Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 47 Killing Pigs

In the study, Ji Xiuyong fiddled with books obsessively.

Ji Xun flipped through a few books, but was not too shocked: "These books are well printed."

There are many disadvantages of handwriting, after all, everyone's handwriting is the same.But this book is exactly the same, but it enhances the sense of ritual of reading and enables him to teach students better.

Ji Xiuyong was thinking about another aspect. He asked all the accountants of the Ji family to make an estimate, and found that once engraving and printing were introduced, the cost of the book would be reduced to at least half. This is still a conservative calculation, and it may be even higher. Low, what does this predict?
Making money is one thing, the Ji family is not short of money, and the market monopoly of this book is in the hands of the Ji family, so they are not afraid that they will not be able to sell it.On the other hand, this is a reform of books, and it is also a progress of the times. As long as he introduces woodblock printing and can operate it for a long time, the Great Zhou Kingdom will take him seriously.It may not necessarily reach the emperor's ears, and their Ji family will become the most respected businessman in the country because of this.

Ji Xiuyong thought a lot in his mind, and said: "Not only is the book printed well, but the most important thing is that it is fast. These days, a full [-] copies have been printed, and the cost has been reduced by at least half."

This sentence was summed up concisely, and Ji Xun knew what it meant.

In fact, he had expected to succeed a long time ago, but he didn't expect it to be so thorough.

"Brother, what are you going to do this time?" Ji Xun put down the book, stared at him and asked slowly.

Ji Xiuyong's expression became serious, "I have ordered them to start engraving other books, widely use engraving and printing, and gradually replace manual copying. Emperor Zhou Qing once said that taking the essence and discarding the dross, this manual copying is time-consuming and laborious." , inefficiency, maybe it’s dross.”

Ji Xun nodded, agreeing with his idea, "Since the engraving and printing technique is so powerful, I naturally support elder brother."

A smile appeared on Ji Xiuyong's face, and he suddenly said: "It's just that the woman agrees? After all, this is her idea. It was not mentioned in the original contract, and I don't know how she did it. Think about it, please lead me to see her."

That contract was actually very unfair to Yun Yiyi. The contract meant that she only needed to print a few picture albums for her on a regular basis.

The terms above were still decided by Yun Yiyi, she didn't seem to care about anything.

Ji Xun wondered: "I don't know where she lives?"

Ji Xiuyong frowned.

Ji Xun said again: "But she will definitely come to me. Last time I made an appointment with her, she asked me to help her engrave a few picture books." Thinking of the few picture books that were just printed, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth involuntarily , He looked at those paintings again yesterday, and only felt that they were so lively and interesting, no wonder the children liked them all.

Ji Xiuyong is not interested in any albums, "Then did she say when to come to you?"

Ji Xun calculated the time and said with certainty, "It's about these few days."

Only then did Ji Xiuyong feel relieved, "I'm actually afraid that she will tell others about this technology." He is a businessman, although he is not considered a bad person, but after all he is only interested in profit.The Ji family has always been in the book business, and now they are boldly adopting this method to print books. In this critical period, no one with a heart can appear to create a crisis.

For example, if someone else uses the same technology to lower the price of books, their Ji family will definitely be affected.

Ji Xun said helplessly: "Brother, do you think too much? Many people don't even have enough food in today's era. How many people in the capital do you think can be comparable to Ji's family and can count on you?"

Ji Xiuyong thought about it and felt right, those who make silk and satin, run restaurants, and even pawnshops have competitors.Their Ji family is an exception.

Hearing what Ji Xun said, he also calmed down, "Then just wait for her to come now, and I will talk to her then."

Ji Xun said, "Okay."

But the strange thing is that they waited for several days, but the woman did not come.

She seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter, which really seemed like the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuchs were in a hurry.

But it was impossible for the two of them to think that Yun Yiyi didn't go out because of a heavy rain.

This rain has washed the ground in the village into thin mud. It is not easy to go out, after all, the whole body will be splashed with mud.What's more, the soil is soft, and sometimes it will fall if you accidentally step on it, so she won't go out just for a few picture albums.

After the flood receded, the people in the village began to resume normal life again. Everyone should carry water, and those who should go to the river to wash clothes should do the laundry.

It was also after the heavy rain that day that Yun Yiyi discovered that the weather was mostly cloudy, which was her favorite climate.

Everyone also quietly added clothes.

Butcher Sun from the next-door village was going to kill pigs. His family had two big fat pigs, so he planned to kill them at this time, and he notified everyone a few days in advance.

The news also reached Yun Yiyi's ears.

Yan Dashuang asked: "Mother, are we going to buy meat? Buy a lot?"

He also heard that there would be no meat to eat this winter, and these days he ate and slept well, and he couldn't imagine chewing vegetable roots every day in winter.

Yun Yiyi thought for a while: "Let's go and have a look."

In fact, she didn't really want to buy meat. After all, there was no shortage of meat in her backpack, but she hadn't been out these days, and she was afraid of arousing the suspicion of the two cubs. After all, they were getting smarter now.

Especially Yan Xiaoshuang, who can write everyone's names proficiently now.

Yan Dashuang felt happy when he heard this, knowing that he still had meat to eat.

Yun Yiyi pinched his flesh and shook her head: "Da Shuang, you've really become fatter than Xiao Shuang recently."

She gets along with the two cubs every day, and it is not easy to notice their fatness and thinness, but Yan Dashuang has eaten too much high-fat food these days, and the flesh on her face is obviously thicker than that of Yan Xiaoshuang layer.

Yan Da held his cheeks with both hands and rubbed them until they were out of shape. He wanted to rub Yan Xiaoshuang's face again, but the other side dodged it.

Yan Dashuang immediately cast accusing eyes.

Yan Xiaoshuang stared, just not giving in.

The two confronted each other for a while, and Yan Xiaoshuang had an idea, "Mother, where is your bronze mirror?"

"It's on the dressing table in my room." Yun Yiyi said.

Yan Xiaoshuang immediately ran to her room and took out the mirror.

"Look." Yan Xiaoshuang pointed the bronze mirror directly at Yan Dashuang's face, and his chubby face was immediately printed inside.

Yan Dashuang was very amazed, he touched himself left and right, and felt that he was really good-looking.

He doesn't have a mirror, but he also knows what he looks like, and he has seen his reflection in the small river.

Yan Xiaoshuang pointed to her face again, "This is the nest."

Yan Dashuang looked at himself in the mirror, then at Yan Xiaoshuang, and felt that there was no difference.

He put the mirror on the table, leaned in front of the mirror, and pulled Yan Xiaoshuang over, constantly adjusting the angle so that the mirror could hold their faces at the same time.

The two heads were close together muttering, not knowing what to do.Yun Yiyi only thought they were playing.

Yan Dashuang compared for a long time, and felt that the two were similar, but said: "Brother, I think we still look different."

Everyone said that they were the most like twins, they looked exactly the same, but Yan Dashuang discovered that they were not.

Yan Xiaoshuang blinked, her delicate and delicate face showed no expression, her eyelashes were long and thick, like two small brushes covering her eyelids.

Yan Dashuang stared into his eyes for a while, then stroked his chin: "Why do I feel that my eyes are smaller than yours?"

Yun Yiyi secretly rolled her eyes when she heard that, thinking that it's because you have gained weight.

Yan Dashuang's weight loss schedule was put on the plan by Yun Yiyi. The food she made recently has less sugar and less oil, and she secretly reduced fat.Naturally, the two cubs couldn't eat it, and they still ate with gusto.

On the day Butcher Sun slaughtered pigs, many people queued up before dawn.

Yun Yiyi didn't know this, she was still sleeping beautifully.

At daybreak, Butcher Sun got up, slaughtered the pigs and bled them, put the pork on the board and began to sell it.

A bunch of people surrounded him, packed tightly.

People nowadays have money, and those who squeezed to the front said directly: "Butcher Sun will give me five catties of fat meat and five catties of pork belly."

Butcher Sun went down with a knife and weighed it, no more, no less. He has sold meat for decades, and he can tell the fixed weight just by touching it.For example, everyone likes to buy five catties, ten catties, and twenty catties.

Of course, he is not so accurate every time, and sometimes he cuts a few taels more, but he doesn't care.If there is less cut, it must be made up, so everyone likes to buy meat from him.

The price of pork is expensive, because there are few people who raise pigs, and even fewer pigs can be raised, and the price of meat from different parts of the pig is also different.Fat meat is the most expensive, it costs eight cents a catty, while lean meat costs only six cents. Meat with bones is even cheaper. Basically no one is willing to buy it, but those who come late and cannot buy meat will also put The last piece of meat was bought.

One pig was sold out very quickly, except for some big bones and offal, all the meat was robbed.

Butcher Sun was not in a hurry, and immediately put on the second pig, but it was still sold out, so he kept dozens of catties of meat for himself.When the crowd has dispersed, it is ready to close the stall.

It was already noon, and Yun Yiyi brought the two cubs to buy meat.

Butcher Sun saw someone coming from a distance, and waved his hand: "There is no more meat."

Just now some people who came late didn't get the meat, but they weren't so late either.

Yun Yiyi looked at the four kidneys and fat intestines in front of her and said, "Isn't this meaty?"

Butcher Sun mistook her for the fat she left behind, shook his head and said, "This is what I left for my family to boil oil, and I won't sell it."

There was a large pile of white fat hanging beside it, the corner of Yun Yiyi's mouth twitched when he saw it.

"No, I want this kidney and large intestine, how can I sell it?" She pointed to the meat on the board.

This thing is terrible, and the kidney has a strange smell.Butcher Sun didn't intend to take it at first, so he sold it to her cheaply.

After seeing the other party leave happily, he was a little confused.

Yan Dashuang watched Yun Yiyi buy large intestines, and asked, "Mother, what is this, why haven't I eaten it before?"

He didn't even look at it.

Offal contains high cholesterol, so it is not easy to eat too much, but it is good to eat once in a while, and Yun Yiyi also misses their taste.

"This is delicious. I'll make it for you when I get back." She carried the basket in one hand and led the two cubs home with the other.

(End of this chapter)