Early in the morning, Li Long and Li Anguo, the four old men, called for breakfast and then led the wild boar to Li's house.
For the convenience of killing the pig, this wild boar had been driven into a separate pen yesterday and was not fed this morning, so it was relatively easy to tie it with a rope and lead it away.
Uncle Luo went to Li's house after he had finished feeding the things he had raised.
The two stoves in the Li family's yard are now burning, and the pots above are full of water. The water is steaming. Although it is not on, it should not be far off for a long time.
Lu Yingming, who is opposite the door, is already in the yard, chatting with Li Jianguo.
Seeing Li Long and the others coming, they all said hello.
Liang Yuemei came out of the house and greeted people with a smile. Li Juan was washing pickled vegetables in the house, while Li Qiang happily pulled the corner of Li Long's clothes and asked questions.
After a while, the pig butcher Wang Caimi rushed over with his set of knives. Seeing so many people in the yard, he immediately smiled:
“It’s safe this time. Old man Brother Li, when I saw your pig earlier, I thought that only three or five people could not hold it down, but you killed two of them at once. br>Li Jianguo smiled and said:
"This year, if nothing else, we just have so many people!"
This is the truth.
A door panel has been padded with adobe wood next to the pig pen. The pig slaughter will be done later. Next to it is a pile of grass, low in the middle and high on both sides. After the pigs are killed, they will be scalded, shaved and cleaned here.
People come one after another. Some people were called by Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei, while others came spontaneously. No matter how you come, you are all guests, and the Li family welcomes you. No one will be chased away on this day.
Most of the women who came here brought teapots, which they would use to boil water for scalding pig hair later.
"Brother Li, if your family slaughters pigs next year, you will have to call two pig butchers." Wang Caimi was the loudest in the yard. He was the protagonist today and he was in high spirits.
Chen Xingbang looked at Wang Caimin for a while, and then whispered to Li Long:
"Xiaolong, in fact, I can kill pigs in my hometown..."
"That's true. ?" Li Long was a little surprised, and then the memories of his previous life came back to him. Chen Xingbang later settled here, and after selling the bottles, he killed cattle and sheep there for a long time.
Then killing pigs shouldn’t be a problem, right?
"Of course it's true." Chen Xingbang nodded and said, "It's just that we don't have anyone on hand right now."
"That's easy. I'll go to the blacksmith shop to get you a set this afternoon. There are still a lot of pigs at home. ," Li Long said with a smile, "You can kill him."
"That's okay - I just think he talks too much!"
Li Long understood what Chen Xingbang said, just like Wen Wu. The first martial art is not the same as the second one. The technical skills of killing pigs are also looked down upon by each other, just like literati look down upon each other.
Wang Caimi is currently the number one pig butcher in the team. When killing pigs, he is naturally the leader. At least today everyone respects him. He has some big words that others don’t. You might think something is wrong, because they have the technology.
Even if he talked about Li Long and teased him today, Li Long wouldn't think there was anything wrong.
But Chen Xingbang, who is also able to kill pigs, will feel uncomfortable. It is not a matter of character or personality, but simply the misalignment caused by this "industry".
"The people are almost here, get ready to slaughter!" Wang Caimi looked at the many people in the yard and said, "Two pigs, time is not short."
"Then first Kill this wild boar." Li Long pointed at them and brought them over. The wild boar said, "It just happened to be tied, so it's not a hassle."
When he said this, others naturally had no objection. Five or six people came up and immediately surrounded the tied wild boar and brought it down with ropes. He tied his three legs and carried him to the case.
"Pull the head out, otherwise it will be inconvenient to stab and collect blood later." Wang Caimi directed the person pressing the pig.
The wild boar probably knew that his deadline was up today, and kept roaring with a very bright voice. Both Li Junfeng and Tao Daqiang who were pressing their heads turned their heads away. It was really irritating to the ears.
When the Li family got the New Year pig before the Chinese New Year, the wild boar was a dead thing that Li Long brought back. Although everyone ate wild boar, the thing was dead and they didn't feel the power.
The people who pressed the pig today really felt the power of the wild boar - five or six people held down a wild boar weighing less than 100 kilograms, and they felt as if the wild boar could escape at any time!
“This wild boar is so powerful!” Lu Yingming, who was holding a leg behind him, sighed, “Wang Caimi, be careful, don’t let his hoof kick you, it’s really hard. Your leg will be lame for half a month!”
"Don't worry, I can still let it pedal?" Wang Caimi spoke loudly, but acted very carefully.
Sister-in-law Lu, who was collecting pig blood, came over with a basin. Wang Caimi asked her to stand aside while he gestured at the wild boar's neck with his knife.
The wild boar suddenly stopped barking. Wang Caimi saw the right opportunity and pierced it with a knife.
It can be called "stable, accurate and ruthless"!
After piercing it from the neck, he stirred it up before preparing to draw the knife.
Before the knife was drawn out, a stream of blood had already flowed out.
Sister-in-law Lu squatted there, leaning back and holding a basin to collect blood.
The noodles and salt have been put in the blood basin. This is for steaming the pig blood buns in the evening.
Just when everyone thought that the matter was basically over, and were waiting to skin the wild boar after bleeding, the wild boar suddenly raised its head, let out an "ouch", flicked its neck, and the knife broke away directly. He grabbed Wang Caimi's hand and was thrown out by the wild boar!
The wild boar's huge resistance almost knocked over the person holding it down, and it ran out on its own! The thrown butcher knife landed in the snowdrift five or six meters away, leaving the handle outside.
Wang Caimi was also startled and took several steps back before regaining his composure.
Fortunately, everyone who pressed the pig at this time knew that the pig would never let go until it was completely dead, so the wild boar struggled desperately but did not break free. After the knife flew out, a large amount of blood spurted out. It came out and got into the basin, and a lot of it fell outside.
As the blood drained, the wild boar struggled again. This time, the strength was much weaker, and it was easily pushed back.
The blood slowly stopped flowing. At this time, Wang Caimi came back to his senses and said to the person pressing the pig: "Press hard and let all the blood come out as much as possible, otherwise it will flow into the cavity and wash away all the blood." Not easy to wash. ”
After a few minutes, the wild boar stopped moving completely.
Li Long did not take action. There were many people pressing the pigs, and he could not intervene, so he followed Gu Xiaoxia and watched from behind. When the knife flew out just now, he protected Gu Xiaoxia and took a few steps back, earning Gu Xiaoxia's warm smile.
"Okay, I have to go up next." Li Long said to Gu Xiaoxia, "Please go into the house and warm up for a while."
"I will go to the kitchen to help my sister-in-law..." Gu Xiaoxia I don’t want to be an outsider.
"I don't think I need your help. There are quite a few people here today..." Li Long just said one sentence and went to the wild boar.
Wild boars do not shave, they need to be skinned. Li Long is relatively familiar with skinning.
He took the knife he had sharpened long ago, bent down and started to act in the wild boar.
First cut off the pig's head and put it aside, then cut a large piece of meat from the neck. Yang Yongqiang over there was about to take it. Li Long waved his hand and said:
"Wait a minute. I peeled off the skin on my neck." He used a knife to not only cut off the fur, but also cut off the lymph and other things. This thing is really inedible. At this time, people are not particular about it, but Li Long responded.
The pig belongs to his family, so no one else has any objection to what he does with it.
After finishing it, Yang Yongqiang immediately took the meat in. It needed to be cut into pieces as soon as possible and then stewed with sauerkraut. The stewing time was not short.
"Wang Caimi, you made a mistake this time." Lu Yingming was older and joked, "I didn't expect you to make a mistake sometimes."
"Who would have thought of this wild boar? It’s so strong!” Wang Caimi tried to compensate for himself, “But it’s so strong, the meat will be delicious after a while!”
Li Long laughed after hearing this. Wild boar meat is not very popular these days. After all, it has less fat and is relatively woody. Of course, it would definitely be okay to stew it with the domestic pigs that will be slaughtered later.
He asked people to carry the wild boar to another case, where it was skinned and disemboweled. There was another group of people there who followed Li Jianguo's instructions and began to pull pigs out of the pig pen and prepare to kill another pig.
This is the advantage of having so many people. Although it is freezing and snowy now, the yard is very lively and everyone is not too cold. It is just a bit colder. There are two stoves there, so you can just keep yourself warm.
Usually when there is such a stove, someone will definitely want to roast a potato or something, but today no one has such an idea, they all want to have a good meal of meat later. Have a nice meal of meat.
Steamed buns are steaming on the stove in the room. The steamed buns still need to be freshly steamed to be delicious, and Liang Yuemei was already preparing to put the steamed buns in Teng's place. The wild boar's butt meat over there has been cut into mahjong-sized cubes, and a large basin of sauerkraut has been prepared, waiting for the other pig's butt head meat to arrive.
Li Long was skinning, and several people were watching and admiring. Who would have thought that Li Long, so young, could skin a wild boar so neatly?
After skinning the wild boar, the domestic pig over there screamed, and then entered the stage of collecting blood. Compared to the wild boar's desperate struggle, the domestic pig's final efforts were nothing to mention, and it was easily dealt with by the cautious Wang Caimi.
The domestic pig's trough meat was quickly sent to the kitchen. Here Li Long also started to disembowel it, and the domestic pig over there officially started shaving.
Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang were waiting here with large pots. Li Long took out the two pots of semen from the wild boar's belly and asked them to take them for disposal. A woman has already come over to the kitchen, carrying livers, lungs, hearts and other things to cut and prepare for stir-fry.
The butchered vegetables here are different from those in the Northeast. Stewed pork with sauerkraut is the main course, followed by stir-fried pork liver with bean sprouts, stir-fried pig heart with celery, and when it is empty, you can also make soy pork bones - it depends on the choice. The number of stoves at home, after all, if there is only one stove for cooking, two or three main dishes will be enough.
These days, having one very popular dish can satisfy the guests.
Li Long didn’t think so. Since everyone is cheering, let’s stew the ribs again.
There isn't much suet in the wild boar, which is used to steam the pig blood buns. The wild boar has three fingers of fat, which is already very good.
While Li Long was breaking down the wild boar meat, someone had already come over and asked:
"Xiaolong, weigh two kilograms of meat for me. The kid at home is hungry for meat."
"I'll get two kilograms too."
"Get me a leg! Thanks to Xiaolong, I have some money left this year. I need to have a good meal this winter." Someone was very generous. said, and everyone else laughed.
There were many people weighing meat, and Li Long became busy again.
I can feel that everyone’s feeling of eating meat is obviously much better than last year. I did make some money this year.
The happiness in life is really increasing.
When the intestines and stomach of the wild boar were washed out, more than half of the wild boar was weighed away.
Not only this wild boar, but more than half of the domestic pigs were also bought by others - most of the meat buyers came over and bought the meat directly, and then left in a hurry. Although Li Jianguo and Li Long repeatedly asked people to stay and have something to eat, everyone still politely refused.
The Li family's house is so big that it can't accommodate so many people. (End of this chapter)