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At the end of January, the Little New Year had just passed.

After breakfast, Xu Dong first drove Keke and his sister to the entrance of the dance class.

The school had a winter vacation in mid-January.

As soon as he got off the car, Keke asked anxiously: "Dad, how long will you be away this time?"

"Dad is going to buy you New Year gifts, and he will definitely be back before the New Year." Xu Dong smiled and comforted.

Lele raised his hand and said: "Dad, I want Princess Elsa's doll."

"I want one too!"

"Okay, I'll buy them all for you." Xu Dong smoothed the collars for the sisters, "But you two have to listen to your mother at home, and help grandma take care of your brothers, can you do it?"

"Yes!" The two sisters said in unison.

"So good."

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Xu Dong kissed each of them, and the sisters followed the tutor reluctantly.

After returning home, Yang Lina handed the suitcase she had packed in advance to Xu Dong, and told him: "Drive slowly on the road and come back early."

"I know, I'll just go around the suburbs this time and buy some New Year's goods. I won't go to Jizhou."

Mother Xu came over and said: "Try to buy more local chickens, ducks, and geese. Don't send them to your father. He doesn't make as much as I do."

Of course, Xu Dong was very happy and agreed immediately.

...

Familiar with the road, Xu Dong drove west along Fushi Road.

After passing Wangping Town, it took another half an hour to drive to the first destination of this trip, Liujia Village.

Liujia Village is located in the middle of a valley, surrounded by mountains. It is the poorest place in Yanjing.

This is not the first time Xu Dong has come here. When the villagers saw him, they knew that the rich Xiao Xu was here again.

"Xiao Xu, are you here to collect local chickens again?"

Next to the car, several aunts in their fifties and sixties seemed very enthusiastic.

"Yes, isn't it almost the New Year? Let's collect the last wave." Xu Dong smiled and gave each aunt a cigarette. It doesn't matter whether they smoke or not, they must not be partial to one another.

A shrewd-looking aunt suddenly said: "Xiao Xu, today is the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. What's your price?"

"Usually it's 41 kilograms, and now it's 61 kilograms. I repeat again, I want free-range chickens. Don't fool me with chickens that eat feed."

Now rural people have learned to be smart. They buy large chickens that eat feed from the market, then raise them at home for one or two months, and then sell them at the price of free-range chickens.

Xu Dong has suffered a lot of losses before.

"Xiao Xu, don't worry, we are not doing business with you only once, how could we cheat you?"

Xu Dong smiled and slowed down his tone: "I know this. We are all honest people in Lao Liu Village, so I often come here to buy."

"That's the truth." Everyone nodded.

"By the way, this time, in addition to chickens, ducks and geese, I will also take hares, pork and other things."

Xu Dong paused for a moment and continued to ask: "Is anyone going to slaughter pigs these two days? I will take all the pork."

"Yes, my family will slaughter pigs tomorrow, and I will buy all the meat from you then."

"That's great, I will take 31 kilograms."

Rural pigs are now basically raised with grains and feed, and the price of pork has fallen this year, so the price is naturally not as high as that of native chickens.

"So many, then my family will also slaughter tomorrow." Someone was immediately tempted.

"It's a pity that my family doesn't raise pigs."

Xu Dong clapped his hands to quiet everyone down, and explained casually: "This time I will take 2,000 kilograms of pork. If you want to sell it, please arrange to slaughter the pigs quickly. I will leave after tomorrow."

After hearing this, several aunts hurried home to find someone to slaughter the pigs, or told the news to relatives and neighbors.

At night, he stayed at a family's house, and Xu Dong gave 500 yuan, including three meals.

The next day, he received more than 50 chickens, 12 ducks, and a full six pieces of pork, and some pig feet and pig offal were also left.

Now that the economic conditions in rural areas are better, especially since children have to come back for the New Year, few people will sell their chickens and ducks, and even slaughtering pigs will keep enough for the New Year.

After leaving Liujia Village, Xu Dong went to the neighboring Baodiwa Village. The mountain road here is more difficult to walk, and it is truly a mountain road with eighteen bends.

The next day in Baodiwa Village, Xu Dong received more than twenty chickens, seven ducks, two geese, three pork shanks, and five rabbits.

The rabbits were raised by farmers themselves, and the price was not expensive.

Next, Xu Dong ran to the last village, Shangshuiyu Village, which he passed by on the way back.

The same price, the same process, but Shangshuiyu Village is larger, so Xu Dong received a lot of goods this time.

In total, there were about a hundred chickens, thirty ducks, eight geese, twenty rabbits, nine pork shanks, and eighty kilograms of donkey meat.

This time, the small truck with a load capacity of more than one ton was finally full.

In less than three hours, near lunch time, Xu Dong drove the truck all the way into his yard.

Coco and her sister were playing in the yard. When they saw the car coming in, they knew that it was their father who came back.

"Dad, Dad, why did you come back just now? Tomorrow is the New Year." Lele said with a choked mouth.

Xu Dong picked up his little daughter and kissed her, "Dad is wrong. Dad forgot the time."

"Dad, did you buy Princess Elsa?" Coco's eyes were full of expectation.

Xu Dong put Lele down, pretended to be as if he had forgotten, and gently hit his head with his fist.

Seeing that the two girls were very nervous, Xu Dong finally satisfied his evil taste and quickly took out two oversized gift boxes from the passenger seat of the small truck and stuffed one into each of them.

"Thank you, Dad."

The two sisters ran all the way to the living room, ready to find scissors to open the wrapping paper.

At this time, Xu's mother walked to the rear of the car and asked Xu Dong directly: "How much did you receive?"

"I forgot how much I received, anyway, it was full."

After Xu Dong finished speaking, he opened the door of the car, and a gust of cold air hit him.

I saw neatly stacked pork, and the surroundings were full of processed chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. There was also a large piece of meat that I couldn't tell the type of meat near the door.

Xu's mother was almost dumbfounded. Usually, Xu Dong would only bring half a truck of goods when he came back, and half of them were local eggs. How could he stuff a whole truck of meat this time?

"Why so much? Tomorrow is the New Year. Can you sell it all?" Xu's mother worried.

"What are you selling? This is privately slaughtered pork. It cannot be sold in convenience stores without a quarantine stamp." Xu Dong explained.

"Then you are a fool, why buy so much?" Xu's mother yelled directly.

Xu Dong touched his nose and said with a "silly smile": "Didn't you say to buy more?"

Anyway, it's right to pass the buck!

Xu's mother was choked and couldn't refute for a while. After a long pause, she said:

"Even if I want to make air-dried meat, how can I do this truck of meat alone?"

Xu Dong patted his chest quickly: "Mom, Nana and I will help you."

"That won't be finished!" Xu's mother said worriedly.

"Don't worry, there is an electric saw at home, we can just use the electric saw to saw, it should be very fast."

Xu's mother thought for a while, and still felt a little unreliable, considering whether to promote it to her dance friends.

The so-called dance friends are actually a square dance group in a nearby community, and Xu's mother joined it last month.

Xu Dong naturally saw his mother's hesitation, so he tempted her: "Mom, look at all this meat, if we make it all into dried meat, how much money will we make?"

Xu's mother grinned, obviously tempted.