Chapter 151 [151] Killing the Year Pig (3000)

The tofu business continued until the 28th day of the New Year. After selling it that day, they started to steam buns, steamed buns, bean buns, fried meatballs, rice cakes and other New Year goods. When the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhuo Dajun took a holiday and found Lao Zhang, the butcher in the village, to their house to kill pigs.

Pig killing is a very important thing in the countryside. Their pigs are obviously 130 to 40 kilograms. After all, food is short, so it is not easy to feed them to this level.

The pig you want to kill will be separated out a few days before killing, so you can't feed it anymore, so as to avoid too much feces when killing.

Zhuo Lin considered herself not the Virgin, but seeing that the pig that had been fed for a year was about to be slaughtered by them, she still sighed and felt sorry for the pig.

If you want to say that this pig killing is a skill, it is not something that everyone can do.

Lao Zhang's family was a butcher since the Republic of China and was very experienced. As early as the middle of the twelfth lunar month, after the factory schedule came out, my father had already agreed with them to come to their house to kill pigs. After all, during the Chinese New Year, they were very busy.

The morning when you kill pigs, you have to invite someone to come to your house for dinner, because they have to work for most of your day, so this etiquette must be done properly.

So the breakfast on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month was very rich. Not only did the pickled rice-flowered fish, but also steamed buns with steamed cabbage, vermicelli tofu, plus water fermented black beans made of soybeans. Tao Yi tried to make this water fermented black beans, but he didn't expect it to be successful in one go. The taste was very good. He put the rice in and marinated for a month or two, and added the flavor. After a clip of the steamed bun, it was delicious.

Lao Zhang was obviously satisfied with the quality of the breakfast arranged by their family, because he also ate a boiled egg in the end. He was so powerful that he naturally could not lose his chain.

So after dinner, I immediately boiled a large pot of hot water, which was used to remove pig hair.

It is impossible to kill a pig alone. Fortunately, there are many men in their family and their brothers have already had a vacation. The tofu during this period was made by the brothers. It is precisely because of the help of the brothers that the tofu business during the Chinese New Year can be provided.

My father helped Lao Zhang. Seeing that his elder brother and second brother were quick and powerful, he also slipped over to help catch the pig.

The head of Lao Zhang was in charge of the matter, so he took the lead. Dad, eldest brother, second brother, and uncle of the Chu family next door, and brother also came to help. Five or six people participated to catch the pig. After the grasp, Lao Zhang tied the pig's front and back legs with a pig's trotter, lifted the pig with a shoulder pole, and used a pig's weight to weigh it. It was actually about 150 kilograms, which was more than ten kilograms than the visually measured one. It seemed that the pig in their family did not eat so much rotten water, rice bran, and wheat bran in vain.

Even the bean dregs are not fed to them every day, so how luxurious?

During the difficult times, their family could only make it through by eating bean dregs, so the bean dregs were just symbolically mixed with some of them.

The rest were mixed with flour by my mother and made into bean dregs and dried. This could be stored for a long time, or steamed with rice, boiled with rice, and boiled into rice soup. In short, their bean dregs were not wasted at all, and they were eaten. Instead, the real grains were stored if they could be stored, and if they could not be stored, they were asked to sell them in the market.

Because grain is mainly expensive and fine grains, they can be sold for a lot of money. They use the money they sell to buy some coarse grains. The fine grains saved by the family are usually made for children who have grown up every now and then, and the children are not picky about it. What the adults in the family do or what they eat. They who survived hunger know better than anyone else about the preciousness of food and will never waste a grain of food.

Zhuo Lin looked at the pigs lying on the wooden table in the yard, and several people held the pig down. Listening to the heart-wrenching sound of the pigs, the pigs in the pigpen began to become manic and uneasy. Although they had blocked the scene with things, they could not block the sound.

Lao Zhang held a sharp knife in his hand and inserted it hard. The tip of the knife should be accurately pierced into the heart so that the blood flows as quickly as possible, and the pig dies quickly, reducing its pain. Then the elder brother took a pot and placed a bowl of salt water and bamboo. Lao Zhang pulled the sharp knife out of the pig's throat. The elder brother immediately connected the pot, and the pig's blood would gush out and flow into the pot along the table.

The eldest brother kept stirring the bamboo in his hand to prevent the pig's blood from coagulating, and the blood was about half a basin, and the flow rate was reduced to nothing, and the pig would die.

At this time, Lao Zhang untied the pig's trotter buckles tied to the front and rear legs, cut a hole with a knife on a pig's hind legs, and then inserted it into the hole with a pig's strip, and stabbed it to all parts of the pig's body, such as the root of the ear, the lower neck, the back, and other skin and flesh.

Then, he aimed his mouth at the hole on the pig's hind legs and blew it. The air went in the passage through which the pig was inserted. After a while, he tied the hole with a rope and beat the pig with a stick. The air colluded between the pig's skin and the meat, and the pig seemed fat. This was done to make it easier to get rid of hair.

Finally, blow the pig into a fat, spread its four hooves, then tie the hole in the pig's hind legs, lift the pig into a large pot of hot water, and remove the pig's hair. The hair is to pour the hot water that is about to bloom on all parts of the pig's body, and then use the scraping to shave down. You can also pull it down directly with your hands. In a short while, the hair will fade away.

This is the first time Zhuo Lin saw pig killing. She was shocked and it was also very fresh. It turned out that people said that pig killing is a skilled job, which is really true.

After that, everyone lifted the pig with hair onto the chopping board. Lao Zhang first cut off half of the pig's head along the neck, tied a lump in the esophagus to prevent the food in the stomach from flowing out, then cut open the chest cavity, and put a few bowls of blood in the cavity, put it in the blood basin, take out the heart, liver, lungs and so on, and then drain the intestines and stomach into a large basin.

After the pig is removed from the eight pieces, it is treated as a waste.

First, find out the esophagus on the stomach, separate the stomach (stomach), find the connection with the small intestine, cut it, then cut the stomach, pour out the remaining feces, rinse it with hot water, put it aside, then cut the small intestine into several sections, rinse it with hot water, turn it over and rinse it with hot water, remove the feces, tie it with rope, and put it aside for later use. This can be used to make sausage casings.

Finally, there is the large intestine. A layer of mesh-shaped oil is wrapped around the large intestine, commonly known as water oil. The pig killer slowly peels off the oil, takes out the large intestine, peels it one by one, and takes it one by one. After taking it out, I took the large intestine and poured it in with hot water, pinched the two ends with my hands and kept shaking it. When I felt that it was almost done, I loosened one end and poured out the feces.

The intestines are put in a basket, and after pouring them all, they are taken to the river along with their stomach and small intestines, and rinsed them thoroughly with water flow...

The pigs from my uncle's family were not killed, so they were sold when they were raised to 100 or 200 kilograms. The money they sold was shared. After all, the more they killed, they couldn't finish them.

Twenty-nine this day is the busiest day of the year in their family. In the morning, they slaughter pigs, washed the sausages in the afternoon, cut the meat and marinated them, and started making sausages, making them into two flavors: five-spice and spicy. They used lean meat and fat meat to marinate them together. The pork belly with fat and thinness is temporarily marinated with salt and used to cook during the Chinese New Year.

Pig elbows, pig trotters, pig tails, pig heads, and pig internal organs are put directly into a large pot to start making. Tao Yi was directing him, and it seemed very experienced in putting the seasonings and how much to put it, just like a chef.

The rest of the meat is left to make sausages, and the rest is made into smoked bacon.

Twenty-nine I was busy until dark before I started making dinner. One of the essential items for supper is pig blood. Fry a plate of pig blood with garlic sprouts, and slice the braised meat and dip it in garlic sauce. It tastes great.

I couldn't finish the pig blood and gave it to the Chu family. The Chu family did not kill pigs this year because the pigs didn't grow very big, so I'll talk about it when they grow to the right pound.

If someone comes to their house to buy meat, it depends on whether there is any remaining family. Because there are many children in the family and the two families are divided, my father will directly say sorry to the big guys outside, and his own pigs are not available for takeout.

Pig heads are the most difficult part to sort out, and it is very troublesome to clean, but the taste of braised is very good, but Zhuo Lin doesn't taste very good. The main reason is that there are too few seasonings in this era. The soy sauce I bought is not fried sugar color, and there is no combination of dozens of spices. The taste is definitely not satisfactory, but compared with the characteristics of the era, it is quite good to be able to achieve this level.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, the two families merged two tables and sat in the main hall to celebrate the New Year.

There were steamed mixed grain steamed buns, white bread, and stewed stewed dishes on the table, including tofu, cabbage, vermicelli, meatballs, pork belly, and pork blood. The fragrant people drool.

There are also skin jelly made of pork skin and cold meat made of pork head. Basically, except for sausage, pork liver, and pig trotters, they are also braised and hot and placed on the table. They are mixed with garlic juice. They can dip them in the taste. Just looking at it, I drool. Zhuo Lin never ate fat meat before, but now I think fat meat is so fragrant. My mother also used this fat meat to boil a pot of pork oil in a clay pot, which has been passed through for almost two years. This is the most meaningful and happy Spring Festival.

That night, Zhuo Lin received the New Year's money given by her parents and aunt, but the aunt gave the most, which was actually 2 cents. Her mother only gave the first cents, and her father also had 1 cents. In this way, she had 30 cents, but she didn't know that each of her brothers had only 5 cents of New Year's money, and hers had the most.

Zhuojian's New Year's money was coaxed away by his brothers before he could even heat up in his pocket. This kid had no idea about money. When his brother scrambled him to give it to him happily. It was so easy to cheat.

Brother Tao Yi also has New Year's money, and it is the same for his brothers. However, he didn't want it, and stuffed it into Zhuo Lin's small pocket. Zhuo Lin didn't want it, so he stuffed it, saying that when the peddler comes back, he could exchange it for sugar beans.

Although it was only 10 cents or 5 cents, Zhuo Lin was not polite to receive her own bag. Her brothers came over to ask her how much money she had. She didn't even say it secretly, and she felt more and more that she seemed to have to start saving money.
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