Return to the small mountain village in 1986

The pig is killed, bled, and then skinned.

This wild boar has thick skin and is covered in mud. Even if you boil water to scald the hair, if the skin is too thick, it will have to be stewed for a long time.

However, Gao Mingcheng plans to go into the mountains to cut down some trees, and then find a carpenter to make a large wooden barrel for scalding pig hair. When he has free time in winter, he can go into the mountains to hunt wild boars.

If you hunt a piglet, you can scald it, and the wild boar skin is also delicious.

The wild boar in the mountains suffered a disaster the year before last. Last year, Gao Mingcheng didn't hunt much in the mountains. It was only now this year that he accidentally hunted a wild boar.

However, wild boars have strong reproductive capacity. In the next year or two, the number of wild boars in the mountains will definitely increase again. If we hunt a few wild boars appropriately this year, there will be no problem.

There are few guns and ammunition here, so there are naturally few people who dare to go deep into the mountains to hunt wild boars. There are seven or eight air guns and blunderbuss in Gaojia Village, but these guns can only shoot birds and rabbits. If you want to hunt wild boars, That's not even close.

What's more, these guns are not from regular sources, and their quality varies. If you encounter a poor-quality gun, you will be injured first if the chamber explodes.

When Gao Mingcheng was skinning the wild boar, he discovered that the knife at home had not been used for a long time and was a little dull.

Sure enough, if the knife is not sharpened, it will become dull.

Chen Dasong immediately took over the task of sharpening the knife. There was a whetstone under a gardenia tree outside the courtyard. He walked over carrying several knives and half a bucket of water.

He happened to see his eldest son Chen Duofu from a distance walking back from the valley where the beehives were placed. He immediately shouted: "Duofu, come and help!"

Chen Duofu heard his father's shout and ran over quickly.

Chen Dasong said with a smile: "Ming Cheng has brought back a wild boar. Go and help - oh, you might as well call your mother and brother to help."

How many people are powerful!

And Chen Dasong knew that Gao Mingcheng was generous. After they helped clean up the wild boar, they were able to get some bones and pig water.

But Chen Duofu didn't call anyone, but said: "Mom took Duo Xi to work in the fields and is not at home right now. I'll call Brother Cheng Yuan!"

"That's okay." Chen Dasong nodded. Zhang Chengyuan and Gao Mingcheng are brothers-in-law. It's natural to come over to help and share some meat.

So Chen Duofu walked all the way to where Zhang Chengyuan was working and called Zhang Chengyuan back.

When they entered the yard, they found it wet.

It turned out that Gao Mingcheng had to stop temporarily after he found that the knife was too dull to peel the skin. When he stopped, he felt that he should wash the wild boar with clean water, otherwise the mud on the pig skin would easily stain the meat when peeling.

When wild boars live in the mountains, in order to prevent mosquito bites and predators from hunting, they will wallow in mud and wrap themselves in mud, layer by layer, as hard as armor.

Gao Mingcheng poured water on the wild boar, and Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Duofu used brushes to wash away the mud on the wild boar.

By the time the wild boar was almost washed, the ground was covered with mud and water.

Gao Mingcheng moved the wild boar under a clean roof to avoid direct sunlight.At this time, Chen Dasong also sharpened the knife.

The newly sharpened blade glowed coldly in the sunlight.

Gao Mingcheng first chopped off the pig's head, pig's feet and pig's tail with an axe, and then skinned them.

Zhang Chengyuan's knife skills were not good, so he picked up the pig's head, pig's feet, and pig's tail, went outside the courtyard, lit a fire, and burned the pig hair off the skin.Under intense work, a complete pigskin was peeled off. This pigskin can be sold to a fur tanning workshop. After tanning, it can be made into pigskin shoes.

People in later generations were keen on wearing cowhide shoes, but at this time, many people still wore pigskin shoes. After all, there was not that much supply of cowhide.

Gao Mingcheng transferred the skinned pig to a clean large wooden board. This large wooden board was specially made by a carpenter when he was processing prey.

Seeing that Gao Mingcheng was about to disembowel the wild boar, Chen Duofu quickly prepared a wooden basin and put the pigs in the wooden basin when they entered the water.

Things were going on in an orderly manner, but Gao Mingcheng felt some small lumps in the bile duct. He moved in his heart and simply took out the lumps.

The hard lump is similar to bezoar and is also a pig stone, commonly known as pig grit.

Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh. He didn't expect that this wild boar was also a gallstone patient. No wonder it was so weak that two dogs could kill it.

He looked at the pig grit in his hand and threw it away casually.

Although some people tout things like pig gizzard and chicken treasure, in fact, only bezoar, dog treasure and horse treasure can be used as medicine, and the most commonly used ones are bezoars.

Although pig sand is also a gallstone, it has no medicinal effect, just like people also have gallstones, but no one uses human sand as medicine.

Gao Mingcheng felt in the gallbladder again, and this time he didn't find any small lumps. However, he didn't throw away the gallbladder, because pig sand is not medicine, but gallbladder is medicine.

The pig gallbladder is long pear-shaped and is filled with dark green bile. Gao Mingcheng hung the gallbladder under the eaves to dry. After it is dried, it becomes a traditional Chinese medicine and can be taken to the medicine fair to be sold.

He handed the internal organs to Chen Duofu to process, while he picked up a kitchen knife and prepared to cut the pork into pieces.

There is also a skill in cutting pork. The knife should be cut along the joints of the pig, so that it is easy to cut and the bones are intact.

Gao Mingcheng put the best front leg meat together and shaved off the ribs. Thinking that grandma needed to drink bone soup, he divided a few kilograms of ribs out, took out two tube bones, and added a kilogram of pork. I will give it to grandma to eat later.

As for the fine grandmother, she would never favor one over the other. Gao Mingcheng was cutting and dividing the meat, and it soon piled up into small mountains.

Although the wild boar was injured and suffered from gallstones, it was an adult boar after all and weighed quite a lot. Even after skinning and removing the pig's guts, there was still a lot of pork left.

The two dogs were the heroes, so when cutting, Gao Mingcheng first cut three pieces of pork belly to add oil and water to them.

Rhubarb ate and drank freely, but it felt that it had done its part and enjoyed the meal, without feeling that it was inappropriate at all.

With the busy work of the three people, the wild boar was quickly dealt with.

Gao Mingcheng shared some meat with Chen Dasong's family and Zhang Chengyuan's family, which was regarded as employee welfare.

Chen Dasong got a pound of hind leg meat, some bones and a pair of small intestines. He was very happy. He had no education, otherwise he would have to say: If you work with the right boss, it will be really different!
"Mingcheng, are you having lunch at my house too? I'll ask your aunt to cook more rice." Chen Dasong said with a smile.

However, Gao Mingcheng refused and said, "No, I will go to Grandma Xixi's house for dinner at noon."

It was already 11:30, and it was time to cook lunch. He would go to the old village later to deliver meat to his parents' house and Grandma Xixin's house, and eat at Grandma Xixin's house by the way.

He doesn't have a daughter, but he likes Xiao Yuanyuan from Gao Zhuang's family. (End of chapter)