Chapter Seventy-Seven: Killing Pigs Years Ago
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With about ten days left at the end of the year, every household in Hegu Village began to get busy. Prepare for the New Year's food and drink, paste window flowers, paste couplets, and from time to time a few small children in the village secretly set off scattered small firecrackers.
The courtyard on the mid-level platform is no exception, and the house has to be cleaned every year, which means that this year sweeps away the disasters and difficulties of the next year to welcome the arrival of the new year.
A year's cleaning can remove a lot of garbage from the house, and then take it to the river beach and burn it in a pile. After the cleaning, the house is much cleaner, and there are fewer cobwebs on the roof beams.
As soon as the Chinese New Year arrives in Hegu Village, the business of the slaughterhouse in the village is unusually prosperous, there are still some families in the village who will raise a few pigs by themselves, and their own pigs are not the kind of pigs that are fed by hormone feed, all of them are fed with good forage, grain bran, wheat bran and even fruits and vegetables, although the body size is a little thin, but the taste is definitely not comparable to the feed pigs.
Yunyi made an appointment with Uncle Liu in the village in advance, he is a butcher in Hegu Village, and asked him to come to the mid-level platform tomorrow to kill pigs and sheep for his family.
Yunyi did not raise pigs himself, but bought a pig at Uncle Baogen's house in the village, and the three sheep were brought back from Hulu Valley, and he was going to kill the pig a few days in advance and invite a few respected old people in the village to come to the house for a meal.
In Hegu Village, this is also a custom that has been handed down in the village, in the past few years, Yunyi has been outside, and people in the village will come to invite the old man to eat when they kill pigs, and now that he is back, he should also return the favor.
The news in the village spread quickly, and it didn't take long for everyone to know that Yunyi would kill pigs and sheep tomorrow and invite the old man to dinner.
The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, Uncle Liu took his guy and came to the mid-mountain platform, Yun Yi and Chen Mu dug a stove on the ground outside the yard early, and then put the largest iron pot in the house on the stove and began to boil water.
Wait until the water boils, find a piece of waterproof tape, spread it on the ground, one end of the tape is connected to the iron pot, and the other end is slightly higher, so that when the pig's hair is scalded, the hot water will flow back into the iron pot along the tape, and the hot water will not be wasted.
Chen Ming, Chen Mu, Yun Yi and Uncle Liu are a total of four people. Uncle Liu, who was in charge, hooked the pig's chin with an iron hook at once, Chen Ming grabbed the pig's tail, Chen Mu and Yunyi held the pig's body, and together they lifted the pig of more than 300 catties onto the bench.
The pig on the stool kept shaking its body, howling and trying to break free; Uncle Liu opened the wrapped knives with a stack of fabrics, and when he spread them out, he saw that there were some commonly used knives, sharp knives, razors, laparotomy, etc., there were many samples, many of which Yunyi didn't know.
Killing pigs in the countryside is still the old way, unlike in the city, where you have to be corona and then killed. Uncle Liu directly replaced a slightly longer sharp knife and told Yunyi that they should press their hind legs or something, and don't wait for the boar to break free.
When the pig was lifted up to the bench, the whole pig was already lying on the bench, and the pig's neck was just aligned with the small wooden basin that had just been placed below; Uncle Liu pressed it directly under his neck, there was a gap there that seemed to bleed quickly, and when he stabbed the sharp knife, red pig's blood came out of the knife, and suddenly the whole Hegu Village could hear the roar of the pig.
The bleeding big pig kicked his legs, and the momentum was not ordinary, and Yunyi almost didn't hold it down; After a few minutes, the pig's strength was already small, and the legs began to cramp, and everyone could be relieved.
Take the wooden basin full of pig's blood back to the kitchen and put it on the stove, the next thing is the little thing of Uncle Liu's shaving, when shaving, Uncle Liu also asked Yunyi to bring a wooden ladder out and put it on the wall.
Shaving is very labor-saving, a black semi-curved iron sheet, brushing, brushing a few times, the hand hair seems to be very easy to use, other places are still simple and easy to get, just pig ears and pig heads, it really takes a lot of hard work.
After a while, the pig that was still black just now has become a white and fat pig; Uncle Liu turned out an iron chain hook in the bag, hooked the hook on the pig's hind leg bone, and then several people worked together to hang the pig on the top of the wooden ladder, cleaned the pig's body with clean water, and was ready to disembowel the pig.
Break open the pork belly, take out the internal organs, pig heart and lungs, pig liver, etc. in a large basin. After some fiddling, the pork was finally chopped into two or three catties, and then put it in a bamboo basket, and the killing of the pig was completed. Then three more sheep were slaughtered, and the process was similar to that of killing pigs.
After being busy, and the time was almost noon, Yun Yi went to the village to invite those old people to eat at home after saying a word to his grandfather.
In Hegu Village, the butcher will stay at the owner's house to eat pig blood soup after slaughtering the livestock, which is why the butcher is physically strong.
The weather is cold, and this meal is not good to eat in the compound, so Yun Yi placed two tables of eight immortals in the hall, prepared a table of good dishes, and took out the Baiguo wine brewed some time ago from the side room.
At noon, on the dinner table, pig blood soup, chili pork liver, chestnut pork lung soup, white-cut pork belly, plum cabbage large pieces of meat, as well as bubbling mushroom red soup mutton in a large casserole, several large plates of scallion fried haggis, and a pot of gas pot pheasant, and then fried some organic vegetables in the greenhouse; A table full of delicacies, with fruit wine on the side, eating meat and sipping fruit wine, made them feel that they were back when they were young.
In the afternoon, Yunyi called Li Mu and asked him to arrange for the people in the village who worked in the manor, the older ones all went home on vacation, and the younger ones took turns to work; The patrol task in the manor is temporarily handed over to Chen Ming and his staff.
The next day, when Yun Yi came to the manor to walk around the place where he had just arrived at the place where he raised golden chickens and peacocks, he saw Liu Gensheng who was cleaning in the circle, which made Yun Yi stunned for a moment.
"Uncle Gensheng, didn't I let the wood already give you a holiday, why did you come back." Yun Yi hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"Heh...! It's Xiaoyi! Did this unknown baby and his daughter-in-law go back to their parents' house, I am idle at home alone, so it is better to come and have a look. Liu Gensheng said.
"Dizzy, you've been busy this year, you can't rest when you're old?" Yunyi said speechlessly.
"I can't be idle, this person feels lonely when he gets old, and it's always good to have something to do." Liu Gensheng said with emotion.
"Alas, yes, so is your old man, after my aunt left, why didn't you find a wife anymore, it won't be like this now." Yunyi said.
"Heh...! I'm a poor old man, guarding a broken house and breaking the ground, isn't it harmful to find another one, besides, Ming Wazi was still young at the time, and I was afraid that it would not be good for him to find another one, and I wouldn't have the face to see your aunt at that time! Liu Gensheng said with a smile, his smile was soaked with a trace of helplessness and deep nostalgia.
"Then just take a look, stop working, the weather is a little cold, pay attention to your body." Yunyi said with concern.
"Alright! You go about it, I'll clean up here and go back! Liu Gensheng said.
"Huh? I still want to help, so I'm leaving? Yunyi said.
"What do you help, I didn't do all this before, there is a time when you go to the fruit grove in the valley to take a look, this day when it is cold, there is less food, some wild things will run into the field and spoil things, you have to let them pay attention." Liu Gensheng said.
"Well, listen to you, I'll go around, but you also have to listen to me, go home and rest after sweeping here!" Yun Yi turned around and left.
"Well... Good...! Listen to you! Liu Gensheng said perfunctorily.