The other children seemed fine, but Li Zhen was simply overwhelmed with gratitude!
She had never received such attention in her seventeen years of life!
Li Zhen then studied even harder, determined to get good grades and bring honor to her parents.
The family's relationship grew increasingly harmonious, but this infuriated Li Wanshi.
Now, Li Jin didn't want to suffer any more losses. Her last trump card—suicide—was also broken by Li Jin's "Longevity with Heaven and Earth." He also seized on her weakness, Li Song, preventing her from causing any more trouble.
Li Wanshi, with nowhere to vent her anger, started to take it out on her youngest daughter-in-law, Chunhua, complaining that the steamed buns were too alkaline or that the soup wasn't salty enough!
Chunhua was exhausted, both physically and mentally. Every day, besides going to work at the cannery, she took care of Li Wanshi and Li Song.
She was so busy every day that she was dizzy, and one day at lunchtime, when Li Wanshi was ordering her to cut strips of pickled vegetables, she finally vomited!
The doctor took her pulse and said she was pregnant, already over four months along!
Li Wanshi and Li Qingshan were overjoyed. Their youngest son was twenty-eight years old, and they finally had an heir!
Chunhua's treatment was immediately upgraded several levels.
Li Wanshi told her to rest during her pregnancy and forbade her from going back to work at the cannery. She only asked her to stay home and cook and tidy up the house every day.
Because they share a mother-in-law, the sisters-in-law have a good relationship.
Zhao Sufang and Qi Yuexian were both very happy for Chunhua. With a child, Li Wanshi would always treat Chunhua better for the sake of her grandson.
Zhao Sufang also took the opportunity to whisper to Chunhua, "Sister-in-law, don't worry about your pregnancy. You can come back to work at the cannery after you give birth. Remember, a woman can only stand tall at home when she earns her own money!"
Chunhua also felt that life had a new hope. She had a child in her belly who was connected to her by blood, and this feeling was very novel.
The least enthusiastic reaction came from Li Song.
Upon hearing the news, he first glanced at Chunhua's belly, then simply said "oh," without showing any excitement or joy on his face.
Chunhua, however, was so engrossed in the joy of becoming a mother that she didn't notice.
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Time passed day by day, and the agreed time between Li Xiangdong and Luo Yonggang had already been exceeded.
Li Xiangdong was a little uneasy. It was more than 2,000 miles away. What if something happened on the way?
Two days passed, and Li Xiangdong could no longer contain himself. Early in the morning, he prepared to send a telegram to western Sichuan.
He had just finished getting ready to leave when he heard a car horn outside.
"Beep—beep—"
Li Xiangdong's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran out the door.
"east!"
A familiar person opened the car door and jumped out; it was my uncle, Luo Yonggang.
He was much darker and thinner than before, and when he smiled, he revealed a mouthful of bright white teeth.
Next up was Bai Yulong, who was also all scruffy and looked exhausted.
When Li Xiangdong saw the wild boar calling "Wei-er-Wei-er" behind the Dongfeng 140, along with more than twenty baskets of dried mushrooms and dried wood ear fungus, he excitedly hugged Luo Yonggang and Bai Yulong!
Luo Yonggang patted Li Xiangdong on the back, "Xiangdong, pay the driver the fare first, I've run out of money."
Li Xiangdong calmed his excited emotions, paid the driver for the transportation fee, invited the three people inside to rest, and then asked Li Jiabao and Li Ping to go and call Li Jin and Zhao Sufang home separately.
Upon hearing that her younger brother from her maternal family had arrived, Zhao Sufang dropped what she was doing and rushed home in a hurry. "Xiao Wu, go to your second aunt's house and tell her that your uncle from Sichuan has arrived. Tell her to come to our house as soon as possible!"
Li Jin is tidying up the pigsty and sprinkling lime on the ground for disinfection.
It's called a pigsty, but it's actually six abandoned mud houses. In the past few days, Li Jin has reinstalled the windows and doors and repaired the roof with a skylight. Everything is ready, and they are just waiting for the wild boars to arrive!
When Li Jiabao arrived, Li Jingang had just shoveled the last shovelful of lime onto the ground.
...
When Luo Yonggang and Bai Yulong herded the wild boar off the truck into the pigpen, it not only caused a stir in Lijiapo, but also attracted the attention of members from the neighboring Guanyutai Brigade and Panjiazhuang Brigade!
One after another, small wild boars, weighing thirty to forty pounds each, were carried out of the back of the Dongfeng 140 truck with brown and white stripes or pure black fur. As each one came down, the onlookers helped count them.
"One!"
"Both ends!"
...
"Twenty-three heads!"
"Fifty-eight!"
"One hundred and nineteen!"
"Two hundred!"
People were getting numb from counting them; how come there were piglets on the bus?!
Finally, one child persisted and counted to the very end, "A total of four hundred and sixty wild boars!"
Finally, ten young male wild boars, each weighing over 100 pounds, got off the vehicle.
Now, piglets can be bought from the commune for 1.8 to 2 yuan per jin (0.5 kg). A piglet weighs about 20 jin, so that would cost 36 to 40 yuan.
These wild boars all look to weigh over 40 jin (approximately 20 kg). If you calculate it that way, each one would cost over 70 yuan. If there are 460 of them, then 6 x 7 = 42 yuan, and 4 x 7 = 28 yuan, which is 10 yuan!
Not counting the ten adult wild boars, the piglets alone are worth more than 30,000 yuan!
Such a grand gesture, coming from a fourteen-year-old child, is truly both enviable and astonishing!
Why is the smoke from the Li family's ancestral grave still rising endlessly?
That very evening, Lijiapo spread the word that a small wild boar would cost one yuan per jin (500 grams), with a limited quantity of 260 available on a first-come, first-served basis!
Huichuan County not only does not restrict the number of pigs raised, but also encourages everyone to raise more pigs. It also does not force all pork to be sold to slaughterhouses. Now there is a 50/50 policy, which means that if members raise pigs, they only need to give half of the pork to the slaughterhouse, and the other half can be distributed among themselves!
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