Generally speaking, the sheep can be herded twice a day, in the morning for one hour, in the afternoon for another hour, and the rest of the time is kept at home.

If he had time, he would have been herding sheep outside, but it was quite cold, and Linde was afraid that the children would freeze while sitting here, so he took them home.

Although it is the slack season, I have to feed the pigs, feed the chickens and ducks at home, hoe the field, clean the yard, and do the work in the field.

Herding sheep twice a day, coupled with these jobs at home, life is quite fulfilling.

On this day, the family was having lunch, and someone outside came to shout, "Uncle, uncle." ”

Xuan's hurriedly went to see the door, let the people outside in, introduced them into the upper room, and said with a smile, "Dad, it's the fifth brother who is here." ”

This is a relative of the Lin family, I don't understand how close it is, there are many people with the surname Lin in the village, anyway, according to the generation, it is Lin Changyuan's generation.

At this time, people have a lot of children and complicated relationships, but Lin Dezheng has no brothers, only two sisters, and when he is old, he married far away and has never come back, and he doesn't know whether he is dead or alive.

Lin Dezheng has no brothers, so there are no close relatives in this village, only relatives in his own family, and his ancestors are also close relatives for several generations.

Wu said with a smile, "The fifth child is here, you haven't eaten at this hour, have you?" Sit down. ”

Lin Changjin hurriedly waved his hand, "Auntie don't be busy, the family has already cooked, I'm just going to talk about killing the New Year's pig, how to kill it this year, my father asked me to ask my uncle what he meant." ”

Every year when it comes to the Chinese New Year, the countryside is going to kill the New Year's pigs, killing pigs is very laborious, and many people have to work together, so it is too troublesome to kill pigs in their own homes, and they will discuss several families in the village to kill together.

Generally, pigs are killed in the winter months, and after there is meat, you can fill sausages to make bacon, and prepare for the New Year.

Killing pigs is a very important thing in the year, and the old people attach great importance to it, and even choose a good day.

Lin Dezheng put down his chopsticks and thought for a while, "This year is good, the harvest in the field is good, and we can have a prosperous year, our family wants to have more meat this year, you see what kind of charter your family is, your second uncle and third uncle also asked?" ”

Lin Changjin said with a smile, "My father also said that he would keep more meat this year, this year is good, everyone is happy, there is more meat, is it enough to kill three heads this year?" ”

If the year is not good, the drought or flood will reduce the crop production, and the days will not be good, and the days will be not good, so you will have to save some.

Of course, if the crops are reduced, the pigs will be raised less, and naturally they will not be able to kill so many.

It has always been their four families who kill New Year's pigs together, when the days are the worst, the four families can share one pig, and usually they are divided into two, this year's year is good, plus Lin Changyuan and Xuan's are back, the old man is also happy, and he wants to share more meat.

Lin Dezheng thought about it, the four families are divided into three, and one family can divide a lot, so he nodded, "Okay, just three, our pigs should be sold, and it will be successful to kill our family." ”

Lin Changjin said with a smile, "I was about to mention this, our family and the second uncle and third uncle's pigs have not yet grown, and it is a pity to kill them now, so I want to ask your family, if they don't grow up, you have to go out to buy pigs." ”

It doesn't matter who you kill, anyway, you don't take meat for nothing, it's all going to be weighed, and then you can count the money.

Wu smiled, "Don't you look at the day, let's make time." ”

Lin Changjin said, "I can kill it recently, and tomorrow the day after tomorrow, I will kill the pig Tai and other people's families, let's kill it the day after tomorrow, and I will set the date." ”

Approaching the New Year, every household is going to kill New Year's pigs, there is such a pig killing platform in the village, of course, it must be used in turns, and the time must be made to make an appointment, don't bump into each other.

"Cheng, when the time comes, the second child and I will help kill, the eldest and the third child are working in the town, I'm afraid I won't be available."

Lin Changjin smiled, "It's nothing, there are so many of us, three pigs can be killed, then Cheng, you eat slowly, I'll go back first." ”

When he was gone, Siqi shrunk his neck and mourned in silence for his pig.

Hey, three or two sentences set their death date, pigs have a rough life, but raising them is to eat meat, sooner or later there will be this day.

It's good to kill a pig, you can eat meat when you kill a pig, and it's great to be able to eat meat every day from now until the New Year.

After eating, Xuan took the bucket to the backyard to feed the pigs, and Siqi followed.

The three pigs in the family were locked in a pen, and their pig food was poured into the trough, and they all hugged them, and they were so happy to eat that they squatted on the side and watched, hey, they don't know anything now, and they will become pork piece by piece in a few days.

"Mother, can you add some chili peppers to sausage this year?"

Xuanshi smiled, "You, you, since we have that chili pepper in our family, you just can't put it down, you have to add a little bit to everything." ”

"It's delicious."

Xuanshi thought for a while, "There are a lot of those chili peppers that have been collected this year, but there are so many people in our family, and we have to fill a lot of sausages, and that little chili pepper is not enough at all, so we have to keep it for next year's stir-fry." ”

"Then make some spicy and some non-spicy, okay?" Siqi tilted his head and asked her, very eager.

Finally got the chili pepper out, of course she had to eat Sichuan-style sausages, at this time there were no chili peppers in the sausages, mainly some salt peppercorns and some other spices, there was no spicy taste at all.

Although it tastes good, Siqi wants to drool when she thinks about the Sichuan-style sausage she ate in her previous life, and it would be nice if she could eat it at this time, she really has nothing else to ask for.

Xuan smiled and nodded, "Okay, it's up to you, and I'll get some when the time comes." ”

"Okay, mother's best."

After waiting for two days, it was time for their families to kill pigs, this day is not only for men to be busy, but also for the women of these families, killing pigs is a big deal, and there are many things here.

The man is responsible for pressing the pig, using the knife, killing the pig, disemboweling it, taking out all the internal organs of your head, and then dividing the pork into strips.

Of course, the woman has to keep boiling water to scald the pig's hair, and then wash the internal organs, except for the pig's hair on the outside and those that are really inedible, everything else on the pig's body has to be eaten, even the lungs.

In his previous life, no one ate his lungs, but if he counted a few decades back, this thing would still not be thrown away, let alone at this time.

Thinking about that smell makes me feel uncomfortable, shouldn't it be delicious?

Whatever, anyway, when the time comes, she won't clip it, and no one will force her to eat.