Chapter 219 Selling Pork
Huang Xiaoyue is almost six months pregnant and her belly is already quite big.
If there is nothing urgent, she rarely goes back to her parents' home now, and usually asks Liu Mingyuan to help run errands.
Liu Yinyin's family has a lot of wild boar meat.
Huang Xiaoyue did not charge any money and asked Liu Yinyin for ten kilograms of wild boar meat.
Wild boar meat was exchanged for yellow scabies.
Pork is durable in winter, and ten kilograms of meat is enough for him to eat for a month.
Thinking that the Chinese New Year is approaching, Liu Yinyin pondered that this year it would be just her and Gu Yanyan celebrating the New Year at home.
No matter what, the New Year still has to be celebrated.
I have to go back to the county town to buy some supplies for the New Year.
Jiang Cuihua was quite anxious when she heard that Liu Yinyin couldn't join the army in the short term.
"How long do we have to wait? Why is there no definite news? Will there be any unexpected events in the end?" Jiang Cuihua muttered.
Liu Yinyin poured her a cup of hot water and said, "Mom, this is how the army is. We must follow their orders. As their family members, we must support them and not hold them back."
Jiang Cuihua groaned. She didn't understand these things and knew that it was useless to worry. She weighed the bag in her hand and said to Liu Yinyin, "I just exchanged a few pounds of chestnuts with someone and packed some for you and Yanyan."
Now that she has some spare money, Jiang Cuihua is willing to buy something good if she comes across it.
The chestnuts were not eaten by locusts. In some villages there were many chestnut trees on the mountains, so the villagers were able to harvest some.
This thing is durable, and it is less likely to break down in such a cold weather.
Liu Yinyin said curiously, "Mom, if you have game to sell this time, please help me exchange some more...anything is fine, I will give you money later."
Chestnuts are so good. Steamed chestnuts, roasted chestnuts, chestnut braised pork, they are delicious no matter how you cook them.
Liu Yinyin liked it very much. She never refused game from the mountains.
Besides, even if you don’t like to eat it, you can still sell it to the system, right?
Jiang Cuihua said angrily: "What kind of era is this? It's good to come across such a good thing once in a while."
During famine, the most precious thing is food. Even if it is wild fruit from the mountains, no one is willing to sell it at this critical moment.
She had managed to get these chestnuts with great difficulty; if she went later she wouldn't be able to buy them.
Jiang Cuihua came to see the daughter for another matter: "Your father said that the pig at home should be handed over in the next two days. Your pig can be killed now."
I don’t know if it’s because they ate locust powder, but the two pigs at home have been gaining weight like crazy in the past few months. They now weigh over 300 kilograms!
Domestic pigs can almost grow to this size. They won't gain more than a few pounds of meat if they are raised any longer. It's better to kill them now and save some food.
We don’t have much locust powder left at home, and we still have to feed the chickens.
Liu Yinyin thought: "I'm fine with that. When you're free at home, just help me kill him."
The weather is cold, so it’s okay to kill the pig early. Anyway, it’s frozen outside and won’t go bad if you eat it before the New Year.
I can also make some pork jerky and send it to Gu Cheng later.
Jiang Cuihua continued, "How about the day after tomorrow? Your father and his family are always free. Hand over the pigs at home to them tomorrow, and they will slaughter them for you the day after tomorrow?"
Liu Yinyin nodded: "Okay, I'll go over to help the day after tomorrow."
Jiang Cuihua left after she finished her business. Liu Yinyin cut two pounds of wild boar meat for her to take back and eat.
We will kill the pig the day after tomorrow, but we haven’t eaten all the wild boar meat at home yet.
Liu Yinyin doesn't eat much wild boar meat. Most of it is kept as favors or exchanged for other supplies.
There are still about eighty pounds of wild boar meat.
In the evening, Liu Yinyin bought a chicken from the system and made a chestnut roasted chicken and a candied sweet potato.
The staple food is noodles.
Noodles are easy to digest and suitable for children.
Therefore, during this period, most of the food we ate at home was noodles.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
That morning, after Liu Yinyin got up, she made a cup of milk powder for Gu Yanyan.
Then, without even having breakfast, he carried Gu Yanyan to Liu's house.
Today is the day to kill pigs.
It’s good to have more strong people at home, so we don’t even need to hire someone to kill the pigs.
When Liu Yinyin arrived, the pigs had almost been killed, and the Liu family's father and sons were busy dividing the meat and cleaning the pig offal.
Liu Yinyin hurried over to help.
These are all trivial matters. Liu Laifu asked his daughter, "What are you going to do with the pork? Do you want to exchange it for some food from the villagers?"
Because of the earthen stoves and vegetable farming, life in Liujia Village is much better now.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there must be a lot of people who want to buy pork.
Liu Yinyin thought: "Can I just sell it for money?"
Don't mention the matter of following the army.
There is enough food at home, and the famine should end next year. There is no need to hoard food.
Liu Laifu coughed twice: "...It's not impossible, but this kind of thing can't be done openly."
In other words, if Liu Yinyin wants to make money, she has to trade with others secretly.
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Then let's sell it secretly."
The pig we killed was a little bigger than the one we handed in yesterday. After scraping off the hair, including the offal, pig head, and pig trotters, it still weighed about 300 kilograms.
You definitely can’t finish eating it.
There are very few people in the village who kill pigs, so it would be unreasonable not to sell some to the villagers.
Liu Yinyin's plan was to make salty food from pig offal and pig heads and sell it to the system to make a little money.
Half of the remaining pork was sold to the villagers, and the other half was made into bacon and pork jerky for their own consumption.
However, before that, some meat must be given to the Liu family.
The Liu family had helped her raise pigs for more than half a year. Raising pigs was not easy at all, so it was only natural that they should get some of the meat.
Liu Yinyin originally wanted to give the Liu family twenty kilograms of pork as a reward.
Jiang Cuihua refused and finally asked for only ten kilograms.
Raising pigs is not easy, but the lady provided food for the pigs.
On weekdays, food and daily necessities are often delivered to the family.
They helped to raise a pig, so how could they have the nerve to ask for so much pork? It was only ten kilograms, but Jiang Cuihua felt that they were taking advantage of the girl.
Liu Yinyin lives alone and rarely interacts with people in the village.
Therefore, she left the pork to be sold at Liu's house and asked Jiang Cuihua to help with the matter.
Pork...only costs three yuan per pound, not cheap, but prices are so high nowadays.
If you buy pork from Aunt Li, it would cost at least four yuan per pound.
Jiang Cuihua also said: "Three yuan is already cheap enough."
If anyone thinks it's too expensive, they don't have to buy it. The weather is cold now and the pork won't go bad if it's frozen outside.
If there were more than she could sell, she would ask her younger son to carry the pork to the county town to sell, and she could earn a few cents more per pound of pork.
It is also sold at a lower price because we are from the same village.
Liu Yinyin said, "Mom, I just want money, not food. Also...if someone wants to buy it with meat coupons, that's fine too."
She saves more money and tickets now so that it will be easier to take them away in the future.