"Yes, yes, who else does it like our family, having to run all the way to cut the vegetables that pigs like to eat, wash them clean, chop them up, cook them, and even sprinkle a few handfuls of wheat bran on top?"
“The pigs don’t belong to our family alone. Ten families raise one pig. Aunt Niu’s family raises pigs after ours. Every time we finish feeding them, her family stops feeding them.”
"Do you know what Aunt Niu said?"
Li Ping mimicked Aunt Niu's usual tone of voice, "Oh dear, our family isn't even full, so how can we feed the animals? The brigade leader's family feeds their pigs so meticulously that their bellies are so round they don't even want to walk. I dare not feed them so much anymore; I'm afraid they'll get indigestion from overfeeding!"
"Listen to this, is this even human language?"
Even a pig wouldn't like to hear that!
"That's right, Aunt Niu didn't dare to tell you and my dad, but she talked about it all over the village behind our backs!"
Li Ping and Li Jiabao, this lively brother and sister duo, took turns making jokes, like a stand-up comedy routine, making Zhao Sufang laugh non-stop. After laughing, she turned serious and said to her two children, "Do you think Aunt Niu was right or what Mom was right? Although the pigs are raised by ten families together, if everyone were like Aunt Niu, wouldn't the pigs starve to death? Would you still have pork to eat at the end of the year? If everyone were like our family, treating the collective pigs as their own, and raising them to be as fat as possible, wouldn't each family get more meat?"
Li Jiabao muttered, "Even if we fatten up the pigs, we still have to take them to the slaughterhouse first. Each pig gets a meat ration coupon for half a pig, and those coupons have to be split among ten families. Who would want to do such a thankless job?"
"Jiabao, Xiaoping, if everyone thinks and acts this way, then in the end, no one will be able to afford meat. You need to know how to do things correctly."
"Keep doing the right thing, and don't worry about what others are doing, okay?"
"Understood!" the two said in unison.
"Ah, if only we had a pig of our own!"
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