Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Nanyang Chapter 46 Killing pigs is a technical job

Shaving a live dog, this is the first time a butcher has done this. If someone else had asked him to do this, the butcher would have scolded his mother a long time ago, but Wu Yong has brought too many benefits to Fuwangli in the past two days, eating people with short mouths and short hands, their family has a relatively large population, and they have earned three or four hundred yuan just by selling worries in the past few days.

Therefore, although he was reluctant, he kept moving his hands, and after a while, the white dog's hair was cut bald.

At this time, Wu Yong found a sack with good sealing, stuffed the white dog into the sack, leaving only one dog's head outside, and tied it with a rope.

He cut a small hole at the other end of the sack, took a clay pot that was not used, lit the dried wormwood and put it into the clay pot, and then put it into the mouth of the sack.

I saw a thick smoke constantly overflowing from the sack, and when the wormwood was finished, Wu Yong released the white dog, and then rinsed it with water, and there was no flea on his body.

Everyone looked at the white dogs running around and began to point.

"I didn't expect wormwood to be able to smoke fleas, and when I go back, I will smoke it again, and I don't know whose cat it is, always running to our house, and my quilt is full of fleas, and my baby has been bitten and cried several times."

The butcher has also gained knowledge today, and seeing that he is about to reach the morning food point, he hasn't done his business today, so he can't help but be a little anxious, "Virtuous nephew, is your family killing pigs or sheep today?" ”

Wu Yong was a little confused, why did he have to kill today?

In fact, how did he know that at this time, he was not as casual as the people of later generations, there were many rules, and people were very obedient to the rules.

Just like the Wu family is now asking people to slaughter livestock, and others have brought all kinds of tools, and you say that you won't kill them now, you haven't done that. So even if the white dog is rescued by Wu Yong, the rules can't be broken, and there must be other livestock to be slaughtered instead, otherwise it will not be good for people on both sides.

Guo told Wu Yong the rules, Wu Yong glanced at the dirty black pig in the pigsty, pondered for a while, and said: "Bother the two uncles to clean the pig's body, I will go and ask my grandmother to kill this pig today, and prepare some items by the way." ”

A pig killer asked with some confusion, "What does this mean by the virtuous nephew?" If you want to kill them, why do you need to clean them? ”

Wu Yong naturally can't say that they are unprofessional in killing pigs, this pig is so dirty, and they don't know if they can ask for pig blood, so they can only say perfunctorily: "I saw it in Taixu, this pig has been raised for a while, and I have some feelings." Just like a beheaded man, he must always be given some dignity before he dies. ”

The man stood for a while, and waited for Wu Yong to walk away from Guo's before he came back to his senses and said to another man: "Third brother, if we kill pigs again in the future, we must clean them like today." ”

Wu Yong returned to the inner courtyard and saw that her grandmother was also getting up and getting busy, so she said what happened just now.

The old lady glanced at the bald white dog circling around her grandson, and said with a smile: "You can decide the affairs of the family, if you can't make up your mind, discuss it with your mother, and don't come to tell me, an old man, about everything." ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure." The grandchildren will have to count on their grandmother to make up their minds about many things in the future, and they can't let their grandchildren marry their own wives, so the woman's family must be unwilling. ”

Everyone laughed.

When Wu Yong came to the back of the house again, he found that in addition to the two butchers, a group of people had gathered. They all heard that Wu Yong's family was going to use the method of Taixu to kill pigs, and they came to see it.

Everyone couldn't help but be a little puzzled when they saw Wu Yong leading a group of sisters, holding clay pots and wooden barrels.

"Nephew of the Wu family, what do you do with flour and salt?"

Wu Yong explained with a smile: "Flour is mixed with pig's blood to make blood sausage, and salt is used to clean the large intestine and small intestine. ”

"A gentleman doesn't eat well, and the virtuous nephew is a bit too much."

Wu Yong was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this meant.

Fortunately, Zhu Lidian was there, and I saw him whisper to Wu Yong: "What your Uncle Li means is that gentlemen don't eat the internal organs of captive animals, because these things will make people look very dirty. ”

Wu Yong almost opened his mouth and said, you don't want it, I want it!

Fortunately, he was still restrained, and by the way, he made up a white lie.

"Don't hide it from your uncles, when the kid traveled in the realm of Taixu, the people there regarded pigs as food given by God, and they didn't dare to waste the slightest, whether it was ears, nose, tongue and brain, or heart, liver, lungs and blood, they could make corresponding delicacies."

Everyone was still a little worried, and Uncle Li continued: "Pig food is unclean, so it is called pig. Kan is a pig, and the water animal tends to be like filth. ”

This sentence does not need to be translated by Zhu Lidian, and Wu Yong also understands the general meaning, that is, pigs are very unhygienic and cannot be eaten.

According to memory, people at this time not only disliked pork, but also said that eating pork would make them sick, in short, whoever ate it would lose the grade.

The reasons come down to the following:

One is that both now and in the past, doctors are not very friendly to the evaluation of pork.

The second is that the unique 'smell' of pork at this time is very strong, and if it is not handled well, it will be very unpalatable.

The third is that the living environment of pigs leads to a lot of parasites in pork, and if you don't kill them, it is easy to parasitize the human body and cause people to get sick.

Thinking of these in an instant, Wu Yong planned to let everyone have a good increase in knowledge today, so that they would know that pigs were actually full of treasures, and they couldn't look at them with colored eyes. So he smiled and said: "Uncles, don't persuade again, today the kid plans to make a whole pig feast, if everyone thinks it's not delicious, the kid won't mention killing pigs and eating meat in the future." ”

Seeing Wu Yong's insistence, everyone couldn't say anything, and at the same time, they were also curious about how Wu Yong made this pig feast.

Then, as several strong men dragged me and dragged a pig out of the pigsty, the pig seemed to have predicted its outcome, and struggled to escape back to the pigsty.

At this moment, the white dog suddenly rushed over, joined the driving camp, and barked at the pig, as if to stop struggling.

Seeing this, someone suddenly laughed and said: "This white dog also saw the wind and rudder, and yesterday it was in the same pig's nest, and today it was treated by the owner, so he turned his face and didn't recognize the pig." ”

Everyone laughed, and four strong men came out, one of them grabbed a pig's foot, and everyone lifted the pig to a low table, and then held it down.

The butcher tied the pig's mouth with a hemp rope to prevent it from dying, opened its mouth to bite, and then, seeing the right moment, a dagger was quickly plunged into the pig's throat, followed by the pig's howl, and soon a stream of bright red pig blood gushed out.

Wu Yong hurriedly handed the barrel to the butcher and asked him to catch the pig's blood.

As the column of blood changed from thick to thin, the pig's moans became lower and lower, and finally only the limbs were slowly twitching, until they were motionless, and the strong men did not let go of their hands.

"Alright, you guys, hard work." The butcher thanked him.

"Ren Laosan, your pig-killing skills are getting more and more regressive, and you almost exhausted us to death today." A strong man laughed teasingly.

The crowd burst into laughter.

Ren Laosan didn't have time to take care of them, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to demothe the pig.

Wu Yong brought the wooden bucket filled with pig's blood, poured some clay pots filled with flour, and then kept stirring, which was used to make blood sausages for a while.

On the other side, Ren Laosi poured the boiling water that had already been burned on the pig, and Ren Laosan quickly rubbed it with a long stone strip. The two worked together, and soon the whole pig faded to white.

"Uncle collects the hair of these pigs, and my nephew will still be useful." Wu Yong suddenly spoke at this time.

There was a sneer from the crowd, "What can pig hair do, I don't want it for nothing." ”

They are all from the neighbors, and this person may not have any bad intentions, but should not know that pig hair is an important material for making brushes, in order to avoid waste in the future, so Wu Yong explained: "After the pig hair is processed, it can be made into paint brushes and brushes." ”

Of course, Wu Yong didn't tell them that he collected these pig hairs to make barbecue brushes and prepare for barbecue in the summer.

When everyone heard that the pig's hair still had this use, they all remembered it in their hearts, and secretly said that they could not lose it when they killed the pig in the future.

Some people even joked: "Zhu Lao Wu, didn't you say that you don't want the pig's hair?" In the future, your family will kill the pigs and give me all the pigs' hair. ”

Zhu Laosi suddenly glared angrily, and everyone laughed again when they saw this.

Wu Yong saw that Ren Laosan was about to raise a knife to disembowel the pig, worried that he had not taken the pig's internal organs before and would miss it, so he couldn't help reminding: "Uncle be careful, don't break the internal organs, nephews are useful." ”

Ren Laosan nodded, only to see him pick up the dagger and slash lightly at the pork belly, which suddenly split into two petals, revealing all kinds of internal organs inside.

Wu Yong brought all kinds of basins of different sizes, divided them into internal organs, and then told Ren Laosi how to clean up these internal organs.

This is a dirty and patient job, which requires pouring out the feces from the intestines and stomach, turning the intestines and stomach over, cleaning them over and over again, and finally rubbing them with salt until these organs have no odor.

After explaining to Ren Laosi, Wu Yong asked Ren Laosan to unload the pig's head and four pig's trotters first. These have a lot of pig hair on them, and they need to be burned with fire.

Next, Wu Yong asked Ren Laosan to cut off a pig's thigh, and then asked him to remove all the fat on the side, and found a large clay pot, close to the bottom area, put a circle of bamboo slices, and evenly coated the whole pig's thigh with salt, which was ready to be used for ham.

After that, Wu Yong began to instruct Wu Laosan to divide the pork into various pieces to facilitate the next cooking.

The pork belly is set aside separately, and the braised pork is the best choice.

The plum meat is reserved for stir-frying, and the large pieces of fatty meat are stewed for a while and then made into cubes.

The neck bones, spine, sternum, and thigh bones will be boiled over high heat for a while, so that they can be made into sauce bones.

Front row and small chops, this is a good thing, and I will make a braised pork ribs later.

The lymphatic meat on the pig's neck contains all kinds of bacteria and viruses, and this is absolutely unwanted.

At the same time, in order to make people have memories in the future, Wu Yong deliberately said in an exaggerated tone: "These lymphatic meats will not only cause illness when eaten, but may also be passed on to the next generation. ”