After Xinxin finished her teasing, she quickly asked curiously, "Sister Daya, when are you going to marry Brother Guoan?"

Daya's face was still hot, and she could not stand their nagging and could only explain, "I, we, plan to wait until our work is more stable..."

Si Ya stood up in disbelief and shouted, "Sister Daya, you and Brother Guoan have graduated. One of you works in the Family Planning Office of the municipal government, and you're now working at the Municipal Education Bureau, right up to management level. Your combined salary is over 300 yuan. Isn't that stable?"

"If you two aren't considered stable, then who would dare to get married?"

Seeing that all her cousins ​​were looking at her, Daya quickly pulled Siya down and explained softly, "It's not about the salary. Guoan said he wanted to wait until the house was built before getting married."

Xinxin was stunned for a moment. "Where are you building a house? In the production team? But, Sister Daya, didn't your uncle give you a four-story building?"

Daya shook her head. "No, Guoan doesn't want to use my house for his wedding. Before the New Year, he bought an old yard near the Education Bureau. He plans to have someone tear it down and rebuild the house after the New Year."

Si Ya was puzzled. "Who to look for? Why not my dad? He can ask him to send someone to help you build it..."

Daya smiled and explained, "I don't know. He didn't tell me how to build it. He just told me that he didn't have much money, and that he could only build eight rooms upstairs and downstairs at most..."

Si Ya frowned and said, "Then I can ask my father and uncle to help build it. I..."

Xinxin held her back, looked at her and said with a smile, "Si Ya, Brother Guoan isn't marrying into the family, it's normal for him to have his own ideas. As long as Sister Daya is happy, we as sisters just need to support her from behind."

Si Ya glanced at Daya, and seeing Daya smiling at her tenderly, she nodded and said hesitantly, "Okay, okay."

At this time, Lele, who had been eating obediently, said loudly that she wanted to make trouble in the bridal chamber when Sister Daya got married, which made everyone burst into laughter.

The men drinking in the living room couldn't help laughing when they heard the children's laughter coming from the bedroom.

Chu Tian looked at Chu Jun and said, "Brother, I heard from Xiujuan that my sister-in-law said that the land has thawed after the New Year. Are you planning to expand the farm?"

Chu Jun smiled and waved his hands, "What do you mean by expansion? We are just planning to build another row of pig pens behind the current one..."

Chu Tian said, "Brother, even if you only add one pigpen, it's considered expansion! What's more, you added not just one, but a whole row of pigpens that can raise at least fifty pigs!"

Chu Jun smiled modestly, "It's nothing. Compared with your business, my unspeakable business is really nothing..."

Chu Tian poured a glass of wine for Chu Jun and said dissatisfiedly, "Brother, I'm upset by what you said. What do you mean you can't tell anyone? What's wrong with raising pigs? Is it shameful? You and your sister-in-law make money with your own abilities. It's not shameful at all, okay?"

Chu Jun nodded stupidly.

Chu Jie looked at Chu Jun curiously, "Brother Jun, are all the pigs you raise being supplied to the slaughterhouse?"

Chu Jun shook his head. "Not entirely. Vendors from our regiment and the city also come to me to buy pigs."

Chu Min continued, "So, big brother, you not only sell live pigs, but also slaughtered pigs? But, I haven't heard that you sell slaughtered pigs before?"

Chu Jun explained with a smile, "Actually, they've only been selling slaughtered pigs for a few months. They say the carcasses sold at the city's slaughterhouses are too expensive, so they asked me if I could help slaughter them. I'm willing to pay for the labor."

"The young man who worked for me used to help the butcher slaughter pigs every winter when he was back home, so I took the job. He charged three yuan for slaughtering a pig. I gave one yuan to the young man, one yuan to me, and fifty cents each to the other two people who helped me..."

Chu Tian watched Chu Jun talking endlessly about slaughtering pigs, and thought that this was because there were not so many departments in charge now. If it were in the future, wouldn’t private individuals who slaughtered livestock be fined or even punished to death?

Therefore, in a few years, we still have to remind Chu Jun to obtain a formal, legal and compliant certificate.

At this time, Uncle Chu's youngest son asked curiously, "Brother Jun, how much money do you make a year running this pig farm?"

Chu Jun thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily. I raised fewer pigs the first year, and after deducting the money for the piglets, the various costs of raising the pigs, and the money for hiring workers, I actually made no money. In the second year, I only made a little over 3,000 yuan, and it's only a little more this year..."

Chu Xiang and Chu Jun clinked their glasses. "Brother Jun, how much did you spend on building this pig farm?"

Before Chu Jun could answer, Chu Min answered first, "Xiangzi, how much did my eldest brother spend on building this pig farm? You might as well ask me instead of asking him, because we built this pig farm for him..."

Upon hearing this, several people pestered Chu Min to ask questions. When they learned about the initial expenses of Chu Jun's pig farm, including building the farm, buying piglets, and hiring people, their originally enthusiastic hearts suddenly became as if a basin of cold water was poured over their heads, chilling them to the bone.

Chu Xiang sighed and said, "Oh, it takes so much money. Even if I earn that much money in ten years, I still can't earn it..."

After hearing this, the others became even less interested and even had less desire to drink.

Chu Tian remembered that before the New Year, Chu Jun said that he didn't have enough pigs to sell, so he said, "Hey, although my brother's pig farm requires a large investment, you may not have the funds to open it, but I have another way to make money for you."

Upon hearing this, several people looked at Chu Tian. Uncle Chu, who had been quiet all the time, now looked curious. "Xiaotian, what do you have in mind? Tell your cousins ​​about it."

Chu Tian explained with a smile, "Although you can't afford to open a pig farm, don't you raise pigs at home? Even if we only raise one or two a year, you can raise more in the future. When they grow up, you can sell them to my brother. The price will be higher than what you would get at the slaughterhouse. How great is that?"

When everyone heard this, they felt that Chu Tian was right. The pigs they had raised in the past two years had to be sold to the slaughterhouse anyway. Not only were they always picked on, but they were also always forced to lower their prices. However, Army Chu was honest and loyal, so if they sold to him, he would definitely not cheat them.

Seeing them gathered together again to discuss enthusiastically how many pigs to raise after the New Year, Chu Tian looked at them with a smile but no words. His eyes inadvertently glanced at Chu Jie, who was looking at them with a wry smile on his face. He opened his mouth, but finally closed it.

Every family has troubles, he already knows enough. When Chu Jie no longer takes the initiative to tell him, he should not ask any more questions, lest Chu Jie think that he is gloating behind his back...