Lei Lei caught a seventy or eighty pound half-sized wild boar with a clamp, which caused a sensation in the forest farm. In the past, the staff of the forest farm often used clips to catch wild boars in the wild, but that was the specialty of experienced old workers. Like Lei Lei, a young man who has just joined the work for less than a year, basically works honestly in their respective teams and follows the masters.

For things like putting clips, only the old workers will occasionally take time to teach new people in their spare time at work. Lei Lei put the clip, it was purely fun, and by mistake, he actually caught a wild boar in the woods not far from the compound of the forest farm.

Lei Lei and Zhang Meng carried the wild boar directly to the canteen where they ate at noon. The chefs in the canteen are all preparing dinner for the evening in the back kitchen, and the leaders have already gone back after eating at noon, and the food in the evening is not as good as at noon.

"Master Yan~Master Yan~"

Lei Lei and Zhang Meng put the wild boar under the steps outside the canteen, and Lei Lei ran to the back kitchen of the canteen.

"Lei Lei, what's the matter?" asked a little old man in his fifties with a pair of hands behind his back and a cigarette in his mouth.

This little old man in his fifties is not good-looking, he is the steward of the canteen of the forest farm, his surname is Yan, and everyone usually calls him Master Yan. He is different from ordinary chefs, other chefs are basically round, and he looks like he has a wide heart and a fat body, and there is no shortage of food and clothing.

Chef Yan of the forest farm is different, he has been working as a chef in the village with his father since he was 16 years old, and at that time, there were both father and son in their village.

At the time of liberation, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Jiefang He Kang passed by their village, and he made a hearty lunch for the PLA comrades who came from the north.

Those young soldiers from the north, who were usually hungry and full, and who had rarely tasted food, bowed to Master Yan's bowls and spoons.

After the liberation, some of the people in this army stayed in Hekang County, and the first people's government was formed in Hekang. Some people remembered Lao Yan's craftsmanship and food, so they introduced Lao Yan to the people's government and became a glorious state cadre.

Later, Lao Yan didn't know why, he made a little mistake, and when the forest farm was just built, he was transferred to the forest farm and became a chef in the forest farm, which has been done for more than 20 years.

More than 20 years have passed, Master Yan's title has not changed, Master Yan's body shape has not changed, the only thing that has changed is the wrinkles on his face and his life experience.

"Master Yan, we caught a wild boar!" Lei Lei said.

"Yo, yes, how did you catch it?" Master Yan asked happily.

"The clip caught it!" replied Lei Lei.

"Live or dead?" asked Master Yan.

"Looks like there's still a breath!"

Master Yan looked very happy, and he beckoned to the others in the back kitchen who were still busy chopping vegetables and steaming rice: "Stop the work in the hands of the big guys." The minefield's cub caught a wild boar, let's clean it up!"

"Okay!" someone came out with a scraper.

"I'll get hot water out!" someone took the initiative to get a bucket to get hot water

"I'll take the big foot basin!" someone was holding a big foot basin with hot water.

Several masters in the back kitchen are very skilled in holding the scraper and boiling hot water.

Master Yan and his men came out of the cafeteria, and at a glance they saw a half-large wild boar tied to the ground.

At this time, the boar was still humming quietly, and it seemed that it was not dead. It had a round hole in its neck, the flesh was blurry, and it was no longer bleeding.

"Brother, is this blood hole pierced by your stick?" Zhang Junjie squatted curiously and looked at the poor wild boar.

"It's you, Lei Gezha!" Zhang Meng said.

"Hey, this wild boar is good, not big, not too small, the meat quality is just right!" Master Yan stood beside the wild boar and praised it with a sigh in his mouth.

The meat quality of wild boar is different from that of ordinary domestic pork. The meat quality of the large wild boar is not good, because the growth years are too long, this kind of large wild boar is particularly coarse, and the stewed meat is easy to firewood. It is not suitable for eating fresh food, but is suitable for making cured meat, sausages and other cured meat.

The best meat quality is the kind that Lei Lei got today, seventy or eighty pounds, the growth time is less than a year, this kind of semi-large wild boar, the meat is fresh and tender, the game is strong, the lean meat rate is high, the flavor is rich and mellow, with the characteristics of fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, it is the most delicious type of wild boar.

"Today, the workers of our forest farm are all blessed!" Master Yan said, and then began to instruct his men to clean up the wild boars.

Generally, the normal pig killing process is to poke a hole in the pig's neck first, and then take a basin to receive blood, which can be made into blood tofu to eat, which is particularly delicious.

However, this pig has been poked in the woods by Lei Lei, although the blood is no longer flowing, there should not be much blood in the body, and this step can be omitted.

A master in the cafeteria came out with a long knife and completely ended the pig's life. Then the others fetched hot water, scalded and shaved, and after a while, a smooth and clean wild boar was presented in front of everyone.

"It turns out that this is how pigs are killed!" Zhang Junjie watched very carefully from the side.

"Junjie, haven't you seen killing pigs before?" asked Li Liang.

"I saw it at my grandmother's house when I was a child, but I don't remember it anymore!" Mr. Zhang said.

Master Yan had been directing the masters in the canteen to kill pigs, and only then did he notice that there were a few teenagers he didn't know at the scene.

"Lei Lei, who are these?" asked Master Yan.

Zhang Meng took out a packet of red plums from his pocket and gave one to Master Yan and several other masters.

"I'm Lei Lei's classmate, and I'm here to play in the forest farm today!" Zhang Meng took the initiative to say.

"Come and play in our forest farm, it's fun, welcome to you!" Master Yan said happily, "You have a good mouth, you come early for dinner tonight, and I will prepare bone broth, braised pork and button meat for you when the time comes, and keep you satisfied!"

One of Master Yan's best dishes is button meat and braised pork, the plum vegetable button meat he makes, the color is red and oily, the soup is viscous and delicious, the button meat is slippery and mellow, fat but not greasy, the food is soft and mellow, and he is recognized as the first master of making button meat in the forest farm, and other chefs are not comparable to him.

However, he generally does not take it lightly, only at the end of each year, when the pigs in the forest farm's own pig farm are slaughtered, Master Yan will start to make plum vegetable button meat and braised pork once or twice. At that time, all the employees in the audience had a good meal of braised pork made by Master Yan himself.

In normal times, only under the leadership of the Forestry Bureau, Master Yan will make one or two bowls, but they all enter the belly of the leaders, and ordinary workers can't eat them!

"yes, that's great!" Lei Lei was very happy after eating the button meat made by Master Yan.