At the Li family home in the village.
Liang Yuemei was feeding the chickens in the yard when the Lu family's eldest sister-in-law came over. She looked enviously at the hen with its chicks, listened to the piglets grunting in the pen, and said with a smile:
"Your family really is getting somewhere now. Come winter, when you slaughter those pigs, each one will fetch at least a few dozen yuan! Oh, where's Qiangqiang's dad? There's no team work today. Did he go work in the fields anyway?"
"No, he went to see the team leader," Liang Yuemei said with a smile as she fed the chickens. "Didn't the team announce it? If you keep eight pigs, you count as a specialized pig-raising household. Under the commune's rules, you get a few mu of land to grow feed."
"That's wonderful!" The Lu family's eldest sister-in-law had one more thing to envy, but then she asked in puzzlement:
"I remember you only had six piglets. Did you buy more?"
"No. Xiao Long caught five wild piglets in the mountains and is keeping them at the Stable. We don't know whether they'll survive."
"Right, right. Xiao Long hasn't split off from your household, so they count together." The Lu family's eldest sister-in-law nodded repeatedly, then said admiringly, "Xiao Long really has made something of himself. He can even catch wild piglets and bring them home. That's impressive! Oh, does he have a girlfriend?"
"I haven't asked." Liang Yuemei shook her head. "Xiao Long's grown up now and has ideas of his own. It's not really our place to interfere."
"I heard he's seeing Xiaoxia from the Gu family?" This was what the Lu family's eldest sister-in-law had actually wanted to ask.
"Let the young people sort out their own affairs." Liang Yuemei