Chapter 191

Goodness gracious.

Song Tan looked left and right; Xin Jun was acting all steady and refined, Zhang Yanping was a standard elementary school brat—the atmosphere at this dinner table was truly surging with undercurrents!

Fight! Fight! 【bushi】

Only to hear Qiao Qiao also say loudly: "I know, 'Fang' goes better with the 'Yuan' from the Old Summer Palace!"

The dinner table fell into silence.

Zhao Fangyuan snorted, looking at Zhang Yanping with a half-smile: "I won't say who the illiterate one is."

Zhang Yanping:...

He then found a spot and sat down, not annoyed at all, but instead sighed loudly: "Oh my, eating so well every day, I've been fed fat."

Zhao Fangyuan:... Hard not to be jealous.

Looking at the full, rich dishes again, she also picked up her chopsticks unworthily, then carefully glanced at Zhang Yanping.

A moment later, she withdrew her gaze, shivered, and secretly made up her mind:

She must absolutely not get fat.

After all, this white fatty looks quite likable, but with her skin tone—a black fatty really won't do!

The round table returned to a harmonious atmosphere once again.

But soon, Seventh Cousin couldn't help but ask:

"Is that wild boar piglet on the back mountain male or female?"

Song Youde pondered for a while: "I think it's male; I took a special look when it was clawing at the fence."

Seventh Cousin nodded, then asked again:

"Tan Tan, what do you plan to do with the wild boar piglet on the back mountain?"

What to do?

Song Tan was stunned for a moment: "Raise it, of course."

You get a free pig, how could you not want it?

Seventh Cousin glared at her: "I'm asking you if you plan to keep it as a breeding boar or castrate it directly?"

"If you keep it as a breeding boar, the pork will have a gamey smell and won't taste good, so you won't be able to sell it for a good price later."

"If you castrate it now, although the taste will still be stronger than a domestic pig, it will be much better."

Ah, this was indeed a dilemma.

Song Tan began to ponder.

Song Sancheng, however, was excited: "That's definitely for breeding, the piglets born from crossing this piglet with our domestic pigs will surely be sturdy and grow fat."

Decades ago, people in the village did this, and the piglets born were in short supply.

Only Wu Lan remained clear-headed:

"We didn't pick them specifically when we bought the pigs, but all five of these pigs are male; there are no sows. If we keep the wild boar for breeding, we'll have to hurry and buy a sow to raise."

But if that happens, two pigs in the whole pen won't be edible.

As for the other male pigs—they are usually castrated a week after birth; they recover well and grow fast then, so there's no waiting until now.

Everyone immediately began to discuss it heatedly.

Zhang Yanping was eager to try: "Forget breeding, let's just eat it? I've grown this big and have never eaten wild boar meat."

You bet!

It used to be a protected animal, where would you eat it?

Wang Lifen, however, gave her assessment without hesitation: "It's no better than a domestic pig, it's just hard to stew and needs to be stewed for a long time, otherwise you can't chew it at all."

"How could there be no difference?" Song Youde was unconvinced: "It's clearly more fragrant after being stewed for a long time."

Wang Lifen went straight to the point: "Piglets are so expensive now, I think Tan Tan is quite skilled at feeding pigs, look how well they've grown."

If we have to buy piglets every year... that's such a loss.

That is true.

Furthermore, there are more and more people in the house; he originally planned to eat two and sell three of these five pigs, but looking at it now, if we can have two this year, selling them would be pretty good.

If there are more and more people later, and more and more employees hired, wouldn't we have to raise two more anyway?

As for not giving good things to our own people... Song Tan didn't have that thought at all.

Farming, raising pigs, and feeding chickens and ducks are all for people to eat; if the people around us can't eat them, then why bother with all this?

Zhao Fangyuan held her big bowl and shoveled the rice down, and in a moment of carelessness, the whole bowl was empty!

But she hadn't even had her fill of many of the dishes on the table!

Hesitating for a moment, she took advantage of everyone's passionate discussion to walk to the stove, using a spatula to scrape the scorched rice into her bowl.

Thinking for a moment, she pressed the spatula down hard and scooped another spoonful on top.

When she returned with her rice bowl, Zhang Yanping happened to come out for a refill, and his eyes glanced into her bowl—

Although he didn't say anything, Zhao Fangyuan had already made up her mind.

When it comes time to draw up the design plans, she won't listen to a single one of this guy's opinions.

In fact, there was no room for Zhang Yanping to offer opinions, because just as he was communicating with Song Tan about a light blue wall paint, Wu Lan suddenly remembered something—

"By the way, Yanping, your mom called me yesterday saying the exam is coming up soon, why don't you go back and cram for two months?"

Zhang Yanping:!

!

A bolt from the blue.

He even forgot that he was just a relative, and that he had been living in Song Tan's house for a month now.

So his face fell at that moment: "Auntie, I'm working with Tan Tan to bring people here to fish, how can I find time to go back! Why don't you talk to my mom, I really don't want to take the civil service exam."

Wu Lan frowned subconsciously: "It's better to take it. Look at this college student village official, isn't that pretty good? You can be a village head later."

Zhang Yanping whispered to her: "Auntie, if Tan Tan were assigned to work in a poor, remote area alone, would you be willing?"

Wu Lan was silent for a moment.

She certainly wouldn't be willing.

The child is now right under her nose; although she often makes her angry, she doesn't know why, but with the whole family together, she feels this life has much more to look forward to.

Before, besides asking where to make money, days would pass by without knowing what she had done.

Besides, she heard that these young cadres sent to the countryside go to truly impoverished places.

Although their Yunqiao Village is also poor and remote, at least it has mountains, water, and forests. If, like they say on TV, she were assigned to the Northwest or the Loess Plateau...

She would worry herself to death!

Thinking of this, she didn't seem to have so much resistance to Zhang Yanping not wanting to take the civil service exam.

With her thoughts turned around, she even smiled happily:

"Hey, I'll try to persuade your mom; it looks like you and Tan Tan are working together quite well, you two siblings are making money so energetically."

You bet, now that he has money in his pocket, Zhang Yanping has become increasingly positive.

After all, besides the commission from the boxed meals, Song Tan also gives him a cut of the sales.

It's just this commission... it's a bit embarrassing to say, even among family, she only gives one percent, he was too embarrassed to mention it.

But thinking of Song Tan's stingy appearance at the beginning, for some reason, this one percent seemed to become precious.

At this moment, Zhang Yanping stood up subconsciously: "It's been a while, dinner is over, I'm going to see if Brother Mud Loach is slacking off on the mountain..."

Clearly, he hadn't even become a corporate slave yet, but he had already grasped the essence of a ruthless exploiter.