The Pentium Era - South to North

Gu Gong walked into Zhang Xiangbei's office and said to him mysteriously: "Mr. Zhang, do you want to see the New Year pig being killed or drink the pig-killing wine?"

Zhang Xiangbei looked up at him, and Gu Gong continued:

"I promise to let you eat such delicious pork as you have never eaten before. By the way, it is fresher than what you eat in Shawan, Guangzhou. In Shawan, you have to wait for the meat to be slaughtered. The meat is brought here from the farm, and here you can really kill and eat it at the same time, with the pigs’ howling ringing in your ears, and the meat is already here.”

"What is the New Year Pig? What is Pig Killing Wine?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

Gu Gong said: "Isn't it almost the Chinese New Year? People who raise pigs in the countryside will start to kill pigs, pickle bacon, and make pig-killing wine, which is eaten when pigs are killed. In the countryside, pig-killing is a big deal. Put a few tables of wine, kill a pig, give it away with food, and you’ll lose half of what’s left.”

Zhang Xiangbei smiled and said: "Isn't that raising a child in vain?"

"When others kill pigs, they will also give you meat, and they will also invite you to drink pig-killing wine and eat and drink. From now until the Spring Festival, pigs will be killed almost every day in the village. Everyone sends pork to each other and treats each other. There is pork every day. Eat." Gu Gong said.

"This is not bad, just like the Pork Mutual Aid Association." Zhang Xiangbei said, "In the era before refrigerators, this was really a good idea. It was equivalent to keeping the pigs fresh in the pig pen and having fresh pork to eat every day."

"Yes, this custom of killing the New Year pig was handed down from that time."

Gu Gong said: "In those remote mountain villages, there is no place to buy pork. If there is something at home, if you want to entertain guests, you have to travel dozens of miles to the town to buy it. If you usually eat meat, you will rely on bacon in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year Just rely on ham. Bacon won’t last long as worms will grow on it, but ham can. It doesn’t matter how many years it is stored. If you want to eat fresh meat, you can only eat it in the month before the Spring Festival.”

After Gu Gong finished speaking, he added: "Unfortunately, there are fewer pigs in the village this year, and it is not so easy for everyone to eat meat."

"Why?" Zhang Xiangbei asked, "Is it because the price of pork is not good and you don't want to raise it?"

"No, they were bought by us. We bought thirty-seven pigs in that village. Mr. Zhang, have you forgotten? The family that is going to kill pigs today has three pigs at home, and two of them are sold. He gave it to us and kept one at home. This is the pig we will kill tonight. Our two pigs will be killed during the day tomorrow. I will ask the cold chain truck to wait there and bring them back after killing them."

Gu Gong and Zhang Xiangbei said that Zhang Xiangbei remembered that this is what Gu Gong said that day. The ham, bacon and soy pork that he ordered were all Jinhua Liangtouwu, the head and buttocks of this kind of pig. , the hair color including the tail part is black, and the hair color on the pig's body is white, so it is called Liangtouwu.

The two-headed black pigs raised by farmers and used to make high-quality Jinhua ham usually only eat pig grass, bran, and wheat bran. After being raised for seven or eight months, they will weigh about 150 pounds. It is best to slaughter Jinhua ham at this time. , it will not be like Yunnan Xuanwei or Nuodeng ham, where there will be five or six hundred kilograms of pigs, and a ham will weigh forty or fifty kilograms.

If there is such a big Jinhua ham, a knowledgeable person will know it is fake at a glance. It is definitely not the hind legs of two-headed blackbirds. All hams are made from pig hind legs and the front legs are pig trotters, which are stewed and eaten.

Jinhua Two-headed Crow, also known as the "Chinese Panda Pig", is listed in the "National Livestock and Poultry Breeds Resource Protection List" by the Ministry of Agriculture and is one of the local livestock and poultry breeds under national key protection.

"Of course, many of the hams you buy on the market now are fed on feed. They are ready for slaughter after four or five months, and can weigh more than 200 kilograms. It can be said that they are two-headed pigs instantly. Such pig hind legs How can the ham be delicious?" Gu Gong said, "Even the pickled pig head and bacon are not delicious, the fat is too thick."

"Where is this place you are talking about?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"Baojiawu in Pujiang." Gu Gong said.

"I've been to Baojiawu." The two were talking when Xiao Wu walked in. Hearing Gu Gong talking about Baojiawu, Xiao Wu interrupted.

"In the mountains of Pujiang, it is forty or fifty miles away from Pujiang County. After climbing over the mountains behind, you will reach the source of Yongcheng. The roads there are not easy to walk. They are winding roads and are very narrow. You can only pass by hand. I hold the tractor and drive over the mountain to the Fuchun River, where I will reach my hometown." Xiao Wu said.

Gu Gong laughed and said:

"When did you go there? They were still walking tractors. Now in the countryside, can you still see walking tractors? At last they were agricultural vehicles. The road is indeed not wide. It is a village road, but it has been transformed into a cement road. When I went there for the first time, yes, it was a gravel road with so many potholes that even motorcycles didn’t dare to drive fast for fear of being thrown down the mountain.”

"I went there more than 20 years ago and performed there,

Gu Gong and Zhang Xiangbei laughed. Gu Gong asked, "Did you win?"

"There were so many people, and they had been publicizing it for so long in advance. The other party had already known about it and was prepared. That is, everyone stood on the top of the mountain and yelled at each other for a long time.

"Why is this?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"When two villages fight, the interests are direct. The one above you has cut off the water source. In my village, everyone's fields have no water, which directly affects the interests of each household. The urge to fight is Yes." Gu Gong said.

Zhang Xiangbei nodded and felt that what Gu Gong said made sense. Fighting is actually the easiest conflict. You say something to me, and we started fighting without even arguing. When it came time to make an appointment, everyone started to bluff. When I looked at the scene, I saw that you have my acquaintances over there and I have your acquaintances here, so the fight stopped and turned into a negotiation.

Looking at the world structure, it is not easy for big countries to fight each other, and it is even more difficult for nuclear-armed countries to fight each other. If they have the ability to destroy each other, there will be a balance of terror. At most, it will be a cold war, or a proxy war, and small countries will fight against each other. If you don't agree, just do it.

Xiao Wu asked them what they were doing in Baojiawu? Gu Gong talked to him, and Xiao Wu asked:

"When are you coming back?"

"The pig slaughtering is at the second house in the evening. It is estimated to start around ten o'clock. We will go there in the evening. It will take us two and a half hours to get there. It's okay. If we want to go, I will ask them to wait for us. Wait. We kill the pigs when we arrive. After watching the pig slaughtering and drinking the pig killing wine, we rush back without delaying work." Gu Gong said.

"I'll go too." Xiao Wu said.

Gu Gong agreed, if you go, I will drive when you go, you can drive when you come back, and then we can drink freely.

"Why do they kill pigs at night?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"It's too busy. There are only two pig butchers. Pigs from three villages have to be killed. It's our turn tonight. We will kill one tonight and two during the day tomorrow. We will go to another house in the afternoon."

"Pig butcher? Private slaughter?" Zhang Xiangbei was surprised and asked: "Don't they all require designated slaughter points now?"

"The pigs that are slaughtered and eaten in rural areas are not needed. For us, it is just a side project. Our batch of ham and bacon will not be sold anyway. When we want to purchase large-scale purchases in several villages, we will go to designated slaughterhouses. .”

Gu Gong said: "However, when the time comes, I will contact the slaughterhouse to see if I can ask a pig butcher to kill it manually. The pigs killed in the slaughterhouse are not as delicious as those killed by the pig butcher."

"What's the difference between this?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"The difference is huge," Gu Gong said. "Slaughterhouses use high-voltage electricity to electrosthesiaize pigs, or use high-concentration carbon dioxide to make pigs faint, and then stab and bleed them. At that time, the pigs are in a coma, and the blood If the butcher kills the pig, the pig will struggle to death on the chopping board. The more it struggles, the cleaner the blood will flow. Exercise the pig, and the meat will be more fragrant."

Zhang Xiangbei has been to a slaughterhouse and has seen the scene of pig killing. It is indeed as Gu Gong said. The pigs that have been inspected, quarantined and showered are lined up on the conveyor belt one after another after being electrolytically anesthetized, just like all the pigs on the operating table. The numb patient was in a coma, and he didn't even know how he died in the end. Zhang Xiangbei had never seen artificial slaughter, and he immediately became interested.

"How are you doing, Mr. Zhang? Are you going?" the consultant asked Zhang Xiangbei.

"Don't ask him, I'm sure to go. If he doesn't tie him up, I'll tie him up." Xiao Wu couldn't hold himself back for a long time and shouted from the side. Zhang Xiangbei said:

"No need to tie me up, I'm definitely going to join in the fun."

In the evening, Zhang Xiangbei and the others went to the canteen for dinner early because they were going to Pujiang. They walked to the parking lot and were ready to set off. Sun Xiangyang and Zhou Ruoyi wandered around and came out of the workshop, preparing to go to the canteen for dinner. , seeing them, the two people walked towards them.

When Gu Gong saw it, he shouted to Zhang Xiangbei in a low voice: "Oh no, no, no, don't take women with you. The scene was too bloody. I'll vomit on the spot after watching it."

Zhang Xiangbei couldn't help but laugh. He felt that Gu Gong was right to worry. If he told Sun Xiangyang and Zhou Ruoyi that they were going to watch the New Year pig being killed and eat pig-killing wine, these two guys would definitely go with them. If you don't let them go, It's no use, just drive away, they will immediately drive up and follow their car shamelessly.

When they get there, if Zhou Ruoyi vomits, not only will the scene be ugly, but she will also be yelling at them all night long, using Mandarin mixed with Hangzhou dialect and Cantonese, scolding them until they are stink.

It's better not to cause this trouble.

When they approached, Zhang Xiangbei asked before they spoke, "Have you eaten yet?"

"No." Zhou Ruoyi said.

"Where are you going?" Sun Xiangyang asked.

"How about we go to the agricultural capital to have a look? Let's go together?" Zhang Xiangbei asked pretending to be casual.

Zhou Ruoyi rolled her eyes at him and scolded: "You want us to go to the wholesale market with you when we are hungry? That's a good idea. It's off duty now and we won't listen to your orders."

Zhou Ruoyi said and took Sun Xiangyang to the canteen.

The three people immediately got into the car and couldn't help laughing. Gu Gong said, "Not bad, Mr. Zhang, very resourceful."

The three people laughed too loudly. Sun Xiangyang and Zhou Ruoyi hadn't gone far yet. When they heard their laughter, the two people turned around and looked at them. Zhang Xiangbei quickly said to Gu Gong:

"Go quickly, go quickly."

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