The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 624 Killing Pigs

Whether it is now or ten or twenty years later, the favorite meat of Northeast people is pork.

Especially in rural areas and forest areas, there is a custom of killing pigs in the new year.Even Zhao Youcai's good brother Zhang Datong, the family is in such a difficult situation, raising two little wild boars and thinking about killing an old pig during the Chinese New Year.

As the saying goes: rely on the mountain to eat the mountain.

There are also many mountain people in these ten li and eight villages picking up and holding wild boars on the mountain in spring.

Like Zhang Lifu, they took the little wild boar home to take care of it.It takes a lot of manpower to raise a hundred or so catties in winter, even if you don’t feed the wild boars food, but just hug wild vegetables such as gray vegetables.

Therefore, Zhao Jun caught a wild boar today, and it was still alive!This shocked the villagers!
Because this means that Zhao Jun's family doesn't need to raise pigs for the new year!

In other words, as long as this kid is willing, he can kill the first year pig every now and then.

This makes people unbalanced!

Others have worked so hard to raise a pig, you guy, you can come back after going around the mountain, how can you embarrass others?
Therefore, the news that Zhao Jun captured the wild boar spread faster in Yong'an Tun than the news that Zhang Roasted Chicken was released from the hospital. Even Jin Xiaomei, who came back from the field, heard about it.

Zhao Jun smiled and said a few words to Jin Xiaomei, then went to the small shop to find Wang Qiang.Normally, at this time of day every day, Wang Qiang should be watching cards with people in the small shop.

But let alone, today is really unexpected.

When Zhao Jun came outside the small store, he found several groups playing cards, but his uncle was nowhere to be seen.

Zhao Jun wondered if there might be a problem in the house, so he wanted to go into the house to have a look.But at this moment, someone called him, "Boy Zhao."

"Hey!" Zhao Jun responded first, looked back, recognized the speaker, and said with a smile: "Old Master Wang, are you watching the fun?"

"Yeah!" An old man walked quickly towards Zhao Jun, and said as he walked, "I'll watch a game of chess... Hey, Mr. Zhao, I heard that you caught a big wild boar?"

The old man's surname is Wang, and his name is Wang Yigui.He used to be a worker in the forest farm, but now he is retired at home.

"That's what happened." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "My mother said she was going to kill a pig for a treat. Doesn't that make me come to my old uncle?"

"Ah!" Wang Yigui nodded when he heard the words, and the people around him also understood what Zhao Jun meant.

These days, the folk customs are simple and honest.Most of the relationships among fellow villagers in the village are also very harmonious.

Like what fruit is planted in someone's house, or what vegetables are in the small vegetable garden, or even wild boars and black bears are hunted from the mountains.It is common for folks to come to ask for a little.

You have eaten my meat, tomorrow I will bring you other things from my house.In this way, the relationship is getting better and better.

However, if you want to kill a pig for a treat, it's different.

Even if the pig was caught by Zhao Jun from the mountains, it was served at the Zhao family's dinner table.In addition to helping butchers, there are relatives and friends.

And to help, not everyone can help, you have to be invited to go.

Therefore, when Zhao Jun said that Wang Meilan was going to kill a pig for a treat, Wang Yigui, who originally wanted to eat a piece of meat, also gave up the idea.

At this time, Zhao Jun asked Wang Yigui, "Master Wang, have you looked at my uncle?"

"Hi!" Wang Yigui slapped his hands, stretched out his hand to grab Zhao Jun's arm, and gently pushed him back.

In this way, Zhao Jun knew that the old man had something to say to him, so he followed Wang Yigui to the back of the big willow tree.

Then, Wang Yigui whispered to Zhao Jun: "The day before yesterday, your old uncle went back to her natal home. I saw your old uncle hurried outside this morning. It is likely that he went to pick up your old uncle."

When Zhao Jun heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched.When Zhao Jun went to deliver lynx meat yesterday, uncle Wang Qiang was at home by himself.Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang, but Wang Qiang didn't say that Zhao Ling had returned to her mother's house...

"Then I know, Old Master Wang." Zhao Jun said to Wang Yigui, "Go on and watch the fun, I'm going back now."

"Hey, hey!" Seeing that Zhao Jun was about to leave, Wang Yigui quickly stopped Zhao Jun, smiled and said to him, "Boy Zhao, I want to ask you for a favor."

"Well." Zhao Jun said: "What's the matter, sir, you can tell."

Wang Yigui said: "I'm thinking about it, before the twelfth lunar month of this year, if you have time, you can also help the uncle catch a wild boar."

Speaking of this, Wang Yigui raised his hand at Zhao Jun, and said, "Master, I don't let you work for nothing, and I can't lose you when the time comes."

"Ah!" Zhao Jun shook his head when he heard the words, "Old Master Wang, I dare not promise you this. Before you arrive at the twelfth lunar month, you should catch the New Year pig yourself, and you have to catch it. You can't point at me."

"This..." Wang Yigui was about to say something, but when Zhao Jun raised his hand, he said, "Master, you see, I am on vacation now, and I am taking specimens for our leaders. I have to count enough for them. , over there, I can't take care of you."

"Ah..." Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Yigui stopped talking, Zhao Jun waved at him and said, "Old Master Wang, then I'm leaving."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jun trotted to Lin Xiangshun's house, leaving Wang Yigui, who was hesitant to speak, alone under the tree in a daze.

Zhao Jun ran about ten meters, turned around the corner and then slowed down.Their family did not have a deep friendship with Wang Yigui's family, so Zhao Jun could not agree to Wang Yigui's request.

As for the remuneration Wang Yigui mentioned, he didn't specify, and Zhao Jun didn't think about how much he could give.

These are still folks from the village, it's not the case that Zhao Jun wants more.If there is less, Zhao Jun may not be able to get along.

Because even when hunting livestock, it doesn't cost anything except bullets.But if you want to catch a live wild boar, you have to take the dog gang to surround it.In this process, if a dog is broken, who will bear the loss?

These can't be counted with the folks in the village, so Zhao Jun didn't take over Wang Yigui's job.

Zhao Jun stayed at Lin Xiangshun's home all the way, the little white dog in the yard barked twice, and Lin Xiangshun's daughter-in-law Xu Chunyan came out of the house.

"Second sister-in-law!" Zhao Jun raised his hand and waved at Xu Chunyan, who hurriedly greeted her at the door.As she walked, she greeted: "Xiao Jun, come into the house!"

"Second sister-in-law, I won't go in." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "My mother asked you to bring Dabao to my house. We will kill pigs today."

"Killing pigs?" Xu Chunyan was taken aback when she heard that, thinking that it's not a festival, what kind of pigs are you killing?Furthermore, she knew that Zhao Jun's family raised chickens, ducks, geese, roe deer, goats, and squirrels, but she had never heard that his family also raised pigs.

Zhao Jun explained: "Second Sister-in-law, Brother Zhang and I went up the mountain today, and we caught a wild boar and came back."

"Oh!" Xu Chunyan's eyes lit up, and she said pleasantly, "Xiaojun, you can really do it, wild boars are not easy to catch."

Anyone who plays a circle can blow it, and usually no one listens to it, so they blow it to their own daughter-in-law.And after so many years with Lin Xiangshun, Xu Chunyan understood a little bit, and also knew how difficult it is to catch a live wild boar.

Therefore, Xu Chunyan also asked: "Xiaojun, how old is the pig you caught? Huang Maozi?"

"Old sow, Xiaoliu'er weighs nearly two hundred catties." Zhao Jun raised his chin with a smile, and motioned to Xu Chunyan, "Second sister-in-law, hurry up and take the child to my house. Let's leave my house to eat pig dishes today, first Fangzi meat, when it’s done, fill it with blood sausage!”

Hearing the three words of filling blood sausage, Xu Chunyan's eyes lit up immediately, and said: "Da Bao went to Lao Wu's house and went to play with his second boy. I'll invite him to go."

Speaking of this, Xu Chunyan asked Zhao Jun again: "Oh, I just remembered. Now our mother and I have left, and your second brother comes back. Don't worry if we can't find us?"

"That's okay." Zhao Jun said to Xu Chunyan: "Leave him a note at home and tell him to go directly to my house when he comes back."

"This way!" Xu Chunyan wanted to enter the room to write a note when she heard Zhao Jun's words, and at the same time she let Zhao Jun into the room.

"I won't go into the house, Second Sister-in-law." Zhao Jun said, "I'll go back first, and you will bring Dabao later."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jun turned around and rushed back.But before he had gone far, he saw his uncle's family of four.

The old aunt Zhao Ling is leading one and holding the other, while the old uncle Wang Qiang is carrying a bundle.

Seeing Zhao Jun approaching, Wang Qiang shouted from a long distance: "This child, why haven't you gone to work yet?"

Zhao Jun rushed to Wang Qiang's side, put his arms around Wang Qiang's shoulders with a smile, and said to Zhao Ling through Wang Qiang: "Auntie, let's go to my house."

"I'm not going, Xiaojun." Zhao Ling said, "I haven't been home for several days. I'll go back and tidy up the house."

"What are you packing?" Zhao Jun stepped forward and took Wang Xue from Zhao Ling's arms. He hugged his little cousin and said to Zhao Ling and Wang Qiang, "Auntie, old uncle, come with me quickly. Let's eat pig-killing vegetables today."

"Killing pig dishes?" The couple were surprised when they heard the words. Zhao Jun told them about the wild boar he had caught while walking.

At this time, little cousin Wang Tian grabbed the corner of Zhao Jun's clothes and said, "Brother."

"Hey." Zhao Jun hugged his little cousin with one hand and Wang Tian's little hand with the other, and said gently, "Little brother, what's wrong?"

Wang Tian puffed his face and said aggrievedly: "Can you give me another little squirrel?"

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, then smiled and said, "Yes, there are quite a few of my brother's family, you can pick them yourself later."

"Yeah." Wang Tian thought a little, and said again: "Mine told Zhao Qiming to go."

Zhao Jun blinked, and suddenly remembered that Zhao Qishan was Zhao Ling's nephew, that is, Wang Tian's cousin.

"What else do you want?" At this time, Wang Qiang said to Wang Tian from the side, "Your brother, that gray dog, you still have to keep it for money."

"Hey." Zhao Jun hurriedly stopped: "Old uncle, my brother and sister want it, so why don't you pay it back?"

While talking, the five of them turned the corner and arrived at Zhao Jun's house. From a long distance away, they saw Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei busy in the yard.

Seeing this, Wang Qiang hurried over.

At this time, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei were moving bricks in the yard.And next to it is the yellow mud that Wang Meilan picked up from the cellar. This is to build a big stove in the yard.

"Sister, sister." When Wang Qiang came in, he stopped Wang Meilan and said, "You and Sister Jin are going to do light work, and I will come with Xiaojun."

Just as Wang Meilan was about to answer, she heard a child outside the courtyard shout, "Auntie!"

"Hey!" Seeing her nephew and niece coming, Wang Meilan hurriedly greeted her.

At this time Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao hadn't finished school yet, so they let Wang Tian and Wang Xue enter the room to play.

Here Wang Meilan took Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling to the back room to pick vegetables from the garden.

Now it is the old autumn season, and there are not many vegetables in the vegetable garden, but there are spring onions, coriander, leeks, spinach and potherb mustard.

Jin Xiaomei plucked and grilled shallots, while Zhao Ling plucked and picked coriander.

And Wang Meilan took off a net bag hanging in the shed, which was filled with dried shredded beans, which were picked from the farm's oil beans and cut into thin strips evenly. Then dry it again.

Wang Meilan grabbed two handfuls of dried bean shreds and put them in a small basin, ready to soak them for a while.When it is soaked and stewed with meat, it will always taste delicious.

After hanging up the bag containing the shredded beans, Wang Meilan took off another net bag, which contained dried eggplants.

The dried eggplants are all tender eggplants before the beginning of autumn. They are cooked in a big pot first, and then they are broken open to dry.Dried eggplant dried in this way is delicious for stewed fish and meat.

Still grabbed two handfuls of dried eggplants, and after hanging the net bag back, Wang Meilan took another net bag.

Here are dried green peppers, Wang Meilan grabbed two handfuls anyway.After hanging up the net bag, she went back to the house with the small basin.

On the other side, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang had already placed all the bricks in the courtyard.These bricks were left over from Zhao Jun's construction of the house. If they were thrown on the side of the new house, it would be easy to be missed.So after the house was built, those folks who helped helped transport it back.

At this time, the uncle and nephew were making yellow mud, and after a while they would build a stove with yellow mud.

But before they finished mixing the mud, the bricklayer came.

Today, when little Lingdang went to school, Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng left a note for the child at home, and then came to Zhao Jun's house.

Yang Yufeng was carrying a basket with dried celery in the basket.

This is a wild vegetable, and to be honest, ordinary wild vegetables are not very tasty.And when cooking, you must use meat oil.

But right now, there are no green vegetables from the south in the forest area, and this big-leaf celery must be considered a good thing if it is to be kept in winter.

Mrs. Jiang came with Zhang Yuanmin.Seeing the old lady coming, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang in the front yard hurriedly got up to greet her.

Then, Yang Yufeng went to the house to help, and Zhang Yuanmin rolled up his sleeves to help Heni.The old lady was sent back to the house by Zhao Jun and asked her to watch the two children.

Sure enough, once Zhang Yuanmin arrived, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang didn't have to worry about technical work.

After handing over the matter of building the stove to Zhang Yuanmin, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang went to the warehouse to carry out a large pot and lean it against the wall.Then, they went to the warehouse to move things one after another, preparing to kill the pigs in a while.

Zhang Yuanmin's hands were really skillful, he quickly built the stove, and used the big wooden tube brought out by Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang as a cigarette barrel.In this way, a simple earthen stove is completed.

Put the cauldron on the stove, set firewood to boil water.

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin worked together to lift the wild boar on the raised door.

During this process, the wild boar was struggling constantly, but it was hard to escape after all.

When the sharp knife and iron basin were ready, Zhao Jun held the knife in one hand and patted the pig's butt with the other.Then he walked over to the pig's head, looked at the basin in front of his feet, and thrust the knife into the pig's neck.

Zhao Jun lowered his sword, from bottom to top.After the sharp knife entered, a stream of blood flowed into the basin!
(End of this chapter)