Chapter 354: Building momentum for the pigs
"How did you sleep, brother?"
“How many times a night does the child cry?”
"Is there enough milk?"
After Tong Huaqiong came in, she asked her niece a few questions.
Then he kicked everyone else out of the room.
After Tong Huaqiong stuffed the fifty taels of silver notes that Su Chengmin had taken from the Wu family into Tong Pan'di's hands, he began to test Tong Pan'di's background.
She held the flower in her arms for a while and sang a lullaby.
"Our motherland is a garden, and the flowers in the garden are blooming beautifully..."
"Let's row our oars and push the waves away. The sea reflects the beautiful white tower, surrounded by green trees and red walls..."
"I love you for walking alone in the dark alley, I love you for not kneeling, I love you for facing despair..."
Tong Huaqiong racked her brains to sing the popular songs in her memory, while carefully observing Tong Pandi's reaction.
Tong Pandi's face showed maternal tenderness, and she showed no surprise or excitement at the song sung by Tong Huaqiong.
Is it because the disguise is too good?
Not like.
Tong Huaqiong recalled in her mind the situation when Tong Fusheng's family came to her house. At that time, Wang complained that Tong Huaqiong had become like Tong Pandi, and she learned from Wang that Tong Pandi's temperament had changed drastically since last summer.
If Tong Pandidi was her fellow villager, then Tong Pandidi would definitely not be willing to give birth to a child.
It is obvious that Tong Pandi now has a feeling of lost and regained love for Huaer.
Tong Huaqiong confirmed a fact that Tong Pandyi was the reborn Tong Pandyi.
Realizing that Tong Pandi was a reborn person, Tong Huaqiong felt a little lost. She was lost because she was still alone in this world.
Soon Tong Huaqiong was happy for Tong Pandidi. This poor niece had the chance to be reborn. More importantly, after her rebirth, she did not complain about the world or accept her fate. Instead, she tried her best to change the fate of her previous life.
In the context of this era, this is quite remarkable.
"Don't think about anything and just take good care of yourself during the confinement period. We'll officially divorce after the confinement period and live a good life with your two daughters in the future. There is always a way out." Tong Huaqiong said to Tong Pandi.
Tong Huaqiong was going to find someone in the village to take care of Tong Pandidi during her confinement.
Liu Yue'e still had to go to the town to work after the "house arrest" period, and Liu Yue'e was a chatterbox and it was inevitable that she would say unpleasant words that irritated Tong Pandi.
Tong Huaqiong had no intention of letting Liu Yue'e take care of Tong Pandi during her confinement.
At this time, Mrs. Hong came to visit Huaer and learned that Tong Huaqiong was looking for someone to take care of her during her confinement, so she offered to do it.
Tong Huaqiong understood Hong's feelings. Rather than wanting to take care of Tong Pandu during her confinement, it would be more accurate to say that she was envious of Huaer and wanted to take care of the baby herself.
Serving someone is very hard work. If Tong Huaqiong was willing to let Hong take care of Tong Pandi during her confinement, He Chao, the most loving wife in Qinghe Bay, would probably quit.
So Tong Huaqiong thought of a compromise and asked her hired worker Cao, Chunni's mother, to take care of Tong Pandi during his confinement, and Hong only had to take care of the baby.
Cao agreed readily.
For her, taking care of Tong Pandidi during her confinement was not a difficult task at all. It was much easier than working in the pigpen, and she could get paid for it.
Tong Pandi settled down in Tong Huaqiong's house.
A few days later, Cai Wenpo came to visit and said that Ma Wenpo was being bitten to death by the Xu family of Heilongtan. After interrogation, it was found that not only did she break the legs of Xu's grandson, but she also killed several women and babies.
The fathers and brothers of two women who had just given birth seized on the incident and made a big fuss.
In the end, Ma Wenpo was sentenced to beheading and was executed at the end of the year.
As for the culprits who allowed Ma Wenpo to kill people, several families were also sentenced and punished.
But the families of other women who died at Ma Wenpo's hands remained silent, and their husbands' families also escaped.
Just like Tong Pandi’s husband’s family, the Wu family, because there was no direct evidence and Tong Pandi and her child were fine, they suffered no damage except for their reputation.
Tong Pandi eats well and sleeps well at Tong Huaqiong's house. She looks better than before she had children, and Huaer is getting plump and white.
Tong Pandi discovered that his aunt's family was very different from the previous life.
My cousin Gu Jingzhe did not go to Wanliu Academy to study.
My cousin and his family are not the ones who are bullied at home.
My aunt opened a pastry shop and a pesticide seed shop.
Taohua is not engaged to Fan Tong either.
The honest eldest cousin has an illegitimate child, and his cousin's wife is pregnant again.
What surprised her most was that Maner, as a girl, actually attended a private school.
She suspected that her aunt and her entire family had been reborn, but after observing for a while she found that this was not the case.
However, Tong Pandi was happy from the bottom of his heart that his aunt's family was living such a vibrant life.
When Tong Pan'di was about to leave the confinement period, a big happy event happened in Tong Huaqiong's pigpen. The old sow gave birth to twelve piglets, and the seventeen fat pigs raised in the spring were ready to be slaughtered.
Tong Huaqiong is busy promoting her own pigs.
Of the seventeen pigs, one was kept for the family to eat during the Spring Festival, and the rest were all sold.
Although a pig slaughtered before the Mid-Autumn Festival sparked a discussion about the aroma of pork, it was only circulated in a small circle. More people in Yanguan Town and even Pingchuan County still have the impression that pork is fishy.
Tong Huaqiong would not rashly kill all sixteen pigs before everyone accepted her pork.
She didn't plan to open a pork shop as that would take too much time. She just needed to run the pig farm and supply the pigs to the butcher shops in Ningcheng.
After all, it is impossible for people to monopolize all businesses.
How to get the butcher shop to buy her pigs is what she needs to consider at this stage.
But this is not a problem for Tong Huaqiong. Isn't it just a matter of marketing?
She believes in the quality of her own pork. Once it reaches the table, it will definitely change diners' views on pork, thereby opening up sales for her own pig farm.
Since our own pigs are raised with concentrated feed, the cost is definitely higher than that of other domestic pigs, and the price of pork will naturally be high, but it will not be so high that the general public cannot afford to eat meat.
Pork shops are most concerned about cost, and they may not be willing to buy Tong Huaqiong's pigs just based on her lobbying.
She couldn't just kill the pig and treat each pork stall owner to pork.
That's not realistic.
If she does this, she might not be able to sell her pigs this year.
The only way is to learn the promotion method of the first batch of pastries and sell pork to wealthy families or well-off families. Those people are picky eaters and will definitely ask around on the streets after seeing the delicious pork.
This inquiry attracted the attention of the owner of the pork shop, and his own business came.
She doesn't even have to leave the house, people come to buy from her.
She is not worried about Yanguan Town. With the rich boss as her loud speaker, her pigs can take over the pork shops in Yanguan Town.
She is now trying to capture the markets in Pingchuan County and the surrounding towns of Yanguan Town.
After figuring out the strategy, Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Dahan to slaughter a big fat pig.
This time she did not ask Cao's man Tian Fugui to slaughter the pig, but instead invited a butcher from the next village.
After killing the pig, Tong Huaqiong personally took Gu Dahan and hired worker Er Gouzi to Pingchuan County.
First, he went to the house of County Magistrate Liu to deliver pork to Han.
Then he knocked on the door of a wealthy family in Pingchuan County.
When they heard that the person delivering the pork was Mr. Suifeng, they bought a few pounds of pork for the sake of face.
Tong Huaqiong and his team spent most of the day successfully selling a pig.
When the wealthy families learned that Suifeng Xiangjun personally led people to force the sale of pork, they could not help but curse her behind her back for being obsessed with money and willing to ruin her reputation in order to force sales.
When the cooked pork was served on the table, he began to ask how much Tong Huaqiong's pork was selling for.