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Chapter 305 Beef

After spending some time with Xie Long in the cowshed, Lu Yuanbo took his wife and daughter home.

From afar, they could smell the incredibly fragrant braised aroma.

Lu Yuanbo's eyes lit up immediately. "Did Third Brother manage to buy beef?"

"Did Third Brother go to the commune today?" Xie Qianyu followed him, quickening her pace.

Lu Yuanbo, holding his daughter, laughed and said, "I'm off to the commune for a meeting."

Upon hearing this, Xie Qianyu chuckled, "It must have been the brigade leader who dragged you there."

Zhao Zhongcai's desire for Lu Yuanqing to succeed him has not been extinguished.

Lu Yuanbo also laughed and said, "Yes! But no one can change Third Brother's decision. The brigade leader has done nothing for nothing."

Even though it was all in vain, Zhao Zhongcai persisted.

"The last time I ate beef was probably last year!"

“Yes!” Lu Yuanbo said.

Their commune, and many production brigades, did not have tractors.

Even if Shihua Village is rich, they don't have the connections to sell them a few tractors.

Therefore, production brigades without tractors still relied on oxen, horses, and mules for work, and naturally, the slaughter of these animals was prohibited.

The last time I was able to buy beef was when the cows were too old to work and were slaughtered for meat.

Lu Yuanbo encountered this at the commune and fought with many people, managing to snatch only five or six jin (2.5-3 catties) of it.

I've heard it so many times, but there are so many of them!

Lu Yuanqing bought a lot of spices to braise the beef.

That day, the whole village smelled of braised meat.

Lu Yuanbo took his wife and daughter straight home.

"It smells so good! Third Brother, did you buy some beef? Are you making braised beef again?" Lu Yuanbo had just entered the door, put his daughter down to play by herself, and rushed into the kitchen.

Cheng Jun was in charge of cooking.

He's the best at making braised meat, and he's always the one who takes the plunge whenever there's an opportunity like this.

I heard he learned this trick from Qin Yang's mother, Qian Yulan.

Qian Yulan's family-inherited craft.

Cheng Jun laughed and said, "It's beef. Yuan Qing was lucky this time and bought more than 20 catties of beef."

Lu Yuanbo's eyes widened. "So many? Another cow died in the commune?"

Lu Yuanqing patted the ash left on his trousers from the fire and laughed, "It didn't die of old age, it had an accident and broke its leg, so it can't work anymore. Besides, it's not a cow belonging to the commune."

Lu Yuanbo leaned closer to the stove, taking a satisfied breath of the aroma wafting from the pot. "If it's not from the commune, then where did you buy it, brother?"

"It's from the county. I heard that a coal cart overturned and fell into a ditch, injuring the cow's leg." Lu Yuanqing heard Cheng Jun say that they didn't need to start a fire anymore, so he got up from the fire bench and continued, "Isn't it because the village's big fat pigs are about to be ready for market again?"

“Zhang Han (the county's pig farm) happened to come across this good deal on the road and bought a lot. I snatched them from him.”

Lu Yuanqing found it funny whenever he thought about it.

The cow's leg was broken, and other parts of it were also damaged. Seeing that it was in bad shape, it was slaughtered on the spot.

Not many people had arrived after hearing the news, but Zhang Han happened to be on the road in Shihua Village and saw it. He didn't care about anything else and immediately stopped his car and bought a lot of things.

After meeting Lu Yuanqing at the agreed-upon location in town, Lu Yuanqing spotted the beef and immediately robbed over twenty pounds of it.

"Hahaha! He must have gone back crying!" Lu Yuanbo hadn't expected the beef to come from there.

Lu Yuanqing: "..." She didn't cry, but she didn't give Lu Yuanqing a kind look until they returned to the county town.

Although he had given money and tickets, Lu Yuanqing still felt somewhat guilty.

"Still 80 cents a pound?" Cheng Xia asked, carrying two large white radishes she had just pulled from the ground.

"Yes! The bone should be nine-tenths full. Don't underestimate this one section; it weighs more than three pounds."

The size and weight of a cow are obvious, and its bones are large and heavy.

Lu Yuanqing robbed Zhang Han of twenty catties of beef and three sections of bone, which cost him a lot of money.

"Oh, right, Third Uncle, when I came back just now, I saw the captain. He told me to tell you to go see him after dinner," Cheng Xia said.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Jun asked when he had a moment.

"I don't know!" Cheng Xia said.

Lu Yuanqing: "It's nothing serious, just about buying a tractor."

"Buying a tractor? Did the commune give you another letter of introduction?" Lu Yuanbo asked curiously.

Now, all the production teams in the commune want to buy tractors.

If such a good opportunity were given to Shihua Village, it would likely cause public outrage.

Lu Yuanqing shook his head and said, "It wasn't through the commune's connections. Gu Yushan found it for us in the city. He has a relative who seems to work at a tractor factory, and he gave us a quota of two tractors."

You need a letter of introduction to buy a tractor, and then you take it to the tractor factory to purchase it.

The commune gave Shihua Village a letter of introduction for one, and they went and bought it.

After experiencing the benefits of tractors, Zhao Zhongcai wanted to get a few more.

However, given the current level of production, tractors are rare commodities.

Lu Yuanqing's ears ached from listening to Zhao Zhongcai's complaints every day, so he finally agreed to let Lu Yuanhuan and Lu Mingxi from the city stay behind, and only then did Zhao Zhongcai let him go.

Zhao Zhongcai is still the same Zhao Zhongcai. For the good of the village, he completely disregards his image and clings to Director Xing Shen's leg, crying and wailing.

Today, Gu Yushan sent a telegram back, and Lu Yuanqing, upon receiving the news, shared the good news with Zhao Zhongcai.

Zhao Zhongcai was overjoyed.

Just like Lu Yuanbo and the others are now.

"What, two? Really? That's great! If we had two more tractors, wouldn't our autumn harvest be even faster?"

"The other production teams will be jealous."

"That's right! Never underestimate jealousy. If someone secretly stirs up trouble, it can be really annoying."

Lu Yuanqing smiled and said, "I'm afraid Uncle Zhao called me here because of this matter."

"Then what should we do?" Lu Yuanbo asked.

"What else can we do?" Lu Yuanqing said, "We can give up some profits. When it's harvest time, our village will use two machines, and the remaining one can be used to help other villages in rotation."

"free?"

"Dream on!" Lu Yuanqing immediately retorted.

"How could it be free? Tractors need fuel, and there are wear and tear involved. We can't bear the cost ourselves!"

Lu Yuanqing agreed, saying, "It can't be free. We need to make it clear to them about the oil they need and reasonable losses. We'll only lend it to those who are willing; otherwise, we'll just forget about it."

Even if you want to avoid making others feel unbalanced, you can't let yourself suffer a loss!

Lu Yuanbo and the others nodded in understanding.

These things, the things that Lu Yuanqing and the other class leaders did, they were just curious about. Once their curiosity was satisfied, their attention was all on the beef in the pot.

Two pots, one for braised beef, and the other for stewed beef bones with radish.

Cheng Jun's words, "We can eat now," made everyone immediately abandon all their thoughts, grab their bowls and chopsticks, and start eating.

Naturally, both Zhao Zhongcai's and Lu Guobin's families received a bowl.