During the twelfth lunar month, Qi Yue sells her black-soil pork pigs to the villagers for 15 yuan per jin, always giving them an extra two or three jin. On the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Aunt Liu leads an entire crowd of villagers to block her courtyard gate, claiming that Wang Mazi's shop in town sells pork for only 7 yuan per jin and demanding a refund of the price difference. Without hesitation, Qi Yue refunds every penny and simply takes the meat back, then turns around and gives it to her relatives. The villagers follow Aunt Liu to Wang Mazi's butcher shop, only to discover that the 7-yuan pork smells rotten, while the fatty pork selling for 17 yuan per jin is even more expensive than Qi Yue's. When they return to beg Qi Yue, all they get is one answer: it's sold out. In the middle of the night, Aunt Liu sneaks into Qi Yue's pig farm to poison it, only to accidentally poison more than a dozen of her own chickens. A banquet meant to apologize ends up knocking out half the village. After the New Year, Qi Yue sells her pig farm and moves to the city with her parents.