Chapter 1150 Stepfather 61
"Bah, it's been passed down by our ancestors for thousands of years. Do you think that if you say you don't believe it, it won't exist?" Mrs. Hu is immoral and has a bad heart, but she believes in superstition the most.
In the past, when it was allowed, she would burn incense on the first and fifteenth days of every month.
Every year on the major festivals of the gods, she would buy incense, candles and firecrackers and go to the temple to pray.
Nowadays, superstition is prohibited everywhere, so she believed in it secretly without letting anyone know, not even her family members found out. She also hid a porcelain Buddha in her room, which she would secretly worship on the first and fifteenth day of every month.
With Mrs. Hu's warning, Hu Lao San no longer dared to think about Xu Yuanchun, but he hated Chen Yi for daring to steal his girl.
Two days before the New Year, the team slaughtered pigs and the villagers divided the pork according to the work point system. Yuanchun only got two kilograms of pork. Yuanchun thought it was too little and wanted to spend money to buy another five kilograms of pork, but she was worried that it would be too conspicuous and cause trouble.
She finally took out a dollar and bought a pair of pig offal.
The pig offal weighed more than 20 kilograms. After paying, Yuanchun was about to reach out to pick it up when Shen Yi came over and said, "Shen, let me carry it."
"Tsk tsk tsk, Shen Yi really loves his wife. He doesn't even want her to carry these little things."
“Yuanchun, you will be blessed in the future with a good man like Shen Yi.”
"The girl from the Xu family has good taste. The boy from the Shen family has good looks and good character except for his identity flaws. He is hundreds of miles ahead of the boys in our village."
"Third Uncle, you are destroying our prestige and boosting others' ambitions."
"Third uncle, we are not bad either."
"That's right, Third Uncle, I earn full work points every day, which is much better than Shen Yi who only earns six work points every day."
There are eight pig pens in the Hongqi Village pig farm. Shen Yi was assigned to shovel pig manure in the pig farm. As long as he cleans up the pig manure in the eight pig pens, he will get six work points.
Grandma Shen and Mother Shen were responsible for collecting pig grass every day. One basket of pig grass was worth two work points. They collected one basket in the morning and one basket in the afternoon, and each person could earn four work points a day.
Grandpa Shen and Shen Cheng were responsible for feeding the pigs twice a day, which was also six work points.
The work at the pig farm is easy and not as tiring as working in the fields, but it is dirty, smelly and no one in the village is willing to do it, so the work at the pig farm falls on the Shen family.
This can be considered as the team leader secretly taking care of the Shen family and specially arranging work for them.
The Shen family members did not work together with the villagers. The villagers could not see how much work they had done or how tired they were. Only the Shen family members knew.
But in fact, the work of collecting pig manure, feeding pigs and cleaning the pig pens at the pig farm is done by only Shen Yi and his son Shen Cheng.
Grandpa Shen guards the pig farm and collects pig grass picked by the children in the village.
Grandma Shen and Mother Shen went up the mountain every day to pick wild vegetables, mushrooms, fungus, and wild fruits to eat. The grass for their pigs was collected with the help of Shen Cheng or Shen Yi.
The two young ladies had never done any hard labor, so how could they pick grass for pigs? They just went to the mountain to play and pretend to do so.
However, they were very low-key and when they met villagers in the mountains, they would cut some grass for the pigs just to make it look like they were there, so no one noticed anything.
"Ah-Chun, go and boil some hot water. I'll clean the pig's offal."
Arriving at Xu's house, Shen Yi put down his things and went to carry firewood.
After lighting the fire, he asked Yuanchun to light the fire, while he grabbed a handful of cornmeal and went out to scrub the pig intestines.
Yuanchun put a few large pieces of firewood into the stove and ran over to chat with him, "Ayi, on the day of our wedding, I plan to have a banquet and invite the team leader and the village secretary to come over for a drink. What do you think?"
(End of this chapter)
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