Chapter 127: Warming up the house and slaughtering pigs

"Then let's discuss the specific regulations."

So a few days later, the construction of the new greenhouse officially began.

On a quiet winter day, the Red Star Brigade is bustling with activity.

The new greenhouse is located close to the base, where there is plenty of open space and is also suitable for building a large factory.

The villagers built their houses with adobe bricks. They dug up sticky loess from the foot of the mountain and transported it in truckloads.

The young and strong men were carrying soil to make adobe bricks, and the women were not idle either, carrying hoes to clear the weeds and stones on the ground.

Their work is still recorded in work points based on the amount of work done, so everyone is very motivated.

In contrast, Su Heng and his colleagues have much more free time. Every day they only need to water the seedlings, check their growth status, and urge the newly hired assistants to keep good records.

However, when they were breeding and selecting seeds, they took the experimental results into consideration and chose a wider variety of varieties.

Without giving too much consideration to the growth cycle, some crops such as tomatoes, gourds, and cucumbers were planted, which have a long growth period of more than three months.

But the team's main purpose is to make a profit, so they must choose vegetables with a growth cycle of less than two months.

It is already the end of November in the Gregorian calendar, and the Chinese New Year is about a month away.

If you want to catch the first wave of new vegetables a few days before the New Year, you can only choose popular and fast-growing vegetables such as bok choy, spinach, water spinach and leek.

Nowadays, without greenhouse vegetables, people can hardly eat fresh vegetables in winter.

It will definitely sell for a good price then.

While the brigade was building houses, they also assigned a group of people to start selecting seeds and raising seedlings.

There is also an empty warehouse in the team, which is used as a seedling nursery by burning firewood in a brazier to keep it warm.

These seedlings are precious, so there are people guarding there day and night to add firewood, and another to prevent fire.

Su Heng and the others were invited over to check on the growth of the seedlings.

The villagers are all good at farming and they take good care of the crops, so the seedlings are growing very well.

The adobe houses that were being built simultaneously were also being completed at a rapid pace that was visible to the naked eye every day.

Sometimes when Lu Mingchuan came home from get off work, he would see people still working on the construction site.

He looked at his hometown, which was gradually changing in appearance, feeling a little dazed. He turned to look at Su Heng, a gentle smile appearing in his eyes.

All these changes came from Su Heng, who seemed to be able to bring hope to people unintentionally.

"Are you very busy recently?" Lu Mingchuan asked.

When he came home from get off work today, Su Heng was still talking about something at the construction site, so he decided to give her a ride home.

"That's not bad, I wasn't the one doing the hard work."

Su Heng smiled and said, "Just now the branch secretary came to me and told me that the team will be slaughtering a pig tomorrow. He knew I wanted to buy some meat, so he came to call me."

Although the two of them had already gotten a big pork leg, there was still a long time of winter and they had no problem having too much meat.

At the current temperature, if you put the meat in the snow and freeze it overnight, it will become a big lump of ice the next day. It's like a natural refrigerator.

Lu Mingchuan, who was riding his bike ahead, said, "It's time to kill the pig. You want some tenderloin, right? I'll buy some."

"Well, I'll fry some crispy meat then."

The pig hasn't been slaughtered yet, but Su Heng has already thought of various ways to eat it.

She just couldn't stand the craving for meat, so in the evening she thawed the frozen ribs and made a large plate of garlic ribs.

After simple seasoning and frying, the aroma of meat mixed with the aroma of minced garlic hits you in the face, and the fragrance is very direct.

Add a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and you’ll be full again.

Su Heng found that she always seemed to have a better appetite at night, and she sometimes ate in the cafeteria at noon.

It was cold, and she was too lazy to cook.

In the evening, when Lu Mingchuan comes back, he will help her prepare the dishes, and she will stir-fry them directly to avoid washing the vegetables and freezing her hands.

It’s better to eat at home. Now that she doesn’t do much exercise, Su Heng is a little worried that she will gain weight.

But when he turned around and saw the watermelon cut by Lu Mingchuan, he couldn't help but take a piece to eat.

Let’s eat this meal first.

Life got better, and she started to worry about gaining weight.

When she told Lu Mingchuan about this, he gently put his arm around her slender waist and said with his head down, "How can you be fat? I can carry you with one hand. It doesn't matter if you are a little fatter."

Su Heng thought of something, her face felt a little hot, and she couldn't help but push him away.

"Behave yourself and go knit."

Lu Mingchuan smiled softly, gave her a kiss, and then let go of her hands to continue knitting.

Su Heng took out the cloth to make clothes for Song Wan.

There was no way, Cheng Yi was back, and she felt under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, she had already finished working on Chen Xiang and Luo Yan's clothes.

Otherwise, if she made them wait for another order, Su Heng was afraid that they would come to her house to kill her.

She made them short tops and wide-leg pants. The loose pants were not only convenient for wearing woolen pants underneath.

The narrow top and thick bottom visually highlight the slim figures of the two people.

However, the elements of the clothes are somewhat different according to their styles.

When they received the finished product, both of them said they liked it very much. After putting it on and looking in the mirror, they felt that they had become more fashionable.

Then he took out his newly earned salary and gave it to Su Heng.

Song Wan's wages were paid early in the morning.

In fact, Su Heng had already thought of the style to make for her.

After all, she was going to wear it at her wedding, so it didn't need to be worn for daily wear, so Su Heng decided to make a skirt for her.

The cloth Song Wan brought was a roll of beautifully dyed red cloth, which looked like it was specially prepared for a wedding.

She has a cooler temperament, and this color, if worn in an ordinary style, would not be able to highlight her temperament.

Su Heng refers to the elements of cheongsam collar, and the upper body is also more slim-fitting.

The waist is nipped in and the hem is slightly pleated, which makes the waist look slimmer but not too exaggerated.

She was so absorbed in her own ideas that she didn't notice that Lu Mingchuan had also glanced at the roll of cloth several times.

Su Heng has never worn a red dress.

Lu Mingchuan felt that she would look the most beautiful in such a warm and vivid color.

Unfortunately, the red cloth in the supply and marketing cooperative was rather heavy, and he couldn't find any good material.

I'll have to ask about it later.

Su Heng didn't stay busy too late today, so she went to bed early and got up early the next morning.

After washing up, I went to the base with Lu Mingchuan and had a quick breakfast.

He went to work, and Su Heng went to the brigade.

People in the village start slaughtering pigs early in the morning and start preparing their equipment before it gets dark.

When Su Heng arrived, the pigs had all been slaughtered. She didn't come to watch the slaughtering, but mainly to arrive early to queue up.

After slaughtering the pig, each household will be given a portion of meat according to their work points, and the rest will be sold.

The team had a good harvest this year, and everyone had some money, so they had to have a good meal at the end of the year.

The meat was only a small piece, and in a family with many people, each person could not even pick up two chopsticks, so we had to buy some extra.

So this pork is in short supply. If you don’t line up early, the good ones may be sold out.

But Su Heng was obviously overthinking it. What people wanted was good meat, the kind that was sizzling and oozing with oil.

At the very least, I'll have pork belly.

The lean tenderloin and the pork ribs with very little meat that she loved to eat were always the last parts left in previous years.

When the villagers saw her queuing up early in the morning, they thought she wanted to buy some good meat, but this was the result.

The chef who was cutting the meat recognized her and confirmed it several times before cutting.

With no one competing with him, Su Heng happily returned home carrying more than ten pounds of pork tenderloin and twenty pounds of pork ribs.