Chapter 24 Pig-killing rice at the village chief’s house (please collect and recommend)
Ever since there was a stove at home, my mother Wang Fang only had to light a fire every morning when she got up.
This stove has a chimney and can burn coal, so there is no need to burn so much firewood.
Soon 1995 will be over and the new year will begin.
At the end of the month, Li Hongbin, Zhou Lan and Li Yao came to the house to have a wedding ceremony.
Li Yao's grandparents made Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang happy.
Zhang An didn’t prepare anything. There was nothing in the town and it was too late to go to the county. In the end, he prepared a big red envelope worth 666.
Because among the return gifts in rural areas, giving a big red envelope is a big gift.
Zhou Lan did not let Li Yao refuse this time, because if he refused again, he would be looking down on him.
On this day, Wang Fang cooked a large table of dishes without saving anything.
Zhang An also called his second uncle and his third uncle's family to have dinner together.
Li Yao played with Zhang Tie all morning, and he was led by Zhang Tie and became one with the children in the village.
No one plays with him in the town, except for the occasional relative who comes and takes a child with him.
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After the twelfth lunar month, people who were away from home began to go home to celebrate the New Year.
In the village, there are basically no people of the same age group as Zhang An who are in school for a long time. People who are eighteen or nineteen years old are also disliked by people at home, so many people choose Go south to work.
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang An got up early.
Braving the cold air, I woke up quickly after getting up.
Today, the village chief Zhang Jianwen’s uncle’s family wanted to kill a pig. He had already come to the house the day before to ask Zhang An’s family for help.
Actually, I said it was to help, but there were too many people there. If one person contributed a little, they would just play there and eat pig-killing rice together.
When Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo arrived, several elderly people in the village who had come early were already boiling water.
Zhang An met many of his former acquaintances, all of whom were classmates from his village in elementary school and junior high school.
I think I came back from work to celebrate the New Year. I looked at them all wearing jeans and denim clothes, which were very fashionable.
Because killing pigs requires boiling a lot of water, and there is no running water in the village yet, so people need to go to the big well to fetch it.
Zhang An couldn't sit still when he saw a group of old men planning to fetch water.
He had just sat down with some childhood friends and chatted for a while, reminiscing about old times.
But he found that he could no longer chat with these people.
People say how nice and developed the big cities outside are, and how easy it is to make money.
Yes, the cities in the coastal areas are indeed incomparable to this small village in the mountains.
But their exaggerated techniques, if they were used in the composition of the Chinese language exam, I believe they could get very high scores.
It's not like Zhang An has never seen the outside world. He has been to the big cities with bustling lights and bustling carriages, including the capital and Shanghai.
However, Zhang An cannot accept the practice of promoting the outside world by belittling his hometown.
So he remained silent and listened to them bragging about themselves.
So when he saw that it was time to carry water, he took the initiative to stand up and help carry water.
When he left, it was hard for the young people to sit still. After all, they had to show themselves to the people in their hometown.
They cannot leave a reputation as someone who only brags and does not work, otherwise their reputation will be ruined in just a few seconds.
One by one, they quickly took the buckets from the old people’s hands and went to fetch water with Zhang An.
After a period of training, Zhang An can already carry a carrying pole.
So carrying water is not a problem at all, but it is different for the other people. Only a few of them know how to pick, and the rest have to suffer.
When they arrived at the well, Zhang An picked up the water ladle and filled the buckets several times, and then fetched some water for them.
They all thought that their deeds made Zhang An, a country bumpkin, envious, and they asked Zhang An to join them in the factory after the Chinese New Year and earn a monthly salary of three to four hundred yuan. .
After several trips of carrying water, a group of young people suffered a lot.
Finally the water boiled, and the pig butcher also paid homage to the Stove Lord and began to pull out the pigs.
My uncle’s pigs are pretty well raised. They weigh over two hundred pounds, so they must have been fed a lot of corn.
It’s not like other people’s ones, which all weigh one hundred, seventeen or eighty pounds.
The two ends of Zhang An’s family are not the normal situation and are not included in the calculation.
Because Zhang An’s family already weighs almost three hundred pounds.
A group of young people, in order to stand out, took the initiative to push pigs under the coaxing of women in the village.
Unexpectedly, when the pig butcher was about to take action, the few people behind him failed to hold him down, and the pig struggled to turn over.
Maybe it was my first time pressing the button, so I had no experience. Zhang An happened to be nearby, so he used his strength to press the pig on the chopping board. Now the pig couldn't move no matter how hard it struggled.
The pig butcher moved the white knife in and out with the red knife. It was obvious that he was a skilled man and he solved the problem in just a few strokes.
After the pig blood was almost done, it was the turn of the older generation to take the stage.
It was time to pour boiling water to scald the pig skin and then shave it. There were too many people so Zhang An did not go in to join in the fun.
Because the weather is cold at this time, the shaving speed has to be fast, and the butchers will blow the pig while they are shaving.
It is to pierce a hole in a pig's foot and then keep blowing air into it.
This will make it easier to shave the pig hair more cleanly.
Youdao means it is easier to work when there are more people. The older generation has rich experience in killing pigs, so the hair on the pigs was quickly solved.
The pig butcher started another one-man show, disemboweling the whole pig and unloading it.
The pig in the village chief's house is not bad. Excluding the water, it can actually weigh about 150 kilograms of pork.
Next, the women in the house will start preparing to cook.
The pig-killing rice in rural areas is made of stew in a big pot. Those who cut the meat cut the meat, and those who picked the vegetables each performed their duties.
The men started to sit and brag. At this time, some people started to buy meat.
Zhang An’s family wanted to kill the family himself, so he didn’t get involved.
Zhang Jianguo found an opportunity to communicate with the pig butcher. Today, the village chief's family has been killed, so it is easy to kill his own family, otherwise it would be difficult to do it first.
Subsequently, Zhang Jianguo made an agreement with the pig butcher to kill two pigs at Zhang An’s house tomorrow.
At this moment, everyone looked at Zhang An and his son in surprise. Others knew that their family killed pigs, but they killed two pigs at a time. Unless they were holding a banquet or something, there was really no such thing. .
This time it is considered to be in the limelight.
In this era, pig butchers were paid twenty yuan for killing a pig, so by killing two pigs at a time, pig butchers could earn a lot of money.
At noon, with the busy work of a group of women, the pig-killing rice was ready, and everyone began to eat at separate tables. Because there were many people, Zhang An finally gave in and took the initiative to sit at the children's table.
A group of little kids all like Zhang An very much. Zhang Tie is the king of the kids among the kids, and Zhang Tie follows Zhang An like crazy, so everyone also likes to follow Zhang An.
The main thing is that Zhang An gives them candies or something from time to time.
So in front of the eldest brother, everyone ate in a civilized manner, without their usual appearance, grabbing and grabbing food. Zhang An often served food to several children, which made all the aunts in the village stand by. He said that Zhang An can take care of people and he has a relative at home, so why not introduce him to Zhang An?
Since Wang Fang knew that her son would make his own decisions and would neither agree nor reject, he just said it would depend on Zhang An’s own plans and left with a haha.
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