Chapter 121 selling pigs

Aunt Six's life is really hard.Not to mention having no children in his life, when he gets old, the old man suffers from heart disease and cannot go out to work in the mountains to earn work points.Although the team has given the "five guarantees" treatment, there is no need to worry too much about food, but oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, thread and brains have to be prepared by themselves.And where does the money come from? Fortunately, she still feeds a pig doll, she is so delicate.Those essential expenses in life are all counted on this baby pig.This childless old woman had a tender love for every domestic animal.Not to mention this little beast.Regardless of whether it is windy or rainy, she goes out with a group of dolls to look for pigweed every day.She doesn't throw the hogweeds she found in the pigsty for the raccoon to eat like other people, but washes the dandelions, cockleburs, and fat baby grass over and over in the small river, and then chops them up. , cooked, can't wait to mix some seasonings before feeding the pigs.

In midsummer, it is the time when the leaves of elm and apricot trees bloom.Pigs love to eat these two kinds of leaves.She couldn't get up the tree, so she begged the dolls in the neighborhood for help.When the dolls refused to go, she took one of the white-faced buns that had been steamed separately for the sick old man, and coaxed the dolls to pick a basket for her.In order for her baby pig to eat better, she would rather eat bad ones herself. But this baby pig is too small after all, and it will definitely not be fat during the Spring Festival, and it will not be sold for a lot of money.

After the wheat was harvested, her old man with heart disease dug up the medicinal materials and sold them for a few bucks, and urged her to sell the baby pig, add up the money, and buy a bigger one—so that after the Spring Festival, she would be able to earn a fortune. A decent fat pig. The old man's bones are sick, but his mind is still awake.He was right.Although Aunt Six was reluctant to part with this thing she was used to, she finally followed his advice. Now the "Gongjia" says to learn from "the experience of the blind man (Haltao), and change the original nine episodes in January into three socialist episodes in January."On the tenth day of the seventh lunar month, as soon as it was early in the morning, the sixth aunt specially made a bowl of delicious food for the baby pig, and used the broken wooden comb that she used to comb her hair to clean the baby pig's body, as if she was going to get married. Like his daughter, he chatted a lot before he started on the road with the pig.

Her pig obeyed obediently without a leash. Wherever she went, the pig followed. Sometimes the little thing walked too fast and would stop and wait for her.This black and fat little thing is so cute!It ran back and forth at her feet, rubbing its little head against her legs from time to time. She kept talking to it along the way: "Little Heizi (the nickname she gave it) don't worry! I won't sell you far away. I'll sell you to the people around our village. I'll come to see you after January or two. Ah. Don't be afraid, I will pick and choose to find you a kind man. He has fierce eyebrows and eyes, and I won't sell you to him even if I pay one hundred and eighty thousand. Don't worry... "

Her "little blackie" stared at her docilely with two round eyes after hearing her nagging, then hummed twice coquettishly, and lay down under a small poplar tree and did not leave. "It's hot? You little rascal! If it's hot, let's rest on it! Don't be busy!" Aunt Six sat next to the little pig and scratched its round back with her hands Tickle, took another small cucumber from the bag, broke it into two pieces, she ate one piece by herself, and stuffed the other piece in the pig baby's mouth. At this moment, a big black and fat pig suddenly appeared from the corn field across the road, panting for breath, walked over with a shake, sniffed "Little Heizi" , also lie down.

What a fat pig!The gross scale is more than two hundred catties.The old woman was very surprised. Where did such a big fat pig come from beside the official road with no village in front and no shops in the back?She looked up and down the road and saw no one.What careless person has left a pig here? When she took a closer look at the big fat pig, she realized that a piece of hair had been shaved off the pig's back, and an official seal was faintly stamped on it.Ah, it turns out that this is a pig bought by the public! She was at a loss.She thought: Now the government officials are too sloppy, how can they leave such a big pig in this wilderness?

After thinking about it, she decided to take the pig and her "little black boy" to the city, and then check with the pig collection department to give the pig from the public house to the public house.It is as natural for her to do this as if she picked up something from the neighbor and sent it to the neighbor. When she was about to drive the pig to get up, a bicycle flew over suddenly in front of her. The bicycle stopped suddenly in front of her, and a man in his forties jumped out of the bicycle.This man wore a clean uniform with a sheep's belly towel wrapped around his head. He looked neither like a cadre nor like a farmer.The visitor quickly got up the cart, came over and put his hands on the fat pig's back twice, and asked with a smile:

"Old man, how much do you sell this pig? I'll give you eighty yuan, how about it?" "Look at you! You have two bright eyes, so you can't see the official seal on the pig's back?" Sixth Aunt smiled kindly and said. "Oh? You've already sold it to the county company? How much did you sell it for?" "Ah, look at you! This pig is not mine!" "Did you pick it up?" The man's eyes sparkled, "Your family enjoys good fortune!" As he spoke, he took money out of his pocket. "Oh! You look down on people too much! Go to Zhangjiaping Village and ask to see if Zhang Liu's wife has done anything wrong in her life? We have been poor all our lives, but we are so poor that we are so poor! Do you want to change money for yourself?"

Hearing what Aunt Six said, the man laughed out loud: "Haha! There is no place in the world to find such a foolish wife like you! Is the RMB still in your hand? Don't be afraid! You don't want to take credit for this!If you sell it to me, I will kill and sell it when I reach the mountain!Who would know what a fart he is!This pig can be sold for more than one hundred yuan, and eighty for you is a little less, but you picked it up, and we both get a little bit of a bargain.The public treats this little loss as fart! If you give it to the public, you can say at most two words of praise.Praise words can't be used to bang salt and buy oil!Don't be stupid, you old man, put this..."

"No!" Sixth Aunt Bai Shushu turned her head and stood up. While preparing to get up, she said to the man: "We are good people, how can we do things that are not good for the government? Don't be troubled." , you go your way..." The man tilted his cheeks, gave Aunt Six a fierce look, and said: "I picked up this pig! Let me go up!" As he said that, he went to pull a few green hemp trees in the field, twisted them into ropes, and tied the pig's legs with his hands. The sixth aunt was so anxious that she looked straight at both ends of the official road, she hoped that someone would come quickly to subdue this evil spirit.People are being robbed all day long, and the world is in such a mess today!

Just right!Two cyclists came from the direction of the county seat.The fierce man who was tying the pig's legs hurriedly got on the cart and knelt down. When those two people approached, Aunt Six hurriedly called them over and stammered what happened just now. Those two people slapped him on the thigh almost at the same time, and one of them shouted: "What a coincidence!" It turned out that these two people were buyers of the county non-staple food company, and it was they who lost the pig.They are looking for pigs. The two "officials" are just as the person said.He said a lot of "praise words" to Aunt Six, and then he got up.They said that they could take her to the market on their bicycles if they didn't sell pigs.They kept saying she was a good old woman! Aunt Six felt very happy.She said that she had never sat on that thing before, and she would not sit on it even if she didn't want to, because she was afraid of getting dizzy.When those two people were leaving, she chatted and reassured them, saying that they were still young, and they would not dare to be careless and careless when working for the government in the future... Now, Aunt Six and her baby pig are on the road again.The wilderness in midsummer is covered with thick green.Migu is earing, and the corn has spit out red cherry blossoms.The bright sun shines on the freshly turned wheat field, which is deep yellow.O earth, how simple, and how rich! A little after noon, the sixth aunt came to the county town calling "Little Heizi". From a long distance, I saw a few people wearing red armbands standing at the intersection of the street.She thought to herself: Haven't there been no Red Guards in the past two years?Has the cultural revolution started again? She and her pig doll walked slowly to the intersection, ready to cross the street and go to the pig market outside the south gate. She was immediately blocked by someone—it was those people wearing red armbands. "Did you buy the pig?" One of the black pigs asked her stutteringly. "For sale," she replied. So without saying anything, those people grabbed her "little blackie" and put it in a basket, and then lifted the basket to the weighing platform next to it. One reported the weight, and the other flicked the abacus a few times and said, "Seven yuan and eight anise!" The man with the black beard counted out a few pieces of money from his wallet and handed them to Aunt Six: "Here!" Aunt Six just turned around now, and it turned out that these "Red Guards" bought her pigs.She hurriedly said: "Oh, Zhang Yougui from Zhuqian Village paid fifteen yuan for a single bite and I didn't sell it! I bought a pig doll for eight yuan, and after feeding it for half a year, I still lost 20 cents! I won't sell it to you! I Go to the pig market to buy!" "Hahaha..." Those people wearing red armbands laughed loudly.The man with the black stubble pointed to a piece of paper pasted on the wall and said loudly: "The county revolutionary committee has issued a notice earlier that all piglets must be purchased and sold together. Free trading of pigs is capitalism! You people I can't read, don't you even have long ears? Didn't you hear that the County Revolutionary Committee issued a notice?" The old woman's eyes followed the man's finger to look at the wall: it was indeed a notice with a vermilion official seal on it, bigger than the one on the pig's back. She was so moved that her eyes went black for a while.Will she resist again?This is a notice from the "public"!Her feelings for the "Gongjia" cannot be expressed in words.She used to be a "public family", and she made public shoes under the sesame oil lamp without knowing it; she pushed and crushed public grain on the mill; They should also be picked up and placed on the crop stacks in the public field.And just now, she returned the fat pig of the "Gongjia" to the Gongjia,... Unexpectedly, the "Gongjia" just "bought" her "little blackie" now, and only gave her seven or eight cents Money... She thought of her sick man digging medicinal herbs under the scorching sun; thought of the sufferings she had suffered for this pig baby; The root of the nose was sore, and the tears rolled away in the old eyes... She begged the people in front of her and said: "You are all good officials, and I am also a good common people. You can do it! I am the wife of Zhang Liu in Zhangjiaping. I have never had children in my life. I have no children. I have enough to eat." In our agricultural cooperative, we have to make money for our own expenses. My husband and I are both old and can’t do other things. If we don’t have any money, we just rely on raising pigs for a year to sell some money, and measuring salt to buy oil... " These people are already busy buying other people's pigs, and they don't listen to the old woman's pitiful words. The man with the black beard stuffed the seventy cents into Aunt Six's hands, and then he and a few others pushed a cart of pigs they bought, and walked away. The old lady followed closely behind those people, chattering with tears in her eyes: "You guys, please! For the sake of my childless old woman, give me my pig doll! I guarantee that both public and private I won't sell it anymore, I'll feed it myself when I go back! Give it to me, please! ..." She couldn't catch up with them, but she continued to babble on the above words while chasing after them.Those words were spoken so earnestly and so pitifully, even though there was no one around her, she seemed to feel that the whole city was listening to her telling her plight. Good to see those people entered a large courtyard.She hurried in.Then the person disappeared, and there was a big pigsty surrounded by earthen walls, filled with pigs of all sizes. Hao pawed at the door of the pig's fence, panting, and called her "Little Heizi" with long and short sounds.The poor "Little Heizi" heard her call, squeezed out from the pigs, and came to the iron gate.It was followed by a big fat pig.Aunt Six recognized that this was the pig that could be handed over to the "official family".The old woman hastily stretched her thin hand over the iron fence, caressing the round top of "Little Heizi" forgetfully, and she saw that there was also a round official seal stamped on the back of her pig doll.Ah, it never belonged to her again!The root of her nose was sore, and the tears that had been swirling in her eyes rolled down her cheeks. The west-slanting sun still shone hot.The old lady was moved and dizzy.She couldn't bear to part with her dear "Little Heizi".She simply sat on the ground outside the fence gate, stretching her bony hands through the gaps in the iron bars time and time again, stroking this baby pig that no longer belonged to her.Like an old mother visiting the prison, she shed her motherly tears under the ruthless iron fence.Iron fence!Who are you made of?how stupid you are!how cruel you are!How shameful you are!You separated the Communist Party from the common people!You are a double-edged knife wielded by the devil, facing the Communist Party on the one hand and the common people on the other... When dusk fell, Aunt Six staggered out of the dirt yard.The streets were deserted.A few street lamps on the concrete poles stared at the old woman like a few red eyes suffering from eye diseases.Aunt Six suddenly looked at her two empty hands, and then these two hands frantically touched her body again.After touching it for a long time, she opened her mouth and cried with a "wow"-the poor seventy-eight cents did not know when it was lost!