Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

Chapter 395: Spreading branches and leaves

Also, these venison are not given to various companies for free. They have to be paid for and are traded to various companies.

Even so, it is still a great achievement for the logistics managers of each company.

After all, venison is a rare commodity. Half a deer can produce about 70 kilograms of meat. Add in the offal and other things, and the leaders of these companies can each get a few kilograms, which is definitely something to show off.

Because there were many of his family members working in the steel rolling mill, Zhang Jialiang was a purchaser for the steel rolling mill, and Li Huaide had great power, so he provided the steel rolling mill with a whole deer.

In recent years, Zhang Jialiang has raised a lot of sika deer in three hunting spaces. The number of deer has increased year by year. Zhang Jialiang has harvested a large amount of antlers, which he traded in batches and made a lot of wealth.

Therefore, venison is the most abundant food in this space right now, and it has almost no cost, so it is very easy to slaughter a few deer.

If we were to ask which family in the courtyard has the most abundant supplies, it would of course be the Zhang family. With the large amount of supplies provided by Zhang Jialiang, plus the various New Year goods sent by the Zhang family's daughters and sons-in-law, their family's supplies can be said to be extremely abundant.

Not to mention other things, just talking about meat, Sha Zhu, Qin Huairu and the other four families made dumplings together for the New Year, and they only used two yuan worth of meat filling in total. Even for this little bit of meat filling, Sha Zhu gritted his teeth and paid one yuan, plus one yuan from Yi Zhonghai.

Just this little bit of meat filling already made Qin Huairu very happy, but what about Zhang Jialiang's family?

Zhang Jialiang prepared a whole goat, which weighed about 40 kilograms of meat, not to mention other fish, pheasant, rabbit, venison, etc.

Of course, Zhang Jialiang is not a fool. He would not take out the meat blatantly and let everyone in the hospital know. These things should be used in a hidden way away from other people's eyes as much as possible.

In fact, it’s not that Zhang Jialiang is extravagant, but that there are too many people in his family.

There are 8 children in his generation, including himself, two older sisters and five younger sisters. Now most of his older sisters are married and have their own families, so there are 2 brothers-in-law and 4 younger sisters-in-law, plus his mother and grandmother, so there are 18 adults in his family.

And this doesn't even count the next generation. The Zhang family's genes are not just boasting, they have been tested in practice.

Zhang Jialiang has 8 brothers and sisters in his generation. Each of the Zhang family’s children is very fertile, and they have perfectly inherited the Zhang family’s genes of having many children and grandchildren.

Otherwise, why are the Zhang family’s daughters so popular?

Not only are they all beautiful, the key is that they are all very fertile. After they each arrived at their husband's family, they soon started giving birth to children and expanded the family.

This will immediately make the husband's family smile. Their respective parents-in-law will grin all day long because they have held their own precious grandson in time.

The next generation of the Zhang family has even more people. The eldest sister, Zhang Jiazhen, has 4 children;

The second sister, Zhang Jiani, has three children;

Zhang Jialiang himself has 4 children;

The fourth sister, Zhang Jiaxiu, has three children;

The fifth sister, Zhang Jiamei, has two children;

My sixth sister got married relatively late after entering college. She got married at the beginning of this year and is now pregnant.

The seventh sister had a son;

Only the eighth sister is still in the army and has not married yet.

Just counting the third generation, there are 3 children, plus one who is unborn, there are a total of 17 children.

Think about these people. Those with poor memory may not be able to remember people's names. Adults are still okay, but it is very difficult for children to recognize their relatives.

According to the old custom in Beijing, daughters have to return to their parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Sons-in-law naturally follow them, and bring their own children. You can imagine the scene at that time.

Not counting the 34 people in the family of Eighth Sister, big and small, there are only more than 100 people in the entire compound, and all the people in the Zhang family account for one third of them.

When there are so many people, the scene of a meal will be really grand. More than ten kilograms of mutton and dumplings will be used. Add on some other dishes, the amount consumed will be huge. It will be like a banquet for other people's weddings.

With so many people, couldn't Zhang Jialiang prepare more supplies?

The New Year's goods in his house seem to be a lot, but if they are averaged out to each person, it won't be too much.

The New Year is coming soon. Not only Sha Zhu, Qin Huairu, and Zhang Jialiang are preparing for the New Year, but other families in the compound are also actively preparing.

Xu Damao, in particular, often went to the countryside to show movies during this period, and every time he came back he would bring bundles and strings of rural specialties on his bicycle.

Onions, garlic, ginger, peppers, mushrooms, eggs, chicken, duck, fish and meat, whatever you want, there is everything, and there are so many varieties. Although the quantity is not large, you can't resist eating it frequently.

The goods were transported to his home in batches, which made other families in the compound envious.

Although the things that Xu Damao brought back looked ordinary, they were all free of charge. The key was that they came in large quantities and in various types, which made many people jealous.

Among them, Yan Fugui was the most envious. Every time Xu Damao came home, he would stare at the supplies in Xu Damao's car with shining eyes.

But what made him feel relieved was that Xu Damao did understand some things and would give him some benefits every time he met him.

A bunch of small mushrooms, two onions, and a head of garlic. Although there were not many things, it made Yan Fugui happy. These things were all good things and they were indispensable for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Although Xu Damao was still somewhat dissatisfied with Zhang Jialiang because of the unresolved matter of Sha Zhu's bicycle theft, Xu Damao was not a stingy person.

How to treat Sha Zhu is a personal matter. The fact that he has a grudge against Sha Zhu does not mean that Zhang Jialiang and Sha Zhu also have a grudge against each other. Zhang Jialiang does not care about what happens between him and Sha Zhu, and he will not care about what happens between Zhang Jialiang and Sha Zhu. They each have their own relationship and do not affect each other.

So he kept his promise to give Zhang Jialiang the rural specialties and prepared a lot of them for him. Of course, he also bought a lot of prey from Zhang Jialiang.

These prey also earned him a lot of face, for example, venison is a good thing.

The local specialties he had brought back from the countryside were a bit embarrassing to present to his father-in-law's house. The Lou family had no shortage of these supplies, but they could present venison and it would give them face.

Not to mention that Zhang Jialiang also gave him a pair of deer antlers, which made Lou Xiao'e's father very satisfied and made him very proud.

Of course, he and Zhang Jialiang were not exchanging supplies for free. He still had to make up the difference in price between the supplies.

Other families are preparing New Year's goods, and so is Yan Fugui's family. Although he is extremely frugal, the food and daily necessities during the New Year are still richer than usual.

Of course, Yan Fugui would definitely not be willing to spend a lot of money, but he would prepare some of the necessary things. For every pound of pork that other people buy, they would buy half a pound. Less is fine, but it must be there.

In addition to purchasing New Year's goods, Yan Fugui also personally took part in the preparations. When he was free, he would go to the river outside the city to dig holes in the ice to fish.

The big fish caught are sold to Sha Zhu’s canteen for money, and the smaller fish are kept at home. In this way, not only can he make money, but his family can also eat delicious fish soup from time to time.

These days Yan Fugui has been actively busy writing Spring Festival couplets. No matter how poor people are, people in the compound will post Spring Festival couplets on their doors during the New Year.

Writing Spring Festival couplets is not free. You still have to pay a fee. If you don’t want money, then give some supplies, a handful of melon seeds for this family, a handful of peanuts for that family, a handful of sugar for this family, and a few heads of garlic for that family.

Although the amount of things he received each time was not much, it accumulated over time, and with so many families in the compound, Yan Fugui also reaped a lot.