Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 205

That week, the butcher asked Mrs. Liu to set up the incense table first. He lit the incense and offered sacrifices to the pig soul, while sharpening his knife on the sidelines.Seeing that the knife had been sharpened, he scratched it lightly with his finger, and it felt prickly, so he knew it was time.

Butcher Zhou stood up, walked to the pig, and asked Liu to yell, "I caught it!" Then he grabbed the pig's ear with his left hand, and stabbed it down with a knife with his right hand. Quickly and ruthlessly, the knife came out, and the pig's blood was mixed with air bubbles. , flowed out with a splash, and the pig screamed and screamed, and then there was no movement.

The pig's blood flowed into the big vat below. Qin Ye vigorously stirred the flour and salt in it, and when the pig's blood washed it down, it turned into blood tofu.

When the pig's blood was drained and the pig was dead, Butcher Zhou asked someone to lift the pig up and put it in a large earthen basin.In the kitchen shed next to it, the water was boiling and the water was steaming. Butcher Zhou ordered people to bring the boiled water over. He first scalded the pig's feet in the boiling water, controlled the heat, and took a special planer. Scrape, just scrape off the black pig hair, and it will be a white one.He scooped up boiling water to scald the pig skin with a water ladle, then took out various tweezers and small scrapers for shaving pig hair, and asked Qin Dafu and others to help him shave the pig hair together.

When the pig hairs are all shaved, the pig skin will be white and clean.Xiuyao didn't dare to watch the slaughter of pigs before, but now Xiurong pulled her and said that she was going to start skinning. Xiuyao thought about it, just like Paoding Jieniu in the text, so she stared at it.

But saw Butcher Zhou was holding a tappet in his hand, cut a hole in the pig's hind leg with a knife, then stretched the tappet in and poked it. After poking a few places, he pulled out the tappet again and started pointing at the pig's back Blow through the mouth of the leg.

Xiuyao opened her eyes wide, watching in surprise, and saw that the pig slowly turned into a balloon, white and bulging.At this time, Butcher Zhou tied the pig's hind legs with a rope again, and then asked someone to carry the pig to the incense table, and said to Qin Dafu and Liu Shi, "Come and worship."

Qin Ye called Xiuyao and the others to hurry over, burn incense, and knelt down to worship the pig.Seeing that the pig was placed properly, and the pig's eyes were still staring, Xiuyao was startled and almost cried out.Xiurong quickly pulled her, made her kneel and kowtow, and then followed Liu's words.

Mrs. Liu muttered: "Pig, pig, don't blame me, you are a dish in the world. I am leaving today, I wish you a good birth." After repeating it several times, everyone kowtowed and finally got up.

Butcher Zhou shouted: "It's done, the pig soul has gone, this is your food."

Then he began to disembowel the pig, take out the pig's internal organs, clean up the large and small intestines, peel and debone the pig, and cut off slices of the gift knife.The gift knife is about two and a half catties, long, fat, thin, and ribbed. It is usually prepared for people who have a happy event at home.On the day when Qin Ye got married and held a banquet, the family had to prepare more than a dozen of these gift knives, which was also a way of saving face.

Butcher Zhou killed the pig, took the pig out of the water, and cleaned it up.Over there, Mrs. Liu has already boiled the water, boil it first, then start to stew, add cabbage from the vegetable garden, and fill a big pot.

Qin Dafu asked Zhou Butcher to help cut pork and sell it. The price was cheap, and many people came forward to buy it.This one is one catty and the other is five catties. Some people want half a pig's head, and others want a hoof, and soon half a pig is sold.

And the stewing in the pot also has a strong aroma, which makes everyone salivate, and those who are hesitating are also encouraged to go up to buy meat.If you can’t afford pork, you are willing to buy some bones to stew, or buy a piece of pig skin to cook soup and eat it frozen. It is also very delicious.

In the end, Qin Dafu asked the butcher Zhou to leave ten catties for his family to eat, and sold the rest including the belt and bones.

When the pork was sold out, the stewing in Liu's cauldron was basically ready. After a while, she would boil the pot and ask Qin Xian and others to help, and send a small pot to the neighbors.

The third grandpa's house, the second grandpa's house, Qin Youliang's house, Zhou Qiang's house, Qin Decai's house, Grandma Zhou's house, Tizi's house, and a few others gave away most of the pot, and my own house still had half of the pot.

Mrs. Liu filled four pots, kept two pots, and let everyone eat the other two pots.

Old Qin's family, the third aunt and third uncle also came this time, and the second aunt was naturally not far behind. The old Qin's first few accompanied Zhou Tuhu, and they were full of wine and food, and Liu Shi gave the intestines to them again. Butcher Zhou, thanked him another [-] yuan.

Butcher Zhou was so drunk that he carried his belongings behind his back.

It was the first time Xiuyao saw such a big scene, and she said with emotion: "It would be even better if there were vermicelli." Pork stewed with vermicelli is a perfect match.

But after coming here, she didn't find vermicelli, so she thought it was strange.She always thought that there were vermicelli in ancient times, but since there are no sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, it is not surprising that there are no vermicelli.

After the meal, everyone chatted in the shed in the field. The autumn atmosphere was strong, the dew was heavy in late autumn, and the evening breeze was cool.But because they ate the pig-killing dishes in a lively manner just now, everyone's faces were flushed, and they talked enthusiastically.

Qin Dafu was discussing with Lao Qintou, the third grandfather and others about building a house, and Lao Qintou was in a much better mood after eating the butchered vegetables, "Tomorrow, I will ask Daye to send a letter to his second uncle. Uncle has a team of more than a dozen masons, and they are the best at this."

Qin Dafu hesitated: "Father, it's not a busy time for farming. His second uncle should be the busiest. Besides, we don't plan to hire anyone, it's too expensive. Just lay the foundation of our own house, and it's okay to build the girders and fences later in the year." .”

Old Qintou snorted: "My elder brother's house is building, can they come to help? Let him come over."

Qin Dafu was still a little hesitant, and the old Qintou shouted: "That's it, you can call the third child tomorrow."

Qin Sanshun was a little displeased, "I won't go, Dad, it's not like you don't know those people from the second sister's family, it's not appropriate for me to call them. Let Daye go."

The second aunt of the Qin family married Songjia Village, which is the closest to Taoyuan Village, but among the three daughters, she came back the least.Her father-in-law is addicted to alcohol, and her mother-in-law is very picky, and she dislikes the poor Qin family, so she is not allowed to go home casually, lest she be beaten up.The second uncle, Song Gang, is a bricklayer. He goes around doing bricklayer work and building houses for others, and his craftsmanship is not bad.But Qin Dafu knew the situation of his younger sister's family, so he didn't dare to ask them for help. In these years, Second Aunt Qin came back only a limited number of times, so why bother to touch that asshole.

Mrs. Zhang was full, and was feeling sorry for Mrs. Liu over there, so she distributed so many butchered vegetables to others, and taught her that giving things depends on whether they are useful or not.Those who are useless are given to him for free, just like Qin Decai's family, they will not repay the Qin family in the next life.

Seeing that she was only talking about Qin Decai, Xiuyao felt unhappy. Although Qin Decai's family is poor now, he had saved her.Mrs. Zhang's disregard of that level of affection shows that she still has no repentance at all. All her kindness is just a superficial faux pas, and her grandparents came to her to squeeze her out of nothing.She snorted coldly, and said to Xiurong: "Third sister, I think it's most inappropriate to invite those who eat our food and go against us." Then she turned her head and went out to the shed next door to listen to what Dad and the others had to say.

Mrs. Zhang was so angry that she chased after her, just when she heard about the second daughter and son-in-law, she said: "Let Daye call, we are not what we used to be now. Your second sister and her mother-in-law should also look at us seriously, and then we will cover up a few Look at the big tile-roofed house with bright tiles, see if she is greedy. Don't look at the dry bricklayer in his house, it is just an adobe house like ours, so proud of it!"

Speaking of this, I forgot about Xiuyao.

On the second day, Qin Ye went to send a message to the second aunt's house, and there was indeed someone at the house, who was a butcher from Siwai Village.They are different from Butcher Zhou. Butcher Zhou just kills a few pigs and sells them here and there. These people specialize in collecting and killing pigs, and then they are divided into four places to go to the countryside to sell pork. They also do wholesale pork. business.People like Butcher Zhou went to their house to wholesale pork if they didn't want to kill pigs.

The leader is Liu Yan, who is tall and thick, with a fat head and big ears, and the other big men are also very burly.

But everyone is serious about doing business, Qin Dafu and others are not afraid of them, after all, they also deal with each other in the market.And unless there is a clear grievance or hatred, no matter how powerful they are, they can't go to other villages to cause trouble. After all, a village with a surname is a family, and everyone will help each other when something happens.

Liu Yan chatted with Qin Dafu for a while, feeling unhappy, snorted, and said, "Talk to someone who is in charge of you. Is your sister-in-law in charge?" The other men laughed, as if they were laughing at Qin Dafu's fear of his wife.

Qin Dafu was not shy, he said slowly: "Your sister-in-law doesn't care, but your eldest niece does." He shouted: "Yaoyao, come to buy pigs."

When Xiuyao heard this, she went out from the east room and talked with them in the courtyard. Seeing that they looked like little towers, she couldn't help verifying the saying that the pork seller couldn't get hungry.

She greeted them, and said bluntly: "When you collect pigs, do you buy them one by one or in batches?"

Liu Yan was wondering why a little girl came out, and asked curiously: "What's the difference?"

Xiuyao said: "That's natural. If you buy them all, they will be cheap, but if you buy them all, they will be expensive."

Liu Yan snorted, "Then why do we buy meat from you? We won't kill pigs, you kill them, we just come to you to get pork."

Qin Dafu heard that they were looking for trouble, and immediately became alert.

(End of this chapter)