Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

Tian Dazhuang said: "Lao Gao, you make the announcement!"

"Okay!" Gao Junsong responded and said, "Fellow villagers! Today, Yan Jiekuang and the educated youth Yan Jiekuang killed two wild boars. Together, they weigh more than 700 kilograms. According to the rules of our village, Yan Jiekuang and the educated youth Yan Jiekuang will receive a subsidy of 400 work points, and 15 kilograms of meat. There are 127 households in our village, and 128 households including the educated youth, so each household can get 6 kilograms of pork."

As soon as Gao Junsong finished speaking, there was fierce applause. After a few seconds, Gao Junsong signaled everyone to stop and said, "Please ask Yan Zhiqing to come up and get the meat!"

Yan Jiekuang walked out of the crowd, walked to the door, looked at the meat piled on the door, and said, "Uncle, it doesn't matter if there is less meat. Give me two pig stomachs."

Gao Yonggen said, "Yan Zhiqing, pig offal is not included in the meat. If you want pig stomach, I will give you two."

"Thank you, uncle!" Yan Jiekuang thanked him and pointed to the tenderloin, saying, "Uncle, I don't like fatty meat. Pick out a piece of leaner meat for me."

"Okay!" Gao Yonggen responded readily and chopped along the tenderloin. Gao Yonggen's cooking skills were really good, and he cut exactly 15 pounds with one cut.

Yan Jiekuang threw the meat and pork belly into the backpack, and Gao Yonggen also threw two bones into Yan Jiekuang's backpack. Yan Jiekuang smiled at Gao Yonggen and left with the backpack on his back.

When Su Zihui saw Yan Jiekuang leave, he stopped watching the fun and happily followed Yan Jiekuang to the educated youth point.

After Yan Jiekuang left, Tian Dazhuang took out a box of number plates from the brigade headquarters and said, "Let's draw lots according to the old rules. Whatever number you draw will be yours. This will avoid hurting the relationship. The relatives of military martyrs will go first, and the village cadres will go last. Let's start now!"

As Tian Dazhuang finished speaking, representatives from each household went up to draw lots one after another. The representative of the educated youth was Gong Liang. He was in the queue behind Carpenter Wu. He drew the wooden card numbered 42. After drawing lots, the villagers went up to get the meat one after another in the order of the cards they drew.

Soon it was Gong Liang's turn. Gong Liang picked a piece of meat and said to Gao Yonggen, "Uncle Gao, you have a good hand. Please help me cut this piece of meat into 25 pieces of similar size."

Gao Yonggen stared at Gong Liang for a few seconds, nodded, took the meat to the chopping board beside him, and in the blink of an eye, a six-pound piece of meat was divided into twenty-five pieces of meat, weighing a little more than two ounces.

Gong Liang took the meat, returned to the educated youth camp, and went straight into the kitchen. He put the meat on the dining table, and took two pieces of meat to go out. Wang Jianqiang stopped Gong Liang and asked, "Captain, where are you going with these two pieces of meat?"

Gong Liang replied: "Send it to Yan Zhiqing and Su Zhiqing."

Wang Jianqiang said, "Yan Jiekuang has 15 kilograms of meat. The two of them don't need it either, why are you sending it to them?!"

Shu Bo walked to the side of Gong Liang, looked at Wang Jianqiang and said, "What do you mean?! Yan Jiekuang's meat was rewarded to him by the village. He deserves it. What?! Are you jealous of him?! If you are jealous, then go hunt wild boars too?! There are plenty of wild boars on the mountain, no one will stop you!"

Gong Liang said: "Today's meat will be distributed according to households. Our educated youth site is considered one household. Since Yan Jiekuang and Su Zihui are from our educated youth site. No matter what the reason, they will have a share of the meat today." After saying that, Gong Liang took the meat and walked past Wang Jianqiang.

At this moment, no one in the educated youth camp had a good impression of Wang Jianqiang. Even Tang Jianjun and Wang Sibao, who usually talked to him the most, showed disgust towards Wang Jianqiang.

"Yan Zhiqing, are you washing the vegetables?!" Gong Liang walked to the outside of Yan Jiekuang's house, saw Yan Jiekuang washing pig's stomach, and greeted him with a smile.

Yan Jiekuang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Captain, why are you here?!"

"I'm here to bring meat to you and Su Zhiqing." After saying that, Gong Liang handed the meat in his hand to Yan Jiekuang. Yan Jiekuang did not take it immediately, but looked at Gong Liang with a puzzled look.

Gong Liang said, "Yan Zhiqing, today the pork is distributed according to households. Our Zhiqing site is considered one household. You and Su Zhiqing are part of our Zhiqing site, so you have a share of this meat."

Yan Jiekuang took the meat and said, "Thank you, Captain!"

"You're welcome. I won't disturb you while you're cooking." Gong Liang turned and left. After Gong Liang left, Su Zihui walked to Yan Jiekuang and said, "He looks pretty good at this point."

Yan Jiekuang said: "Most of the educated youth we selected are quite good. But it is inevitable that there will be a bad apple mixed in."

Su Zihui asked: "Are you talking about Wang Jianqiang?!"

Yan Jiekuang nodded and asked, "How are you going to eat this meat?!"

Su Zihui replied: "I really haven't thought about it."

Yan Jiekuang said, "It's getting hotter day by day. Meat won't last long. I'll make some braised pork slices and a pot of pork belly and chicken. I'll marinate the remaining meat and dry it tomorrow so we can eat it later. What do you think?!"

Su Zihui replied, "Just do as you say. The meat is yours anyway! I'm just eating it for free." Then he asked, "Where are you going to get the chicken for the pig stomach chicken?!"

Yan Jiekuang asked: "Didn't you see what's in my backpack?!"

Su Zihui said somewhat embarrassedly: "I only noticed the two wild boars just now. I forgot to check the things in the backpack."

Yan Jiekuang sighed pretentiously and said, "I'm lucky today. Not only did I kill a pheasant, I also killed two wild boars." After that, Yan Jiekuang pushed aside the wild vegetables covering the surface, took out a pheasant from underneath, and then said, "Go and help me boil a pot of water."

"Okay!" Su Zihui responded and entered Yan Jiekuang's room.

After spending these two days together, Su Zihui felt that Yan Jiekuang was a person with no bad intentions. She wanted to tell Yan Jiekuang her secrets. But every time the words came to her lips, she didn't know how to start. Today was the same. Yan Jiekuang had actually discovered that Su Zihui was worried a long time ago. But Yan Jiekuang was not a person who liked gossip, so he didn't ask any more questions.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed. All the land in the village has been turned over and plowed. The seedlings have reached the standard for planting in the fields. After working hard for a few days, all the seedlings were finally planted in the fields. Yan Jiekuang was about to go to town when he got some free time. Yan Jiekuang looked at the content of the letter and smiled unconsciously. The letter was written by Yan Jiedi. In addition to telling Yan Jiekuang that everything was safe at home, the letter also told Yan Jiekuang some things in the courtyard. For example, Jia Zhang knew that Qin Huairu was messing around outside, so she moved out Jia Dongxu's portrait to threaten Qin Huairu. For example, the second aunt quarreled with Liu Haizhong and was beaten by Liu Haizhong. Another example is that Yan Jiecheng's unit allocated housing. Yan Jiecheng and his wife moved away, leaving the child at home to be raised by the third aunt. Anyway, they were all trivial matters.

After reading the letter, Yan Jiekuang wrote a reply and took some time to go to the town. After sending the letter, Yan Jiekuang went to the supply and marketing cooperative again. After buying some things at the supply and marketing cooperative, Yan Jiekuang met Gou Wa when he was about to go back. Yan Jiekuang asked, "Why are you here?!"