My 1995 Small Farm

"How come the price of pork has increased so much this year? It costs six yuan a pound. In some places, it's more than six yuan?"

"I think it's the same reason. It's hard to sell meat when the weather is warm. Every household wants less, and no one is willing to sell pork. So the price of meat keeps rising."

"Huh? It doesn't make sense. Why does it get more expensive when no one buys it?"

"I don't understand this, I'm not an economist."

Chen Ling and Zhao Dahai chatted one after another, and many young people followed them to watch the pig slaughter.

Among them, Wang Lixian came here on his own after hearing the news and came here to help.

Because the pigs were killed in the village yard, and in order to boil water and remove the pig hair, they were not on the farm, and everyone was close to each other.

Chen Ze and Chen Yuqiang also came over.

Anyway, there is strength in numbers, and everyone is busy.

Some spread oilcloth on the ground, while others carried door panels and benches. Before Chen Ling could do anything, the pig had been put down by everyone.

And it was quickly placed on the door panel.

Wang Lixian also brought a pig-butchering knife at this time. He had a "tool bag" for the knife.

There are hunting knives, gelding knives for castration, thin skinning knives, and butcher knives. They are very complete.

Now he picked out a sharp knife from it and began to swing it. The sharp knife and sharpening rod in his hand made a clicking sound.

"Brother Xian, let me do it this time. We have killed a lot of wild boars, but I have never killed domestic pigs."

Naturally, Chen Ling wanted to do the pigs he ate at home.

"Okay, then you come and kill!" Wang Lixian smiled. He felt that Chen Ling really had some of the problems of the rich people in the city now.

He couldn't understand that many tasks were done by himself.

Chen Ling didn't care what he thought, he just took the butcher's knife and said, "Yu Bin, go to Yu Qiang's house to find a basin to catch the pig blood."

Chen Yubin quickly ran to the front yard and brought a big basin over.

Place it under the pig's neck.

Then dispersed with everyone.

"Hold it!"

As Chen Ling spoke, the sharp knife in his hand flashed and plunged into the pig's neck.

After piercing the knife, his hand shook slightly.

Immediately the white knife went in and the red knife came out.

Bright red pig blood began to flow out along the wound.

At this time, the pig on the door panel was howling miserably, squealing like a slaughtering pig.

But the young man is strong enough.

It only took four young men to press the pig firmly against the door panel, without Wang Lixian and Zhao Dahai even having to do anything.

Until no more blood can be seen coming out of the pig's neck.

"Good guy, this pig doesn't look that big. It's almost as strong as a wild boar in the mountains. It almost failed to hold it down!"

Yubin and his brother Guangbin gasped and let go of the other three young men who were holding down the pigs, and couldn't help but say.

"What you're saying is that this pig knows it's going to be killed. If it doesn't resist with all its strength, that would be abnormal."

Zhao Dahai said with a smile.

Then Wang Lixian and I went to get firewood and boil a large pot of water to remove the pig hair.

Chen Ling himself drove a tractor to load a load of wheat straw.

After boiling water to remove the pig hair, burn the wheat straw and add some water to the burned ash and apply it to the pig.

This kind of pork with skin will taste better.

In fact, this is the way the old people used to deal with yellow-haired wild boar and kill the dog.

The yellow-haired wild boar is a sub-adult wild boar that has not yet reached adulthood and has not messed with the pig skin on its body.

The yellow hair on my body hasn't faded yet.

This kind of small yellow-haired pig, if you catch it for about three months, even the pig skin will be fragrant.

So I used this method to burn pig hair.

Otherwise, the wild boar hair will be too thick and it will be difficult to deal with it.

The same goes for dogs. There are very few dogs like Liu Guangli in Kinmen Village who died and were skinned.

Most people don't have that technology.

And most hunters are not so cruel to eat dog meat.

After loading the wheat straw in the wheat field, it only took a while. After Chen Ling returned, everyone helped him get the job done.

The piles of firewood were stacked upright.

Then he idled outside the door holding firecrackers of various sizes.

It's really the Chinese New Year, and every family in the village who has some money in their pockets this year is really willing to spend money to buy cannons.

The adults and children were all crazy.

Chen Ling also saw Ruirui and the three of them hanging firecrackers on the trees by the big weir pond, and then throwing them into the water.

With Hei Wa and Xiao Jin watching, and the village elders and children all watching him closely, Chen Ling did not go to spoil their fun.

I was busy in the yard, taking off the pig hair, and started to pile wheat straw on the pig. After piling it tightly, I lit it.

In this way, you can also burn out the fine pig hairs that have not faded, and burn out the bad odor. Soon one side was burned out, so I switched to the other side and waited for the straw to be completely burned.

At this time, the aroma of barbecued pork wafted out.

Chen Yuqiang and the others took half a bucket of water and began to wash it on the pigs. Chen Ling and Wang Lixian began to scrape the areas they had washed with knives.

After scraping it clean, the burnt blackness disappeared, revealing the pig skin that had turned golden brown and gave off a faint meaty aroma.

"This is a beautiful way to deal with it! You can use the same method to deal with wild boars to deal with domestic pigs. You only have so much time to think about it, but the color is so beautiful, I want to drool just looking at it!"

"That's right, I'll try it next year too..."

They don't plan to kill pigs this year. They just go to the county town to buy a few kilograms of meat for stew.

After Chen Ling inspected the pig, he changed the carving knife and pierced the pig's two front legs with a knife, then pulled it backwards, and the pig's belly was separated.

"Hey, this meat is good and the fat is thick! No wonder Fugui specially chooses pigs from the Yongsheng family to buy!"

"The rich bid high. I heard that the whole pig will be paid six yuan per pound..."

There is a huge difference between whole pigs and pork. Like the price of pigs in later generations, if it is a fancy black native pig or Tibetan Xiang pig, the price of a whole pig on the truck can even be nearly half the price of pork.

Because the whole pig includes internal organs, pig head and other parts, and even contains a lot of feces.

Naturally, it cannot be calculated based on the price of pork on the market.

"My family will also raise pigs next year and wait for the rich and powerful to come and buy them during the Chinese New Year, hehehehe."

"Pull him down. Usually those who are looking for wealth in the village want to eat pork, and the price is not low. Can you bear it?"

"Let's talk about that another time, hey hey hey..."

When everyone was discussing, Chen Ling also waved his hands to them: "I have prepared a new pork head meat for everyone this year. Come to me to drink and eat meat tomorrow night.

After making offerings to the land lord, let's let go of the salute. "

Tonight we are going to replace the new statues in the Tutu Temple. After replacing the new statues, we will start burning incense and offering offerings every day, regardless of whether it is the first day of the Lunar New Year or not.

It didn't stop until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Everyone was extremely excited when they heard this.

They all applauded.

Chen Ling said there is a new way to eat it, it must be delicious.

It has to be worth the wait.

"What about today? Can't you get it done today?" Zhao Dahai was also very greedy and asked quickly.

"I can't finish it today. It needs to be stewed. The other steps have to be done overnight. Let's stew the meat and eat the soup today."

Chen Ling shook his head with a smile, wiped his hands, then wiped the smooth knife, and continued to cut the meat.

However, as soon as the pork was cut up, Qin Rong came over from the farm on a bicycle. When he came here, he took out his mobile phone: "Fugui, the phone number of the Vietnamese people."

"Um?"

Chen Ling was stunned and quickly took the call. Liang Yuemin's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Liang Yuemin said first that he would not rush back until tomorrow, the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, after finishing his work.

Then he said that there will be happy events this year.

The leader highly praised their instant noodles and praised Chen Ling several times for doing well in the village.

The reason is that Hong Kong Island returns to China this year.

The leaders above wanted to unite mainland actors and Hong Kong actors to co-star in a TV series.

No actors on Hong Kong Island like it.

To put it bluntly, actors over there are more concerned with remuneration. The remuneration for celebration TV dramas here in mainland China is definitely not that much.

Just give some tokens and that's it, because it's a political mission.

Then the actors on Hong Kong Island were naturally not very happy.

As a result, after the exchange group came, no one expected that after just a trip to Chen Ling's hometown and a visit to Liang Yuemin's instant noodle factory, they would actually change their tune.

Zheng Shaoqiu and the others agreed to star.

As soon as Chen Ling heard about the TV series Liang Yuemin mentioned, he quickly asked us who the mainland actors were.

As soon as I heard about Mr. Jiao Huang Jiao, I immediately knew what kind of TV series it was.

"It turns out that "Return with Honor" was filmed in advance. Okay, okay, this is a good thing."

In Chen Ling's memory, this TV set had a related script for a long time, but it was delayed until the end of 2005 to start filming. In the end, it could only be launched from scratch to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong Island's return to the motherland.

Now that Hong Kong Island has just returned to China, it is naturally a great thing to do this.

The key is that Chen Ling has a sense of participation.

Liang Yuemin has already said that if he chooses roles at will, Heiwa, Xiaojin and others can all get involved.

You can even write a plot specifically for him.

You can open another small branch line.

It can be said that the leaders above appreciate him very much.

"No wonder, no wonder Zheng Shaoqiu and the others suddenly came to see many old actors from Hong Kong. Their relationship with each other was not good, and they didn't interact with each other in private. I thought that the group trip was just for our village...

Unexpectedly, there was an invitation from the leader later. "

Chen Ling finally understood now, "You don't have to go to the Spring Festival Gala. This kind of TV series has a sense of participation in historical events. If you have the chance, you must participate." (End of Chapter)