Blind wife

Chapter 82: The Fun of Chinese New Year ([-])

Liu Shutian came over and asked Dagou and Ergou to help him kill pigs.

Liu Shutian said: "Brother Maogen, I will kill a pig today, and when the pig is killed, I will leave you with a hind leg."

Liu Maogen said: "Oh, I didn't know you were going to kill pigs. Big Dog and Taozi had just left, and I asked him to cut meat in the town. Cailan, hurry up and tell Big Dog."

Jia Cailan promised and hurried away.

Liu Maogen said: "Shutian, I can't eat a hind leg, just give me three catties for the rib."

Liu Shutian said with a smile: "No problem, my pig's fat is two fingers thick, and the rib meat is no problem. You can take a look at it after it's opened, and you can take the one you like."

Ergou followed Liu Shutian and left. Heizi followed behind wagging his tail. When he arrived at Liu Shutian's house, Jin Suo and Zhuzi were there. Liu Shutian hired a pig butcher in the outer village. The pig butcher held a belt A wooden stick with an iron hook, and a poking knife that is more than one inch wide and one foot long in one hand. When everyone is here, they arrive at the pigsty.

A few people stood guard at the door of the pigsty, and when the butcher hooked the pig's neck with an iron hook, the pig howled, and several people jumped into the pigsty. A man carried the pig's tail, went to the yard, and put the pig on a wheelbarrow.

Liu Shutian yelled at Yang Shengguo: "Bring the washbasin quickly."

Yang Shengguo hastily brought a washbasin over and handed it to Liu Shutian. Liu Shutian put the washbasin under the pig's neck. The pig butcher held the poking knife, pinpointed the position, and ### cut the pig's neck with one blow In the middle of the night, he turned his wrist a few more times and pulled out the knife. The black and red pig blood spurted out and fell into the washbasin. The screams of the pig gradually disappeared from high to low. The legs just didn't move.

There was a large iron pot standing outside Liu Shutian's house. The water in the pot was already steaming. The pig butcher came over to test the temperature of the water, added a spoonful of cold water to it, and put out the fire under the pot. Pushing it over, several people lifted the pig and slowly lowered it into the pot.

After a while, the pig hair will be pulled out. The pig butcher and several others are pulling the pig hair beside the pot. In the end, the pig butcher took out a metal plane and scraped it hard on the pig. Pig, now it's snow white.

When the pig's hair was almost gone, the pig butcher and several people took the pig out of the pot, carried it to the middle of two trees that were very close together, and hung the pig's two hind legs on the ground that had already been tied. On the rope ring, several people gathered around the pig to pluck its hair.

The pig butcher took out a small knife, cut a small opening in the pig's hind leg, and poked a steel rod more than one meter long along the small opening, piercing all over the pig's body. Seeing the small mouth on the pig's hind legs blowing fiercely, the other people beat the whole body of the pig, and the pig swelled up.

After that, the butcher's job was left, and several people watched from the side. Liu Shutian took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to Ergou for everyone to distribute.

The pig butcher first poured cold water on the pig, took out a small knife, and shaved the pig's hair up and down, until it was snow-white without any stray hair.Next, the pig butcher took out a machete, cut it from the pig's tail, and cut it down along the belly. The five internal organs in the pig's stomach dripped down, Liu Shutian caught it with a bamboo sieve, and put it aside.

The pig butcher cut off the pig urine foam and threw it to a child nearby. The child blew his mouth on the pig urine foam and tied his mouth with a rope.

A few people were here looking at the thickness of the pig's fat, and the pig butcher went to the side and began to process the pig's offal.Heizi followed the pig butcher all the time. The pig butcher found Saipi from the sewer and threw it to Heizi. Heizi caught it and went to the side to eat it.

Liu Shutian asked Yang Sheng to call the people in the village and let everyone come to cut the meat. At that time, Liu Shutian asked about the price of meat in the town, regardless of fat or thin. purchase.

The people in the village took most of the pork, and the remaining half was left. Liu Shutian carried it into the house and spread the word, asking people from neighboring villages to buy pork.

When Liu Shutian was selling meat, he didn't see Liu Maogen passing by, so he asked Ergou to bring a few catties of meat home. Ergou said that his father didn't give him any money, and he left when his father came.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, Jia Cailan was busy chopping meat and radishes to make dumpling fillings. Tao Zi rolled out a table surface and pressed it into dumpling wrappers with a bottle cap. When it was time to make dumplings, Jia Cailan asked Ergou to help, but Ergou didn’t move , the big dog came to help.

Sitting on the kang, Liu Maogen held back his anger at Ergou several times, and coughed loudly and softly.The dumplings were almost finished, and Tao Zi sat under the stove to light the fire.

When the dumplings were cooked, Jia Cailan put a few dumplings in a bowl, put two pairs of chopsticks on top, put them on the table to respect the big dog's father and mother-in-law, then filled a bowl for Liu Maogen, and Ergou also came over up.

Seeing him angry, Liu Maogen said, "I thought you didn't eat."

Er Gou said, "Why don't I eat? I do my best when farming."

Jia Cailan suppressed the anger of the two of them, and smiled: "Yes, yes, you should eat more, Ergou, your father's speech is not pleasant, he has been like this all his life, so don't worry about it."

Ergou took a bowl and sat on the side of the kang, ate a dumpling and looked at Liu Maogen, and finally Liu Maogen turned around to avoid him.There was still a bowl of dumplings left, and the big dog let Jia Cailan eat it, and he and Tao Zi waited for the second pot.

At this time, the sound of crackling cannons was heard in the village, and Liu Maogen said to the big dog: "Big dog, go to the door and set off the cannons to drive away bad luck."

The big dog brought a string of cannons to the door, and Tao Zi said, "Wait a minute, I'll go too." Tao Zi wiped her hands and followed the big dog out.

When the two left the door, Ergou looked at them. He picked up a dumpling with his chopsticks and opened his mouth, so he didn't put it in his mouth. After Tao Zi left, he remembered to eat the dumpling.This scene caught Liu Maogen right, he shook his head and sighed.

The big dog and Taozi went outside the courtyard gate and put the firecrackers on the ground. The big dog struck a match and was about to light it. Taozi lowered his head and blew out the match, saying, "I've grown up so much, I haven't let off the firecracker yet. Let me play it once too."

The big dog handed her the match and said, "Then be careful, don't let the cannon blow you up."

Tao Zi squatted down, lit a match, and stretched it to the fuse of the gun, just a little bit. He was too scared to move forward, and lit a second match, but he still didn't dare to light it. The big dog shouted: "It's blown!" .”

Taozi yelled in panic, and ran away in a hurry, looked back to see that the cannon was still not lit, pretended to be angry, and said, "Big dog, what are you doing, people are timid, you still scare me, be careful I don't care about you."

The big dog said with a smile: "Firing cannons is a man's business, let me do it."

The big dog asked for matches, and went to light the cannon. Taozi hid at the door, covered his ears with his hands, the cannon was lit, and it crackled.

The door was dark, and Tao Zi was about to go back to the house, when the big dog grabbed her, hugged her, and said, "Tao Zi, my hands are very cold, please warm them up."

The big dog put his hand into her cotton-padded jacket, Tao Zi avoided him, and said, "Go back to the house quickly, you think about it sooner or later."

Tao Zi went back into the house first, and the big dog closed the courtyard door and followed her back into the house.

The next day is the first day of the Lunar New Year. People in the valley eat a meal of whistle noodles in the morning to celebrate the New Year. The children all wear new clothes. People walk from one house to another.

Tao Zi got up very early, and after eating with Jia Cailan and Zhang Luo's family, she was fine.Taozi talked to Dagou about what to do when she came down, when Zaohua came wearing new clothes.

Zaohua greeted Liu Maogen and Jia Cailan first, and asked Taozi for a happy new year.As soon as Zaohua came, Taozi became happy and said, "Zaohua, this dress looks really good on you."