happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 36 Dividing the meat
The time is set to go to the county seat on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. After arriving there, he will have to live for at least a month before returning.

When Shen Yunfang got home, she began to think about what to do with these things at home.

During the meal, the aunt had already taken the initiative to help her raise the chickens. Shen Yunfang looked at the few pheasants that were flailing wildly, and was heartbroken. Anyway, they won't be able to raise them for a few days, so don't waste food and kill the chickens.

She went to the house to change clothes, and then boiled a pot of hot water in the main room, then rolled up her arms and sleeves and went to the west room to catch pheasants.

She is familiar with this job. When her parents opened the farm, she helped kill chickens a lot.

Holding the comb and wings of the chicken in his right hand, he plucked the hair off the neck of the pheasant with his left hand a few strokes. With his right hand, he stretched out the neck of the pheasant, picked up a kitchen knife, cut off the trachea, esophagus and blood vessels, and took a bowl from home to pick it up. Chicken blood, until no more blood flowed out, then he threw the pheasant in his hand into the yard and let it flop around by itself.

Then she went to catch other pheasants.

After bloodletting one by one, put the dead pheasants in hot water to shed their feathers. After the pheasants are clean, they disembowel and remove their internal organs. After they are all cleaned, they are thrown directly into a clean basket in the space.

As for the leeks and lettuce in the Westinghouse, she wanted to wait until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month to pick them. If there was one more crop of leeks, she didn't plan to take the leek roots away, let them rest, and plant them when she came back.Lettuce can be almost ready after three days of cultivation. Although it is smaller, it is the same to eat.

As for the earthworms, she has nothing to do. She can only take them away with the jar. When the time comes to see the situation, if the conditions permit, she will continue to raise them. If not, let the earthworms "hibernate" until next spring. , she has prepared all the housework, and she is doing a big job.

On the next day, the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, Uncle Shen's family slaughtered pigs, and Shen Yunfang, as a relative, would definitely go to help, so he could have a meal by the way.

At present, except for Shen Yunfang, every family in Gaijiatun raises at least one pig, which is to be handed over to the state. Uncle Shen's family is well-off and raises two.One is an old sow, keeping her cubs to sell for money, and the other is going to kill and give the raw meat directly to the country, so that the family can keep some pork for the New Year, which is not a year of exhaustion.

Seeing a few big men pressing down on a big fat pig, with white knives in and red knives out, she was not afraid at all, instead she thought about it in her heart. Next year, she wants to see if she can raise two pigs in the mountains, so that she is a prostitute. Or eat a lot by yourself.Well, make a note, next year we will have to grow more sweet potatoes for pig rations.

When she was leaving, Shen Yunfang, in addition to having a full meal, also spent three yuan to buy a whole set of pig offal and four pig trotters. These are not valuable things, and few people like to eat them. The first One is that it is smelly if it is not well cleaned, and the other is that people nowadays are short of oil and water, and they eat fat meat if they want to eat, so Shen Yunfang said that he wanted to buy pigs into the water, and Aunt Shen readily agreed, and finally gave two big bones as a gift .

Shen Yunfang's pockets were a little bulging because she received 15 yuan from Li Hongjun's mail, thinking that no matter how poor she is, she will celebrate the New Year, and if she can't afford meat, she can still buy some of these pigs.

Although things are worthless, Shen Yunfang likes them.After returning home, I threw the cleaned big bones into the space, started to pack the pigs into the water, and then threw them into the space again, planning to cook a big meal for myself on the day of the Chinese New Year.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the production team slaughtered pigs and sheep in the morning, divided by centimeters, two big fat pigs, the meat added up to 350 catties, and pig offal and trotters were not counted.The six sheep are not too fat, and the bones and meat are only about [-] catties.

There are only more than 40 households in Gaijiatun. Calculated in this way, each family can get about six catties of meat.

When dividing the meat, some villagers complained that Shen Yunfang, a little girl, could buy six catties of meat.

Shen Yunfang knew it herself, so she told her uncle in front of everyone that she wanted less meat. She was alone, and she wanted three catties of meat, plus a pair of pigs.

Under everyone's sympathetic eyes, Shen Yeqing nodded with a bit of pain, and finally cut Shen Yunfang the best streaky three-layer meat from the pig, put a pair of pigs in the water, and gave her two extra trotters and a pig Tail.

The mutton villagers were generally unhappy, so Shen Yunfang got a real share of more than six catties of mutton, and privately exchanged some lamb chops and haggis with those who didn't like mutton.

When she was free in the afternoon, Shen Yunfang thought of a problem. The wheat she shared with her family hadn't been ground into white flour yet, so how could she make dumplings during the Chinese New Year?

When she goes to the city tomorrow, she won't be able to grind noodles anymore.

After thinking about it, she picked up the thirty catties of wheat and went to Aunt Wang's house.

"Yunfang is here." Aunt Wang was sitting on the kang, seeing that it was Yunfang who pushed the door and came in, she greeted, "Hey, what are you carrying?" She saw the bag behind Yunfang.

"Wheat." Shen Yunfang put the bag on the ground.

"Why are you carrying this?" Aunt Wang was a little confused.

"Yunfang is here." At this moment, Dashuan's daughter-in-law opened the door and came in. She had just been lying in the room with the child for a while.

"Hey, sister-in-law." Shen Yunfang greeted the visitor, and then told Aunt Wang the purpose of the trip, "Auntie, it's the Chinese New Year, I forgot to grind the wheat into flour, what should I do?" ah."

"Hey, you said you child, why do you forget everything, don't you go to the county tomorrow, and you don't have to rush to do these now." Aunt Wang said with a frown.

"There's nothing I can't miss. I'm going to grind noodles with Yunfang now, spread some black, and I can finish it." Dashuan's daughter-in-law is quick, picked up the bag on the ground, and called Yunfang to leave.

"That's okay, just grind as much as you can, this child, it's like he has no heart." Aunt Wang finally grinded a few words.

There is a big mill in the village production team, and anyone can come to grind the wheat. After grinding, go home and use a sieve to get flour.

The two of them took turns pushing the grindstone, and Dashuan's wife was more energetic than Shen Yunfang, and she suffered more.

By the time the flour was sifted at Wang's house, it was already dark.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law had to keep Shen Yunfang for dinner, but she couldn't refuse, so she stayed to eat.

Shen Yunfang really didn't make the Wowotou that the Wang family ate, so it tasted very delicious.

After returning home, she thought that she would go to the county tomorrow, and she didn't know what the conditions were there, so she had to prepare something for herself first.So that night, she used the big iron pot at home to steam two pots of two steamed buns, eight big buns in one pot, and kept two for herself to eat at night, and let her put the rest in the space.

Then he took out a nest melon and a few sweet potatoes from the cellar, made a mess of stewing, and put the rest of the food into the space together with the plate.

Thinking that she will not be at home during the Chinese New Year, no one will burn the fire at home in the next month, and all the things in the house that are afraid of freezing will have to be disposed of. In the evening, she cut the remaining seven sauerkraut into thin strips, and after running through the water, She squeezed it into a ball and put it in the space, and she poured the sauerkraut water in the tank into the drain outside the yard.

There are also potatoes, cabbage and sweet potatoes at home. She only took about a month's worth, and put the rest in the cellar.

She kept busy doing this until it was dark, and then she felt that she hadn't slept for a few hours, so she woke up flickeringly, went to the Westinghouse to work, cut another crop of leeks, dug out the roots of the leeks and threw them into the space. It recuperates by itself.The lettuce was cut off by the root, and the root was pulled out and thrown outside. If only there was a pig in the house, these things should not be wasted.

The chickens were tied up and waiting to be carried to the aunt's house, and the pickled vegetable jar on the kang was wrapped in the only big kang quilt at home, and brought to the county together when the second cousin came to pick her up.

(End of this chapter)