My village can't be like this

Chapter 511 Development Plan
"Okay, then you can come over early tomorrow morning, just in time to help me pick up Siqi's grandparents, so that I don't have to make another trip. Remember to call my aunt over too. Then we will tell you which one you like. Which one to kill?"

Tomorrow is Saturday, and Zhang An originally planned to go to the city in the morning to pick up his mother-in-law and father-in-law.

After all, the family only kills the New Year pig once a year. This is a festive event, and the whole family must be there.

But since Zhu Yuliang was going there tomorrow, Zhang An thought about giving Xiao Siqi's grandparents a lift.

Because the round trip takes several hours, even though he drives by himself, it is really a waste of time. This is also the main reason why Zhang An is usually reluctant to go into the city.

"This is not a problem. You tell Lao Su and the others, and I will take them with me when I go there tomorrow morning."

Because of Zhang An's relationship, Zhu Yuliang and Su Shaowen were familiar with each other, so there was no need for Zhang An to tell them their addresses.

After coming out of the Forestry Bureau, Zhang An did not go home directly, but went to Wu Qiuping's unit first.

"Xiao An is here. Why did you bring Siqi out in such a cold weather?"

Wu Qiuping was very happy to see Zhang An's little grandson on his back, but she still blamed Zhang An for bringing the child out in the cold weather.

"Someone was killing pigs in the village today, and everyone at home went to help. His mother also went over to help with the work. I came to the city to do some errands, and he likes to ride in the car, so I took him with him."

Su Ying usually dislikes riding in a car because she suffers from motion sickness.

But as Su Ying's biological son, Xiao Siqi is the complete opposite of his mother.

Not only does the little guy not get motion sickness, but he really likes riding in cars. Every time he drives with Zhang An, he is so happy that he doesn’t want to leave.

"Hurry up and let me hold you. We haven't seen each other for several weeks."

Wu Qiuping was just talking, there was no real blame.

At this moment, he only focused on untying the back fan and putting little Siqi down from Zhang An's back.

Wu Qiuping likes the fact that little Siqi doesn't recognize people very much. Even if they haven't seen each other for a while, the little guy is very well-behaved when Wu Qiuping holds him.

"By the way, Mom, the family is going to kill a pig tomorrow. Originally, I was thinking of coming to pick you up from my dad tomorrow, but Lao Zhu has to go there tomorrow too, so I won't come over. He will pick you up then."

Zhang An came here specially to talk to Wu Qiuping about this matter.

Although he now has a phone at home and a mobile phone on his body, over the past few years, Zhang An has long been accustomed to the previous environment where communication was inconvenient.

"Okay, I understand. Actually, you don't have to go through such trouble. We can take the train there."

Nowadays, taking the shuttle bus from the county seat to Hongyan Town is the next best option. After all, it takes two hours, which is quite torture.

There is now a green train passing through Hongyan Town. Although the speed is far slower than that of later trains, it only takes half an hour from the county seat to Hongyan Town, which is several times faster than before.

Zhang An originally wanted to finish his business and prepare to go back.

But seeing the mother-in-law hugging her son with joy, she felt less anxious and let them spend more time together.

"Qiuping, this is your little grandson. Look at those big watery eyes. He will definitely be a smart kid in the future."

Several of Wu Qiuping's colleagues saw little Siqi she was holding, and they couldn't help but come up to tease her.

"Look at what you said, how will it be used in the future? I see that this child is very smart now. Look at the way he looks at people now. There is so much energy in his eyes that ordinary children don't have. "

At this time, another aunt was also conquered by Xiao Siqi's cleverness and cuteness, and couldn't help but retort.

Zhang An still has an impression of this aunt, because she went to the hospital to visit little Siqi the day after she was born, which shows that she has a good relationship with Wu Qiuping.

At this time, Wu Qiuping was also very happy teaching Xiao Siqi to call several people grandma, which was considered to be following her seniority.

Although little Siqi can't speak yet, they don't care at all.

After half the payment, Wu Qiuping returned her grandson to Zhang An. After all, it was still working time.

No one will say anything if you touch the fish a little, but paddling all the time is a little too much.

Back in the village, Zhang An discovered that Zhang Ping's house had just finished killing the first pig, and had just pulled the second one out of the pig pen in preparation for filing a case.

Originally, Zhang An thought that if there were only two pigs, they would have been slaughtered on the way back. After returning, he really didn't expect the progress to be so slow.

But after a while, I realized that it was the old ladies from Dongli Courtyard who came to buy meat, so they spent a lot of time.

Because these old ladies never bargain when buying vegetables in the village, but they are very demanding and choose very carefully.

Although each of them didn't want much, they couldn't bear the crowd. However, Zhang Jianwen was very patient with their financial backers.

So I kept waiting for them to carefully select, and no matter where they liked, I asked Lin Youde to draw it.

By the time all the carefully selected old ladies were sent away, time had almost passed.

"Xiao An is back. How about it? Everything has been settled."

Seeing Zhang An coming back, Zhang Jianwen came over and asked quietly.

"Don't worry, uncle, it's settled. We don't care who goes when the new year starts. We can just go directly then."

Zhang An couldn't even figure out why Zhang Jianwen was so concerned about this matter.

It took more than half an hour, and the pigs were slaughtered the next day.

However, the meat still has to be divided among the meat buyers in the village first, but they are not like those old ladies in Dongli Yard who have to choose carefully.

Basically, whatever piece you like, you just gesture with your hands and let Lin Youde cut it.

Although many people came to eat pig-killing rice today, there were far fewer people buying meat than in previous years.

Because the wages for the village's river construction this year and the money shared by the village were really large, many people who had never killed pigs at home before decided to kill one.

Even some families who can't afford a whole pig themselves will drag relatives in the village to join them, and two or three families will slaughter one together.

Not only did Zhang Jianwen have no idea about this, he was actually very happy, because this meant that everyone's conditions were much better than before.

Because it took a long time, the pig-killing meal didn't start until three in the afternoon.

During the meal, just like in previous years, it was time for Zhang Jianwen to talk to everyone.

"The matter of raising deer is considered a major event in our village. Now that the certificate matter has been settled, I will go and get the certificate after the New Year. Then we will build the deer park and build an army. You’ll have to be more careful then.”

Now everything is ready, all we need is east wind. When the deer park is built, the matter of raising deer in the village will also be implemented. "Besides this, I will go to the town after the new year to see if I can spend some money to harden the roads in the kiwi orchard in our village into cement roads. They are still mud roads now. If it rains a little bit, you’ll get stuck after just a few steps, which is really inconvenient.”

Then, Zhang Jianwen brought up another matter that attracted everyone's attention.

Because almost everyone here has planted kiwis at home. As long as this road is paved with cement roads, it will be more convenient to transport fertilizers and pick fruits.

And even those who don’t grow kiwis still have land, so anyone can use the cement road. This is something that everyone can benefit from.

Now the kiwi fruit grown by everyone has become the village's main industry.

Even after experiencing such a huge natural disaster last year, the income was still more than growing crops for a whole year, so Zhang Jianwen was also very concerned about this matter.

However, this time he did not ask everyone to pool money to build the road into the village like he had planned to do before.

Because the road that needs to be built this time is very far, much further than the road into the village, it requires much more manpower and material resources than imagined.

No matter how many manpower there are, Zhang Jianwen actually doesn't care at all. He firmly believes that as long as everyone is united, this will not be a problem.

The difficulty lies in material resources. The funds required are a huge sum of money for the village.

Even though everyone's conditions have improved a lot now, if everyone comes together, it will be a thorn in the side for everyone.

So Zhang Jianwen set his sights on the town. In the past two years, the town was very satisfied with the development of their Changqing Village, and would always give a few words of praise at every meeting.

Based on this, Zhang Jianwen decided to go to the town to spend the money. After all, this was a naked political achievement.

When Zhang An heard Zhang Jianwen's words, he really admired the old village chief of his village from the bottom of his heart.

Because of this idea, isn’t it the agricultural mechanized plowing path that is being developed in every village in later generations? It can be said that it is of great help to all agricultural planting.

"Village Chief, we support you in this matter. It is indeed difficult for us to repair it ourselves, but as long as the town is willing to give it, we can give it as much as we want, and we can take care of the rest ourselves."

"That's right, village chief. Although we can't raise so much money ourselves, we can still grit our teeth and chip in a part. When the time comes, we will definitely be able to fix it if we contribute our own efforts."

When the road is built, it will become very convenient, whether it is managing kiwis or growing crops, and everyone is looking forward to it.

"Okay, everyone just wait. It's just a waste of money. I'm very good at it. This time the town won't produce any blood, but you can't send me away."

With everyone's support, Zhang Jianwen is full of confidence at this time.

"Okay, that's all I've thought of. Let's continue drinking and eating. If anything happens in the future, we'll talk about it after the New Year."

After that, Zhang Jianwen took the lead in picking up the wine in the bowl and greeted everyone to eat and drink.

"Although this mountain pig is a bit more difficult to raise, it does taste very delicious, even better than our local pork."

Everyone who couldn't eat ordinary pork before was completely conquered by this mountain pig meat today, and couldn't stop eating with chopsticks.

Fortunately, Zhang Jianwen's family has always been very generous. This time, they cut more than 20 kilograms of pork to make pig-killing rice, which was enough for everyone.

"Yeah, even this fat meat doesn't taste greasy anymore. It's not too much to say it's full of flavor. Village chief, ask your relative if they will sell piglets after spring. I'm going to buy two of them too. After raising it, I can eat it at home during the Chinese New Year.”

Almost everyone in the village knows that Zhang Jianwen and Zhang An’s family bought the rolling piglets from relatives of Zhang Jianwen’s family.

So now I asked Zhang Jianwen about buying two piglets and raising them next year.

After the conditions improved, everyone dared to think about raising a pig to kill during the New Year.

Hearing what Zhang Jianwen said, everyone suddenly felt a little disappointed.

Zhang An already knew about this when he bought the piglets, but he also sighed in his heart. The pigs were good pigs, but they were born in the wrong age.

But twenty years from now, there will be no shortage of people to buy this pig.

But just as he was sighing, Zhang Jianwen turned the conversation to him.

"Although my old cousin no longer sells them, Zhang An still has several of them at home."

After saying that, he turned to Zhang An and said: "Zhang An, I remember that there is a boar in your family that has not been gelded. Otherwise, you can keep two sows and raise several litters of piglets later in the year. We can buy them from you." never mind."

At that time, the two families were looking for the same pig groomer, so Zhang Jianwen knew that there was a boar in Zhang An's family that had not been gelded.

"Okay, I'll keep the two sows in that pen and try to mate them after the new year to provide piglets for everyone."

Zhang An did not reject Zhang Jianwen's suggestion.

Because next year my family will continue to raise the boar, and I will keep the boar for breeding purposes.

Nowadays, it is just a matter of breeding a few more litters, a matter of convenience.

As soon as many people heard Zhang An's promise, they immediately made reservations for themselves.

After a while, the piglets were still there, so twenty or thirty were ordered.

The next day, it was Zhang An's turn to kill the New Year pig.

As in previous years, Lin Youde took action himself.

Although he had brought his apprentice out, he had always been helping to kill Zhang An's pigs.

And the number of people who came to Zhang An's house to help today was no less than the number of people who went to Zhang Jianwen's house yesterday.

This is also a reflection of Zhang An's family's good popularity in the village. If people can come at a time like this, it means they don't regard you as an outsider.

With yesterday's warm hand, Zhang An's four pigs were slaughtered today in three strokes, five divided by two, and it didn't take much time at all.

The old ladies from Dongli Courtyard also made an appointment to come to Zhang An's house to buy meat today.

After all, Zhang Ping's family only killed two pigs yesterday, and what they could share with them was limited, so they all bought very restrainedly.

When I came to Zhang An's house today, I naturally bought all the meat I wanted to eat this year at once.

Zhang An doesn't mind that everyone wants too much. Anyway, there are still a few animals left at home, so it's not impossible to take one out and slaughter it now.

However, these four pigs are enough. There have been a lot fewer people coming to buy meat in the village this year. The meat can fully satisfy the tenants of Dongli Yard.

As for Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye's family, this year they planned to buy one from Zhang An's family and slaughter one together, so they did not share the meat at Zhang An's family like in previous years.

(End of this chapter)