sbdcsierra Chapter 1491 Killing the New Year Pig (Part )
Chapter 1491 Killing the New Year Pig (Part )
Chapter 1491 Killing the New Year Pig (Part )
After nine o'clock, all the guests of the Zhao family arrived except Chu Anmin's family and Zhang Life.
These people packed the Zhao house to the brim, and the sounds of men, women, young and old talking, chatting, and laughing almost blew the roof off the house.
In the west room, Wang Meilan always had a smile on her face. She loved the lively atmosphere at home. The more lively the house was, the happier she was.
In the east room, Zhao Youcai kept smoking Shilin cigarettes. The men gathered together, a total of 27 men, young and old, except Zhao Jun, all of them smoked.
The gang smoked so much that the Zhao family's east room became like a goblin's cave, and the smoke even spread to the outer rooms.
At half past nine, Zhang Life also arrived. This time he changed into the cotton jacket given by Zhao Youcai, and his pants and shirt were the forest farm's spring and autumn work clothes.
Although these clothes are not new, they are clean and no one will dislike him.
After Zhang Lifu entered the house, he greeted the people he knew and then asked Zhao Youcai, "Brother, are you catching pigs?"
When there were so many people, Zhao Youcai even put up a shelf. He looked up at the big clock on the wall, then looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "When did Director Chu say he would be here?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked towards Zhao Jun.
"It's almost time. He said he would be leaving home around seven o'clock." Zhao Jun also looked at his watch. He stood up while speaking and gestured with his hand to Zhang Lifeu to sit on his bench.
"Then you drive our car to Tunbei." Zhao Youcai raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said, "They have to come from the north. You go to meet them and lead them over."
Zhao Jun responded, took his cotton-padded jacket and hat and was about to go out. At this time, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting cross-legged on the kang, said, "Let's catch a pig first. When Director Chu comes, we will kill the pig to get blood."
When Zhao Youcai said this, everyone responded, and Zhang Yuanmin even picked up the long black cloth bag standing next to his legs.
With more than twenty men, catching the pigs would definitely not be a problem, so Zhao Jun didn't bother with them.
Just as Zhao Jun was about to leave, he heard Li Baoyu ask Zhao Youcai, "Master, Director Chu is coming soon. Do we need to set off the firecrackers again?"
"Just stop it." Before Zhao Youcai could say anything, Li Dazhi asked, "You look like you're trying to break someone's heart?"
When Li Dazhi said this, everyone burst into laughter.
"No need, Baoyu." Zhao Youcai said with a smile, "After the morning fireworks, I didn't ask you to sweep the red paper. It's fine if you have it."
When Zhao Jun walked out of the yard, he saw red paper scraps all over the ground, creating a really festive atmosphere.
He got on the jeep, drove out of the north end of the village, and waited for Chu Anmin on the side of the road.
After Zhao Jun left, Zhao Youcai came out of the house with twenty-six people.
The two earthen stoves outside the house were already filled with firewood and the pots were filled with water. Zhao Youcai struck a match to light the firewood and then led his men straight to the backyard.
The noise made by more than twenty people was so loud that the six pigs in the backyard pen were frightened and hid in the corner.
"Catch the biggest one!" Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed to the donkey pen, where a three-hundred-pound black pig was. Li Baoyu, holding a pig hook, rushed into the pen first.
Following closely behind was Xie Chen, and then the two brothers Han Dachun and Han Daming.
"Oh my!" Seeing Li Baoyu holding that strange-looking thing and running towards the pig, Zhou Chunming said worriedly, "Don't you need a headband?"
When catching a pig normally, it is best to put a bag over the pig's head. If the pig cannot be seen, it will not run around.
Before Zhao Youcai could answer, Li Baoyu had already rushed to the front of the Pig Gang.
Seeing the big stupid tiger rushing over noisily, the three pigs in the donkey pen scattered and fled in their respective ways.
The 300-jin black pig leaped forward, but was blocked by Xie Chen and the Han brothers. Following closely behind were Yan Shugang's son Yan Shuli and Zhang Guoqing's son Zhang Qiushi.
Seeing someone blocking the road ahead, the big black pig paused. Just as he was about to turn a corner, he felt a pain and numbness in the back of his left calf.
At this time, Li Baoyu had hooked the big black pig's hind legs.
The big black pig would definitely not surrender. It kicked its hooked leg repeatedly, trying to break free from the hook.
But Li Baoyu is not a fake tiger, he is a real tiger.
He suddenly turned around, facing the big black pig's butt with his butt, then grabbed the pig hook with both hands and pushed forward with his back.
"Ah...ah..." The big black pig on three legs staggered after being dragged by Li Baoyu. That was not the end. Li Baoyu dragged the big black pig backwards and leaped forward two steps, directly knocking the big black pig down.
Before the big black pig had time to struggle, Xie Chen, Han Dachun and Han Daming pounced on it.
All three of them wore work gloves, and each of them grabbed a pig leg and directly held down the big black pig.
"Okay, Baoyu, stop pulling!" Han Daming shouted hurriedly when he saw that Li Baoyu was still pulling hard.
At this time, Yan Shuli and Zhang Qiushi came over with ropes, and the five of them tied the big black pig's four hooves tightly.
When the five men were tying the pig's mouth, Wang Qiang handed over the big stick in his hand. When the men were carrying the pig out, Li Baoyu, who was holding the pig-tying hook at the back, suddenly had his eyes light up and hurriedly greeted, "Director Chu!"
When everyone heard the sound, they turned around and saw Chu Anmin's family standing behind Zhao Jun.
"Director Chu!" Zhou Chunming hurriedly stepped forward and said, "We didn't know when you came."
"Xiao Ba... No, I came when Baoyu was catching pigs." Chu Anmin smiled, pointed at Li Baoyu, and said, "This big guy is not in vain!"
"Not so good!" Old Lady Chu looked Li Baoyu up and down and said, "Young man, you are really strong. Pull that pig."
Everyone laughed, and at this time Chu Anmin pointed at the pig hook in Li Baoyu's hand and said, "Mom, the one this kid is holding is specially used to catch pigs. I have used it before!"
When Chu Anmin came to Yong'an Forest Area to experience hunting, Zhao Jun took him to hunt wild boars. Chu Anmin tried all kinds of hunting methods, including gun hunting, knife hunting, and live hunting.
"Really?" Old Mrs. Chu looked at the pig hook in Li Baoyu's hand and sighed, "People are really good at thinking nowadays. How could there be such a thing in the past?"
"This was invented by their little Zhuge." Chu Anmin said, looking at Zhao Jun and asked, "Zhang Yuanmin is not here?"
"Director Chu, I'm here!" As soon as Chu Anmin finished speaking, he squeezed out of the crowd to get Zhang Yuanmin.
"It's him, it's him." Chu Anmin pointed at Zhang Yuanmin and said to Old Lady Chu, "He has a very good brain."
Zhang Yuanmin chuckled. At this time, the forestry cadres saw this scene and they couldn’t tell what they felt.
After working for so many years, I still haven't been able to become familiar to the director. But Zhang Yuanmin is lucky. Chu Anmin not only knows his name, but also his nickname.
"Oh!" Suddenly, Chu Anmin remembered something, and he came over with his mother's arm and introduced him, "Mom, this is Youcai. This is his home that we are visiting today."
Chu Anmin stayed in the Zhao family for two days. After getting along with Zhao Youcai, he felt that this was a nice person.
Because the Zhao family did not flatter him, their enthusiasm for him was simply the same enthusiasm they showed to guests, which made Chu Anmin feel very comfortable staying in the Zhao family.
"Auntie, you are in good health." Zhao Youcai greeted Old Lady Chu. Old Lady Chu smiled and took Zhao Youcai's hand, nodding repeatedly and said, "Good, good."
As she spoke, Old Lady Chu turned around and looked at Zhao Jun.
At this time, the old lady was thinking, why are this father and son so different?
But when Old Lady Chu looked back, people thought she was looking at Liu Hongmei and Chu Xiaoxue.
So Chu Anmin called his wife and daughter over and briefly introduced them to everyone.
Chu Xiaoxue is seventeen years old this year. She is of average appearance, about 1.6 meters tall and chubby.
The big black pig saw these people talking and laughing, and it became fed up and lay on the ground, twisting and turning.
Zhao Youcai waved his hand, and Han Dachun and the others carried the pig forward. Then, Zhao Youcai invited Chu Anmin and the others to come into the house.
Everyone went to the front yard again. At this time, the front yard was ready. The big door was put up. Han Dachun and his team carried the pig to the front and put the big black pig directly on the door.
At this time, Wang Meilan came out of the house holding a large basin.
Inside the big basin, there are two small basins, a cooking spatula, and a bundle of chopsticks.
These are taken to collect pig blood.
When Wang Meilan came out, Zhao Youcai and others just happened to come from behind the room.
Zhao Youcai hurriedly introduced Chu Anmin's family to Wang Meilan, and Wang Meilan greeted them warmly.
Wang Meilan asked Old Lady Chu, Liu Hongmei and Chu Xiaoxue to come into the house, but the grandparents refused and insisted on watching the pig being slaughtered outside.
Chu Anmin also wanted to join in the fun, so three of the four members of the family wanted to stay, and Liu Hongmei didn't go into the house either.
When Wang Meilan separated the basins, Jin Xiaomei came with a bucket. The bucket was filled with water, but not much, and there was also an iron brush in the water.
The handle of this iron brush is made of elm, and the bristles are made of hard iron wire.
After Jin Xiaomei came over, Wang Meilan picked up the iron brush dripping with water from the bucket and brushed it vigorously under the pig's neck a few times.
"Oh!" Seeing this, Mrs. Chu smiled and said to Liu Hongmei beside her: "Look at her, she is so clean."
Wang Meilan is a germaphobe. After making stuffing and chopping the meat, she has to wash the stuffing repeatedly with clean water to wash out the blood in the meat.
The pigs were rooting in the pen every day, and their bodies were always dirty. If Wang Meilan didn't clean the blood neck, she would feel that the pig blood was dirty.
When the iron brush was used, a whistling sound came from the big black pig's nose.
Wang Meilan felt that she had almost finished brushing, so she stepped back. Han Daming put on new work gloves, walked forward with the cleaned butcher knife, and stabbed it into the pig's throat.
Before the knife was drawn, pig blood flowed out along the handle. At this time, the big black pig was thrashing violently, but was held down by Li Dayong and others.
Wang Qiang took a small basin to collect the blood. He held the basin in one hand and with the other hand he held two pairs of chopsticks and stirred the blood in the basin constantly.
The stirring is to prevent the blood from clotting.
The pig blood is hot when it is just out. If it is not stirred, it will coagulate together, and then it will be impossible to mix it with the old soup to make blood sausage.
Seeing that the small basin was full, Lin Xiangshun quickly took another small basin to cover it. Wang Qiang stepped back two steps and poured the blood from the small basin into the large basin.
There was no blood in the small basin, but there were some flocculent things hanging on the chopsticks. These are called blood tendons, and it is okay to pour them into the blood sausage.
Wang Qiang went forward again to collect the blood and replaced Lin Xiangshun. Lin Xiangshun also poured the blood collected in the small basin into the large basin, and then he went to replace Wang Qiang.
Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei kept holding the spatula and stirring the blood in the big basin.
As the blood dried up, the pig's life came to an end. It shuddered violently, then stretched out its four hooves and died.
Jin Xiaomei came into the house carrying a large basin, and then Zhao Youcai and the others would remove the pig hair.
As the saying goes: A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.
A bucket of hot water was poured on the pig, and Sun Wanshan and Zhang Lifeu from next door were scraping the pig's hair with a kitchen knife.
The smell of scalded pig hair is not pleasant and it is also smelly.
So at this time, when Wang Meilan invited Old Mrs. Chu and Chu Xiaoxue into the house again, the grandparents and grandchildren did not refuse.
Seeing that Chu Anmin was the only one left in the family of four, Zhao Youcai wanted to invite Chu Anmin into the house to have tea and smoke, but was rejected. Director Chu insisted on watching the pork being unloaded.
Mo Xiao's farmhouse is full of wine and drunk, and he stays with chicken and dolphin in good years.
Chu Anmin came to Zhao Jun's house not just for the pig-killing dish. If he said a word, many people would be willing to kill a pig and treat his family to a meal.
But Chu Anmin would not go if invited by ordinary people. Compared with the food, he likes the simplicity and liveliness of Zhao Jun's house. Here, Chu Anmin can recall his childhood life in the countryside.
While I was busy outside, I was also busy at home.
After carrying the pig's blood into the house, Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling and Yang Yufeng washed the dishes, plates and chopsticks together.
The Zhao family is slaughtering a pig today, and judging by the number of people, five tables will definitely not be enough to accommodate them.
Zhao Youcai has worked in the canteen for twenty years. The plates, bowls and chopsticks stored in his family’s warehouse are enough for his family to host twenty tables.
But those things have been stored in the warehouse for too long, and the dishes need to be washed before use.
Wang Cuihua and Xu Chunyan were picking vegetables and packing the celery and garlic sprouts that Zhao Jun had bought yesterday.
Xie Sun was chopping sauerkraut. She only started doing labor after she came to the Zhao family.
But what is strange is that Xie Sun’s knife skills are excellent.
This may be a kind of talent. Xie Sun learned how to cut vegetables without any instruction, and he cuts sauerkraut very finely, evenly and quickly.
Also helping to cut the sauerkraut were the wives of Yan Shugang, Zhang Guoqing, Zhao Guofeng, Liu Jinyong, Xu Baoshan and others.
These women worked at home when they were girls, but when it came to cutting sauerkraut, none of them could cut better than Jie Sun.
As soon as she entered the house, Liu Hongmei said she wanted to help with the work, but how could Wang Meilan use her?
Wang Meilan brought Old Lady Chu, Liu Hongmei and Chu Xiaoxue into the west room, where Zhao Guofeng's mother and Hu Sanmei were sitting.
It was just right for Zhao Guofeng's mother to accompany Old Lady Chu, and for Hu Sanmei to accompany Liu Hongmei.
As for Chu Xiaoxue, Wang Meilan said to her, "My girl, come on, follow your aunt to the west courtyard. There are children in that room, and there are little sisters to play with you."
Chu Xiaoxue heard this and glanced at Liu Hongmei. Liu Hongmei smiled and said, "Go, Xiaoxue, follow your aunt."
Wang Meilan took Chu Xiaoxue out, but they didn't climb over the wall, but walked through the yard and through the gate.
When they arrived at Li's house and entered the east room, Wang Meilan called out, "Ling'er, Xiaoyun, Xiaoyanzi, look, here comes a little sister."
Xiaoyanzi is the daughter of the old Song family in the east courtyard of the Zhao family. She is sixteen years old this year. The daughters of Zhang Guoqing and Yan Shugang also came, but their daughters are similar to Xiaolingdang and can't play with Li Tongyun and the others.
As soon as Chu Xiaoxue entered the room, she saw Li Tongyun. They were both stunned when their eyes met.
"Yun..." Chu Xiaoxue seemed a little excited. She was about to step forward, but saw Li Tongyun winking at her.
Chu Xiaoxue stopped abruptly, suppressed her excitement, and let Wang Meilan introduce the three little sisters to her.
After the introduction, Wang Meilan called the old lady and asked her to go to the east courtyard to accompany Old Lady Chu.
When Wang Meilan came out of Li's yard and entered her own yard, the pig's hair had already fallen off.
"Turn over, come on!" Zhao Youcai gave an order, and someone reached out and turned the big black pig over with its four legs facing up.
Zhao Youcai threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground and reached out to take the butcher knife handed to him by Han Daming. Then Zhao Youcai stepped forward, grabbed a pig's ear with one hand, and used the sharp butcher knife to cut off the pig's head with the other hand.
Xie Zhong stepped forward to take the pig's head, and went outside the yard with Xie Chen to roast the pig's head.
At this time, Zhao Youcai and Han Dachun cut the pig together. Zhao Youcai cut open the pig's chest with one knife, while Han Dachun used a small knife to cut open the pig's anus and pulled out the large intestine.
Han Dachun felt a stagnation when he pulled, so Zhang Yuanmin poured some water along the edge of the knife. Then Han Dachun pulled again and it was able to move.
He did this not to pull out the intestines, but to separate the pig's large intestine from the adhesions inside the chamber.
Zhao Youcai continued to use the knife to cut the pig's chest open from head to tail.
He was very measured in his cuts. With one stroke, he cut open the chest and the intestines popped out instantly, but the intestines were not broken at all.
The pig hadn't fasted in advance, so its intestines were full of messy stuff. If it got cut, it would be a pain to clean up.
Seeing this, Zhang Guoqing, the canteen director, couldn't help but admire: "Youcai, you don't work in the canteen anymore. Your cooking skills are really wasted."
"Hey?" Chu Anmin was stunned when he heard that. He looked up and asked Zhao Youcai, "Youcai, you're not in the cafeteria?"
(End of this chapter)