Chapter 105: Using the village loudspeaker to promote the sale of meat

“Wang Mingyu, are your parents home?”

“Brother Xiaofeng, my dad is at home, what are you carrying?”

Wang Mingyu admired Yue Feng very much. The reason was simple: his family had a big eagle that could catch pheasants and rabbits.

“Kang Mu Mu, just play here!” Yue Feng knew that this kid had a bit of a chatterbox, so he made up a lie, pushed open the door and entered the yard.

“Uncle! Aunt! Are you home?” Yue Feng shouted at the top of his voice.

“I’m at home. Xiaofeng is here. Come in quickly! What are you carrying?”

When Zhang Cuilian heard the noise, she immediately came out from the main room. Seeing Yue Feng carrying a bag of urea, she looked confused.

“Find a place to put it first!” Yue Feng did not answer what it was, but took the pork leg off his shoulder and motioned Zhang Cuilian to take it.

Zhang Cuilian opened the urea bag and saw a whole pig leg without even the skin peeled off. It looked bloody and very fresh.

“What are you doing? Why are you carrying things home again?” Zhang Cuilian pretended to be angry and complained to Yue Feng.

Yue Feng grinned and said, “This is what I promised my uncle. Aunt, please don’t tear it up. I still have some at home!”

“Okay, go inside and warm up first, I’ll put it in the cellar!”

Yue Feng pushed the door open and entered the room. Wang Jianguo was sitting by the window drinking tea from a large teacup. The rich scent of jasmine could be smelled as soon as he entered the room.

“uncle!”

“Here you are! Come and sit down. Are you going up the mountain to hunt wild boars so soon?” Wang Jianguo had seen Yue Feng entering the yard through the window. He knew without guessing that it was his eldest nephew who came to deliver pork legs to his family.

“We killed two boars and one sow. The day before yesterday, I went up the mountain with my uncle Li and killed two of them. We didn’t come back until it was completely dark. Yesterday, my uncle was injured when he went up the mountain again. Today, I took Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu with me to kill the cannon egg that injured people. That’s why we didn’t come here until today!”

Yue Feng told Wang Jianguo everything that had happened in the past few days without hiding anything.

Yue Feng doesn’t like to play smart in this kind of things. Wang Jianguo can be the village secretary, so he can be the first to know about any disturbance in the village. Things like Yue Feng dragging a wild boar home cannot be concealed unless he enters the village late at night.

“Not bad! Did you shoot the pig today?”

“Well, about a hundred meters away, three shots in a row, and he was knocked down directly!” Yue Feng replied.

“Okay! From now on, our village will have another little Yue Paotou. The young are really formidable!” Wang Jianguo nodded, and was very satisfied with Yue Feng’s performance.

“Hehehe, I have no right to yell! Well, besides delivering the pork leg, I have something else I want you to do for me. I have two eggs at home, and I want to sell them at a lower price. Can you use a loud speaker to tell the villagers that they are only three cents a pound? It’s a good deal for people from your own village!”

Seeing that Wang Jianguo was in a good mood, Yue Feng climbed up the pole.

“Big Trumpet Selling Meat?”

“Ok!”

“You are so bold, kid! Aren’t you afraid that someone outside will catch you and punish you for speculation?”

Wang Jianguo had just finished praising Yue Feng for his ability, but then he felt that his nephew was a little too bold. Wasn’t he doing it behind people’s back?
The loudspeaker in the village office is usually used to convene villagers for meetings and announce relevant policies, but it was Yue Feng who came up with the idea of ​​using it to help sell pork.

“Hehehe! Why are you making such a big deal out of it! The country has now gradually relaxed restrictions on self-employed business operations, it’s just that the document hasn’t been passed on to us yet. My dad heard it on the radio!” Yue Feng explained shamelessly with a wry smile.

“It’s not a good idea to start this. If the villagers in the village slaughter their own pigs for the New Year, I can use a loudspeaker to help shout a few times, which is acceptable. But the boar you hunted in the mountains is different in nature!” Wang Jianguo shook his head and refused to agree.

“You don’t have to explain it so clearly. The price of three cents per pound is definitely a good deal. If you buy wild boar meat and keep the fat for your own consumption, you can sell it later as a New Year pig. The villagers will definitely be able to do the math!
How about this, you just say that my family slaughtered a pig, and the pork was 30 cents a pound, and don’t say anything else. If there are any other problems, you can say you didn’t know and put the blame on me. If there are any problems, I will be responsible. Do you think this is okay?”

After listening to Yue Feng’s suggestion, Wang Jianguo was stunned. It didn’t sound like there was any big problem.

Even if we take a step back and say that something really went wrong, wouldn’t it be just that I was negligent in checking the matter?

“Okay, then I’ll help you shout a few words, and you’ll be responsible for any problems!”

“Okay, my uncle still loves me. When we hunt some wild animals, your nephew will give you meat to eat!” Yue Feng promised shamelessly with a licking face.

Soon, the villagers heard the village office’s loudspeaker sounding.

“Attention, fellow villagers! Attention, fellow villagers! Yue Lei’s family just slaughtered a pig. The meat is 30 cents per pound. No meat coupons are needed. Villagers who need it can go and buy it!

I repeat, fellow villagers…”

Only a bold guy like Yue Feng would dare to use the loudspeaker in the village office to sell wild boar meat.

But the effect was obvious. After the loudspeaker shouted like that, the villagers who heard the news became excited.

Pork at 30 cents a pound. Although everyone’s life is generally hard and everyone is generally short of money, pork is still 30 cents a pound. Even if the restriction on meat tickets is not taken into account, it is still 50 cents cheaper than the normal market price!
Soon, the villagers came to the Yue family in a mighty procession, carrying vegetable baskets, cloth bags, and vegetable basins.

If there was a drone at this moment, and a bird’s-eye view from above Xing’an Village, one could see that the crowd rushing to grab the meat mobilized within minutes after hearing the news.

Soon, the first sister-in-law who lived in the next alley pushed open the door of Yue Feng’s house with a basket on her shoulder.

At this moment, the brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu acted as temporary butchers. They had completely peeled off the skin of the cannon egg, and the fat and thick wild boar carcass was already hung on the pole.

“Jingjing’s mom, I heard on the loud speaker that your family killed a pig and sold pork for 30 cents a pound. Is that true?”

Meng Yulan and Yue Lei at home were also surprised when they heard the brigade’s broadcast, but they quickly calmed down when they thought that their son was independent-minded and must have his own reasons for doing so.

Hearing the neighbors calling, Meng Yulan walked over wearing an apron. “It’s true, but this pig is a wild boar. Xiaofeng brought people up the mountain to raise it. It’s over 300 pounds. Look at the fat, it’s at least four fingers thick!” Meng Yulan temporarily played the role of a butcher, gesturing with her hands at the wild boar meat hanging on the pole.

“Cannonball wild boar meat!”

Xiaoyan’er’s mother was a little disappointed when she heard that it was wild boar meat. After all, she came here with the idea of ​​getting a big bargain, but it was not what she thought.

“Yes, that’s right! The meat of this boar is not as delicious as the fat pork raised at home, but it’s not bad for stir-frying. At most, you can add a few peppercorns and star anise to suppress the taste!” Meng Yulan said truthfully.

“Then cut five pounds for me! The fat is really thick!” Xiaoyan’s mother hesitated for two seconds and quickly made a decision.

“Okay, Xiaowu, cut some more fat for your sister-in-law!” Meng Yulan called out, and Xiaowu immediately took the knife and cut off a large strip of fat from the waist vertically.

I weighed it and it weighed five and a half pounds.

Meng Yulan was also smart: “It’s five and a half pounds tall, so it counts as five pounds, one dollar and fifty cents!!”

Suddenly, it was half a pound of meat that was saved. Xiaoyan’er’s mother felt balanced now, and she immediately paid the bill with a smile on her face.

After the first deal was completed, new villagers soon came to the Yue family.

After selling less than ten portions of meat, Yue’s yard was already full of people. Many people who came late had to queue up and fall behind, watching helplessly as the people in front of them cut away the three pounds of meat and the five pounds of meat, leaving less and less meat hanging on the pole.

A wild boar weighing over 240 jin, after removing the internal organs and draining the water, still weighs at least 180 jin. After removing the skin and bones, the pure meat is estimated to be 200- jin. This is the wild boar after it has gained weight in the autumn. If it is a wild boar just after the beginning of spring, it may only produce – jin of meat.

Seeing that the meat on the pole was getting less and less, the villagers behind became anxious.

“Jingjing’s mom, please leave some for us. Aren’t these almost sold out?”

Meng Yulan recorded the weight and cash receipts of each sale in a very methodical manner. After hearing the greeting, she looked up, smiled and said, “Don’t worry, there’s more!

The cannon balls we shot back the day before yesterday are now resting in the house, and the fat on that pig is quite thick, so the villagers will definitely be able to get some meat today!”

Now, the people queuing behind are no longer in a hurry, and the efficiency of cutting meat has increased a lot.

After Yue Feng went home after drinking some tea at Wang Jianguo’s house, the huge yard became empty again. The wild boar heads hanging on the poles had all been bought by Liu Quezi from the village. Only the trampled snow outside the door was left, telling of the bustle not long ago.

Meng Yulan happily counted the money from selling the meat. Today, she sold a total of 165 kilograms of meat from this pig. The other pig was slightly smaller the day before, 142 kilograms (minus the two pig front legs that Yue Feng gave away, one for Niu Fusheng and one for Wang Jianguo). At cents per kilogram, including the decimal points from cutting the meat, the total profit was yuan.

As the chief financial officer of the Eagle Hunting Team, Meng Yulan had also seen money, but the feeling of holding a ten-yuan bill and a few cents bill in hand was completely different.

This is a thick stack of more than 80 yuan in change. It is so exciting to count it with saliva.

“Is there any meat left at home?” Yue Feng looked at his mother’s money-grubbing look and asked with a smile without interrupting her.

“There are still dozens of kilograms of sow meat in the warehouse. We all decided to keep it after discussion. We will eat it ourselves!” Meng Yulan answered while counting the money without even raising her head.

“Okay, I get it!”

Yue Feng nodded, picked up the meat-cutting knife and went into the warehouse. After finding the meat in the basin, he cut about four or five pounds of pork belly with some effort, threaded it with a thin iron wire, and carried it to the home of his neighbor, Grandma Li.

The old woman lived a very hard life at home alone. There was hardly any oil in the food she cooked all day. Yue Feng, the younger generation, took people to the mountains to hunt wild boars and brought back a few pounds of meat, which was considered as taking care of the military family.

Yue Feng did not discuss this with anyone, but he knew that no one in the team would have any objections. If his father saw it, he might even think his son was stingy and ask Yue Feng to cut a few more pounds.

When Yue Feng came back with the meat, my mother had already sorted out the accounts completely. The pork sold today was from two pigs. Because different people worked on the work, the proceeds were divided into two parts. Meng Yulan calculated it clearly according to the previous agreement.

Everyone divided the money according to their share, and those who received the money all had smiles on their faces.

Nowadays, being able to make money is the bottom line. Following Brother Feng, our family’s life has visibly improved.

The news that the Yue family was using the village office’s loudspeaker to advertise the sale of meat spread throughout the village that day. Everyone was shocked, but also realized that today’s society seemed to be different from what it was a few years ago.

In the past few years, you could hardly see any paper money at the market. Most of the transactions were done by bartering. Eggs and grains were hard currencies and could be exchanged for almost anything else at the market.

Occasionally there are cash transactions, and both parties to the transaction are like underground party members meeting each other. They reach an agreement at the market, and even have to wait until the next market to complete the subsequent transactions privately.

But starting this year, people wearing red armbands disappeared from the market, and people became more unscrupulous in buying and selling things at the market.

Now it’s even worse. The second young master of the Yue family even dares to openly sell the wild boar he hunted in the mountains using the village’s loudspeaker to advertise the sale.

Smart people with a keen sense of smell have realized that the overall environment has changed. Even capable people at the level of village secretaries have begun to embrace this change, rather than avoiding it as before for fear of getting into trouble.

On the other hand, the information that Yue Feng led his men to kill two big wild boars and sold them for a hundred yuan in less than two hours also made some people in the village have strange ideas.

The wild animals on the mountain have no owner. Whoever can carry them back will own them. Since Yue Feng can lead people to fight, why can’t I?
In previous years, when we brought back wild animals from the mountains, at most friends and relatives would give some as gifts, a small number of people would want them, and some would be sold secretly, but most of the money was consumed internally and it was difficult to turn it into cash.

But now it’s different. The price is 30 cents per pound, and a 200-pound wild boar is worth dozens of yuan. This money is much easier to earn than working for the production team.

Many people have this idea, but most of them stop at taking action. However, a small number of people cannot control themselves after hearing the news.

For example, the second child of the Zhu family!
If we evaluate Zhu Erhai’s ability to discover opportunities from an objective third-party perspective, Zhu Erhai’s performance is indeed much better than that of ordinary people.

However, he did not use his intelligence in the right place, his character was also very bad, his consciousness was awakened, but his ability was far from keeping up, which led to the stupid thing of stealing the goose to exchange for an eagle, and finally looking at the sky with tears in his eyes.

Ever since the eagle flew away, Zhu Erhai and his father Zhu Jianshe have been depressed and silent for a long time. Slowly, the blow of the failure to train the eagle disappeared with the passage of time, and Zhu Erhai’s family has returned to its former tranquility.

However, after hearing that Yue Feng went up the mountain to hunt wild boars and sold them for about a hundred yuan, Zhu Erhai became eager again.

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