With a large bundle of fine hemp rope presented by the villagers of Yakou Village, Zhao Yuan and his entourage bid farewell to the enthusiastic Li Zhengwen Jianglang and the villagers of Yakou Village, and went home directly.

In the past few days since she came back, the little girl Luoluo was not as sticky to him as Zhao Yuan when she first came back, with Xiaobao, Xiaoya, and Xingxing playing with her, and the laughter of children playing in front of and behind the house.

Zhao Yuan was busy for this time, and he was lazy all of a sudden, and he just wanted to stay at home, except for occasionally copying the books in his mind in the study or by the fire, most of the time he accompanied Meng Ying.

"The lord and the lady are really affectionate, didn't you say that the gentleman cooks far away, why does the lord often go to the kitchen to ponder all kinds of delicious food, and do it himself?" Xue Yao said to her husband Jia Yang puzzled.

"That's because the old man has no shelf, and now he is such a big official, you see that there has been a change in our family, and he is still so easy-going." Jia Yang said with a smile.

Zhao Yuan stayed at home for four days with nothing to do, and this morning, he finally felt that he should do something, so he asked Guo Du to go to Xiao Zhao Zhuang and Song Jiazhuang to invite Xiao Zhao Zhuang's uncles and father-in-law's family to prepare to kill the New Year's pig and start the fish pond.

This year's busyness, Zhao Yuan only went back to Xiao Zhaozhuang a few times, and his uncles and brothers came to the house, and many times Zhao Yuan went to work on other things, and there was a lot less communication and movement.

Today to kill the New Year's pig and start the fish pond, Luoluo and Xiaoya, Xiaobao, Xingxing, who knew the news yesterday, got up early, and after breakfast, they helped in the kitchen, in fact, they were more playing.

"Grandma Jia, I'll help light the fire."

"The water is going to boil, grandpa, are they coming?"

"Uncle, how many pigs are we going to kill?"

"Miss Luoluo, don't get so close, be careful of the burning, and Master Xiaobao, there's a spark on your clothes, take a picture of it."

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In the kitchen, because Luoluo and several people kept running up and down, it looked a little chaotic.

Zhao Yuan's family has a total of six pigs, all of which are more than 200 catties of big fat pigs, and the pigs that are fed by special people are much fatter than last year's two pigs, Zhao Yuan is ready to kill them all, in addition to sending some to Xiao Zhaozhuang's relatives and Songjiazhuang's father-in-law's family, most of the meat will be made into bacon.

"I've been raising it for so long, I'm really a little reluctant, sir, the pigs in the morning are all fed with the feed, so that they can eat well." Yao Yuan said to Zhao Yuan.

"Raising pigs is to eat meat, Yao Yuan, if you can't bear it, you can go to the market to avoid it when you will kill pigs." Zhao Yuan said jokingly.

"That's what I said, mainly because when you let us raise pigs, you took care of them too carefully, cleaned the pigsty, and bathed the pigs. Yao Yuan said with a smile.

Jia Yang's family on the side nodded in agreement, not only these pigs, but also other livestock were taken care of more delicately than any other family.

If Xiao Zhaozhuang or other peasant families heard Yao Yuan's words, in this era of lack of materials, they couldn't eat enough, so how could they be in the mood to pity the livestock raised by the family.

"Let's go get the guys ready, drag the trough out and wash it, and build a shelf for hanging meat, a little away from the house, so that it won't smell when you go out." Zhao Yuan said to Yao Yuan and Jia Yang's father and son.

"Okay, sir, the trough pots at home may be a little small, and you will have to turn over the pig with brown rope when the time comes." Jia Yang said with a smile.

A few people walked towards the utility room as they spoke, and Luoluo's children saw Zhao Yuan and them go out, and they also followed.

"The owner."

"Sir."

As soon as Zhao Yuan walked out of the door with a few people, he saw the Tao Pu family, Zhu Mian, Xu Xiang, and Zan Zhao, who had rushed back from the market, pulling a cart of things back.

"You're back, that's just in time to help." Zhao Yuan nodded at a few people and said with a smile.

"Daddy, mother, you're here too." Xingxing saw his father and sister coming over, and stepped forward and shouted.

"I haven't been naughty these days." Tao Pu saw his son, touched Xingxing's head and said.

"Grandpa Tao, Brother Xingxing is not naughty, he also helps his aunt and uncle do a lot of work, and he also takes care of the children with us in the cement workshop." Luoluo said on the side.

"Yes, Miss Luoluo, there are a lot of delicious foods in the car, do you want to take a look first?" Tao Pu said to the little girl with a smile when he heard this.

"Look, see, we'll help unload things." Luoluo nodded her little head and said.

Today, Xiao Zhaozhuang's people and his father-in-law's family are coming to the house, and there must be more children, so when Zhao Yuan informed Tao Pu that they came back, they let them bring a lot of vegetables and children's snacks from the small supermarket.

Meng Ying and several people in the house heard the movement, and at this time they also walked out of the house to help unload the packing of small bags from the car.

"The owner, Zhao Yang and Zhao Qing, they said they would come back in the second half of the day." Tao Pu said to Zhao Yuan.

"It's going to be the New Year, business is getting a lot better, they want to make more money." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"After you came back from Danling, the business of the small supermarket has indeed improved a lot, and everyone says that it is the good luck that you brought back from the owner." Tao Pu nodded and said with a smile.

"Isn't it the case that people who do business, especially the things we sell, every year." Zhao Yuan smiled and shook his head.

After chatting for a few words, seeing that he was about to unload things and enter the house, with the help of Meng Ying and a few people, Zhao Yuan only called Shao Meng and Xu Xiang's four brothers to follow to the utility room, and asked Yao Yuan and Jia Yang and his son to help move things.

Coming to the utility room, Zhao Yuan looked upstairs in the utility room, there were a total of six beehives on one side, three on each side, because the weather was cold, basically no bees flew out, and there were a few frozen bee corpses outside the beehive.

Among the six beehives, one was a group of bees caught from Huaguo Mountain, while the other five beehives were bought from the old beekeeper in Dongquan Village and replaced with beehives designed by Zhao Yuan.

In order to let the bee colony survive the winter smoothly, Zhao Yuan did not let Jia Yu arrange for someone to cut it off for the last time.

Zhao Yuan looked at the beehive and opened the door of the utility room.

There was a mess in the utility room, mainly some tools used for farm work, and some dry wood and bamboo.

"Master, you don't have to do it, let's do it." Shao Meng said.

"Okay, there aren't many things to move, just move this trough and basin and these two benches to the shed where the biscuits used to be made, and then move these pieces of wood over, I'll go get the tools, and you can help build a shelf later." Zhao Yuan nodded, turned around and walked towards the room dedicated to carpentry.

The carpentry house is mainly for the old man Wen and his son from Yakou Village to come here to make some small things, and their father and son are on Zhao Yuan's side most of the year, in addition to doing carpentry work, they will also take care of the fruit trees in the mountains and fields.

In the past month, because of some small tools that Zhao Yuan took the time to make, the efficiency of Uncle Wen's father and son's work has been greatly improved, and there are a lot of small things in Zhulin Village, so Uncle Wen and his son went home on vacation.

Zhao Yuan took axes, iron nails and other things, and walked towards the shed where biscuits were produced before, and the Shao Meng brothers quickly moved the trough basins, benches, and wood.