"Uncle Pei, your skills are really good. You cut up a pig in just a few minutes." Li Wen looked at the cut pork on the kang and admired it.

"I've been learning to kill pigs with my dad since I was a teenager. It's been decades. Practice makes perfect." Lao Pei smiled happily when being praised.

"Daughter-in-law, please take care of these intestines first so that they can be collected later." Lao Pei gave the large and small intestines to the fat wife to clean up.

After a tense period of busy work, after finishing the pig killing, a few people sat down and chatted.

"Lao Peng and my little brother, can you exchange the money from the pig killing for some of the meat? Just the pig head or the pig's head." Lao Pei smiled and touched his bald head.

"Lao Pei, you sell meat every day, how can you still be short of meat?" Lao Peng looked at the healthy couple and said with a smile.

"Lao Peng, my brother recently married his son. The girl's family was so evil that they insisted on asking for five pounds of pork as a betrothal gift. What do you think this is?"

"But my useless nephew still has to marry that girl. Although Lao Pei sells pork, he usually only gets some sewage or stick bones to make soup at home." At this time, Old Pei's wife cleaned the sewage and left.

Come and explain.

"My brother-in-law begged us for help. You said that we are just selling pork, so it's unjustifiable that we don't help." Lao Pei said with a smile, passing cigarettes to the two of them.

"Uncle, just call me Xiao Wen. I'm still young and don't smoke." Li Wen smiled and waved his hand.

"It's just five pounds of pork, it's not a big deal. I didn't make it clear to you tonight, but this guy also has five big fat pigs." Peng Yuyan raised his chin and pointed at Li Wen.

"There are five big fat pigs?" Lao Pei and his wife were a little surprised at this. They both said in their hearts that they are good guys.

Their entire Weihe County has a population of two to three hundred thousand, but they only provide four or five fat pigs every day.

"Well, there are five more. Uncle and Aunt Pei, I will trouble you to kill all these pigs in the next few days." Li Wen nodded to confirm.

"Did you hear that? I only need three of the six fat pigs weighing a thousand kilograms of meat. I won't pay for the remaining three pigs to be slaughtered. Let this brat pay for it himself." Peng Yuyan laughed.

"Uncle Pei, what's the point of killing a pig? I'll give you the remaining three." Li Wen said with a smile.

"You and your Uncle Peng are together, so the price is the same for you. One pig is ten yuan. Three pigs cost thirty yuan in total. According to the black market price, can you give uncle five kilograms of pork?" Lao Pei said with a smile.

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"How can that be done? A pound of pork costs only six yuan. Well, we are all acquaintances, and you and your aunt are working so hard."

"I'll give you three yuan for one kilogram of pork. If necessary, I'll give you ten kilograms of pork." Li Wen stretched out his finger and said with a smile.

"Yes, the thirty yuan spent on killing the pig will be exchanged for ten kilograms of pork." Lao Pei and his wife said in unison.

After negotiating the price, Lao Peng and Li Wen didn't stay long. Li Wen gave the pig blood to Lao Peng and his wife, and they left directly with the pork.

"Xiao Wen, there are 230 kilograms of pork in total. Is it okay?" The two of them weighed the pork at Peng Yuyan's house.

"No problem! Uncle Peng, I will go back first and continue tomorrow." After collecting the 874 yuan of pork money, Li Wen took the water and the pig head and left Lao Peng's house.

After walking a certain distance, Li Wen directly put the cart back into the space, and then walked home.

Back in the city gate yard, Li Wen went directly to the space, cleaned and processed the pig waste, and then put it in the warehouse for storage.

The next day, Li Wen wandered around the city and bought some seasonings, and then made yesterday's pig heads and guts in the space. There were still five pigs left, but Li Wen didn't dare to save them because they wouldn't be exhausted together.

Together with the pig head, Li Wen stewed a total of more than thirty kilograms. After finishing it, it was almost noon, and Li Wen didn't want to cook anymore. He brought more than two kilograms of pig liver and lungs to his aunt's house.

"Auntie, look what I brought you today." Li Wen opened the door and shouted loudly.

Li Xiulan, who was cooking, heard people's voices and walked out of the kitchen.

"Ah Wen, I was just saying, it's almost lunch and you still haven't come over." Li Xiulan saw it was Li Wen and said with a smile.

"Auntie, I'll give you some braised pork. Let's cut some for lunch." Li Wen smiled and handed the stewed pork he was carrying to Li Xiulan.

"Awen, have you made braised pork again?" Li Xiulan knew that Li Wen's braised pork was very delicious, so she brought a lot of it to their family during the Chinese New Year, and she was very happy to see the braised pork.

"I haven't eaten braised pork for a while, and I'm hungry. Pork offal is cheap, so I got some from a friend and made it in the morning." Li Wen said with a smile.

"Okay, Awen, since you came to the county, my aunt's living standard has improved." Li Xiulan said happily while holding the braised pork.

"If you have the conditions, you can't treat yourself badly. Besides, aunt, your family is not bad now, with three workers, plus you doing odd jobs. Most people in the county can't keep up these days!" Li Wen said flatteringly.

The living standard of Li Xiulan's family has indeed improved a lot recently. Counting her own odd job of pasting matchboxes, the family's monthly income is more than 80 yuan.

My natal family no longer needs help, and other relatives have little help, and the family has begun to have a surplus of food.

Now Li Xiulan's family rarely eats sweet potatoes and sorghum. They basically eat cornmeal for one meal and white noodles the next day. So happy that Li Xiulan can't walk all day long.

At noon, my eldest uncle and the others came back for dinner, and they were full of praise for Li Wen's braised pork. Li Xiulan's plate of half a catty of braised pork was snatched up by everyone.

"Auntie, I'm going out first. From now on, you will take care of my meals when I come. If I don't come, you don't have to take care of them. I can do it myself." After dinner, Li Wen talked about the meal.

I had nothing to do, so I went back to the yard near the county government. I saw that the middle part of the yard was empty.

Li Wen directly moved a few chicken coops from the warehouse, then built a shelf in the yard with bricks from the backyard and put the chicken coops on it. He also grabbed four old hens from the space and put them in.

"It's done, the four old hens can be honest and eat eggs every day from now on." Li Wen looked at his work and said with a smile to himself.

In the afternoon, Li Wu and Li Quan moved their luggage over with their aunt's family after get off work. It was considered as a formal move in. Li Wen didn't count him wandering around every day.

"Where did Awen get the four old hens?" Li Xiulan looked at the old hens in the yard and asked in surprise.

The women at home like these old hens the most. They can lay eggs every day. They are like a chicken butt bank!

""Auntie, I got it from a fellow villager at the morning market." Li Wen said with a smile.

In this era, the term speculation has not yet been clearly defined. Moreover, 1962 was a period of national economic recovery, and the country relaxed market and free market policies. It was reasonable and legal for farmers to sell their own pork, chicken, and eggs.
Chapter completed!