In the process of urbanization, there will always be people who sacrifice, and the sacrifice happens to be a group of weak people, people who are unable to protect and take care of them, and the elderly and children left behind. This is a cruel truth, no one can change it, the only thing we can do is to hope that the process of urbanization will be faster, so that there will be fewer scars on this hot land, and there will be fewer injured families and loved ones.

Even if Chen Chengcheng is a wealthy man and a private entrepreneur with barely some ability, he still has no ability to help this type of person, on the contrary, his appearance will lead to more elderly people staying behind, causing more children to stay behind or become the children of migrant workers in the city.

He can't do anything about the affairs of the Huzi family, no matter what he does, this kind of thing is not right. If he helps his aunt to bring Huzi to the county seat to go to school, then it will make the two lonely old people even more lonely, and the only grandson who accompanied them is gone, what can they expect from life? If he does not help Huzi, then Huzi's future is completely predictable, and this will harm a seedling who reads. It is not easy to produce seedlings in the countryside, and if they are ruthlessly wiped out, then it will be even more difficult for the poor to produce noble children.

With this kind of contradiction, he has no way to deal with the affairs of the Huzi family, he can't manage it at all, only wait for the uncle to come back and see if he can discuss it with the two old men, it also depends on the ability of the uncle, does he have the ability to persuade the two old men?

Now there is still more than half a month before the New Year, but in the countryside, every household is preparing for the New Year, and the farmers have been busy all their lives, and of course they must be happy during the New Year, not only to dress well, but also to eat well. The Chinese New Year is particularly particular about eating, and killing pigs in the countryside is a very important thing, so every day, Chen Shi will always hear some sounds of killing pigs.

Of course, killing the pig is also very particular, generally have to start slaughtering after the wax moon equinox, a family of more to slaughter two fat pigs, less to kill one, rural people, every household has pigs, fat pigs killed, there are piglets in the pen, feed and wait for next year and slaughter. Therefore, the pig that has been fed for a year is not the general fat, a fat pig is nearly 300 catties or so, and the whole year is fed with bran and grass, and the real feeding of food is only the last few months, give it Cui fat, so that it can grow some fat and oil at the end.

Killing the pig is not a family's stomach can be completed, so, the neighbors will come to help, on the day of the pig killing, the nearby blind dates will also be invited to eat a meal of fresh meat, and then under the greeting of the owner's house, those fresh meat will be rouge into bacon, and finally dried and smoked and stored, if you kill the pig early, you can eat bacon during the New Year.

Chen Shi's family has two fat pigs, these two fat pigs usually eat grass, and only eat boiled potatoes in recent months, so, the two pigs look fat and dundun, giving people a clumsy feeling, walking is very difficult, even crossing the threshold of the pigsty seems to be laborious, such pork quality is absolutely good, compared to the piglets in the city with feed Cui Fat Cui, they can be regarded as returning to their hometown, but you don't look at it as an old guy and dislike its meat quality is not good, although its meat quality is not as delicate as the pigs in the city, but the taste is definitely not bad, and the pigs fed with coarse materials and grains, the lean meat is particularly fragrant。

Chen Shi's family killed pigs on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and it was only ten days before the Chinese New Year. The parents were to wait for them to come back, otherwise they would have been killed a month earlier. When a few of them came back, they had a few more helpers when they came to kill the pigs, and secondly, their parents felt sorry for them and were afraid that they would not eat fresh meat, so they fed them one until now.

On this day, on the twentieth day of the lunar month, my father asked a few villagers to help, dug an earthen stove near the house, lifted it on the shelf, boiled boiling water, moved it to a large table, and then released the fat and fat pigs, after a few people grabbed them, they put them down on the long table dedicated to killing pigs, and then the master in charge of killing pigs stabbed the pig's throat with his sharp knife that had killed countless fat pigs, and let out blood.

There are many ways to eat Xuewang, but the simplest is to cut it into slices like tofu and cook it in the soup to eat. Another way to eat is to mash the tofu and Xuewang and stir it evenly, then knead it into a round ball, and after drying, it becomes blood tofu, which has a very unique flavor.

Chen Shi's favorite way to eat is to eat shabu-shabu, and he likes to be tender and bloody, not too old, otherwise the taste is not good.

When killing New Year's pigs, the happiest are still children, because they not only have a lot of things to eat, but also can get together to play all day, without worrying about being called by the adults in the family to help with farm work, for rural children, this is a festival that is no different from the New Year. One of the children's favorite dish is fried lean meat, this fried lean meat can be particular, not just put the cut lean meat in the pot and fry it, but must be stirred with potato starch before getting out of the pot, so that the fried lean meat is not only tender, but also very fragrant, followed by a radish stewed pork ribs, this simple and simple method is liked by almost every child, the taste is sweet and has an indescribable taste.

The customs of the pig killing feast are different in each place, some places are more complicated, and the taste is very heavy, such as a hodgepodge, meat is put in a large pot, and the size is very large, and there is no certain amount of people who are afraid when they look at it. But here in Chen Shi's house, it is different, their customs here are simple, put on the table, fry a few dishes, there is no shortage of fresh meat and pork ribs, there is no shortage of fatty meat, basically there is not so much exquisiteness.

Before killing a pig, you must worship the gods, light incense and burn paper, and give the fat pig who is about to lose its life a death ritual. In his opinion, as long as there are still people in the countryside and pigs at home, this ancient rule will not change, and it will continue.

The master of killing pigs is also particular, this kind of occupation of taking the life of the soul will not be too much, one or two people in a village is enough, too many people are too murderous, there are not one or two butchers but they will be afraid of the evil attack, therefore, each village will keep one or two butchers, most of them are about forty years old, this age is just the time to be stable and mature, not as impulsive as one or twenty years old, do not worry that his murderous spirit is too heavy and will be disrespectful to people, and do not worry that he is too old to have a compassionate heart and can't do it.

The person who killed the pig for Chen Shi's family was called Master Wang, and he wore a leather apron, held a pipe, and smoked a cigarette with a click, and while sharpening the knife to kill the pig, he untied a thin rope, which was used to tie the pig's mouth, to prevent it from biting people in painful situations.

Chen Shi looked at Master Wang curiously and asked him, "Master Wang, how many years have you been doing this?"

Master Wang smiled and said, "It's been ten years, I started working in my thirties, and now I'm forty or fifty years old, I don't know how many pigs I killed? ”

Fifteen pigs a year, one hundred and fifty pigs in ten years, and the lives of these pigs were taken in this way, and no one cared about its suffering, and no one counted the number of sacrifices they had sacrificed for mankind.

Chen Shi said: "Master Wang, do you usually have a surname of evil?" There are more lives on your hands, this person will be more or less in awe, some people may worship God at home, some people may be surnamed Buddhism, in short, you must find a support in your heart, find a soul sustenance.

Master Wang didn't, he said: "I don't have a surname, I treat killing pigs as farming, you say it's hurting the sky, but I don't think so." ”

He took a deep breath of his cigarette, exhaled it slowly, and continued: "Even if you are working in the field, you don't know when you will step on ants, and if you go down with a hoe, you will definitely produce countless weeds, and those grasses will not have life? Isn't this the same as killing pigs? It's just that when you kill pigs, there is more blood, and you can see it, it's very conspicuous." ”

Chen Shi looked at him, thinking about what he said. Master Wang continued: "Everyone is alive, they are hurting other lives, so I won't be so entangled, as long as people live openly in their hearts, they don't have to worry about how many living beings they kill, as long as this is a normal behavior and is recognized by the public, then there is no need to be afraid of any retribution?" Some people say that all things are equal, but every piece of clothing on their forehead is the skin of a living being, every bag is a life, and every day they eat countless living beings, if they really think that all things are equal and want to protect all living beings, then they should starve to death, because every grain of grain is a seed, a life. ”

When Master Wang said this, his eyes were very bright, and Chen Shi could see that he was very open in his heart, because he never thought that this was anything that hurt heaven and reason, and he never secretly blamed himself for the life of a pig, because he obeyed the law of nature and ate the strong. This rule may seem cruel, but it is the only rule for nature to maintain balance, and it is also the law that human beings have ruled the earth since their existence.

Human beings themselves are the law of the jungle, only the weak will appeal to virtue, the strong are making rules, and the reason why the strong keep the weak instead of killing them all is not pity, but loneliness.

Chen Shi used to be a weak person, but now he is a strong person compared to ordinary people, he already has the ability to make rules, at least in his business, he has this right. Master Wang's words gave him a deep shock, but also gave him a lot of enlightenment, he had never understood before, he had always walked with his head covered, he seemed to be able to see the road under his feet, whether it was potholes or a flat avenue under his feet? He had completely figured out, at least, at this stage, at this point in time, he knew who he was, what he should do, and where he should go.