Restarting life in Siheyuan

Chapter 32 Live Pigs for Sale
"Brother, let me do it."Zhu Xuesong stood nearby and felt his flesh aching and his heart twitching.

Zhu Xuemei is also eager to try.

At this time, there was crying again in the backyard. The movement was quite loud, and there seemed to be beatings. Zhu Xuefeng was very curious.

"Whose child caused trouble outside just now?"

"It's not Liu Lao Er or Liu Lao San."

Zhu Xuemei replied that she didn't like either brother, so she briefly told her eldest brother.

Zhu Xuefeng understood that it was the two brothers of the Liu family who beat him up together, and they sued him. Liu Haizhong paid five yuan, so he probably vented his anger.

There is an agricultural machinery factory near Zhu Xuemei's elementary school. She doesn't know what it does, but it often dumps slag. I don't know who discovered it first. After the slag is smashed, small pieces of molten metal can often be found inside.

Collect some every day and go to the recycling bin of the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for a lot of pocket money. If you are lucky, you can exchange for several pieces a month. This is a great wealth for the children.

I remember that Zhu Xuefeng also took Zhu Xuesong to smash it when he was a child. He could exchange several cents in one day. There were always fights over grabbing slag. Dad Zhu stopped this job after only a few days. He said it was a waste of study time, but in fact he was afraid of the children. Fighting outside.

Today it was Liu Laosan who was doing the smashing. Maybe he was lucky and gained a lot. The two children next to him were jealous and grabbed it. But then Liu Laoer came. He was several years older and beat the two children easily.

At this time, the bamboo thorn in his right hand was also picked out, and Zhu Xuefeng patted his younger brother on the shoulder.

"Okay, I feel better now. I was so uncomfortable just now. Thank you both. Let's go study."

This Liu Haizhong really used the title of second uncle in vain. He clearly knew that his son was right, but in the end he was submissive to outsiders and treated his son indiscriminately, just beating him.

Sure enough, after a while, the two boys of the Liu family escaped in a hurry. They were really a typical gangster, but it was hard for these two children to wander around at night and not be able to return home.

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Zhu Xuefeng was worried. The harvest was not small, far exceeding expectations, but what should be done next?

The wild boar has been left in the space for several days. Zhu Xuefeng doesn't know how to kill pigs, so he can't sell it on the black market. Wild boar meat is occasionally available in the black market, but they sell it by the piece. I've never seen a wild boar being sold while holding a lead. Why don't you hire Silly Zhu? To kill a pig...?
Zhu Xuefeng has seen pig-killing many times, but he doesn't know how to do it. He kills pigs, bleeds, coagulates, inflates, removes hair... But no matter how many times he watches, he still doesn't know how to do it, and he doesn't have any tools. Anyway, the kitchen knife shouldn't be able to handle it.

It seems that I still have to go to a large unit to try it. This thing should be fine in the factory cafeteria. There are so many people and the size of a pig is probably not enough.

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Uncle Liu, who lives in the shabby house in the outer courtyard, does have a cart. He often pulls goods outside and works as a laborer to earn a little money. The cart is locked on the big tree outside the wall of the shabby house.

Early in the morning, Zhu Xuefeng came to the reverse room and found Uncle Liu.

"Good morning, Uncle Liu!" Zhu Xuefeng was very polite.

"Hey, Mr. Zhu, what's the matter?" Uncle Liu was a little puzzled. Although the outer courtyard and the front courtyard are very close, they rarely come and go.

"Uncle Liu, that's it. I'd like to rent your cart for a day. Do you think it's okay?"

Uncle Liu's eyes are filled with laughter.

"A neighbor in the street needs money to borrow a cart. If you tell me, it will make people laugh. You can use it. It just so happens that your back is not good today. Let's take a break."

Uncle Liu symbolically thumped his waist, took out the key, and handed it to Zhu Xuefeng.

Zhu Xuefeng took the key and stuffed a dollar into it.

"Thank you, Uncle Liu. I promise to send it back to you with all the photos intact. Thank you."

Holding a dollar in his hands, Uncle Niu nodded. How could a laborer earn a dollar this day? This time he really had a rest.

It was nothing that could be solved with money. I took the empty cart with a few large sacks and headed outside Dongzhimen.

After leaving Dongzhimen, we entered Tianshui Alley. After seeing that no one was around, we threw a pig out, covered it with linen, and took it to the motorcycle gate of Beijing.

Instead of going to the steel rolling mill, Zhu Xuefeng wanted to try the motorcycle factory first. There was no reason. Well, he would have to walk a few dozen meters less.

"Brother, can you do me a favor and find your logistics director?"

Zhu Xuefeng stepped forward and handed the guard a large front door. The guard looked at it, smelled it, and clamped it to his right ear.

At this time, Daqianmen was considered mid-range, selling for [-] cents a pack, while the cheapest economy cigarettes were only [-] to [-] cents. The gap was still huge, and I couldn’t bear to defend it.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Xuefeng gave the rest of the package to the guard. The guard smiled and asked, "We don't have a logistics director here, only a logistics section chief. Are you still looking for it? What's the matter?"

According to the requirements, visitors, interviewees, and reasons must be registered.

Zhu Xuefeng hesitated for a moment. He wanted to pretend to be a relative from the countryside. If it didn't work and he would be caught easily, he might as well not take the risk. If it didn't work, he would change to a steel rolling mill. "Just say that our village caught a wild boar in the mountains and you want to ask if the factory can collect it."

"Wild boar, this thing is great. The cafeteria is short of meat. I definitely want it. Is this it? Let me take a look."

The guard opened the sack and was surprised to see that a huge wild boar was still alive.

"Just wait, I'll make a call. There's meat in the canteen today."

The security guard quickly went into the duty room to make a phone call.

After a while, several people quickly came to the gate.

The leader had anxiety written all over his face,
"Where is the wild boar?"

It should be Section Chief Lu, who is young and in his early forties. When he saw Zhu Xuefeng, he happily held Zhu Xuefeng's hand.

"Little comrade, thank you so much, you have helped us a lot."

After seeing the wild boar on the cart, I was overjoyed. Now the mission was completed.

It seemed as if he was afraid that Zhu Xuefeng would run away.

"Little comrade, we want this wild boar. Come with us."

After saying that, he asked the employees who were following him to pull the cart. This was to rob him.

Zhu Xuefeng hurried forward, "I'll come, I'll come, you just need to show me the way."

It turns out that the motorcycle engine developed by the factory in cooperation with Kyungsoo University of Science and Technology has been successful. The three-wheeled motorcycles launched by the factory are now in short supply, and the factory is now working overtime every day.

In order to save time, the workers had dinner in the factory cafeteria. At this time, the workers were very enthusiastic and rushed to work when there was a task. They were proactive in building the country. They really regarded the factory as their home.

There is no overtime pay for working overtime. I used to go home after get off work, but now I have two meals a day. It is obvious that the canteen cannot provide meat. The meat coupon plan is not enough, and even if I have money, I can't do anything.

The leader of the factory gave a fatal order to the head of the logistics section. No matter what, it was necessary to get meat, which was not a pound of meat. Although the employees of the motorcycle factory were not as many as those of the steel rolling mill, there were still more than 2000 people.

Section Chief Lu was worried. It was definitely not possible to go to the black market. If he made a mistake, he wouldn't be able to get so much. The meat factory also asked about it, and other units had already snatched up the unplanned ones.

Although this year's rapid industrial development has hit the brakes and given more resources to the masses for the important task of eating, there are still many industries and factories with the same full tasks as before, and they still have to work overtime.

Zhu Xuefeng let out a long breath, fearing that he would be arrested, but it seemed that he was lucky.

We weighed it directly in the cafeteria. It was 246 kilograms, which is not the largest one. Because there is no meat stamp, the factory is very honest and directly willing to charge [-] cents per kilogram of gross weight, which is almost as good as the price of pork.

The current pork is only [-] cents to [-] cents. According to the grade, the fatter the meat, the higher the grade and the more expensive it is. This is the gross weight, without removing the skin, water, bones, etc., the price is high enough.

Zhu Xuefeng did not take advantage of this, forging a good relationship was more important. In the end, as the village chief had told him, the deal was settled at 110 cents. Taking the issued invoice, Section Chief Lu personally took it to the Finance Department and cashed in [-] yuan and [-] cents on the spot. .

"Little brother, your village just caught one of these wild boars, right?"

Chief Lu is looking forward to it. This end will be able to slow down for a while, and there will be a gap in the back. Today's one is alive. If there is any more, you can keep it first.

"You know this? Do you still want it?"

Zhu Xuefeng made a joke, this section chief is really here.

"If there is one, get another one. It doesn't matter whether it's life or death. It's the best life. It can last for a few days."

After happily reaching an agreement, Zhu Xuefeng said that he would send it over in a few days. It should be alive and about the same size, probably weighing more than 200 kilograms.

Section Chief Lu smiled happily when he heard this. He was lucky enough to be alive.

"Next time you come, take it directly to the cafeteria. Even if I'm not here, the cafeteria will take care of it for you."

Section Chief Lu happily patted Zhu Xuefeng on the shoulder.

"My little brother is Renyi. In fact, he has a lively mind, otherwise we wouldn't have a chance to get to know each other, haha."

"I'll go to the cafeteria to open a small stove in a while, cook the whole butchered pig dish, eat it and then go back."

Section Chief Lu is sincere, which is a big help.

"Chief Lu, I accepted it out of kindness. I have so much money, so I have to buy something for them to take back later."

(End of this chapter)