Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 284 Kill the New Year Pig
In the early morning of the next day, Xu Qing got up, just for one thing, to eat pig-killing rice with everyone.

When I came to the ground, I saw that all the servants and maidservants were already looking forward to it, and when they saw Xu Qing coming, they made way.

The sun was rising in the east, and the glow was red, at this time old man Ni Bai shouted, all the maids turned around, and some left far away.When slaughtering pigs, women and children should "avoid evil spirits".

This is killing the New Year pigs, but killing the New Year pigs cannot be said to be "killed", but "to be slaughtered".There was a sound of pigs' hooves beside the ground, and a group of big fat pigs wobbled and swung their fat buttocks.These pigs had just had a meal on the road, and it was time to discharge waste. While walking, they rubbed rice fields, completely unaware that they were about to die, and piles of black balls appeared on the ground for a while.This meal on the road is not only a kind of humanity, but also allows the pigs to clean up the overnight feces so that they can tidy up their intestines.

Where is the pig squatting and squatting, looking at everything around it, arching here and smelling there.The surrounding servants also looked at the ten fat pigs in front of them, pointing and discussing something.

"This year's pigs are so fat, haha," one of the servants sighed, and the other continued his words, looking forward to: "I will cook a pot of braised pork later, I must eat a few more pieces to moisten my throat..."

The previous one immediately scolded with a smile: "You boy, I don't see you eating less meat on weekdays? Why are you so greedy?"

The latter one immediately returned: "Cut, how can those bacon compare to freshly killed meat?"

Another group of people, someone said strangely: "This pig is so fat, even fatter than last year. I have grown so big, and I have only seen it in the past two years."

An older servant came: "Hey, isn't this our master's credit? Don't pigs from other places still have such big nails?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone laughed and sarcastically said: "I said you should stop patting the horses, and our master is not here."

Someone echoed: "This brother is right. It is thanks to our lord that we live a good life, but if the pig grows fat and adds to our lord, it will not be good. Our lord has heard that, maybe Are you still happy?"

When the older man heard this, he recalled his own words in his heart: Sir, this year's pigs are getting fatter, thanks to you.Thanks to you, did you borrow your seed, or did the master raise pigs?It really didn't sound good, but he didn't show weakness, and said forcefully, "Then tell me, what's the reason..."

When the man heard this, he smiled and said, "Hey, let me tell you, this is all thanks to Guanshi Liu. It was he who cut off the pig's part, and these pigs are so stupid. grow so big."

Someone shouted: "By the way, let me tell you, there are no pigs with handles in Hongshan Town!"

This sentence was just heard by Xu Qing, and he shook his head, this Liu San did a good job of the piggie.Xu Qing glanced at the pigs on the ground, and couldn't help nodding. The person who raises the pigs is also skilled. Such big pigs are rare in rural areas in later generations, right?

A man brought some old door leaves and put them on the ground, then lit three pillars of incense and burned a knife of yellow paper.

Immediately, someone who was good at killing pigs came to wield the knife, and the butcher would stab a blood vessel in the neck, otherwise the blood would get into the bones and meat, which would be unpalatable.Thanks to Xu Qing's education, the butchers in Hongshan Town will not throw away the internal organs of the pigs. The knife masters should clean up the meat, tenderloin, bones, blood, offal, etc. of the pigs, and the pigs will be killed well. , Can produce five catties more meat than others.

The pigs also seemed to know something was wrong, and began to get nervous, with their heads turned outward, forming a circle, and looking at the two retreating animals around them in fear.Xu Qing was invited to a safer place by the old man Ni Bai, and then only heard the roar of the sword, and the servants rushed forward.

Each person lifts one leg and presses the pig against the door.A big fat pig weighing nearly three hundred catties, four people can't hold it down, and two people have to ride it to hold it down.At this time, the knife holder came, aimed at the neck, stabbed it in, and then someone took a wooden basin to catch the blood.

The ten pigs bled one by one, and everyone began to pluck their hair.Before plucking, a small hole is cut on the side of the pig's foot, and then a person blows air into the small hole to fill the pig's belly before shaving.The maidservant who left before was not idle, but boiled a pot of boiling water, also for plucking hair.

Everyone was busy, so Xu Qing watched from the sidelines. After the first pig was processed, a chef came to make pig-killing rice.Hundreds of people want to eat a whole pig!

Xu Qing was quite relieved, the advantages of this barrow had been fully manifested, the things fed to the pig were leftovers, even stolen goods, but on the pig it turned into meat.In the past, the common people didn't care because pork was cheap meat. It took one or two years to raise a pig, and there wasn't much meat.But now that the pigs have been eunuched, the utilization rate of energy has been greatly improved, and the meat quality has become more delicious. Pigs have the ability to replace beef and mutton.

The common people will raise this kind of low-cost, high-yielding livestock. In the near future, barrows will soon become a new high-paying profession.The slogan of the girls is, if you see a young man with a barrow, marry him!
After a meal of slaughtering pigs, everyone in Luonan County's uncle's house couldn't even bend over.At Xu Qing's table, there were naturally Xun Xue'er and Huang Shimei. They ate less, after all, the chef's skills were far inferior to Xu Qing's.Originally, Xu Qing didn't open a small stove just to "have fun with the people", and he didn't really like to eat other people's cooking, but Huang Shimei and the others kept picking up food for Xu Qing, and they had to watch him finish eating to be at ease. , Xu Qing was overwhelmed.I couldn't bend down, and I didn't dare to straighten my stomach, so I panicked with discomfort.

After the meal, the servants went to clean up the pork, sorted and cut into pieces and put them in the big vat, then collected the ice cubes, and the snow piled up beside the vat.This fresh-keeping method can keep pork for more than ten days without losing its delicious taste.

Xu Qing rested for a while, and rushed to Hongshan Town with the cattle and others.There is still a lot of private money waiting to be withdrawn!

In Hongshan Town, all the merchants had already gathered together.Yang Wen squeezed out a spacious workshop and arranged for them to sit there.According to Xu Qing's instructions, Yang Wen told the merchants that the auction would start in the morning, but it was delayed until the afternoon.So he just put the merchants aside and ignored them.

Even so, the merchants stayed in the factory and no one wanted to leave. They had two meals a day, and it happened to be the time for the second meal.Before Xu Qing could arrive, all the merchants became hungry.

At this time, the tea-watching man brought No.11 hot tea, and all the merchants saw it, and hurriedly asked:
"Brother, I wonder if Uncle Xu has arrived in Hongshan Town?"

The tea waiter smiled and mechanically replied: "Uncle Xu is already on his way, please wait a moment."

This sentence, from the second time he delivered hot tea to the eleventh time he said it now, has not changed a single word.

(End of this chapter)