Destiny Only Han

Chapter 48 Dare to lie to my mother?

"I didn't lose!"

Liu Ying sat on the ground, covered in dirt, and looked solemnly at Lu Zhi, who couldn't stop laughing.

In front of him was a four-foot-long black pig that looked delicious.

At this moment, the black pig pressed its pink and tender nose against the pigweed on the ground, humming twice from time to time, as if saying that he hadn't lost.

The cause of the matter is very simple. After Lu Zhi got a large windfall, he sent people to the market, bought a large number of livestock such as pigs, sheep and chickens, and raised them in the backyard.

Anyway, this courtyard covers a large enough area. According to the data measured by Liu Ying with her feet, it is at least the size of Prince Gong's Mansion.

And if it is not enough, it can be expanded at any time, and it is not a problem to enclose a few hundred acres of land.

As for raising livestock in the backyard, it is mainly because there is an endless stream of people who come to eat and drink at home, so it is necessary to prepare as much wine and meat as possible.

During this period, there was no cold storage, so we could only raise them first, eat them now and kill them now.

Because of this, when Liu Ying saw the glossy mane on the back of the black pig, she immediately returned to the room and snatched a pair of scissors from the little loli.

He was going to cut some pig hair to make a toothbrush, not only for himself as a spare, but also as a gift to Zhang Liang.

The son is like a jade, but after opening his mouth, his mouth is full of big yellow teeth...

This style of painting is crooked!

Therefore, Liu Ying wanted to cut whatever she said, but the black pig refused to cut anything, so the two sides scuffled together.

The final result, of course, is that Liu Ying is covered in dirt, while the black pig is bald...

Lu Zhi pulled Liu Ying up, and patted the dirt on his body angrily: "What do you say you are messing with it, wash the dirty clothes yourself!"

Liu Ying: "Repay the money!"

Lu Zhi laughed awkwardly, patted his head, then turned and left.

Heh, fight with me... Liu Ying stroked the hair of the black pig, sincerely hoping that it could eat more, so that the time from cute to delicious could be greatly shortened.

"There is plenty of fat between the muscles of the front legs, which is suitable for making meat fillings. The meat is juicy and fragrant..."

"The hind legs have less activity, so it should be good to make ham, but unfortunately I don't know how to make it, so let's stew it and eat it..."

"The pork belly in the middle can't be wasted. Come back and find out where there is sugar cane, and boil some brown sugar to fry the sugar color. It's just right to make braised pork!"

Liu Ying was drooling and squatting on the ground to feed the pig, her eyes casually glanced at the crotch of the black pig, she understood in her heart, no wonder this black pig is very docile, and has been burying its head in cooking, it turns out that it has long since lost any worldly desires...

At the arched door, Ji Xin walked in with a basket of pigweed, and said with a smile: "This Hei Xunfei doesn't know what to do, he dares to insult the young master. After a while, he will kill him and give him extra food!"

You said that, have you considered Zhuzhu's feelings... Liu Ying raised her small face, and suddenly smiled, the sun was shining brightly, and her seven teeth were white.

In terms of manners, he has always been very careful...

Well, the one that is missing is a new tooth that just fell out yesterday and has not had time to grow.

Wait, what is Heixunfei?
Liu Ying asked doubtfully, "Hei Xunfei?"

While feeding the pig, Ji Xin turned his head and said, "In my hometown, this kind of castrated pig is called Xunfei, in some places it is called porpoise, while uncastrated pigs are called Gangguan, and in some places they are called hog..."

Liu Ying nodded slightly. His unborn Oududou has a descendant called a pig, which is a wild boar...

During this period, the status of pigs was very high. In the era of economic underdevelopment, the cost of raising pigs was higher than that of cattle and sheep. Therefore, it is clearly stipulated in the Book of Rites that when pigs, cattle and sheep are cooked at the same time, they are called "Tai Lao". It is the food that only the supreme emperor can enjoy.

It's like the ancients didn't eat pork because they didn't know how to 'castrate' pigs, so the pork smelled fishy and so on.

Just listen to it.

The technology of castrating livestock has existed as early as the Shang Dynasty.

It's not that the ancients didn't eat pork, but after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, until Su Dongpo wrote "Ode to Pork", in these hundreds of years, people ate pork and mutton were much inferior compared to eating mutton.

The reason is nothing more than that after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a large number of Hu people merged into the Central Plains, and they also brought their eating habits of eating sheep.

But the deeper reason is that the pig breeding environment is poor.

Many families in this period would have a building called "圂" in their homes, with toilets on the top and pigsty on the bottom, which was not wasted at all...

But this is something that can’t be helped. After all, productivity is low, and the purpose of human breeding livestock is to obtain protein...well, to eat meat.

Therefore, all wild animals that are targeted and domesticated by humans are at least animals that cannot use meat as their staple food.

Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, horses... all kinds of things are like this.

Well, for example, the guinea rats, or guinea pigs, raised by some little girls in college dormitories in later generations were domesticated and eaten by South Americans.

However, the Chinese began to raise a large number of pigs after the Song and Ming Dynasties. In fact, they were not all greedy for their bodies, but more because they wanted pig manure.

After all, in the era when there was no chemical fertilizer, the crops and flowers were all based on dung.

Pigs are not picky eaters, and they can eat and pull, which is really a treasure for farmers!

Liu Ying had heard about it a long time ago. Until the reform, breeding pigs, breeding sows, and selling piglets in the countryside were all separate businesses with strict barriers.

The techniques of "Postpartum Care of Sows" and "Reproductive Skills of Breeding Pigs" are passed on from male to female, and are the housekeeping skills that a family depends on for survival!

The reason why Liu Ying urged Lu Zhi to go to the market to buy some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep to raise by herself was actually to promote another technology.

compost.

This is a means to increase production by at least [-]% in this era.

It’s just that others are light-hearted, even if they can speak clearly and logically, they have to explain to the ancients that the fermentation of feces produces heat and scalds the crops to death, not that the feces are poisonous and poison the seedlings to death...

Well, seeing is believing.

What's more, he still has a careful thought, that is, Yingchuan County will not be under the direct jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty for many years, but will belong to the King of Han.

To be precise, it is the fief of Han Wangxin, a twenty-five boy.

In the agricultural era, where there is food, there are soldiers, and when there are soldiers, there is enough confidence.

In order to smooth the downfall of the feudal clan in the future, he just wants to let the people here know what happened and not know why...

Of course, collecting manure from military camps for free, composting it and selling it to farmers in need or the Korean government is also a way to make money.

After all, the Chu Army is currently living in Yingchuan County, South Korea. Although the two families eat in the same pot, they still belong to each other.

While Liu Ying was daydreaming, Ji Xin pinched Hei Zhu's back, shook his head and said, "Madam was deceived by profiteers..."

Liu Ying blinked her eyes, a little puzzled, pinching the pig, will she know that Lu Zhi was cheated?
However, is this profiteer so courageous?
Do you dare to earn money by cutting your head?

He tilted his head with a gloomy face: "Why do you say that?"

(End of this chapter)