Chapter 236: Xiao Nian
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As soon as the howling of the pig spread, the people in the village knew who was going to kill the pig, and the children who loved to watch the excitement couldn't sit still, and ran to watch the sound one after another.
This scene of killing pigs is still very bloody in the eyes of some people, but rural people are not so particular, and no one will stop them if they want to see it.
Yaya's little face was a little pale, with a surprised expression, but her eyes were wide open, and she didn't blink, and a few girls crowded aside to watch.
The black starling on her shoulder is ugly and ugly, and when she saw that there were more people next to her, she opened her throat and shouted: "Kill the New Year pig!" Kill the New Year's pig! ”
Ye Tianfu made a small opening in the hind leg of the pig, inserted an iron skewer into the pig's body, and then used a bamboo pipe to blow air into it, and after the pig's belly was rounded, he tied the mouth with a rope.
Then they carried the pig to a door panel, drenched it with boiling water, and shaved it with knives as they drenched.
After shaving the big pig white, Ye Tianfu hooked the pig's hind legs with an iron hook, then hung it upside down on a ladder, and began to carefully disembowel, taking out the pig's internal organs, large and small intestines one by one.
After hollowing out the internal organs, Ye Quan Tianfu cut off the pig's head, and then used a boning knife to cut along the pig's vertebrae and split it in half.
At this time, Ye Quan dropped the work in his hand and said with a smile: "Tingting, you go to the stove to shovel some coals, and I will roast lazy tendons and pork liver for you." ”
Ye Ting hurriedly went when she heard this, and the "lazy tendons" that Ye Quan said referred to the bone marrow in the pig's vertebrae, like a big white tendon, sprinkled with a little fine salt. Then put on the red-hot charcoal to roast, fragrant, tender and smooth, that taste is absolutely delicious, people will never taste, fresh pork liver is also a good ingredient for barbecue.
Ye Ting used a broken iron basin to bring charcoals, Ye Quan found some long bamboo sticks, and called the children who came over to watch to do it themselves, and each person tasted two or three pieces.
After splitting it in half, Ye Tianfu began to debone and cut the meat, only to see him use the bone chopping knife for a while. A pointed boning knife will be used to separate the pork legs, pork ribs and pig scalp one by one in a very short time.
After the large intestine is cleaned, it begins to pour blood, and then boils it with other internal organs, pig skulls and some pig offal are used for the noon hunting feast, and pork legs, ribs and internal organs are used for the New Year, and fat is boiled in oil. The part with the skin is divided into three or four catties. Smear it with raw salt, string it with bamboo strips, hang it above the fire pit and use fireworks to make it, and some people like to hang two strings of small intestines or other parts, which will be the best for drinking next year.
Ye Quan found a big name, weighed ninety catties of pork, asked for some for almost every part, and then counted the meat money for Ye Mingcheng according to the market price.
Ye Mingcheng refused to accept it, and he now has the position of a supervisor in the planting base. Every month, the fixed salary is over 5ooo yuan, which is definitely a high salary in rural areas, and the main job is to take some villagers to be responsible for the harvesting, measurement and loading of vegetables. Ye Mingcheng naturally understood that this was his nephew taking care of himself.
Seeing that his cousin insisted on not accepting it, Ye Quan forgot it, although "the brothers should settle the accounts", but it was not good to be too clear. will look rusty, he will take out some space food from time to time to give to Ye Mingcheng's family, he can't also collect money, and he is more like a relative when he has dealings.
In the afternoon, the village gave each family a bamboo money and tree money, each person is 18o yuan, Ye Quan's family of five got 9oo yuan, although the money is not much, but it is always a happy event, ordinary people have this money, enough to have a good year.
Cao Weiqin was very envious and said: "It's better to be in Taoyuan Village, our village has never shared any bamboo money." ”
Today is a small year, also known as the festival of the stove, the festival of the stove king, etc.
Because of the different customs and habits, the festivals called the small year are not the same, in the past, there was also the saying of "the official three people, the four boats and the five", that is to say, the official family's small year is the twenty-third of the lunar month, the common people's family is the twenty-fourth lunar month, and the water people are the twenty-fifth lunar month.
Like the north, before the Southern Song Dynasty, it was the center of politics, and it was heavily affected by the official atmosphere, so the small year was mostly the twenty-third day of the lunar month; On the contrary, the south is far away from the political center, and the small year is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month; The residents along the lake, such as Poyang Lake, have retained the tradition of the boat family, and the new year is set on the 25th day of the lunar month.
There are also many areas that call the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month a small year, and the winter solstice is also called a small year.
In the Yue'an region, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month was not until the beginning of the year, and on this day he sacrificed to the king of the stove, and sent his old man to the heavenly court to report to the Jade Emperor about the good and evil deeds of the master's family in this year, and it was not until the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve that he returned again.
In order to make the Lord of the Stove "say good things to heaven and return to the palace to be auspicious", people must use a kind of sugar or sweet cake in their offerings, so that their "sweet mouth" can only say good things.
In the past, there were people in Yequan's hometown who specialized in making zuò maltose, but now it is rare to see, and most of them are replaced by brown sugar.
Folklore has it that once you are sued by the Lord of the Stove, your life will be reduced by 300 days for major sins and 100 days for minor crimes.
The ancients believed in "raising the head and three gods", so the folk customs are simple, and now people have no sense of awe, coupled with rampant materialism, morality has been reduced to the point that even the old man does not dare to help him fall.
After the New Year, it also means the prelude to the big year, the Spring Festival is the agricultural slack period, until the end of the Lantern Festival, this period is considered the New Year, perhaps this is one of the reasons for the strong flavor of the rural New Year.
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Early this morning, after Ye Quan's family and Cao Weiqin finished breakfast, they brought some gifts and prepared to go to Longtian Village to pick up their grandmother for the New Year.
The general custom in the Nanyueling area is to pick up grandparents for the Dragon Boat Festival or Chongyang Festival, but during the Dragon Boat Festival this year, the old man was a little uncomfortable, so he didn't come to Taoyuan Village, and when he arrived in Chongyang, Ye Mingchang's family returned to Yue'an City, and the old man has always been reluctant to go to the city, and he didn't agree.
I had already agreed with the two uncles about the time, and Ye Quan drove the Range Rover and spent more than an hour to arrive at Longtian Village.
Ye Quan's cousin, Cao Weikai, 28, is a supervisor at an electronic toy company in eastern Guangdong Province and has just returned to his hometown for two days.
Cousin-in-law Tang Zhaoxiang is from the county and has been pregnant for four months, which adds more joy to the Cao family's Spring Festival this year.
Ye Quan's textile and garment factory in the county town is still in the preparatory stage, and there is a shortage of manpower, Ye Quan called Cao Weikai half a month ago, asking them and his wife to resign from their jobs and go to work in the county seat at that time.
Nourished by the space food, when we met again, my grandmother seemed to be ten years younger, the old age spots on the original face have faded and almost disappeared, the old man has severe rheumatism in his legs, some inconvenience in movement, and stomach cold, anemia and insomnia.
Listening to the old man, now eat fragrantly, have good energy, sleep well, and no longer get up at night, except for some dull pain in the joints on rainy days, the legs have moved freely on ordinary days.
Although I knew the situation on the phone, Ye Quan's family was extremely happy to see the old man's health and spirit, especially Ye Quan, who hurt him the most since he was a child, when he was in elementary school, when he had a long vacation, he spent almost a quarter of his time at his grandmother's house, and the relationship with the old man was the best.