For a time, it was popular to peel off the pig skin when slaughtering pigs in the countryside and sell them.

In the past, there was a place in the town that specialized in collecting pig skin. When the price was high, a complete pig skin could be sold for one or two hundred yuan depending on the size of the pig skin.

But whether this thing is cost-effective depends on the pig's. Although some pigs are very large, the thickness of the pig's skin is very thin, and the whole pig's skin is only less than ten kilograms. Such pig's skin is more cost-effective for the boss who sells it.

Some pigs have very thick skins. Compared with the thin pig skin of the same size, the thin pig skin is different from the thick pig skin.

Such pig skin is a bit of a loss for the boss. It is better not to peel it. It may be more expensive to sell fat meat than to sell pig skin.

Because the price of pig skin is not calculated based on weight, there are two main factors that determine the price of a pig skin: one is the size of pig skin, that is, the area where the pig skin is spread out. The larger the price, the higher the price. Wu Fei remembered that his family had also sold pig skin before, and divided it into several levels according to the size, and calculated the price according to the level.

Another factor is the integrity of the pig skin. Because the thinner the pig skin is, the more cost-effective it is for the seller, all butchers try to peel the pig skin as thin as possible.

But in this way, sometimes it is inevitable to peel the pig skin and peel out a hole. With the hole in this kind of pig skin, the price will also be affected.

At that time, not only were people often purchasing pig skins in the markets in the town, but sometimes people came to the village to collect pig skins.

Wu Fei didn't know what to do with so many pig skins. At that time, Wu Fei thought that these pig skins could not be used for leather shoes and belts.

When Wu Fei was a child, he wore leather shoes made of pig skin. After wearing them for a long time, he always felt the smell of pig manure.

Anyway, for a while, at least nine of the ten pigs were without skins when the pigs killed in the village or came to sell pork. At that time, even when the New Year pigs were killed during the New Year, they would peel off the pig's skin, and the bacon was not even skins.

But Wu Fei doesn't like to eat the kind of bacon without skin, and it feels dry and has no oil or water at all. The bacon that Wu Fei likes the most is the kind with leather and bones, and the best one is the kind with some fat on it.

It tastes both oriented and oily, unlike bacon made of lean meat, which tastes dry.

However, in recent years, there seems to be fewer pig skins. I don’t know why. Anyway, nowadays, pigs are killed like when I was a child. After killing the pigs, I use boiling water to burn the pig for a while, then pull it out and shave it. After shaving it, I don’t peel it, and I will just break my stomach.

The pot of boiling water is the big pot that is usually used to cook pig food. Yesterday afternoon, my mother cleaned the pot.

Before dawn in the morning, the family got up and prepared to kill pigs. Wu Fei's job was to boil a pot of boiling water and use it to perm the pig's hair later.

When Han Zhong butcher came, Wu Fei had just burned the fire for not long. But once the fire started, don’t be in charge. You just need to add a few pieces of fire to the stove for a while.

The firewood burned at Wu Fei's house was cut from the mountain and split a large piece of wood after the firewood was cut. As long as the firewood was burned, it could be burned for a longer time.

When cooking pig food, cook a pot of pig food. As long as it is cooked, just add firewood two or three times in the middle. Like today, boil a large pot of boiling water, at most half an hour.

When Wu Bang accompanied Han Zhong to smoke a cigarette, Han Zhong said, "Old Wu, how long does it take to boil water to be ready. If you are happy, we will kill the pig first."

Wu Bang threw away the cigarette butt that he had almost finished smoking, stepped on it with his feet, and said to Han Zhong: "It will take about twenty minutes to get better when boiling water, but the pig is still locked in the pig pen in the old house above. Let's drive the pig down first. When it is driven down, the water should be almost done."

"Why are the pigs still locked in the old house now? I remember there is a pig pen behind you, why aren't you feeding them below? Isn't it more convenient here?" Han Zhong said.

When Wu Fei's new house was built, it was connected to the kitchen at the back and a pig pen was built. It was not big, but it was still possible to feed three or four large fat pigs, but after it was built, no pigs were fed out.

Because it is too close to the place you live, it smells very strong in summer, and when the wind blows, there is often a smell of pig manure in the house.

Another thing is that after feeding pigs inside, there are a lot of mosquitoes in summer. Not to mention the kitchen in the back, there are also a lot of mosquitoes in the place where you live.

So after feeding for a while, the pigs were driven into the old house and fed them. Every day, the pigs were cooked under the ground, and then they used two buckets to feed the pigs to the old house.

"Isn't there any swine fever this year? I think that people often come to the house, so I put the pigs on it. Generally, no one goes there. I feel more at ease." Wu Bang said: "There should be many pigs that have developed plague this year. You often kill pigs everywhere, so you should know more. Are there many pigs that everyone in your village feeds themselves?"

"This year, many pig farmers have suffered huge losses. Although the price of meat this year is so high, as long as there is swine fever in that place, a large number of people will die." Han Zhong said: "It would be fine if you feed less, but one or two pigs will not lose much. The trouble is that those who feed more, as long as they get the disease next to each other, they will almost be wiped out."

"Our village is even more serious than you above. At that time, more than 100 people of all sizes were buried. Now, the village can kill the New Year, and there may be no more than thirty pigs."

The village of Han Zhong and others is much larger than that of Wu Fei and others. The village has a population of more than 2,000, making it the largest village nearby.

Moreover, their villages are all gathered on the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, and the houses are densely built. Unlike Wu Fei and the others, the houses are all scattered, one building here and another.

Like in their village, when chicken plague is usually initiated, it will soon spread to the whole village, and few are spared.

On Wu Fei and his team, it was much better. Most of the houses of the two were built in a scattered manner. Even if one of them had any disease, it would be difficult to spread to other places.

Especially for the courtyard behind, there are almost no outsiders who go to the courtyard except Wu Fei and his family.

So during the period when swine fever occurred, my mother did not feed the pigs the leftovers they usually had when feeding pigs. She was cooked corn flour and pig grass, and she would not let others go to the courtyard above.
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