Chapter 49 Pork

Liu Yinyin couldn't help it and took a deep breath on his chubby face...

When he opened his mouth and looked like he was about to cry, he immediately let go.

Gu Yanyan's little face was kissed red by his mother, but luckily he was not a spoiled person. He hummed twice and held back his tears.

Liu Yinyin looked at it and laughed out loud.

If Jiang Cuihua saw this, she would definitely scold her again, saying that you shouldn't kiss a child's face like that, otherwise the child will drool in the future.

Liu Yinyin's ears almost got tangled up from listening to this, but she just couldn't help it.

This is when children have fun.

Jiang Cuihua walked around the village in the afternoon, borrowed a total of 220 eggs, and brought back some good news.

"Your uncle's family will kill a pig tomorrow morning. Everyone in the village can bring their wares to exchange for meat."

Uncle Liu raised two pigs. He handed one over to the collective and used the remaining one to exchange with villagers to supplement his family income.

Liu Yinyin paused as she teased her son. Killing pigs? This is really good news.

We are going to have a banquet at home tomorrow, and pork is definitely indispensable.

Gu Cheng didn't have many meat coupons for a month, only two kilograms, and the meat coupons for this month were the only ones he hadn't used yet. He had used the previous ones to buy pig's trotters for Liu Yinyin to replenish her body.

Originally, Gu Cheng was planning to use his connections to buy some pork from the meat processing plant, but now that someone in the village is slaughtering pigs, it would be more convenient to buy it directly in the village.

Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and asked her, "Mom, can I exchange some more pork with Uncle San?"

"Of course you can." Jiang Cuihua said with a smile, "Your family is having a banquet tomorrow, so it's normal to exchange more pork. Besides, he is your third uncle, so how can I not help you?

Just tell me how many pounds you want to buy. I'll ask your father to ask your uncle to leave some meat for you. That'll be fine."

Liu Yinyin hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "How about buying half a fan?"

She must have wanted to buy more pork and stock up on bacon.

"...half a pig?" Jiang Cuihua was stunned for a moment, and said with a half-smile, "How about you buy the whole pig?"

"Is it possible?" Liu Yinyin's eyes lit up.

"Do you think it's possible?" Jiang Cuihua glared at her. "If it was possible before, there would be only a few people in the village who would kill pigs this year, and everyone's eyes would be on these few families. If you buy all the pork, what would others eat? That would definitely cause public outrage."

Country people can only eat meat a few times a year, and can only get some meat when they slaughter pigs at the end of the year.

Everyone is looking forward to it. If the young lady's family really buys so much pork, it would be too ostentatious.

Jiang Cuihua told her: "The most you can buy is ten kilograms of pork. If it weren't for a relative's pig slaughter, you wouldn't be able to buy that much meat. Other families can only exchange one or two kilograms at most."

Ten pounds of pork is a lot, more than enough for a banquet. It's only because the girl's family is well-off. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't buy so much pork.

Liu Yinyin sighed: "Okay, then buy ten kilograms."

She had ordered five fish from Li Chunfang two days ago. Now that she had pork, there was nothing else she needed at home.

Liu Yinyin discussed with Gu Chenggou and decided to arrange a banquet with five tables tomorrow, and the menu has also been decided.

There are twelve dishes on each table, six meat and six vegetarian.

Braised fish, braised pork with dried beans, fried meat with dried bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with chili peppers, stir-fried mackerel with garlic sprouts, and stewed chicken with mushrooms.

Spicy dried eggplant, braised tofu, cabbage stewed with vermicelli, stir-fried shredded potatoes, steamed pumpkin, shredded radish soup.

The staple food is cornmeal steamed buns.

There is no other way. There are not many vegetables this month, so I can only do what I have.

The next day, the couple got up before dawn and started working.

People from the Liu family also came to help. They had to grind the tofu, boil the eggs, and make the brown sugar steamed cake.

Gu Cheng will have to deliver something to Gu's house later.

Around eight o'clock, Gu Cheng went to the village to get ten pounds of pork and five fish. After that, he went to Shili Village with one hundred red eggs and fifty brown sugar steamed cakes.

Not knowing exactly how many relatives and friends Gu Cheng had, Jiang Cuihua specifically asked him to bring more.

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Shili Village.

The sun is shining brightly today, and every household in the village has people sunbathing outside their doors.

When Gu Cheng arrived at Gu's house, he saw Gu's father and mother sitting at the door.

"Dad, Mom." Gu Cheng moved the things down and said, "I have brought all the gifts for the full moon. Two red eggs and a brown sugar steamed cake. I have prepared fifty portions. I don't recognize many of my relatives in the village anymore. Please help me prepare them."

Father Gu stood up and asked his son, "Didn't you say that we just need to prepare these things at home?"

Gu's father had indeed mentioned this to him before, but Gu's mother did not agree. Gu's mother was the housekeeper of the Gu family, so he didn't dare to take it seriously without a definite answer.

Mother Gu sat there calmly without saying a word. She had never even met her grandson. What was she preparing for?

Gu Cheng saw through it but didn't say anything. He just said, "There aren't many things. It doesn't matter who prepares them."

Thinking of his own situation, Gu's father sighed and said, "I'll have your eldest brother deliver the medicine door to door later."

Gu Cheng: "Dad, there's a wedding banquet at home today, and Yinyin asked you all to come over for dinner."

Gu's father also knew that his grandson was one month old these two days, so he quickly said, "Your elder brother has gone up the mountain to chop wood. I'll go call him back and we'll pack up and go."

He had to attend his grandson's full-month banquet. He had previously told Gu Cheng to hold the banquet at Gu's house, but Gu Cheng said that the child was still young and the weather was cold, so it would be inconvenient to travel back and forth.

"I'd better go and call my brother." said Gu Cheng.

"Okay, it's on the back hill."

After Gu Cheng left, Gu's father coughed and said to Gu's mother, "Don't sit there anymore. Go pack your things."

"What are you packing?" Gu's mother asked him back.

Father Gu glared at her and said, "You are going to attend your grandson's full-month banquet, can you come empty-handed? Go and pack some eggs, flour and other things. Don't you have a piece of cotton cloth? Take it with you so that you can make two sets of clothes for your grandson."

It would be inappropriate to show up empty-handed, but don't embarrass yourself to others.

Mother Gu snorted and said without moving, "I won't pack, and I won't go either."

The most important thing to Gu's mother, besides money, is face. How could she accept that her grandson's full-month banquet was held by the woman's family?

There's simply no place for this old face.

Anyway, she would not go to Liujia Village. If she went there, she would just be laughed at.

Father Gu said unhappily, "If you don't want to clean it up, I'll do it myself."

Gu's mother still said the same thing: "You guys go if you want to go. I won't go anyway. I can't afford to lose face."

She hid all the important things in the house and was not afraid that her father would steal them.

When the two brothers came back, their father had already packed his things and changed into new clothes.

Mother Gu still sat in the chair without moving.

Gu Cheng glanced at her, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Mom, you're not going?"