At the home of the president of Xiangyang Commune.
At this time, Zhao Wei was busy chatting with the other party, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.
That piece of bacon was taken from the old hunter's shack and was used by him as a gift.
This president is the same as Accountant Wang. He won’t accept anything no matter what you say.
Zhao Wei still had a gift that he couldn't give away, so after chatting with him about family matters for a long time, he left the old bacon behind.
The president really couldn't refuse his rogue behavior, so he finally returned the favor by calling him over and dropping a bombshell news on him.
"Zhao Wei, you were not at home two days ago, and someone sneaked to the township government and reported you. The main crime is sabotage of economic construction. The proceeds will be confiscated, and there will be some corresponding penalties."
"If nothing unexpected happens, the documents will be sent out in the next two days. You and the people who are going up the mountain with you should be mentally prepared."
Zhao Wei's mind was as clear as a mirror. He had known that this day would come, otherwise why would he be so anxious to come and give gifts.
So he bowed and said, "Thank you for telling me, President. I will need your care in the future."
Two days is enough time, because his new home is already completed. He can move his family in today and hold a housewarming ceremony and a big banquet tomorrow.
All the prey weighed only about 250 kilograms, and they were all consumed in this banquet. Those who did not get a single hair of the animal would be considered the loser.
Moreover, there are so many people in the village going up the mountain. If they want to confiscate the goods, conflicts are bound to arise.
But this is what he wanted to see.
These are famine years.
The control is so strict. Many families have run out of food, but they are not allowed to go hunting in the mountains. Do they want to starve people to death?
Moreover, it was not only people from their village who went up the mountain, but people from many neighboring villages also went up the mountain to cause trouble privately.
Zhao Wei has not been idle these days. When he was strolling in the market, he had already set his sights on these people and sent out letters of complaint in advance.
This time, many people from the surrounding villages were implicated, and it was quite a big deal.
Let them make a fuss. He is a poor and lower-middle peasant with nothing. He just needs to live his life behind closed doors. He can't let them confiscate the food he eats. Haha...
When he returned home, he saw several apprentices exercising conscientiously, so he drafted them into the army and quickly moved.
At the same time, I revealed the news to them.
Several people looked at each other and smiled proudly.
"Master, you are more foresighted. The people in the village really thought that we slept until noon. In the morning, I had already taken the second and third brothers into the city and sold all the beast meat at the meat stalls in various urban areas."
"It's only a few days until the Chinese New Year. My god, business is so good that it only took an hour to sell out."
"Tell me, how come those people are so willing to spend money? They are usually so stingy, tsk tsk ..."
"As for the fourth and fifth sons, one of them is already married, so he was sent to his mother-in-law's house to hide. The other one is engaged and will be married after the New Year, so he was also sent to the woman's house. Anyway, the house is very clean, hehe..."
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After hearing what they said, Zhao Wei finally felt relieved and said, "Don't mention hunting in the future, and be careful when talking to the villagers. When we want to eat meat, we can just sneak into the mountains."
Everyone understood what he meant and said that they would keep their mouths shut and be poor people who had no food to eat.
Well... when we get back, we'll prepare a meal of rotten wild vegetable porridge. When those people come and see this, we can't just confiscate all the vegetable porridge from them.
I'm really tired of eating meat these days, and I really want to eat vegetarian food, tsk tsk...
After spending half a day cleaning and tidying up the house, the family finally moved into their new house.
There are five bedrooms and one living room, all painted white. A fire was lit inside to keep it dry for the past few days, so it is now dry and fresh.
Three rooms are used for living, and the remaining two are used as one for storing food and sundries and the other as a kitchen.
If there are guests at home, they can also place a bed in the utility room, which is convenient.
This kitchen is modeled after an open kitchen. It does not have a range hood, but uses a high chimney. In addition, an openable wooden baffle is installed above the window, which can be opened when cooking to use the through-draft to accelerate air circulation.
In this way, the kitchen will not become pitch black so quickly.
Of course, the biggest difference is that there is a public toilet built in a corner of the yard.
It is no longer an open dry toilet where you can fall into the pit if you are not careful.
This is a squat toilet that imitates a water-flush toilet. Every time you use the toilet, the excrement can be flushed into the pipe with water and directly discharged into the cesspool.
He moved the manure pit outside the wall, into a large pit. In the future, when he wanted to collect manure for composting, he would not have to pass through the yard of his home, thus keeping the living environment clean and tidy.
In order to avoid congestion, this passage was built quite spacious.
In addition, the water will be cleared in time and backflow will not occur.
It is winter now, the dry season, and the water in the mountain stream is almost dry.
When the flood season comes, he will ask someone to make a metal box to store water. Then, he will draw water from the mountain. As long as the water box is full, it will automatically flush the toilet, saving a lot of manpower.
He has made full use of these little skills in life, greatly improving the quality of his life.
It is obviously still a thatched house, but it is rare among farmhouses to be clean and tidy.
After taking care of his family affairs, he went to Master Liu's house overnight and asked him to help prepare for the banquet.
When Master Liu heard that there was a job, he didn't even ask for the price and quickly came over that very night with a few kitchen helpers, carrying various knives, large pots, steamers and other utensils.
This guy has already regarded Zhao Wei as his idol and admires him very much.
At this time, the Zhao family had already started preparing to build a stove in the yard.
Bricks are not yet popular in rural areas, and the available materials are limited. The adobe stoves are made of mud mixed with straw and wooden sticks.
If you burn firewood inside, it will quickly become solid.
As for the rice, flour, grain, oil and other things needed for entertaining guests, Zhao Wei had already asked Zhao Yong to prepare them. He would buy a little bit every time he went to the market. Now the kitchen was piled with them, enough for the banquet.
It is impossible to invite the whole village. There are more than 1,000 households. How can we invite all of them? They are not rich.
They just asked more than 50 families who helped to renovate the houses to be the ones who were close to them.
The whole family usually comes together for a housewarming banquet, mainly to warm up the house. The more people there are, the more lively it is.
The gifts are quite rich. Some are just objects, such as new bowls and chopsticks, new cooking utensils, brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, pickled vegetables, seeds of grains, farm tools, cloth, etc.
Some people give money, not much, just one or two cents, which is what the other party can give. No matter how much it is, it is a good intention and no one will despise it.
The lively banquet finally kicked off amid the bustling crowd.
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