Chapter 348: Staying Up All Year Round
As the end of the year draws closer, people in the production team slaughter pigs every day.
Although the sound of the pigs is too miserable, it is lively every day and the New Year atmosphere is quite strong.
According to the task pig indicators, the pigs submitted for the task must weigh at least 120 kilograms.
In the past, when the food station came to collect pigs, they would buy them as a whole head.
Half a head has been slaughtered. There is really no precedent for this standard of collecting pigs.
The food station said that it wouldn't work, so Fu Jingyou went to the He family.
The He family also had two pigs this year, and Fu Jingyou brought one from there to complete the task.
When he slaughtered his second pig later, Fu Jingyou sent half a pig to the He family.
Half a pig certainly doesn't weigh as much as a whole pig, but it has a lot of fat and is all good meat. The He family also had a very rich New Year.
There is no loss in doing business among family members.
You have to pay to buy pigs from the food station, and the price varies from 6 to 7 cents per pound depending on the grade of the pigs.
The pig that Fu Jingyou took from the He family weighed 132 kilograms, which exceeded the basic weight standard for collecting pigs. He was rated as a level two pig and was charged 63 cents per kilogram.
That comes down to eighty-three dollars and sixteen cents.
The sausages I made before were quite successful. Whether they were sliced and eaten with green garlic, or stewed on the side of the pot with rice, they tasted very good.
Fu Jingyou found it delicious, so he saved the pig intestines when he slaughtered the pig and made some with Lu Miao.
On New Year's Eve, Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao finished their dinner, cleaned up, and brought the stove into the room.
The nuts, candies and other things prepared in advance were laid out.
Dabao and Erbao sat on the bed, playing with candies and throwing them around, while Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao on the outside were cracking melon seeds intermittently, taking out all their saved income and carefully calculating this year's profit and loss.
Fu Jingyou started working in the county machinery group in early March and worked from March to the end of the year, a full ten months. Not counting subsidies, his bare salary was 37 yuan a month.
After ten months, it has reached 370 yuan.
At the end of the year, the two pigs earned 216 yuan and 4 cents, which added up to a total of more than 580 yuan for the whole year.
After deducting daily expenses, I still have 356 yuan left, which is my income for 76 years.
This does not include the ticket subsidies received by Fu Jingyou.
Some of those tickets were for family use, while others were exchanged for three or five yuan each to others.
Hard-to-get industrial vouchers and the like are very popular on the black market...
"We spend about three hundred dollars a year. I guess the combined expenses of several other families in the team can't even match ours."
Lu Miao put the counted money into a bulging little pocket.
That contains the family’s past savings.
It was originally more than 400 yuan, but during the time she was in a coma during childbirth, she spent more than 180 yuan in total.
Now all in all, I have a total savings of six hundred.
Fu Jingyou saw that her small pocket for money was almost full, and he felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction in his heart.
"It's all for the kids and the family, and you haven't even bought anything yet."
Lu Miao glanced at him unhappily:
"You always buy a full set of my stuff when you go out, what else can I buy?"
Fu Jingyou smiled, his handsome face was handsome and gentle:
"You can save money slowly, and these are what you should spend."
Lu Miao nodded and counted out a handful of small bills separately.
"Here's ten yuan. Tomorrow, when we go out to pay New Year's greetings, this is the money for Minmin and Minjie's New Year's money... I gave you one yuan last year, so give me one this year!"
"Take the rest. When you go back to work after the New Year, if you have colleagues with children, there are 25 cents. Take it as you see fit."
Lu Miao naggingly instructed:
"It's far away, and colleagues don't interact much. As a team leader, you should take some time to treat them to a meal at a state-owned restaurant."
"Setting up the layout can be considered as a good start to the new year."
"good."
After putting the money away, the young couple held a baby between their legs, each of them cracked a few melon seeds, peeled one and put it into the baby's mouth.
The eldest and second babies were babbling and waving their hands around, making the melon seeds fall everywhere.
Later, while eating the delicious melon seeds, the two boys fumbled to stand up, one of them hugged his mother's neck and stared at his mother's mouth while she was eating melon seeds.
One of them grabbed his father's clothes and pulled them, opening his little mouth waiting to be fed.
"You little bastard, you're the reincarnation of a greedy cat."
Fu Jingyou patted Dabao's buttocks, peeled two melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth.
The little guy was chewing the melon seeds like a little mouse, making a "tick-tick-tick" sound.
Don’t be fooled by the small number of small teeth he has. He is very good at eating.
Fu Jingyou's peeling speed could not keep up with his eating speed.
Finally, with no other options left, Fu Jingyou stuffed a red date into Dabao's pocket and asked him to chew it himself.
Dabao was also easy to coax. He really took the red date and sat aside quietly to chew it.
Lu Miao shook his head inaudibly and laughed softly at the father and son.
The two babies fell asleep one after another. Lu Miao stayed with Fu Jingyou to celebrate the New Year until after eleven o'clock, but he could no longer hold on.
Fu Jingyou coaxed her: "You go to sleep first? I'll be fine in a while."
Lu Miao asked him dazedly, "What else is there to do?"
"Wait till twelve o'clock and go out to set off some firecrackers."
This is the custom.
In the past, we were poor and couldn’t even get a penny, so no one lent money to us.
This year, most families in the team handed in their task pigs and received some money, so there should be quite a few families setting off firecrackers.
Lu Miao nodded in a daze. After just over half an hour, she tried to hold on, but couldn't. She tilted her head and fell into a deep sleep on Fu Jingyou's arm.
Fu Jingyou hugged her and listened to the clock in the main room ringing twelve times before he carefully pulled his arm away.
He put on his clothes and took the firecrackers to the front of the door near the threshing ground to set them off.
Many families in the team don’t have a clock at home, and Fu Jingyou is considered a leader.
He was the first to set off firecrackers, and then people from the production team started to "crackle" one after another.
New year, new atmosphere. 1977 officially begins at this moment.
Not only on New Year's Eve, many people in the production team set off firecrackers. On New Year's Day, they also went from house to house to wish each household a happy new year, and the number of firecrackers set off was much greater than in previous years.
Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou went to the He family to pay New Year's greetings, each holding one child in their arms.
Along the way, when we met other uncles and aunts from the team who came to visit and wish a happy new year, every one of them praised Dabao and Erbao.
"Look at this little face, this little chubby baby, so cute."
"Both of these little ones are growing up. Xiaoliu and Xiaoliu's wife are cut from the same mold as you!"
“Haha, yes…”
As they walked and chatted, they arrived at the He family's house. He Hongjin set off a huge string of firecrackers outside the door. Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou were well prepared and covered the ears of the two little ones in advance.
The big package that Tang Mei asked Fu Jingyou to bring back contained mostly children's things.
For example, tiger-head hats, tiger-head boots, little red jackets, etc. are all in double quantities.
I came here to pay New Year's greetings today and I'm wearing the same clothes.
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