Chapter 154: Report, Keep Calm
Chapter 154: Report, Keep Calm
"Of course. I can't change it if it's not a military uniform, and this is new."
"Not bad, not bad, son. This is a good thing." Li Aimin is a retired veteran and has a special feeling for military uniforms.
"As long as you like it, you can wear it as a coat next spring."
"Hahaha, that's right!"
Although Li Aimin was smiling, tears welled up in the corners of his eyes when he touched the military uniform.
He was probably thinking of his comrades-in-arms, but unfortunately many of them were unable to come back.
"Hey, please put away these clothes! Let's start eating." Li Jiayi quickly diverted his attention.
"Oh! Yes, eat."
After saying that, he went into the inner room with his clothes and shoes, and came out quickly after washing his hands and face.
The dinner was very sumptuous, and it could be said that there was never a lack of sumptuousness in his home.
"By the way, Dad! Do you have anything to do the day after tomorrow, Sunday?" Li Jiayi asked while eating.
"It's okay! I finally have a day off, I plan to have a good rest at home."
Li Jiayi shook his head and said, "Then you may not be able to rest."
"Oh! What do you mean?" Li Aimin asked puzzledly.
"It's like this. I ordered a wild boar from a hunter and it will be delivered on Sunday. So it's impossible for you to rest because you have to help Uncle Liao clean up."
"Wild boar?"
"Yeah!" Li Jia nodded.
"How big is the wild boar?" Li Aimin asked.
Li Jiayi thought for a moment and said, "Probably more than 300 kilograms!"
"It's so big, son. A wild boar that big, our family can't finish it even if we eat it until the New Year!" Ye Xin said at this time.
"Mom, I don't plan to keep all of it for myself. I plan to keep only the pig's head, trotters, spare ribs and offal, and sell the rest to others."
"Sell it to others?" Ye Xin frowned.
"Well! If people in the courtyard want to buy it, we will sell some to them, and sell some to other courtyards as well. Anyway, we won't keep any."
In fact, he had left quite a lot. Not to mention the offal, there were quite a few ribs and pig heads.
"Son, don't you want to save some for the New Year?" Li Aimin asked.
"No need, it's still a long way from the New Year! We can do it then, our family will still have enough meat."
"That's true."
"Leave the spare ribs to stew, and let Uncle Liao braise the pig's head and offal. Let's eat them together."
"Okay." Li Aimin nodded.
"Oh, son, keep the lard this time. I plan to make more oil for use during the New Year."
"Okay, you can handle this yourself. Just tell Uncle Liao later."
"Ok!"
"By the way, son, meat is in short supply right now. How much do you plan to sell it for per pound?"
Li Jiayi glanced at his father and said, "One dollar and fifty cents."
Li Aimin nodded and said, "This price is appropriate. It's not expensive, but it's not cheap either."
"Actually, the main reason is that I don't want people to gossip about me, and also because my family lives too well."
"Are you trying to shut other people up?"
Li Jiayi curled his lips and said, "Why should I shut others up? I just want to reduce some trouble."
"All right!"
After dinner, they went to have a sauna. Liao Kai happened to come over to join them, so Li Jiayi told him about the wild boar.
Of course Liao Kai had no problem with that! He was happy to help because that way he would have his favorite pig intestines.
Yes, Liao Kai likes to eat pig intestines. The taste is a bit strong, but some people don’t like it.
Li Jiayi is one of them! Especially Liao Kai did it, let alone.
Silent all night.
After breakfast the next morning, Li Jiayi ran out again.
I’m not selling pork or buying anything today. Instead, I’m going to Xizhimen to break ice.
At the end of the day, Li Jiayi smashed a lot of ice and put it into the static space.
From the time he started smashing the ice till now, he had no idea how much ice he had smashed, but there was a lot of it in the static space anyway.
Of course, these are not for eating, but for cooling down in the summer.
There were also a lot of ice cubes to eat, especially the ice frozen with mineral water from the pond. Although not as much as the ones that were smashed, there was still a lot.
The rest was ice made from the spiritual spring water that he kept for himself. There was quite a bit of it now. If he used it all by himself, it would take him decades to use it up.
But he knew that this was simply impossible. It would be fine if his second sister didn't know about it. If she did, she would probably use more than two of him.
You know, my second sister loves popsicles the most. When summer comes, she eats them almost every day.
Sunday came in the blink of an eye. My parents didn't have to go to work today, so Liao Kai started packing up his tools early in the morning.
This tool has not been used for a while, so he needs to polish it. He also needs to make some preparations, such as borrowing a big pot from the next yard and boiling water.
As soon as Li Jia finished his breakfast, he drove his sled out of the yard.
Soon he arrived outside the city, then took out a particularly large wild boar from the space and put it on the small sled.
Yes, there is a place behind the sled seat to store things, but it is not very large.
The width is about 50 centimeters and the length is 80 centimeters. He originally planned to sit someone on it.
I didn't expect it to be used to carry wild boars. It's impossible to put it all down, but he doesn't need to put it all down! This place should be much bigger than the back seat of a bicycle! The back seat of a bicycle can carry things, and this thing is the same.
He also put it in the middle with the two ends hanging down, and Li Jiayi also found a rope to tie it up.
Fortunately, there was snow on the ground, otherwise it would be difficult to pull it back because it was so heavy.
Before nine o'clock, Li Jiayi drove the sled back to the yard.
At this time, there were already many people in the yard, all of them neighbors.
In fact, when Li Aimin and Liao Kai carried the big pot from the next yard in, the people in the yard knew what was going on.
Look, we are all here in the backyard watching the fun. It would be even better if there could be some benefits.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to blind their eyes and take advantage of Li Jiayi.
"Oh my god, such a big wild boar."
"Yes! This wild boar must weigh at least 200 to 300 kilograms, right?"
"I think it's more than that. It's so big, it must weigh at least 300 pounds."
"Yes, I think it's bigger than the wild boar we got last time."
"Yeah! It's definitely bigger."
The onlookers saw Li Jiayi coming in carrying a big wild boar and started talking about it.
Unfortunately, Li Jiayi ignored them and didn't even say a word.
The main reason was that he didn't meet anyone he needed to say hello to, because no one he wanted to say hello to came over to watch the fun.
A person's character can also be seen from here.
Let’s put it this way, those who come out to watch the fun are basically people who want to take advantage of others.
Those who didn't want to take advantage of him didn't even come to watch the fun.
At least no one came out from Aunt Cheng's house, Aunt Xu's house and Lame Sun's house, not even the children.
"Jiayi, this wild boar is quite big!" When Liao Kai saw him coming back, he hurried over to take a look.
"It's not small. How about it, Uncle Liao? Is it okay?"
"no problem."
After he finished speaking, he called out to the two young men who were preparing, "Come here quickly and carry the wild boar over."
"Okay, Master."
These two young men were none other than the two apprentices who came to help last time, but they are now Liao Kai's apprentices.
Now, among the apprentices in the canteens of the woolen mill, who doesn’t want to be Liao Kai’s apprentice?
But Liao Kai decided on them, mainly because they both had good character.
I guess Liao Kai talked to them at work yesterday and asked them to come and help.
The wild boar weighing nearly 400 pounds was not easy to lift. In the end, even the eldest and second sisters came up to help before they could carry the wild boar over.
Of course, Li Jiayi also put in a lot of effort, pulling the two pigs' ears and using all his strength.
Li Jiayi originally thought that he would also go up to help! Now that Liao Kai's two apprentices were here, there would be nothing for him to do.
It was okay, but he still watched.
Even the second sister was helping to light the fire because she knew that this was her own wild boar.
If you want to eat delicious food, you have to help with the work.
After watering and scraping for more than an hour, I finally shaved all the pig hair clean.
The next step is to cut open the intestines and separate the meat and bones, except for the ribs, of course.
If it were in the past, the meat on the ribs would have been removed cleanly, but these ribs were being kept for family consumption, so how could they be removed cleanly?
Just when everyone was busy, Director Xu came in from outside with Secretary Niu and another secretary.
Seeing Director Xu, Li Jiayi frowned.
This is not to say that he has any dissatisfaction with Director Xu, but because he knows that someone must have reported to the street office, otherwise Director Xu would not come.
What he didn't understand was that this was a wild boar! He bought it from someone else.
Even if someone reported it and knew what happened, Director Xu would not come over!
"Director Xu, why are you here?" Li Jiayi hurried over and asked.
If there was no one around, he would definitely call Aunt Xu, but now that there were so many people around, he could only call Director Xu.
"Jiayi! I heard that you brought back a big wild boar?" Director Xu asked with a smile.
"Yes! I bought it from a hunter. Does that seem to be okay?"
"That's no problem. Anyone with the ability can buy it, as long as they can buy it back."
Although Director Xu said this to Li Jiayi, his implicit meaning was to tell everyone that as long as you have the ability to buy it back, there will be no problem.
"Then why are you here..."
"One more! It's like this. As you know, since the heavy snow, the meat processing plant has no meat. Our street office is the same. So I want to ask you, with so much meat, can you give some to our street office?"
"Director Xu, is this why you came here?"
"Or else?"
"Uh!"
"How about it? Can you give us some? Don't worry, we will give you the money you deserve. We will never let you suffer any loss."
"Yes, we paid for it!" said another officer.
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(End of this chapter)