Chapter 19 Liu Hongmei
The meat of infected pork can harm people, and in serious cases, people may even lose their lives.
Liu Changquan paused, then said loudly: "We have found out that a family in Shijia Village sold infected pork at the market, causing many villagers to be poisoned and sent to the hospital.
I want to tell you that selling infected pork is illegal! The person who sold infected pork has been arrested, so you should also be careful. If you really have infected pork, don’t sell it! "
After that, the crowd became lively again, and the villagers started talking about the swine plague.
Jiang Cuihua patted her chest and said with a lingering fear: "I'm so sorry that I listened to your advice and didn't eat the pork I bought."
If Liu Yinyin hadn't said it, their family would have cut a piece of meat and cooked it for lunch today.
And the girl is pregnant. If I eat the pork she gave me...
You can't even think about it. Jiang Cuihua felt a chill on her back when she thought about it. The person who sold the diseased pork was also very wicked. He dared to do such an evil thing. He deserved to be arrested!
Liu Yinyin asked with concern: "How are the pigs at home?"
It is unlikely to be a coincidence that so many households in the village have problems with their pigs.
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Liu Yinyin didn't want the swine fever to happen, but all the signs made it impossible not to think too much.
Jiang Cuihua sighed, her brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a mosquito: "One pig is in better condition, but the other is still the same. The two pigs are now being raised separately."
There was still a sense of luck in their hearts that they had done what they could and the rest could only be left to fate.
Liu Yinyin felt sympathetic. Swine fever is not contagious to humans, but... the villagers lost money raising pigs this year, and next year will be a similar year. I'm afraid things will be even more difficult.
In the next few days, the situation did not improve, and more than a dozen pigs in the village died of swine fever.
Liu Changquan discussed with team leader Liu Baomin and found a place on the mountain to dig a big pit specifically for selling sick pigs.
To make matters worse, not only the pigs, but also the chickens in the village were infected with the plague one after another, and most of them died within a few days.
Liujia Village was suddenly filled with gloom and misery. The villagers all complained bitterly, crying out to God that they would not be allowed to live.
More than a month passed, and the temperature continued to be high during this period. Perhaps after being exposed to the sun for a long time, the swine plague and chicken plague finally disappeared.
The pigs and chickens in the village no longer got sick.
However, after this incident, most of the pigs and chickens in the village were killed, and the villagers' lives became increasingly difficult.
The Liu family also lost a pig, and of the six laying hens, only two were left.
Because Liu Yinyin's home is far away, the chickens in her home have never come into contact with chickens from other families in the village, so.
All six of her hens were saved, and two days ago, her hens started laying eggs!
In the past two days, she could pick up an egg every morning. This morning, Liu Yinyin picked up two!
Although there are not many eggs, with this start, she can buy eggs from the system to make up the number. Anyway... her family will never be short of eggs in the future.
It is now the end of July, the sun is scorching, and the heat is making it hard to breathe.
Pregnant women have hot bodies, so Liu Yinyin had a very difficult time during this period.
There was no way she would go to work in this kind of weather. She was lucky enough to be able to take care of the two plots of land at home.
Liu Yinyin lives far away and doesn't interact much with the villagers.
But she knew that many people in the village talked about her behind her back, saying that she was a lazy woman who took advantage of her pregnancy to avoid work and stayed at home to be lazy.
However, because Liu Yinyin told the villagers the method of making magical tofu without any compensation, although many people had objections in their hearts, they were quite polite to her on the surface.
Liu Yinyin doesn't care what others think of her. She should be nice to herself when the time comes.
Anyway, food is now distributed according to work points. Liu Yinyin has fewer work points, so she gets less food. It's okay as long as she doesn't mind it. It won't bother others.
The world is big, but the baby in the belly is the biggest. Before delivering the baby, Liu Yinyin dared not to bother.
Having more food these days is not necessarily a good thing. If Liu Yinyin works hard to earn work points, she will get more food in exchange at the end of the year, which will make her a target of others.
Her house is so poor that even thieves won't come into her house.
However, she was not too idle at home and did not work much, but she went to the mountains often to dig wild vegetables and look for wild mushrooms.
At home, Liu Yinyin has stockpiled three large sacks of dried wild vegetables and more than ten kilograms of dried mushrooms.
Recently, many wild fruits in the mountains have matured, such as myrtle, lantern fruit, barberry...
Liu Yinyin always had a bountiful harvest every day when she went up the mountain. She sold the leftovers to the system, and the balance in her system was already more than 7,000 yuan, almost 8,000 yuan.
The living expenses in the village are not high, and this money is enough for Liu Yinyin to use for several years.
After a busy day, it is the end of August again. The weather is still hot, but there have been three or two rains during this period, so the crops in the fields are growing well.
In two days, the village will start harvesting rice, then corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes...
It is almost time to harvest all kinds of crops, and in the next month or so, it will be the long-awaited autumn harvest for the villagers.
"Yinyin, are you home?" Liu Hongmei called her at the door.
"Here." Liu Yinyin put down the book in her hand, stood up and opened the door.
Liu Hongmei is her cousin, eighteen years old.
Liu Yinyin's family grows so many sweet potatoes, but she doesn't raise pigs, so recently several families in the village have come to her to exchange sweet potato vines for feeding pigs.
The Liu family only has one pig now, and it cannot eat so many sweet potato vines. It would be a pity to waste them.
Therefore, Jiang Cuihua helped her to agree to exchange the sweet potato vines with a few relatives with whom she had a good relationship.
They didn't confiscate much, just a token of their appreciation. All you had to do was exchange a basket of sweet potato vines for an egg.
"Hongmei, you can cut the sweet potato vines yourself. I'll go to the field to harvest the beans."
Liu Yinyin has been busy drying dried vegetables recently. She had already dried a basket of dried eggplants a few days ago.
She has been harvesting and drying long beans these past two days, and the vegetables in her private plot are almost gone.
Only some eggplants, radishes, cabbages, and some onions, ginger, and garlic were left.
However, the vegetables in the fields are planted one after another. Now we are planting another crop of green vegetables with a shorter growth cycle, and they will be ready to eat in ten days or half a month.
"Okay, I'll do it myself." Liu Hongmei is well-known in the village for her ability.
I work during the day, and after work I have to take care of the two pigs at home.
She is diligent and cleans the pigpen at home every day. When swine fever broke out some time ago, her pigs were not harmed at all.
Because of this, she had a very good reputation in the village, and when she reached the marriageable age, the threshold of her family was almost broken down by matchmakers.
However, Liu Hongmei didn't like any of them. The little girl looked down on those rough men in the village.