Volume 1 Spring Bamboo Shoots Chapter 76 Killing the New Year's Pig
The taste of the New Year has been since the twenty-fourth year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoOriginally, the market was every one, four, and seven, and since the twenty-fifth year, the market has been even the market, and every household has bought a load of New Year's goods at home. In addition to home-grown melon seeds, peanuts, chickens, ducks and pork, other New Year's goods such as candy, biscuits and firecrackers that should not be available at home have to be purchased.
In addition to their own food, relatives account for the majority of the New Year's goods. New Year's greetings can not be empty-handed, a piece of meat, a pound of sugar, a few packets of snacks and biscuits, this is essential, to the elders New Year's greetings, but also to add a pack of longan lychee and other nutritional supplements. It's only once a year, so you have to do your best to buy it anyway.
"The little ones are looking forward to the New Year, and the adults are afraid of the New Year." In today's Qingping years, the New Year is the hope of our fine men, but it is the heartache and sadness of the adults, and many families have to owe the New Year all year round.
Twenty-four sprinkled sweeping to clear the small year, twenty-five began to grind beans to make tofu, steamed wine and glutinous cakes, killed pigs and chickens, and when it came to twenty-eight, basically did not use a knife to kill livestock. Because there is a taboo in the countryside around the area, "kill seven or not kill eight".
For the three days from the 25th to the 27th, the butcher was the busiest person in the village. Not every family has to kill the pigs, generally four households have a total of one head, one household has a foot of meat, the whole village has to have thirty or forty pigs, and the order must be discussed in advance, a team comes, and a family comes. Since the death of Nan's father, Liu Niupi took over as a butcher, and he took two helpers to kill more than a dozen pigs a day, and he was so busy that he hit the back of his head.
Early in the morning of the 27th, Liu Niupi went to Zeng Chenggong's house to kill the New Year's pig.
Zeng Chenggong's wife Chen Fengping boiled a large pot of boiling water early, and as soon as Liu Niupi arrived, the two helpers immediately opened the door of the pig pen, but the big fat pig that had been fed for ten months refused to come out.
Pig manure is the best farm fertilizer, and there are layers of straw in the pen, and there is a sour smell when soaked in pig feces and urine. A helper wearing rain boots, into the fence to catch, more than 200 pounds of big fat pig screaming in the fence circle, just not out of the barn, another helper with a paper cigarette had to go in to catch up, do not want to be anxious fat pig actually arched him down in the fence, stained with pig feces and urine, so angry that he grabbed a piece of firewood, split the head and cover the brain for a while, before the screaming fat pig out of the pen.
After the slaughter, the fat pig scurried fast, Liu Niupi was setting up a stool in the yard to put the pot, shouting that the helper who was chasing behind grabbed the pig's tail and lifted its back up, so that it could not run anymore, and he himself stopped and reached out to grab the pig's ears. The assistant grabbed the tail, the pig was too heavy, and he didn't lift it up, although he was dragged by it, the speed slowed down, Liu Niupi reached out and grabbed a pig's ear, didn't want it to howl and turned his head away, opened his mouth to bite him, scared him to let go and jumped aside, the fat pig took the opportunity to break free, ran out of the yard, and ran along the road to the entrance of the village.
Zeng Chenggong's pig's pig has long been determined by Zeng Qinghu, Zhou Limin and my three households, and when the pig is killed, the three of us will go to his house to share the pork.
My father only returned home yesterday, and when he heard the movement and went over to help, Zeng Qinghu and Zhou Limin also came over, and they happened to see the big fat pig breaking free and escaping, and couldn't help laughing, Liu Niupi was so angry that his face turned purple. He used to be Meng Qingnan's assistant, and also slaughtered a lot of pigs, such a fierce pig is still the first time to meet, scolded and found a pair of brown ropes, a few people stopped the big fat pig under the apricot tree at the entrance of the village, and covered a pair of its hind feet with a brown rope, which overturned it to the ground, and several people took a lot of effort to pull and catch it back to the yard. Set up on the stool, drag the legs and press the feet, Liu Niuhide leaned on the stool and stood firmly, his left hand grabbed the pig's jaw, the miserable howl immediately turned into a muffled snort, he picked up the knife from the basin with his right hand, and stabbed obliquely from the neck of the fat pig with a "hiss" sound, until there was no handle, paused, pulled out the knife, and a large stream of blood spurted out, and flowed into the wooden basin with a bang.
At this time, the old lady who had succeeded lit a short firecracker with 20 rings on the side, burned a few pieces of paper money, and muttered in her mouth: "Don't blame the animal, die early and be born early, and be reincarnated as a man in the next life, so as not to be bullied by the knife......"
Seeing that the pig's cry was gradually gone, he stopped struggling, and the blood was gone, Liu Niupi let go of the helper, he lifted it hard, and lifted it to the ground with a bang. He picked up the butcher's knife and was about to wipe the blood from the knife on its hair, and a startling scene happened, only to see the big fat pig that everyone thought had died turn over and stand up, Liu Niupi was caught off guard, and was arched by it, and watched it rush into the hall.
The stunned crowd hurriedly chased in, but saw it lying on the floor of the house in the threshold, and the pig's eyes were wide open, but it was silent.
None of them said a word, and hurriedly carried them out. Liu Niupi cut a hole on one of its hind feet, stabbed it into its chest and back with a three- or four-foot-long iron fiber skin, and then blew and beat, and after a while the pig's body was swollen and round, the assistant brought boiling water, drenched water and scraped, and hung upside down on the ladder after shaving the pig's hair.
Although it was the end of the year, Zeng Chenggong was busier. Liu Yingguo really wanted to resign, he handed over his resignation report after the capsizing accident was dealt with a few days ago, and all the big and small things in the village were handed over to him for arrangement and handling, year-end settlement, meeting arrangements, a lot of big and small affairs, and he couldn't return to the house these days. said that he would kill the pig last night and go home last night, but the person came back, but he only went around at home and left.
Who's okay when the year is over? Chen Fengping and her mother-in-law, who is in her sixties, are also busy at home. Unexpectedly, the killing pig made such a strange thing, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were so frightened that they had no master, and they didn't come back to their senses for half a day.
There are many taboos in the countryside, such as Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, Gaochun (Lichun) and other festivals, you must not provoke children to cry, can not break the bowl, if accidentally a child cries or accidentally breaks the bowl, it is very taboo, it is not a good joy. It is said that this indicates that something bad will happen in the family in the coming year, and if you don't get it right, you will have to bring filial piety (if a relative dies). This kind of strange thing about killing New Year's pigs does not make people suspicious, it is all a lie.
The owner of the pig had to make a table of meals to entertain the butchers and the neighbors who came to share the pork. Chen Fengping cleaned up her mood, her mother-in-law started and cooked a table of dishes with her hands and feet, including pork blood rice noodle porridge, small intestine soup, fried pork liver, tofu roast pork, sweet potato noodles mixed with cabbage, etc., large and small eight or nine bowls filled a table.
At this time, Zeng Chenggong came back, and Liu Yingguo walked in front. After entering the house, he greeted Liu Niupi and his father and Zeng Qinghu Liu Limin, several people sat around the table, no more, no less, just one table, the wine cup was too small, and the rice bowl was used to drink, Liu Niupi killed this pig and delayed a lot of time, the task behind was very heavy, drank half a bowl of wine, picked up a bowl of rice indiscriminately, and hurriedly ran to the next family with two assistants. There were five people left at the table, and no one talked about the strange things in the morning, and the atmosphere was enthusiastic.
Zeng Chenggong has been tired but happy recently, he keeps pouring wine and making dishes, and the atmosphere on the table is warm. Liu Yingguo's power was decentralized, and he basically had the final say in the village. Especially this time the handling of the capsizing accident has always been busy. He tried to scrape together, and took out some loans from the commune credit union to solve the problem, and the commune and the district were very satisfied with his work, Liu Yingguo resigned, and he was the secretary of the brigade.
"The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day." Liu Yingguo understood his character, but he didn't care too much, he drank a bowl of wine and left, leaving the four of them to drink so much, "Five Leaders" and "Six or Six Shun" fought together, and the fist command was shouted higher than the other, and the people at the entrance of the village could hear it.
Breakfast is usually rarely served with alcohol. When you get up early in the morning, your stomach is empty, and it is easy to get drunk when you drink, especially vindictive wine, which makes it easier for people to get drunk inadvertently and not recognize their grandmother.
Everyone understands the truth of getting drunk and hurting the body, but it's just an afterthought, and no one at the wine table can remember it. Zeng Chenggong is the master, he is in high spirits, and everyone is a good drinker. "The east wind blows, the war drums beat, who is afraid of whom in this world?"
The four of them caught and killed each other, Zhou Limin and his father, and successfully fought Zeng Qinghu. For a while, the roar was like thunder, a real sonic boom tile house.