Chapter 16: Wild Boar Belly
After a while, the village chief led two people to carry Wang Bajin, who began to scream again, back.
came to Zhang Taiping and patted Zhang Taiping's arm and said, "Dashuai, you did a good job, you saved eight catties and protected Baogu." Didn't smear your dad's face. ”
Then he turned around and said to a group of people who were still discussing excitedly around the wild boar: "The wild boar is not a precious animal, and now that it is dead, go back and peel the skin, and every family can get a share of the meat." It's just that what I saw tonight was put back in my stomach, and if anyone spread the word out of the village, don't blame me, an old fellow, for not showing mercy when the time comes. Did you hear that? ”
The further you go to a village like this, the greater the authority of the village chief, after all, there is a shadow of clan rule in it. A group of people all slapped their chests. Even if there is no explanation from the village chief, it is estimated that no one rushed out to stab him, Zhang Taiping's toughness, but it is obvious to all, no one is confident that he will be more ferocious than a crazy wild boar.
After the village chief spoke, he began to arrange for the rotation of people to carry the wild boar back.
Out of the cornfield and onto the main road. Zhang Taiping picked up the car and walked with Wang Peng at the end. Take out the cigarette and light one for each person. After taking a puff, Wang Peng put the cigarette in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully. Then exclaimed.
"The handsome guy has made a fortune, and he has smoked soft China."
"Send your big head, the cigarette can't stop your mouth, this is a friend who sent it."
After a while, Wang Peng couldn't help but ask, "Big handsome guy, why haven't you gone to the countryside during this time?" ”
Although the words were only half-spoken, Zhang Taiping knew what he meant, and was asking him why he hadn't been to the mahjong parlor recently. Wang Peng also went to the house to look for him before, but Zhang Taiping has always been like a girl hidden in the boudoir, and he couldn't see him at all, so he was rejected by Cai Yazhi.
Zhang Taiping said: "I won't go anywhere in the future." ”
"It's hard to find a handsome guy again?" Wang Peng asked, "I also feel that there is a problem in that hall, if I had a handsome guy like you, I would have smashed his mother a long time ago." If you don't call a few more handsome guys, we will also open a mahjong parlor and make money. ”
Zhang Taiping stopped and slapped him on the back of the head with a snap.
"I know how to gamble all day long, don't you know what to do?" Zhang Taiping was a little angry and reprimanded, "What about opening a mahjong parlor, do you have the funds?" Do you think you don't need money to buy mahjong? Zhang Taiping only knew how to reprimand Wang Peng, and completely forgot what kind of virtue he was before.
Wang Peng rubbed the back of his head, like an angry little daughter-in-law and said; "If we don't go to the casino, what are we doing then?"
Zhang Taiping pushed the car forward again and said, "Think of some legitimate ways to make some money and save it." Twenty years old, right? In two years, marry a daughter-in-law and have a baby. ”
"Who doesn't want to marry a daughter-in-law, but where does the money come from?" Wang Peng replied truthfully.
"That's why you are asked to find a way to make money and save some money. Go to the mahjong parlor all day, do you think you can leave money that day? Zhang Taiping said helplessly.
Wang Peng scratched his head and thought for a while, but he still didn't think of any way to make money, and said with a grin: "I can't think of a way, when the time comes, I will do whatever you want, handsome guy." ”
Zhang Taiping didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence. Zhang Taiping has the heart to take a hand, and he is also a little brother from childhood to adulthood. Orphans and widows have no family background. A stunned head like him will only be deceived after he goes out.
The wild boar was carried back to the small village, which added to the excitement. By the time Zhang Taiping went home, it was past nine o'clock. knocked on the door, his wife Cai Yazhi stepped back with an "ah", and the door was closed again with a bang.
Zhang Taiping, who was inexplicable, suddenly reacted, his face was covered with dirty blood, and it was strange that he didn't scare people to death when he knocked on the door at night. Hurriedly said loudly: "It's me, open the door." ”
There was a lot of confusion in the room, and then the door was opened again. His wife Cai Yazhi held a stabbing stick, and her fierce sister-in-law Cai Xiaomei simply took a kitchen knife. Zhang Taiping walked into the room and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”
Cai Xiaomei looked Zhang Taiping up and down, and said to Cai Yazhi: "Sister, this is a brother-in-law, and it can also scare you." ”
Cai Yazhi saw it clearly, hurriedly closed the door, and asked nervously with a gesture, "What's wrong with you?" Why did you shed so much blood? Seeing this, his face was bloodless with fright.
Zhang Taiping hurriedly explained: "When I came back just now, I encountered a wild boar scourge in the bud valley, and I also arched the king of the north of the village, so I slaughtered the wild boar, this blood is pig blood, don't worry, I have no injuries." ”
Cai Yazhi was still not at ease, pulled her clothes and looked at them carefully, and she was relieved to breathe a sigh of relief when she didn't see any wounds.
Seeing that his wife's face had returned to blood, Zhang Taiping said: "Make a basin of hot water, let me wash my face first, it will be uncomfortable to stick to my face." ”
The wife hurriedly went to the kitchen to get hot water, and Cai Xiaomei went into the bedroom and didn't come out again.
Dinner was noodle soup. It is to roll out the dough thinly, cut it into small slices two centimeters wide and seven or eight centimeters long, and then pour the vegetables that have been fried in advance into it and stir well. Generally, this is the case for dinner in rural Guanzhong. Zhang Taiping drank two bowls of soup and noodles, plus two pot helmets to be full.
After putting down the bowl, he stopped his wife, who was preparing to wash her feet, and asked her to close the door of the courtyard. He put a towel on his shoulder and went out from the backyard, fighting with the big wild boar for so long, covered in blood, sweat, and mud, and went to the upper reaches of the river to take a cool bath. I was a little sleepy when I came back and fell asleep at the end of the day.
Early the next morning, Zhang Taiping was practicing boxing in the orchard, and the girl ran over and shouted: "Dad, the village chief is looking for you in the house." ”
Zhang Taiping stopped practicing, put on short sleeves, put the girl around his neck, and ran back to the house, leaving a crisp and cheerful laugh like a yellow bird all the way.
Zhang Taiping could guess the old village chief's intention, it was nothing more than to send some meat. Before you entered the door, you could hear the hearty laughter of the old village chief, "Niece, don't push it, this meat is what your family deserves, and the whole wild boar is slaughtered by your family." ”
After Zhang Taiping entered the house, the village chief said again: "Handsome, I skinned that guy last night, and left you the whole hind leg and pig's head, and the pork belly was also given to you." You don't have too little, after all, each family has to divide more or less, and after dozens of families, there is nothing left. ”
Zhang Taiping nodded, which was a promise.
The old village chief is over 50 years old, and the reason why he is called old is that he is an honorific title, and secondly, he has a very old face. In the countryside, people are generally older than those in the city, which is related to daily work and lack of maintenance.
The old village chief's surname is Wang Hanmin, and he had a very strong relationship with Zhang's father back then, and he has been a buddy for decades. Zhang's father has been gone for many years, and he has taken care of the Zhang family. 20,000 yuan was lent out, and he never came to ask for it. He has a good prestige in the village, and he is fair and proper. Zhang Taiping had a good impression of him.
Seeing Zhang Taiping nodding, the old village chief stood up and said, "Okay, the things have been delivered, I should go back." Eight catties of leg bones are cracked, and I will have to see it later. ”
Zhang Taiping sent the old village chief out of the courtyard, returned to the house, picked up the pork belly and looked at it carefully. Wild boar belly is the stomach of a pig. That's a good thing. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the pork belly surname is slightly warm and sweet, which has the effect of stopping gastritis and strengthening the stomach and replenishing deficiency.
Wild boars with crusty fur and thick skin have a very miscellaneous food surname, bamboo shoots, herbs, bird eggs, mushrooms, hares, mountain rats, poisonous snakes, centipedes, as long as they can eat everything. Although scientists now have no consensus on whether wild boars are immune to toxins. But judging from the fact that wild boars did not die because of eating poisonous food, the stomach of wild boars can be said to be invulnerable to all poisons and retreat from all evils.
It is said that after the wild boar swallows the poisonous snake, the teeth of the poisonous snake will bite the inner wall of the wild boar's belly, and the wild boar belly soaked in various Chinese herbs for a long time has its own set of methods for healing the wound, which will give birth to granulation tissue at the base of the wound, and then form fibrous tissue and scar tissue, leaving a "Ding" character on the gastric mucosa on the surface of the stomach.
Modern medicine has also shown that the substances in pork belly can help digestion and promote metabolism, especially for gastric bleeding, gastric ulcers, intestinal ulcers and other ulcers have certain pharmacological effects.
Because the wild boar has no scruples about eating, the pork belly is very fishy, and special techniques are needed to deal with the fishy smell and not hurt its nutrition. I don't know if others will Zhang Taiping, but he will, and there is a relevant record in the medicine book in the back room.
As for the hind legs of wild boars, they are all lean meat. Wild boars run through the mountains and forests all year round, and the excess fat is completely burned, leaving only strong muscles. And the domestic pigs are kept in a small world, in addition to eating and sleeping, what they eat grows to the body, so the fat is thick.
As a result, wild boars have a much longer growth cycle than domestic pigs. Comparatively speaking, the meat of wild boars is chewy, but rough; The meat of domestic pigs is more than delicate, but it is too much fat, too greasy and not chewy, with the improvement of people's living standards in the city, people gradually reject domestic pork.
So some people crossed wild boars with domestic pigs, and the meat produced by the next generation was both tough and delicate, not too greasy. Now this kind of farming is being promoted, and the meat produced is widely loved by the public.
No matter what the needs of the city dwellers are, in such a remote mountain village, as long as it is meat, whether it is domestic pork or wild boar, whether it is lean meat or fatty meat, the villagers welcome it. Most people always measure the level of the whole society by their own standard of living and the small circle they come into contact with. A few people can imagine that in an age when most people choose vegetables instead of pork, there are still countless people who have a luxury to eat meat once a month.
Zhang Taiping looked at his smiling wife and the little girl who seemed to be dripping with saliva, and his heart was warm. As long as it is what they want, not to mention just a small wild boar, even if it is the whole world, Zhang Tianping dares to pestle it with his strength.
Squatted down and scratched the little girl's nose and asked, "What do you want to eat, Dad will cook it for you at noon." ”
"Pork stewed vermicelli!" The little girl said without thinking.
Zhang Taiping couldn't help but feel pity again, in the heart of the little girl, the best thing to eat is not KFC, not McDonald's, but pork stewed vermicelli that the children in the city have long known.
Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Okay, at noon, Dad will make you pork stewed vermicelli, as well as braised pork trotters." Make sure you still eat it. ”
"Well, Daddy is the best." The little girl's pink little tongue licked her lips and nodded fiercely.
"Okay," Zhang Taiping said to his wife with a smile, "You wash the meat, I bought a bag of rice yesterday, and I will cook a few dishes and eat rice at noon." ”
After speaking, without waiting for Cai Yazhi and Cai Xiaomei to ask rhetorically, they pushed the door and walked to the back room, it is useless to say more now, and it will be proved after it is made at noon.