Drinking dry tobacco may be the only hobby of his father Tian Hezhuang! Nowadays, playing mahjong, fighting landlords, turning over golden flowers, and playing "Shaoshaohu" has long been not the patent of urban people, and several people in the countryside are often entertained and entertained after the farmers are idle and free, but this kind of entertainment is "colored", that is to say, one, two, five, ten yuan also still have to take money to play, and some people with a large population have to play before eating, "a few masters" or "a few mothers" also have to play, commonly known as "economic half an hour". Father Tian Hezhuang sometimes went to help or send favors to the red and white celebrations of the people in the village, and when he saw others playing mahjong and fighting landlords, he immediately walked away, far away!

Father Tian Hezhuang did not drink "paper cigarettes" (paper cigarettes, that is, cigarettes) before becoming a family with his mother Yang Meizhen, and the brand he drank was not bad, all of them were more than five yuan a pack, and sometimes he also bought a pack of two packs of ten yuan to drink, since he became a family, his father Tian Hezhuang insisted for a period of time, and then Tian Limai was born, because his mother Yang Meizhen's milk was less, to buy milk powder for Tian Limai, his father Tian Hezhuang suddenly felt the economic pressure, from five yuan a pack of cigarettes to two yuan a pack of cigarettes, At this time, his father Tian Hezhuang knew that as the fine baby Tian Limai grew up, the economic pressure would become more and more great, so he gradually quit "paper cigarettes" and learned to drink dry tobacco!

Father Tian Hezhuang drank dry tobacco, he was reluctant to take money to buy it in the market town, and his father Tian Hezhuang planted a line or two rows of hundreds of trees on the edge of the responsible land, which was enough for him to drink for a year!

When his father Tian Hezhuang and his mother Yang Meizhen first got married, because his mother Yang Meizhen had a cough disease, his mother Yang Meizhen asked his father Tian Hezhuang to quit smoking. Even in winter! And for her mother Yang Meizhen, she was disgusted with her father Tian Hezhuang's marriage at the beginning, especially her cough, coughing when she smelled smoke, and then her father Tian Hezhuang took the method of avoiding her to drink, and her mother Yang Meizhen thought to herself, her father Tian Hezhuang had no other hobbies, so he only had a bad habit of smoking, so he put up with it!

"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng saw that his father Tian Hezhuang handed over a dry grass tobacco, took out a pack of "paper cigarettes" from his clothes pocket and said: "Third brother Zhuang, I can't help you, I'll still come to me!" and took out one and handed it to his father Tian Hezhuang.

When his father Tian Hezhuang saw it, he took the dry grass and smoked it: "I have this, and I can't get addicted to you and that!"

Tian Limai walked out of the room and greeted Uncle Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer", and after saying hello, Tian Limai said to his father Tian Hezhuang: "Dad, I'll leave after washing my face!"

"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng listened and asked: "Where is my nephew and nephew?" ”

"The little baby is going to pick up his grandparents and them!" Father Tian Hezhuang said.

"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng glanced out the window and said, "Third Brother Zhuang, the sky is not yet bright outside, you let the fine baby go so far away, can you rest assured?" Didn't he just invite his grandparents to have a 'soup'?! A little earlier and a little later? Just let my nephew and nephew have breakfast and then go!"

At this time, the eldest Uncle Tian Muzhuang and the second Uncle Tian Shuizhuang also came, and they happened to hear what the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng said, after the eldest Uncle Tian Muzhuang, the second Uncle Tian Shuizhuang and the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng said hello, the eldest Uncle Tian Muzhuang said: "Uncle Xuan, Uncle Wang Yu of the fine baby makes sense, so early!?" ”

Father Tian Hezhuang saw that the eldest uncle Tian Muzhuang also spoke, so he said to Tian Limai: "Mai'er, then eat breakfast and then go!" ”

"Okay, Dad!" Tian Limai agreed. Tian Limai said hello to the eldest uncle Tian Muzhuang and the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang again!

Mother Yang Meizhen was boiling pig water in the stove room, and when she saw Tian Limai getting up, she said: "Mai'er, I've been busy and have no time, after you wash your face, go and simmer a pot of tea for your Uncle Wang Yu, uncle, and second uncle!"

Tian Limai agreed to go, so he hurriedly washed his face and brushed his teeth, and then went to simmer tea for Uncle Wang Li and them according to what his mother Yang Meizhen said!

Seeing Tian Limai carrying the tea can into the fire pit house, the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng Uncle said: "My nephew, you are a good thing, I got up early this morning, and I need to boil tea to refresh myself!"

Because the water for killing pigs has not yet boiled, his father Tian Hezhuang accompanied the eldest uncle Tian Muzhuang, the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang and Uncle Wang Yu to sit by the fire pit while drinking cigarettes and talking about idle white, and the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang said to Tian Limai: "Tian Limai, hand it to the second uncle, let the second uncle simmer!"

Tian Limai Yiyan handed the teapot to Erbotian Shuizhuang, and Erbotian Shuizhuang took the teacan, squatted down on the side of the fire pit, and simmered the teapot on the edge of the fire pit.

At this time, Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer", stood up and said: "I'll go to the stove house to see, as long as the water boiled by the third sister-in-law is in Qizhan, don't burn it!"

At this moment, her mother Yang Meizhen walked into the fire pit house and said, "The water is about to boil!"

"Let's go, catch the pigs!" Pig killer" Wang Linsheng said, and lifted the back basket he had carried before, and his back basket contained pig killing sharp knives, machetes, peeling knives, shaving scrapers, pig hanging iron hooks, small cutters, intestinal blowers and other tools for killing pigs!

Father Tian Hezhuang went to open the pigsty door, the eldest uncle Tian Muzhuang went to move the tide basin, and the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang moved the big bench.

The tide basin is an oval-shaped wooden basin, about two meters long, two, about eighty centimeters wide, is specially used to kill pigs when the pig is used, the so-called "dead pig is not afraid of boiling water" is to put the pig in this tide basin with boiling water!

The large bench is about two meters long and about 20 to 30 centimeters wide, and is usually used to place it in the upper position next to the fire pit for the elderly and guests to sit.

At this time, her sister Tian Liyu also got up to see the pig killing, but she was stopped by her mother in the stove house, according to the customs of the Wuling Mountain people, the girl can't watch the pig killing, "Yu'er, you can't go to see the pig killing, just hide in the stove house, obedient!"

"Mom, my brother can watch it, why can't I watch it?" Sister Tian Liyu asked.

"Yu'er, you are a female baby, and my brother is a male baby, so my brother can see it, but you can't watch it!" Mother Yang Meizhen said.

According to legend, after the girl saw the pig killed, there will be heavy bleeding when she marries and gives birth to a baby in the future, which has no scientific basis, and it has nothing to do with the hemorrhage of the baby in the future, but it is always good for this custom to keep the girls away from the bloody scene!

After his father Tian Hezhuang opened the door of the pigsty, because the pigs were fattened, he could only slowly drive the pigs closer to the big bench.

The fat pig walked very slowly, gradually approaching the big bench, and he had no idea that his life was at an end, what a stupid pig!

Uncle Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer", was already standing in front of the big bench, and on the left side of the big bench was a wooden basin that received pig's blood, and there were three pig-killing knives on the edge of the wooden basin! Although only one knife is used to kill pigs, each "pig killer" has to cut three knives on the wooden basin before killing pigs, perhaps to set off the atmosphere of slaughter!

Of course, there is a superstitious legend about the "pig killer", it is said that each "pig killer" is dead, but also to bring a wooden basin to put in front of the bed, and the basin also has to cut three knives for killing pigs, "pig killer" can "lose gas", otherwise, the "pig killer" who is already going to "fall down" will be hung for ten days and a half in one breath, the "pig killer" is in pain, and the family and relatives of the "pig killer" are even more painful, taking turns to wait, suffering from the torture of staying up more vigil!

"Pig Killer" Wang Linsheng saw that the big fat pig was walking very slowly, so he said to Tian Muzhuang and Tian Shuizhuang, the second uncle, who were standing next to him and ready to catch pigs: "Brother Zhuang, Brother Zhuang, and Brother Zhuang are all fed and fattened every year in the house, and this pig is afraid that it is two hundred and seventy or eighty catties!"

"Uncle Xiaowa, as the old saying goes, 'If you are poor, you don't lose your books, and if you are rich, you don't lose your pigs,' He Zhuang's family doesn't feed the pigs to fat, the family eats oil, and people come and go to take what kind of entertainment?" Uncle Tian Muzhuang said.

"That's just as well!" Pig slaughterer," Wang Linsheng said.

At this time, his father Tian Hezhuang had driven the pig to the side of the big bench, "pig killer" Wang Linsheng said "catch the bench!", only to see the "pig killer" stretched out his left leg to straddle the big bench, both hands twisted the pig's ears, the same posture of the big Uncle Tian Muzhuang straddled the left leg with both hands to catch the pig's front left leg, the second Uncle Tian Shuizhuang caught the pig's hind leg at the end, because the pig was too fat and too big, the three people seemed to be very difficult, especially the second Uncle Tian Shuizhuang who caught the hind leg was almost kicked by the pig on an upside fork, Tian Limai, who was watching from the side and didn't move, saw it, stepped forward in two steps to prepare to help the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang, and his father Tian Hezhuang on the side saw it and hurriedly shouted: "Mai'er, you are not allowed to move!"

Tian Hezhuang's voice was anxious, Tian Limai hurriedly stopped, and then his father Tian Hezhuang, who was lame on his left leg, went up, grabbed the pig's right hind leg with both hands, and saw that Tian Hezhuang caught the pig's right hind leg, and immediately caught the pig's left hind leg, the pig's strength can be said to be on the two hind legs, and the two hind legs were stopped, so they had to be slaughtered!

The fat pig was turned over on the left side and made on the big bench, and Uncle Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer", pressed the pig's head with his left hand, and picked up the longer flat-pointed knife cut on the pig's blood wooden basin with his right hand, and bit the knife on his mouth, and then adjusted the position of the wooden basin, and took the knife out of his mouth with his right hand!

At this time, the pig knew that the end was coming, and let out a heart-rending scream, which was enough to make all the people in Shangsitai understand: Today is Tian Limai's family killing the New Year's pig!