the twelfth lunar month, the Zhang family made a lot of money.

Although Butcher Zhang was very tired and thin during the end of the year, he still made a lot of money and even saved up his little girl's dowry.

Thinking of his little girl, Butcher Zhang felt very melancholy. Originally, he was very optimistic about Ye Xilin, his son-in-law.

Ye Xilin raised pigs, and his family killed pigs and sold meat. The two families were well matched, what a perfect match. Unfortunately, his daughter was born late and is only 13 years old now.

However, Ye Xilin has been engaged for a long time, and now he has gone to work for the Li family, so there is no use thinking about it anymore.

But having said that, every time Butcher Zhang saw Ye Xilin, he had a look of pity on his face.

The Ye family has a good family tradition, and it is also close to the Zhang family. Ye Xilin is also very capable, and he is a good son-in-law.

After the autumn harvest, Tang Xiaojing and his family's long-term workers killed all the big pigs in the pig pen to make bacon.

Today, there are 18 half-grown pigs and a litter of two-month-old piglets in the pig pen at the foot of the mountain.

The pigs at home are usually taken care of by long-term workers. From raising pigs, killing pigs to making bacon, everything is taken care of, so Tang Xiaojing doesn't have to worry about it at all.

The long-term worker in the family knows how to kill pigs, and Tang Xiaojing did not invite butcher Zhang to come over to kill the New Year pig.

When he was killing pigs to make bacon some time ago, Tang Xiaojing deliberately kept a 258-pound fat pig.

The pig was so fat and so strong that several long-term workers could hardly hold it down. When Tang Xiaojing saw this, he quickly stepped forward to help.

After raising pigs in the Tang family for several years, these long-term workers have become experts at killing pigs. The big fat pig, who was so ferocious just now, quickly fell down with the knife in his hand.

The pig's blood is poured into a clean wooden basin and later turned into delicious pig's blood.

The Tang family's pigs grew up eating bean dregs and sweet potatoes. They were raised very fat. There was so much fat under the pig skin that the long-term workers around them almost drooled when they saw it.

The Tang family originally raised pigs to make bacon for sale, so there was no need to make bacon from the New Year pig meat.

Tang Xiaojing kept one-third of the pork, and the remaining pork, bones and offal were all distributed to the family's long-term workers.

These long-term workers have been working hard at the Tang family for a year, and they have indeed worked hard.

In addition to the 50 acres of paddy fields in the valley and the 10 fields of Ye Qingqing's dowry, the Tang family also has two hills. At the foot of the hills, there are pig pens, rabbit sheds and ducks and other livestock.

There are many things to do, and now the Tang family has a total of 15 long-term workers.

If you divide most of the pig, each person can get several kilograms of pork, as well as a lot of pig meat and big bones.

The family also raised a lot of ducks. Tang Xiaojing selected some male ducks and gave each long-term worker a plump duck.

Meat and duck are the annual gifts given by the Tang family to the long-term workers. We would like to thank everyone for their hard work this year and hope that everyone will go back and have a good New Year.

Of course, even during the Chinese New Year, the livestock at home cannot be separated from people. Tang Xiaojing arranged for long-term workers to take care of them in turns.

After killing the New Year pigs, half of the long-term workers happily carried the pork and ducks home to celebrate the New Year, leaving those who continued to take care of the livestock and asked others to help take the meat back.

This group of people went back early to celebrate the New Year, and on the second day of the new year, they would come back for another group of long-term workers.

The long-term workers cannot go home for a full New Year, so Tang Xiaojing added 100 yuan to each person's wages for this month.

Although they came back to take care of the livestock at the foot of the mountain during the New Year, the Tang family also gave them extra wages as a New Year gift, so the long-term workers were not dissatisfied and happily went back with the meat.

The long-term worker of the Ye family is also a veteran at killing pigs. This year, he also killed the New Year pig directly at Xiaohoushan.

Ye's mother specifically told Ye Xilin to keep three pig legs. When she returned to her parents' home on the second day of the second grade of junior high school, she and Wang Chunyu each took one pig leg back.

Ye Mu plans to keep the other big pork belly and take it with her when she goes to the Tang family to pay New Year greetings.

Ye Xilin thought that his sister-in-law and sister both had big pig legs, so he kept all four pig legs and planned to send one to Guo'er.

Remove 4 pork legs and there won't be much meat left.

Ye Xilin only needed 20 kilograms of meat, a few ribs and some big bones, and the rest of the meat was given to the family's long-term workers.

Dashan Village was short of food, so Mr. Ye gave each of the long-term workers half a sack of corn cobs.

The Ye family is generous, and the long-term workers in the family are very happy. Many people also ask the grandfather and grandson whether they are still recruiting long-term workers.

The Ye family is easy-going and generous, and they work as long-term workers to ensure the harvest despite droughts and floods. There are many retired old hunters in Dashan Village who want to come to the Ye family to work as long-term workers.

Mr. Ye said cheerfully: "There is no need for regular long-term workers now, but when spring starts, we will need manpower to help with spring plowing."

"After spring plowing, we also need manpower to help dig spring bamboo shoots and pick mushrooms. During spring plowing, we can bring 10 more people over. How long we will be busy depends on the situation."

Like the Tang family, the Ye family also takes turns to take holidays, and during the Chinese New Year month, the family's long-term workers were given extra wages.

Tang Xiaojing and the grandson of the Ye family happened to meet each other when they returned to the back mountain. The two cars were walking side by side, and the three of them chatted about the arrangements for next spring plowing on the road.

Recently, every household in the village is killing New Year pigs. Before the three of them entered the village, they smelled the aroma of meat wafting from the village.

There was also a scream of pigs in the distance, accompanied by the laughter of children.

There is little excitement in the village. What these little kids like most is to watch pigs being slaughtered. Every time someone kills a pig, a large group of kids will be there early to wait.

Halfway through, Ye Xilin smelled the braised pork cooked by his mother, and hurriedly drove the donkey cart back to eat.