Yan Yuxiang returned home on the afternoon of the 29th of the lunar month, and few people in the village knew where Yan Yuxiang had gone in the past two days, after all, this matter was only a day apart. If it drags on for a long time, the gossip in the countryside after tea and dinner will inevitably go a long way.

Yan Yuxiang talked to his wife afterwards, and the two of them realized that the black figure they saw in the village that night must be a person, but who did not know. Yan Yuxiang just saw a general figure, there were many people like this in the village. This person must have been eyeing them for a long time, but Yan Yuxiang and his wife have always shown themselves as honest people in the village, and in addition to the discord of their own family, there are no enemies. Of course, this is not impossible, especially his own brother-in-law, since Xiuping and Yuxiang got married, the relationship between the two families has not been good, and the two brothers have fought over a trivial matter, and they have never pulled down their faces to speak. This is also suspicion, and there is no way to verify it. Until the past twenty years, when Yuxiang told his son Dongzi about it, he still couldn't guess who this person was.

Chen Guoping went to the criminal police team on the afternoon of Yan Xiuping's visit, first went to see Yan Yuxiang, and reprimanded Yan Yuxiang in front of the captain of the criminal police team he invited, and then gently persuaded: "This is a misunderstanding, you have also been deceived." But in the future, I have to be more attentive, but I must not do such a thing again. Even if it is to work for others to earn money, it depends on whether it is illegal. Otherwise, the law of the land is ruthless, and no one can save you. The captain of the criminal police beside him kept nodding yes, and it was clear at a glance which of the two was more important.

Early the next morning, the police officer of the criminal police team asked Yan Yuxiang to fill out the form, it was almost noon when he came out of the labor camp, Chen Guoping proposed that the two of them go to eat first, although Yan Yuxiang was already hungry, but he was worried about his home, and he couldn't eat anything, so he had to excuse himself, and thanked his brother-in-law. Yandao will wait for the New Year, and he will definitely take Xiuping and Dongzi to sit at home.

And so it ended without a hitch. Yan Yuxiang went home to comfort his wife, bluntly said that the people in the detention center treated him very well, and also joked: "That's really a good place, you don't have to work to take care of food and housing, haha." In fact, when he came out of the detention center, he was about to faint from hunger.

Yan Xiuping's tools that fell on the back mountain, and the two of them had no intention of getting them back. Yan Yuxiang has a lot of work, as long as his precious son pulls a fan for him, he can make as many such farm tools as he wants.

On the afternoon of the 29th of the lunar month, Yan Yuxiang hurriedly weighed five catties of pork from the supply and marketing cooperatives that were about to close, and they could have a good New Year again.

The family of six looked at the Spring Festival Gala projected on a large 25-inch color television with mixed feelings when they watched the Spring Festival Gala, which was almost the only result of the operation. At this moment, Yan Xiuping really understood what Sister Yuxiang said to her: There is no big deal except death!

After such a show, the ambitions of the two have been slightly restrained, and they plan to spend this year well, as for what to do after the New Year, it is a matter of the end of the New Year.

Yan Yuxiang's family has such a practice every New Year, that is, on the second day of the first lunar month, Dongzi's aunts want to go back to their parents' house, and they also have to go back to Dongzi's grandparents to visit relatives, on this day they have a family to spend the New Year together, and on the third day of the first lunar month, Dongzi's family wants to visit Dongzi's grandfather's house, this habit has never changed since they got married.

But Yan Xiuping has never been to Dongzi's grandfather's house since she got married, because it was a place that made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and he felt that everyone in the family was targeting her. Everyone has such a period of youth and ignorance, and such a concept is deeply rooted in Fuyuko's heart, until the final intensification and cannot end.

Every year on the second day of junior high school, Yan Xiuping always sends her husband to buy something, and sends it to Dongzi's grandparents' house early, but never stays to eat, in Dongzi's impression, this habit has been maintained until the death of Dongzi's grandmother. Yan Yuxiang has never said what his attitude is towards this matter, maybe because he loves his wife too much, obeys her and obeys her, and everything must be followed; or he may have another powerless idea in his heart, but he didn't say it, between his wife and his parents, Yan Yuxiang can always support his wife without hesitation. And he didn't say anything like that to anyone.

On the contrary, in the third year of junior high school, it was the time when the whole family was happiest, and the four children could not hold back their joy in the morning and put on their most beautiful clothes of the year (although this dress may not be new, but it was the most beautiful in their eyes). Usually the whole family can clean up at nine o'clock, and then go straight to Grandpa Fuyuko's house.

Grandpa Dongzi's family is also a big family, he has four brothers, Grandpa Dongzi is the third, and has raised three boys, three girls and six children in his life. But as far as the small family is concerned, it is more populous than Yan Yuxiang's family. Dongzi's mother is the second of three sisters, and Dongzi has an aunt, an aunt, and three uncles. Grandpa Fuyuko usually lives with Fuyuko's second uncle. As for the reason, Fuyuko still doesn't know. All these people are coming back today, and the whole family is happy and happy.

As soon as Yan Yuxiang's family entered the door, they saw that Dongzi's grandmother was busy in the kitchen, and Dongzi's second aunt was also holding hands beside her, and the others had not yet come. Yan Xiuping didn't need to explain much, Chun'er and Xia'er washed their hands and rushed up, the two of them were already good at housework, so Yan Xiuping was liberated in the past few years, and her style of life gradually became apparent when she arrived at her mother's house.

After Dongzi was greeting his grandfather, grandmother, second uncle and other elders, he was bored alone, and when he looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock.

After a while, all the family members came, and Dongzi was very happy now. Dongzi's aunt married a native of the village, surnamed Zhao, and gave birth to a boy and a girl, all of whom are older than Dongzi, and Dongzi still has fun with his eldest brother Zhao Jianguo, although the difference between the two is about ten years old. Dongzi's aunt married in another village in the town, and her husband's surname is Sun, and she is also a boy and a girl, the boy is the same age as Qiu'er, and the girl is also the same age as Dongzi. Although a group of children is a bit of a big age span, as long as they get together, there is a lot of fun.

Lunch started late, after half past twelve before the table, of course, the biggest contribution is Dongzi's aunt, in Dongzi's impression, every year during the New Year's family dinner, as long as a cook, aunt must be the chef.

In addition to being able to wear new clothes and eat with the family, the most impressive thing about the New Year is that he can receive New Year's money, although the family is not rich, but three or five yuan still have to be given. At this time, Yan Yuxiang's family, which has the most children in the family, stood out, and received more and produced less. The family all cheered happily: This is too unfair! Dongzi and her sister have to hand over all the New Year's money to their mother to manage, and every time the New Year's money arrives, Yan Xiuping's first sentence is: "Dongzi, Mom keeps it for you, and then you can come with Mom when you need it?" But I believe that for all children, the moment they give the money to their mother, there will be no more time to need it.

When Yan Yuxiang and his wife returned to the village, they heard about one thing, that is, the brigade broadcasted: Whoever left their iron pickaxes and other tools behind the mountain, went to the brigade to claim them. These two people naturally treat them as if they were nothing. Also, who would be so stupid to go and claim it. Of course, the news of someone secretly digging coal mines in the back mountains spread all over this small mountain village overnight, and even to neighboring villages. But no one suspected Yan Yuxiang and his wife of this matter, and the two of them were terrified, for fear that the dark shadow that night would tell the husband and wife about the couple, this person obviously came prepared and deliberately targeted the two of them. Fortunately, after a while, the matter gradually subsided. But the fact that there is coal in the mountains behind the village still makes many people in the village think crookedly, and they are bold one after another. Fortunately, Yan Yuxiang, as the first person to eat crabs, paid some price, but the profit was not small.

Just after fifteen, the children went to school, and the couple brought some souvenirs to visit Chen Guoping in the city. When I got home, I couldn't just sit at home all the time, I always had to think about something, but what should I do?

Yan Xiuping suggested that it is better to stand than to lie down at the moment, it is better to walk than to stand, and it is better to ride a donkey to find a donkey. Find something to do first, and then discuss what you should do. This idea was approved by her husband, Yan Yuxiang. What is the most important thing at the moment? Yan Xiuping felt that Yan Yuxiang was idle, and he still had more than a dozen acres of land at home.

The northern countryside is dry land, and farmers usually transport the manure into the field at the beginning of spring to make small mounds, and then wait until it thaws, and then sprinkle it evenly in the ground when plowing, which has the best effect. Yan Yuxiang's family didn't have so much land, but the pragmatic couple has developed an additional five or six acres through continuous expansion in recent years.

Yan Yuxiang agreed, and he got up early the next morning, got in the car, and went to collect manure from every house. It's a hard job and a test of patience. There are not many farmers engaged in breeding in the village, and every year because of this little farm fertilizer, there are always a few early and a few late, which is very unpleasant. Yan Yuxiang was the earliest this year, and it also drove the enthusiasm for grabbing dung in the village.

The first day was okay, received three trucks of dung, the second day was a little worse, only received two and a half cars, the husband and wife went home to discuss, or go to the neighboring village to have a look, in the eyes of the farmers, this dung is their lifeblood, next year's harvest depends on how much this dung is. Yan Yuxiang drove to a neighboring village the next day, but the effect was even worse, and at this time, each village had a strong sense of self-protection, as if to swear to the people in other villages: our own dung is not enough, and no matter how much money we spend, we will not sell it.

The two of them really had no choice, Yan Yuxiang had worked hard to collect a day's dung before receiving a truckload, and the ground waiting for the dung was pulled less than half. His wife Yan Xiuping came home and saw this scene of her husband, and knew that the effect today was not very good, but she didn't have any good way, and she would be thawed in a few days, what should I do.

After dinner, the two of them lay on the bed, in fact, this matter is not a big deal for the two of them, and now the family's economy is quite passable, even if the harvest is slightly bad, it will not be the time to be cold and starving, and now it is the 21st century! But the two coincide in that if they don't do something, they won't do it, and if they want to do it, they must do it well, but now they have started this first, but they haven't done it well, which is very distressing.

"Why don't you go to that village in Lingzi and ask, I heard that the village is full of chickens, and although chicken manure is not as good as pig manure, it is better than nothing. Yan Xiuping said.

Yan Yuxiang seemed to be a little distracted, and pondered for a while before saying, "Oh, you're talking about the one that was rated as an advanced breeding village by the town last year?"

"That's right, you see how good the village is, the village chief takes the lead in breeding, and now everyone has a chicken farm, and the eggs I bought last time to treat you are from their village. Yan Xiuping said enviously.

This sentence seemed to give Yan Yuxiang some hints, but I saw that he didn't speak, and he didn't know what to think about anymore.

Yan Xiuping touched her husband with her elbow and said dissatisfiedly, "I'll talk to you!"

Yan Yuxiang said: "When you talk about raising chickens, I have an idea, do you think it's feasible?" After speaking, without waiting for his wife to answer, he said: "They can raise chickens, we can also raise something else, since breeding can make money, what can't we raise!"

Yan Xiuping looked at her husband in a daze and said, "Okay, wow, then what do you say we should raise? Chickens must not work." We can't compete with others. ”

"Have you heard that there are any big pig farmers in Shili Eight Townships?" asked Yan Yuxiang.

"No, but now everyone has to feed a pig at home, waiting for the New Year to be killed!" Yan Xiuping replied.

Yan Yuxiang patted his head and said, "Okay, then let's raise pigs!"

"But I heard that villages like Lingshang are all loaned by the brigade, and each person is 30,000 or 20,000 yuan, so we don't have so much money, but how can we get it?"

"Oh, who said we want to set up a factory, neither of us has ever raised pigs, and we don't even know how many meals a pig eats a day, and it will be a death loss if we do it. I mean, there's not a vacant lot next to our toilet, so let's build two pigsties and buy a few piglets, and try this thing first. Yan Yuxiang planned with a glance.

Yan Xiuping raised her hands in favor of her husband's decision, and the husband and wife agreed that raising pigs is not a difficult task, even if they start from scratch, the two of them can figure out the door inside, but is that really the case?