Because the pigs were to be sold in the afternoon, at noon, Zhang deliberately cooked a large pot of pig food and poured it into the pig trough early, so that the pigs could eat a full meal first. After that, from time to time, pig food was added to the pig trough......

The reason why Zhang did this was not to wait for the pig to be weighed, and the pig would have goods in its belly, so naturally the weight would increase, and the money from the sale would naturally increase. This kind of thing, it's not just the Tang family that will do this, basically every family, when the pig is about to be sold, will feed it three meals a day, in the hope of selling more money. To put it bluntly, it's just a little wisdom and a little bit of speculation.

Of course, the butcher who came to buy the pig is not a fool, but the big guys do it, and he can't stop it if he wants to. When you meet someone with a good conscience, you won't say much. When you meet that bad person, maybe you have to make a little trick when you are overweighing, and this thing will come out, and in the end it is our group of ordinary people who suffer.

The Li butcher came to Tang's house to buy pigs as agreed, and after drinking a bowl of water, he went to the pigsty to take a look, and saw that there was still a lot of pig food in the pig trough, and the three pigs' bellies were also bulging, so he knew what was going on.

In this regard, Butcher Li just didn't see it, he was used to such things for a long time. At the beginning, when he encountered such a thing, Butcher Li would have a couple of sentences with the seller, but after seeing more of it, he didn't waste that little bit of saliva and bother with them. Anyway, it's said in vain.

"How do you want to sell this pig?" Butcher Lee asked.

This sells the pig directly and sells it alive, or let the butcher kill the pig, and then sell the pork directly to the butcher Li. That's why Butcher Li has this question.

"Butcher Li, how much is a pound of this live pig, and how much can this meat be sold for?" Tang Dazhu asked.

The old man Tang of the Tang family has always been careless, although the affairs of the family have always been decided by Mrs. Tang not marrying, but such a major event still has to be handled by the two brothers Tang Dazhu.

Butcher Li looked at the pig in the circle a few more times, and then said, "Your pig has no fat, it's too thin to sell." If you are a live pig, I can only give you seven cents a pound. If you sell me meat directly, I will give you fifteen pounds. However, you also know that I will not want this set of pig's head, pig's feet, and pig's belly. ”

In this era when there is not enough food and clothing, the common people eat meat once, which is like the New Year's holiday. In order to satisfy their cravings, everyone loves to buy the fattest fat meat and come back to kill their cravings. But like a lean pig, the fat meat that comes out is definitely not very fat, and there is a lot of lean meat, and for the butcher, the last thing they want is to buy this kind of pig.

But the Tang family specially came to invite, and now the pigs in this area are all sold to his family, if he doesn't buy the Tang family's pigs this time, the pigs fed by the Tang family in the future will never be sold to him. Therefore, even if he knew that the three pigs of the Tang family were relatively thin and it was difficult to sell them back, he could only grit his teeth and buy them.

Maybe some people will disagree and think that your pig is not good, so I just don't buy it. But you have to start according to the actual situation.

There is no pig farm in this vicinity, and the pigs are generally fed by farmers, but not every household can afford to feed pigs. Like the Tang family, they can feed three or four pigs a year, which is already a big pig farmer, and other families can't afford to feed a pig.

There are few pig breeders, and he is not the one who sells pork in the town, so if he pushes the business, it will be equivalent to pushing three or four pigs a day to another butcher for nothing. Therefore, even if he knew that these three pigs would not make any money this time, Butcher Li had to grit his teeth and admit it.

Fortunately, there are very few cases like the Tang family, and if there are no special circumstances, they will definitely be fed fat. If everyone is like the Tang family, then they can't kill him.

Today's live pigs are eight cents a catty, but Butcher Li only gives seven cents a catty, which is less than one penny, and three pigs will be at least three or four hundred yuan less. At this time, there were three or four hundred less texts, and for the Tang family, it was really painful to death.

But in his family's current situation, the pig has not grown up, which is definitely not comparable with the fat pig of others, and Butcher Li paid seven cents a pound, which can be regarded as a conscience price.

Tang Dazhu and Tang Erzhu discussed for a while, and then Tang Dazhu said, "The two big ones buy live pigs, and the youngest one is killed and sold directly." ”

"Okay, then do it." Regarding the decision made by the Tang family, Butcher Li has no opinion at all. Then directly asked Tang Dazhu and the two brothers to drive the pig out of the pigsty first, and then the three big men directly drove the pig out of the pig, and used a thick rope to trap it directly on a wooden shelf specially made by a butcher.

After tying up the pig, the two brothers Tang Dazhu and Tang Erzhu each carried one head with a flat pole, and Butcher Li said. This weighed the scale is not the kind of petty fight, this is a king-size one, and if the weighed lump falls and hits the foot, the foot is afraid that it will be smashed immediately.

Butcher Li called it Wangwang, until it was stable, and then pinched it with his hand, and called Tang Dazhu and the two brothers to look at it together.

"One hundred and twenty-six pounds."

After recognizing it, he said that the pig was not released, and he went to put the second one out and weighed it. The pig that came out of the second head was a little heavier than the first, and it weighed one hundred and thirty-one pounds.

The pig was a total of two hundred and fifty-seven catties, seven cents a catty, and in the end, the two pigs were sold for one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine cents. Butcher Li directly added a penny, which was considered 1,800 yuan.

These two pigs have been fed for several months, and in the end they have not been sold for two taels of silver, which is really not cost-effective.

"The remaining one, you are going to sell meat, and I will kill the pig tomorrow, and any of you will go back with me, and tomorrow I will kill the pig, so that I can give you the silver." That being said, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to let people go with him, watch him kill the pig, and when the time comes, the pig will be killed, shaved, disemboweled, and broken...... Someone went to watch it with him, so as not to tear the skin and say that the pork was wrong.

"I'll go with you." Tang Dazhu said.

Butcher Li has no opinion on who to follow, as long as someone can follow.

Butcher Li handed the pig money to Tang Dazhu, and then put down the three pigs. As soon as the pig was freed, he ran away. Seeing this, Butcher Li did not panic, so he directly picked up the rattle rod he had prepared earlier (a tool made of bamboo. Make a bamboo more than a meter long, and then break one end of it to become a ringing rod. He stepped forward and drove the three pigs together.

When Tang Dazhu saw it, he quickly walked to the front and called, 'Luo Oh Luo'. Tang Dazhu's voice in front called, and Butcher Li used a rattle to catch up in the back, and soon the pig followed Tang Dazhu's ass slowly.

The pigs were domestic, and unlike wild boars, they would arch up and down on the ground from time to time, and when they stopped and did not walk, they would go on again as long as they hit them once or twice with the rod.

For things like driving pigs, in addition to being windy and rainy, Butcher Li basically has to do it once a day. It is Tang Dazhu, who will accompany him to deliver pigs when he sells pigs every year. So there was no panic at all.