Chapter 72: Ploughing Pigs
"Ah, my wings! Eighth sister!! ”
Xiang Wulang looked down just in time to see that the eighth sister had taken away her chicken wings, and yelled.
Xiang Dalang next to him knocked on his head, "There are so many meat dishes, what's wrong with giving your eighth sister a chicken wing?" ”
Xiang Goro: "......"
He didn't say that he couldn't give it to the eighth sister...
Although the banquets in the countryside are not as luxurious as those of the wealthy families in the county, they are better than the large amounts, and the villagers can eat their full stomachs and happily pack the rest of the meals and go home.
"Brother Tianan, have you eaten enough?" Xiang Tiange asked Ge Tianan.
"Hurry up, hurry up, aren't you going to see the third father's house to see other people's pigs?"
Qu Xiang grabbed two dumplings made of white flour mixed with vegetables and meat from the table, and stuffed them to Ge Tianan, "Here you go, I just saw that you didn't eat much, you must not be full at this time, take it and eat it on the road, let's go see other people's pigs!" ”
Qu Xiang has never seen other people's pigs, although he knows that pigs have to be castrated to grow faster, and the meat quality is more delicious, but he has only seen it in books, and he has never seen the process of cutting pigs.
I haven't seen Quxiang, and Xiang Tiange hasn't seen it either, although there are people raising pigs in Peach Blossom Village, but in the past, the family thought that the pig raising place was dirty and smelly, and they never let her see it.
But now that Xiang Tiange is older, the old Xiang family also knows that she is more sensible, and there are a few brothers watching her, so the adults are very relieved that she goes out to play.
Xiang Tiange naturally wouldn't say that he ran into the dirty and smelly pigsty, even if Xiang Sangong's house cleaned the pigsty diligently, but the place where the big pig lived was still very smelly.
And the piglets, naturally, will not be carried out in the pigsty.
That's why Xiang Tiange wanted to go to Xiang Sangong's house with his brothers to see how people came to cut pigs.
Xiang Sangong is the only pig farmer in Peach Blossom Village, so the houses built by Xiang Sangong's family are all brick houses, and they are also the richest family in the village except for the village chief's family.
But now the villagers of Taohua Village are not very sure, because there is also an old Xiang family, although the old Xiang family's house is still a stone house, but their family has sent their grandchildren to school!
Even if the school is halved, the total cost is not a small amount, so the villagers of Taohua Village feel that the old Xiang family should be richer than Xiang Sangong's family now.
When Xiang Tiange and the others arrived, they hadn't started to plow pigs yet!
This pig, naturally, is not cut by the villagers of Peach Blossom Village, and no one has this skill.
Dashan Village is much larger than Taohua Village, with more than 100 households, therefore, Dashan Village also has two lieutenant chiefs, one lieutenant is in charge of 100 households in Dashan Village, and the other lieutenant is in charge of the remaining dozens of households and the 20 households in Taohua Village.
Because Dashan Village is relatively large, there is a market inside, and villagers from several nearby villages who do not want to go to the county seat will come to the Dashan Village market to buy some things or exchange some things.
After all, no one wants to go all the way to the county just to buy a piece of meat or tofu, right?
That's why you usually buy it at the nearest market!
Xiang Tiange and the others watched Xiang Sangong's family grab piglets from the pigsty on the side and stuff them into a cage specially made up for piglets, and then move the cage with piglets to the yard together.
The pig plougher has to plow the pig in the yard, because this place is empty, the sight is still bright, and it is clean to clean it with something to pad!
The pig carpenter also has to ensure the survival rate of the pigs that have been cut out of his hands, otherwise the pigs that are cut out under his hands will be forgotten too much, and his reputation for relying on survival technology will be ruined.
Therefore, the pig plough has to pick a place to castrate the piglet!
"It's started!! it's begun"
On the side, like Xiang Tiange, they came to watch the pigs, and other children in Peach Blossom Village, everyone saw that the pig cutter finished sharpening the knife and grabbed a piglet and was about to start plowing the pig, and they all shouted excitedly.
Xiang Tiange also shouted excitedly with them, she didn't know why she was so excited, anyway, everyone shouted like this, and she followed along.
The pigmaker's craftsmanship is worthy of being extremely exquisite, Xiang Tiange felt that she hadn't looked very carefully, the other party grabbed a piglet, and put it in another cage with a knife in his hand.
"Aunt Shui, all these piglets in your family are going to be pruned? Don't you leave a few breeding pigs? There was someone next to him who had a good relationship with Xiang Sangong's family, and asked curiously.
Aunt Shui, that is, Xiang Sangong's eldest daughter-in-law, now she is in charge of Xiang Sangong's house, Aunt Shui said: "No, the two pigs raised now have already eaten enough food at home, no matter more, I can't afford to raise it!" I will keep two of these piglets, and when they are weaned, I will also pull them to the county to sell. ”
Hearing that she was going to sell this piglet, some people who had been very moved by the fact that the other party could sell so much silver by raising pigs asked: "Aunt Shui, how long can this little pig be slaughtered?" ”
"If the food is rich and feed them more, it will generally come out in nine months and ten months, and if it is slower, it will be about the same for a year!" Saying that, Aunt Shui looked up at the person who asked this suspiciously, and said, "What? Do you want to raise piglets in your family? ”
This piglet is not easy to raise, not only to be carefully served, but also to worry about it cold, hot, otherwise if you get sick, this piglet will not live long.
The person who asked this question obviously also had this worry, hearing that it would take so long to be slaughtered, and raising pigs was extremely expensive to eat, the other party thought about it or gave up, and hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, I will ask curiously!" ”
While a few people were talking, the pig cutter had already cut off all 12 piglets.
Xiang Tiange's eyes widened as he stared at the cage containing the pruned piglets, his mouth slightly open.
It wasn't until she was pulled away by a few brothers that she slowly came back to her senses, ran over and said to Qu Xiang, who was also a little surprised: "Have you counted?" ”
Qu Xiang nodded: "Well, counted." ”
"Wow - there are 12 piglets! This is all born from the belly of a big pig, how can it give birth to so many? ”
Xiang Tiange was shocked!
The song next to him was also shocked, "The book only records this pig putter, but I don't see that a big pig can give birth to so many piglets..."
The two glanced at each other, and sighed in unison: "The big pig is really too hard!" ”