sbdcsierra Chapter 1456 Catching the New Year Pig
Chapter 1456 Catching the New Year Pig
Chapter 1456 Catching the New Year Pig
Yu Quanjin had wanted to form a Yongxing caravan before, so he told the mountain runners in the caravan to keep all the skins and bear gallbladders they had captured.
The people in the team were very obedient, mainly because this saved them the trouble of running down the mountain.
These days, people in the forest area don’t go down the mountain to buy New Year’s goods like the Zhao family did. They just go to the market before the New Year to buy some melon seeds, frozen pears, and sugar balls to celebrate the New Year.
So generally speaking, no one wants to go down the mountain.
Yongxing Brigade has ten teams with more than a thousand people, many of whom go hiking, so it goes without saying that they have made a lot of money.
Zhao Jun took the notebook and took a look. On it were densely packed names of people and statistics on the types and quantities of skins. The minimum number of items required was at least twenty gray skins or twenty yellow leaves.
Zhao Jun flipped back and turned five pages before he finished.
At this time, Yu Xuewen raised his hand to gesture to You Zhijie, who understood and said to Zhao Jun, "In the past two days, we have collected about 800 yellow leaves for you. As for the gray skin, it's just over 500. Was it 515 or 518?"
Zhao Jun was stunned when he heard this. He sold the gray skin to Changshan and made a profit of four yuan per piece, while the yellow leaves made three yuan.
According to what You Zhijie said, the profit that Yongxing Brigade has collected for him is 5,000 yuan.
The key is that Zhao Jun doesn’t have to pay for the capital.
"Zhao Jun, the leather and other things are all in the warehouse." Tao Dabao called Zhao Jun and said, "It's already this late, come home with me and have a meal. After dinner, I will take you to the big warehouse, and after you have checked them, you can take those things away.
After that, we will call you in two days when we have collected everything and you can come back again."
"Uncle Tao, Secretary Yu." After hearing what Tao Dabao said, Zhao Jun hurriedly said to the two giants of Yongxing: "Do you think this will work? Let's put these things in your warehouse first. When we leave on the eighth day of the first lunar month, I will come here from home, pick up these things, and then drive them directly to Changshan."
"Well..." Tao Dabao looked at Yu Xuewen after hearing this, and Yu Xuewen nodded and said, "That's fine, it's all the same thing."
Anyway, it was his Yongxing Brigade that paid for it, so it didn't matter to them when Zhao Jun came to pick up these things.
But for Zhao Jun, it was different. If he took these things home, he would have to manage them himself, so it would be better to leave them in Yongxing Brigade.
Seeing Yu Xuewen agreed, Tao Dabao smiled and said to Zhao Jun: "Come on, come home with me to eat, and you can leave after dinner if you want."
After talking to Zhao Jun, Tao Dabao and Yu Xuewen said, "Old Yu, I'm leaving now."
Yu Xuewen responded, stood up, exchanged a few polite words with Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang, and then sent them out of the house.
After leaving the brigade headquarters, the three got on a jeep and headed towards Tao Dabao's home.
Tao Dabao's wife Jiang Lan was at home taking care of the children. She was not prepared for the sudden visit of Zhao Jun and others.
It was too late to kill chickens or boil meat, but luckily there were frozen dumplings at home, so Jiang Lan cooked them for them.
Dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut and wild boar meat, with more sauerkraut than meat.
But it’s not New Year’s Day for the farmers, so being able to eat dumplings with meat is already a great thing!
This was all thanks to Tao Dabao's ability. The mountain runners in the team would often send some meat to his family after hunting wild boars.
When Zhao Jun and his friends were at home, they ate dumplings that were filled with meat and eggs. It felt quite fresh to eat such dumplings out of the blue, and it felt a bit like recalling the past.
While eating dumplings, Zhao Jun told Tao Dabao that he wanted to buy a pig from Yongxing Brigade. Tao Dabao stuffed the dumplings into his mouth and said vaguely, "Okay, before you leave, go to the pig pen of Team 3 and pick a fat one. I'll give you 75 cents for the live pig, and I won't ask you for more."
"Uncle Tao, our..." Zhao Jun paused for a moment before saying, "We need seven."
"Ah?" Tao Dabao, who had just picked up a dumpling, was stunned. The dumpling fell into his bowl, splashing the soy sauce in the bowl onto the table.
"Why did you buy so many?" Tao Dabao frowned and asked, "You can't use them as gifts, right?"
"We have several families here." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "We are all thinking of killing a pig before the New Year to entertain guests."
"If there is a wild boar, let's get one." Tao Dabao said so, but Zhao Jun laughed and said, "The wild boar was not thin the other day."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Tao Dabao lamented that this boy didn't know how to live, but he didn't say anything else.
After finishing their meal, Zhao Jun and his friends prepared to leave. When Tao Dabao accompanied them out, they happened to see Tao Fulin coming towards them with his hands behind his back.
The old man came to see his grandson. When he saw Zhao Jun, Tao Fulin was surprised and asked, "Zhao Jun, why did you come here? Why haven't you come home yet?"
"I arrived before noon." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "After that, I came to have dinner with my uncle Tao."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Tao Fulin said, "Then let's go to your second uncle's house for dinner tonight."
"This is terrible, Master Tao." Zhao Jun said, "We have to leave soon."
"Dad!" At this time, Tao Dabao said to Tao Fulin, "You accompany Zhao Jun and the others to the third team to buy pigs. I will go back to the brigade headquarters."
"Buy pigs?" Tao Fulin was stunned, and then he heard Zhao Jun say, "Master Tao, let's think about buying a few pigs to take home for a New Year's Eve dinner."
"Then let's go." Tao Fulin waved his hand, and then said to Tao Dabao: "Boss, go and do your thing. I'll lead the Zhao army."
After saying that, Tao Fulin followed Zhao Jun into the jeep.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Tao Fulin looked around and said to Zhao Jun, "Boy, your car is really nice."
Zhao Jun smiled, started the car and drove out.
After walking more than four miles, the jeep entered the third team and stopped in front of a house under the command of Tao Fulin.
As soon as the Zhao army got off the car, they were hit by a foul smell.
Behind this house is a pig house with a pile of shoveled pig manure next to it, which smells terrible.
"Come with me into the house, kid." Tao Fulin waved his hand at Zhao Jun and said, "Call Bai Lao Er."
The Bai Laoer mentioned by Tao Fulin, the couple raised pigs for the brigade, and Bai Laoer was also in charge of slaughtering the pigs.
Tao Fulin was in front and Zhao Jun was behind. As soon as Tao Fulin opened the door, he heard a man in the room scolding, "Qiao Li, how many times have I told you? Ah? Pick up tofu, pick up the edge, pick up the edge!"
"You're so pretty! You can just plug it in or not!" The man cursed, and the woman responded: "I've been serving you all day, and you're still making trouble... Oh, Uncle Tao is here!"
The woman was cursing when she saw Tao Fulin and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Tao, have you eaten?"
"We've finished eating." Tao Fulin asked, "What are you two arguing about?"
As Tao Fulin was speaking, a man came out of the house in a hurry. He was not tall, a typical axle man, with a face full of flesh.
This man is Bai Canhong, the pigherd and butcher of Yongxing Team 3, also known as Bai Laoer by Tao Fulin.
Bai Canhong came out and called Tao Fulin to the inner room.
"I'm not going in." There was an unpleasant smell in the room, so Tao Fulin said to Bai Canhong, "I have something to talk to you about. Have you finished your meal?"
"I've finished picking up the pigs. What's the matter, Uncle Tao?" Bai Canhong asked. Tao Fulin pointed at Zhao Jun and said, "This kid wants to catch a pig. You have to be big enough to let him catch it!"
"Oh!" Bai Canhong glanced at Zhao Jun and immediately said, "Isn't this Zhao Jun?"
Zhao Jun has been on the podium in the Yongxing Brigade and is considered a minor celebrity.
Seeing that he was recognized, Zhao Jun smiled and nodded to Bai Canhong, calling him "Master Bai".
"Please pick up the table." Bai Canhong said to his wife, "I'll go catch the pigs for Uncle Tao and the others."
At this time, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin and Li Ruhai, who came in a jeep, got off the car. The three of them followed Zhao Jun, Tao Fulin and Bai Canhong towards the pig house.
Li Baoyu and Jie Chen did not get out of the car, because Li Baoyu had to drive the Jiefang car to the door of the pig house to make it easier to lift the captured pigs onto the car.
As they walked, Tao Fulin said to Bai Canhong, "Second brother, you can't always curse at each other when you live together! If you make her angry, she will go back to her parents' home. Who will take care of you? You are left alone. You can't even have a hot meal. How can you eat tofu?"
"Hehe..." Bai Canhong smiled and said, "Uncle Tao, let's not talk about the old saying. Pick up tofu and pick the edges, and talk about your wife and say three things."
Men here like to eat big tofu and dried tofu. They can never get enough of these two things.
Anyone who dares to open a tofu shop here must have excellent skills, otherwise he would not be able to keep the business going.
Here, the tofu is made with brine, which makes it tender and smooth.
Soft tofu tastes good, but it breaks easily when stewed. On the other hand, the edges of a plate of tofu are relatively hard and are not easy to break when stewed.
That’s why there is a saying that when picking tofu, you should pick the edges.
After hearing what Bai Canhong said, Tao Fulin smiled and said, "Isn't your wife the third child at home?"
"Fuck it!" Bai Canhong muttered, "This woman is just being stubborn and not listening."
Tao Fulin smiled when he heard this, and stopped trying to persuade Bai Canhong. Instead, he turned around and asked Zhao Jun, "Boy, what is the position of your unmarried wife at home?"
"She has a sister, and a brother and a younger brother." Zhao Jun was curious after answering, so he asked Tao Fulin: "Master Tao, why do you say you should marry the third son when you marry a daughter-in-law? What do you mean by the third son?"
The "San'er" that Bai Canhong mentioned just now is definitely not a mistress, but means the third person in the family.
"Haha." Tao Fulin smiled and said, "He said San'er, but he was actually Lao Dada. Didn't he say that Xiao was treacherous?"
The word "奸" does not have a derogatory meaning, but means cleverness.
"Uncle Tao." After Tao Fulin finished speaking, Wang Qiang smiled and said, "I heard that 'the big ones are hurt, the small ones are delicate, and the ones who get beaten and bullied are the waist'?"
The waist means the middle. Tao Fulin nodded and said, "That's not good. Children in the middle are not popular!"
After receiving education from Zhao Jun these two days, Li Ruhai has become much more sensible. Now he doesn't interrupt when adults are talking.
But at this time, Li Ruhai felt a little itchy, so he pulled Zhang Yuanmin and whispered in his ear: "Brother Zhang, what the old man said is not right."
"Huh?" Zhang Yuanmin was startled, and looked at Li Ruhai and asked, "What's going on?"
"They told me that they picked up the tofu and picked up the edges, and that the wife said San'er because..." Li Ruhai whispered in Zhang Yuanmin's ear: "The edges are fat, and the San'er is frivolous."
Zhang Yuanmin: "..."
Listen!
How could a fourteen-year-old kid say such a thing!
"Who told you this?" Zhang Yuanmin asked. Li Ruhai said, "I heard it from Wang Dalong."
"You should stop fighting with him in the future." When Zhang Yuanmin said this, several people had already walked to the door of the pig house, and the Jiefang truck followed from behind.
Nowadays, pig pens certainly cannot be built with large tiled houses. They are all wooden houses covered with yellow mud mixed with crushed hay. There are windows in the front and back, but there is no glass but they are covered with plastic sheets to block the wind and let in light.
Such a pig house is already very impressive, and only Yongxing Brigade has such conditions.
Of course, Yongxing Brigade is not doing this to be high-profile, but the warmer the pigs are in the winter, the more fat they can grow.
There was a row of wooden houses. Zhao Jun looked around and saw more than ten doors, each of which corresponded to a pigpen.
"Pick out the fattest ones for us!" Tao Fulin reminded again. Bai Canhong agreed and led a group of people to the third pig house.
The single door was not locked and was propped up with a stone. Bai Canhong bent down and pushed the stone aside, then opened the door and said to Tao Fulin, "Uncle Tao, what do you think of these four pigs in this pen?"
The house inside is quite large. There is no pigsty at the entrance, but an open space, which is only occupied by the pigsty three quarters of the space.
The pigpen is surrounded by stones about one meter high, otherwise the pigs might damage the wooden house.
The ground of the pigpen is compacted earth. The south side, which is the entrance side, faces the sun. On the right is a pig trough, and on the left side facing the window is a pigpen made of hay.
People say pigs are dirty, but in fact, pigs know how to be clean. They never urinate near their nests or troughs. They have special places for going to the toilet. At this time, there was a lot of pig manure piled up in the northeast corner of the pig pen.
In this pigpen that is more than five meters long and five meters wide, there are four fat pigs. The smallest one looks to be more than 250 kilograms, and the largest one weighs 300 kilograms.
It is really not easy to raise a domestic pig to such a big size these days!
When they saw Bai Canhong coming in, the four pigs stood up and moved towards the trough, wagging their ears and tails.
This is a habit to be developed!
Seeing this, Tao Fulin asked Bai Canhong: "Didn't you feed him at noon?"
"Is that possible, Uncle Tao?" Bai Canhong said, "They have all finished their lunch, otherwise why would I have just finished my meal?"
There is no heating in this room. The sunlight can enter through the windows during the day, which makes the room a little better. But it is minus 30 degrees Celsius outside, and minus 20 degrees Celsius in this room during the day.
It’s so cold that you can’t pour too much food each time you feed the pigs, otherwise the pigs won’t be able to finish it and it will all freeze in the trough.
At this time, there was a thick layer of frozen pig feed in the trough.
In this case, you need to feed in small amounts and multiple times.
Bai Canhong and his wife feed the pigs three times a day, once in the morning, noon and evening.
"Boy!" At this time, Tao Fulin called Zhao Jun and asked, "These four pigs are pretty good!"
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Then I'll catch all four of them."
"Ah?" Bai Canhong was startled when he heard that. He looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "How many do you want to capture?"
He thought the Zhao army wanted just one.
"I'll catch seven, Master Bai." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "I'll catch all four of these in this circle."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Bai Canhong blinked twice, then said to Zhao Jun: "Wait for me for a while!"
After saying that, Bai Canhong walked out. Less than two minutes later, he came back with something.
In one hand he held several short strands of hemp rope, and in the other hand he held half a sack, the half with the bottom. A circle of iron wire was passed through the mouth of the sack, making it a circle that was not easily deformed.
This thing is used to cover the pig's head.
Put it on the pig's head, the pig can't see anything, and it will be confused. Then it will be easy to tie the pig's trotters.
Bai Canhong took the sack and handed the dozen or so short hemp ropes to Zhao Jun, saying, "Send out two of you and follow me in."
"I'll do it!" Li Baoyu volunteered. Xie Chen said, "And me."
Although they did not agree with Li Ruhai's position of them in the Zhao family gang, whenever there was dirty or tiring work, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen would consciously take the initiative to step forward.
Pigs also understand human nature. They recognize Bai Canhong, but not Li Baoyu and Jie Chen.
Seeing the stranger enter the pigsty, the four pigs ran north and stood on the frozen pile of pig manure.
Bai Canhong, who was running alongside, opened his arms and used one hand to push the pigs away. When a pig was about to slip away, Bai Canhong quickly put a sack over the pig's head.
The pig stopped instantly because it couldn't see. Li Baoyu and Jie Chen each took a rope and went over to pull the pig's legs.
The two people were on the right side of the pig, one pulling the left front leg and the other pulling the right front leg. With their combined strength, they directly pulled the 270-80 kg pig to the ground.
"Ah... Ah... Ah..." The pig howled and kicked its legs. Li Baoyu and Jie Chen struggled to gather the pig's trotters together.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuanmin outside the pigpen shook his head and said, "It's a pity that my pig hook is not here!"
(End of this chapter)