Seeing that it is the Chinese New Year, the family is also more happy than usual, but there is also a lot more work than usual.

Mother Wu took out the dry food and oil that she was usually reluctant to eat, and went to get the fat meat that had been hanging outside for a month, and she was going to prepare the New Year's goods to be eaten during the New Year.

"Mother, you are so amazing, it's the first time I know that fat meat can come out with so much oil!" Helan knew that fatty meat could be refined into oil, but she didn't expect that Wu's mother would use that piece of meat to refine half a pot of oil, which was worth the oil they ate in winter.

Mother Wu looked at the two girls around her and admired her eyes very happily, a woman who can be diligent and thrifty in this era is a good woman.

"You taste it, this fat meat is delicious after the oil." Mother Wu first took out the fat in the pot to control the oil, and then gave the chopsticks to the two for them to taste.

Helan tasted it, so delicious that she couldn't help but clip another chopstick, and Qingmei couldn't help but clip two as well.

"You two eat less of this, you used to eat less oil, and suddenly you will have stomach trouble if you eat too much." Mother Wu looked at the chopsticks that the two little girls couldn't stop and hurriedly stopped them.

"Uh-huh." The two of them obviously have a little left ear and listen to the right ear to throw, and finally have a mouthful of meat to eat more is the last word, and diarrhea is a matter of later.

"Take a bowl, take half a bowl and send it to the study for your grandfather and the two of them." Mother Wu also knew that she couldn't persuade her, so she simply didn't say more.

"I'll go." Qingmei, who had stuffed several mouthfuls, diligently picked up the bowl next to her and wanted to deliver it herself, mainly because Helan's identity was not suitable for going to the study.

Mother Wu sighed when she saw Qingmei running towards the kitchen: "Alas, there has been no news of Brother Zhu for a month, and I don't know what is going on now." ”

Helan, who was eating fat dregs, was also a meal, and it was really a month to say it, last time Wu's father took advantage of the good weather to rush to the county seat, but he didn't see Wu Qingzhu, but brought back a letter.

The letter said that Wu Qingzhu was going to go to Kyoto with his husband, at least two months, at most three months, and that he would not be able to come back in time for the New Year, because he was in a hurry and there was no time to come back to report the news because the road was closed due to heavy snow.

Thinking about it carefully, it's been a long time, it's been almost three months since Wu Qingzhu left home, and the two of them have been at home for less than three months in total, and the time to take pictures is also very small, and Wu Qingzhu's face is really not much of an impression when I think about it seriously.

At this time, the sound of gongs and drums came from outside, and it was the first time he heard the sound of gongs and drums after coming here for so long, and Helan was immediately attracted to attention.

"This is something happy in the village, let's go, go out and have a look." As soon as Wu's mother heard the sound of gongs and drums and the shouting, she knew that there must be something to say in the village, so she hurriedly covered the pot, and covered the bamboo grate with the oil residue and went out.

It is true that something big happened, two days ago a group of wild boars went down the mountain in search of food, and when they passed outside the village, they were left alone, and they happened to be seen by a few boys in the village.

When I told the village chief, I was naturally happy, and led the young and strong people in the village to run outside for several days.

Just in time for the New Year, this year each family can share a lot of meat, and can also have a good year, in previous years, they were reluctant to spend money to buy meat, and this meat that doesn't need money is really in demand.

When the people in the village arrived, the village chief began to command the pig to kill and remove the hair, regardless of whether the help was helpful or not, the hula la surrounded a large circle of people, and they were happy to be able to reach out and pluck a hair.

A group of people first pressed the pig on the stool, and then saw a person carrying a pig-killing knife and stabbing the blood vessels in the neck, looking at the blood flowing out, Helan quickly turned his eyes.

After a while, after the boar died, a group of men carried it to a nearby tree, and the boar had just left the field before the other one was carried up.

This head was very disobedient and struggled desperately, and finally six or seven men pressed this to start.

The two pigs were bled and hung on the trees on both sides, and the people of the village also divided into two groups and began to work, some set up pots to boil water, some shaved and shaved, and some cleaned the internal organs.

The common characteristic of this group of people is that their faces are beaming, and the idle people stand together in groups and chat, and the people who usually have a bad relationship will have no estrangement, standing together and chatting, pointing fingers at the pigs.

First clean the internal organs, and then remove the head and feet, the butcher who kills the pig is obviously a master, and the meat is very separate from the big bones, and the meat is relatively straight.

At this time, someone put the stool away, and then brought the washed wooden planks and put them away, and the butcher asked a few people to remove the cleaned pigs from the tree.

Helan, who had waited for three or four hours, thought that the meat could be divided below, and when she turned her head, she found that a group of people followed her in the direction of the ancestral hall.

When she heard that Qingmei came from outside, she explained to Helan: "This is to go to the sacrifice first, the pig's head must be placed first, and everyone can only divide it after the sacrifice is bowed." ”

After another busy work, it was time to divide the meat, and the village chief took out a booklet, and then began to call people, and the booklet also came according to seniority and status.

After the elders in the village were divided, it was Wu Qingzhu's house, and now what was waiting here was Helan and Qingmei, and Wu's mother was busy frying the New Year's goods to be eaten for the New Year, so she went back first.

Because the Wu family has Grandpa Wu and Wu Qingzhu here, whatever good things happen in the village, they will think about the Wu family first, and in this era, people who read will always be in awe from the bones.

"Uncle Haimao." After Qingmei heard her grandfather's name called, she hurriedly stepped forward and greeted politely.

"It's Qingmei girl, come, which piece of meat do you want, hurry up and pick it, it's too late, but there is no good meat."

"Thank you, Uncle Haimao, my mother said she wanted some fat and meat."

Qingmei, who was on patrol, was about to leave after taking it with her, but at this moment, Helan pulled Qingmei who was leaving.

"What's the matter with the girl of the Wu family?" Wu Haimao, the village head, originally planned to call the next household, but looked at the two little girls who stopped in front of him and asked suspiciously.

"Uncle Wu, can I ask what to do with the pig bones that are set aside?"

"Pig bones? This is useless, and the village usually puts it at the end of the disposal. ”

"Can I take a few then?"

"If you want, go over there and get a few."

Wu Haimao thought that the little girls felt that there was less meat or other things, but he didn't expect that he wanted bones, so he didn't think much about such a trivial matter.

On the way back, Qingmei asked Helan: "What do you want big bones for?" Doesn't this make people look down on our family? ”

"Why look down on it?"

"Don't you know? Although the meat has been shaved clean, there is still a little bit of it, and some people who can't afford to eat meat will go to the village chief to ask for it when the meat is divided. ”

"Big bones contain calcium, especially the tailbone, I took it because my grandfather had leg pain, and it was good to drink it with this stew."

"Where did you hear that? How did I not know? ”

"I ...... My former head of the family also had leg pain, and then I found a very famous doctor, and the recipe he gave was to drink more bone broth, and then the head of the family's leg did not hurt so much in winter. ”

"So it works? Then why didn't you say it earlier? We can't take so much, so we can ask our mother to come and ask for it. Hurry back and talk to your mother, let her come over and wait for the meat to finish before taking a few pieces back. ”

Qingmei immediately believed what Helan said, in her eyes, Helan had seen the world, knew a lot, was literate, and could embroider, so it was natural to know some things that she didn't know.

Helan has some doubts, for example, the one who is called by name first can pick the meat, so won't the rest of the people who don't pick good meat be dissatisfied?

After asking Qingmei, I learned that there are only a few companies that can pick when it comes to this kind of benefit, and the rest is which piece is divided, and if you don't want it, you can not take it.

"At this time, some meat is good, which one dares to be picky, even if there is a dissatisfied one, he has to dare to say a few words behind his back, if he is sued to the clan elder, it is estimated that there will be no good thing in his family."

Helan thought about it for a while, and seemed to understand that in this era, each village clan is equivalent to a small ruling class. The class division has clan elders, lizheng, village chiefs, and then some of the seniors and higher status, and the rest are not much differentiated.

And these people are generally the lowest class level, and if they say something wrong, the village chief has the right to punish, and even human life is under the control of the village chief.

can't help but sigh a little about the difficulties of feudal society, and it also sounded the alarm for Helan, you still need to think more about doing things in the future, and the most worthless thing in this place is probably human life.