Zheng Baohong was carrying a bucket in her hand, and a leather apron used to kill pigs was tied around her waist, which was stained with grease and blood, and her face looked a little tired.

Pork Chan hurriedly stepped forward to take the wooden barrel, looked down and saw that the barrel was empty, and immediately asked happily, "Sister, the last bit of pork belly is also sold out?"

Zheng Baohong snorted, handed the guy to Pork Can, and said, "Ah Can, put the things away, I'll go into the house to wipe my face and change my clothes, it's been a busy day, and I'm sticky." ”

After speaking, she nodded at Ah Xiong and Han Chunlei, passed sideways, and got into her rental house.

After a while, Zheng Baohong changed her clothes and came out of the yard, refreshing and refreshing, wearing a printed dress that was secretly popular on the streets of Shenzhen, she was tall and could afford this skirt, and goodbye she put her hair back slightly and coiled it up with her hands.

Now this appearance is very different from the women's pig-killing boss when he first entered the door.

She came to sit down next to the stone pier under the lychee tree, and Ah Xiong handed over the pork porridge that had been served to her earlier, and then introduced Han Chunlei as a new tenant. Zheng Baohong is four years older than her younger brother Pork Can, and she has just turned thirty this year, a round older than Han Chunlei.

Zheng Baohong, like Han Chunlei, is a stranger in a foreign land, and she has been digging in men's piles for many years, so she is a straightforward and happy person, so she is also enthusiastic about Han Chunlei, a new neighbor.

And seeing that Han Chunlei was only seventeen or eighteen years old at a young age, and he dared to go south to Shenzhen, she felt that this little brother had courage and vision than ordinary peers.

So the pork offal porridge hasn't been eaten yet, Chunlei has already opened his mouth and closed his lipstick sister, and Zheng Baohong is also very generous, and the atmosphere is extremely harmonious. This made Han Chunlei, who had just arrived in Shenzhen on the first day, feel a little more warm in his heart.

If it weren't for Pork Chan telling him the story of his brother-in-law Su Dahe, it would be difficult for him to imagine that the eldest sister in front of him was a weak woman who was looking for a husband three years ago.

Life makes people strong, and life makes people understand that they must be strong.

"Brother Xiong, this month Uncle Gui has two more relatives from his hometown, no, there are two more fellow villagers who sell pork, Ah Can and I have this month's rent, I'm sorry. Zheng Baohong finished eating the pork porridge, pointed to the empty enamel plate, and said with some embarrassment, "You can only use the pigs you have to go into the water to offset the rent, you don't have to blame us." ”

"Ah Hong, if you say this, you won't treat me Ah Xiong as a friend. ”

Ah Xiong put down the bowl in his hand and said a little unhappily: "Is my Ah Xiong such a philistine in your eyes? ”

"Yes, yes, sister, Brother Xiong is very righteous, even if he doesn't pay the rent, can he still drive us out?" Pork Chan echoed with a smile.

"Na... Ah Can, it's not okay not to pay rent," Ah Xiong shook his head, then looked at Zheng Baohong, and twisted, "Ah Hong, you know, this house belongs to my parents, and they have to talk about me if they don't pay rent." Of course, if Ah Hong you are willing...... What, the family doesn't talk to each other, don't you say?"

"Brother Xiong!"

Zheng Baohong's face changed suddenly, and he solemnly reminded: "Please don't make such jokes in the future!"

Pork Can also secretly kicked Ah Xiong, and quickly changed the topic and said: "Sister, Uncle Gui has two more relatives? This pig was originally not enough for eight people to sell, but now there are two more people to divide it, and you won't let it do it?" Uncle Gui is breaking the rules!"

"Yes, originally eight people were not enough to sell," Zheng Baohong frowned slightly, and said with a smile, "But it was Uncle Gui who pulled our sister and brother into the gang, we can't forget our roots, earn less and earn less." ”

Pork Chan was not happy, "If you don't forget your roots, you can't suffer on the spot, no matter how little you earn, you really can't even pay the rent next month." ”

Han Chunlei had also heard Pork Chan talk about their sister and brother's pig killing business before. They didn't go to the countryside by themselves to buy a hairy pig, and then kill it and sell it in the city. First, the cost of this pig is too big, not that their sisters and brothers can afford it, and the risk is too great. Second, if you kill a pig and sell it alone, the water is too deep and there are too many rules, so there is a business of killing pigs in their hometown. Usually a gang of five or six people, together to contribute to the distribution of pork to sell, each of them to sell the area, such as Hubei Village, is his sister and brother to sell, usually a day can sell dozens of catties of pork.

Hubei people like them, who have five or six or seven or eight people in a group to do pig slaughter and trade, have several gangs here. Because they are not supply and marketing cooperatives or meat factories, they don't need tickets or quotas to buy their pork, and they almost monopolize the private meat business here.

The noble uncle in the mouth of their sisters and brothers is the head of their small gang of killing pigs and selling meat in their fellow villagers, and he has been in Shenzhen for the longest time. Uncle Gui was a well-known pig killing veteran in the local commune before he came to Shenzhen, and over the years he has been the main knife to kill pigs and cut meat and divide meat, and is the backbone of the small gang.

Over the past year, Uncle Gui's hands have always trembled every now and then, so he handed over the skill of killing pigs to Zheng Baohong, but it was Uncle Gui who had the final say.

A pig for eight people was not enough to sell, and now he has two more relatives to defect, obviously destroying the balance of interests of the small gang. But as Zheng Baohong said, can you still turn against your uncle?

"Sister, you always remember his goodness, why don't you want to think about it, every time we get pork, compared with a few of them, it is the most difficult to sell? You see, now even the pigs are sold by our sisters and brothers!"

The more Pork Can spoke, the more angry he became, he stood up and said loudly, "Since he doesn't follow the rules, what can we do if he is against him? It's a big deal, let's pull Brother Xiong, and Chunlei will do it together! We will go to the countryside to buy hairy pigs, and we will share the pork and sell it ourselves!"

"Hehe, don't, Ah Can, don't count you Xiong brother and me," Ah Xiong waved his hand insensitively and said with a smile, "Your business is too risky, one day the people of the meat factory pull the public security to give you a pot of stew, then it will be a loss to grandma's house." I'm still driving a minibus with Ah Qiang, this business is stable!"

"Brother Xiong, don't listen to his nonsense," Zheng Baohong explained, "Uncle Gui is not thin on our sister and brother, can I be so unkind to Ah Hong? Besides, Ah Can, have you ever gone to the countryside with Uncle Gui to buy a pig with hair? Do you know how much money you have for a hairy pig? On weekdays, it is your uncle Zhang Luo's big guy, and he can only afford to buy a pig, so where can you go to make money if you want to do it alone?

Zheng Baohong knows his brother's temper too well, and his heart is good, but he is too impulsive in doing things and talking. It is too naïve for his sister and brother to want to kill pigs and sell meat alone! Not to mention the cost, he said that if he left aside your uncle and did it alone, he would break the rules, and the water inside would be very deep, and it would be easy to suffer from right and wrong.

Pork Can was not convinced, looked at Chunlei, and said: "Isn't Brother Chunlei coming to Shenzhen to do business? ”

"Don't, Brother Can, don't count me either. ”

Han Chunlei shook his head, waved his hand and declined, "I don't think this private pork business can be any better in the future." Now you can still make money by doing this, but you are taking advantage of the loopholes of the current policy. But you yourself have said that now whether it is the public security or the meat factory, you are pulling a cart to sell pork on the street, and they are not chasing very closely, what does this mean?"

Zheng Baohong didn't ask, she was thinking.

Pork Chan asked, "What does it mean?"

Han Chunlei said: "It shows that it is acquiescing, it shows that the policy may be changing, and it shows that you can sell pork on the street openly in the future." ”

Pork Chan said: "That's not good, then you don't have to worry about it, you don't have to be afraid of being picked up by them." ”

Zheng Baohong sighed, and said: "Chunlei means that once the policy changes, everyone can do this business, and there will be more peers who grab food." ”

"Sister Hong is right, and have you ever thought about it, if the meat factory, or even the supply and marketing cooperative, don't need to buy meat with tickets, and people are big factories and big counters, the price is fair and the meat is fresh, the key is that there are many options, then why run to buy pork from a smuggler? Aren't you afraid of buying distemper pork?"

Han Chunlei's call fell heavily on the hearts of the Zheng family's sisters and brothers.

Ah Xiong nodded approvingly and said: "Chunlei's words are not unreasonable, just like our minibus, that is because all housing estates, factories, and workshops are not connected to buses, and now there are few buses and bus routes, once they are all mature, our minibuses are estimated to be difficult to do business." ”

Han Chunlei nodded, there is no doubt about this, this is the inevitable development of the times, and this is also the most intuitive manifestation of the increasing improvement of people's living standards under the reform and opening up. In a few years, the bus lines will become more and more mature, and then the opening of the subway and urban light rail, the living space of the private light bus market will inevitably be very narrow, almost zero.

At least when he came back from rebirth, what kind of private minibus? Even the bus is not the mode of transportation for their young people, either the subway or the online car-hailing.

"It's not so evil, is it? Chunlei, what you said makes my heart beat a drum, is it possible that my sister and I will be out of business soon?"

Han Chunlei smiled and said with relief: "Of course it won't be so hasty, the society is progressing little by little, the times are developing little by little, and the people's livelihood is improving little by little, so the policy must be adjusted little by little." ”

"Flutter~~"

Zheng Baohong couldn't help but smile and said, "Chunlei, you are quite rhyming at this point, and your people's livelihood is improving little by little, making you look like a college student, no, like a cadre!"

"Ah Hong, don't underestimate Chunlei, Chunlei is full of knowledge, and even the leaders of Shangtang Bamboo Factory have given a thumbs up!" Ah Xiong on the side suddenly remembered that day in Shangtang Commune, when he had dinner with Li Heping, the accountant of Shangtang Bamboo Factory, Han Chunlei said those drunken words, and Li Heping praised him unabashedly.

Han Chunlei knew that he was selling a little too much, so he could only explain with a smile: "What a college student, I haven't even finished high school, I just used to be in Chaijiawu, I usually like to read newspapers and listen to the radio, listen to more and read more, know more, and ponder more." ”

"The more you hear and the more you see, the more you know, the more you think? That's a very good thing, just like what he used to say when he was at home. Zheng Baohong actually saw Su Dahe's high-spirited shadow from Han Chunlei, Su Dahe was also aware of the queue back then, and he was full of knowledge. When he is no longer working in the fields, he likes to read newspapers to himself and tell people and things in books.

Not to mention Ah Xiong and Pork Can, even Han Chunlei can see that Zheng Baohong misses her husband who is uncertain about his life and death again.

Pork Chan slapped his head and suddenly realized, "You said that people's livelihood is changing, but I think that those people who buy pork have really changed these days." In the past, they all rushed to buy fatty meat, and then they all thought about buying fat and thin meat, but now, they picked up lean meat and bought it, saying that lean meat and lean meat were delicious. Hehe, this is a little money in my pocket, thinking about living a more comfortable life. ”

Han Chunlei smiled: "That's not it, Brother Can, you have money, don't you also want to wear floral clothes, wear bell bottoms, perm your head like Brother Xiong, and wear toad mirrors on the street?"

Pork Chan laughed, "Of course, I want to take advantage of the two money in my pocket, I will follow Ah Qiang's sassy person to fish for beautiful girls every day, and those fashionable girls hug their waists and touch their buttocks. ”

"If you dare to go, I'll break your dog's legs," Zheng Baohong glared at his brother viciously and reprimanded, "You save me a lot of money, save enough for my wife, go back to the countryside to marry a daughter-in-law, this is almost a three-year-old person, and you are still wasted?"

The pork let out a sigh and wilted.

Han Chunlei couldn't help but smile when he heard this, but as soon as Pork Chan talked about the bungee fork, he found that it was dark, and it seemed that Zhang Xilu had not come back yet, so it was estimated that he had really gone to meet Ah Qiang in the world.

At this time, it was getting late, and a bright moon hung on the lychee treetops.

Ah Xiong yawned and returned to the kitchen with the casserole, ready to wash up.

Zheng Baohong said to Pork Can: "Tomorrow morning, Uncle Gui will go to the countryside to buy hairy pigs, and we don't have to go out of the stall." You can come with me to the East Gate Morning Market tomorrow morning to find out the situation. ”

"Touch the situation, sister, don't you want to change careers?" Pork Can looked suspicious.

"Sister Hong, the East Gate Morning Market is the East Gate Shenzhen Market, can you take me one?" Han Chunlei suddenly became interested.

Zheng Baohong was a little surprised, and said: "Chunlei, you are an inland boy, you still know the place of Shenzhen Market in the East Gate?"

Han Chunlei snorted and said solemnly: "Don't hide it from Sister Hong, I went south this time, and I came to Shenzhen Market." ”