Chapter 36: Dividing the Meat
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Shen Yunfang went home and began to think about what to do with these things at home.
When eating, the eldest mother had already taken the initiative to take on the work of helping her raise chickens, Shen Yunfang looked at the pheasants that were fluttering blindly, and her heart was horizontal, anyway, she couldn't raise them for a few days, so don't waste food, kill chickens.
She went to the house to change her clothes, then boiled a pot of hot water in the hall, and then rolled up her arms and sleeves to go to the West House to catch pheasants.
She is familiar with this work, when her parents opened a farm, she helped kill chickens.
Holding the cockscomb and chicken wings in his right hand, he plucked the hair on the pheasant's neck a few times with his left hand, and with a strong right hand, he pushed the chicken's neck out, picked up a kitchen knife, cut off the tracheaesophagus and blood vessels with a knife, and took the bowl at home to catch the chicken's blood, until there was no blood flowing out, and then threw the pheasant in his hand into the yard and let it flutter on its own.
Then she went to catch other pheasants.
After bleeding one by one, put the dead pheasants into hot water to remove their hair, and when they are cleaned, they will be disemboweled, and the internal organs will be removed, and after they are cleaned, they will be thrown directly into a clean basket in the space.
As for the leeks and lettuce in the West House, she wanted to wait for the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month to be picked, and the leeks could be cut one more stubble, and she didn't plan to take the leek roots with her, let them rest for a while, and plant them when she came back. Lettuce can be raised for three days, although it is smaller, but it is the same to eat.
As for the earthworms, she has no good way, she can only take them away with the jar, and then look at the situation, if the conditions allow, she will continue to raise, if not, let the earthworms "hibernate", and when the spring of next year comes, she will prepare all the family styles and do a big job.
On the twenty-sixth day of the next lunar month, Uncle Shen's family killed pigs, and Shen Yunfang, as a relative, must have gone to help, and ate a meal by the way.
Now in addition to Shen Yunfang, every family in Gaijiatun raises at least one pig, which is to be handed over to the state, and Uncle Shen's family has two pigs in good condition. One is an old sow, keeping the cubs to sell for money, and the other is going to kill and hand over raw meat directly to the state, so that his family can still leave some pork to eat for the New Year, and it is not a year in vain.
Seeing a few big men pressing a big fat pig, the white knife in and the red knife out, she was not afraid at all, but thought in her heart, next year she wants to see if she can raise two pigs in the mountains, so that she can sell or eat a lot of herself. Well, make a note of it, and next year you will have to give a variety of sweet potatoes to the pig as rations.
When leaving, Shen Yunfang in addition to rubbing a full meal, she also spent three yuan to buy a whole pair of pig water and four pig trotters, these are not valuable things, and few people like to eat, the first is that it is not good to clean up, and the other is that people are short of oil and water now, and they want to eat fatty meat, so Shen Yunfang said that she wanted to buy pig water, and Aunt Shen readily agreed, and finally gave two big bones.
Shen Yunfang received fifteen yuan from Li Hongjun mail, and her pocket was a little bulging, thinking that no matter how poor she was, she would celebrate the New Year, and she couldn't afford to eat meat, so she could still buy some of these pigs in the water.
Although the things are not valuable, Shen Yunfang likes them. After going home, I threw the clean bones into the space, and began to clean up the pigs in the water, and threw them into the space when I was done, planning to cook a big meal for myself on the day of the New Year.
On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the production team killed pigs and sheep in the morning, according to centimeters, two big fat pigs, the meat added up to 300 catties, pigs in the water, pig trotters are not counted. The six sheep are not too fat, and the total number of bones and meat is about 350 catties.
There are only more than 40 households in Gaijiatun, so if you calculate it, each family can also get about six catties of meat.
When the meat was divided, some villagers complained that Shen Yunfang, a little girl, could buy six catties of meat.
Shen Yunfang herself understands, so in front of everyone, she told her uncle that she wants less meat, she is alone, she wants three catties of meat, plus a pair of pigs in the water.
Under everyone's pitiful eyes, Shen Yeqing nodded a little sadly, and finally cut the best five-layer three-layer meat on the pig for Shen Yunfang, a pair of pigs into the water, and gave her two more pig trotters and a pig tail.
The mutton villagers were generally unhappy, so Shen Yunfang really got more than six catties of mutton, and privately exchanged some mutton chops and haggis with people who didn't like to eat mutton.
When she was fine in the afternoon, Shen Yunfang thought of a question, the wheat she shared had not yet been ground into white flour, which made her make dumplings during the New Year.
When she goes to the city tomorrow, she won't be able to grind her noodles.
After thinking about it, she picked up the thirty catties of wheat at home and went to Aunt Wang's house.
"Yun Fang is here. Aunt Wang sat on the kang, and saw that it was Yun Fang who pushed the door in, and the girl greeted, "Hey, what are you carrying?" She saw the bag behind Yun Fang.
"Wheat. Shen Yunfang put the bag on the ground.
"What are you doing here?" Aunt Wang was a little puzzled.
"Yun Fang is here. At this time, the daughter-in-law pushed the door and came in, and she had just been lying in that room with the child for a while.
"Hey, sister-in-law. Shen Yunfang said hello to the visitor, and then told Aunt Wang the purpose of this trip, "Auntie, seeing the New Year, I forgot to grind wheat into flour, what should I do." ”
"Hey, you said you kid, why didn't you forget anything, aren't you going to the county tomorrow, and you won't rush to get these now. Aunt Wang said with a frown.
"There's nothing I don't want to rush, I'll go to grind noodles with Yun Fang now, and the stall will be dark, so I can finish it." "The daughter-in-law of the big bolt is a Mali person, and she picked up the bag on the ground and beckoned Yunfang to leave.
"That's okay, how much can you grind, this kid, it's the same as not having a long heart. Aunt Wang finally muttered a few words.
There is a big grinding disc in the village production team, and anyone can come to grind wheat, and after grinding, go home and use a sieve to go through it, and it is flour.
The two of them took turns to push and grind, and the daughter-in-law of the big bolt was stronger than Shen Yunfang, and she was tired more.
By the time the flour was sifted through at Wang's house, it was already dark.
The daughter-in-law had to leave Shen Yunfang to eat, but she couldn't refuse, so she stayed and ate.
The Wang family eats Wowotou, this Shen Yunfang really hasn't made it herself, so it tastes very fragrant.
When she got home, she thought that she was going to the county tomorrow, and she didn't know what the conditions were there, so she had to prepare something for herself first. So she used the big iron pot at home to steam two pots of steamed buns with two noodles that night, one pot of eight large steamed buns, leaving two for herself to eat at night, and letting her put the rest in the space.
Then he took out a nest melon and a few potatoes and sweet potatoes from the cellar, and stewed them indiscriminately, and the rest of the food was received in the space along with the plates.
Thinking that she can't be at home during the New Year, no one will burn the fire at home in the next month, and everything that is afraid of freezing at home will have to be dealt with, so she cut the remaining seven sauerkraut into thin strips at night, and after passing the water, she put it in a ball and put it in the space, and the sauerkraut water in the tank let her pour it into the drainage ditch outside the yard.
There are also potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes and other things at home, she took almost a month's supply, and the rest was still put in the cellar.
She did this and worked until it was dark, and then she felt that she hadn't slept for a few hours, so she got up again in a flicker, went to the Westinghouse to work, cut the leeks again, and dug out the leek roots and threw them into the space, so that it could recuperate on its own. The lettuce is cut off from the roots, the roots are pulled out and thrown outside, if only there was a pig at home, these things cannot be wasted.
The chickens were bundled and waited to be carried to the eldest mother's house, and the pickle jar on the kang was wrapped in the only big kang quilt in the family, and was brought to the county together when the second cousin came to pick her up.