As soon as he arrived home, Qi Youheng had already arrived on his bicycle, and he was busy burning the pig's head with a blowtorch, surrounded by a group of onlookers.

The old horse-drawn plough climbs the plow, slower than a man walks.

Qi Youde led the old horse to the backyard horse pen and added some forage. Old Man Qi followed to the horse ring and patted the old horse's rugged ribs, the old horse turned around and arched Old Man Qi's arm, snorted, and the heat rushed to Old Man Qi's hand.

"Life is a lifetime, grass and trees are autumn!" Old Man Qi sighed with emotion, "Old man, let's both live well!" ”

The old horse stomped his horse's hooves a few times.

Old He Tou shouted outside the gate: "Chief Qi, your blowtorch is used up to give you Uncle He?" ”

"Okay! I'll help you burn it later! Qi Youheng readily agreed.

"Oops!" Old man He went home happily.

The pig skin that has been burned with fire not only removes the pig hair, but also removes the fishy smell of the meat skin. For those who don't have blowtorches, they use stove hooks to heat them in the fire, and then scald the pigskin, and the effect is similar.

The blowtorch in Qi Youheng's hand spewed out blue flames and made a whirring sound, Shen Mengxi also leaned over to look, the huge pig's head gradually turned black, the cement under the skin was baked, and the air was filled with a scorched smell.

Qi Weijia jumped up, "Pig ears are the best, with crispy bones, a bite of Gaden Gaden!" ”

"The pig face is delicious, it's all meat, it's fragrant!" Qi Weiming said.

"Pig's trotters are delicious, too! Pig tails are the most delicious! Qi Weijia changed his mind.

"Children can't eat pig tails, I'm afraid!" Qi Weiming hurriedly warned his cousin, and suddenly woke up, "Ah! How do you know it's delicious, you've definitely eaten it! ”

"Uncle said it!"

Shen Mengxi didn't want to look at it anymore, and when he entered the house, the voice of the security guard Qi came from behind him: "Go and go, you will know how to eat!" ”

"Uncle, don't you want to eat?" Qi Weijia asked rhetorically.

"Yo roar! Guts fattened you? Dare to argue with your uncle? ”

The gate slammed twice, and the sound of giggling came from the street.

Qi Zhou's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law put the black pig's head and pig's trotters in a large laundry basin, poured boiling water, and scraped the pigskin clean inch by inch with a kitchen knife, and the pigskin turned yellow. Qi Zhou's own admiration: "This pig's trotters are so clean!" ”

Qi Baoliang split the pig's head into two, and then split the pig's trotters one by one, Qi Zhou's cleaned it again, and put it in a cauldron to cook.

Every family in Taiping Village raised at least two pigs, and by the end of the year, the village was full of fat pigs howling in despair.

After killing the New Year's pig, the villagers kept it at home for the New Year, or gave it to relatives in the county.

At this time, the pigs are raised for at least a year, and they are also fed potatoes, cabbage, wheat bran, soybean cakes, etc., and the pork is particularly fragrant.

After a while, the cauldron exuded a rich aroma of meat, and Shen Mengxi watched the pig's head go out of the pot, and almost no condiments were put in, but the aroma hit people.

A group of stinky boys come to the kitchen from time to time to take a walk, eagerly waiting for the pig's head to come out of the pot. was ruthlessly coaxed away by Qi Zhou's family, and came back after a while.

Shen Mengxi went back to Old Man Qi's room, she didn't want to be misunderstood, and she was waiting for the pig's head to come out of the pot.

On the second day of February, when the dragon raises its head, it must be shaved.

One of the customs in the Northeast is to shave your head and kill your uncle in the first month. The exact reason for this is unclear.

As a result, the mothers of all families strictly guarded their sons and forbade them to shave their heads in the first month. Therefore, the barber shops in the Northeast are almost closed for business in the New Year, and there are too few people who shave their heads.

Later, with the increase in women's hairdressing business, as well as the change of concepts, coupled with family planning reasons, few children have biological uncles, and this custom slowly disappeared.

At this moment, in the old man's house, Qi Youheng, who had just helped the old He family burn the pig's head, was shaving the old man's head. Old Man Qi sat obediently with a sheet around his neck, Qi Youheng put a clipper in one hand, a comb in the other, and kept pinching the fader handle with his right hand, pushing it on Old Man Qi's head, and as soon as his right hand turned over, the hair cut on the clipper fell to the ground, and then continued to push.

"Keep your head down."

The old man obediently bowed his head.

"Look up."

The old man looked up obediently again.

One password, one action.

Qi Youheng's heart was excited,—— only when he shaved his head, his father was the most obedient.

Two hours later, Qi Youheng's right hand was almost spasmodic, and a thick layer of hair stubble on the brick floor proved his hard work. He couldn't remember how many heads he had shaved, his father, his brother, his son, his nephews, his nephews, he couldn't remember who he had shaved his head for, but he remembered that they were all flat at the back of their heads. The Qi family's head shape is almost the same, and everyone praises their head shape for sleeping well.

Mrs. Qi insisted back then that only by sleeping flat on the back of her head can her face grow well. This is the standard Manchu old lady's concept, unshakable.

"The fourth child of our family, except for not being able to cook, he can do anything!" Qi Zhou's praised Lu Xiuzhi.

Lu Xiuzhi smiled modestly while adjusting the hot water for the boys to wash their hair, "What will it be, it's just that my family doesn't like it." ”

Shen Mengxi was in Chongqing back then, and he often shaved the heads of the children in the orphanage, and his skills were good. But at this moment, she can't do it for Qi Youheng, and she can't even hold the manual fader now.

She shouted Qi Youheng to sit on the side of the kang to rest, clenched her empty fist and beat her back and right arm, and pinched his shoulder, Qi Youheng exaggerated and shouted: "Okay! Comfortable! Why is my old girl so good at pinching! ”

Shen Mengxi was so choked that he couldn't pinch it anymore and sat back on the kang.

Qi Youheng shook his hand with a smile and continued to shave his head.

Shen Mengxi accidentally found that Old Man Qi was looking at the photo of the leader on the wall, and there were words in his mouth, so he asked him what he was doing, but he didn't say anything, just smiled mysteriously.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was time for dinner.

It is full of three tables, the staple food is steamed buns, and the dishes are still meat-based, in addition to pig's head meat, pig's trotters, goose meat, roe deer meat, and even a plate of bear paws, stewed with the old hen, Qi Youde said that the bear paw was brought by Qi Youfang from Qingfeng Forest Farm, the old man Qi called Shen Mengxi over, and gave her a chopstick, Shen Mengxi smelled a strange smell without eating, which was the reason why the bear paw was not handled well, but because of the face of the old man Qi, she still ate it in one bite.

This first month, Shen Mengxi has already eaten pork, she wants to eat vegetables and fruits. The sauerkraut, sweet and sour radish, and canned fruit on the dinner table are considered greens.

Lu Xiuzhi worriedly watched her daughter's mouth chew around across the table, but she just didn't swallow it.

Ten-year-old Li Gang muttered his nose, looked at the high stack of meat in Shen Mengxi's bowl, and leaned over and said, "Auntie, give me all the fat you don't like to eat!" ”

"Okay, but you have to go out and blow your nose first."

"Okay!" Li Gang immediately went out to wipe his nose.

Qi Baoman met at another table, "Listen, when the little girl speaks, she is still "but", she will throw off the words!" Ha ha! ”

"My granddaughter can do anything!" Old Man Qi interfaced on the kang.

Qi Bao pouted and feigned anger, "Don't say a word!" Alas, I've completely fallen out of favor. ”

"How old are you? Ben forty people, and a six or seven year old to compete for favor, you are also embarrassed! Qi Zhou said angrily.

"Yes, Baoman, you don't have to compete with Baozhu, you will never fall out of favor when you are in Zhixin!" Wang Hongmei quipped.

"Okay, you Wang Hongmei, talk nonsense and let my second brother clean you up!" Qi Baoman slapped Wang Hongmei's buttocks, "Guarding a bunch of children, you can talk nonsense!" ”

"The second sister-in-law is right!" Li Zhixin responded with a smile.

Everyone laughed, Qi Baoman's face was slightly red, and he also smiled happily.