Wu Sifu handed Shen Jun a cigarette and asked him where he made his fortune.

Shen Jun said: "What a fortune! It's just eating outside. ”

"When you come back this time, are you planning to repair the house?" Wu Sifu asked again.

"No money." Shen Jun lowered his head, "I heard that my family is registering as a poor household, and my house is so broken, it should be registered as a poor household for me." Shen Jun said jokingly.

"A few days ago, Murakami was registering. It is said that those whose annual per capita net income does not reach more than 2,700 can be registered as poor households. Wu Sifu said solemnly.

"Is there any benefit to poor households? If I become a poor household, will the state build my house? Shen Jun asked.

"I haven't heard of any policy at the moment; You can go to the village and ask about the situation. Wu Sifu said to Shen Jun.

He didn't want to explain too much to Shen Jun, not because he was afraid of getting angry, but because he felt that people like him were like Adou who couldn't be helped, which was somewhat disdainful. A man, with feet and hands, lives like this, which is really a wretch.

He despised Shen Jun in his heart, and thought about the situation in front of him, was there any difference between him and Shen Jun?

He suddenly remembered that he had come to discuss the killing of pigs with the third uncle, so he exchanged a few words with Shen Jun and walked to the third uncle's house.

Third Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu had just finished lunch and were sitting in the stove house to roast the fire.

Wu Sifu came to the stove, sat on a low stool, and said, "Third uncle, I want to kill pigs." Talk to Li Sanmao in the town today, and kill at the end of the month. ”

"Good. Killed at the end of the month, Xiaotian can also have a good meal when he comes back. Third Uncle Wu smacked the leaf cigarette and said slowly.

"I want to invite Li Sanmao to come to my house to kill pigs, and then sell pork in retail, so that I can earn a few hundred yuan more." Wu Sifu said.

"Your two pigs are so big, you can sell them for nothing, and it's hard to sell them all." Third Uncle Wu said worriedly.

"I told Tang Xiaohong, and he told the people in their unit to buy it. My pigs are fed cooked food, the meat quality is good, and it should be fine. Wu Sifu said again.

"Okay. I'll help out then. You call Quan Wa again, he has a lot of strength. Uncle Wu said.

"Okay." After Wu Sifu finished speaking, he also took out a cigarette and smoked it. The white smoke rings drifted leisurely in the wooden house, and the two were speechless for a while, falling into silence.

Aunt Wu added a piece of firewood to the stove, and dug out the fire pit, and the bright fire was lit again.

After a while, Wu Sifu said again: "Third uncle, I met my second cousin today. ”

"The second cousin wants you to pay back?" Third Uncle Wu immediately asked vigilantly.

"Yes. said that Cousin Zhu bought a house in the provincial capital and had to pay a down payment. Wu Sifu said calmly.

"How much worse than her?"

"Thirty thousand."

"Is your cousin Zhu short of these 30,000? Really. Uncle Wu was a little unhappy, took off the cigarette stick in his mouth, and spat on the wood ash in the stove.

"Today, my second cousin asked me to find a way. Alas, the borrowed money will eventually have to be returned. Wu Sifu said in a deep voice.

"Where do you have money now? Doesn't that force people to jump off a cliff? Third Uncle Wu said angrily, "The second cousin's son and daughter have a wealthy family, and they came to force the 30,000 yuan. Alas, the human affection is cold! ”

The two of them each smoked cigarettes and remained silent.

Aunt Wu washed the dishes, untied the apron on her body with both hands, and patted the dust on her body with the apron, breaking the silence between the two: "Sifu, has Wu Hong called back?" ”

When Wu Sifu heard Aunt Wu mention his sister Wu Hong, his brain suddenly seemed to be inspired, and he hurriedly said: "I have been beaten twice." ”

Wu Sifu remembered suddenly, Wu Hong said when she left, she went back to collect some money and remit it. Some time ago, I was in a bad mood, and I didn't ask her if she had any money. Now that she is stepping on a flint to be watered, why not ask her.

Although asking my sister to remit money to pay off the debt is to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, but now I have no other way but to do this.

Wu Sifu immediately took out the phone and called Wu Hong.

Wu Hong went out to work in her early years and met Li Jian, a young man from Guizhou. Although Li Jian's family is poor, he is hard-working, diligent and motivated, and has worked from a handyman to a factory director, earning some money in the past few years.

Later, Li Jian's family renovated the old house and married Wu Hong, using a lot of money; Later, two children were born one after another, and there was not much money left for Li Jian to earn in his early years. Last year, in order to educate their children, the two discussed buying a house in the county seat, but due to the lack of economic wealth, the house was mortgaged.

The reason why Wu Sifu didn't talk to Wu Hong about money for a long time is also based on this reality.

Getting through the phone, Wu Hong took the lead and said: "Brother, it's going to be the New Year, your New Year's pig should be killed, right?" ”

Wu Sifu said: "I am going to kill at the end of the month, and the meat will be sold in retail." Meat is particularly expensive this year. ”

"What did you sell and eat? The body matters. Wu Hong persuaded.

"Sell it and pay it off." Wu Sifu said weakly.

Hearing Wu Sifu mention repaying the debt, Wu Hong immediately thought of what she had said about making up money for her brother before, and immediately said: "By the way, brother, I used to say that I would send it to you before I made up some money." I was going to make up 30,000 yuan, and after making it up for so long, I only made up more than 20,000 yuan. ”

"How much more than 20,000?" Wu Sifu hurriedly asked.

"Twenty-six thousand."

"Bring it over, send it over. I added the money from selling pork, and the money from my second cousin was about the same. ”

"The second cousin asked you for money?" Wu Hong asked in surprise.

"The second cousin said that Cousin Zhu wants to buy a house in the provincial capital." Wu Sifu explained.

"Are they short of these 30,000 dollars? Really. Wu Hong said.

"Wu Hong, don't say that." Wu Sifu said seriously.

"Okay. You send me the card number later, and I'll transfer it to you tomorrow. You go to the bank in town in two days and check it out. Wu Hong said helplessly.

The two siblings chatted about other things, and then hung up.

Wu Hong didn't ask about her sister-in-law, she was afraid of touching her brother's sadness; Wu Sifu didn't tell Wu Hong that Pingping was coming back, he was afraid that Wu Hong would think that his sister-in-law had money and would not give him money. He didn't want to tell Wu Hong, and he was embarrassed to ask Pingping for money.

Wu Sifu solved the urgent need at the moment, and his mood was much better than before. Aunt Wu was also full of joy after listening to Wu Sifu talk on the phone, and said, "Hong'er, this doll, is really good to my brother." ”

"A mother's birth, can it be bad?" Third Uncle Wu knocked the cigarette ash and said.

Wu Sifu chatted with Uncle Wu for a while and went back.

On the 30th, Wu Sifu got up early, got the dry firewood, coal and other fuels that had been prepared in advance into the stove house, and swept the earthen stove that had been cleaned a few days ago again, waiting for the arrival of Uncle Wu and Quan Wa.

After breakfast, Uncle Wu came; Before Quan Wa arrived, Wu Sifu took out the phone and urged again.

Li Sanmao came soon with the butcher on his back. Wu Sifu took a box of cigarettes from the old man's house not long ago to "sit at night" at Old Man Tang's house, and left a box for Quan Wa.

Li Sanmao helped Uncle Wu put the big iron pot on the earthen stove, and Wu Sifu hurriedly lit a fire to add coal. After a while, the fire in the earthen stove was burning brightly, and a pot of water was boiling quickly.

Li Sanmao, Uncle Wu, and Quan Wa, the three big men, pulled the pig's ears and dragged the pig's tail, and used all their strength to pull out the fat pig from the pigsty. Quan Wa touched the thick pig's back and praised: "Sifu."

Brother is really amazing, a big man actually raised pigs so oily and slippery. ”

"Sifu is good for everything except for his feet." Third Uncle Wu praised.

The fat pig was carried by three people to lie on the side of the desk more than one meter high, Quan Wa put down the tight pig's tail, clamped the pig's right leg facing up with both hands, and pinned it hard; Uncle Wu pressed down and pressed the pig's belly and back with his body; Li Sanmao took out the pig-killing knife, picked up the pig's head with his left hand, and lowered the knife with his right hand, and stabbed into the pig's throat with a magnetic sound.

The bright red pig's blood instantly flowed into the basin with a little water and salt held by Aunt Wu, and the fat pig struggled a few times, gasped a few times, and stopped moving. Aunt Wu took out a few pieces of clay paper, smeared some pig blood on the ground, turned around and called a few pig stalks, and then pasted the blood-stained clay paper on the pigsty.

Wu Sifu filled the boiling water in an iron bucket, Quan Wa lifted it to the big wooden barrel in the dam one by one, and mixed it with some cold water, Li Sanmao stirred it with an iron rod, and then tested the water temperature with his hands, and the three of them carried the big fat pig to the big wooden barrel to scald the pig.

After a while, Wu Sifu found a big wooden stick and put it across the big wooden barrel, and the three of them lifted the scalded fat pig and carried it on the wooden stick. Li Sanmao puffed up his cheeks and blew at the fat pig's feet, and after a while, the fat pig was bulging. Uncle Wu wrapped the pig's feet with a thin rope, and Li Sanmao began to shave the pig's hair with a shiny pig-killing knife.

After about an hour, the first fat pig was killed. Li Sanmao took out the big iron hook in the back basket, hung the pig's mouth, and the three of them worked together to hang the fat and strong fat pig on the square under the eaves.

Hearing the screaming of pigs, Zhou Jueming, Li Dacui and others in Uncle Wu's yard also came over to watch the excitement, and helped a few people kill pigs from time to time.

Then, a second pig was killed.

Li Dacui spoke rudely and loudly, and praised Wu Sifu from time to time for being a big man, how much money did he have to sell for such a fat and strong fat pig at home. Seeing that Aunt Wu was busy, she unconsciously helped Aunt Wu to eat at noon.

At noon, the two fat pigs were killed. The fat pig hung under the eaves, like two mighty beasts. Wu Sifu looked at his hard work in the past year and was very satisfied.

Wu Sifu took out his mobile phone to call Tang Xiaohong, he told Tang Xiaohong a few days ago that he would go back and tell the people in the city to buy pork, I don't know how Tang Xiaohong implemented it.

Tang Xiaohong picked up the phone and asked Wu Sifu what was the matter. Wu Sifu said: "How did you implement what I told you a few days ago? ”

"You mean buying meat? I asked them, and they said that there was no place to smoke them when they bought them, so they didn't buy them. Listening to the tone, Tang Xiaohong was in a lower mood.

"Then why didn't you tell me? If no one buys it, I wouldn't kill two pigs together. Wu Sifu complained.

"Killed both?" Tang Xiaohong hurriedly asked. "What to do? I forgot to call you back. ”

Wu Sifu heard Tang Xiaohong say this, and his heart was half cold. If this meat can't be sold, it will be miserable.

Seeing that Tang Xiaohong didn't contact the person who bought the meat, Wu Sifu had to hang up the phone stupidly.

Wu Sifu asked Li Sanmao to cut the lean meat and pork liver, and asked Aunt Wu and Li Dacui to cook lunch for everyone to eat first.

After lunch, Li Sanmao finished smoking a cigarette and prepared to scratch meat on the wooden board. He asked Wu Sifu: "How to draw meat?" Does anyone say where they want it? ”

Wu Sifu said with a stagger: "I called Tang Xiaohong in the morning, and he said that his colleagues don't buy meat, and there is no way to smoke it in the city. ”

"What should I do?" Li Sanmao asked.