There was no time to be sentimental. I suppressed the distracting thoughts in my heart. The most important thing now was to deal with the wild boar. I pulled out the knife from the wild boar, wiped the blood on the pig's body with the spatula, then held the invasion knife in one hand and the knife in the other.
Touch the ash stick and twist your hands backwards, and the knife will be separated from the stick.
The hunting dog was still biting the wild boar, as if to vent its anger, he drove away Heizi and Dahuang, thrust the knife into the ground beside him, grabbed the wild boar's right front hoof with one hand, grabbed the right rear hoof with the other, and pushed it towards him with force
With one pull, the wild boar lying on its side was turned upside down.
Before killing the wild boar, you need to drain the pig's blood. If the pig's blood is mixed with the meat, the meat will have a strong earthy smell, which will affect the taste. Because of the chase just now, the blood in the wild boar's body has almost dried up, so it can be opened directly.
The knife penetrated under the wild boar's neck and cut downwards. When the knife passed through the belly, be cautious for fear of slicing the pig's intestines.
Hanging the whole pig intestines, Zhang Peng hung it on a big tree nearby, and then bowed respectfully. This is the hunter's worship of the mountain god. Every time he hunts, he needs to give the mountain god some food to bless his peace.
Then he lowered his head and took off the pig's heart from the pig. With a slash of the knife, the pig's heart was divided into two parts. Because Rhubarb is a dog, the larger part should be fed to Rhubarb first, and then the smaller half should be fed to Heizi, watching them gobble it up.
Zhang Peng was stroking Rhubarb's neck up and down with his hands. Rhubarb was enjoying the delicious pig heart and the caress of his little master. At this time, Heizi, who had finished eating the pig heart, also came over and tried to fight for the caress of his master, which annoyed Zhang.
Peng laughed heartily.
The autumn afternoon was cool and pleasant, and the sun shone warmly on my body, which slowly calmed down my heart. I quickly cut off some internal organs and fed them to rhubarb and sunspots. In this country where food and clothing are scarce, people prefer fat meat but don’t like to eat water.
In the 1970s, wild boar offal became the exclusive preserve of hunting dogs.
You know, it's now 1985, people's living standards are still not high, and the unified purchase and marketing of grain and oil still exists.
This situation is fine in the city. But in rural areas, forest areas, and mountain fields, it is completely different from the city. People here work hard all year round, and there is not much oil or water on weekdays.<
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Therefore, even if you are living off the mountain, if someone can hunt a wild boar, black bear, or brown bear these days, it will be even more beautiful than the Chinese New Year.
Especially in autumn, it is the harvest season of various mountain products, and it is also the time when wild beasts catch autumn fat.
Whether they are bears or wild boars, they spend all day in the mountains eating walnuts, chewing acorns, hazelnuts, chewing jujubes, and mountain grapes. They eat all over the trenches and accumulate a lot of fat.
Let’s just say that the wild boar we shot today was a female wild boar. In the summer, it probably weighed less than 280 kilograms. But in autumn, it ate more than 300 kilograms. Let’s not talk about other places, just talking about pigs.
The large piece of fat on the belly is cut off in a place in the northeast known as Miao Miao. It is boiled in oil. The lard produced can easily fill two jars.
You must know that in this era of grain and oil supply by voucher, a family of four or five people cannot get so much oil in a year.
Moreover, after the fat meat is simmered in oil, the internal fat is baked out, and the originally soft and white fat meat will shrink and turn into a golden and crispy oil shuttle. Dip it in some salt noodles and chew it in your mouth. It will be fragrant and crispy.
Extremely delicious.
Suddenly my stomach growled, and then I remembered that I had to sneak up the mountain in the morning, so I got up early to avoid my parents, so I didn't eat breakfast. I was so nervous just now that it was okay, but now I feel sick as soon as I relax.
Empty.
He quickly cut a strip of pork belly from the pork belly, cut it into large pieces, and then threaded the large piece of meat on a thin sharpened tree strip.
The skewers were put aside, and soon more than a dozen skewers were pulled out and stacked together.
Then I cleared an open space, picked up some dead branches, and picked up some pine oil seeds from under the nearby pine trees. Fortunately, I came out and took a box of matches at home. When I took it out, I saw that the box had been crushed, but fortunately there was no damage inside.
The dead leaves were ignited, and soon the fire started to crackle.
After waiting for a while, the branches as thick as wrists burned like charcoal and red fire appeared on them. Zhang Peng inserted the skewers one by one around the fire.
There are small bubbles of oil and the color is golden, which makes people feel appetizing.
, while waiting for the meat to be cooked, he quickly took advantage of the fact that the wild boar had just died and the body was still warm, and he steaked the wild boar. He had steaked countless wild boars in his previous life, but he was still familiar with the road. After a while, the skin of the wild boar was peeled off, but
I am also tired and covered in sweat.
At this time, the barbecue was almost done, so I quickly pulled it out to prevent it from getting too old to bite, and put it aside. After it cooled down, I ate it. Although there was no salt in the wild boar meat, it lacked a little flavor, but it was still good.
I was hungry, and there wasn’t much oil or water before I caught up, so it tasted particularly delicious, and I ate up all the meat skewers in a short while.
Zhang Peng wiped oil on his mouth with the back of his hand, unscrewed the kettle and drank a few sips of water. He was full of water and food, and when the afternoon sun shone, he felt a little lazily.
After resting for a while, I went to the previous place to find my backpack and hand axe, and started to unload the pork, one pig head, four pig trotters, four pig legs, two ribs, the whole spine, large tenderloin, small tenderloin...
..., after removing the skin, hair, and some losses, this wild boar, including bones and meat, still has about two hundred kilograms left.
He definitely couldn't get the whole pig back, so he could only pile the fat, tenderloin and pork legs into a pile, which weighed about a hundred kilograms. Then he took out a large sack from the bag and picked out the meat.
Put them all in, and the rest, including the big pig head, can only be used to honor the mountain god.
Then, Zhang Peng put the pork on his back and blew a whistle to wake up the two hunting dogs who were sleeping nearby. They went down the mountain road and went home.
It is said that it is easier to go up the mountain than it is to go down the mountain. This is true. Carrying a sack of more than 100 kilograms and having to walk on the mountain road made Zhang Peng very tired. He stumbled along the way, from about two o'clock in the afternoon to almost six o'clock. In this October, it is already dark in the mountains.
After finally reaching the bottom of the mountain, I was almost exhausted from exhaustion. Rhubarb and Heizi were also wilted from exhaustion and couldn't keep up their energy. I had no choice but to rest at the foot of the mountain for another half an hour to calm down and grit my teeth. Pick up the sack and continue walking home.
The foot of the mountain is about 20 minutes away from the village. I rushed into the village. It was almost seven o'clock. Those who worked in the forest farm and those who were supposed to get off work had all gone home. Those who worked in the fields also called it a day. At this time, it was the time when every household was cooking and eating, and there was no one along the way.
When they reached the door of their house, Dahuang and Heizi had already arrived home first.
Zhang Peng took his dog out and ran around for a day.
At first, the adults in the family didn't know about it. At this time, the adults were managing like a hawk. When they woke up in the morning and found that no one was around, they thought they had gone somewhere to play and didn't think much about it. Zhang Peng usually just fished and caught shrimps when he had nothing to do. Occasionally I don’t eat at home.
After having breakfast, Zhang Peng's mother, Wang Xiufen, left lunch for her children and went to work in the fields.
When she came back, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. Wang Xiufen returned home and found that Zhang Peng was not at home, but she didn't care. Think about it, how can a young man of this age have enough time to live? He might have gone somewhere. Gone to play
Moreover, Wang Xiufen believed that this boy would be back when it was time for dinner.
When it was past five o'clock, Zhang Peng's father, Zhang Tiejun, took the small train commuting to the forest farm and went down the mountain. When he entered the house, he saw Wang Xiufen burning chopped wood on the pot table. He opened his mouth and said, "Xiufen, what did you do today?" Huh?"
Wang Xiufen filled a piece of wood into the stove pit and raised her head and said: "Cabage, vermicelli and stewed tofu. Come in and have a rest. We will start dinner when my son comes back."
Zhang Tiejun didn't say anything and just strode into the house. As soon as he entered the house, he didn't take off his shoes and got on the kang. He just leaned against the wall and put his feet on the edge of the kang. After working for a day, Zhang Tiejun came back I feel physically tired at home, leaning against the wall and feeling a little dizzy. I want to take a nap before eating.
Watching his two girls playing on the kang, he remembered that he had not seen his eldest son yet when he returned home, so he casually asked the two girls: "Where did your eldest brother go to the wild again?
"My eldest brother told us to go up the mountain to get wild boar, and the black blind man meat is gone," the third daughter Zhang Xiaoqiao said innocently