In the West Market in Luoyang's Houzaimun, there is a Zhang butcher who kills pigs in the meat market.

The long tiger's back and bear's waist are extremely burly and strong, especially on a face, with a beard and beard.

With thick lips, garlic nose, slightly red hair, leopard head and ringed eyes, it is very powerful and a little bearded.

The first day of the first day can always make people's hearts swoon.

The Wei army has attacked Xiyuan outside Luoyang City, although Hanjiacang City is still in the hands of Wang Shichong, but the prime minister refused to send grain to the people, only to supply his military horses, so the people are living in poverty.

The West Market, South Market, and North City have long since lost their prosperity, not to mention that the grain market has long been priceless and has no market, and even the meat market has few people.

Some butchers then came up with the idea of human flesh, either bribing the people taken captive from outside the city to slaughter and sell the meat, or simply selling the corpses dug up from mass graves outside the city as mutton.

The people in Luoyang City also know that this kind of mutton is called a two-legged sheep.

However, Butcher Zhang only sells pork.

I don't know where his pork comes from, but he sells a pig every day. And it is slaughtered directly in front of the market stall, and people must have helpers to kill pigs, some pull pig ears, some pull pig hooves, and lift the buttocks, and lift the head pig screaming on the shelf, and then the red knife goes in and the white knife comes out.

But Butcher Zhang is different, he kills pigs alone, and he doesn't want anyone to help.

Early in the morning, he kills pigs and always attracts many people to watch.

Almost every day, he stepped on the morning drum and went into the city to come to the West Market, and he carried a bamboo basket with a pig-killing hook on his shoulder, which contained his pig-killing guys, sharp knives and butcher knives, as well as scraping blades.

While carrying the basket, he drove the pigs.

The pig is always magical, whether it is a white pig or a black pig, he does not take a rope to tie it, just behind it, and the pig walks honestly in front, neither impartiality nor bias.

Before and after arriving at his stall, he took out a small wooden hammer from the basket, which was not very large, and then he touched the pig's head with the hammer in one hand and the other, and would whisper a few words to it next to the pig's head, and then raise the hammer and fall down with a hammer.

The hammer struck the pig on the head, and it didn't take much effort, but the pig suddenly straightened up on all fours, and then fell straight to the ground.

At this time, Butcher Zhang took the sharp knife out of the basket and stabbed it in, without screaming and hissing, and the pig's blood came out. Zhang Tuzi hooked a large wooden basin with one foot and put it underneath, so all the pig's blood went into the wooden basin.

When the blood was drained, Butcher Zhang cut a small hole in the pig's trotters, blew on the mouth with his mouth, and after a while, the pig swelled up and rolled round.

Here, there will be a woman in Zhang's shop, who will pour the freshly boiled hot water into a large wooden barrel. Then Zhang Tu directly carried the pig with his arm and lifted the wooden basin filled with boiling water, and began to pour water on the pig with a scoop.

The water vapor is filled, and there are always many people who stop to watch in amazement.

While it is hot, Butcher Zhang will tear off the bristles on the pig's neck and back and put them in a basket. The brush made of this bristle is very hard and easy to use.

After pulling the bristles, you have to shave off the freshly boiled pork hairs with a hot latte spatula.

Zhang Tuzi shaved very strongly, skillfully, a scrape past, regardless of his white pig and black pig, he will reveal a white and pure pig skin, and it will not be scratched at all.

After a while, the pig's hair was shaved clean, and then the butcher Zhang moved the pig to a shelf, pinned the pig's trotter shell, and then picked up the butcher's knife, chopped off four pig's trotters from the leg and knee up, and tied them together with straw, which was for the old customers of the restaurant.

Then take a knife at the junction of the pig's head and neck, cut a circle, twist the two ears and twist it, and the whole pig's head will be unloaded, and the pig's head is also reserved for old customers.

Every time he takes off the pig's head, he will also help the customer split the head and take out the dirty things in the pig's head, so the pig's head becomes two flat faces, squinting his eyes, and seems to be smiling at Zhang Tuzi.

Next, Butcher Zhang began to sell meat.

He is also very special in selling meat.

It is not like other butchers, disemboweling the pig, and then spreading the two pieces of meat on the cutting board, with the belt bones and some intestines or something, to sell to others.

Butcher Zhang sells meat, but he only sells meat, not bones or miscellaneous.

His butcher's knife is only used to chop pigs' heads.

When he sells meat, he has a knife with a cow's ear in his hand.

Everyone lined up to buy meat, and he took the sharp knife in his hand and cut it down with three or two knives, so a piece of meat came down, regardless of whether you wanted fat or thin or five-flower, or anterior or buttocks, you could cut it wherever you pointed to.

In addition, Zhang Tuzi also has a characteristic of selling meat, you say how much you want, how much he will cut down with a few knives, and he will weigh it on the scale, no more, no less, and there has never been a mistake.

It won't be long before the meat is sold out.

Then there was a complete pig skeleton without a head and legs, Bai Sensen's was very complete, and those pork belly, pork liver, pig heart, pig intestines, lard, pig blood, pig heart, pig lungs, these were all left.

No matter how much others want to buy it, Zhang Tuzi ignores it.

Zhang Tuzi would give these things to the woman in his shop, who helped boil the pig's blood in the morning, and then when the pigs were finished and the stall was closed, she began to sell breakfast.

The breakfast she makes is very distinctive, with noodles boiled with pig blood and pig intestines, and soup made from pork bones and pork offal such as pig heart and pig lungs, which are eaten in cakes.

Sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions in the soup, or add some garlic sprouts, but the taste is extremely fragrant, especially the oil flowers floating on it, passers-by will can't help but take a long breath of aroma and swallow a mouthful of saliva. Many people couldn't help but stop and come in to eat a bowl or two.

Zhang Tuzi sells meat, because the meat is not sold with bone miscellaneous, so it has always been more expensive.

But surprisingly, the business has always been very good, the business was amazingly good before, many people persuaded him to kill a few more, but Zhang Tuzi still couldn't move every day and only killed a pig.

And now that Luoyang is short of grain, Zhang Tu is still able to have a pig a day, which is surprising.

Many big families in Luoyang City want to buy more or even wrap his meat, but Zhang Tuzi always smiles and does not agree, he still gives priority to his old customers every day, and sells the rest to the guests queuing in front of the stall, and they are limited to buying less than five catties per person per day.

The West Market is getting more and more depressed.

But Zhang Tuzi's stall is still as good as ever, and business is becoming more and more prosperous.

The price of his pork has also risen a lot, in the past, rich people were reluctant to eat pork, but now, it is good to eat pork, it is better than two-legged sheep, so many government yamen also come to purchase, and some large officials have sent people to buy, but no matter who comes, they still have to follow his rules.

Despite this, Zhang Tuzi's stall has not been smashed by anyone, business is still the same every day, and there are always many people queuing up every day.

Even after buying meat, many people have to sit down and wait for the woman to cook a bowl of pork red rice rolls, or a bowl of pork bone and pork offal soup to eat.

Whenever after killing the pig and selling the meat, Zhang Tuzi also tied an apron and began to help the woman wipe the table.

Regardless of whether he is a servant of the General's Mansion or a servant in the yamen, Zhang Tuzi can always talk.

Pei Renji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is also a man with five big and three thick personalities, and he doesn't put on a shelf every time he comes, and he always shouts after queuing up to buy meat, give me a bowl of pig blood and intestine powder, and then a bowl of pork bone heart-lung soup.

Frequent visitors would laugh at him, saying that he must have embezzled the money he had purchased.

Lao Liu has never been annoyed, sitting there chatting with everyone.

Today, after Lao Liu finished buying meat, he ordered a bowl of noodles and a bowl of soup as usual.

"Lao Liu, help me carry this shelf to the back." Zhang Tuzi called him.

Lao Liu then got up, and the two of them carried a shelf to the small courtyard behind the shop, and when there was no one in the back, the bearded Zhang Tu said, "General Pei Xiao has been awarded the title of Xingyang Taishou by the emperor, and sent 4,000 Donglai sailors to escort him and lead an elite team to Luoyang to respond, how is Pei Shangshu's preparation?"

Lao Liu listened and nodded.

"Xiao Langjun is here, but the number of victories has increased greatly, my family Langjun was recently seized by Wang Shichong of military power, and was awarded the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but my family Langjun has many old departments in the army, and now he has contacted a lot of people, as long as he raises his arms, he can still respond to a hundred calls."

"What has Wang Shichong been doing lately?"

Lao Liu said, "What else can I do, I am still guarding against Li Mi, but now that the periphery of Luoyang has been lost one after another, Wang Shichong has been defeated one after another, and he can't hold it anymore." It is said that he wanted to be emperor. ”

"Emperor? Will the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang support him? ”

Lao Liu said with a smile, "Wang Shichong is a person, he has the ability, but he is by no means a true dragon emperor." In fact, Lu Chu and Yuanwen are all plotting now, Wang Shichong has already found out something, and my family Langjun said that he seems to be planning a counterattack. ”

Zhang Tuzi tugged at his beard.

"It doesn't matter, Lu Chuyuan, Wendu, these people, in fact, are just our pro-army governor's mansion pulled out to confuse the sight and muddy the waters. Now that Wang Shichong has noticed it, it is even better, you can go back and tell Pei Shangshu and ask him to report Lu Chu and the others to Wang Shichong, so as to gain Wang Shichong's trust. ”

"Is that good?" Lao Liu asked.

He is Pei Renji's old subordinate, because he was injured before, so he retired from the army, and now he is ostensibly purchased from Pei Renji's mansion, but in fact, he has been secretly in contact with the governor's mansion of the Great Qin pro-army.

"If you can get Wang Shichong's trust, even a little bit of trust, it will be of great help to the next thing. As for Lu Chu Yuanwen and these people, they are not good birds, it doesn't matter. ”

The bearded guest said unconcernedly.

"Okay, I'll pass on the news to Lang Jun when I go back."

Lao Liu and Zhang Tuzi walked out of the backyard laughing together, and at this time, the woman also made Lao Liu's soup powder.

"Wow, it's still the same incense." Lao Liu sat down, sniffed straight, and said with admiration, and the old customers around him all cheered in unison.

"I hope this shop can continue to open, even if the price rises, I will come to eat."

"yes, even if you suddenly can't eat it one day."

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