Chapter 10, the fight moment on the sale of pigs

In the countryside, it is busy all year round. After the rice transplanting is over, every family has to use their free time to thresh and dry the wheat recovered from their own fields, and Li Ya's family is the same. At this moment, how much he missed the threshing machine. However, even with a threshing machine, what is the daydream of using electricity? Kerosene for lighting lamps is not easy to buy, and diesel is even more difficult. In the era of scarcity, we can only continue the tradition of thousands of years.

Father Li is the inheritor of the tradition, and he and Mother Li spread bamboo mats in the courtyard dam, moved the wind bucket to the side, and began to wind wheat. Under the skillful shaking of Daddy Li's hand, the wind bucket handle separated the wheat grains from the wheat caviar. There have been hundreds of thousands of years of wind buckets, and they still play an irreplaceable role. Li Ya didn't know whether to be proud of the creation of his ancestors, or to be sad about the current backwardness.

After finishing their own work, the production team began to play the field, the wheat handles were formed in a circle, and the stones were crushed by oxen and horses. After a few days of fighting, the high temperature and fatigue consumed the joy of the members' imminent food distribution.

Li Ya looked at the wheat in the courtyard and asked happily, "How much can the family share this time?"

Li Yuanjing came back last year, knew the situation, and said: "Wheat is fine grain, and agricultural taxes have to be paid, and there are other patriotic grains or something, anyway, there is not much left after paying taxes on wheat and rice in a year, and a family has two or three hundred catties." ”

Li Ya had nothing to say, three hundred catties was not enough for one person's rations. The rest is corn, and even beans and sweet potatoes are used to offset it. In the last life, Li Ya heard his father say that when he built a house in the village, there were a few stonemasons from other towns, and when they ate a big pot of rice there, the family could only get a few dozen catties of wheat a year, and the corn yield was low. In this comparison, Li Ya actually began to thank God in his heart for letting him be reborn in this good place, at least sweet potatoes are edible. When he first started playing, everyone was excited, and Li Ya was happy for a long time, if he had known that this was the case, Li Ya would not have been so positive, the gain was far lower than the effort, and Li Ya's consciousness was not so high for the time being.

Li Yuanzhi regretted: "I should have been a soldier in the first place, so I could eat enough." ”

Li Yuanjing's eyes glowed green, and he said: "That's what I plan, even if I recover in two years, I will have a full meal for two years, and if I am lucky, it will be better to stay in the army for eight years." ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "Eight years? people are beating their children and crying and calling their mothers, and your children are crying and calling their fathers." Besides, the military allowance is not high, think about it, if your family feeds five or six pigs a year, you will earn more money. In fact, I think everyone is too honest, for example, my family, it is completely possible for grandparents to set up a single account, so that you can raise two more pigs. Brother Yuanjing, your family is better, Brother Yuanjing, you come out and set up an account by yourself, divided into three families, and pigs and chickens can be raised three times more. ”

Li Yuanzhi said: "If you want to go to the commune to set up a household, one or two households will agree, and if there are more people, they will not be stupid, they will agree? "Of course, you can raise it secretly, and when the time comes, you can quietly sell it to the county, and who will notice it? Or even kill it directly and quietly go to the homes of the households in the city to sell it one by one, and you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it anyway. Li Ya even thought about finding someone from a slaughterhouse or a meat stall, there must be many people like this who privately asked them to get some meat that didn't need meat tickets.

Thinking about Li Yadao: "Why don't we quietly raise a little bit in the pig col?" Build a grass house in the forest inside, and you can't see it from a distance, feed it once in the morning and once in the evening when you are busy, and let the pigs graze in the col at other times?"

In the past, raising pigs made little money, and there was no such a closed place as the pig col, but now it is clear that raising pigs is a good job to make money, and the pig col does not let the pigs go, just to make use of it.

Li Yuanzhi said with a smile: "From time to time, people will always be seen, and even if they won't be discovered, it's not good." In fact, you can move the pig farm and chicken farm of the production team to the past, so that you can raise a lot more, and it is not the production team when you sell it. ”

Li Ya felt that his thoughts could not keep up, and he always unconsciously thought about his own small family or close to a small group, and did not look at the problem from the standpoint of the entire Li family or even the entire production team, and his selfishness was too heavy, like a speculator who mixed into the revolutionary ranks.

Li Ya immediately admitted that he didn't think fully and almost made a big mistake. Li Yuanzhi saw that Li Ya had figured it out, nodded with satisfaction, and then arrived: "One of my classmates works in the slaughterhouse in the county, so you can ask if you have a chance." ”

Li Yuanjing asked, "Will he help us?"

Li Yuanzhi said with a smile: "I met him when I went to sell pigs in the county last year, and I heard him say that he has three children. ”

Li Yuanjing said happily: "With three children, those days must have been tense. ”

Li Ya asked: "In a few months, my pigs will be slaughtered, why don't you find time to ask first? ”

Li Yuanjing said with a smile: "The county seat is so big, there is a slaughterhouse there, how much black market meat can be sold? ”

Li Yuanzhi pointed to a large group of sparrows in the sky and said, "Those guys are here again." ”

Li Ya and Li Yuanjing hurriedly grabbed the slingshot, buckled the stone and shot out. After driving the sparrows away, the three of them picked up the sparrows that had been shot down, and there were seven more. No matter how small the sparrow is, it is also meat, and there are already about 20 of them at this time, and it is not impossible to eat them all in a day? No wonder they need to take turns to dry the wheat. The yard has six people on Thursday and Friday, and hundreds of them are not allowed to be shot down a day.

Li Ya was even more ruthless, he had already put a large wooden backing in the space, and every time he chased the sparrows, he ran far away, and when others couldn't notice it, he used the space to collect some and put it in the back, which was already full.

The sparrows came two more times, Li Ya let go of the speed, and the three of them shot down more than twenty of them. Li Ya divided the sparrows, went back to deal with them, and called someone to replace him by the way.

After eating, Li Ya said that he would go to his grandfather's house, and Li's mother packed the things he brought over, and Li Ya set off with them on his back.

Halfway through, Li Ya went into the forest, entered the space, began to deal with the sparrows, peeled the skin and feet, and finally disemboweled the internal organs together. After processing, Li Ya left some and put most of it in a wooden basin, Li Ya looked at it and covered it with a wooden board, and then walked to his grandfather's house.

Li Ya sent so many sparrows, which really surprised the uncle's family, there are many children in the family, and it is not easy to eat meat, the pickled rabbit meat taken from Li Ya's house is kept and eaten, this time there are so many sparrows, you can eat a few meals.

Li Ya put down his things, talked to his grandmother, and went out to walk around the brigade with a familiar way. Turn left and right, and when he arrived at the back of the brigade headquarters, Li Ya remembered that there were a lot of things copied out of the house in a room here, among which there were the most books, and Li Ya thought about going in to see if there was anything he needed.

Carefully observing that there was no one around, Li Ya gently opened the window and climbed in. Through the dim light, Li Ya soon made a discovery, an English-Chinese dictionary. Since Li Ya has decided to study English hard in this life, this dictionary just increases his vocabulary.

Then I found a few college books, and it is normal for a brigade to have college students over the years. Li Ya flipped through the book that was actually from the Department of Biology, if it was a book on agriculture, maybe Li Ya would be happier. However, there are also college English books, which are also full of peaks and turns. Li Ya decided to take all the college textbooks with him, even if it was good to take them out and let others feel it.

Li Ya saw that there was no more book he wanted, and went back the same way. But the book is placed in the space.

Walking to the edge of the dam in the courtyard, Li Ya heard the voice of his uncle, at this time his uncle had come back from class, Li Ya hurriedly took out a stack of college textbooks from the space, held it and entered the door, called his uncle, and entered his uncle's room.

Li Ya put down the book and whispered: "Uncle, this is what I took out from the room where the team copied the things from the house, you see this is a book from the biology department of the university, it is very complete." And reading notes. ”

The uncle was taken aback at first, and then said, "That room has never been opened since it was locked, and even if it is opened, others may not find that something is missing." ”

Li Ya said: "I think so too. ”