It's still quite troublesome to kill a pig in our countryside now.

There are a lot of bits and pieces to prepare, such as iron hooks used when catching pigs, ropes to tie pigs' hooves, poles to carry pigs, boards for pigs, and scrapers for killing pigs and scrapers for scraping pigs' hair. By the way, you also need to prepare an axe, which is used to cut bones when the meat is unraveled.

Just looking at the text may not feel bothersome.

However, every year when my grandmother's house kills pigs, they are in a hurry, and the whole family is directed back and forth.

Why is that?

Because now, there is no more butcher who specializes in killing pigs.

At that time, there was indeed a butcher profession, and it can be said that there would be someone in every village who did this.

Therefore, Zhou Shujie, who got up early, needed to prepare something, that is, two pots of hot water and their pig.

The other tools will be brought by the butcher of the village, and she doesn't need to prepare anything.

Of course, there must be some price to be paid for employing people.

In the past, the butcher killed the pigs, and they all gave some pork, pigs' trotters and other pigs into the water, but now the life of each family is better, in addition to giving pork a class, they will also give a few dollars as knife sharpening money.

Zhou Shujie boiled two full pots of water, one pot in the east house, and one pot in the west house. It's all driven wood, boiling water that burns straight over flowers.

She didn't know how much water the pig would use.

She only has these two pots at home, so she boiled these two pots of boiling water, which should be enough.

To be honest, their pigs are black, and she is really afraid that they will not be able to fade clean if there is less water.

In fact, theoretically speaking, black pigs and white pigs are the same.

There is no such thing as being more difficult to fade, but when you look at the eyes, you always feel that the black ones are more dirty.

After boiling the hot water, she took advantage of the fact that the pig killer had not yet come, so she made a little breakfast and called her family to eat it.

She's finished cleaning up here, and the guy who came to help kill the pigs has also come to the door.

There are no outsiders, that is, her uncle and two brothers, plus Uncle Guo and the three brothers of his family, as well as her village chief's uncle, there are eight people, and it is enough to kill two pigs, not to mention that this is only one pig.

Zhou Shujie welcomed everyone into the house, poured hot water, handed it to the uncles and uncles, and said with a smile. "Drink some hot water, go to the cold, wait a while, the butcher will come and go to catch the pig, my pig is not big, it should not be difficult to catch." ”

Sitting in the kang was Mrs. Sun, who also said with a smile: "I'm going to trouble you all today." Wait for the pig to be killed, and let Shujie give you some more meat. You have a good drink, and don't see outside, there is no one in our family who can drink with you. Greet yourselves, and when you have eaten and drunk your fill, go away. ”

As soon as the old lady finished speaking, everyone laughed.

Uncle Zhou said with a smile: "We won't see outside, we can eat enough!"

Uncle Guo also said: "Don't worry, old sister-in-law, we can accompany ourselves ourselves." ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone laughed again.

Then the village chief's uncle said, "Then I have to thank you old lady, we are waiting to eat your meat today." When the time comes, you will eat too much, so don't feel distressed. ”

Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law, Mrs. Sun, said with a smile. "Don't feel distressed, just as much as you can eat." I must still have a lot left. ”

The village chief smiled and said, "Hahahaha! That must be that we have less food and you have more leftover." Anyway, we can't give you a single pig, and we'll have to leave a little for the two guys. Isn't it?"

The village chief looked at the two children of Zhou Shujie's family and teased them with a smile.

When the two of them saw so many people in the house, they might not be used to it, so they were extra honest today. Honestly sitting in front of their grandmother, playing with the little toys in their hands.

I didn't quite understand what these people were talking about, but seeing the adults laughing, the two of them also picked up some fun next to them.

Now they heard someone ask them if it was, and they didn't hear what was being said clearly, so they nodded yes.

The two of them nodded their heads, which caused another laugh, and laughter floated through the room again.

And as he was saying this, he heard a movement at the gate.

Zhou Shujie went to open the door and saw that it was the butcher who had come, and there were a few people behind him who helped him carry things and carry the board.

Zhou Shujie turned around and shouted into the house. "The butcher of the Great Uncle King is here!"

Uncle Zhou answered the first floor in the house. "Yes, here we go." Let's go out too, it's time to catch the pigs. ”

After he finished speaking, the house remembered the sound of hee hee suo getting up and walking, and in a short time, all the people in the house came out.

Uncle Zhou and the others went out and met the king butcher. beckoned him to come into the house to drink some water and go to the cold.

But the king butcher said that it was not cold, just catch the pig directly, and drink the water after killing the pig.

The men put down the board and went straight to the pigsty.

Seeing that they were all going to catch pigs, Zhou Shujie hurriedly entered the house and said to her mother-in-law: "Mother, let's catch pigs now, it will bark when you kill the pig for a while, you look at the two children, don't scare the two of them, I'll go out to help." ”

Old Lady Sun waved her hand. "Okay, I'll be on my head for a moment. You go and help, go ahead. ”

After returning to the house and hurriedly speaking, Zhou Shujie ran out quickly.

By the time she reached the pigsty, the butcher had jumped into the pigsty with the hook he had caught the pig, and was about to do it.

I saw that he was agile and the big black pig, and drew two circles of Tai Chi in this small pigsty.

His eyes were fixed on the big black pig, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and the hook in his hand was hooked on the pig's nose accurately.

As soon as this nose is hooked, the pig's instinctive reaction is to step back.

At this time, if the butcher has no strength, he will be dragged by him. If she misses her this time, it will be difficult to catch her the second time.

Fortunately, the head of the butcher in their village has big shoulders and a round waist, and he looks quite powerful.

The pig fell back, and he dragged it forward. The pig still has an iron hook on its nose, and it can't use all its strength.

As soon as this pig is a butcher, it becomes like a tug-of-war, and you pull me to start the contest.

After a stalemate for a while, the butcher took advantage of the pig's inattention to suddenly exert force, pushed it to the side, and pushed it to the ground.

After that, no matter how much the pig struggled, he just pressed his head to the ground and didn't let go.

The pig struggled twice, and it was not so intense.

Brother Zhou and Uncle Zhou knew as soon as they saw that it was time for them to play.

A few brothers stepped forward and held down the pig who was still kicking his legs.

Uncle Zhou and Guo Shu went to tie the pig's leg and the pig's mouth alone.

This pig's mouth has to be tied, or something big will happen.

If this pig's leg can't be tied, at most the pig will run away, and then bring it back.

If the mouth hadn't been tied, it could have bitten someone.

This is not alarmist, but it has happened.

It is said that he broke all his arms and tore off a large piece of his flesh.

If it weren't for the butcher's quick movements, the man's arm might not have been saved.

Let's get down to business.

The butcher hooked the pig's nose and pressed its head firmly to the ground. The elder brothers pressed the pig's four legs. Uncle Zhou and Uncle Guo tied its legs and mouth with ropes. Zhou Shujie is the one who stood aside and handed the rope.

When the pig was tied, everyone worked together to throw the pig out of the small pigsty.

I was born in the garden, and the place was spacious. Only then did he put the pole of Taizhou between the pig's legs, Brother Zhou and Brother Guo. And he carried the pig on his shoulder.

Carrying the weight, Brother Guo said: "It's okay, this pig doesn't look long at the waist, it's still quite weighty, and if you go to the head and lift the water, you can kill 200 catties of meat." ”

Brother Zhou also said: "This pig's fat is good. ”

The two men carried the snorting pig and walked out of the garden step by step, and went to the yard to put the pig on the board.

This board is also specific, one end is high and the other is low, it is a slope shape.

This pig puts its head low and its buttocks high, so that when the pig is killed, the blood can be cleaned.

Everything was done, Zhou Shujie also took a big basin and waited for the blood, so he sent the king butcher to kill him.

Uncle Zhou lit a cigarette for Wang Butcher and asked him to smoke a cigarette to catch his breath.

The king butcher was also a real person, and he smoked this antelope cigarette to the root in five mouthfuls, and threw away the cigarette butt that he couldn't hold with his hand. Picked up the pig-killing knife on the side and rubbed it twice on the whetstone. Beckoning everyone to press the legs, the hooks that should be pulled.

When everyone was in place, the king butcher looked at the position and stabbed the pig in the neck with a knife.

He was very particular about the position of the knife, and he had to cut the artery to open the blood, and he couldn't touch the heart, if he touched the heart, the pig would die too quickly, the blood could not be cleaned, the meat was not so delicious, and the color was not good-looking.

The king's butcher took out the knife that had been stuck deep in the flesh. A single shot of blood flowed through the pig's neck.

It was accompanied by the sound of the pig that had just reacted.

There was a special sound of ~~, and Zhou Shujie, who was receiving blood there, was startled.

Then the pig began to struggle fiercely, and Brother Zhou and the others used their strength to press the pig firmly on the board.

The pig's blood lay for almost five minutes, and the basin Zhou Shujie was almost full, and he began to tick.

Zhou Shujie hurriedly brought half a basin of pig's blood into the house, grabbed a handful of salt into it, and stirred it vigorously with chopsticks until the salt melted, this was to prevent the blood from clumping.

If it forms a hard lump, it will not taste good for a while. This blood sausage is one of the most popular dishes for killing pigs.

To say that the vitality of this pig is also quite vigorous.

The blood was gone, and it wasn't dead, but it didn't have the strength to struggle, and it lay there still gasping for breath. I didn't bark anymore, and I waited another five or six minutes for the pig to run out of gas.

Next, it's time to remove the pig's hair, Brother Tuesday and Brother Guo, the two young ones are responsible for carrying boiling water back and forth, and the remaining brothers are either helping to pull their legs or helping to water, anyway, shaving pig hair is useless for them, probably because they are afraid that they are young, they don't work carefully, and they can't eat if they don't shave cleanly for a while.

Going down here, there will be nothing to do with Zhou Shujie.

She put down the pig's blood, washed her hands, and went into the house to take a look at the two children.

Seeing that they were playing quite well, and they weren't scared to cry by the movement just now, it seems that these two children are quite bold.

"Squeak ~ squeak. The sound of the door opening and closing was heard again.

"Yo, it's starting to shed!"

"No, you're late, we're all done." ”

Zhou Shujie heard the sound and walked out of the house.

When I opened the door, it turned out that Aunt Guo had led her two sisters-in-law and the three older grandsons over. Just now, it was Aunt Guo and Butcher Wang talking.

Zhou Shujie said with a smile at the door. "Auntie is here, come into the house, my mother-in-law is talking about you." Sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, hurry up and take the child into the house, it's cold outside. ”

Aunt Guo walked into the house with a smile, saying as she walked. "Then I can go into the house and talk to your mother-in-law!

Zhou Shujie smiled and said, "What's the work, the two sisters-in-law will help me do it in a while, isn't it, sisters-in-law." ”

The two sisters-in-law of the Guo family haha, and the sister-in-law Guo said with a smile. "yes, we'll do it for you in a moment. ”

Guo's second sister-in-law also said: "When I come to your house to eat meat, I can't eat meat and not work, so I have to help you do something." ”

And while they had spoken, the gang all entered the house.

Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law had already heard the movement. He was waiting for them, and when he saw them coming in, he put them on the kang and asked them to take off their shoes and put them on the kang, saying that it was hot in the kang.

Zhou Shujie went to the box on the side, found four apples, washed them, and gave three of them to each of the three grandsons of Aunt Guo'er's family, and the remaining one was cut in half by her and put in the hands of her own children.

This fruit is a rarity nowadays, and even if the average person has money, he may not be able to buy it.

Zhou Shujie, the two brothers she met at the bazaar, took the train from Shandong and specially carried her back with her shoulder.

Although it is more expensive, not to mention anything else, the appearance and taste of this apple are still delicious.

The two sisters-in-law of the Guo family saw that Zhou Shujie was so generous, and said words of resignation, but the expressions on their faces were very happy.

After talking for a while, the two sisters-in-law put their arms on their sleeves. said: "Okay, let's take a break for a while, let's get to work." I see you haven't cut this sauerkraut yet, right? After a while, everyone's pork has been ready, and our dish hasn't been finished yet. ”

Zhou Shujie also stood up and said, "Yes, it's time to cut sauerkraut." Let's go, let's go cut sauerkraut. After saying that, she led her two sisters-in-law out of the inner room and into the outer room.

From this year's newly pickled sauerkraut tank, a large pot of sauerkraut was fished out.

The three of them worked together, Sister-in-law Guo, who had the best knife skills, was responsible for cutting sauerkraut, and Zhou Shujie, who had little strength, threw water for the first time. The second sister-in-law of Guo who had great strength threw the water first or twice and crumbled the sauerkraut into a ball.

Finished cutting the sauerkraut.

Zhou Shujie took out cabbage and potatoes again. and soaked kombu and two rolls of frozen dried tofu. She was going to mix a cold dish with these ingredients.

By the time the dishes were almost ready, the pigs outside had faded away.

I turned the pig over and over again with hot water and gave it a good bath. Only then did the board be rinsed clean, and it was time to prepare for disembowelment.

Aunt Guo'er's three little grandsons, as soon as they heard that the pigs were going to be disemboweled, they couldn't stay any longer, put on cotton hats, and ran out to watch the excitement.

Brother Zhou entered the house and said to Zhou Shujie. "Sister, you find me two big pots." One is to be filled with pig intestines, and the other is to be filled with meat that has been boiled for a while. ”

Zhou Shujie replied: "Okay, I know big brother, you wait a while, I'll go get you two." ”

After speaking, from the bottom of the bowl shelf behind her, she took out the two largest basins and handed them to her eldest brother.

Brother Zhou took these two basins, turned around and walked out of the house.

After a while, Brother Tuesday walked in front with a basin of pig intestines, followed by the village chief and uncle, and the two people entered the house to wash the pig intestines.

This pig's intestines to the end of the house, a particularly large smell of organs immediately filled the house, which is this era no one dislikes, if this is the future generations, many people can not smell this smell, may have to be nauseous.

After a while, Brother Zhou brought a pot of meat into the house and handed it to Zhou Shujie, asking her to wash it and start cooking it.

This pot of meat is all from the pig's neck. Now people call him plum blossom meat, and many people buy this meat when they barbecue it and say that the meat is fragrant.

Indeed, at that time, it was the worst kind of meat. They all call him a bloody neck, and every pig killed is basically meat here.

Generous people will give two pieces of fat to the pot, and stingy people will throw two meatless bones into the pot.

You may think that bones are good, but this is an era when meat is more expensive than bones.

Zhou Shujie and sister-in-law Guo washed the pot of meat and divided it into small pieces.

At the bottom of this pot of meat, there is a piece of pork liver and a pig's tail, which seems to mean that it is going to be cooked with pork.

Zhou Shujie finished washing the meat, brushed the pot clean, filled it with cold water, and then put the meat in the pot piece by piece, and threw a few large ingredients and half a handful of peppercorns.

Looking at the meat in the pot, Zhou Shujie went outside again, picked two of the fattest pieces from the freshly cut meat mound, about five or six catties, took them back, washed them, and threw them into the pot, and she threw two bones into the pot.

The meat in the pot began to paste, and Zhou Shujie went outside again and sorted out the warehouse. The panel was lifted in and plastic sheeting was placed on the panel. I put a piece of pork on top of it. He poured a little water on them, and waited for them to freeze, and then he put them in a jar and buried them in ice.

When she got it done, the pot in the house was boiling.

The bottom of the pot is wood, and the firewood can not be boiled quickly!

Waiting for the meat to be pierced with chopsticks, I began to put salt and sauerkraut in the pot.

Uncle Zhou, who was busy, also entered the house, some drank water, smoked, and filled blood sausages with intestines.

Put the sauerkraut in the meat pan and boil one by one. I have to take out all the cooked meat inside, and when I cook it, the meat will be too strong, and it will not taste good.

After waiting for him to open the sauerkraut for a while, he began to cook the pig's blood sausage.

This boiling blood sausage is a technical job, and ordinary people can't do this.

Aunt Guo, who has been chatting with Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law since she came. At this time, she put on her shoes and went to the ground, rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands, and began to prepare to make her drunken boiled blood sausage.

Aunt Guo stood by the pot, put the blood sausage in the pot one by one, and then asked Zhou Shujie for a needle to pin it to her clothes. Just stand there and wait, wait four or five minutes to pick up this blood sausage and turn it over. After waiting for four or five minutes, I turned it over again.

She went back and forth to cook it, and when she felt that it was almost cooked, she pierced the blood intestine with a needle pinned to her clothes. Look at him coming out with red plasma. This means that the blood in it is not yet cooked.

It wasn't until she pierced her eyes on the blood sausage that it was cooked by the flowers, and she took the boiled blood sausage out of the pot and put it aside in the cold water that had been prepared a long time ago.

Over there, Zhou Shujie was busy mixing cold dishes, and Sister-in-law Guo and Second Sister-in-law Guo began to cut meat, pork liver, and so on.

The meat was almost cut, and the blood sausage cooked by Aunt Guo was not so hot, so Sister-in-law Guo began to cut the blood sausage.

After all the cuts, I began to put on the plates, put the dishes on the table, and prepare for the meal.

First served was a large plate of large white meat slices thick with chopsticks, and then a large plate of sauerkraut on the top. Then there was a plate of pork liver and large intestine. Then there is a plate of blood sausage and cold dishes that Zhou Shujie has just mixed.

These are five dishes, and in the countryside, they are paid attention to in pairs, and most people don't like to have orders when they invite guests to eat.

Therefore, Zhou Shujie fried a large plate of peanuts for them and served them on the table.

There were two tables in their house. There is a table on the kang head, a table on the kang tip, a table for men, and a table for women with children.

When the meal was about to start, Zhou Shujie took out three more bottles of wine and put two bottles on the men's table, and one bottle on their table.

As soon as this wine is served, it doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman, everyone is happy. In this great northeast, not only men love to drink, but women are also very drinkable.

Except for the children who didn't drink it, all of them did.

Even Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law drank half a cup each, and their faces were red when they drank.

Zhou Shujie felt that his feet were a little fluttering when he walked.

With this fluttering pace, she sent away all the helpers, and tidied up the house.

didn't let the family leave empty-handed, took two yuan of sharpening money for the butcher, and brought him two catties of raw meat.

The rest of her is like her uncle's house and Aunt Guo's house, each of which is a big pot of sauerkraut, plus a blood sausage and a large piece of cooked meat.

Especially at her uncle's house, Zhou Shujie also specially took two catties of peanuts and a bottle of wine for her uncle. Let him take it home and give it to Old Man Zhou.

If you want to say that Old Man Zhou should have come today, he should have come. But their family also wants to invite someone to dinner today, and it is the old man who wants to invite those buddies of their generation, so Aunt Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou did not come.

Zhou Shujie sent Uncle Zhou to the gate and said. "Uncle, come tomorrow, I want to invite all the relatives and elders of our family to have a meal, you can help me accompany the guests." ”

Uncle Zhou agreed: "Okay, I'll help you accompany the guests tomorrow, and let your aunt and your sister-in-law help you cook." ”

After speaking, he led Brother Zhou, who was holding the things, and Brother Tuesday went home.

Zhou Shujie entered the courtyard and closed the door.

She went into the barn again, turned over the meat that had not been frozen, and dusted some cold water on it, and then entered the house with confidence.

She walked around the outhouse twice, and saw that the two sisters-in-law of the Guo family helped clean up quite clean.

She had nothing more to do, so she went into the house and fell asleep next to the child and her mother-in-law.