Shen Yu had already eaten in the commune, but the food cooked by his wife was too tempting to refuse, so he sat down and had another meal.

After taking a bite of the steamed pork ribs, he asked, "Where are the fresh pork chops?"

Meng Tao replied, "Aunt Yang's family set up a trap in the village ahead and caught a wild boar. This morning, they slaughtered the boar and divided the meat. The Yang family sent some to the Zhou family. Zhou Cuiling brought me two pounds of pork ribs, and I gave her half a fish."

Half a large grass carp weighs three or four pounds.

"Are there a lot of wild boars in Daqing Mountain? They are so easy to hunt."

"That's right. The mountains in Daqing Mountain are high and the forests are dense. There are abundant resources. You haven't seen them. Even someone like me can easily kill wild boars when we go into the mountains. Thinking back to the past... Hey, didn't anyone tell you about my glorious deeds?"

Shen Yu was drinking fish ball soup and almost choked. He reached out and stroked his wife's hair: "Excuse me, my - pig-beating heroine!"

Of course he had heard of it, but he couldn't even imagine it at the time. He was so scared that when he came back he warned her not to go into the mountains easily in the future, and never mentioned it again, nor encouraged her to take risks.

Meng Tao was dubbed the "pig-beating heroine". When compared with the "tiger-beating hero" Wu Song, she felt that this was extremely insulting. She stretched out her claws and reached for Shen Yu's waist, looking for a piece of soft flesh to pinch in revenge.

Shen Yu grabbed the rebellious little hand and was about to "punish" it when he saw Jin Niu coming over with a crutch. He wrapped his big hand around the little hand and was reluctant to let go. He then hid under the table and struggled for a while before letting go.

Jinniu asked Shen Yu why he came back so late. Shen Yu told them that he sent Uncle Zhou to the commune in the morning and unexpectedly met a classmate who is now a leader of the Xingyang County Revolutionary Committee. This time he went to Yanchong Commune to discuss the construction of a hydropower station.

Meng Tao was surprised that Shen Yu could meet his classmates in this place and asked, "College classmates?"

Taurus added: "Male or female?"

Shen Yu: “…”

It is rare that these two cousins, who are not related by blood, can think in unison.

Looking at Meng Tao, he asked, "Do you want my classmates to be male or female?"

Meng Tao said sincerely: "Both men and women are fine. If it's a woman, it's more delicate. If you don't have a place to invite her for dinner, you can bring her home and I'll entertain her. I'll just do my part as a host."

Shen Yu chuckled: a two-faced little liar and a jealous person, but he likes her very much.

"It was a man, a college classmate from the provincial capital. He refused to let me come back when we met in the morning. After the meeting, he dragged me to the riverside with them for a walk and a chat. At noon, he invited me to lunch. In the afternoon, he had another meeting and then came to visit us. After dinner, he had to rush back to the county town."

Meng Tao exclaimed, "Are you really coming to our house for dinner? Doesn't that mean we should start preparing now?"

Jinniu stood up quickly: "I'll go to the garden to pick vegetables!"

Meng Tao then thought: "Are they planning to build a hydroelectric power station on the Linshui River? Will our village have electric lights?"

Shen Yu nodded: "The county is indeed going to build a small hydropower station in Yanchong Commune. Three locations have been surveyed, and Linshui River may not be chosen... No matter where the power station is built, our village can use electricity. My classmate came to visit our home just to take a look at Linshui River on the way."

"oh."

Although there is no sign of the power station yet and it will take at least a few years for it to be completed and generate electricity, Meng Tao and Jinniu are very happy just thinking about the bright lights appearing in the village.

At six o'clock in the evening, Shen Yu really welcomed two men from outside the door. One wore glasses and the other had a mustache. They seemed to be a few years older than Shen Yu. Meng Tao thought that Shen Yu graduated from university at the age of sixteen, so it was normal for his classmates to be a few years older than him.

Shen Yu introduced Meng Tao and Jin Niu to each other. The one with a mustache was his classmate Luo Xiangbei, the 30-year-old deputy county magistrate, young and promising.

The man wearing glasses was the secretary, Comrade Chen, who politely presented a flowered cloth bag containing newly bought clothing fabrics and bed sheets and quilt covers, which were the safest and most respectable wedding gifts in those days.

Luo Xiangbei shook hands with Meng Tao, looked at each other with admiration, then pointed at Shen Yu and laughed: "I knew that the person who could make our proud classmate Shen fall in love must be an extraordinary person. As expected, he has plucked the most beautiful golden flower in our Xingyang County! Great! A marriage made in heaven is like a thread, congratulations! I wish you two to make progress together, live in harmony, and grow old together!"

Luo Xiangbei was on a private visit and only Secretary Chen accompanied him; the other colleagues had left first.

Shen Yu did not invite anyone else. The three of them, Luo Xiangbei, and Secretary Chen had a quiet and pleasant dinner together. They talked while eating and drank some wine. Meng Tao was worried that drunk driving was unsafe, but Shen Yu said it was okay because they were not driving and the driver would come to pick them up on time.

After dinner, they drank some tea. At nine o'clock in the evening, Secretary Chen went outside to take a look and came back to say that the car had arrived. Luo Xiangbei then stood up and said goodbye to Meng Tao, Jinniu and Shen Yu one by one, and said he would return to the county town overnight as he had an important meeting tomorrow.

After seeing off the guests, Shen Yu actively helped his wife to clean the table, wash dishes and sweep the floor, and helped Jinniu carry hot water to the bathroom in the backyard. They waited until late at night and the newlyweds closed the door, turned off the lights and entered their space. That night Shen Yu got what he wished for, and took his beloved wife to the gorgeous paradise again, where they both tasted a more intense, ecstasy, happy and sweet taste of love.

The next morning, Meng Tao slept in. In fact, she couldn't get up. After the last experience, this time it was as if her skeleton was dismantled and reassembled. There was no part of her body that didn't hurt. She didn't know what material that thing was made of. It made her very uncomfortable.

Shen Yu, however, was refreshed and energetic. He tidied up in the space. When they came out, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning. Meng Tao covered her face and thought: In the countryside, there is probably only one bride like her.

Fortunately, Taurus was sensible, and perhaps he had given up on them, so he ignored them this time, cooked breakfast, ate it himself, went back to his room to read pictures, learn words, and write, pretending not to know that they were sleeping in.

After they had breakfast, Shen Yu drove Jinniu to the commune market. Jinniu had applied to the production team for permission to raise two chickens and four ducks, so he took the certificate to buy chicken and ducklings.

After buying chicken and ducklings, Meng Tao was making lunch while packing up. After lunch, she and Shen Yu went to Mengzhou and stayed there for one night. They would go to the provincial capital tomorrow. She didn’t know how many days she would stay there, but she had to go anyway. Xiao Wangcai was there. It had been a long time since they last met. Don’t let Xiao Wangcai forget her.

When passing by Xingyang County, we had to go to the small warehouse of the winery to collect the deer tendon wine, deer antler wine and deer penis wine. In fact, we could let Zhang Fujin collect another batch of wine, and add the goods in Mengzhou's house, we could produce another batch of goods.

Now is the time to make money, hurry up and make it. I promised Shen Yu that I would no longer use the space to exchange inventory for money in two years. So I will do more orders and accumulate rich capital. Now it's the 1980s, what business can't I do? (End of this chapter)