No one took the young man's matter to heart. At noon, Zhao Guizhi cooked a big pot of pig-killing dishes, and Wang Wu was also invited to stay and have a full meal.

In the afternoon, Gu Pan came over with a smile on his face to help clean up the second wild boar. Upon asking, I found out that his wife Zhang Erni praised him for a good job today.

Gu Pan has been married to his wife for more than a year. Almost every day he hears Zhang Erni complaining about him, and the number of times he has been praised can be counted on one hand.

Hearing this, Yan Zhenshen straightened his back even more. His husband loved to praise him the most. No matter what he did, Xiao Ge'er would say, "Brother Shen is awesome."

Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised.

As for Wang Wu, he didn't want to join in the discussion of this topic. After all, he had been so despised at home that even dogs disliked him. He just hoped that the baby in Luoger's belly would love him, the despised old father.

After the men dealt with the wild boar and cleaned up the yard, it was almost time for dinner.

Zhang Guizhi did not invite the two to have dinner. After all, it was getting dark early and it was not good to walk at night.

She gave each of them a big bowl of pig-killing dishes and asked them to take it back home for their families to try.

Seeing that Gu Pan was embarrassed to take it, Wang Wu helped him take it and put it in his hand.

"Gu Pan, you are in for a treat. Aunt Guizhi's cooking skills are no worse than my mother's. I ate so much this afternoon that I was so full."

Yan Sanmei laughed as she listened, "Brother Wang Wu, it's not about your cooking skills, it's about your greed."

Wang Wu said, "Third sister, are you teasing your fifth brother again?"

Zhao Guizhi filled another large bowl and also gave him some pig liver: "They say pig liver replenishes blood, take it back and give it to Luo Ge'er."

Wang Wu thanked him and took it, not forgetting to say, "When my son is born, I will make him kowtow to you no matter what. After all, he ate so many good things from your family when he was in his father's belly."

Yan Zhenshen put everything away and walked out with a piece of meat in his hand: "Mom, I see no one is coming to the village chief's house today, so I'll give him a piece of meat."

"Go ahead." Zhao Guizhi responded.

Yan Zhenshen followed Wang Wu and the others into the village.

Although it doesn't matter whether Yan Zhenshen gives it or not, his family has no relationship with the village chief, but after all, the village chief had helped with the homestead issue before, and he will need to keep an eye on the purchase of land in the future.

Anyway, since we live in the village, we cannot offend the village chief. Otherwise, if the village does not provide any certification documents for many things, we may not be able to get things done even if we go to the government office.

When Yan Zhenshen arrived, the village chief was not at home. His wife said he had gone to the county town.

Every year when taxes were collected, there were always some families who could not pay, and most of these people would be taken away to perform labor service.

For those who are supposed to perform corvée labor, the time will be extended, and many of them will not be able to return for two or three years.

Those who are doing corvée labor will have to set off after the new year, and this should be the final confirmation.

However, this situation almost never occurs in their Anning Village, and they can always pay the taxes by scraping together enough.

Most of the time, the village chief's visit to the county town was just a formality, but the village chief's wife said something that even Yan Zhenshen had not expected.

"Chu Peng from the second Chu family turned eighteen this year. His two able-bodied men should have paid corvée taxes, but I don't know why they didn't."

Yan Zhenshen couldn't understand what this family was thinking. It was understandable that they treated Chu Xiaoxiao badly, since he was just a nephew after all, but Chu Peng was their son.

The work of corvée labor is not like farming. It really has to be done from morning to night, and you don’t know where you will be assigned. Everyone feels exhausted when they come back.

Yan Zhenshen came back and told Chu Xiao about this, but Chu Xiao didn't take it too seriously. Although Chu Xiaoxiao was at Chu Laoer's house, Chu Peng rarely spoke badly to him, but that was just because he didn't want to bully the younger brother.

I've never seen him say a word for Chu Xiaoxiao, and he always looks like it has nothing to do with him.

What's more, he is not Chu Xiaoxiao. What happens in Chu Laoer's family has nothing to do with him. If this matter can cause chaos among the whole family, he will be happy to watch the fun.

People eat dumplings on the winter solstice and there are many people selling meat. On this day, the price of meat in the butcher shop has increased by one cent, and it is already twenty-six cents per pound.

Yan Zhenshen and Chu Xiao rented a spot on West Street to sell wild boar meat. As soon as they put the meat on the table, many people asked about the price.

These were wild boars, so naturally they couldn't offer the same price as the butcher, so they set the price at twenty-three cents per pound.

Many people heard that the price of meat had become cheaper, and more and more people came to buy meat.

Soon the stall was surrounded. Yan Zhenshen was eating the meat and Chu Xiao was collecting money. Before noon, only a few pieces of meat, two pig heads and a few large bones were left.

Pig heads are not easy to sell, so Yan Zhenshen had no intention of bringing them along, as he would have preferred to stew them and feed them to the hunting dogs. However, Zhao Guizhi insisted that he bring them along, and if he came across one that he liked, he would sell it.

The two wild boars had a lot of internal organs. Except for the liver and heart, my family didn’t like to eat the other things. Those that were fed to the hunting dogs could last for several days.

They had no choice but to take it with them.

Yan Zhenshen was ready to pack up when a drunken man came over and asked, "How much do you want for this pig's head?"

"Eight cents a pound." Yan Zhenshen looked up at the person who came and then frowned: "Do you want it?"

Li Guaizi laughed twice, revealing his yellow teeth. "Hey, isn't this Hunter Yan? I heard that you sold meat to the villagers the day before yesterday, 20 cents a pound. It seems that my brother Lin also went there, but came back empty-handed. What do you mean? Do you look down on me, or do you look down on my brother Lin for being a second-married boy?"

Yan Zhenshen didn't say anything and started putting the remaining things into the basket.

Being ignored, Li Guaizi slammed the chopping board on which the meat was placed. "Damn it, I'm asking you a question. Who are you looking down on?"

Yan Zhenshen looked at him coldly and said bluntly: "Get lost."

Li Guaizi heard that Yan Zhenshen was selling meat in the village that day, so he asked Lin Ge'er to buy some, but he was stingy and only gave him ten copper coins.

Lin Ge'er knew that he would not be able to buy much meat, so he wanted to buy some bones. However, he had just married into this village and whenever he spoke to anyone, Li Guaizi would beat him up.

Even if he didn't go out, Li Guaizi would still find a reason to beat him up.

She was a timid person to begin with, so when she saw two men she didn't know whispering in the yard, she got a little scared and just ran away.

Seeing that he came back empty-handed, Li Guaizi naturally beat him up again.

These past two days, he was very upset seeing his husband having difficulty getting up from the kang.

But he also knew that he couldn't beat her anymore, otherwise if she got hurt, he would have to spend money to buy medicine for her. If he died, he would have to spend money to marry another one.

He tried to turn a blind eye to the incident and ran to the county town to have a drink. He happened to see Yan Zhenshen selling meat, and suddenly remembered why he beat his husband. It was because the hunter refused to sell him meat.

This kid from the Yan family has been a good-for-nothing since he was young. When he was still in the village, he would always follow a group of hooligans and shout behind him, calling him a loser who beats her husband and will never have any children or grandchildren, leaving her a bachelor.

They shouted so much that their husband actually ran away, and he remained single for ten years.

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