When Song Tao came back from Song Bo's place, he saw the whole family smiling.
"What's going on?" Song Tao asked curiously.
"It's nothing. Look! Chengcheng and the others bought it for us!" Xu Sanniang showed the gold bracelet on her wrist to Song Tao.
"Okay, okay!" Song Tao patted Xu Sanniang's hand after reading it.
"Dad, this is yours!" Jiang Cheng took out a set of chess equipment. "Since you like playing chess, I bought you a new set!"
"Okay, okay! You guys are so thoughtful!" Song Tao took the chess sets with a smile and planned to play a game with Song Bo in the afternoon.
After all the gifts were distributed, Xu Sanniang went to cook, and Song Tingzhi followed to help.
After the food was served, Xu Sanniang invited them to come and eat.
At the dinner table, Xu Sanniang kept picking up food for Jiang Cheng, saying, "Eat more!"
"Mom, that's enough! I can't eat so much!" Jiang Cheng said helplessly as he looked at the pile of food.
"It's okay. If you can't finish this, we still have Tingzhi!" Xu Sanniang pointed at Song Tingzhi and continued to pick up food for him.
Jiang Cheng couldn't stop him, so he could only let Song Tingzhi suffer.
Jiang Cheng tried his best to eat mouthful by mouthful, but in the end he couldn't eat any more, so he put the bowl towards Song Tingzhi, indicating that Song Tingzhi should eat.
Song Tingzhi saw Jiang Cheng's little action and felt funny in his heart. He took it over and started eating.
After the meal, everyone was full and Song Tingzhi even burped from eating so much.
After dinner, while the sun was shining brightly outside, Jiang Cheng planned to take a walk in the village to help digest his food.
Xu Sanniang asked Song Tingzhi to hold Jiang Cheng well and prevent him from falling. Only after Song Tingzhi agreed did Xu Sanniang let them go.
Song Tingzhi supported Jiang Cheng as they walked down the road. "By the way, Qi Yu wants me to ask He Xiaomi if she's engaged."
While walking on the road, Song Tingzhi suddenly remembered Qi Yu's instructions and asked Jiang Cheng for him.
"Huh? Xiaomi?" Jiang Cheng was a little confused. "Why are you asking this?"
"This kid must have fallen for her!" Song Tingzhi said.
"Is it true? Why do you suddenly like Xiaomi?" Jiang Cheng looked suspicious.
"Didn't he come to attend Qianqian's coming-of-age ceremony before? He happened to see He Xiaomi and had an idea in his mind!" Song Tingzhi explained.
"You want to marry her after just meeting her once? He knew that Xiaomi's father used to be in his gambling house..." Jiang Cheng asked.
"Everyone knows! He said he likes this about He Xiaomi: her tenacity! She's as energetic and spirited as the wildly growing grass!" Song Tingzhi repeated what Qi Yu had said to him to Jiang Cheng.
"That's quite true!" Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Okay! I'll go ask him some other day!"
After listening to what Song Tingzhi said, Jiang Cheng had an idea in his mind. If He Xiaomi was willing, he could give it a try.
The two took a walk for a while and then went back.
Song Tingzhi asked Jiang Cheng to go back to the house for a nap, while he went to the pigpen to check on the pigs.
I have to say that Xu Sanniang's skills are pretty good. She raised this little piglet to be fat and strong. It looks to be about 350 kilograms.
Song Tingzhi’s most important task during this New Year’s holiday was to kill the pig.
He planned to get ready early tomorrow morning so that he could finish by noon and sell it.
Song Tingzhi told Xu Sanniang his plan, and Xu Sanniang nodded repeatedly after hearing it.
Knowing that he was going to slaughter a pig tomorrow, Xu Sanniang went to spread the news first so that the villagers would come to buy pork tomorrow.
Everyone in the village knew that the Song family had a pig that hadn't been slaughtered yet. They were all waiting for them to slaughter the pig so they could bargain for a good price and buy some pork to take home for the New Year.
The next day, Song Tingzhi got up early and started preparing to slaughter the pig. He went to find Song Qiangdong and Song Qiangnan to help.
Song Qiangnan came back a few days earlier than Song Tingzhi, and when he saw that Song Tingzhi needed help, he went to help.
Several people worked together to press the pig to the ground and tied up its feet. Song Tingzhi found the right moment and cut its throat with a knife.
Seeing the blood, Song Qiangdong and others let go of the pig and let it struggle on its own, but they still used a bowl to catch the pig's blood.
Even then, some pig blood still spilled onto the ground.
Xu Sanniang poured some water to dilute the pig's blood, making it taste better.
Song Tingzhi and his men moved the pig to a large table and poured boiling water over it again and again until the pig's hair could be shaved off.
Xu Sannian came over with a scraper and asked Song Tingzhi to shave off the pig's hair.
Song Tingzhi moved very efficiently and cleaned up the mess in no time.
After scraping off the pig's hair, Song Tingzhi cut the pig in half by cutting in a straight line from the neck.
After Song Tingzhi had taken out all the internal organs, he used water to flush away the blood until it was almost gone.
Once the processing is almost done, the pigs can be dragged out and sold.
"Tingzhi! I think it's almost done! Can we sell it now?"
There was someone standing at the door early in the morning watching the whole process of Song Tingzhi and others slaughtering the pig. When he saw that he had finished, he started shouting.
Xu Sanniang thought it was almost done, so she asked Song Tingzhi and the others to move the table to the door.
Song Tingzhi set the price of pork at ten coins per catty. Now that winter is approaching, the price of pork has gone up a lot. Ten coins per catty is already considered cheap!
After hearing the price, no one had any objections. This price was already considered a bargain, so they began to line up consciously.
Seeing that the line was very long, Song Tingzhi stopped talking and started to divide the pork piece by piece.
The pork was distributed piece by piece and soon half a pig was almost divided.
Song Tingzhi went back to the yard and first kept the places that Xu Sanniang wanted. Under her instruction, he left some for Song Bo's family and He Xiaomi's family, and then took the rest out to continue selling.
Song Tingzhi left behind about 50 kilograms of pork and a big pig's head.
After selling the remaining pork, Song Tingzhi packed up his things and took them inside.
Almost everyone in the village who wanted to buy pork went back satisfied.
This time, I sold pork for almost two taels of silver, which was not a lot, but it was enough. I was not trying to make money.
Song Tingzhi gave Song Qiangdong ten pounds of pork and asked him to take it back.
Song Qiangdong didn't want it at first, but he couldn't resist Xu Sanniang's enthusiasm, so he took the pork back.
Ten pounds of the remaining food was left for He Xiaomi's family, and Xu Sanniang used the remaining thirty pounds to make ten pounds of sausages, five pounds to make meatballs, and the rest was kept for food.
Xu Sanniang, the big pig head, planned to stew it and eat it.
Almost no one wants the offal, and Xu Sanniang thought that Song Tingzhi liked to eat it, so she saved it for him to eat during the New Year.
After distributing the pork, Xu Sanniang plans to start preparing New Year's goods from tomorrow, so that she can have a good harvest this year!
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