Chapter 59: Killing a Pig

With the remaining twenty days at the end of the year, every household began to get busy. Zhang Niu's family was no exception. Every New Year's Eve, the family had to clean up. This means that the next year is full of disasters and difficulties. This year is a year of sweeping away, and welcoming the arrival of the new year. Zhang Niu is skeptical about this. He doesn't like those who burn incense and light candles.

A year-long cleaning can clear out a lot of garbage in the family. Then take it to the edge of the stream and burn it. There are also several piles of fires that burned not far from Zhang Niu. The black smoke floated upwards. You can see it from a distance. The pungent smell kept floating.

After cleaning, the house was much cleaner and there were fewer spider webs on the roof beams. At night, my father asked Zhang Niu to sleep at home at night. Tomorrow morning, butcher Zhang from the village wanted to come to help our family kill pigs. It was just right to grab the pig's legs and help.

When Zhang Niu found out, he thought about it. Now, when he killed pigs, he could just take out pork heads and other foods during the Chinese New Year. When it was still dawn, his mother in the kitchen started to boil boiling water with the largest iron pot in the mud stove. Even the little girl who usually likes to sleep wears a cotton coat and gets out of bed. Killing pigs is attractive to the little kids as if she is playing games online now.

The large wooden barrel for slaughtering pigs is placed in the front yard. Two extended four-color stools are placed in front of the wooden barrels. They are lengthened and widened and placed side by side. The pigs are finally pressed on them. The stools are too long, wide and narrow. The pig stools are not strong enough.

Today, it was not to kill the sow, but to weigh about 500 pounds from another pigpen. It was the piglets raised in the first lunar month. The sow has now been upgraded to a mother pig. The difference between the piglets that gave birth to a litter of thirteen piglets and the wild piglets of Happy Xiaozhuna is very different.

There were several groups of people coming to the village to buy piglets. Zhang Niuleng was not ready to sell it. He planned to stock it on his own Maotou Mountain in the future.

Open the deletion door and drive out the boar that was still sleeping. Zhang Niu held the round rice master and swayed towards the boar. The pig was frightened and ran to the front yard along the path. The father and son, Zhang, and Zhang, had four masters and apprentices. Zhang, the master and apprentice, grabbed the pig's tail. Zhang Niu and others hugged the pig's body and carried it onto the bench.

The boar on the stool kept shaking his body, howling to break free. Butcher Zhang took out a stack of knives wrapped in fabric from the small wooden box. They were commonly used knives, sharp knives, shaving, and cumstalking. There were many samples. Many of them were not recognized by Zhang Niu. He heard from Butcher Zhang that they rarely change new knives. He said that they did not help but say that it caused too much pain when killing pigs.

My mother poured boiling water into a large wooden bucket three times. Mixed it with half a bucket of cold water. It was too hot and it was easy for the pig skin to burn red, and the butcher was not comfortable when shave it.

In rural areas, it is better to use the old method to kill pigs, unlike in the city, and then kill corona. Butcher Zhang changed his sharp knife and told Zhang Niu and others to press the hind legs and so on. Don't wait for the boar to break free.

When he was lifted up, the whole pig was already lying on the bench. His neck was aimed at the small wooden basin just placed below. Just below the neck, butcher Zhang pressed it. There was a gap there that seemed to be bleeding quickly. With a sharp knife, red pig blood came out with the knife. The whole village could hear the screams of the pig. The little girl next to her also covered her eyes with her hands for her mother, for fear that the child would dream of blood when he was sleeping at night. The little girl still looked out through the gap.

The bleeding boar was kicking his legs. The force was not ordinary, and Zhang Niu almost stopped it. Five minutes later, the boar's strength was already weak and his legs began to cramp. Everyone could breathe a sigh of relief.

He took the wooden basin filled with pig blood back to the kitchen and put it on the stove. The next thing was the little thing about Butcher Zhang shaving his hair. When shaving his hair, he asked his father to take a wooden ladder out and put it on the wall.

Shaving is very labor-saving. A black semi-curved iron piece is brushed and brushed. The hair removal of hands seems to be very useful, but other places are simple and the pig ears are really hard to work hard.

Rolling over the whole body a few times. The boar, which had just been fur all over, has now become a white-faced pig, and cannot find the white hair. The pig's body is also cleaned. Butcher Zhang took out an iron chain in his bag. He carried two pointed hooks in front of him. The hook was hooked on the pig's nose and hung it on the top of the wooden ladder. The boar leaned on the wooden ladder to facilitate the cutting of the pig's belly.

The mother cut out a large piece of the condensed pig blood and cooked it in the pot for a while. She also used it to entertain Butcher Zhang.

After opening the scoop, remove the internal organs, pig heart, lungs, liver and other things in a bucket. Cut the pig in half and put it in a bamboo basket. Killing the pig is also completed. My father took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it to him, and of course the apprentice was gone. A red envelope must be covered with fifty and one hundred, depending on the wealth problem.

After washing the handle, my mother asked everyone to go into the kitchen. There was a bowl of rice wine next to it. This was soaked with glutinous rice grown by her own home this autumn. The bucket was not high.

Giving red envelopes and eating pig blood soup is necessary. Many young men who want to learn to kill pigs are also apprenticed to be thick-bodied. Otherwise, carrying pigs will be exhausted. Zhang Niu almost couldn't lift it up just now, if it weren't for the 1.8-meter-old apprentice next to him.

The pig-killer life is good. Butcher Zhang has already built a villa. It makes the young men around him want to worship under the butcher. There are so many people that they naturally have to work hard to find. Finally, they choose the apprentice who is more than 1.8 meters tall, so the apprentice can learn the quick master and save effort.

After Butcher Zhang left, his father was busy hanging the pig's head on the beam of the house, putting everything aside at noon and asking good friends to come and eat pork together. Let's have fun together.

The task of asking for people is naturally Zhang Niu's turn. Now Murakami knows that Zhang Niu makes a lot of money by raising big benzene ducks. When he goes there, he will ask what to raise next year. Some people plan to start to confine wasteland. Hearing the village chief laughing.

It’s almost the same for the uncle and the village chief’s family to go down. The relatives of the Zhangniu family are basically in other villages.

It’s not known how long it has been passed on to Murakami’s pig slaughtering and treating guests. Every household is like this until the end of the year, if the popularity is good, there will be several more events. Every time you eat wine and meat, you will be afraid of eating it.

At noon, there were peppers, pork liver, chestnuts, pork lung soup, and large pieces of dried vegetables and meat. There were also hot rice wine beside it. Eating meat and rice wine made the older ones feel that they were young again. Zhang Niu, who was not very good at drinking, could only bury his head and eliminate the dishes on the table. The white cut of pork belly was basically wiped out by Zhang Niu.

The drinkers continued to drink. Zhang Niu, who was full, returned to Happy with a bag of fat, Xiao Zhu prepared to add a meal to Xiao Hei and Dalang. A 500-pound pork fat was really too much, and the portions that could not be eaten were also taken back. Good things should not be wasted.

Xiao Hei was too young to be unable to digest, so he gave pig fat. Big wolf and second wolf gave pig belly and intestines. There was no such thing as snatching food. Zhang Niu was most afraid of the wolf and the dog snatching it when the division was divided. Xiao Hei was not their opponent.


Chapter completed!