Li Hongxia worked for Baozi's family for free, so she stayed in the village.

In front of the whole village, Zhou Lizheng agreed with Song Yuehua and Baozi that they would no longer hire people from other villages as long-term workers. If they really needed to find long-term workers, they had to look for them within the village.

Of course, the two of them agreed.

After renting the house, Li Hongxia asked Song Yuehua for help and asked Master Duan and several apprentices to help move all the belongings from the county town over.

After settling the affairs at home, Li Hongxia and Baozi took a few days off and came to the compound to help slaughter the pigs.

There was not much work for Baozi anyway. As long as Tian cooked and cleaned for him, there was not much work to do. It was easy for Gao Wazi and Li Hongxia to ask for leave.

On the day of slaughtering the pig, Liu Xue called Gao Wazi over and asked him to learn.

With Song Yuehua and Dao Xiaoyi helping to hold the pigs, the job became much easier. Li Hongxia had no intention of hiding anything, and after killing two pigs in succession, she let Gao Wazi take over.

This kid doesn't talk much, but he is quite good at martial arts.

After slaughtering five or six pigs, the next step is to scrape the hair and separate the meat. This is not something that can be taught by just one or two pigs, but there are more than thirty pigs here, so practice makes perfect and you will definitely be able to learn it.

Liu Xue and Yao Er were applying salt to the meat and drying it in the sun. The entire pig farm was filled with bamboo poles filled with pork drying in the sun.

The food these few days has been pretty good. Every meal is filled with pig offal, and we eat pig-killing dishes every day. After a few days, I almost forgot that there is a drought going on.

There are no pigs in the farm now, and there is no other work in the fields. The farmhands are all working on laying bricks and building walls.

Liu Xue specifically asked Song Yuehua about this matter, "Master, the pig farm and chicken farm are empty. Once the wall is built, will the people in the compound have no work to do?"

Song Yuehua thought about it and said, "If there is really no work, then there is nothing we can do. We can give everyone some food at that time, so that we can at least survive this disaster year. For those who have no place to go in other villages, it is okay to continue living here. When Dongshan recruits people later, they can come back first."

I don’t know what will happen in the future, but being able to eat is better than anywhere else. Now it’s 400 wen a month. With the current grain prices, if one person is full, the whole family will starve to death.