Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 106

Chapter 106: Meat Distribution Day
The next morning before dawn, Lu Jueyu woke up. When she opened her eyes, she felt Li Chenmo’s arms around her waist and shoulders. She kissed him lightly on his chin, then moved his arm away. After leaving the room, she went to the bathroom before entering her own space.

After taking a hot shower, she went to the warehouse to pick up some ingredients, and then left the space. Lu Jueyu put the ingredients in the kitchen, and she went to check the chicken coop. The old hen laid five more eggs today. She put the eggs in her space, filled the feeder and water bowl, and went to the front yard to water the peach tree.

When she was done, Lu Jueyu watered the fields in the front and back yards. In the past few days, Pan Meijia and she have made a lot of mulch from the bamboo leaves. They use it to cover the front and back yards, including the peach trees. When the spring arrives, she can start planting vegetables in the yard.

For breakfast today, she prepared some vegetable porridge, scallion pancakes and soy milk. While she was cooking porridge on the brazier, she boiled a pot of water for Li Chenmo and kneaded the dough for the scallion pancake. When it was done, she set it aside to let it ferment, then started making the hand pull noodles.

This type of noodles only requires flour, salt, water and oil to coat the dough. Although this was her first time doing it in this lifetime, her movements were smooth because she often made it in her previous life. She made more noodles for New Year’s Eve dinner.

After the noodles were ready, she kneaded the scallion pancake dough for a while, and then began to cut the dough and put the filling. After making breakfast, she drank half a bowl of porridge and her medicine.

Li Chenmo woke up amidst the crow of roosters and found that his wife had already woken up. He blinked a few times in a daze before getting up. Putting on his cotton-padded jacket, he walked to the kitchen. As he expected, his wife had already prepared breakfast and boiled a pot of hot water for him.

He walked over, leaned over and kissed Lu Jueyu on the forehead, saying, “Good morning, Wife.”

Being accustomed to his morning and goodnight kisses, Lu Jueyu smiled and said, “Good morning, Husband. Go wash up and let’s have breakfast together.”

“Mhmm.” Because he had just woken up, his voice was hoarse and deeper than usual which pulled Lu Jueyu’s heart strings.

Lu Jueyu smiled and brought breakfast to their room. Not long after, Li Chenmo came back, and the two had breakfast together.

While they were having their breakfast, the villagers gathered in the open space near the village hall. Everyone got up early because today is meat day. Food distribution days take place after the harvest in late September or early October. Meat is distributed according to work points, similar to the distribution of grain.

At this time, except for Lu Jueyu and Li Chenmo, who had no work points, everyone, including the newly arrived educated youth, had arrived at the open space. Since they have no work points, the educated youths are just there to join in the fun.

When the sun rose higher, the villagers saw that Han Yuheng and several men were herding pigs over. In the whole brigade, their production team raises the fewest pigs. They kept only three pigs, which were raised by wicked people who lived in the pigsty and the cowshed.

The villagers stretched their necks to see how good the pigs were this year. They sighed when they saw that the pig was not as fat as the pigs raised by the neighboring production team. It seems that this year they will only receive as much meat as usual.

Every year, they are required to hand over two pigs to the central government. The pigs need to weigh at least 100 kg, otherwise they need to make up for the lack of weight from a third pig. When the first pig was placed on the weighing equipment, the villagers held their breath.

When the arrow moved, their eyes widened, hoping that the arrow would keep moving to the right. Unfortunately, when the arrow reaches 138 kilograms, it stops moving. Although it is not as fat as expected, the pig weighs more than 100 kilograms, which is not bad. They proceeded to weigh the second pig. This time, the pig was only 120 kg. Fortunately, the third pig weighed over 150 kilograms.

After discussing with the people sent by the central government, Han Yuheng agreed to send the first and second pigs while they will slaughter the third pig, and distribute it to the villagers. Due to the lack of meat, villagers will receive half a kilogram of meat for every 500 work points. The maximum points they can earn each year is 1,500 points. Therefore, the most meat a person can eat is only one and a half kilograms.

Not to mention women and children, even adult men rarely get 1,500 work points. So most of the villagers only got 1 kg of meat. When it was the Lu family’s turn, they got 8 kilograms of meat. Father Lu, Lu Han, and Lu Cheng each have 1500 work points. Mother Lu, Chen Anwen, and Wang Muxiao each earn 980 work points. The rest of the points were obtained by Lu Jueyu and the children by collecting pigweed.

When the villagers saw the butcher cutting off 3 kilograms of fat meat, 4 kilograms of pork belly, and 1 kilogram of bones, their eyes turned green with envy. Although they were envious and jealous, they could only blame themselves for not having such a good labor force.

“Uncle Lu, the meat is here. Thank you for your hard work this year.” While talking, Han Yuheng put the meat into the jar and handed it to Father Lu.