?Chapter 41: 41 Blowing Tangtang’s Rainbow Farts Chapter 41: 41 Blowing Tangtang’s Rainbow Farts Zhao Honghua finally saw the clouds lifting from her face when Lin Tang agreed.
Her whole spirit seemed to transform.
Her frail body stood a little straighter, as if infused with new hope.
“… Thank you, Tangtang!”
Li Xiuli watched from the side, letting out a heavy sigh, and patted Honghua’s shoulder.
“Everything will be alright!”
Whether her own life would get better, Zhao Honghua didn’t know.
She could only hope to raise the pig well.
If she could successfully rear the pig, her family would have more income, and her son could consider marriage.
With Lin Tang’s affirmative response, Zhao Honghua’s steps lightened considerably on her way home.
Clutching the piglet, she pushed open the rundown wooden gate to find a middle-aged man, filthy from head to toe, sitting in the courtyard smoking.
Upon seeing her, Chen Jiefang didn’t even bother to lift his eyelids, treating her like she was air.
Zhao Honghua seemed accustomed to it, closed the door, hugged the piglet, and headed to the backyard.
Chen Ziqiang was fixing the pigpen when he heard the noise, and he put down what he was holding.
He quickly walked over and took the piglet from Zhao Honghua’s arms.
“Mom, I’ve brought back the piglet, and it looks quite spirited!” he said, smiling as he pinched the piglet’s ear.
The piglet ‘oinked’ in protest.
Zhao Honghua slapped her son’s arm, “You child, why are you pinching the piglet’s ear? Hurry up and put it in the pigpen!”
Her mouth scolded, but her face wore a loving smile.
Ziqiang hadn’t been this happy in a long time!
Chen Ziqiang touched his nose and placed the piglet into the pigpen.
A layer of dry straw covered the floor of the pen, and feed was in the trough.
The piglet made a circuit of the pen and started eating with gusto.
“Mom, has the Captain said when we can start feeding the piglet grass? Feeding it only feed seems like such a waste,” he said.
The feed he mentioned was coarse bran.
Chen Ziqiang thought that feeding grass to the pig would be much simpler.
The mountains were full of pig grass, plentiful all year round.
Zhao Honghua didn’t have an answer either; looking at the jovially eating piglet, her feelings were mixed.
“… For now, we’ll stick with feed, and I’ll ask Tangtang about it later,” she decided.
“Tangtang?” Chen Ziqiang sounded puzzled, “Why ask Tangtang?”
Could it be that Tangtang also knew about raising pigs?
Zhao Honghua pushed down her worries and smiled, “Don’t worry about it, I have it under control. You just focus on your job.”
Seeing that his mother was not inclined to discuss further, Chen Ziqiang didn’t press.
At worst, he could ask Qingmu another day, and that would settle it.
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That day, nearly every household in the brigade took home at least one piglet.
Households like Lin Tang’s, which took three, weren’t common.
Even the brigade officials took no more than two each.
Li Xiuli and Lin Tang had just gotten home with their piglets when Lin Lu arrived with his son and daughter-in-law, returning from work.
Goudan and the other kids chattered behind the adults, creating quite a lively atmosphere.
Lin Qingshan gave a light tap on the back of Goudan’s head, his tone firm but not harsh:
“Go wash your hands and change clothes right now, or do you want your grandma to beat you?”
“Beat who?” Li Xiuli’s voice came from the backyard.
Within less than ten seconds, her figure appeared before them.
“Goudan, how come you all look like mud monkeys? Look at all that dirt on you,” said Li Xiuli, frowning deeply.
The kids were covered in blackish grime.
Their little faces and hands were smeared with mud.
Even their hair was clumped dirty, making them look like little refugees.
Hearing their grandmother’s stern voice, Goudan, Hutou, Niuniu, and Choudan straightened their little bodies.
They looked up at Li Xiuli with wet, pleading eyes, cute and well-behaved, yet silent.
Ning Xinrou laughed helplessly, “They fell into a ditch over a few wild berries.”
Zhou Mei didn’t take the matter seriously at all.
Sitting on the stool, she massaged her legs while speaking.
“Kids will be kids, who didn’t play with mud when they were little? As long as they’re happy, it’s fine.”
She made it sound nice, but how could Li Xiuli not know that she was just too lazy to wash clothes?
Immediately, with a stern face, she lectured:
“Don’t sugarcoat it, I can tell what’s what even if you fart.
Get back to your room, hurry up and change Hutou and Niuniu’s clothes.
Wash the dirty clothes clean, or you’re not allowed to eat dinner tonight.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Mei couldn’t even lift her arms from massaging her legs.
She looked at her children with a mournful gaze, so frustrated she wanted to beat her chest.
These kids! Driving their mother to an early grave!
Ning Xinrou didn’t say much and took her two sons, planning to head back to the room.
Goudan, the clever little devil, seeing that Li Xiuli wasn’t really angry, gently slipped from his mother’s hand.
Carefully protecting the mountain berries in his pocket.
His voice was cheerful and clear.
“Little Auntie, I brought you some sweet and fragrant mountain berries, come out quick!”
He said this as he ran towards Lin Tang’s room.
Seeing this, Li Xiuli hurriedly said, “Your little auntie isn’t in the room, she’s out back looking at the piglets!”
Goudan, don’t get all muddy and dirty up Tangtang’s room.
The three Lin brothers, hearing the word “piglets,” put down what they were holding and headed toward the courtyard.
Before they even reached the courtyard, the sounds of ‘oink, oink, oink…’ reached their ears.
“Are these our piglets?” Lin Qingmu said, looking at the piglets with joy.
“They look quite lively, if we can raise them well, our family might really prosper!”
Li Xiuli didn’t dampen his spirits, her chin up slightly. S~ea??h the n?velFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
“These are the piglets Tangtang chose, how could they not be lively?”
Lin Lu’s face also showed happiness.
“Tangtang is smart and reads a lot, she definitely knows better than some foolish boys who eat without using their brains, there’s no arguing with that.”
This intelligence was innate.
Tangtang took after her grandpa, born to be intelligent.
Lin brothers: “…” Used to it, nothing more needed to be said.
Lin Tang was also used to hearing her parents praise her at every opportunity, never even blushing.
The three Lin brothers didn’t feel anything amiss either, not getting angry at all, even joining in the praise.
“That’s right, Tangtang is the smartest person in the brigade.”
“Indeed, there’s nothing to say, our sister has been smart since she was young!”
“All we need is strength, Tangtang points us where, and we’ll hit there!”
Ning Xinrou, seeing the topic drift off again, shook her head helplessly.
Looking at her two sons, she saw that Goudan and the others were playing crazily again.
She pursed her lips, deciding to just let it be for the moment.
Wait until they’re finished playing.
The family checked on the piglets with great interest and preliminarily settled on the division of labor at home.
The men would work in the fields for work points, that wasn’t changing.
Li’s mother and her two daughters-in-law earned work points, taking turns doing the housework.
Lin Tang, along with the younger kids, would do some simple chores and just had to take good care of the family’s livestock.
The Lin family had three pigs, a chicken, and a rabbit in the backyard.
The rabbit’s stomach was already sagging greatly.
It looked like in not too much longer, there would be another litter of rabbits in the house.
Seeing this scene, the Lin family was overflowing with joy.
After lunch, everyone in the Lin family went out.
Lin Tang took Goudan and the others to the foot of the mountain to gather pig fodder.
It was only a short time since the famine had passed, and people were still afraid of hunger.
Grains were more precious than anything, so of course, they didn’t want to feed the pigs with any of the ‘good’ stuff from home.