A new day and a new beginning, Chengxin, who had breakfast, was lying on the recliner thinking about something.

"It's really fast, it's January, and the New Year is still more than a month, right?"

Thinking of the New Year, Chengxin suddenly remembered.

This is your sister's New Year's eve soon, and she hasn't smoked bacon yet? Didn't you do the sausages either?

As a southwesterner, how can you not smoke bacon and sausages during the Chinese New Year?

Therefore, Chengxin immediately got up, locked the door, and went to the old man leisurely.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, my cousin's voice came.

"Heh, why did you kid come here? Something? ”

Zhong Tao, who was sitting at the door swiping his mobile phone, glanced at Chengxin, and then stared at the mobile phone and asked.

"It's okay, I'll just wander around."

Responding to Zhong Tao casually, Cheng Xin then walked towards the pigsty in his right hand.

Zhong Tao didn't pay attention to him, and continued to watch the video by himself.

As soon as I stepped into the door of the pigsty, an indescribable smell rushed to my head.

Fortunately, they are all rural people, not so pretentious, just frowning slightly, and they have adapted to it.

Isn't it just the smell of pig poop, plus the smell of pig food, I often smelled it when I was a child.

I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but in the village, every family's toilet is in a pigsty, and this is where the bath is bathed.

Bathroom? Toilet? These things were a waste of limited resources at the time.

After coming in, Chengxin looked at it, and the place facing the door was the place where he usually went to the toilet and took a bath.

It is nearly two meters wide, and the floor is paved with wide stone slabs, which are deep to the opposite wall.

On the ground of this barely called bathroom, there are two stone slabs that are missing a small piece each, forming a gap of more than 20 centimeters long and more than 10 centimeters wide.

I remember once when I was a child, when it was dark and there was a power outage, Chengxin accidentally stepped on it with one foot, and I will never forget the taste.

Howling and crying, he ran out to find his grandmother to wash him, and when his grandmother finished washing him, he also went to get the water pipe that connected the mountain spring water, and flushed it for half an hour, and then he just felt a little better.

After looking at the pigsty, Chengxin found his target.

Next door to the toilet that came in at the door was the first pigsty, three or two big fat pigs, chatting and bragging in the pen.

They are all crossbred big white pigs, the three pigs are not small, Chengxin estimated, the smallest one has 300 catties.

In the countryside, the local pigs raised are generally relatively large, unlike the feed breeding, which will be slaughtered in three or four months, and one head will be two hundred catties.

The whole pigsty is made of stones, but each pigsty is a wooden fence to pull the pigs out when they are killed.

Except for the first pigsty, which had three pigs, the other two pens were empty.

After all, the two old people have also come up, and it is already a bit difficult to raise three pigs, and if they are raising more, several uncles in the family will not agree.

These three pigs, if in previous years, the old man left at most two, but this year is different, Chengxin has already said hello and asked the old man to leave one for himself.

After deciding to have the largest head, Chengxin nodded with satisfaction and turned around and left the pigsty.

"Brother, what about them, old man?" Chengxin asked Tang Zhongtao, who was still playing with his mobile phone.

"They've gone out to hunt pigweed, they should be back soon, what's wrong?" Zhong Tao raised his head and looked at Cheng Xin and replied.

"It's nothing, isn't this about to see the New Year? I haven't gotten this bacon sausage or anything yet. ”

"So today I came to see how the pigs looked, I just looked at them, and they all grew fat and big ears."

"What's the matter, you're going to the village now, why don't you get some? If I don't, I'll do it myself. ”

To be honest, a pig of three or four hundred catties is still a bit too much to smoke bacon, so Chengxin asked his cousin if he needed it.

"Something? Okay, but I don't want much, the old man distributes dozens of catties to each family every year, and I can't eat too much. ”

Zhong Tao thought for a moment, and then responded to Chengxin.

"Okay, no problem, as long as it's less than half, or it's mine, which parts do you want?" Chengxin asked.

These 400 catties of pigs, after removing pig hair, internal organs and pig blood, are about 300 catties.

Half of it is about one hundred and fifteen, even if the cousin only needs fifty catties, the rest of Chengxin doesn't think it's much.

"I want half of the front half, a little bit of fat, and the front leg clip meat is used to jar sausages."

"By the way, leave me some rump meat, and I'll add sausages to it, otherwise it's too thin and it won't taste good."

It didn't take long for my cousin to think about his plan.

"Okay, then it's decided like this first, and then I'll say it when the time comes."

Speaking of which, Chengxin didn't ask any more, entered the hall, took a chair, and learned from his cousin, not far from the door, basking in the sun he had seen every time he had seen for several days.

When Chengxin was drowsy, the old man came back with a pigweed on his back.

Before Chengxin could react, the cousin, who was still playing with his mobile phone just now, got up, and then walked towards his grandmother and took a large back of pigweed on his grandmother's back.

Originally, Chengxin was also going to go, but before he could get up, the old man went directly into the hall with a big backpack on his back.

"Chengxin, when did you come over?" Grandma wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and asked Chengxin.

"Milk, just came over, look at the two of you, you are both old, and you still carry such a big basket by yourself, don't you have a cow, just use an ox cart to pull it."

"Look at this tired, if they are known by the eldest aunt, they will inevitably say that you will be killed, if you are tired, you two don't want to live alone," Chengxin nagged to his grandmother.

Hearing Chengxin say about him, his grandmother didn't refute it, knowing that her grandson cared about herself.

"What's this? It's no problem to come and memorize, that is, you boys, you are used to staying in the city, and you are tired of doing something. ”

The old man who put down his back and wiped the sweat with a towel, and said to Chengxin, who was talking about his grandmother.

"Okay, okay, you should be old and strong, you can dig two acres of land in the field, but old man, grandma's health is not as good as yours."

"If you really tire your grandmother, you can see if a few uncles will come back, and the pigsty will be dismantled for you."

Chengxin didn't mess with the old man, and directly threatened them with a few uncles.

I heard my father say that two old men still raised a few sheep two years ago, and they were led to the wasteland from time to time.

But once, when the grandmother took the sheep out to herd, the two big sheep she was holding were a little excited, and pulled the grandmother to a stumble and fell.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong, and it was a little broken.

I don't know if it was the spies planted by the eldest uncle, or Uncle Wang, who called them, anyway, this matter was known by several uncles.

The result can be imagined, two days later, the mother, the aunt, and the aunt, the three of them rushed back to the village.

After finding out that grandma was fine, he didn't care whether the two elders agreed or not, they just packed them all at once and sold a few large and small sheep.

The old man was still a little unhappy, but these were all daughters-in-law, and he didn't dare to say anything.

Originally, the pigs didn't let the two of them raise them, but the old man resolutely refused, and the last few people couldn't do anything.

However, the conditions were also discussed, if there should be something wrong with raising pigs, then a few uncles would come back to dismantle the pigsty.

"Okay, okay, next time it's used for a small back, and the small back can't be loaded much."

In the end, it was the old man who coaxed him.

Chengxin saw that the old man was soft, and he didn't say anything more.

The elderly in the countryside are like this, if they don't work, they will not be comfortable for a day.

Also, there are benefits to doing some work.

Chengxin has also seen a lot of rural old people, suddenly idle and don't farm or anything, within a year or two, the whole person's spirit is gone, and his body is getting worse and worse.

Therefore, let the two old men plant some land, Chengxin will not say anything.

Anyway, I'm tired when I dig the soil, but this thing can be done slowly, and if you're tired, you can just dig a little less and do it tomorrow, and you won't be too tired.