Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 395: The Pig-Slaughter Feast

The factory is on hold, the holiday starts, but Qin Yao can’t stop for a few days to stay home and enjoy the winter.

The twenty-fifth of the lunar month is a good day for slaughtering the New Year’s pig.

Liu Dafu’s family takes the lead, planning to slaughter two pigs.

One of them is specifically for inviting the entire village to a pig slaughter feast.

At dawn, the men from Liu Dafu’s family come to the village to call people, anyone available from each household goes to help.

Early in the morning, Qin Yao hears the pigs’ cries from the village, turns over, and goes back to sleep.

By noon, Liu Dafu’s grandson comes over and shouts, "Third Aunt, come to our house for the pig slaughter feast!"

Only then does Qin Yao stretch lazily, take two minutes to get dressed and clean up, lock the door, and happily follow the child back to his house for the delicious pig feast.

Liu Ji and Ah Wang had already taken the kids to the town early in the morning.

Before dawn, Second Lang wakes the family up, fearing they won’t get a good spot to sell pinwheels if they’re late.

This time of year coincides with the market, a perfect time for people from all over to come to town to buy New Year’s goods.

It’s only by seizing this lively opportunity that they can mark up the price a few pennies and make more money.

Once in town, the four siblings of Second Lang drag Liu Ji to find a spot to sell goods.

Ah Wang is in charge of purchasing, pays a few extra coins, drives straight to the slaughterhouse to get half a pig first.

After New Year’s Eve, there are no markets before the fifteenth of the first month, so they need to stock up on fresh meat.

However, even with half a pig, Ah Wang is still worried it won’t be enough for the mouths at home.

Luckily, there are still people selling last year’s preserved meat and sausages, which they were reluctant to eat, at cheap prices. He buys them all, calculates, and feels assured there’s enough meat.

The remaining New Year’s goods are basically just filling in what’s missing at home, the big items Qin Yao and her husband had already bought and prepared from the Prefecture.

When Ah Wang finishes shopping and finds the father and five sons, Second Lang’s stall has just opened and already sold one pinwheel.

But with an opening sale, everything goes smoothly.

This kind of novelty near New Year’s is very popular.

Basically, anyone with children and some money can’t resist their kids’ pleas and quickly takes out money.

Liu Ji leads Sanlang and Si Niang in enthusiastically greeting passersby, Da Lang and Second Lang handle the goods and money.

The father and five sons work together seamlessly, and soon all of the pinwheels Second Lang brought are sold out.

Ah Wang doesn’t wait long before seeing the five of them closing up, smiling brightly as they walk over to him.

To carry more goods, they drove an ox cart today, and it’s packed with items, leaving only a small space. Sanlang and Si Niang squat on it, Second Lang barely squeezes onto the cart shaft, and Liu Ji and Da Lang have to walk.

But for Liu Ji, it’s no problem.

He waved his hand, "Ah Wang, get down, today I’ll drive the cart."

Ah Wang responds with an ’Oh’, jumps down, hands Liu Ji the whip, then lifts Si Niang off the cart and, to her delight, carries her on his shoulder.

"Da Lang, get on the cart." Ah Wang points to the small open space, signaling Da Lang to get on. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Da Lang glances at Si Niang, high on Ah Wang’s shoulder, seeing a completely different view from what she usually sees. She can see the people and stalls on the street at a glance. The little girl happily darts her eyes around.

Da Lang smiles and quickly climbs onto the ox cart, sitting next to Sanlang.

Liu Ji says twice, "Very good, very good!"

With a flick of the whip, he sets off.

Ah Wang follows behind with Si Niang on his shoulders, keeping up effortlessly.

On the road, when Si Niang wants to pick an icicle from a tree branch, Ah Wang lightly leaps, carrying her ’into’ the air.

Without much effort, Si Niang’s small hand reaches out and successfully grabs an icicle, laughing happily.

Liu Ji drives the cart, occasionally teasing her, asking his daughter to pick one for him too.

Si Niang refuses, and a playful quarrel starts between the big and little ones, making Ah Wang and the three brothers shake their heads.

As Qin Yao finishes eating Liu Dafu’s pig feast and heads to the second house, Liu Ji and the others return home.

In the morning, the villagers helped Liu Dafu’s family slaughtered two pigs. After a midday break, they continue slaughtering another two pigs the villagers bought together in the afternoon.

After the pigs are slaughtered, each family takes their share home, and the village chief comes by to invite Qin Yao to eat at his house.

Unable to decline the warm invitation, Qin Yao eats another meal.

As night falls, Liu Ji sends Da Lang and Second Lang to fetch her home.

Qin Yao enters the room smelling of alcohol, and Liu Ji complains, "You’re so late, if I’d known, I should have let you drink yourself to sleep outside!"

Though Qin Yao drank a lot, she isn’t drunk.

She’s just feeling lazy, collapsing in a chair in the hall, staring dazedly at one spot.

She didn’t even hear Liu Ji’s gripes.

Sanlang curiously walks to his mother’s front, raising his small hand to wave in front of her eyes.

Qin Yao’s eyes move, following the small hand, her gaze falls on Sanlang’s face, and she lazily asks with a smile, "What’s up?"

Sanlang awkwardly laughs, "I thought you were drunk."

Qin Yao runs her hand through the child’s messy hair, confidently saying, "Just one jar of liquor won’t get me drunk."

"Did the pinwheels sell today?"

Talking about pinwheels, Sanlang’s eyes light up, nodding vigorously, "Yes, they sold very well, they were all gone in a while, and Second Brother even gave us each five cents."

Second Lang sold each pinwheel for 15 coins. Some haggled, buying two for less, so they sold 25 pinwheels in total for 366 coins.

After deducting 200 coins of cost, they still had 166 coins left.

Generously, five cents were given to each of the older brother, younger brother, and little sister, the remaining 151 coins.

Hold on, to wash away yesterday’s one cent insult by Liu Ji, Second Lang magnanimously stuffs this extra cent into Liu Ji’s pocket.

Surprisingly, Liu Ji wasn’t upset, happily accepted it, because every little bit counts.

So in the end, Second Lang had 150 coins.

The four siblings get fifty coins as pocket money each month, and Second Lang earned enough for three months at once, making Sanlang and Si Niang extremely envious.

The Dragon and Phoenix Twins are begging Second Brother to take them next time so they can make money too.

Qin Yao remembers Liu Ji’s one cent yesterday, and sees Sanlang offering his treasured five copper coins to her with excitement, she clicks her tongue with emotion, "Your Second Brother is much more generous than your father."

Sanlang nods with deep agreement, but he doesn’t despise even one coin, placing the copper coins one by one into his little money bag, shaking it to hear the jingling, finding joy in it.

"Aunt Yao!"

Da Lang and Ah Wang enter while Liu Ji is in the kitchen, grumbling while making tea to sober Qin Yao up.

Regarding the fact that Qin Yao isn’t drunk at all, he completely ignores it.

Qin Yao doesn’t bother with his antics. After all, he gets into these self-touching moods a few times a month. She’s long been used to it.