Chapter 12: It was a busy half month, and the little wild boar smelled really good

Chapter 12: It was a busy half month, and the little wild boar smelled really good

Chapter 12: It was a busy half month, and the little wild boar smelled really good

"Okay grandpa."

You have to know that this is wild! You can't find it in later times, but in this era, you can catch it in the creek.

That night, the family ate corn tortillas and drank fish soup.

The two fish weigh only about five pounds when alive, and we can only drink the soup from them. The meat alone is not enough for so many people.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. During this half month, my uncle had already dug the cellar and even kept a fire burning in the cellar at night.

The entire cellar is dry now. I estimate that after two more days of firing, the cellar walls will become ceramic.

As for Li Jiayi, he had planted all the seeds he had collected several times, so he had enough seeds.

Now the entire field is planted with sweet potatoes, and they have been harvested once.

I put all the harvested sweet potatoes into the feed box. I didn’t expect that the feed box also had unlimited space.

And it feeds automatically. Yes, one hour outside is more than a day in this space. If it doesn't feed automatically, he won't have to do anything all day and just feed the food.

Not only in the fields, but also in the vegetable garden, he planted pumpkins, which can also be used as feed.

Six acres of sweet potatoes and six acres of pumpkins, and it will take some time to grow them because he needs to get enough feed before he can grow other things.

Li Jiayi has not been idle for the past half month! He has been asked to come to the whole village, and he knows everything about everyone's family and what they have.

Of course, he didn't go out to steal, but to buy.

Just then, he came to a door, knocked on it, and then called out, "Uncle Wu, are you home?"

Yes, this family is also a member of the same clan, of the same generation as his father. He is the fifth child in his father’s generation and is in his forties.

The door opened quickly, and Uncle Wu came out of the yard. Seeing that it was him, he asked, "It's Jiayi! What's the matter?"

"Uncle Wu, your old sow just gave birth to piglets, right?"

"Yes! What's the matter?" Uncle Wu asked in confusion.

"Uncle Wu, can you sell me two piglets?" Li Jiayi asked embarrassedly.

The reason why I feel embarrassed is that no one would sell piglets shortly after they are born.

Because piglets grow so fast, they look different every day, and may even grow one kilogram a day.

"What do you want the piglets for?" Uncle Wu asked with a frown.

"Uncle Wu, don't worry about this. Don't worry, I won't let you suffer any loss. I'll give you twenty dollars for a piglet."

Twenty yuan for a piglet is definitely too much. I guess even if Uncle Wu feeds it for another month, he may not be able to sell it for that much money.

Now in the city, pork costs 65 cents per pound, and the price of live pigs is just over 40 cents at most.

Although the price of piglets is higher, it will definitely not exceed 60 cents per pound.

For twenty yuan, you can buy a piglet weighing more than thirty kilograms.

But this didn't matter to Li Jiayi! What he wanted was a breed. As long as he had piglets, it wouldn't take long before he had a herd of pigs.

"How many?"

"twenty."

"If I say add one, you won't buy it back and eat it, right?" asked Uncle Wu.

The people who came to the purchasing station to buy pigs said that some leaders like to eat roast suckling pig.

"No, Uncle Wu, how could I possibly buy them to eat? I want one male and one female."

"You wait."

After saying this, Uncle Wu went in. In just a few minutes, he came out holding two little piglets.

"for you."

"Oh! Thank you, Uncle Wu." Li Jiayi first took out forty yuan and handed it over, then took the piglet.

These two piglets are very small, probably weighing only about ten pounds. There is nothing we can do about it, after all, they were born not long ago.

Uncle Wu took the money, counted out twenty, and put the rest back into Li Jiayi's schoolbag. "Two piglets, I'll give you twenty."

"Uncle Wu, no need, just take them all!"

"Okay, I'll charge you forty. If people find out, they'll definitely poke me in the back! I'm already taking advantage of you."

"Uh, this..."

"Okay, grab your piggy and go!"

Rural people in this era are still very simple and honest. Of course, it may also be because they are all from the same family.

Anyway, I saved twenty dollars.

Li Jiayi found a deserted place, put the two piglets into the space, and put them in the pigsty.

As soon as they were put in, the automatic feeder started feeding, and the two piglets ate very happily.

Then he came to another house, knocked on the door and shouted, "Is the second brother home?"

What he asked was nonsense. It's not the busy farming season now. Why would he go out when it's so hot instead of staying at home?
"Who?"

"Second brother, I'm plus one."

Although Li Jiayi calls his second brother, this second brother is actually quite old, a few years older than his father Li Aimin.

"Jiayi! What's the matter?" the second brother asked after opening the door.

"Second brother, I want to buy two piglets from you."

"Why are you buying piglets? You're not going to eat them, are you?" asked the second brother.

Li Jiayi was helpless! Can you not ask the same question? Why do you always think about him eating?

"not me……"

After some explanation, I spent thirty dollars to buy two piglets, one male and one female, from my second brother.

The reason why I spent ten more dollars was because the piglets from my second brother's family were bigger and were born ten days earlier than those from my fifth uncle's family.

Just as Li Jiayi was about to leave with the piglet in his arms, his second brother said, "Jiayi! If you really want to eat it, go check on Laoqi. He went hunting in the mountains yesterday and didn't catch anything, but on his way back he came across three newly born wild boars. He didn't see any big wild boars, so he brought them back."

When he heard about wild boar, Li Jiayi's eyes lit up. It's not that wild boars are better than domestic pigs. To be honest, when it comes to eating meat, wild boars are really not as good as domestic pigs.

But there are always two sides to a coin. As it stands now, domestic pigs are not easy to take out.

Especially after September, even pigs will be raised collectively in the village and sold uniformly.

It’s different with wild boars. You can say that you hunted them in the mountains, or bought them from hunters.

"Got it, second brother. I'll go check it out later."

"Ok!"

He found a deserted place, put the two piglets into the space pigpen, and then went straight to Lao Qi's house.

Lao Qi lives at the westernmost end of the village. He is not only the platoon leader of the village militia, but also one of the few hunters in the village.

I have a real weapon in my hand! Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to go hunting in the mountains alone.

"Seventh Brother, you..."

Before Li Jiayi could finish shouting, the door opened and Lao Qi was stunned.

Lao Qi must have just opened the door to go out, and Li Jiayi happened to call him. I guess even if he didn't call him, Lao Qi would have opened the door.

"Jia Yi, what's up?"

"Seventh brother, I heard from second brother that you brought back three little wild boars?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

　PS: Love is always there, can you give me a monthly ticket? Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)