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Chapter 15 Pork Trouble II

Wang Weidong stared straight at the sliced ​​pork on the small trolley passing by.

There are too many frightening legends about the pig in the two children's house, for example, it is a pig that has eaten human flesh!
On the day Wang Weidong returned home in May, at the dinner table, he heard his mother Li Yufeng talk about the sensational murder case in Hongwei Village.After more than two months, the pig finally grew up and was finally killed.

When Wang Weidong was collecting vegetables in Hongwei Village, he asked people who knew the truth, and they all shook their heads and said that pigs had never eaten humans.

But most people choose to believe the lie between the truth and the horror lie!

For farmers, the pig raised at home is one of the few sources of income throughout the year, and they are reluctant to kill it.It is not easy for two such young children to raise this pig in more than two months.

The cart passed by, but Wang Weidong still didn't leave on his bicycle, he still looked at the two children struggling to pull the cart for a long time, how can such a young child sell meat even if it is not easy to cut meat and bones?

Besides, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. Can this pig be sold?
Wang Weidong finally got on his bicycle and rushed to Hongwei Village to collect vegetables, and then proceeded to sell vegetables step by step, but the thin figures of the two children appeared in his mind from time to time.

At noon, he sold the vegetables and rushed home.

Originally, he could go home directly, but because he couldn't forget that incident, Wang Weidong turned to the vegetable market of Xiangyang Chemical Factory.

Today is not Sunday, and most people have to go to work, but the vegetable market is full of spectators, at least 100 people.Everyone looked at the two bowed children and the two slices of pork on the trolley in the vegetable market with smiles on their faces.

Wang Weidong looked at the pork on the trolley through the human wall, and as expected, it seemed that the pork was not sold at all!
The two children went out so early, but the people who went out to buy vegetables in Xiangyang Chemical Factory still got the news. The problem should be in Hongwei Village. People's mouths are faster than the speed of light.

Under the gaze of so many people, the two children did not dare to look up as if they were being approved, more like two lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Wang Weidong silently looked at the two children, at their patched clothes, at the girl's broken plastic sandals, and at the boy's thumb toe on his loafers.

They were all from Xiangyang Chemical Factory, and Wang Weidong knew most of them, at least by face.

A middle-aged man smiled and said to Wang Weidong, "It's already dropped to [-] cents a catty, but no one is buying it!"

"This pig has never eaten a human, really has never eaten a human!" The girl shouted in a shrill voice.

Shouting and shouting, the little girl began to sob and cry.Her younger brother crouched down with his hands on his thighs and put his face on his knees.

But the little girl's cry attracted laughter.

Wang Weidong looked at the two children, and the softest part of his heart couldn't help but move.

He pushed his bicycle away from the vegetable market and rushed to the savings bank.

Usually doing business, Wang Weidong just put a dozen or 20 yuan in a dilapidated schoolbag. This time, he took out his passbook to withdraw 100 yuan and then went back to the vegetable market.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Wang Weidong pushed his bicycle to the two children.

"How do you sell pork?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Two, two cents a catty." The girl replied with her head down but her eyes rolled up.

The boy drove away the flies on the pork with a branch and looked at Wang Weidong expectantly.

"I'll give you a round of 100 yuan, you two hurry up and leave." Wang Weidong took out the ten cards of Great Unity he had just taken out from his trouser pocket.

She reached out her hands to grab the money directly from Wang Weidong's hand, and then pinched ten cards of Great Unity, not knowing where to put them.

Wang Weidong put two pieces of pork and the pig's head into the water into the baskets on both sides of the bicycle.

The eight-year-old boy suddenly broke out with amazing strength and ran away pulling the cart.

"Sister, run!" the child shouted.

The two children who had been tortured by everyone's eyes for most of the day disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Wang Weidong pushed the cart out of the vegetable market and rode eastward.

He was going to rush across the county seat to Fengmian Town, 200 kilometers away, to sell the more than [-] catties of pork.

With too much load, Wang Weidong couldn't ride fast at all, so he stopped to rest after riding for ten miles.

Not far behind him, two bicycles passed by him, but they stopped after riding a short distance.

The man looked back at Wang Weidong.

Wang Weidong knew that person, he was ten years younger than Wang Weidong's father, and Wang Weidong usually called him uncle politely.

"Uncle Guan, are you going to the county seat?" Wang Weidong asked with a smile.

The man looked at Wang Weidong with an embarrassed smile and said, "I just want to ask you if you can sell this pork?"

"Sell it, Uncle Guan, do you want to buy it?" Wang Weidong replied.

"I've been standing in the market for a long time, and I haven't been able to make a move, but you snatched me first. I saw it when you gave the girl money, 100 yuan, right? I'll give you 20 yuan more, and 120 yuan is fine. How about selling it to me?" the man asked.

"Not for sale!" Wang Weidong replied simply.

He got on his bicycle and continued eastward.

But that person did not give up and still followed behind.

Wang Weidong had no choice but to stop again and look back at the man.

"It's not bad to earn 20 yuan in one hand, don't be too greedy!" the man persuaded.

"You bought it for 120 yuan, how much are you going to sell it for? Two hundred? Three hundred?" Wang Weidong asked rhetorically.

Wang Weidong didn't feel ashamed of being told what was on his mind.

He approached Wang Weidong and said, "If you don't sell it to me, you can't sell it either! Who would buy this pig if they knew the origin of this pig?"

Wang Weidong finally knew what this person was thinking. No matter where he went, that person would follow him there, making Wang Weidong unable to sell.

Wang Weidong parked the car and walked to the person, locked the person's bicycle with his thumb, then pulled out the bicycle key and threw it into the grass on the side of the road.

"You little bastard, you lose your conscience just to make money! Go back to the factory and tell your father, let him break your leg!" The man yelled.

Wang Weidong rode his bicycle again and went away, ignoring the man who ran into the weeds looking for the car keys.

Wang Weidong rode his bicycle into the county town, and he planned to cross the county town to Fengmian Town, twenty miles away, to sell the pork as soon as possible at a cheaper price.

The pork was [-] to [-] catties, and his own weight was nearly [-] catties.

Wang Weidong's legs were sore and numb when he was riding the bicycle.

Just when he was about to leave the county, someone suddenly called him: "Young man, young man!"

Wang Weidong turned his head when he heard the voice, and a man in his 50s was waving to him while running on the ground.

Wang Weidong thought he had lost something and hurriedly turned around on his bicycle, and saw the pork and the pig's head in the water.

"Wait a minute, lad!" shouted the 50-something.

Wang Weidong got out of the car puzzled and waited for that person to run over.

The man ran to the side of the bicycle and looked happily at the pork in the two baskets and said, "Is this pork for sale? My son is getting married in two days. So many people come to catch up with the ceremony. I haven't done it yet." I'm so anxious to get a few meat tickets! Can you sell me the pork?"

Looking at the person who was in a hurry to arrange a wedding, Wang Weidong was speechless for a while.

(End of this chapter)