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The Chinese New Year is coming, and the village is full of jubilation. The weather is good today, and the harvests in every household are very good. Everyone has some money in their hands. This year can always be a prosperous and good year.

The things to be done during the Spring Festival are right, but Gu Qiu is in confinement, so many things at home are handed over to Lin Yuer, but fortunately, Lin Dashan and Gu Dong can sometimes help.

Since the private school went out of business, Wang Hanwen started a new idea to "sell" Spring Festival couplets.

During the Chinese New Year in Yuncheng, every household will paste Spring Festival couplets on the door. Even poor families who cannot afford Spring Festival couplets will buy some red paper to stick them on to make them feel happy.

Wang Hanwen is good at writing calligraphy. After the private school stopped, he began to practice calligraphy at home in his free time. Gradually, people came to him and asked him to help write the couplets. Most of these people who came to ask for the couplets were embarrassed. If you ask for nothing, you will always bring something, such as two eggs, a few handfuls of melon seeds, and a few pieces of sugar, as a token of your affection.

This gave Wang Hanwen a little inspiration. It would be nice to write some Spring Festival couplets in exchange for something. Not only did he get benefits, but it was also convenient for the villagers.

In the past, people in Jiangjia Village bought them in the county town, and the merchants in those county towns would sometimes ask for random prices. More importantly, the people in the village were illiterate, so they didn't know whether the Spring Festival couplets they bought were good or not.

It’s different now. Now there is a very knowledgeable gentleman in my village, who writes very beautifully, and will always explain to them the meaning of the Spring Festival couplets written.More importantly, there is no need to buy these Spring Festival couplets, just take some of your own things and ask for a pair.

Now Wang Hanwen's reputation in the village is not so good. When everyone mentions Wang Hanwen, they all give a thumbs up and praise him.

Lin Dashan shook his head speechlessly when he saw it, and said: "Scholars are cunning, they make money from others, and let people be grateful to you."

Wang Hanwen glanced at the small handful of melon seeds in Lin Dashan's hand, and said firmly, "Okay, if that's the case, then don't eat what others give me."

Lin Dashan turned and left silently.

Seeing that Lin Dashan suffered from being dumb, Gu Qiu hugged the child and laughed, "Dashan, I don't think we need to buy any new year's goods for our family this year. The miscellaneous things they sent over are enough."

"That's right, it's all due to me." Wang Hanwen puffed out his chest proudly.

"You're going to stay at our house for the New Year this year, donating some snacks is nothing." Lin Dashan seemed to be trying to argue with Wang Hanwen on purpose today.

"I stay here rightfully, and I belong to Yu'er..." Wang Hanwen argued.

"Shut up." Lin Yu'er just came out of the room and heard Wang Hanwen's words.

Wang Hanwen resentfully stopped talking, and stuck to Lin Yuer's side to talk.

Gu Qiu hugged the child a little sorely, so he handed the child into Lin Dashan's hands, "I'm exhausted, my hands are so sore, Dashan, please help me hold it." There was a hint of coquettishness in his tone.

Lin Dashan carefully held the baby in his arms, weighed it, and found that the baby weighed a lot, "Bao'er weighed a lot, it was only the size of a palm when it was born, and now it has grown so big in less than a month Yes, my baby is awesome."

Bao'er seemed to like Lin Dashan's gesture of holding him very much, and giggled, and Lin Dashan held him in circles again, making the child drool and laugh out loud.

Seeing the two fathers and sons having so much fun, Gu Qiu felt that life is full of adventures and surprises. Last winter he was homeless with his younger brother and nearly died of freezing. But this time he has his own lover and his own child. , with a home full of laughter.

This year will definitely be the most memorable year in my life. With a man and a child, my life is complete.

"What are you thinking, why are you just looking at us and not talking?" Lin Dashan asked.

Gu Qiu gently shook his head, smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about how we will spend this year?"

"Hehe, of course it's going to be a prosperous one. This year is Bao'er's first year, so it must be lively." Lin Dashan said with a doting smile on his face.

Gu Qiu nodded, thinking of the two pigs raised in his pigsty, he asked, "Are we going to kill our two pigs this year?"

Lin Dashan thought of the two fat pigs raised in his pigpen, nodded and said: "Although our pigs have only been raised for a year, they can't stand our careful care. Now each pig weighs about 150 catties. Let’s just kill it. Our family has a good harvest this year, and we have earned a lot of money selling preserved fruits and chili sauce, and everyone in the village knows that we have money in our hands. If we don’t kill the New Year’s pig at the end of the year and invite everyone to eat it, it’s a bit unreasonable.”

Gu Qiu nodded after listening, and felt that what Lin Dashan said was reasonable, "Today is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. You can go to Zheng Butcher's house and ask him when he is free. Please come to our house to help butcher pigs."

This Zheng Tu was not a butcher at first, but a farmer in his duty. Later, he married Ding Chuan, whose father was a butcher, and later taught Zheng Tu how to butcher pigs.Zheng Tu has not been a butcher for a long time, just a few months, but his craftsmanship is good and the price is fair. People in the village come to him to kill pigs, and sometimes they buy pork from his house.

When Lin Dashan went to look for him, he had gone out to sell pork and was not at home, only Ding Chuan was at home.

"I don't know when Brother Zheng will come back. There are two pigs in my family who want to ask him to help kill them." Lin Dashan asked.

Ding Chuan did not answer directly, but counted the time with his own fingers, and said heartily: "These days there are too many people looking for me to be the head of the pig butcher, not only from our village, but also from neighboring villages. The day after tomorrow is full, can you do it on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month?"

"Okay, let's set it on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month." Lin Dashan felt that there was no problem with the 26th of the twelfth lunar month and agreed.

At the end of the year, there were many pig-killing families in the village. Lin Dashan was invited to several families to eat pig-killing dishes, and he almost got tired of eating the fat meat.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, the Lin family got up early, and even Zheng Tu, who lived a little far away, came early. This butcher Zheng had a white face and a quiet beard. The look of the pig knife sharpening the knife is different, and it looks very skilled.

Because Gu Qiu was not confinement and couldn't see the blood, he couldn't come out to take care of these things, and Lin Yu'er was too busy alone, so Lin Dashan invited Jiang Tao, Jin Yun, Xiaoyun, and Lu Jian to come over and help. They all had dinner early.

"The pig slaughter has begun. Are you going to kill the pig?" Wang Hanwen and Xiaoqi looked very excited today. They had never seen a pig slaughter before. Ever since they knew that the Lin family was going to slaughter a pig, they had been looking forward to seeing it.

"The butchers are here, and it's about to start. What are you doing so excitedly? There's nothing interesting about killing a pig. It's quite bloody." Looking at Wang Hanwen's appearance, Gu Qiu said with a smile.

"It's about to start! Then let's go out and have a look." Wang Hanwen didn't care about Gu Qiu's words, and happily took Xiaoqi out.

The yard was very lively, and there were many people in the village who came to see the slaughter of pigs. Many of them were children.When Wang Hanwen saw Lin Dashan, he walked towards him.

Butcher Zheng finished sharpening his pig-killing knife and said to Lin Dashan, "Brother Dashan, now take me to the backyard to see the pigs."

Lin Dashan nodded and led them to the backyard.Although there are many animals raised in the backyard, Lin Dashan is a clean person and often cleans the stables, so the backyard does not smell much.

Although Lin Dashan's pigs have only been raised for a year, they are already very fat.Butcher Zheng went into the pigsty to look at the pig carefully, and frowned: "Brother Dashan, this sow in your family can't be killed anymore."

Lin Dashan and Lin Yu'er were surprised when they heard this. Could it be that their pigs were sick? No, they were all eating like tigers when they were feeding the pigs these days. It didn't look like it. Lin Dashan quickly Explain to Butcher Zheng: "My pig has been doing well recently, and should not be sick. Brother Zheng, maybe you misread it."

Butcher Zheng quickly shook his head, "That's not what I mean. Your sow should have a piglet in her belly, so I said it can't be killed."

Hearing this, Lin Dashan was both surprised and delighted. He took a closer look at the sow's belly and found that it was really a bit big. Before, he thought it was his pig's fat, so he didn't think about it. "

"Butcher Zheng, thank you very much today. If we killed this pig without knowing it, we will regret it. Then we will kill the male pig today, and the sow will not be slaughtered first. Lin Dashan smiled. Said, secretly decided to put more money into the red envelope later.

Several men teamed up to drive the sow aside and tied up the boar.

When Gu Qiu heard the sharp squawking of pigs coming from outside the house, he knew that the pigs had started to be slaughtered outside.

Butcher Zheng washed the pig's neck, took a sharpened butcher's knife and slashed at the pig's artery. The pig struggled desperately and screamed, but it was held down by several big men, struggling But in vain.

The pig's blood gushed out, and Jin Yun quickly brought a wooden basin to catch the pig's blood, and asked, "Dashan, should I save this pig's blood for blood tofu or blood sausage later?"

"Let's make blood sausage, it's better." Lin Dashan thought for a while and said.

Jin Yun nodded, took a quick stick and kept stirring to prevent the blood from coagulating.

Several men moved the dead pig to an open place. Butcher Zheng poured boiling water on the pig and scraped it while it was hot with a knife. Even the dirt on the skin was scraped off, and the dirty pig became clean.

Butcher Zheng shaved the pig hair, neatly packed the pig, and cooked the offal, ribs, and pork belly in different categories.

Lin Dashan looked at it and nodded straight. Butcher Zheng really does things differently than other families. After he tidies up like this, it will be much more convenient for his family to cook.

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