cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 439
Even so, no one in the village is willing to take out grain to feed the two pigs, and the main nutrition of the pigs is the pot of water mixed with some rice bran, which is considered the most nutritious food for pigs.In spring and summer, as long as there is grass, the pig basically relies on grass as the staple food, because the nutrition cannot keep up, and a pig is fed from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and at most it will grow two to three hundred catties. Not bad.Even if the village feeds two pigs, remove the offal, the offal, and the bones and meat, it will be about [-] catties of meat. If it is distributed to the whole village, it will be a catty of meat per person at most.Even so, it is enough for everyone to be able to eat a catty of meat a year, but on the day of slaughtering pigs, it is basically when the year is approaching, and everyone has nothing to do, so of course they all go to help , at the very least, it should smell a little fishy and smell a little fragrant.

So, gradually, this habit was retained.There is a family in the village that butchers pigs and cattle, and everyone comes to help, and this has become a habit. In recent years, the life in the village has improved, and food can be eaten. It takes one year to raise a pig. Still profitable.So, on the day when the pigs were slaughtered, the head of the household put all the pigs into the water, and then added almost fat meat, mixed with cabbage vermicelli and other green vegetables, and boiled a large pot of fragrant mixed vegetable soup. Everyone came to taste Taste it, you've eaten pork, haven't you?

Then, after everyone ate and drank well, they began to talk about selling pork. The rich people in the village bought ten catties and eight catties of meat to go back to live a fat year, and those who were not rich bought two or three catties of cheap fat. Meat also celebrates the new year, and when helping butcher pigs, you can also eat a full meal of pigs and vegetables.Basically, this pig is divided among the whole village, and sometimes two or three pigs can be killed in the village, so the old and strong in the whole village can basically enjoy a few more meals.In fact, the heads of households who can butcher pigs are basically relatively wealthy families.The pork they sell is basically not as much as they keep at home.

Today, this habit of killing pigs and everyone coming to help has continued to this day.

In fact, in the village, there are unethical killings of pigs or cattle. Professionals are there to help kill pigs. Pigs are actually very skillful. People who know the skills can kill them with one knife. Not only will the blood be clean, Moreover, the pork is handled neatly and hygienically. People who don’t know how to butcher pigs may not be able to kill a pig even if you stab them ten times. It's not like it didn't happen.If that's the case, it's not just a matter of losing a pot of pig blood for nothing. The pork is not clean because of bloodletting, and it also affects the taste.

And Zhangwa Village naturally has such a butcher who kills pigs. When everyone hears about the butcher, they must feel like the butcher Zheng who was drunk by Wu Song in Happy Forest. He is eight feet tall and weighs two hundred. , leopard eyes and beard, a fierce look like a bloody mouth.

In fact, the butcher in Zhangwa Village is an old man who looks relatively thin. The old man's surname is Zhang Mingtu, which can be regarded as a butcher. The slaughter of larger livestock in the village is done by Zhang Tu's lineage.

Zhang Tu slaughtered pigs with only one knife, and with one knife, it was clean and neat, and it would definitely kill him.Therefore, sometimes people call their family members Zhang Yidao, which shows the extraordinary nature of this craft.However, it is estimated that by the generation of Zhang Tu's son, it will be lost. Zhang Tu's son, Zhang Fu, never mentioned the pig-killing knife, and never mentioned the matter of killing pigs. The old man Zhang Tu has taught his son many times about this, but, Zhang Fu is not like the first class of their Zhang family at all, not to mention killing pigs, he has never held a knife for killing pigs since he was a child.This made Zhang Tu very helpless, and often talked about the craftsmanship of his family that would be lost from his generation.

In the past, the purpose of killing pigs was to eat a mouthful of fresh pork and satisfy their hunger, but now the purpose of slaughtering pigs is to talk about the price. However, this is not the case here in Zhangwa Village. Killing for nothing, killing pigs for other villages, Zhang Tu slaughtered a pig for 34 yuan, killing pigs for Zhang Wa Village, Zhang Tu never charged money, but everyone didn’t let him suffer, usually pigs butchers It was delicious to sit down for a while, and before leaving, I kept four or five catties of trough meat, and then I made some pigs into the water.He is basically not at a disadvantage.

Although the trough meat looks bloody and ugly, it really tastes like a good piece of meat. In fact, the trough meat is also the neck of the pig, and this piece of meat is also the place where the first cut was made to bleed the pig. , so, it looks like the color is a little too bright.Of course, even if the price of four or five catties of trough meat was lowered, and some pigs were added, it would not be less than what he earned from killing a pig outside.However, if you kill a pig outside, you only need to stab a knife, and you will get the money, but in this village, you are busy from beginning to end.

"Sanwazi, when the water boils, quickly spread the plastic sheet on the ground kiln, spread a few more layers, and pour the water into it."

"There are still you melons, don't stand still, quickly lift the pig to the chopping board, and prepare a big basin to hold the pig's blood. By the way, don't forget to put some salt in the basin."

"There are still a few of you, but hold this pig for me. If I run away a few times, I will accidentally poke you. It will be a big hole." After a while, the water in the cauldron boiled, and the big pit where the pig hairs were going to be scalded was cleaned up, and three layers of thick plastic sheets were laid on it.After the pigs are bloodletted and killed, they will shed their hair in this big pit.

Over there, Zhang Tu ordered a few young men to bring over the purple-red table from his house early on. He didn't know what kind of wood the table was made of. It takes two or three young men to lift the big table of Mi Fang.Anyway, this table was handed down from Zhang Tu’s ancestors. His grandfather told his father that this table was used to butcher pigs, and his father also told Zhang Tu that this table was used to butcher pigs. As for his Grandpa's grandpa seems to have said that this table is a table for killing pigs.In short, this large table that has now turned purple is the special table for killing pigs handed down from the ancestors of the Zhang family.As for what kind of wood it is made of, no one can tell how many years this table has been through. Anyway, everyone in Zhangwa Village knows that this table is the same as the treasured sword passed down by Grandpa Zhang’s family. An heirloom.

"There are still a few of you, quickly build the shelf, hang the hooks, and check whether it is strong. If the shelf collapses, I will ask you a few questions." At this time, Zhang Tu is like a general, commanding The people in the village came to arrange things for everyone, and at this time, Zhang Tu was the protagonist.Everyone listened to his arrangements, and the reason why Zhang Tu fell in love with the ancestral craft of slaughtering and inherited it, the high-spirited state at this time also played a decisive role.

(End of this chapter)