Back to Sangou and Mingcheng eating banquet wine at the Shoucheng house, Sangou recalled these troubles when he was a child while eating, and couldn't help but shake his head, don't think about it, but this meal can't be eaten with peace of mind, the mouths of the partners who defend the city are too unclean, and they take Mingyue, the future daughter-in-law of the city, to open the city.

I was afraid that I couldn't help but fight, so I discussed it with Mingcheng, let's eat and leave early, Mingcheng also had this intention, so he stood up and hugged his fists with everyone and said:

"Everyone eat and drink well, we are full, let's go first."

The man said, "So soon, there are still a lot of dishes to be served, sit down again, and I'll have a drink with you." ”

"Thank you, thank you, I'm really full, I have something to do later, I have to go first."

"This big house is done, what can I do, I have to be happy and happy today, it's too hard for you to help defend the city and make the house, come on, I'll pour you another glass of wine......"

Looking at this situation, he was afraid that he would not be able to leave, so Sangou said independently: "We are ready to go back to Wa Village, it is almost the New Year, there are many things at home, and we have to go back to help the family do something." ”

As soon as I heard this, everyone was no longer easy to persuade, and the defenders of the city were also a little surprised, didn't they say that they would go back after a few days of free time? He said, "It's going to get dark soon, and I'll send you to Wacun with you in a few days during the day."

"No, you'll be busier next, we'll be home in half an hour while there's the moon," Sangou said.

Seeing that the three dogs are like this, it is no longer easy to hold on to defending the city, maybe people are really homesick, and it has been ten days since they came to help. The defender of the city took the bottle in one hand and the glass in the other, and said:

"In that case, we brothers won't say anything thank you, and we will give you a glass of wine at the end."

As he spoke, Shoucheng filled the wine glasses of Sangou and Mingcheng, and smothered two glasses of wine for the two of them, and Sangou Mingcheng had to immediately pick up the wine glass and drink it all.

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The moon was bright and clear in the sky, and both of them were a little blocked in their hearts, and they were speechless all the way; I was about to see my village, and I walked a few steps to get there, walking and walking, Mingcheng suddenly heard a plop, and the three dogs behind him fell to the ground with a horizontal foot, Mingcheng quickly turned around and grabbed the three dogs, afraid that he would roll into the deep pool next to him.

"You dead dog, you didn't drink a few sips tonight, you got drunk", Mingcheng was a little complaining.

"Hehe, Mingcheng, are you also drunk, who are you talking to?" , Sangou squinted his eyes and shook his head.

Looking at Sangou's cowardice, Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh secretly, and simply lay in the middle of the road like Sangou, looking at the bright moon in the sky, remembering the scene where he used to herd cattle and sheep and chop firewood with Sangou.

Although they can be self-sufficient in the countryside, there are many poor families, many children in the family have a lot of expenses, and the children who are half big cannot do heavy work, so the girls arrange to go to the pigweed, wash clothes, etc., and the little ghosts (boys) arrange to herd sheep, cattle, and chop wood.

At the end of the year, the pig is raised to be slaughtered, so please kill the pig (butcher) to kill, most of them just leave a pig head, pig tail, water (internal organs), a little pork, and the rest have to be bought at a price to kill the pig, this money is almost enough to buy salt for a year after deducting the money for catching piglets in the next year.

At that time, salt was very expensive, and a pound of salt had to be exchanged for eight catties of rice, so I usually tried to put as little salt as possible when cooking, (less oil, and the oil I squeezed at home can also be exchanged for money), put more chili peppers, this oil is less, and the chili peppers are fried for seven or eight minutes, that guy is the spicy that kills, so that you can eat, eat some chili, and a bowl of rice will be pulled out in a few clicks, and save more vegetables.

Pork is usually bought for pig killers, people will drag the cart to put pork, according to the household to buy, there are guests to come, the festival, there will always be someone to buy some. It's okay to make a little difference, and then you can't make some oil and water, and if you don't buy it all of a sudden, you can still improve your food.

At the end of the year, the demand for this pork is large, some do happy events and book whole pigs in advance, and there are no pigs in the town, and they want to buy meat to worship their ancestors and eat during the New Year.

Many of these happy events are arranged to be done at the end of the year, firstly, there are people to help and eat in the farm, and secondly, there are many fatty dishes of pork fat, fish and fish at this time.

There is also an abacus that can be played, that is, you can save yourself the cost of the New Year, a normal happy event more than ten or twenty tables of dishes, it is impossible to eat them all, the rest, you can eat slowly at home, anyway, the vegetables in winter will not be bad all of a sudden, so that there are meat and vegetarian food throughout the New Year, and the food is quite good.

At the end of the year, the family killed the pig, all have to kill the pig wine, that is, to make a table of dishes, invite relatives and friends to eat, this pig killing wine is particular, the best is the whole pig banquet, the dishes on the table try to take into account every part of the pig.

Of course, the freshest ingredient is the net pork, which is also delicious, and the steaming pig blood is still warm just after it has been coagulated; The large intestine of the pig also has the smell of stinky and fragrant pig hair; Stir-fried pork liver with chili peppers, tender and sweet; The fried waist flowers are tender and brittle; Large pieces of pork belly that give off an attractive color and aroma......

In short, with this pig-killing wine, you can eat meat and drink wine with an open stomach. Of course, some people are really short of money, so they will weigh the whole pig and sell it to the butcher at the price of gross weight (the weight of the fur together), and the price of the gross weight is of course lower than the price of a little net weight.

But even if the average person sells the whole pig, he will also spend money to buy some pork and go home to invite the pig wine, because he wants to return the gift, and he has eaten other people's pig wine before, and he can't deny it when it is his turn, otherwise, it will be difficult for other people's pig wine to come and invite you to eat in the future.

After killing the pig wine, the remaining pig's head and tail should be cooked and kept, and left on the day of the New Year to thank the New Year and worship the ancestors, after the end, the whole New Year can eat this pig's head. If there was still a lot of meat, how could it be stored without a refrigerator at that time?

Generally, it is mostly made of bacon and bacon; Marinating salted meat is to put pork in a meat tank with a barcode, a layer of meat and a layer of salt, and then seal the mouth of the tank with a lid, and press a heavy object such as a big stone, for fear of being eaten by dogs.

But at that time salt was too expensive, and not much bacon was made. However, the salted meat is really very enjoyable for the children in the village who lack meat to eat, and the marinated bacon is taken out and cut into thick slices, served in a bowl, and steamed on top of the rice in the rice bowl (a wooden barrel for steaming rice), the aroma is attractive enough.

There is a lot of pork fat raised by home, this salted meat bites down, a mouthful of oil, very enjoyable, the child has one or two pieces of food is enough, if you pour some salted meat steamed oil and juice, you can strip a few bowls of rice.

There are more bacon. The method is also simple, smear a little salt, hang it on the chimney on the stove, smoke it with smoke, and you can eat it almost by the middle of the year, and cut as much as you eat. After eating after steaming, the smell of firewood is very strong, and it is very enjoyable and delicious. Generally, there are guests who come, and children have the opportunity to eat bacon and bacon, which is rarely eaten in ordinary times.

However, if there are very distinguished and important guests, the children can also rub the chickens, ducks and geese such hard dishes, their own chickens, ducks and geese are generally used to lay eggs, ordinary guests can use pork eggs to entertain, VIPs come, such specifications are not good.

For example, for guests on a blind date, marrying is the top priority in the family, and the delay must not be neglected, at least there must be chickens, and no ducks and geese can be used. After sitting down, each person first comes to a bowl of stewed eggs, as tea, generally three or four eggs are beaten on the whole longan or dried lychee and other high-quality dry goods, add water and sugar to stew in the water.

In the main meal, the chicken leg is reserved for the main guests to eat, in this kind of high-level banquet, some people will invite the village respected elders to accompany the guests to talk, children are not allowed to go to the table, put dinner in the kitchen on the order, hurry up to eat and go out to play, the old dangling at home, will make people feel that there is no tutor.

As for cattle, sheep and dogs, dogs have been mentioned earlier, and the village says that dog meat is not served at the table, that is, dog meat is too cheap and dirty to be placed on the table to entertain guests, so it is just eaten by the dogs. Cattle are important production tools and even the backbone of a family, it is impossible to kill cattle to eat, only sick and bad or old cattle can not work, it is possible to kill it.

Mutton and sheepskin are expensive, and the people in the village will not kill the sheep to eat, so they are generally taken to the town to sell the whole head, or someone comes to collect it and circulate it to the city. Many people in the village have raised cattle and sheep all their lives, and they don't even know what the taste of beef and mutton is.