Chapter 221: The Fishing Man has been trained since childhood
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lin’s father killed the pigs he had raised for a year, and a group of people came to help him early in the morning.
At this time, there were still many people in rural areas, and the Chinese New Year was also very lively.
Lin Heng was naturally among the people who were killing pigs. He spoke little, but the people in the village were very friendly, talking and laughing.
Uncle Lin Heng and his third uncle are also here. My uncle is also killing pigs today, so he didn't come.
Because killing pigs in rural areas depends on the good times, there are so many people killing pigs today that the three or four pig butchers in the village cannot be idle at all.
“It’s so hot that it’s still useful. How much did it cost?”
Lu Honghai, Lin Heng’s uncle, saw that Lin Heng was so hot that he almost burned and put it in the big wooden barrel. Li boiled the water and asked curiously.
“It’s not expensive, only two yuan.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
“It’s not expensive, it’s expensive, but it’s very useful. I’ll buy one later.”
Lu Honghai said with a smile.
“I’ll bring one back to you later.”
Lin Heng said with a smile.
On the other side, the pig butcher saw that the water had boiled and asked people to go to the back mountain to catch the pigs.
With heart-rending screams, the family's New Year pig was directly lifted to the chopping board, and the pig butcher stabbed into the aorta with a single knife.
The pig's blood was poured into a basin, and Lin Heng and others held it tightly. The children were all covered by the adults to prevent them from looking. Only some half-year-old children stood at the door of the yard and looked curiously.
After the blood was bled, the pig was directly carried into a large wooden barrel, boiled water was boiled, and the pig's hair was removed with a gentle hit with a hammer made of volcanic stone.
Not only half an hour later, a fat, white and tender pig appeared on top of the barrel, lying there upright with all four legs on the ground.
Cut the back of the pig open, put it in a wine cup, put rice in it, burn paper with pig money, and put a firecracker on it. This is not only to worship the gods and ancestors, but also to celebrate the harvest. I hope the pigs will still be willing to eat and grow in the coming year. , don't let anything go wrong.
The next step was to weigh it. The pig that Mother Lin had fed for a year was not small, weighing more than 230 kilograms.
After the weighing was over, it was the dissection session that everyone liked to see. The big fat pig was quickly divided into small pieces with the same technique as a butcher butting a cow.
People of all sizes gathered in a circle in the yard, all looking at the divisions, and from time to time they said some flattering words.
In this era, killing the New Year pig is also a great look forward to by men, women and children in the village, because this day is one of the few days when you can eat meat to your heart's content.
Everyone was filled with joy when they saw the pig being killed, and they were also very enthusiastic about helping.
After the pigs are killed, except for some that are kept fresh for the New Year, the rest are all salted, marinated overnight and then smoked on the stove to make bacon. Generally speaking, this is the future. The whole family eats meat for a year.
In this era, a rural family had at least five people. They only had one piece of pork a year, and they had to eat a large portion when entertaining guests during the New Year. The remaining bacon in the end might only be 1,670 kilograms.
Five or six people can only eat so much meat for the next year, which is really not much.
This is still a wealthy family. Some families don’t have that much food to feed pigs. A pig has to be fed for two years, so the meat is even more precious.
There are many people who feed a pig like this for two years. After all, everyone has to eat cornmeal, and what the pig eats is even less nutritious.
“Let’s eat!!”
With a shout, everyone walked into the house, waiting to eat meat.
The Lin family invited a lot of people today, and together with their own family members, the number reached twenty-three.
So two tables were set up, one for men who like to drink, and one for women and children. In the middle of the two tables, there was a large pot of spicy and sour fried lean meat.
Lin Heng naturally sat at the adults' table and took a few sips of wine. His target was meat, and the same was true for everyone else.
This fresh pork tastes much better than bacon, fragrant and chewy. In the past, this was the day he looked forward to the most.
This year I'm not that excited, I just think it tastes good.
After drinking two glasses of wine, Lin Heng stopped serving it. The pig butcher next to him smiled and said: "Boss Lin, please drink two more glasses. This is just enough. Don't ruin everyone's fun." Well."
"I've had enough to drink, and my dad is here to accompany you." Lin Heng waved his hand.
"This is ridiculous, your dad is drinking, but you are not drinking?"
This man likes to persuade people to drink, and he is holding a flask to try to get Lin Heng to drink again.
"I've eaten."
Lin Heng smiled slightly, got up and went to eat.
He drinks alcohol as he pleases, even if you are the Great Luo Immortal who comes to persuade him and refuses to drink.
The pig butcher felt a little embarrassed and could only shake his head: "Young people can't talk to us."
Then he poured wine for others, and Father Lin explained to him beside him, saying Lin Heng couldn't drink and so on.
Everyone was drinking happily, and no one seemed to care.
While Lin Heng was holding a bowl to eat, Lin’s mother brought out steamed pork. This is a unique steamed pork made of cornmeal and fatty meat slices. It is deeply loved by the older generation in rural areas. For Lin For a long time, it was too boring and I had no appetite at all.
After breakfast, everyone rested for a while and then went to Lin Yue's house to kill pigs. Many people took the opportunity to go to Lin Heng's house to see the three-wheeled motorcycle he bought. They were talking and envious while looking at it.
Lin Heng was not in the house and took Xiaoxia for a walk on the road. Xiulan went out and locked the door quickly while everyone was watching.
After his eldest brother Lin Yue’s pigs were killed, it was already past two o’clock in the afternoon, and the pig butcher left in a hurry. He had another pig to kill today.
"Which couplet do you think is better?"
In the study, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and asked.
After killing the pig, there was nothing to do, so the two of them cut the red paper and started writing couplets.
I must have bought brushes, inkstones and ink blocks last time I went to town.
Xiulan wore a red cotton-padded jacket with plum blossoms printed on it. Her hair was tied into a ponytail and tied down from her left shoulder. She sat on the newly made official hat chair next to her and polished her ink for Lin Heng.
Hearing Lin Heng's question, she looked up at the Spring Festival couplet collection Lin Heng opened. There were various Spring Festival couplets on it.
Lin Heng doesn't care about this, it all depends on her choice.
The four gates of his house require four couplets. The characters on the couplets are not uncommon, and Xiulan knows them all.
"These are the four pairs." Xiulan chose four seven-character couplets, which sounded simple.
Lin Heng folded the red couplet paper into seven grids and thought about writing it. The first one was used on the front door.
The upper couplet fills the door with blessings and the warm spring air, the lower couplet means a clear stream of water, and the horizontal line means welcoming the new year.
While Lin Heng was writing, Xiaoxia also came over to watch, very curious. Lin Heng's hands were shaking a little when his wife and daughter looked at him, but after all, he had practiced regular script for a long time and still wrote it down very smoothly.
“It’s beautiful and very upright.”
When Xiulan saw Lin Heng finished writing, she immediately praised.
It’s not that she is lying with open eyes, but Lin Heng is not bad at all compared to the village party secretary and other people in the village who often write couplets. He is upright and beautiful.
Xiaoxia didn't quite understand, but she still praised the team members: "It looks good, it looks so good."
Lin Heng laughed, his confidence greatly increased, and he wrote the remaining three couplets in one breath. I put the couplets on the ground to dry, and when I was about to write some blessing characters, I heard the shouts of my father and elder brother outside.
"I'll open the door."
Xiulan stopped grinding her ink, turned around and went out to open the door.
After a while, Lin Heng saw his father and elder brother coming in carrying meat.
Xiulan said on the side: "I said we have meat at home, and my dad and eldest brother insisted on bringing some." "Yours are all made into bacon, which is fresh. Besides, you don't eat it. Your mother Caiyun and I Even three people can’t finish it,” Father Lin said with a smile.
"You said, there is no need to be polite between us." Lin Yue also said with a smile.
Each of them took two pieces of pork, one piece weighed more than ten kilograms, and two pieces weighed nearly thirty kilograms.
"Don't worry, I won't be polite." Lin Heng said with a smile. There was no need to be polite to his family, he took the meat directly.
His eldest brother and father were extremely happy with Lin Heng's attitude.
Lin Yue saw Lin Heng's couplet and was surprised: "Brother, did you write this?"
Lin Heng was a little happy: "I'm sure, the ink hasn't even dried yet, you guys If not, I’ll write a few for you too.”
“Of course, my brother, you can write these couplets very well.”
“It’s similar to the village party secretary’s handwriting. Yes." Father Lin also affirmed.
Lin Heng asked them to select a few pictures from the Spring Festival couplet collection, and then cut the couplet paper with Xiulan. Xiulan began to write ink while Lin Heng began to write. Lin's father and elder brother watched from a distance. After a while, a couplet was completed.
“Not bad, not bad.”
“It’s so beautiful!”
Lin Yue and his father praised them while helping to take the Spring Festival couplets away to dry.
After a while, Lin Heng finished writing the couplet and also wrote some blessing characters.
While gathering around the brazier to warm themselves up, Lin's father suggested that everyone have a reunion dinner at the old house, to which Lin Heng and his eldest brother agreed without any hesitation.
Lin Heng even said directly: "How about this, Dad, you can just merge with us during the Chinese New Year. You can eat here every day and sleep in the old house."
"Yeah, it's easy to arrange a guest like this." Xiulan also said with a smile.
Lin Yue shook his head and said, "That's not possible. Let's have a meal as a family."
Father Lin couldn't express what he felt when he saw his two sons vying to let him go to his home first. Happy, but with a serious face shaking his head: "Then you might as well come over and eat."
After a pause, he smiled and said: "Let's talk about it then. Everyone eats it, but I have to go over to eat tonight. Your mother has already prepared the meal."
"Okay then. Ah." Lin Heng agreed immediately without any hesitation.
After putting away the dried couplets and feeding the livestock and pets at home, Lin Heng took Xiaoxia Xiulan over for dinner.
The next day, on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Heng drove a three-wheeled motorcycle and took Xiulan and Xiaoxia to the town.
The penultimate market day at the end of the year is extremely lively. It can be said that there are so many people, and at a glance there are all densely packed heads.
Lin Heng parked the car in front of the store, Xiaoxia also let Wang Zhou watch, and then went shopping with Xiulan.
When I went to the street today, the main things I bought were pig heads, large intestines, small intestines, and pig stomachs. There were also mutton and beef sellers on the street, and they bought some. Finally, they bought some fruits and candies. There was no shortage of anything else, and they had already bought enough.
Firecrackers and fireworks are available in your store, so you don’t need to buy them.
After finishing shopping, it was only ten o'clock. Lin Heng had known that this would happen, so he specially took the fishing rod.
Take Xiulan Xiaoxia to go fishing by the river. Today there is rare sunshine and the river is quite warm. In winter, the grass on the riverbed is withered and yellow.
"Is this really possible to catch?"
Xiulan touched the water and was a little confused.
Lin Heng nodded confidently: "Of course it's possible. I'll make it for you. You just need to swing the pole and lift it up."
He first prepared the homemade wine rice I took it out and made a small nest. The wine and rice cost a lot. They used honey, white wine, sugar and many other things. Xiulan said that it was better for fish than for people.
Fortunately, it was Xiulan. If his mother saw him trashing things like this, she would have to beat him.
Xiulan nodded. If Lin Heng wanted to fish, she would accompany him. However, she was not ready to take action. She pointed at Xiaoxia and said, "Then you can fish. I'm looking at Xiaoxia. The water is deep in the river."
Lin Heng didn’t force anything, so he beat some wine and rice, hung earthworms on two purple bamboo fishing poles, threw them into the water and waited.
While waiting for the nest for half an hour, the three of them sat on the big black stone by the river to bask in the sun. When it was almost done, Lin Heng went to go fishing. Xiulan took Xiaoxia and sat beside her to watch. .
It is a pity that there are few fishermen on this river. Otherwise, I would be so jealous when I see this scene. It would be impossible for my wife to accompany me fishing.
However, today’s fish did not show any respect. Lin Hengtou fished for half an hour, but there was no movement at all.
"I'll try another place."
Lin Heng had already guessed that this might happen and made three nests.
After teasing the second nest for a while, he saw the mouth, and a small crucian carp flew up directly from him.
“I said you can catch it, right?” Lin Heng turned around and smiled.
"It's not bad, but not as big as the one you caught last time." Xiulan took the bucket of fish over, put the fish in and put it aside for Xiaoxia to see.
"Little fish!"
Xiaoxia was teasing the little fish in the water with a reed.
“There will be big ones soon.”
Lin Heng is full of confidence. Isn’t fishing in this era just a matter of skill?
However, in the next half hour, he only caught six small crucian carp, two ounces in size, which made him doubt his life.
But he didn't care. He looked at Xiulan's boredom and said with a smile: "Honey, come and play."
"Just play, I'm picking up stones." Xiulan shook her hand. On a small round stone.
Lin Heng pulled her over and said with a smile: "Come on, you play, I'm tired."
Being held up by Lin Heng, Xiulan had no choice but to take the fishing rod. Experience this game like never before.
“Dad, I also want to fish.”
When Xiaoxia saw her mother going to play, she also shouted to play and acted coquettishly with Lin Heng.
"Okay, okay, you come to play too, but you can't go to the river."
Lin Heng gave her another purple bamboo fishing rod.
"Okay."
Xiaoxia nodded seriously and looked at the water.
Lin Heng replaced Xiulan and Xiaoxia's fishhook with new earthworms, then watched and taught them how to fish.
After about three minutes, there was still no movement on Xiulan's side, and the fishing line on Xiaoxia's side was pulled into the water a lot.
"The fish is caught, Xiaoxia!"
Lin Heng said, holding Xiaoxia's hand and completing the action of stabbing the fish.
“Fish, big fish fish!!”
Xiaoxia ran back excitedly while lifting the pole. After a while, a small crucian carp was pulled out of the water by her and rolled on the water.
Lin Heng pulled the fishing line and took out the crucian carp. Xiaoxia looked at it several times, then urged Lin Heng: "Dad, we still want to fish!"
The little fisherman already liked it I learned about the sport of fishing and was shocked by this tiny fish.
(End of this chapter)