Chapter 21: Have a Fat Year

When Professor Long left, Li Yazhen didn't send it, and it would have a bad impact on sending it at this time. Anyway, he'll come back in the future, and he'll see you again.

The uncle came back and talked about the situation of sending Professor Long, and sighed: "When Lao Long came back, no one in the village committee was willing to visit, and I was the one who sent a bag of grain to his family. I heard that people were going back to class again, so I ran to say good things, really. ”

At this time, Li Ya knew why Professor Long heard that Li Ya was from Siming Mountain, and they later agreed to teach them, so there was such a thing, and said: "It turns out that there is such a play, I said why Professor Long is willing to teach us." ”

Uncle smiled: "This fate is thick, Lao Long was weak when he was a child, and he was often sick, so it was cured by our Li family." And his parents also live in the team, and they need treatment when they are sick. He said when he left, now he is still wearing a hat, coming to see your third master may be unfavorable to your third master, and when he is rehabilitated, he will come back to see your third master and worship your third ancestor. ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade, but I really took advantage of the cold." ”

Uncle smiled: "The old man has planted more than such a tree. In the past, when I suppressed bandits, I made great efforts, food supplies, gold and silver medicinal materials, and also followed the treatment of the wounded. There are also wounded people who come here to recuperate, there are many living animals in the old forest, and there are also many chickens raised at home, which is just to supplement the nutrition of the wounded. ”

Li Ya smiled: "Our ancestors have also contributed to the country." Don't talk about this, uncle, I'm here to ask if the Chinese New Year is coming soon, can the family god be installed? ”

Uncle said: "Now there is no permission from above, take it down and hide it after quietly worshipping, so as not to be seen." ”

Li Ya nodded, "Just a while before eating, at that time, everyone is celebrating the New Year, and no one will definitely come to the village." ”

Li Ya's family earned more than 1,000 yuan around this year, and decided to kill a big fat pig for the New Year. The big fat pig that has been fed for more than four months is estimated to be 323 catties according to Dad Li.

On the day of the pig killing, Li's mother got up before dawn to boil water, and after a while of dawn, the third uncle came over with a pocket. Li Ya had just gotten up and was brushing his teeth, when he saw that the third uncle had finished brushing a few times, he said, "The third uncle is so early, the water has not boiled yet." I found a cigarette holder for the third uncle, and Li Ya washed his face again.

Li Ya found the only metal basin in the house, put some water in the basin, put half a spoonful of salt, and then took out a large wooden basin to hold the intestines.

Then Erniang (second aunt) came to help, and Li Ya asked, "Erniang, what about Xiaojun?"

Erniang smiled: "I'm still sleeping." ”

After a while, the people who helped catch the pigs came one by one, although the water had been boiled, they had to take a few puffs of the cigarette tube, and the cigarettes that Li Ya bought, and they would also smoke one and light it.

After smoking and drinking water for a while, the killing of pigs officially began. Dad Li drove the pig out of the pen, and everyone looked at it and said, "Good guy, no wonder they say that they will sell it after feeding it for more than three months." If it is fed so big, it will not scare the people at the acquisition station. ”

The third uncle put the pig-killing knife under the table, grabbed the hook in his hand, walked to the fat pig and hooked his chin, and dragged the pig to the table, the fat pig probably knew that something was wrong, screamed and struggled. Li Ya's second uncle came up with a few tails, ears, and pig's legs, and carried the pig to the table horizontally. Li Ya stood aside with a basin filled with salt water and waited, and the third uncle hooked the pig's head and swung it a few times, the position was appropriate, and he shouted to Li Ya: "Pay attention to the pig's blood." The pig-killing knife stabbed through the pig's neck, and the pig struggled violently. Li Ya hurriedly leaned up and pointed the basin against the edge of the knife, Sanbo pulled out the knife, and the blood came out of the knife ** and fell right into the basin. Soon the pig's body twitched violently a few times, and there was no movement.

After Li Ya took the pig's blood and left, the three uncles turned the pig ninety degrees and lay straight on the table. Then scoop boiling water and pour the pig's body, use a planer to remove the hair, and soon a white pig appears in front of you. Then the pig's head was cut off and disemboweled. Divide the pork into pieces, clean the intestines, and kill the pig.

Li Ya washed and dried the pig hair in a dustpan, and the pig hair could be sold for money. Then clean the pig killing table, scoop water to flush the yard dam, and wait for dinner after cleaning up.

The old man in the village, Li's father, had already invited him over, and he sat at three tables in total, Li's mother and Erniang added vegetables, and Li Ya and his three younger siblings ate in the kitchen with bowls.

Li Ya looked at the youngest Xiaoxi and rushed to the fat meat to get off the chopsticks, and said busily: "Eat less fatty meat, eat more stomach pain, eat lean meat." "Children have weak stomachs, don't stop them, and if they eat too much, they will have diarrhea.

Xiaoxi said: "Brother, it's hard to chew the lean meat." Having said that, I still don't eat fatty meat anymore.

Li Ya said: "Come over dinner, boiled with big bones, the meat on the big bones is boiled, easy to chew, delicious and delicious, come with my brothers and sisters." ”

The three tables that were sitting ate and talked while eating, which was naturally much slower, and Li Ya and the four of them were soon full. Sure enough, there were big bones at night, and I was happy to eat and smile.

The time for the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, and there are more and more people who kill pigs. On February 17, 1977, Chinese New Year's Eve finally arrived.

Of course, at this time, I didn't dare to post couplets or set off firecrackers, but adults and children all put on new clothes and smiled.

The uncle wandered around the village with his hands behind his back, looking at the joyful ones, and his heart was full of pride. Now the production team is the richest production team in the neighborhood, which arouses the envy of the members of the other production teams, and they inquires that they will follow the study next year. The uncle generously told others that he planned to raise pigs according to the village method next year.

Li Ya asked the uncle: "Uncle, are you not going to work today?" Since the uncle became the captain, he has also learned to use the word "work", which sounds lofty.

The uncle smiled: "No need, I have already visited the families of military martyrs and difficult households in the village yesterday, and today everyone is going to celebrate the New Year, so we will have a holiday." After speaking, he looked at the new clothes on the members and said, "Next year, the whole team will raise pigs, and everyone will wear new clothes." ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "This year, our production team will look for cloth tickets everywhere, and next year I am afraid that there is no money and no cloth tickets to buy cloth, if the supply and marketing cooperatives buy more goods and take out some more cloth tickets." ”

Uncle said: "There is no way, but when you are rich, the life of the members will always be better, at least you can pay off the debts you owed before, and the family will have some meat to eat." Many people in the production teams under the brigade are having a hard time and have no strength to work, so aren't they getting poorer and poorer if they continue like this?"

Li Ya admired the uncle's conscientiousness, and still asked: "What can I do if I buy a piglet? It is impossible for every family to come up with the money to buy a piglet." ”

The uncle thought for a while and said: "Then those who have money go to the commune to buy it, and in the end there should not be many people who can't come up with the money. ”

Li Ya felt that it was feasible and said, "Then uncle, you have to discuss it with the cadres of the brigade." Don't go on credit if you don't have money at that time, you will give it to the relatives of the cadres on credit. ”

Uncle said: "The cadres of our brigade still have this awareness. ”

Although the New Year is mainly the afternoon meal, but the morning is not bad, Li Ya a few bowls of rice in the stomach, said: "I just order rice a year, I can't eat a few meals, if I can eat rice every day, then the life in the countryside will be better." ”

Li's mother said: "It's better to have a better time in the city?"

Li Ya said with a smile: "Mom, this is not accurate, many families in the city are crowded into one or two rooms, how can you build a grass hut to live in the countryside." There are also those who don't have enough food to eat, and they also eat wild vegetable rice balls. Over the years, life has been difficult everywhere, relatively speaking, our production team was not bad before, and now it is better. ”

Mother Li smiled and said: "Okay, good, now I have food and clothing, except that there is no electricity, and the city is not comparable." In the afternoon, I had a good meal, and there was meat in every dish. ”

Li Ya said: "Boil the bones, Xiaoxi likes it very much."

In the afternoon, Li Ya's family and the second uncle's family joined together to celebrate the New Year at Li Ya's house. After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Li Ya and his three younger siblings each got the New Year's money, and the three siblings happily saved the New Year's money for their mother and bought them things in the future.