Published at 19th of November 2020 02:35:06 AM
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Chapter 145: Slaughtering The Pigs and Distributing the Meat
She had not planted too many fruit trees . After all, time was different in the interspace, and the fruits grew especially fast .
She had sixteen apple trees and would pick them every fortnight . She could not figure out how the days and seasons in the interspace worked . In any case, things here grew continually and it was like spring all the time .
She had more peach trees, which occupied about an acre of land, and quite a few strawberry plants, but only two grapevines . The vines were particularly prolific and spread through a large area . She had sold many of them over the decades of her previous life . But at this time, she still kept a lot of them in her interspace .
She spent a long time before she finally harvested all the fruits . Then she began to dry and bottle them .
These were her specialty . In her previous life, she had started a business to sell these . She had sold them for a particularly high price, but business was still brisk .
As she did in her previous life, she made them and stored them . They would surely come in handy one day .
She could not do much by herself . After busying herself for some time, she took out a piece of paper to practice her drawing and calligraphy .
Because she was afraid of meeting others, she had mostly stayed at home in her previous life . But her family had educated her since she was young . Also, almost all the old people who were sent to work in the cowshed were the best in their professions, and she had learnt a lot from them .
Calligraphy and drawing were two of the things she had learnt . She had even learnt embroidery from one of the old ladies, and her work was excellent .
But landscape painting was Gu Qingyao’s favorite . She had gone to many places in her previous life . Every time she went to a new place, she particularly enjoyed the process of sketching it .
Gu Qingyao smiled when she looked at the scene she had sketched .
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These were the fruits of decades of practice from her previous life . Right now, she was only 15 years old, and should not be so skillful . She must be careful the next time she visited the old people .
Gu Qingyao arose early the next morning . Today was the day the brigade was slaughtering the pigs and distributing the meat . This year, the brigade had experienced some delays, so they were doing it later than they had in previous years .
The Qing River Brigade reared six pigs . Two of them were to fulfill an assignment, and they had been handed over long ago .
That left four pigs . Besides that, the brigade also raised some fifty chickens, ducks and geese . Based on the population size, everyone would get about a kilogram of meat .
According to the rules, children would get half a kilogram of meat, and adults would get a kilogram .
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Today, the brigade had specially hired a butcher to kill the pigs at the big square outside the brigade office . The entire brigade gathered to watch, and it was a spectacular event . Gu Qingyao and Gu Jinlin went too .
Gu Qingyao had been reborn, and it had been decades since she had seen a scene like that . When she remembered her youth, she felt rather nostalgic . She also thought it would be fun, so she dragged her third elder brother along .
Gu Qingyao’s scalp prickled when she saw the huge hogs tied to the table, screaming piteously as they were slaughtered . The children in the crowd clapped in excitement because they would soon have meat to eat .
Gu Qingyao: “…”
Chen Goudan and Chen Xiaocao were also very excited . Now that they had moved out, they would get a share of the meat . This time, they would take their share themselves, and they would finally have a taste of meat .
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The two children were not yet adults . They would get half a kilogram each, which made a full kilogram between the two of them!
Although it was just a kilogram of meat, Chen Goudan was still filled with anticipation . The sensation of independence filled him with delight!
Chen Xiaocao’s eyes shone like stars and her little face was flushed . Her expression as she stared straight at the pigs being slaughtered…
Gu Qingyao really did not know how to describe it .
That poor pig!