Chapter 64 The Poor Little One Killed by His Uncle 20
The villagers disagreed with eating from a big pot this time, and the old village chief and the team leader did not force them. The team paid for the construction of a large canteen and set up two large earthen stoves just to deal with the inspections from above.

Later, the old village chief reminded the villagers, "Don't keep too many chickens at home. Just three chickens a family should be fine. If you keep too many, it will be troublesome."

The villagers went back to kill chickens.

During those days, the whole Xiaxi Village was filled with the aroma of chicken.

Sure enough, a few days later, the commune sent down another document, allowing each household to only raise three chickens, and any more had to be handed over.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they killed the chicken early, otherwise it would have been given to outsiders.

After that, the villagers had mysterious confidence in the old village chief, and they would carry out whatever the old village chief said as if it were a holy duty.

Half a month later, the old village chief issued another order, asking each family to keep only two pigs, and the rest should be sent to the brigade headquarters to be raised in the name of the collective.

As for the pigs that were sent to us, the brigade had just been established and had no money, so they exchanged them for work points according to the size of the pigs.

Without saying a word, the villagers went home and drove the extra pigs in the pigsty into the newly built pigsty by the brigade. Because there were too many pigs and not enough pigsties, the old village chief organized the villagers to build a few more pigsties temporarily.

Sure enough, a few days later in the morning, several people came from the commune.

Instead of going to the brigade headquarters, they went to the villagers' homes and knocked on their doors. They checked every pigpen and then left.

In the afternoon, the villagers heard that more than 20 pigs raised by villagers from the neighboring village were driven away by the people from the commune. However, the commune also provided compensation according to the usual price of a whole pig. Although the villagers were reluctant, they did not suffer much. They just felt sorry that the pigs were killed because they were too young.

After that, no one from the commune came again, and the village returned to its ordinary life of working from sunrise to sunset.

In the winter, when the land was frozen and there was no farm work to do, the old village chief selected some villagers who were skillful and formed a 50-member weaving team to weave some willow baskets, dustpans and vegetable baskets, and then took them to the market dozens of miles away to exchange for food. The weaving team settled in the canteen, and in addition to the weaving team, there was also a logistics team.

The logistics team is divided into two teams, one responsible for cutting willow branches and the other responsible for processing the cut willow branches. Each team has ten people.

These people are all hardworking, simple, down-to-earth and hardworking people in the village.

They work without any salary, only work points, and they can get eight work points every day.

This is an unexpected harvest during the slack season.

The other villagers were not idle either. They were led by the team leader's wife to the mountains to collect mountain products. The sour hawthorns, jujubes and astringent fruits that the villagers looked down upon in previous years were not missed this year. They brought them all back and tried to save more food for their families.

While villagers in other villages were spending the winter leisurely, the villagers in Xiaxi Brigade were busy going up the mountains and down the rivers, trying every possible way to get food.

It was not until the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, when everyone stopped all work.

This was the first year after collective production and the last year before the three-year drought. The old village chief made up his mind and organized two butchers in the village to kill ten big fat pigs so that everyone in the village could get five kilograms of meat.

A family with a large population of 20 to 30 people can get more than 100 kilograms of meat.

Yuanchun was the only one in the family, so she was only allocated five pounds of meat. She asked for two pounds of pork belly and three pounds of pork tenderloin, planning to make braised pork and fried crispy pork.

(End of this chapter)