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Chapter 449 Kill the New Year Pig

Chapter 449 Kill the New Year Pig

The closer it is to New Year's Eve, the more Chinese New Year atmosphere in Tunli.

Every household is busy, slaughtering pigs, cleaning the house, stockpiling new year's goods, bustling with bustle and bustle. The dirt road leading to the district is full of horse-drawn carts and sledges.

Regardless of whether you have money or not, you have to spend the Chinese New Year in a decent way.

Especially the children who have been rambunctious all day long during the holidays have brought the atmosphere closer to the New Year.

Lu Lu went to Zhang Shaofeng's house in the morning, and just entered Xiushantun. In the early morning, he saw children setting off firecrackers early.

From time to time, there was a bang, blowing snowflakes on the trees, flying high on the broken enamel bowl covered on the ground, or blowing a pile of cow dung on the road in all directions.

The strings of firecrackers that the family bought for New Year's Eve and the three-day New Year's Eve had already been surreptitiously dismantled to pieces.

For the people in the village, killing the pigs in the new year is not only to kill the pigs raised at home, but also to express the family harmony in the form of entertaining guests and entertaining the villagers who are busy all year round. The reason to gather together.

This is a very ritualistic thing.

In the early years, fearing that their tails would be cut off, the family could only raise two pigs, and they could not raise sows. It was not a problem to have enough food for the family, but if they were to be separated to raise pigs, it would not be enough.

With the hogweed obtained from the fields, the pigs raised are thin and skinny, and it is only at the end of the year that the grain is divided and they can be fed with a little rice bran, wheat bran or bean dregs left over from oil extraction. , but the effect is touching.

But even so, they will always find ways to slaughter one at the end of the year. This is not only for eating meat, but also a kind of sophistication.

When Lu Lu arrived at Zhang Shaofeng's house, many people had already gathered in the yard, and no accident, they were all young and strong militiamen who got along well with each other.

The yard is bustling with activity at the moment, around the big iron stove is surrounded by a group of elders who have come to help to warm up the fire, and in the iron pot on the stove, a large shallow pot of water is steaming, almost boiling.

Seeing Lu Lu coming in, they greeted him warmly one by one.

Over the past few months, many people have received meat from him, especially Yibo Huqiu, who killed a lot of wild boars at once, and the bear meat that Lu Lu sent to the village from time to time to share with everyone. These things allow many families who can't afford to kill pigs to live a prosperous year.

He is naturally very popular.

Zhang Shaofeng was busy distributing cigarettes to people, when he saw Lu Lu Lu, he quickly greeted him: "Here we come!"

Lu Lu nodded and looked at more than a dozen men in the yard: "With so many people, how many pigs are you planning to kill!"

"Kill two!" Zhang Shaofeng laughed.

"Big family, this is it!" Lu Lu was a little surprised.

These days, not many can kill two pigs.Of course, Lu Lu also knew that if two pigs were killed, only one pig would be left in Zhang Shaofeng's family.

Every year, half of the pigs slaughtered have to be sent to the state-owned buying station in the district, where they are graded and purchased at a prescribed price, and flowed to the city to supply the urban residents.

Lu Lu figured that when the New Year was over, he should have a few in his family to raise them.

At the end of the year, it's time to kill two heads, at least, so that everyone can get together and have fun.

This atmosphere should be there.

"What a big family, the pigs brought here last autumn, until now, the largest one can weigh more than 200 catties, and the other one was bought together, and it has only grown to a hundred catties now. I suspect that it is not the same pig. The litter pigs won't grow if they are raised, and they don't look pleasing to the eye, so we might as well kill them together."

As Zhang Shaofeng said, he led Lu Lu towards the pigsty in the corner of the yard.

The pen was padded with thick pine needles, and the two pigs made a hole in the corner, lying huddled together, steaming, unaware that they were about to be stabbed.

Seeing someone approaching the circle, they all just looked up, grunted twice, and then lay flat again.It is true that the two pigs are not of the same grade at all.

In another small pen next to it, the two pigs bought this year only weighed [-] to [-] catties, and they kept turning over in the pen.

Wu Yuejia opened the door and came out, first she smiled at Lu Lu, then turned to Zhang Shaofeng and said, "The noodles are ready, invite everyone to come in and eat noodles."

"Okay!" Zhang Shaofeng responded, and patted Lu Lu on the shoulder: "Go and eat noodles."

Lu Lv didn't write any ink, when he entered Zhang Shaofeng's house, he brought a bowl of cooked noodles and started eating.

Zhang Shaofeng was busy going to the stove to greet other people.

Lu Lu knew that after eating the noodles, it was time to kill the pig.

A group of elders rushed into the house, Wu Yuejia and a few women who came to help were busy serving noodles.

When they were eating noodles together, a militiaman asked Lu Lu, "Have you ever killed a New Year's pig before?"

"I've killed it!" Lu Lu said with a smile, "However, we used to kill New Year's pigs on the farm, it was easier than this."

"How did you kill it?" Lu Lu's words aroused his interest.

"Just carry the gun into the pig farm, put it down with one shot, then pull it out and clean it up!"

What Lu Lu said was not bragging, it was true.He did this in the first year after he left the farm and returned to the city. The professional pig slaughterer in the pig farm was not there, so he did it to save trouble.

His words stunned the militiaman: "The blood didn't come out, it's all inside the meat. The meat can't hold it, and it's easy to spoil when it's hot."

"There are so many people on the farm, the meat has no chance to be put in the hot weather, it has already been eaten."

"That's true!"

After eating the noodles, Zhang Shaofeng gave them another round of cigarettes, and went to the warehouse to find the rope.The crowd also followed out of the house, and began to set up the chopping boards in a hurry, and then grabbed the pigs with ropes and sticks.

This is the time to make an effort. Usually, in this case, the participants are very active, and those who are timid will be looked down upon.

The point is, at this time, you should be timid, and if you are not careful, the pig will break free, and it will easily hurt people, so you can't be sloppy.

Seeing a stranger sneaking in from the pen, the two pigs seemed to realize that their time was approaching, so they screamed and bumped into each other in the pigsty, trying not to let anyone approach them.

In the small pen, there had to be more strong men to surround the pigs, grabbing the big pig's ears and tail and dragging them out of the pen.With so many people, Lu Lu couldn't interfere at all, so he just watched from outside the circle.

This pig is no more than a few people, so it gets up too fast, with its head facing outwards and its buttocks facing inwards, shrinking straight to the corner of the circle, unable to sit up, when it pulls its ears, it roars heartbreakingly, and when it is really anxious, it shakes its head. , pouted a few times, trying to shake off.

After more than a year of feeding, even domestic pigs have fangs protruding for a while, and they cannot be touched by them.

Regardless of the appearance of just over 200 kilograms, the strength is not small. From time to time, someone is thrown and staggers to the side, or is bumped into all over the place, causing bursts of laughter.

Several people finally dragged the pig to the slaughtering table that had been prepared in the yard, and quickly tied the four feet with a thick rope, and then found a thin rope, and stuck the fangs in the pig's mouth. With the pig's snout tied tightly in a circle, several people worked together to lift the pig onto the table and hold it down.

It only weighed more than 200 kilograms, and how could it be stronger than a few strong men, who were pinned down so hard that they couldn't move.

After hunting for such a long time, many wild boars died in Lu Lu's hands. However, Lu Lu has never done anything about killing domestic pigs, so when the pig butcher he invited was killing pigs, He watched most carefully.

It was a tall and rough man in the village, his surname was Liu, and his name was Liu Gensheng. He was in his 40s. It is said that he was the one who killed the pigs in the village when he was in the production team.

Maybe it's because the pigs have been killed too much, so they carry a bad spirit.

He held the rope that tied the pig's snout tightly in one hand, pulled the pig's head so that it wouldn't move around, and then took the knife and slammed it on the pig's trotters. When the pig howled, the knife quickly He stabbed it in from the pig's neck and stirred it a few times, and the blood spurted out, and a lot of it splashed on his body and face, and the evil spirit suddenly became heavier.

Under the pig's neck, a basin for receiving the blood has already been placed, and some water and salt are put in it. The pig's blood splashes into the basin, and someone stirs it with a clean stick from time to time.

Liu Gensheng's technique was very accurate, and the pig died not long after.

The rope binding the pig's feet was untied. Liu Gensheng wiped the knife repeatedly on the pig's body several times, and made a small cut on the hoof of a pig's foot. Tie Jin blew air into it until the pig swelled up like a balloon, then tied the opening for blowing air with a thin hemp rope, and then was carried aside, brought boiling hot water, and scalded while shaving.

Blowing air into the pig's body makes the pig swell up. When Lu Lu saw it for the first time in his previous life, he thought it was very strange, but now he is not surprised, it's just for shaving.

In fact, you don't need to blow air, just use hot water to shave, and it can be cleaned quickly.

However, it was because of blowing air that the finished pig looked straight, white and fat.

There were quite a lot of people, and when a few people were assigned to shave, the others went to catch the younger pig and start slaughtering it.

Lu Lu couldn't intervene before, but when it came time to open the intestines, he was of help. At any rate, he had also opened the intestines of many wild boars, and he was already proficient in his techniques.

The heart, lungs, intestines and stomachs that were picked up were sorted and put in basins. Naturally, someone took the intestines and dumped the stolen goods inside, turned them over and washed them, and kept them for blood sausage.

Cut off the pig's head and tail, remove the four legs, cut it in half along the pig's spine, and kill the pig.

At this time, Liu Gensheng came over with a knife, cut off a piece of fat from the pork loin, put it in his mouth and ate it raw, and kept praising the pork as delicious.

Seeing this scene, Lu Lu was speechless for a while.

He really couldn't associate raw pork with the word delicious, and seeing Liu Gensheng put the fatty meat in his mouth and swallowed it after chewing it, it seemed that it had nothing to do with delicious food. Otherwise, why not take a closer look.

It wasn't until Liu Gensheng went to the house to drink tea that a militia brother next to him said: "How could this raw meat be delicious? He obviously got the habit of slaughtering pigs for the production team when there was a shortage of oil and water a few years ago. At that time It is rare to get oil and water, and if you want to eat lard, you will kill pigs near the end of the year. He can use this method to get more oil and water.

It's not bad to be able to eat some soybean oil at ordinary times... If it were me, I wouldn't be able to eat it, but he can swallow it without frowning, which is considered amazing.Then again, if he didn't eat like this, he wouldn't be able to grow such a big man. "

Hearing this, Lu Lu also felt that it made sense.

The little daughter-in-law who came to Zhang Shaofeng's house to help also came over at this time to sort out the meat that needed to be used for cooking, and took it back to the house to prepare for lunch.

A pair of twins in Zhang Shaofeng's family followed around early on, and what they had been waiting for was the pig urine bubble.

This is a children's toy, take it out and blow it vigorously until it becomes chubby, and it is also tied with a thin hemp rope and placed on the snow, it can be kicked as a ball.

This year, two pigs were slaughtered, and two pig urine blisters were obtained. The two brothers got one, and when they got it, they ran out with it.

That is to say, Zhang Shaofeng’s family is willing to let their children play like this. Others will collect pig urine bubbles. After all, it is still meat. You can eat this thing, it is said that it can be cured.

Two pigs, more than a dozen men, the job was done in just over an hour, and the rest was sitting on the big kang, chatting, drinking tea, and waiting for lunch.

(End of this chapter)