Chapter 13: The Year of the Pig

"Let's go, let's go see the new clothes that my mother bought......" Yang Guohua hugged the two children all the way to his and Zhong Xiaoyun's room, leaving the two children laughing happily along the way.

The New Year of the nineties was still very festive, especially in rural areas. In the month of the New Year, the people in the village do not work, and they start to kill the pigs early to prepare for the New Year. The Yang family is also going to kill the New Year's pig this year, and the pig is fed by their own family, and they are specially killed during the New Year. Because the Yang family does not have much labor (men), although this New Year pig was killed when Yang Guohua came back, he still had to ask someone to come over to help.

During the Chinese New Year, everyone rests at home, and it is convenient to find someone. Because he was just helping to subdue the Nian pig (the pig was killed by a professional butcher), and he didn't need any technical content, Yang Tianzhi asked his cousin Yang Tianyuan, who lived next door to him, and his three sons to come over to help. The people who help have to eat the first dish, that is, the pig killing rice, there are relatives on both sides, of course, the Yang family kills the pig and it is best for relatives to help, and when the time comes, invite Yang Tianyuan's family to come over for dinner, Yang Tianyuan will not feel embarrassed.

Five big men (Yang Tianyuan's third son is only fifteen years old, which is considered labor) and a butcher quickly cleaned up the pig, and then it was to kill the pig. Wang Shufen and Zhong Xiaoyun have been busy in the kitchen, and with the help of Yang Tianyuan's wife and eldest daughter-in-law, the full amount of appetizers will soon be served. Everyone ate and drank enough, and then calculated the wages for the butcher, and finally weighed the pork, which was more than 100 catties, full of thickness.

Yang Tianzhi and Wang Shufen are both kind-hearted people, and as soon as the knife went down, a piece of thick knife meat of more than five catties was tied to the rope and handed to Yang Tianyuan, saying that they were grateful for their help today. Although people are not rich in this era, Yang Tianyuan is also a capable person, and there is no shortage of these meats at home for the New Year, he also respects his cousin, and today he said that he came to help and did nothing, and he was entertained twice with delicious food and drink, and then let him take this piece of meat, he will have no face. Therefore, Yang Tianyuan didn't care about his wife's strong eyes, and directly refused.

Yang Tianzhi wants to send it, Yang Tianyuan doesn't want it, the two brothers have been pulling somewhere, and the corners of Yang Qianxi's mouth twitched. It's just a piece of fat that doesn't have an appetite when you look at it, right? Yang Qianxi obviously forgot that during this period, the countryside was the most expensive and best fat to buy, but no one liked those lean meats at all.

In the end, Yang Tianyuan still accepted this piece of meat, and looked at the meat in the basket in a blink of an eye, Yang Tianyuan's heart moved, and he thought that he would buy meat for the New Year anyway, so why don't you just buy it here from Yang Tianzhi. "Brother, you have a lot of meat, this is to be put away to make bacon? Why don't you give some to your brother? The New Year's pig raised by my brother's family is good, and I am greedy when I see it. ”

After hearing Yang Tianyuan's words, Yang Tianzhi knew that he wanted to buy meat, but thinking of what Yang Guohua said yesterday, Yang Tianzhi had no choice but to refuse Yang Tianyuan's request ruthlessly.

"This ...... I'm afraid it won't work. You also know that Guohua and his family go out to work every year, but they also earn some money, and they also brought some back to me and your sister-in-law, so they said that my sister-in-law and I should eat better on weekdays. No, he is still worried that your sister-in-law and I will be reluctant to eat, and he has already said that he will make this year's New Year's pigs into bacon, so that the four of us can eat them slowly at home. Alas, this kid just can't run a family! Although Yang Tianzhi was complaining, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was filial to his son and daughter-in-law on his face.

Hearing Yang Tianzhi say that Yang Guohua went out to make money, Yang Tianyuan couldn't help but feel a little moved. He knows this cousin, and he doesn't have any skills, but he is just an old farmer who digs in the soil, and sometimes sells some bamboo work to earn some foreign money. With his income, he would never have been able to keep a whole pig before. Yang Tianyuan couldn't help but take a closer look at the Yang family, and the people who worked couldn't see it, but the two girls of the Yang family were wearing new clothes, which showed that the Yang Guohua family who went out to work really made money.

Yang Tianyuan has always heard others say that working outside can earn a lot of money, and he also has the intention to let his two grown sons go out to break through, but he is just a stonemason, and there is no way out in this regard. And making money is such a good thing, ordinary people will not take it with anyone, Yang Tianyuan thought that if he really made money over there, he would let Yang Guohua take his two cousins out of his old face, what would be the benefit in the village.

However, Yang Tianyuan knew that there was no urgency in this matter, and he had to go back to discuss it with his wife and son first to see what they meant. Thinking that Yang Guohua couldn't leave immediately, Yang Tianyuan was even more relieved. After a few greetings, Yang Tianyuan took the family back, held a meeting on the night of his return, told him what he thought, and then asked his two sons to think about it and whether they were willing to go out to earn money. When Yang Guokang and Yang Guojian heard that they were asked to go out of the province to work, they hesitated during the first period, worried that they would not be able to do it, and they did not dare to look at Yang Tianyuan's eyes at all. Yang Tianyuan was very disappointed by the performance of his two sons, but he also knew that this was human nature, and he didn't force them, just let them think about it and make a decision before Yang Guohua went out to work.

Yang Guohua, who was entangled next door to the Yang family, didn't know that he was now happily looking at his eldest daughter's report card, and he was proud that he had such a smart and clever daughter.

Unable to get used to the smirk on Yang Guohua's face, Zhong Xiaoyun washed his hands for Yang Panxi, and said: "Look at you like that, isn't it a report card with full scores, my family is so smart, such a report card is not simple." And you don't have any credit for such a good result in the Yue'er exam, one is that my Yue'er has a good brain, and second, it's because my parents bring their children at home, what are you doing there. ”

I have to say that Zhong Xiaoyun is a smart woman, she just gave birth to two daughters in a row, except for a little grievance at the beginning, her father-in-law and mother-in-law in the Yang family did not rub her later. First, because Yang Tianzhi and his family are not the kind of unreasonable people, and second, Zhong Xiaoyun is also a good person. Just like just now, the cause was just to praise Yang Qianxi's achievements, but Zhong Xiaoyun was able to quietly praise her father-in-law and mother-in-law by the way, so that everyone who heard it was comfortable.

Although it is natural for the elderly to take children in the countryside, and the second elder of the Yang family only has one son, Yang Guohua, they must bring his children, but there are also different ways to bring them in this area, and the difference between being willing and reluctant is big. Zhong Xiaoyun is most worried about her two daughters outside, worried that her father-in-law and mother-in-law will favor sons over daughters and make her daughter suffer. When he came back and saw that his two daughters were raised for nothing, and the eldest daughter was still in school, Zhong Xiaoyun was grateful to the two old men.