Chapter 24: Pig-killing rice at the village chief’s house (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 24: Pig-killing rice at the village chief’s house (please collect and recommend)
Ever since there was a stove at home, my mother Wang Fang only had to light a fire every morning.
This stove has a chimney and can burn coal, so there is no need to burn so much firewood.
Soon 1995 will be over and the new year will begin.
At the end of the month, Li Hongbin, Zhou Lan and Li Yao came to the house to have a wedding ceremony.
Li Yao's grandparents made Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang happy.
Zhang An didn't make any preparations. There was nothing in the town and it was too late to go to the county. In the end, he prepared a big red envelope worth 666.
Because among the return gifts in rural areas, giving a big red envelope is a big gift.
Zhou Lan didn't let Li Yao refuse this time, because if he refused again, he would be looking down on him.
On this day, Wang Fang cooked a large table of dishes without saving anything.
Zhang An also called his second uncle and his third uncle's family to have dinner together.
Li Yao played with Zhang Tie all morning, and he was led by Zhang Tie and became one with the children in the village.
No one plays with him in the town, except for the occasional relative who comes and takes a child with him.
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After the twelfth lunar month, people who were away from home began to go home to celebrate the New Year.
In the village, there are basically no people in the same age group as Zhang An who are in school for a long time. People who are eighteen or nineteen years old are also disliked by people at home, so many people choose to go south to work.
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang An got up early.
Braving the cold air, I woke up quickly after getting up.
Today, the village chief Zhang Jianwen's uncle's house wants to kill a pig. The day before, he had come to ask Zhang An's family for help.
Actually, I said it was to help, but there were too many people there, so if only one person contributed a little bit, they would just play there and eat pig-killing rice together.
When Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo arrived, several elderly people in the village who had come early were already boiling water.
Zhang An met many of his former acquaintances, all of whom were classmates from his village in elementary school and junior high school.
I must have come back from work to celebrate the New Year. I looked at everyone wearing jeans and denim clothes, which looked very fashionable.
Because killing pigs requires boiling a lot of water, and there is no running water in the village yet, so people need to go to the big well to fetch it.
Zhang An couldn't sit still when he saw a group of old men planning to fetch water.
He had just sat down with some childhood friends and chatted for a while, reminiscing about old times.
But he found that he could no longer chat with these people.
People talk about how nice and developed the big cities outside are, and how easy it is to make money.
Yes, cities in coastal areas are indeed incomparable to this small village in the mountains.
But if their exaggerated techniques were used in essays for Chinese language exams, I believe they could get very high scores.
It's not like Zhang An has never seen the outside world. He has been to the big cities with bustling lights and bustling traffic, including the capital and Shanghai.
However, Zhang An cannot accept the practice of promoting the outside world by belittling his hometown.
So he remained silent and listened to them bragging about themselves.
So when he saw it was time to fetch water, he took the initiative to stand up and help fetch water.
It's hard for the young people to sit still when he leaves. After all, they have to show themselves to the people in their hometown.
They can't leave a reputation as someone who only brags and doesn't work, otherwise their reputation will be ruined in just a few seconds.
One by one, they quickly took the buckets from the old people's hands and went to fetch water with Zhang An.
After a period of practice, Zhang An can already carry a pole.
So carrying water is not a problem at all, but it is different for the other people.
Only a few of them know how to choose, and the rest will suffer.
When they arrived at the well, Zhang An picked up the water ladle and filled the buckets several times, and then fetched some water for them.
They all thought that their deeds made Zhang An, a country bumpkin, envious, and they asked Zhang An to join them in the factory after the Chinese New Year and earn a monthly salary of three to four hundred yuan.
After several trips to carry water down, a group of young people suffered a lot.
Finally, the water boiled, and the pig butcher also paid homage to the Stove Lord and began to pull out the pigs.
My uncle's pigs are pretty well raised. They weigh more than 200 pounds, so they must have been fed a lot of corn.
It’s not like other people’s ones, which all weigh one hundred, seventeen or eighty pounds.
The two ends of Zhang An's family are not normal and are not included in the calculation.
Because Zhang An's family already weighs almost three hundred pounds.
A group of young people, in order to show off, took the initiative to butcher the pig under the coaxing of the women in the village.
Unexpectedly, when the pig butcher was about to take action, the people behind him failed to hold him down, and the pig struggled to turn over.
Maybe it was my first time pressing it, so I was inexperienced. Zhang An happened to be nearby, so he used his strength to press the pig on the chopping board. Now the pig couldn't move no matter how hard it struggled.
The pig butcher used a white knife and a red knife. It was obvious that he was a skilled man and he solved the problem in just a few strokes.
After the pig blood was almost done, it was the turn of the older generation to take the stage.
It was necessary to pour boiling water to scald the pig skin and then shave it. There were too many people so Zhang An did not go in to join in the fun.
At this time, because the weather is cold, the hair must be shaved quickly, and the butcher will blow the pig while they are shaving.
Just pierce a hole in a pig's foot and blow air into it.
This makes it easier to shave the pig hair more cleanly.
Youdao means that it is easier to work when there are more people. The older generation has rich experience in killing pigs, so the hair on the pigs was quickly solved.
The pig butcher started another one-man show, disemboweling the pig and unloading the whole pig.
The village chief's pig is pretty good. Excluding the water, it actually has about 150 kilograms of pork.
Next, the women in the house will start preparing to cook.
The pig-killing rice in rural areas is made of stew in a big pot, and those who cut the meat and those who pick the vegetables all perform their duties.
The men started to sit and brag, and at this time, people started to go up to buy meat.
Zhang An wanted to kill the family himself, so he didn't get involved.
Zhang Jianguo found an opportunity to communicate with the pig butcher. Today, the village chief's family was killed, so it was easy to kill his own family, otherwise it would be difficult to do it first.
Later, Zhang Jianguo made an agreement with the pig butcher to kill two pigs at Zhang An's house tomorrow.
At this moment, everyone looked at Zhang An and his son in surprise. Others knew that their family killed pigs, but they killed two pigs at a time. Unless they were holding a banquet or something like that, there was really no such thing in the village.
This time it is considered to be in the limelight.
In this era, pig butchers were paid twenty yuan for killing a pig, so by killing two pigs at one time, the pig butchers could earn a lot of money.
At noon, with the busy work of a group of women, the pig-killing rice was ready. Everyone began to eat at separate tables. Because there were many people, Zhang An finally gave in and took the initiative to sit at the children's table.
A group of little kids all like Zhang An very much. Zhang Tie is the king of the kids among the kids, and Zhang Tie follows Zhang An like crazy, so everyone also likes to follow Zhang An.
Mainly because Zhang An would give them candy or something from time to time.
So in front of the eldest brother, everyone ate very civilized, without their usual appearance, grabbing and grabbing food. Zhang An often served food to several children, which made the aunts in the village say that Zhang An can take care of people, and at home
I have a relative, why don't I introduce him to Zhang An?
Ever since Wang Fang knew that her son would make his own decisions and would neither agree nor refuse, he just said it was up to Zhang An to decide what he wanted to do, and left with a haha.
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