The Beginning of Siheyuan: The Pig Killer of Qinjia Village

If you have someone to help you, a free tool, you would waste it if you don’t use it.

Chang Wei was of course happy to see this, and he could also feel more relaxed.

"Young man, this is your wife! She has good taste and is beautiful."

A customer saw Qin Huairu collecting money and gave a thumbs up and said with a smile.

"No, we are from the same village."

There were quite a lot of customers, and Chang Wei was so busy that he didn't even have time to raise his head and just answered casually.

The last second, Qin Huairu was still immersed in the joy of collecting small amounts of money, with a smile on her lips and her eyes narrowed into a line.

The next second, when she heard Chang Wei's words, her lips pouted so much that a wine jug could be hung on them, and she glared at Chang Wei angrily.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see Qin Huairu's little thoughts, but Chang Wei pretended not to see them.

"Oh! Aren't they childhood sweethearts? Haha..." The old customer seemed very talkative and joked with a smile.

Chang Wei smiled slightly and said no more.

There was a constant stream of people buying meat, and the meat sold out very quickly, being sold out just before eight o'clock.

People who buy meat like to go early to get it fresh.

Qin Huairu counted the small coins, squinted her eyes happily, and looked like a little money-grubber.

"Here, a total of ninety-two dollars and ninety-six cents." (Meat can be sold for seventy-seven dollars. The head, hooves, offal and a pig weigh more than ten pounds of lard. The lard is more valuable than the meat, so this amount of money is not much. It can only be said that laymen watch the fun, while experts know the ins and outs.)

Today's two pigs were not big, weighing 263 jin, and I bought them for yuan. I sold all the meat, the head, the hooves, the offal and the bones, leaving nothing behind, and made about yuan.

In today's world where ordinary workers only earn 20 or 30 yuan a month, earning more than 20 yuan a day is really a lot. Don't be surprised, because it depends on skills, which ordinary people can't do. But the good days will only last for a few years.

Chang Wei took the money and bought four fried dough sticks from the uncle selling fried dough sticks next door, and asked the uncle to help watch the cart.

Today I plan to buy some seeds and seedlings of fruits and vegetables. I will go back and plant them in my own plots. The focus is on the land of the Space Farm. I need to buy sweet potato seedlings and go into the mountains tomorrow.

Nowadays, fried dough sticks are very solid. The real big ones are as thick as a girl’s wrist.

"Here, you got up so early and didn't eat!"

Chang Wei handed two paper-wrapped fried dough sticks to Qin Huairu.

Tools also have to eat, right? We are not rich landlords who exploit people to death.

"I'm enough for one, you let the uncle show you the car, what do you want to buy?"

Qin Huairu took a fried dough stick and asked casually.

"Uncle Shan gave me two acres of private land. I can't waste it. I bought some vegetable seeds and planted them."

Chang Wei answered casually while eating fried dough sticks.

"Come on, I'll take you there. I know where I can buy these seedlings."

Qin Huairu immediately volunteered to lead the way, and Chang Wei followed silently.

After a round of shopping, I bought seeds of beans, greens, cabbage, radishes, gourds, winter melons, pumpkins, and some seedlings of peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.

He asked Qin Huairu to help buy a few sets of bowls, chopsticks and porcelain basins under the pretext of giving her money, and then he bought enough sweet potato seedlings. He went around and found a deserted place to plant them on the land of the space farm, so that if there was no market on the 20th, he could catch all three nests of wild boars.

Summer sweet potatoes grow very fast and have high yields, with several thousand kilograms per mu of land, and the highest yield in later generations is over ten thousand kilograms. The growth cycle is a little over a hundred days, which is just right for a space farm. Both vines and sweet potatoes can be fed to pigs. If you don't eat them yourself, let them automatically convert into feed.

Although the land was only less than one acre, it was much more fertile than normal land. It had been planted before the crossing, and the sweet potato vines and the sweet potatoes produced produced a yield of nearly 20,000 kilograms, which was a terrifying amount.

However, the sweet potato varieties of this era are not of good quality, so the yield should not be so high.

Qin Huairu praised the basket. She didn’t buy much today, just a handful of vermicelli.

On the way back, Qin Huairu felt comfortable and sat directly next to the front of the cart, waiting for Chang Wei, the savage bull, to pull the cart.

"It's for you, as a reward for your hard work."

Chang Wei handed her two clam oils. This stuff is really small, only a little bit each, probably only 20 grams, it feels like it can be applied in three or five times. She bought two directly, it's not expensive, 1.2 cents each.

"Hmph~ You have a conscience."

Qin Huairu took it happily, opened it and smelled it, her almond-shaped eyes narrowed into a line with happiness.

This girl is so easy to fool, but now is not the time before the time travel. It doesn’t matter if she is a village girl or a young widow, it’s okay to sleep with her.

As the saying goes, people are busy during the day and have nothing to do, and at night when people are resting, they cannot let anything go unnoticed.

But it’s different when you travel through time to this era, especially for a grown-up girl like Qin Huairu.

It’s okay to date, but it’s not like in later generations where people are not afraid of people knowing if they sleep together without getting married.

As a result, it would only ruin her reputation and make people point fingers at her...

Besides, I haven't established myself yet, I don't even have a home, so I can't rush this matter...

Gathering his thoughts, Chang Wei looked at Qin Huairu deeply and pulled the cart.

"You performed well today. When I get better, I will make you my wife. But you can't let me be trapped in this pool of water. My goal is to reach the stars and the sea."

Qin Huairu's happy almond-shaped eyes narrowed into a line and she swung her little feet happily.

That's better, I don't want you to stick to me like this... I still want the sea, can you serve it? Stupid, haven't you heard that there are only cows that die of exhaustion, but no land that is plowed to death?

When they were almost at the village, Qin Huairu got off the car and walked by herself. She was afraid that she would feel embarrassed if others teased her, and she was also afraid that some nosy middle-aged women would say something nonsense.

Be careful about your reputation, a girl shouldn't have a bad reputation.

They walked in silence, each with their own thoughts.

At around eleven o'clock, we returned to the village office.

The two parted.

Qin Huairu happily carried the basket home, walking on tiptoe, obviously in a good mood.

Chang Wei went to the yard to fetch some water to wash his dishes. For lunch, he heated up some pork head and made pot stickers with two pieces of flour. He made a few more pot stickers, enough for several meals.

After dinner, Xiaotian stayed for a while.

At two or three o'clock, Chang Wei carried a hoe and carried vegetable seeds in a wooden bucket to plant in his private plot.

The private plot is in front of the village, not far from the river, which is convenient for irrigation. First, the land is turned over and furrows are made, and then different vegetables are planted in sections.

The weather is getting warmer, so you need to water the plants frequently, otherwise the seedlings will be sun-dried to death over time.

After planting the vegetables, we went back to the village office, got our pickaxes and shovels, and continued digging and digging, digging the foundation trench.

The foundation trenches for two houses have been dug, and together with the side houses and the yard, it will be almost finished in two days.

There is no rush. Even if we have finished digging, we will not have the money to build a house, so we still have to wait a few days.

Qin Zhengshan said that the wheat harvest would be around the beginning of July, so Chang Wei wanted to finish the house before the harvest.

Staying at the village office all the time is not a good idea, and it smells...

It takes ten days to half a month to build a house. Changweiyuan also wants to lay a stone floor, and the foundation also needs a lot of stones. All these have to be done by ourselves on the mountainside, so there are still a lot of things to do every day, or in other words, every day is fulfilling.

After dark, we finished work and returned to the village office. We ate the leftovers from lunch and flatbreads, and after eating and drinking, we took a shower and went to sleep.

There is no electricity in the village, and they still use kerosene lamps. Chang Wei is too lazy to light them. With that little light, it would be better to use the moonlight and his own eyes!

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