The Beginning of Siheyuan: The Pig Killer of Qinjia Village

on the way home.

Chang Wei counted his belongings. Building a house and buying daily necessities cost him about three hundred. A broken boat has three thousand nails. This is the truth of home. You can't see it at all. You just spend the money.

I bought six more piglets, and I have no idea of ​​the usual miscellaneous expenses.

The wild boar was sold for about 500 yuan, and I made more than 400 yuan from buying pigs and selling meat.

Liu Qing and her daughter spent two hundred yuan, and now they only have about four hundred yuan on them.

But don't worry, I can earn more than ten yuan a day on average now. Even if I only have ten yuan left after deducting expenses, I will be at least a 10,000 yuan household according to the three-year plan.

Thinking of this, Chang Wei suddenly felt that he had been dwelling on a trivial matter.

Ten thousand yuan household!!!

Even in the 1980s and 1990s, 30 or 40 years later, a millionaire was a rare thing! Compared with the wages of contemporary workers who only make a few dozen yuan a month, with our conditions, let alone supporting Qin Huairu and Liu Qing, we could easily support eight or ten women.

With the help of the cheating artifact of the space farm, I can raise a few old sows to give birth to piglets, and the feed will be provided by the sweet potatoes I grow, which basically completes a cycle. I can sell about a thousand fat pigs a year, and the average price of a pig is fifty yuan, which means fifty thousand yuan, and fifteen hundred thousand yuan in three years.

Ouch~ This is the big head!

With this income, even if I start to live a flat life in three years until the reform and opening up, I can still live a good life!

No matter how three years of disaster or ten years of storm, they cannot affect me.

It would be best to open a butcher shop in the city. The pigs from the space farm are easier to sell. Even if it becomes a public-private partnership later, we will actively cooperate. As long as it is well managed, small amounts of money can still be earned continuously...

Chang Wei fantasized all the way back home, locked up the pigs, and finally relaxed today.

It's a rare opportunity to take a break, go to bed and take a nap...

"You lazy boy, get up!"

In a daze, I heard Qin Huairu's soft voice and a pair of small hands pinching my nose. I opened my eyes and saw a pretty face, with two charming peach blossom eyes blinking playfully.

Chang Wei yawned lazily, stretched, and took her into his arms.

"Little goblin, why are you here?"

Qin Huairu lay in his arms, squinting her eyes comfortably and arching her back against his chest.

"I'm here to help you feed the pigs. You always forget. And my mom told me that tomorrow is a good day. I'm here to tell you the good news."

Tomorrow is July 4th, the first day of the sixth lunar month. Chang Wei couldn't tell whether it was a good day or a bad day, but since Qin Huairu's mother said it was good, then it was good, he thought about it and asked.

"Then can I make it in time when I come back for the next episode tomorrow? If not, I won't go to sell meat tomorrow."

"I can make it. My mom said we can just go over for dinner. And I want to go to the market with you! I'll collect the money for you."

Chang Wei raised the corner of his mouth slightly. This is the terrible thing about the love brain during the passionate love period. He doesn't want to be apart for even a moment. He is definitely a clingy person.

The two of them were affectionate for a while, then Chang Wei got up and they left the house.

It was almost dark outside, and it was too late, so Qin Huairu did not stay for dinner.

After seeing Qin Huairu off and walking into the kitchen, I suddenly felt confused about what to eat in the evening.

Looking around, I saw two large water jars in the corner, with two sacks of dried wild vegetables on top, reserved for winter. One of the jars contained pickled radishes, and the other contained pickled wild vegetables, both of which were delicious side dishes, but it was too late.

I can only sigh that I am really too hardworking.

When you have everything you need, eating is hard, and you still want to be picky...

Seeing the pork belly that I hadn't finished eating at noon, I thought, "OK! You're the one that caught my eye."

I took some wild celery from the space and stir-fried it with shredded pork. I heated up the millet porridge that Qin Huairu cooked in the morning and paired it with two hot buns. That was it for dinner.

While eating, Chang Wei thought, this was the first time in his life, and he had never been engaged before! What kind of preparations were needed for an engagement! He didn't know. He couldn't just go to the house for a meal!

It’s not easy to ask Qin Huairu’s mother, so among the people I know, I can only go to Qin Zhengshan’s house and ask Liu Cuilan.

After dinner, they went straight to Qin Zhengshan's house. When Qin Zhengshan and his wife heard Chang Wei asking about the engagement, they guessed it.

They were all experienced people, so how could Qin Huairu's thoughts escape their eyes! But they didn't expect that Chang Wei would be dealt with so quickly.

They will be family from now on, so Liu Cuilan introduced to Chang Wei more warmly and kindly that there were eight necessary items in the past: a comb, which meant loving each other and growing old together, a ruler, scissors, a mirror, an abacus, a betrothal gold flowered cloth, etc.

Now the times are different, everything is simple, the war has just ended, nothing is too particular. If the fleeing famine comes from other places and they like each other, they will roll up their bedding and live together. In the village, marriage is basically not done, two loads of grain are enough to get married, and those with better conditions will add a pig's head and pig's tail, which means they will depend on each other until old age.

I suggest Chang Wei not to be picky and just look at what Qin Huairu likes! Just go to the street and buy her some tomorrow.

Chang Wei went home, washed up, and lay on the bed to think about it. This was his first time after all, so he decided to go through the process.

The pig head and pig tail are already there, so buy a set of comb and mirror, plus give a betrothal gift of 18.8 yuan, and then ask Qin Huairu what she wants.

At 3:30 in the morning, Chang Wei got up, washed, ate a few buns to fill his stomach, and started to slaughter the pig.

Leave the pig's head and tail, plus ten pounds of pork belly.

After feeding the pigs with bran in hot water, he pulled the cart out at 4:30. Qin Huairu was waiting at the door. When she saw Chang Wei, she was like a happy little deer and jumped after him.

In the village, the two smiled at each other without saying anything. The village was too quiet at the moment, with no other sounds except the crowing of chickens and barking of dogs, so their voices could be heard from far away.

After leaving the village, Chang Wei took out two buns. "Eat them on the bus."

"Ok!"

Qin Huairu nodded happily and sat on the cart obediently.

Chang Wei pulled the cart and started off, smiling and asking, "Comrade Qin Huairu, what gift do you want for your engagement?"

Qin Huairu's almond eyes were full of tenderness. She swung her feet and answered playfully. "I don't want anything. I just want Awei, that's enough."

Chang Wei raised his eyebrows and smiled. "You are really greedy."

〈Qin Huairu, you little devil have really become a spirit. You are so good at talking. You seem to want nothing, but you want everything.〉

Qin Huairu didn't expect it to be so profound, and winked playfully. "Then I want Awei's heart."

Chang Wei smiled brightly and teased her. "Okay! Qin Huairu, you're not even married yet! You want to murder your husband!"

"Hate it, I can't bear it!"

The two of them played and joked all the way and soon arrived at the market.

Qin Huairu jumped out of the cart first after finding a spot on the roadside. Chang Wei parked the cart and lowered the folding legs to make the entire surface of the cart level, turning it into a meat stall that was easy to operate.

Qin Huairu watched from the side with stars in her eyes. She didn’t expect that his cart had changed so much after not following him for half a month. I heard that he made it himself!

"Awei, did you do this? You are so awesome."

Chang Wei smiled and started to remove the bones and separate the meat.

"It's nothing special, it's just for convenience."

〈Comrade Qin Huairu, are you telling me what it means that a lover sees beauty in everything?〉

Qin Huairu pointed at the cart playfully.

"It's amazing! My cart will tip over when it's laid flat, but this one won't."

Chang Wei gave her a brief introduction.

"It was custom-made for me, but it's more difficult to pull than a normal cart."

When making this cart, Chang Wei took into consideration his own great strength, so the cart was made wider and longer, with the wheels placed further forward, so that it could carry more things and was also convenient for selling meat.

While speaking, Chang Wei did not stop working. He had already separated the pork meat and bones and started shouting.

Meat is selling better these days, so during the busy farming season, I buy some good food for the men who are the backbone of the family.

Qin Huairu sold the products one by one and happily collected the small amounts of money.

Everyone goes to buy meat early in the morning. Chang Wei always weighs the meat high, and his knife skills are pleasing to the eye, so he has gained quite a lot of popularity. The meat is sold out before nine o'clock.

After selling the meat, Chang Wei took Qin Huairu to the store to buy candy and some engagement items, such as nine feet of floral cloth, nine feet of cotton cloth, a comb, scissors, etc.

I wanted to buy her some clothes, but unfortunately there were no shops selling ready-made clothes in the market, so I could only pick out a piece of cloth and make it myself, and then patch it up later. Forget about the vanishing cream, because you can't buy it unless you go to the city.

After buying things, I hurried back. I had to go to Qin Huairu's house at noon, and there would be a big market tomorrow, so I had to go to the villages along the way to buy two fat pigs. Time was tight.

In Xiaozhuang Village, after buying two fat pigs, we walked back in a hurry.

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