Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 60
Translated by Serena Love
The next day, it was not dawn yet.
Liang Tiezhu woke up at two o'clock and rode his big golden deer bike to the pig farm.
He has been to this place before, but he has never been as impressed as today.
He helped He Songbai split pork bones and divide the meat.
In the hot autumn, the pig farm is like a steamer, hot water is boiled in a big pot, and the heat from the water makes Tie Zhu's chest tight and short of breath.
He gritted his teeth and followed He Songbai to cut four pigs.
For one thing, he also really wanted to work with He Songbai. But Liang Tiezhu felt that he could not be a butcher on the mountain all the time. He didn't know why he had such inexplicable and confident thoughts.
Second, Liang Tiezhu also wanted to make money. After doing a job here, he could earn twenty yuans. He can save enough money to raise big and fat kids next year.
Master He wiped his sweat, he said, "This little brother is not strong enough to endure hardship."
Tie Zhu glanced at him and said, "Hey, it would be too ridiculous to say that."
Master He said, "Brother Zhang thinks you don't have enough muscle, it is better to transport pigs. Can you drive?"
Liang Tiezhu stunned, "Dr... drive?"
He heard Master He said so exaggeratedly, he thought it was going to be a four-wheeled car, but he did not expect that he was talking about an ox cart.
Liang Tiezhu was reluctant to go, feeling that if he took the job, he might not be able to sleep at night.
However, He Songbai pulled his sleeve and made a gesture at him.
Liang Tiezhu reluctantly agreed to come down.
The next day, he started the trip of pigs to catch pigs. At the same time, he also found something deeper. It turns out that the pigs delivered every day from this pig farm are raised secretly in the deep mountains, where they kept in their pens one by one. Many pigs live in the mountains and raised. The pig farm has been made so impressive, it's no wonder that the business on the pig farm is booming, almost reaching the point where "one piece of meat is hard to find".
If He Songbai has not been working on the pig farm for so long, and Liang Tiezhu was also not familiar, the job of escorting pigs would not be given to him.
Liang Tiezhu thought happily.
In fact, Master He just disliked that he was not strong enough to do this job, and the job of escorting piglet was too boring, and he was transferred here because of lack of people.
Liang Tiezhu drove the pig up the mountain on time at two o'clock, and He Songbai had just arrived.
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He handed a bag of chestnut cakes to Tiezhu.
"Come back and go to bed."
Liang Tiezhu nodded.
He took the pastry and gnawed it. The scent of chestnuts was nice and sweet, with a hint of swee-scented osmanthus. The golden pastry is soft and sweet, and the big piece is extremely fluffy. The honeycomb holes visible to the naked eye made Liang Tiezhu feels like he eats a novelty.
He likes to eat snacks made by Zhao Lanxiang. Whether it is mung bean cake, Chinese yam cake, kidney bean cake, mango roll or something, as long as she makes it, it is full of refreshing sweetness. It is sweet but not greasy, and the smell is fragrant.
People like him who do not like sweets, like her desserts. Liang Tiezhu was thinking about his wife to be at the bottom of his heart, and he want to stop eating and left half of the food for her. But the hunger in his belly made him eat, and he couldn't stop his mouth.
While Liang Tiezhu was eating happily, He Songbai also took out the lunch box and ate the rice roll with clean chopsticks. Corn kernels, broken beans, shredded shiitake mushrooms, fresh meat and fish fillings. The hot rice rolls are topped with the fragrant marinade, and the whole pig farm full of faint fragrance. The warm heat drifting away, and a few envy and jealous eyes were drawn.
Even Master He couldn't help but came over and asked, "Why, did your partner give you food today? It's so fragrant!"
Ever since Zhao Lanxiang came to the pig farm, everyone knew that the new pig cutter has a beautiful and caring girlfriend. And not only that, she also give him breakfast every day in different ways. This made these elders really envious and drooling, but fortunately, they brought their own meals to eat, otherwise they would really unable to stand their hungry stomach.
Liang Tiezhu didn't even finish the chestnut cake, he grabbed a rice roll from the He Songbai box.
"You did this job, but you do it quite comfortably and happily! Lanxiang sister-in-law didn't sleep for you to make these breakfasts!"
He Songbai said as he ate, "How would I let her! I made this myself."
Zhao Lanxiang considered that it would be bad for a big man to eat dessert every day, and it would be easy to get tired after eating for a long time. In addition, the morning was the hardest and most tiring time of the day, and he was hungry with no oil in his stomach. So before going to bed, she prepared the rice rolls and put it in the steamer. After he woke up, he steamed it himself and could take it out to eat.
Liang Tiezhu said, "Brother Bai's cooking skills are good!"
"It's delicious."
He said as he has finished eating one, and he begged for another one shamelessly.
He Songbai made ten of them and he ate enough, without being stingy, he divided four for Liang Tiezhu.
He told Tie Zhu, "You work hard, it's easier to drive a cart than to chop a pig."
Tie Zhu nodded.
Not to mention anything else, for the daily meal of rice rolls, he feels that he is not so tired from driving pigs.
Liang Tiezhu came to the pig farm to work for almost half a month before he found some clues. This pig farm seems to be opened by a group of people. Master He has a share, and Brother Zhang, whom He Songbai recognizes, also has one. They only work with the familiar people, and if an average person wants to get pork from here, it is really something you can't even think about.
He estimate the income of these leaders and calculated it, and suddenly he was stupefied. It is easily 10,000 yuans. 10,000 yuans raised from pigs!
He is the kind of hard-working smuggler, who is struggling to earn forty or fifty yuans per month. He was so happy to be "prosperous", but when you put him in front of these people, it is not comparable at all!
No wonder Brother Bai does not want to sell grain, but only sells raw meat. Pork is the way to get rich quickly.
Just like this, Liang Tiezhu worked desperately to drive the pigs, and then went to sell Zhao Lanxiang food every day. His eyes opened every day in the dark to work, and he slept tiredly at dawn.
Soon, October arrived.
Shocking news spread from the town, and the crazy "Gang of Four" was smashed! The Revolutionary Committees of factories, schools, and institutions around the country also changed their names one after another, and the Red Soldiers lost their organization in confusion.
[T/N: The "Gang of Four" is the four people who were in charge politically at that time. It's too complicated, so please google it if you are interested.]
The most significant change is that the future strategic focus will gradually shift to economic development.
However, "illeterate" farmers like He Songbai and Liang Tiezhu don't understand what is the change of strategic focus. They first discovered that food delivery has gotten better, from a vague occasional once a month, to a fixed once or two times a month.
And there are more things sold in the market, and when Zhao Lanxiang went to the market, she bought some beautiful hair ties and a pink schoolbag for Sanya.
She is also approaching school age.
Zhao Lanxiang also bought a pair of shoes for Sister He, with a real thousand-layer sole, which were made by a farmer's family. She rarely does this kind of work that requires patience, meticulousness, and time, so she can save trouble directly buying it. Occasionally there are people with surplus grain in the market, and they are selling it in a low-key manner. The police have also closed their eyes.
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When the weather turned cooler in October, Li Dali could barely stand up. Sister He's red clothes have become outdated. Grandma asked her to put on a coat outside when she got married, and it is appropriate to reveal a little red dress. Sister He thinks about it too, she touched her red clothes lovingly, she liked it too much.
It's just that girls from poor families should be low-key. The clothes made by Zhao Lanxiang are really good and not eye-catching. After all, there are people who know the goods.
They chose a date from the yellow calendar, and scrapped another one. After tossing like this, He Songye finally getting married in October.
The weather was clear that day, the wind did not freeze people. The coolness ran into the skin, but the sun is faintly warm.
Zhao Lanxiang didn't do much to congratulate the eldest sister very much, but she took a quiet way of helping with things. A month ago, she took out the snowflake cream and let Sister He rub it every day to moisturize her skin. She also saved some milk for making pastries to mask her face. The original wrinkles on Sister He's face faded away, and her skin became paler.
Zhao Lanxiang forced her to wash her face cleanly, applied a little bit of red rouge, and applied a blush, making the whole person look younger and more beautiful before she stopped.
He Songye is dressed naturally and fresh by her, unlike the big blush monkey butt face that is popular in rural areas.
Grandma personally brushed her granddaughter's hair and rubbed her head lovingly, "Grandma's Songye, finally grown up..."
He Songye touched Grandma's face with joy.
The grandmother also happily touched the hand of her granddaughter. Grandmother and grandchild looked at each other, feeling moved and delighted.
Zhao Lanxiang looked at the hour, and pushed the bride out.
Sister He is not overpowering, but very simple. She wears a red coat made in the autumn inside and a big dingy coat outside. If it is not because the coat has not been buttoned all the way through, even the last bit of red would have been hidden, and she would not look like a bride.
This is probably the most crudely dressed bride Zhao Lanxiang has ever seen in two lifetimes, but it is also the most natural and beautiful bride. The smile from the heart on He Songye's face is brilliant and straight into the bottom of people's hearts.
She was happily taken by Li Dali's second brother, Li Daniu, to the Li family. The Li family set up five tables, and the courtyard was full of lively people.
The dishes are also common farm dishes. Each table has a bowl of braised pork meat, so that people who come to eat wine are not disappointed. The villagers themselves carried some food and brought food stamps. In this era when everyone was equally poor, everyone did this. Food and meat are extremely precious things. It is a good idea for guests to subsidize the host.
The guests who came to drink the wedding wine also knew that Li Dali is weak and didn't trouble him much, let him use boiled water instead of white wine, and after a few drinks, they let him go to rest.
Today's wedding is the only happy event in the He family for more than a decade. It is extremely rare. As the younger brother, He Songbai can't even close his mouth happily, and his big white teeth are bright and dazzling. He was busy doing things up and down in the field. He didn't show timidity when he saw strangers, and he was neither humble nor overbearing, as if the haze caused by his landlord background has been completely washed away.
When people were not paying attention, he ran to the tree behind the house and said sweet words to the girlfriend.
He said to Zhao Lanxiang.
"I understand why in the book a wedding is considered the four greatest joys in life. I saw my brother-in-law today and I was happy for him."
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"Whenever we can do this, I am willing to die."
He Songbai rubbed the girlfriend's hand. White, tender and slender, and extremely beautiful. This is what the so-called "ten fingers which do not touch cold water", so he couldn't help but kiss it and kiss it again.
Zhao Lanxiang's fingertips were tickled by his hot lips, and she couldn't help but withdraw. She poked the man's hard chest and said dissatisfiedly.
"You want to be beautiful!"
"What about the proposal? What about the bride price?"
"Have you even propose?"
"You have nothing, and you want to be like your brother-in-law..."
He Songbai smiled, his big white teeth shining brightly. He pursed his mouth so happily that he didn't speak, but rubbed her head.
Silly girl, of course there will be everything.
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