Because of Gong Youqiu's return, the village was a little more lively, and the merchant went home to bring a lot of good goods back, and some villagers who did not go to the town or county town to buy New Year's goods in order to save money and time went to Gong's house to buy them.

So Gong Youqiu and the others came back, and they didn't have time to play with Shen Qing and Han Yunjing, they were too busy! In addition to being busy selling and buying goods, they also had to buy New Year's goods, because they had been running outside for several months, and they had not done any work at home, and their brothers had to follow their father to work at home.

Shen Qing and Han Yunjing knew that their brother was very busy, so they didn't bother them.

There are still about 20 days before the Chinese New Year, and you can start buying New Year's goods, but you don't need to be too anxious.

They are now waiting for the traders to come and collect the pigs.

They cultivate farmers' homes, and in addition to growing grain and fruits to sell money every year, they also sell pigs.

At the end of the year, the pig collectors will come to the door to buy the pigs at different prices.

In ancient times, transportation was not developed, and after they bought pigs, they would ask local villagers to carry them to the river and catch the boats. Later, in order to save time and manpower, the traders would add an extra ten cents and let the owners drive the pigs to the river and drive them onto the boats.

This year's traders came later than usual, in fact, because Liu Zhongtian wasted too much time looking for boxes, so that when the traders came to collect pigs, the villagers were not at home, and the business was not completed.

Now that Liu Zhongtian is alive, Gong Lizheng has to think of ways to lure the traders to their Baoyan Village, so that the villagers can sell the pigs and buy the New Year's goods as soon as possible.

When the pig collectors arrived, they waited by the river, as in previous years, for the villagers to drive the pigs to the river, weigh them, and then trade.

Because there is a scourge in Baoyan Village, these traders refuse to enter the village to collect pigs. Originally, they didn't plan to collect pigs from Baoyan Village, but for the sake of Liu Zhongtian, the master of Baoyan Village, he sold the master of Baoyan Village to save face, so they accepted it.

The price of live pigs in Baoyan Village is much lower than that in other villages.

"Mother, the pig dealer is here, how many pigs are we selling this year?" Han Yunqiao asked.

Lu thought for a while and said: "Our family has raised six pigs this year, we can sell four, leave two and wait for two days to be slaughtered, although our family is a little stronger than in previous years this year, but there is not much money to prepare New Year's gifts, so we can only send a piece of pork!" ”

Lu is talking about her mother's family, and when they go back to their parents' house, they don't have any money to buy any supplements, clothes, snacks, and drinks, so they want to send a few pieces of pork leg meat, and there are several other families with good relationships.

After slaughtering the pigs, they would marinate the pork and make it into bacon to be eaten next year!

Shen Qing's eyes lit up when he heard the slaughter of the pig.

Because of hunting, they did not lack much meat to eat.

She was excited because she had never seen a slaughtered pig, and she was curious.

After deciding to slaughter a few pigs, Han Yunwen, Han Yunqiao, Han Yunjing, and Lu's mother and son tied ropes to the pigs to be sold in the pigsty, in order to drive the pigs, so as not to run around and damage the villagers' crops.

Shen Qing did not follow to drive the pigs, but stayed at home to take care of Han Zhengbei.

The Lu family drove the pigs for a day, and Shen Qing knew that driving the pigs was a hard job, not to mention that there were four pigs, even if one person drove one, it was very difficult, because their Baoyan Village was a mountainous area, and there were steep mountains everywhere, and a pig would have to be stared at by two people to be fine.

So when they drove the pigs and came back from selling them, it was already completely dark.