Chen Xingbang was indeed good at killing pigs. When the first pig was held down by Li Anguo, Li Junfeng, Li Junshan and the others, it was still barking. Chen Xingbang looked at the exact position, held down the pig's head and stabbed it in with a knife. Liang Yuemei was squatting aside and putting a basin under the pig's head. Chen Xingbang just Pulling the knife slightly, a stream of blood spurted out and fell into the basin.
The pig struggled violently, and almost at the same time Chen Xingbang shouted:
"Press it!"
Several people pressed the pig hard at the same time, and the pig violently He leaned back but did not struggle. Chen Xingbang did not pull out the knife immediately. He pulled it out a little more and held it back at the same time. The blood spurted out again.
After Chen Xingbang completely pulled out the knife, the pig was only twitching.
Li Long looked at it and felt that Chen Xingbang was more experienced in killing pigs than Wang Caimi.
Basically, no blood was wasted at all. The knife hit the heart at once, and the pig struggled the most at the beginning. After that, it lost all strength, and it was easy to press the pig.
Li Long guessed that Wang Caimi's killing of the pig should actually be a way of selling it. It turned out that it might be two knives, but no one else had killed it before, so the matter fell on him.
There are no heroes, so Zhuzi became famous, that's probably what it means.
Of course, in the last life, Wang Caimi could be called a craftsman by killing pigs. After all, dozens of pigs were given to him for training every year, and he was still able to practice.
For ordinary people, there are only two things to kill this thing. The first is to overcome it and dare to do it. Most people can still kill chickens and ducks, but they may not dare to kill larger pigs and sheep. The main reason is that they have compassion and cannot bear to see them die.
This does not exist for Li Long.
The second is whether it can hit the vital point - this is what Li Long was looking at just now. The position and angle of the knife are very important. When drawing the knife, timing and how to get the most blood flow are also a matter of skill and proficiency.
Li Long plans to try the next pig.
Once the pig is killed, the next step is to shave and disembowel it. At this time, the pig is killed and blown a bit to make the pig swell up and make it easier to shave. Li Long was responsible for watering it, and Chen Xingbang was responsible for scraping it.
After they had shaved off the pig's hair, opened its chest, and prepared to wash its intestines, Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang came over with a donkey cart.
Li Jianguo greeted him and chatted with Tao Jianshe. This was agreed yesterday, today we will weigh half a pig.
Tao Daqiang walked up to Li Long and said hello:
"Brother Long." Then he greeted the others one by one.
"How are the preparations going?" Li Long said with a smile, "Do you need to build a stove in your yard? Do you want help?"
"No, no, no. Our yard has been sorted out now, and the two stoves will be built in the next two days."
"Have you bought all the other things?"
"Most of them have been bought. ." Tao Daqiang answered the teacher's question. Same, "We can put things away, but we haven't started soaking yet."
"Have you invited the chef?"
"Please invite Lao Huang and Lao Dong from our team. I took the pork back today and started preparing it.”
It’s not a good idea to open a banquet in winter, as some dishes will get cold quickly after being served. But there is no way this year. The whole autumn is harvesting, then dividing the land, and then winter sowing, and then reeding. One thing after another, even if Tao Daqiang’s family holds a banquet at that time, I am afraid that the villagers will Not many people went.
It can only be put in winter.
But it would be nice to have a banquet these days. Not many people would care if it is winter. What you eat in your mouth is meat, even if it is cold, it is still meat, right?
When the team holds a banquet, there are usually chefs in the village. Making rural banquets is basically a layman's job for ordinary people. But these master chefs basically all worked as chefs when the team ran a collective cafeteria. They all know what to cook, how to cook it, how to prepare it, and how much ingredients to prepare.
When he was catching fish a few days ago, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to pick up a bag of carp. He would take this thing back and make it into braised whole fish when the banquet begins. It would be a metaphor that is very good, and Very hard dish.
Of course, for this kind of hard food, people in this village will basically not eat fish from outside unless they host a banquet. There is no way, the fish in Xiaohaizi have whetted my appetite. Most of the carp, silver carp and the like outside are farmed fish, and the taste is really incomparable.
"Xiaolong, split the pig open and weigh it on the scale. Daqiang's father will take it back to clean up right away."
"Okay." Li Long found an axe. , split the pig on the table from back to front, one axe at a time.
"Xiaolong is so powerful. This ax doesn't come back all at once. He's really good at it!" Tao Jianshe praised Li Long as he watched Li Long's movements.
"Haha, he is used to getting those wild animals in the mountains." Li Jianguo was very happy, and he felt a sense of accomplishment when he praised Li Long.
Soon, the pig was split into two fans. Li Long stepped aside and let Tao Jianshe choose which fan he wanted. After choosing, he went on the scale.
"Fifty-six kilograms." Li Long said after looking at the number.
"Okay." Tao Jianshe smiled, "This fat is not thin, at least three fingers...Old Li, your pigs have been fed well this year!"
"That's not true. !" Li Jianguo was also very proud, "What happened last year? I've been suffering from diarrhoea for more than half a year, and this year it finally got better."
Tao Jianshe knew he was talking about superstitious pigs, so he smiled and said, "That was just an accident. I think your family's life will get better in the future. It’s getting better.”
After weighing the meat, Tao Jianshe paid on the spot. Li Jianguo paid him one yuan and a half. Tao Jianshe shied away and agreed.
We have a good relationship with each other. If others give us face, then we can just take care of it. At most, we can just let Da Qiang follow Li Long and work hard later.
Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang took the meat away, and the Li family continued to process the meat. People came over one after another to continue weighing the meat. After Li Junshan and Li Junfeng turned over the intestines, Li Long hitched the carriage and went to get a wild boar to kill.
“I’ll give it a try this time.” Li Long said to Chen Xingbang, “Brother-in-law, please give me some advice.”
"Then you still need to give me advice?" That's what Chen Xingbang said, but he stood directly next to Li Long, really intending to give advice.
He also admired Li Long's hunting stories. Although he didn't watch them, to be honest, the wild boars and deer raised in Lao Ma's house were enough to show his strength.
But hunting uses a gun and killing pigs uses a knife. They are different. Therefore, Chen Xingbang did not think that Li Long would be perfect when he killed a pig like this for the first time, so he meant it more to save the situation.
The wild boar was pulled out of the pen and started to flap. The three young men tried hard to hold it down - although this pig was smaller than the last slaughtered domestic pig, it was much stronger.
It seems that domestic wild boars are also wild boars!
Fortunately, the three young men were very energetic. The wild boar was hooked on the iron hook and had no way to break free. In the end, it was pinned down and tied up by the three men and dragged to Li's house.
The Li family plans to keep two sows for other pigs, and take the rest directly to the purchasing station to be weighed and sold alive.
This is convenient.
The wild boar pressed against the case, and Li Long washed its neck. He probably knew what he was going to face next, so the wild boar struggled desperately.
Li Long held the butcher's knife in his hand, found the right place, pressed the pig's head without any hesitation, and stabbed it in with one stroke.
"Ouch——!"
The wild boar's voice is much louder than that of domestic pigs. Chen Xingbang shouted:
"Press OK!"
When the wild boar barked His body had already straightened up. Li Long was holding the knife in one hand and pressing the pig's head desperately with the other. Li Anguo, Li Junfeng, and Li Junshan were pressing the pig tightly. Li Junshan's body was almost pressing on the wild boar.
Li Long didn't dare to neglect. He pulled back the knife in his hand and stopped it. The blood spurted out and sprayed into the basin prepared in advance.
"Xiaolong can do it! This knife pierced the heart directly -" Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "Not bad, not bad, you can kill the pig by yourself later."
"Hey, it's not over yet." Li Long smiled, drew the knife again, and blood spurted out again.
The wild boar's strength softened, and Li Anguo and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
“Be careful, this wild boar is very fierce, and it may charge even more!” Li Long knew how powerful the wild boar was, and immediately shouted, “You have to hold it tight!”
Li Anguo and the others immediately used force again. Sure enough, at this moment, the wild boar once again arched its body and tried to escape from the control of others. Fortunately, with this force, it itself lost most of its strength, so it failed. .
After going through this, Li Anguo and the others didn't let go until the wild boar was completely motionless and the blood had stopped flowing.
"This guy is much more ferocious than that pig!" Li Anguo finally commented, "If I hadn't been prepared in advance, I might have let him run away just now."
"Then It's a big joke!" Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "It's okay, let's watch Xiaolong next, skinning this wild boar, hey!" He didn't finish his words, but it meant a lot. Obviously, it's quite strange.
"Brother-in-law, why don't you give it a try?" Li Long asked.
"I'll forget it." Chen Xingbang waved his hand hurriedly, "I can fool you a little bit by skinning a sheep, but I don't know how to skin this one."
Li Long was not polite, untied the rope, and started skinning the wild boar.
Others were watching and helping to turn the pig over.
Because there were few people, it took more than three o'clock to finish them all. What surprised Li Long was that there were still people who wanted to buy wild boar and try it. The boar ended up being bought for a third.
After lunch, Liang Yuemei asked someone to come over to help steam the pig blood buns. Li Long and the others, under the command of Li Jianguo, caught the two pigs, tied them up, put them on the carriage, and pulled them away Purchase station.
The township purchasing station is responsible for purchasing the whole township's live pigs. It used to have tasks. Now that the production is guaranteed to each household, this system is not so strict, and the purchasing station's task is not so rigid.
But live pigs are still collected.
“One kilogram is weighed one dollar per kilogram.” A small blackboard hangs outside the door of the purchasing station, with the purchasing price of live pigs marked on it. The price is quite good. It's normal when you think about it. Now is an era of widespread scarcity of supplies. Unlike in the mainland, where almost every household raises pigs, no more than one-sixth of the households in the entire village raise pigs, and that's pretty much the same in the entire township.
So the price of live pigs is naturally the same as the price of pork, slightly higher.
The carriage entered the yard, and the staff warming up the fire came out. Li Jianguo negotiated everything, while Li Long watched strangely from the side.
The snow in the yard has not been swept away, and there are no car marks. The snow in the pig pen next to it has not been touched. Li Long guessed that the purchasing station has not yet opened after the snow.
After the technician checked the condition of the two pigs, they weighed them and found that the two pigs weighed a total of 236 kilograms, which was a very good number.
"Are you a professional pig farmer? This pig is well fed!" (End of Chapter)