My village can't be like this

Chapter 339 Slaughtering the fragrant pig

The early morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year was different from the previous few days.

Amidst the crowing of roosters, Zhang An got up from the bed and saw the sunlight on the earth through the window.

Although it was already past seven o'clock in the morning, the sun in the sky looked like it had just emerged from the ground.

The red sun, the size of a wheel, illuminated the clouds on the horizon red, shining its dazzling light on every corner of the earth.

Zhang An was not too surprised because he paid special attention to the weather forecast after the news broadcast last night.

Although in this three-thirds of an acre of local land, the weather programs broadcast by TV stations are not very accurate.

But from the weather forecasts of several surrounding cities, we can infer the general weather of this place.

"Hey, why did you get up so early?"

After Zhang An got up, he found that Chen Ze had gotten up earlier than him. When did this guy become so self-conscious.

"A day's plan starts in the morning, a year's plan starts in the spring, and it's spring morning, which is especially crucial. So naturally I have to get up earlier, otherwise it would be a pity to waste such a great time."

Chen Ze chuckled and then started to warm up on his own.

After finishing a complete set of Ba Duan Jin, I started to raise my hands and start practicing boxing.

Zhang An looked at this guy while washing up, and was very curious in his heart, when did this guy become so insistent.

When Chen Ze originally wanted to learn boxing, Zhang An thought he was just shaving his head because he wanted to do it.

But I didn't expect that after so long, this guy could still persist, and even gave up his favorite lazy sleep.

Watching Chen Ze finish a set of punches, Zhang An knew that this guy was not slacking off during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Because his movements at this time are much more skillful than before, it seems that he has been practicing during this period.

After washing up, Zhang An also started practicing boxing.

"Zhang An, please tell me more about this movement. I always feel that something is wrong when I practice it, but I can't tell what is wrong."

After watching Zhang An finish washing, Chen Ze pulled Zhang An and started asking.

"Okay, then you can show me your plan carefully and I will correct you."

Chen Ze nodded, took a deep breath, slightly bent his body again, and started the hand pose.

Half a quarter of an hour later, after Zhang An watched Chen Ze play it carefully, he knew where the problem lay.

"Your problem is not big, it's just that your movements are stiff and not natural at all."

"Yes, I just feel something is wrong. It turns out that my movements are unnatural."

Chen Ze suddenly realized that he couldn't see his own movements and felt something was wrong, but he couldn't explain the feeling.

"Then what do we do with this?"

"It's very simple to solve this. Your movements are stiff because you pay too much attention, which is not natural. The more you pay attention, the less natural it becomes. So when you boxing, just empty your mind, disperse your attention, and practice more Just go over it.”

Sometimes action is like this, the more mistakes you make, the worse your performance will be.

"Okay, follow me and do it again and let your attention go."

After that, Zhang An took a deep breath, raised his breath, and then led Chen Ze through the entire set of boxing techniques from beginning to end.

"Yeah, as long as you don't stare at it all the time, it will become natural if you practice it a few times."

Chen Ze is very attentive to boxing training, so there are no mistakes in his movements.

According to Zhang An, after he practiced it a few more times, those awkward feelings disappeared.

"I felt something was wrong at home. Why is Aze, such a lazy person, getting up early in the morning to exercise? It turns out I learned it from you."

Chen Cheng, who had just gotten up, yawned and walked to the yard, where he saw Zhang An and Chen Ze practicing boxing.

He used to feel that he knew this younger brother very well, but when he came back this time, he found that Chen Ze had become a stranger to him.

And the most outrageous thing is that this guy would take the initiative to exercise with the old man in the courtyard every morning.

Especially the Tai Chi technique, this guy practiced it so well that Chen Cheng was stunned for a moment.

"Hehe, people will always change. Look at how energetic I am now. Look at the vain look on your face. Why don't you follow suit?"

This is indeed true. During this period of time, Chen Ze seemed to be very full of energy.

"Forget it, I have to go to work every day, where will I find the time?"

Chen Cheng was a little moved when he heard this. He knew that his body was no longer as good as when he was young.

But when he thought about having to go to work every day, he shook his head. Going to work was already tiring enough, and he felt that he couldn't persevere.

"There is no need to learn anything else. Just learn Baduanjin. Taking a few minutes to move every morning is still good for the body."

The working party still couldn't afford to be injured. When Zhang An was still a social worker, he couldn't get up in the morning and couldn't sleep at night. It was really painful.

Every morning I long for a few more minutes of sleep, so I don’t want to get out of bed and exercise.

"Oh? It only takes a few minutes? That's not impossible."

When Chen Cheng thought about it, he only needed a few minutes every morning. This time couldn't be taken out casually.

"It really only takes a few minutes. Just watch me do it for you and you will know."

Chen Zegang had mastered the Baduanjin taught to him by Zhang An, and now he had to show off in front of his brother.

"Look, each movement is repeated four times, and a set can last up to 10 minutes. Didn't you say that your back is often sore and swollen? You can get better after practicing for a few days."

In less than ten minutes, Chen Ze skillfully showed Chen Cheng the movements of Baduanjin.

"Come on, it's very simple, I'll teach you."

Chen Ze started learning boxing from Zhang An just to show off to others.

During the time when he returned home for the Chinese New Year, he became very addicted to showing off in front of Mr. Chen, and he became more and more obsessed with this feeling.

But in front of the old man, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous.

If he can show off in front of Chen Cheng today, he will definitely not let go of this opportunity to be a teacher.

At the moment, he didn't care whether his elder brother Chen Cheng agreed or not, so he just pulled Chen Cheng and started teaching.

Chen Cheng's movement coordination is relatively stiff and clumsy, and it took him a long time to learn it.

But Chen Ze didn't say anything offensive because he knew his eldest brother's temper. If he said a few more words, Chen Cheng would immediately quit.

Therefore, Chen Ze plans to slowly encourage his eldest brother to learn, and when he has learned a little but not completely, he will come to him to ask.

That's when he started dressing up in special costumes.

"Huh, these movements seem very simple when others practice them, but I didn't expect them to be difficult to learn and also so tiring."

After half a day in a row, Chen Cheng, who had not exercised for a long time, was so tired that he was sweating profusely and panting.

"Your health is not good. You have to exercise regularly in the future. Otherwise, in a few years, you may not be as good as grandpa."

Finally, Chen Ze caught the opportunity and pretended a little.

But this is true. For people like Chen Ze who sit in the office all year round and don't exercise regularly, their bodies collapse very quickly.

When I first got married a few years ago, he looked like a handsome and charming young man.

Now that the child is only four or five years old, Chen Cheng has already begun to have a belly.

According to this progress, in a few years the fat on the belly will definitely be bigger than when someone is pregnant.

"Hey, when did you guys come? Cheng is here too."

While the three of them were resting and chatting in the yard, Li Hongbin's family came back.

When he saw brothers Chen Ze and Chen Cheng, he stopped the car and said hello.

"I heard that you accompanied the old man to your hometown. I thought it would take a few days for you to come back."

Chen Cheng and Li Hongbin are old acquaintances, and they were college classmates.

"Li Yao was not used to staying there and kept clamoring to come back every day, so we stayed there for two days and then came back." When Li Hongbin was in the second year of junior high school, his family went to his hometown in the countryside.

Neither he nor his son Li Yao had a good impression of that place.

If they hadn't been told to accompany the two elders back, they wouldn't have gone back themselves.

After staying for two days this time, Li Yao didn't like the people in the village over there, so he wanted to come back and play with his friends.

So after staying for two days, he couldn't stay anymore, and Li Hongbin was the same, so he simply came back with his son.

As for the second elder brother, Li Hongbin's eldest and second elder brother stayed here for a few more days. Li Hongbin planned to go over and take the elder brother back after the fifteenth day.

"Then you guys chat first, I'll drive home and then come over."

This is the road at the entrance of the village. It's not very wide. Once it's blocked by this car, there's not much room left.

At noon, Wang Fang made some lunch casually, and everyone ate a little and kept their stomachs full.

Because I have to have a barbecue at home in the afternoon and my stomach is full, I can only watch others eat in the afternoon.

Zhang An has always wanted to have a barbecue after the Chinese New Year. After finally waiting until the sun came out today, he would definitely not miss this opportunity.

After lunch, everyone took a short rest and then started to get busy.

Wang Fang and Wu Qiuping took Su Ying and their sisters to take out the meat at home and cut it into pieces and skewer them.

Zhang Jianguo caught a few rabbits and native chickens and slaughtered them. Zhang An's rabbits and native chickens were excellent at roasting.

And Zhang An is not idle either, he has more important things to do.

There is still a lot of meat left at home, especially the sheep slaughtered years ago and the beef and mutton sent by Li Hongbin.

It has always been placed in the space by Zhang. When he got up this morning, he took it out from the space.

There's a lot of mutton today, so I'll be able to put on a lot of mutton skewers later, and I can grill two more lamb legs.

Therefore, Zhang An had no plans to roast the whole sheep today, and the black goats in the pen also escaped.

And there is another reason, that is, today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the birthday of the sheep.

It is said that in ancient times, the goddess Nuwa created all living things.

The chicken was created on the first day, the dog on the second day, the pig on the third day, the sheep on the fourth day, the cow on the fifth day, and the horse on the sixth day.

It was not until the seventh day that man was created, and on the eighth day the grain was created.

So today, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, is the birth of sheep. Although killing is not taboo these days, Zhang An has no intention of killing sheep.

In this area of ​​Hongyan Town, the days when killing is taboo are the first and fifteenth days of the lunar new year.

Especially on the first day of the Lunar New Year, not only should we refrain from killing animals, but we should also be vegetarian.

So every year during the Chinese New Year, on New Year's Eve and the [-]th, everyone kills chickens and ducks to prepare the dishes for the next day.

After the first grade of junior high school, there are not so many taboos from the second to the fourteenth grade.

Of course, it is not without taboos. The Miao villagers in the village still have many taboos.

Basically, it starts from the first day of the Lunar New Year and lasts until the end of the Lantern Festival.

However, these customs are not in line with the Han people in the village. Everyone respects each other. You avoid yours and I avoid mine, and do not interfere with each other.

Of course, the sheep in the pen escaped because Zhang An did not want to roast the whole sheep, and also because today was their birthday.

But the other fat little pigs are not as lucky as the black goats.

The few fragrant pigs Zhang Jianguo bought by the way were raised at home for a whole year.

During this period, Zhang An had not slaughtered a single pig, and now there were more than a dozen small fragrant pigs raised in the pig pen.

Their plump appearance was so pleasing that Zhang An felt a little moved when he looked at them.

So today the King of Heaven and I came, but they couldn't stop Zhang An from wanting to roast suckling pig.

After raising them for so long, it's time for them to contribute themselves.

Soon, the water in the big iron pot was boiling and bubbling, and it was turned over.

Zhang An walked into the pen, selected it, and grabbed a small fragrant pig weighing forty or fifty pounds and brought it out.

The local fragrant pigs can grow up to seventy or eighty pounds, but Zhang An didn't pick the biggest ones to roast.

If it's too big, the meat will be a little burnt when grilled, and you won't be able to finish it later.

It's too small, not enough for everyone, and the meat is too tender.

The one weighing forty or fifty pounds is just right, neither big nor small.

"Come on, come on, you guys hold the pig down, and I'll use the knife."

Although Zhang An is not a pig butcher, he learned a few tricks from Lin Youde years ago.

It might not take much time to butcher a normal fat pig, but for this [-] to [-] kilogram small fragrant pig, it is easy.

The Chen Ze brothers, wearing aprons and sleeves and fully equipped, came to press the pig.

"Hey, this fragrant pig doesn't look big, and its legs are so short. Why is it so strong?"

Chen Cheng pressed the pig on the pig's feet and was kicked accidentally. If he hadn't shrunk quickly, he would have been kicked hard.

Although this fragrant pig is not big, it is much stronger than the ordinary fragrant pig.

After all, it is a fragrant pig that has entered the space, and it is still different from the ordinary fragrant pig outside.

"Hey, we have to kill a pig today."

When they were about to kill the pig, Li Hongbin jumped over from their house.

"Hurry up, I'm waiting for you. Haven't you been salivating looking at my fragrant pig? Today, your wish is granted."

This local fragrant pig, even if you don't use it to roast suckling pig, just use the normal method, it is more delicious than ordinary pork.

So when Li Hongbin was killing pigs during the Chinese New Year, he had already set his sights on the fragrant pigs in Zhang An's pig pen.

It was only after the Zhang An family killed three big fat pigs that he let these little guys go.

"Hey hey, here we come."

When he heard that it was the fragrant pig that he had been craving for a long time, Li Hongbin picked up an apron and tied it on before joining the pig-pressing team.

"Hey, Xiao An, why are you using such a big knife? This pig is so small. Get a smaller one."

Zhang An had little experience in killing pigs for the first time, so he had to do it directly with the butcher knife.

The butcher's knife in his hand was used to kill big fat pigs, and it was fine for slaughtering cows.

But if you want to kill this little fragrant pig, the knife is really too big, giving people the feeling of using a butcher's knife to kill a pig.

If this knife goes in, I'm afraid the pig's neck will be pierced.

"Hey, I didn't pay attention. I'll change it."

Zhang An changed his knife to a new one before he was ready to take action.

Chinese people kill pigs mainly for the purpose of bleeding. Only when the blood is drained can the meat be delicious.

Zhang An found the place that Lin Youde had told him, found the right location, and stabbed the knife in.

Although it was a stabbing, Zhang An did not stab him to the end all at once.

"Come on, come on, bring the basin."

From the edge of the knife, deep red and hot pig blood dripped down.

Xiangzhu, who was being held down by everyone, tried to struggle but couldn't.

The fragrant pig is not big and does not have that much pig blood, so after Zhang An saw that there was no blood, he took out the knife and breathed his last breath.

Wang Fang took a pot of pig blood and sprinkled some salt water to speed up the solidification.

(End of this chapter)