Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 173

Li Xin didn't care about Guan Ming's embarrassment, and called out his daddy lightly, and then greeted Dong Sangong.

When the new house was built and invited to diners, Li Xin asked Dong Sangong to bring pigs into the water, and the two knew each other.

Axiu and Amei also called her father, Axiu's attitude was the same as Li Xin's, indifferently, Amei still avoided Guan Ming a little.

Guan Ming smiled perfunctorily and said, "Come?"

Li Xin nodded, feeling that she was uncomfortable staying here, so she hugged Yang'er and said to go to the kitchen.

Although Guan Wen and Li Xin adopted Yang'er, neither of them thought about letting Yang'er call Guan Ming grandpa.Naturally, Yang'er didn't know who Guan Ming was. After Li Xin carried him away, he put his arms around Li Xin's neck, very obediently.

Guan Ming twitched his face, let Dong Sangong sit down, and the two chatted.

Staying in front of the stove, one is to enjoy the fire, and the other is to avoid people, so that you can have a good rest.A-mei and Hu Yueying were still able to talk, they were talking while boiling water, but Axiu sat next to Li Xin, chatting without saying a word, she seemed to be a little absent-minded, teasing Yanger from time to time Say something.

After a while, people stepped in from the threshold of the side door towards the pigsty. Guan Wen and Guan Wu came in while talking. show.

Guan Wen smiled: "When did Axiu come back?"

"I haven't been back for a while." Axiu smiled: "Big brother, second brother, have you discussed which pig to slaughter?"

"We've discussed it." Guan Wen said with a smile, "You're a dog's nose, you came back after sniffing that you're going to eat fresh pork today."

Li Xin laughed: "Axiu is greedy for your pork?" The pork is not yours yet!

Just as they were talking, Guan Ming and Dong Sangong also came over. The four of them made a total calculation and first moved two long benches to the yard, on which there was a large door panel for pigs to be released later.

Dong Sangong may have been slaughtering pigs all year round. Li Xin always felt that he smelled like pig feces, but Dong Sangong was nice and talkative. I heard that he was a widower. Li Xin didn't ask about the specific situation.

Dong Sangong himself has a series of tools for killing pigs, and now he took them out of the cloth bag he brought, most of them are various knives, Li Xin can't name them, big and small, There is also an iron pestle for sharpening the knife.

Guan Ming yelled in the kitchen: "Fourth daughter-in-law, is the water boiling?"

"Go away, father-in-law."

Hu Yueying agreed, and Guan Ming nodded, then frowned and said, "Where is the fourth child right now..."

Hu Yueying lowered her voice, and replied: "Brother Quan has something to do, he will be back after going out for a while."

Guan Ming muttered a few words, Guan Wu took the wooden basin, cleaned it, scooped water into it, put salt in it, and put it on the edge of the wooden board.

After waiting for a while, Guan Quan also came back, with sweat dripping from his forehead.Guan Ming scolded him: "Run outside without doing serious business, I don't know that I will kill a pig this morning!"

Guan Quan curled his lips and said, "I'm back." He hurriedly put away his things, and went to the pigsty with Guan Wen, Guan Wu, and Dong Sangong.

Li Xin held Yang'er in front of the stove and did not come out.To be honest, although she has seen pigs slaughtered several times, she is still a little afraid of pigs being slaughtered.Especially when a few big men were pulling a pig, lifting it to the wooden board, and killing the pig, the sound of the pig's cry was so shrill that she couldn't bear to look directly at it.

So why did the ancients say "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen"?It's not that men can't cook, but that they can't watch scenes like killing pigs and chickens-because a gentleman has a benevolent heart, can he still eat meat after watching this scene?
After a while, I saw a fat pig come out slowly waving its tail, whimpering and humming. Guan Wen and the others followed. When they crossed the threshold, a few people carried the pig over, and the pig started to bray.

Yang'er immediately covered her ears and hid in Li Xin's arms.

Yang'er used to live in the town with Mr. Wei's escort, and naturally there were no livestock such as pigs in the town, so this should be the first time Yang'er saw a pig slaughtering scene.

Although he was afraid, Yang'er was still curious. He popped up from time to time for a look, and then immediately shrank back, which made Li Xin couldn't help but laugh.

Helping the pig to cross the threshold, the pig probably realized now that he was going to the slaughterhouse, and the screaming kept going.

The distance between Li Xin and the others was only a distance from the stove, so the voice could naturally be heard more clearly.

The four men pulled the pig, Guan Wenguan Wu pulled the ears, Guan Quan and Dong Sangong pulled the pig's tail, and a smell of pig excrement came out.

It took a lot of time just to pull the pig to the edge of the board. Dong Sangong came out when there was an empty seat, and Guan Ming also went up to give a hand at this time, and the five of them pushed the pig to the board together.

Li Xin didn't want to watch the scene of slaughtering pigs. Seeing Yang'er was scared but still curious, he hugged him and stood by the threshold of the kitchen.Seeing a few men busy with their work, the pig had already been put on a wooden plank, and was still twitching and struggling. Guan Wen and the others were all on top of the pig——Li Xin suddenly thought unkindly, if the bench below is not It is strong, what should I do if it breaks suddenly?
Just thinking about it, I didn’t know where I went at the old juncture, and now I came back, pointing to the wooden basin next to the pig’s head, and said: “Come closer, don’t splash out too much blood!”

Guan Wen then stretched out his legs and kicked the wooden basin a little, just in front of the pig's head.Dong Sangong told Guan Wen: "After a while I poke this iron pestle in, you should quickly move the wooden basin over to catch the pig's blood. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time."

Guan Wen quickly responded.

Hu Yueying scooped up the boiling water and carried it over. Dong Sangong took out the tile-shaped thing that was wider than the palm of his hand, took the ladle in Hu Yueying's hand, scooped up the boiling water, and poured it on the pig's neck.

The pig snorted twice, then the sound became softer, and the humming sounded like it was enjoying itself.Dong Sangong stretched out his hand to scrub it, and scraped it with the tile.

This is the pig hair on the pig's neck, so that the knife will be sent in later, and the blood that gushes out will be cleaner.

The place that was picked out was clean, and Dong Sangong took the iron pestle and said, "Be careful, don't let it beat too hard, or the pig's blood will be wasted everywhere."

Guan Ming hurriedly said, "I know, I know."

Dong Sangong held down the pig's head with one hand, and with the other hand he lowered the iron pestle and stabbed it in.

"Ow..."

The pig screamed suddenly, Guan Wen quickly pushed the wooden basin over, blood gushed out from the pig's neck, and was caught by the wooden basin.

At the beginning, the pig screamed miserably, and from time to time he struggled hard. The man from the Guan family did not dare to relax. Strength.

The pig's blood was still flowing from the neck.

Guan Wu shook his arms and said, "This pig is really strong, I almost can't hold it down."

Dong Sangong wiped the pig's blood on the iron pestle and said, "This pig probably weighs 120 catties, which is fat enough."

"There is another pig in the pigsty that seems to weigh two hundred catties, which is even fatter." Guan Wu said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's not easy to kill that pig."

Guan Ming coughed, turned and left.Guan Wu was puzzled.

Li Xin snorted coldly, carried Yang'er back to the kitchen, looked down but saw Yang'er was in tears.

"Hey, the little guy is showing kindness, isn't it sad to see the pig being slaughtered?"

Li Xin pinched Yang'er's little face, and Yang'er put his arms around Li Xin's neck and said, "The pig is so pitiful..."

When you eat it, you won't think of it as pitiful.

Li Xin patted his head and said, "The purpose of raising pigs is to eat them, Yang'er is good, don't be sad."

Yang'er rubbed his eyes and nodded obediently.

Axiu took Yang'er and hugged her, smiled at Li Xin and said, "I don't like to watch that scene, it's bloody, but you still have to take Yang'er to watch it, sister-in-law."

"He's a man, but he's different from our daughter's family."

Li Xin laughed twice, and helped Hu Yueying carry the boiling water out.

Now that the pig is dead, the next step is to pluck the pig.

While pouring boiling water on the pig, Dong Sangong scraped the tile vigorously on the pig. The clumps of pig hair scraped off Dong Sangong did not let it fall to the ground, but grabbed them and put them aside.

Pig hair is very useful, and it is very good to use it to make a pot cloth.

The pig hair that has faded on one side needs to fade on the other side, so Guan Wen and the others had to come to help turn the pig over.

It is said to shed the hair, but in fact, there is another use for washing the pig.After all, those who have been in the pigsty for a year or two are covered in dirt like pig manure, which stinks.After pouring boiling water on it to remove the hair and shave it off, it looks like cut pork.

Hu Yueying brought a wooden basin of pig's blood into the stove and put it on the chopping board, and asked Li Xin, "Sister-in-law, what do you do with this basin of pig's blood?"

"Let it coagulate first." Li Xin said, "I'll ask them later if they want to eat Xuewang soup or have a spicy soup."

Li Xin doesn't eat Xuewang. Although she can make it, she really can't stand the taste.

Hu Yueying agreed, and went to ask the men of the Guan family.

Dong Sangong was busy cleaning up the pig, and now the pig's buttocks and tail were hanging.Axiu hugged Yang'er to tease him. Everyone was busy. Li Xin saw that the pig had excreted when the pig was pulled out from the kitchen, so he immediately shoveled up the ashes and buried it. To the cesspit.

When I came out to put the broom, I was stopped by Dong Sangong, and Guan Wen was also beside me.

Dong Sangong said with a smile: "Awen's daughter-in-law, please help me and stand on a high place. When Awen and I carry the pig up, you can hang the iron hook on the pig's body on the beam."

Li Xin was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said yes, stepped on the table, Dong Sangong and Guan Wen picked up the almost finished pig, Li Xin picked up the thick iron hook and hung it on the beam, and the pig was hung up .

To say that killing pigs does require some capital, the tools for killing pigs and pigs are all made of iron. You can ask for this set of blacksmith shops, and the price must be high.

"Is that all right?" Li Xin asked.

"Okay, okay." Dong Sangong said with a smile.

While talking, he flipped through his tools for killing pigs. Li Xin was curious and took a second look. There were indeed many types.

"Xin'er, go get a wooden basin."

"Ah." Now the pig is going to be disemboweled, and the wooden basin is to hold the internal organs, intestines and other things that fall from the pig.

Pig large intestine... Li Xin's saliva flowed slightly.But she is not willing to clean up the pig intestines full of pig manure, so she can only wait a while for the pig intestines to be cleaned up and bring them to her before she cleans them up herself.

The pig's head had been cut off, and Guan Ming put it in the center in front of the threshold of the main room, and put half-cut sweet potatoes on the left and right sides, respectively, and inserted incense.This is worshiping the ancestors.

Li Xin was watching Dong Sangong cut open the pig's belly, holding the viscera and intestines in his hands to let them fall into the wooden basin, when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the door: "Is it the Guan family?"

Guan Wen immediately raised his head and said, "Hey, yes!"

"Is the elder sister of the Li family from everyone there?" the man shouted again.

find her?

Li Xin was taken aback for a moment, and saw a person coming in from the door. He was a little small and looked about fifteen or sixteen years old.Li Xin has a little impression, it seems to be from Lijia Village.

"I am." Li Xin said, "Are you looking for me?"

"Hey, Sister Li." The boy's face was serious: "Sister Li, something happened to your family."

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