Chapter 235: Killing the New Year Pig and Distributing Food
Everyone was in high spirits on the day of slaughtering the New Year pig and distributing the grain. As soon as the sun rose, everyone went to the grain drying ground.
The weather was cold, but everyone's hearts were warm. They gathered in groups of three or four to discuss how much food, money and meat they could get.
Everyone knew how many work points they had earned after working for a year, and they could do the math in their minds to roughly know how much food and money they would get.
"I think Shen Dazhu's family earns more work points. They have so many strong laborers, and they are all hardworking."
"They earn a lot of work points, but they have a large family and don't know if they can have enough food.
As for Shu Yu, she needs to eat fine grains every other day, and maybe she even needs to spend money to buy them. I want to see what you think, right?"
Liu Pan, who was standing by, looked at it and said, "..."
"My eldest niece is weak, so what's wrong with spending some money to buy fine food?"
Everyone: The Shen family always says that Shu Yu is weak, but no one knows where that girl is weak. For someone who can knock down a wild boar with just her fists, where can you tell me how weak she is?
While they were chatting here, several strong laborers were carrying a pig out of the pigsty. Shen Shuyu was also helping out, but there was no other way. The pig kept making a lot of noise and it was quite difficult to catch it.
Shen Erzhu thought of his niece's great strength and asked his sister-in-law to go home and pull his niece out of the warm kang.
The room is warm, and sleeping in in winter is the most comfortable thing. Shen Shuyu usually gets up at noon.
Before seven o'clock, Old Mrs. Shen came into the house and called her eldest granddaughter to get up, but Shen Shuyu naturally couldn't get up.
The old lady had no choice but to pick up her eldest granddaughter, put a military coat on her, put on cotton shoes, a hat, and a towel, then put her on her shoulders and carried her out of the house.
She is so old, but still so strong. She can carry her 100-pound granddaughter on her shoulders without even breathing hard. Everyone would praise the old lady for her good health and great strength.
Second Madam Shen's eyes were wide open. The eldest sister-in-law was older than her.
Normally, she feels overwhelmed when carrying something weighing 50 kilograms, but her sister-in-law can still carry her granddaughter. She must be in such good health.
It was snowing heavily today, and scattered snow fell on Shen Shuyu's face, feeling icy cold. Shen Shuyu woke up and saw two pigs when she opened her eyes, grunting and looking at her.
Shen Shuyu rubbed her eyes vigorously and looked around, then she realized that she was in the threshing ground. Old Mrs. Shen was looking at her with a smile. She knew without thinking that she was carried out of the bed by her grandmother again.
Shen Erzhu said, "Shu Yu is awake, good thing. Come, help and knock out these two pigs."
Shen Shuyu: "..."
Shen Shuyu ruthlessly stretched out her hammer fist, and with one punch, one pig fainted. Shen Shuyu followed with another punch, and the other pig also fainted.
Shen Erzhu had always known that this girl was very strong, but when he saw with his own eyes that she could knock a pig unconscious with just one punch, it was another matter.
Shen Shuyu's appearance is the kind that brings peace and prosperity to the country. In fact, there are still several boys in the village who like her.
It's just that the boy never dared to get close to her, and usually just secretly took a look from a distance.
After knowing that Shen Shuyu was looking for a son-in-law, he told his family about his idea, but they strongly opposed it.
Since my family doesn't agree, I'll just keep my thoughts to myself. Maybe there will be an opportunity someday.
Today I saw with my own eyes that she knocked Nengzhu unconscious with one punch, and I didn’t have any thoughts at all.
They couldn't bear to think about a girl with such great strength. If they had a quarrel in the future and she got angry and punched them, they would be dead.
Shen Jiabao and the others were filled with pride. Look, this is their eldest sister, how awesome she is.
Shen Shuyu didn't know what they were thinking. After knocking the wild boar unconscious, she felt sleepy again. She nodded her head, but she didn't want to go home.
Gu Jiandong called Bai Luobo over. Bai Luobo was wearing a dog sled with a blanket on top.
"Shu Yu, sit on the dog sled and let the white radish take you for a couple of laps. You won't feel sleepy after a couple of laps."
Shen Shuyu thought this was a good idea, so she got on the dog sled and asked Shen Qiu to sit with her. The two sisters rode around the threshing ground twice.
Shen Shuyu was no longer sleepy at all.
The pig was being slaughtered. Shen Shuyu and Shen Qiu came over. The butcher was Uncle Chen, who specialized in slaughtering pigs at the pig farm. Everyone called him Old Chen.
Uncle Chen sharpened the knife, the white knife went in, the red knife came out, his movements were skillful and fast.
The pig didn't react at all, so they bled it and started cutting up the meat, dividing it into different parts and placing each piece on the chopping board.
Shen Erzhu saw that it was almost time, and began to organize everyone to line up. The accountant stood next to the team leader with the work points book.
The meat was distributed according to work points and per capita. Some people got more, some got less.
Those who got the most were grinning, while those who got the least amount of meat kept slapping their thighs and began to complain that their family members were lazy at work.
Shen Shuyu and his family split up the family, and the work points that were previously counted together were divided equally into four parts, and the work points were divided into the work points of the four families.
From this perspective, the work points earned in a year were just enough for food, and the amount of meat allocated was not much, just about one pound.
The meat is cut into half fat and half meat, there is no choice.
The pigs are quite fat this year, each weighing 130 kilograms, and the two pigs together weigh more than 260 kilograms.
But half of the pork had to be handed over to the commune.
These days, a pig weighing 130 kilograms is considered fat. Some teams have no extra food to feed their pigs, so they are skinny and a pig weighing 100 kilograms is considered fat.
Old Lady Shen saw that there were about three or four pounds of pork fat on the chopping board. The oil at home was almost used up.
She received a piece of pork and bought pork fat. Of course, she also did not forget to buy the ribs and lean meat that her eldest granddaughter asked her to buy.
In fact, Shen Shuyu felt that three pounds of spare ribs and three pounds of lean meat were not enough for them to eat, and they could be finished in two meals. But buying too much at once would attract too much attention, so she could only ask her grandmother to buy that much.
No one was buying pig stomach and pig offal. Shen Shuyu saw it and asked her to buy some.
Shen Chunling said to her niece, "Shu Yu, these are things that no one wants, why should we spend money to buy them?"
Instead of buying these, you might as well buy ribs and lean meat.
Pig stomach and pig offal are very smelly and not tasty.
Even she, who is not a picky eater, couldn't eat it.
"Second aunt, the pig's stomach and offal have been cleaned and braised. They are delicious. I will braise them for you when we get home."
The eldest granddaughter said that it tasted good when braised, so Grandma Shen paid for it without saying a word.
Liu Pan curled her lips, thinking that her mother-in-law really spoiled Shen Shuyu too much, buying whatever she said.
A daughter-in-law who wanted to stir up trouble said, "Pan Dai, look at your mother-in-law. She bought pig offal when Shu Yu asked her to. She is so old, but she doesn't know how to live.
You might as well save this money for your unborn child."
Liu Pan rolled his eyes, "It's none of your business. My mother can buy whatever she wants. It doesn't cost your family any money. Why are you so nosy?"
Really, her mother-in-law can only talk about her, so what right does this woman have to talk about her mother-in-law.