Chapter 81: Hand over the pig
Huo Jinyun began to doubt Shengyin and would occasionally test her in class. Sometimes he was shocked by her intelligence, but sometimes he found her to be mediocre, which made him even more confused.
When he wrote to Xiao Dingkun about all this, he replied: "While we firmly believe in materialism, we should also consider that there are things in this world that cannot be explained by science. Moreover, Pingxi is located in a remote area, at the foot of the mountains."
What does this mean?
Huo Jinyun was completely stunned. He read Xiao Dingkun's letter carefully over and over again. The more he thought about it, the weirder it seemed to him. In the end, he broke out in a cold sweat.
In fact, he had also heard some anecdotes from the elders in Pingxi Production Brigade, such as a man who passed by a pumpkin field and jumped into a pumpkin and encountered a mountain of gold, or a man who went into the mountains and encountered a female fairy, etc. But those were just local anecdotes and legends, and Huo Jinyun didn't take them seriously at all.
But what does Xiao Dingkun mean? Does it mean that the origin of the raw silver is not simple?
Huo Jinyun was a staunch materialist, so of course he didn't believe it. But after reading Xiao Dingkun's reply, he decided to ignore Shengyin's existence as much as possible and be an honest teacher.
He burned the letter as a precaution.
Huo Jinyun pretended to know nothing and performed his duties conscientiously. At the same time, he paid special attention to Fubao and treated him almost differently.
Compared to Shengyin, the weird kid who made him feel a little strange, Fubao, a smart kid with a simple mind that can be seen through at a glance, is indeed likable.
Of course, he also discussed with Su Wanru, asking her to make sure Shengyin was not bullied in the class and to pay attention to her.
No one could detect his partiality.
Time passed, and by the end of the year, the arrested Nie Laosan was finally released. I heard he'd suffered a lot, and the higher-ups had issued a document ordering the production brigade to place Nie Laosan under close scrutiny and conduct ideological education. Every time there was a production brigade meeting, he couldn't sit while others did; he had to stand to the side, head bowed, looking apologetic. If someone from above came, he'd be subjected to scrutiny as a speculator and asked to report his thoughts again.
Nie Laosan was really troubled this time. Not only did he suffer a disgrace, but he also lost all his capital. He lost a lot of money and had to be pointed at by everyone. Naturally, his life was worse than before. He usually kept his head down when he went out, as if he was too embarrassed to see people.
Even Nie Laosan's wife has restrained herself from being too arrogant and usually behaves in a low-key manner.
Shengyin was doing fine at school. Huo Jinyun and Su Wanru were not snobs. Seeing that Shengyin's family was in trouble, they had to be cautious so as not to upset Shengyin.
On this day, Huo Jinyun distributed the final exam papers to everyone, and a group of little ones waited nervously for their results.
When the test papers were handed out, they saw the papers marked in red ink. Chen Cui'er said excitedly, "The teacher said 60 points is a passing score, right? I got 73 points!"
She actually passed.
Wang Zhuzi grinned: "Hahaha, I got 63 points. Fortunately, I got 63 points, so I passed."
When Gu Shengtian saw their scores, he was very proud: "I got 89 points. 89 points, higher than all of you!"
A few little guys came over and saw that Gu Shengtian had indeed scored 89 points. How come he was so good at studying?
Amidst everyone's envious gazes, Gu Shengtian tilted his head to look at Fubao's score. After seeing it, he felt envious and disappointed, disappointed and proud: "Wow, Fubao got a perfect score!"
Fubao had actually guessed it in her heart a long time ago, because these questions were relatively simple, much simpler than some of the questions that Teacher Huo sometimes secretly asked her to do. She was sure to get a perfect score, but she was always hesitant before the test paper was handed out. Now that she had it, she felt very happy when she saw the red 1 followed by two 0s.
One hundred points!
Soon everyone found out that Fubao had scored 100 points in the exam, and they all looked envious. However, when everyone thought about it, they realized that Fubao was a very good student and could remember everything the teacher said right away, so there was nothing to envy.
For example, Chen Cui'er found that when she compared her grades with Gu Shengtian, she tried her best to catch up with Gu Shengtian's 89 points. That was fine, and she was motivated just by thinking about it. But why did she have to compete with Fubao to get 100 points?
Is a perfect score something that an ordinary person can achieve? Since she is not an ordinary person, she gave up the comparison.
Once they figured this out, everyone became happy about their test scores again.
At this time, Su Wanru came over. She smiled and told everyone that the holiday was coming up. She asked everyone to help with housework and review the previous learning content. Finally, she smiled and said, "I wish you all a happy holiday."
A group of first graders suddenly became excited and said, "It's vacation time, it's Chinese New Year!"
He was almost jumping up.
Su Wanru chuckled, looking at this group of children who were about to go on vacation, it was as if she saw a group of naughty monkeys who had just been released from the mountains. But when she thought about it, she was like this when she was a child.
Finally, Huo Jinyun came over. He glanced at the group of children. Seeing their excited eyes, he couldn't help but chuckle: "Your teacher Su has already told you what needs to be said. Now-"
He paused deliberately.
Everyone's heart was in their throat. What should we do now?
Huo Jinyun smiled and said, "Now, it's vacation time."
"Wow!"
Everyone jumped up excitedly and ran out with their schoolbags on their backs. It was vacation time, and they could go up the mountain to cut grass for the pigs, pick wild fruits and mushrooms, and have fun!
Fubao followed Gu Shengtian home with his schoolbags on his back. When they got home, both Fubao and Gu Shengtian handed in their test papers.
Miao Xiuju first looked at Gu Shengtian and said with satisfaction: "Eighty-nine points, eighty-nine points, not bad, not bad!"
Although she was illiterate, she knew eighty-nine.
After finishing Gu Shengtian’s, she looked at Fubao’s. When she saw the bright red “100”, she was stunned for a moment, then her weather-beaten face smiled like a flower: “Look at our Fubao, 100 points, 100 points!”
When Liu Guizhi saw this, she was naturally happy. The child was a good student with a bright future, better than anything else.
Just at this time, Xiuni also came back from school with her schoolbag.
Xiuni and Fubao Gu Shengtian were admitted to school at the same time, but Xiuni sat in the back row and usually didn't play with Fubao Gu Shengtian much.
Now Liu Zhaodi saw Xiuni coming back with her schoolbag and asked her directly, "How many points did you get on the test?"
Xiuni hesitated and said, "I got 85 points."
In fact, Xiuni's score of 85 was already a very good result. The questions asked by Huo Jinyun this time were not too simple. Gu Shengtian's score of 89 was very good. As for Fubao's score of 100, it was an amazing result.
However, Liu Zhaodi didn't understand.
Liu Zhaodi's ideas were simple and crude.
You are both in school and have been studying for half a year, but how come Fubao got 100 points, and even that silly Gu Shengtian got 89 points, but you only got 85 points?
This is unacceptable!
Liu Zhaodi snatched the test paper from Xiuni's hand and took a look at it. Even though she couldn't understand it, she recognized the "5" on it. She slapped her in the face and said, "You're so stupid! I worked day and night to provide you with food and drink, and this is the score you got? You're just useless!"
Miao Xiuju was happily holding Fubao's test paper when she suddenly saw her third daughter-in-law beating the child. She hurriedly called Xiuni over and said, "Isn't this good? Why are you beating her? An 85 is also good!"
Liu Zhaodi snorted, "Mom, don't bother with her. This useless thing only scored this low!"
When Miao Xiujiu saw this, her face darkened.
Although the family has split up now and each family eats their own food and takes care of their own children, she is her granddaughter after all, and of course she can't bear to see her mother being so disrespectful to the child.
The child is already in the first grade and she also needs to save face. How can she feel good if you beat and scold her in front of the whole family?
However, Miao Xiuju didn't directly say that the family had split up and each family was living on their own. She wasn't the head of the family, so it was pointless to say anything. She just told the children, "Go out and wait. Your grandfather has gone to the commune with your father to deliver the pigs. He will definitely buy you some candy when he comes back today."
Upon hearing this, the children in the family cheered.
At the end of the year, the production team would settle accounts and distribute grain, and families who raised pigs had to go to the pig farm in the commune to hand over their pigs.
The pig that Fubao and Gu Shengtian had been busy raising for nearly a year was now full of meat and so fat that everyone praised it. Today, they borrowed a cart from someone else and pushed it to the commune.
The commune will weigh the pigs, and those weighing more than 200 kilograms will be considered qualified and can be handed over. After being handed over, the pig farm will be responsible for slaughtering them. After slaughtering, they will ask you whether you want meat or money. If you choose meat, they will keep 100 kilograms of meat and you can take the rest back. If you want money, they will give it to you according to the price the pig farm buys pigs.
The 100 kilograms of meat they handed over would be converted into the grain quota handed over by the commune's pig farm to make up the difference.
Miao Xiuju had already discussed this with her husband and his sons and daughters-in-law: they didn't want money, just meat. She estimated her pig would weigh over 260 kilograms, and that her four sons and her would share the 160 kilograms of meat among their five families, with each family receiving 30 kilograms. In rural areas, having 30 kilograms of meat for the New Year meant a truly lavish celebration.
At that time, anyone who is willing to exchange it for some rice or money can do so, and if they want to eat it all themselves, they can eat it all.
When the daughters-in-law heard this, they also started thinking about pork. You know, since the family split up, they thought that what they ate now was their own food, not other people's food or that of everyone else, so they were reluctant to eat anything and were especially frugal with rice. As a result, not only the children but also the adults felt that the food in their mouths was bland and tasteless, and they drooled at the mere mention of meat.
The children couldn't wait any longer and ran to the street to wait eagerly.
When we got to the street, we saw that there were quite a lot of people waiting. Today, many pig farmers in the production team went to the commune pig farm to deliver their pigs. The children at those families who had pigs to deliver were naturally looking forward to their parents coming back with some delicious food.
So a group of children met on the street. One of them expressed how delicious the pork was, and the other expressed how fat her pig was. It soon turned into a competition to see how fat the pigs were.
After comparing, everyone said: "Gu's pig is the fattest!"
Shengyin couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this. He thought, "It's okay if the pigs are fat. What's the big deal? Anyway, his pigs are well raised and he can exchange them for pork later."
Her family is not living a good life now, but her father was finally released. When he was released, he was so thin that his bones were visible, and it looked like he had been tortured a lot, but it’s good that he is back.
Her mother has been working hard to raise pigs recently, and now the pigs are doing well. She calculated in her mind that the family has already paid out nearly 100 kilograms of pork, and another 100 kilograms must be handed over to the commune in the name of the production team. She wondered how much this pig weighed, maybe more than 230 kilograms. By then, her family would have more than 30 kilograms of pork left.
Shengyin counted on her fingers and thought that if she could endure this kind of life for another two or three years, this matter would be almost over. There would be plenty of opportunities at that time. With just some advice, life at home would get better.
As for the pig at the moment, she would naturally take the pork home to eat, to fill her stomach first and get more nutrition. After a few years when the times and environment changed, she would be able to turn stone into gold.
Just as we were thinking this, we saw a figure appearing from the other side of the production brigade and walking towards this side. Everyone looked up and saw that it was the person going to the commune to deliver the pigs!
The children cheered and hurried to find their father. When they saw him, they shouted, "Daddy, pork, pork!"
Although Fubao didn't shout, he was waiting with his feet up, eyes wide open and full of anticipation.
When a group of people came up to them, talking and laughing, the children each looked for their father and everyone started talking at once.
Gu Weiguo and his brothers each had something heavy in their hands, with smiles on their faces, looking radiant. It turned out that their pig was indeed weighed on a large scale, and it weighed 274 kilograms!
You have to know that people didn't eat well those days, so there was no good food to feed pigs. They had to go up the mountain to cut grass to feed the pigs. Pigs were generally not very fat, usually weighing only a little over 200 pounds. A fat pig like this 274-pound one was rare. Even the people in the pig farm in the commune couldn't help but ask, "How are your pigs? Why are they so fat?"
Of the 274 kilograms, 100 kilograms were handed over in the name of the production team, and the remaining 174 kilograms were divided equally among the five families, which means 34.8 kilograms per family. In a rural area where each family only gets one or two kilograms of meat during the New Year, this is a very fat year!
Some other families weighed out 230 kilograms, and some weighed more than 240 kilograms. In any case, everyone weighed out a better weight than expected. They were all very satisfied. Holding the heavy meat in their hands, thinking about the day when they would eat meat, they couldn't help but be generous. Some even took out the candies they bought in the commune and gave them to the children on the spot.
The children cheered and rushed to grab the goods, and the streets were filled with laughter.
Shengyin frowned and asked Wang Fugui beside him: "Uncle Fugui, where is my father? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
We went together when we first went there.
When she asked this question, everyone else noticed it and they remembered that when her family wanted to start the cotton wool business, they had agreed to use the pork in their home as collateral.
So everyone asked, "Yes, where is Nie Laosan's pig? She owes us three pounds of meat!"
Another said, "Her family owes me four pounds of meat. Why hasn't Nie Lao San come back? Don't deny the debt!"
In fact, everyone is a kind-hearted person. Although Nie Laosan had taken away the cotton wool at the beginning, they felt embarrassed to ask for it back because he had been arrested for speculation. No one dared to mention it, for fear that people would think they were taking advantage of their misfortune. We are all fellow villagers, and it would be unbearable to go too far, right?
But now that her pigs can be slaughtered, should the pork also be counted?
So many people looked at Shengyin with anticipation, and then at Wang Fugui.
I can't help but drool, they, they are also craving meat.
Wang Fugui was stunned by Shengyin's question, then said, "Oh, I almost forgot. Your father took your pig to the pig farm, but when they weighed it, they said it was less than 200 kilograms and couldn't be taken, so they asked your father to send it back. When we came back, your father was still holding the pig to ask them to be lenient!"
Specifically, they were originally in the front of the line, weighed first, and then the butcher came to slaughter the pigs. After they finished slaughtering the pigs, Nie Lao San was still dawdling and asking the butcher to collect the pigs. They didn't know what happened afterwards, and they hurried back with the pork.
When Shengyin heard this, he became anxious: "How is that possible? We borrowed the production brigade's scale to check it, and it weighed more than 200 kilograms!"
That was ten days ago. Ten days ago, it weighed over 200 kilograms. She thought that if she fed it for another ten days, it would have to be at least 200 kilograms, right?
Wang Fugui thought about it and finally remembered: "Oh right, your pig pooped on the way to the pig farm. I guess after that, it was just not enough! It's only 199 and a half pounds!"
Pulled a plate of shit......
Shengyin was stunned.
Is this even possible? Is this even possible?
The people around were also stunned, but when they thought about it, it was true that pigs could poop a lot, so after pooping, the weight was just less than 200 kilograms?
Thinking of this, those who were owed pork by Nie Laosan's family suddenly felt sorry for their own pork. What should they do if the pig farm of Nie Laosan's pigs doesn't accept them? When will they get their pork? Will it be in time for the Chinese New Year?
Those who were not owed pork by Nie Lao San's family couldn't help laughing when they heard this. How could they be so unlucky? Such a coincidence was something they had never heard of!
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