Chapter 166 Since it doesn’t eat grass, let’s kill it first

Chapter 166 Since it doesn’t eat grass, let’s kill it first

Back home, Wang Fang saw Su Ying coming, with a smile on her face.

Su Ying introduced Wang Min next to her. Although Wang Fang was also very enthusiastic, she had a smile on her face.

But they were completely different from when they saw Chen Ning and Su Ying before.

That's not true. Wang Fang is a very principled person. There are already many candidates for a wife here, so how can it be the same as before?

Knowing that Su Ying was coming over, Wang Fang had already tidied up the room.

"Zhang An, where is the fish you mentioned? Where is it?"

As soon as she entered the house, Su Ying did not see any red carp in the lobby.

“Here, it’s right here.”

Zhang An pointed to the sand tank in the corner of the wall, and Su Ying walked over to take a look.

I found a red carp that was content in the water tank.

“Hey, how come there is such a big goldfish.”

Wang Min said this, making Su Ying laugh.

"Why are you so stupid? You can't tell the difference between carp and goldfish. Whose goldfish is so big?"

"Oh, it turns out this is a carp. I said how could it be possible? Such a big goldfish. But there are also red carps, which I have never heard of before.”

Artificially bred ornamental fish have not yet been introduced into the parks in the provincial capital.

And there is no aquarium in the provincial capital now, and all they have seen are small goldfish raised by some people.

After watching the red carp, Su Ying went upstairs to put her things away, and then ran into the enclosure with Wang Min.

She first went to the chicken pen to look at the few golden roosters from before.

"Sure enough, I have grown up a lot, and my tail has also grown longer."

When Su Ying looked at these little golden roosters before, they were still small.

Looking at it this time, they looked completely different. Su Ying could see at a glance that they had changed.

"Xiaoying, what kind of chicken is this? Why does it look different from other chickens?"

Wang Min is also a city dweller. In this era of lack of information, she I have never seen the appearance of a golden rooster.

Just looking at the long tail, Wang Min felt that it was definitely not a chicken.

And when Su Ying just teased them, they could fly, which ordinary domestic chickens couldn't do.

Su Ying had at least seen it in person on the mountain, so she confidently introduced it to Wang Min at this time.

"Minmin, these are not ordinary chickens. When they grow up, they become very beautiful birds, just like phoenixes."

As she spoke, Su Ying When I visited Zhang An's house during the Chinese New Year.

Zhang An took them up the mountain and told Wang Min what they saw about the golden rooster.

"Is this still a chicken you are talking about? Are you sure you are not talking about a phoenix?"

Wang Min didn't quite believe it. Among the chickens raised in a normal home, the most beautiful chicken should be the reed chicken.

But that is not as mysterious as Su Ying said.

“Really, if you don’t believe me, just ask Zhang An.”

If Su Ying had a camera at this time and took a photo, she would definitely have thrown it in front of Wang Min.

“That’s right, the golden rooster does look like that. When they grow up in a while, you will be able to see a very beautiful golden rooster when you come over, but it is actually a bird.”

Among the six golden roosters in Zhang An's family, there are two male birds.

After they continue to grow for two or three weeks, they will begin to moult, and then they will be able to put on their gorgeous coats.

“Then why do male birds look good, but female birds don’t look good.”

“I know this, let me tell you.”

Hearing Wang Min ask this, Su Ying seemed to remember that she had asked this before.

So when Zhang An said it, she wrote it down.

“Min Min, the male birds are bright and beautiful because they need to use their gorgeous appearance to court mates. The female birds are not bright because they need protective color to protect them from being discovered by natural enemies. If If the female bird and the male bird are discovered by natural enemies at the same time, the male bird will use its gorgeous appearance to attract the natural enemies away, and the female bird will use its protective color to escape."

Su Ying was like a bird at the moment. I just asked the teacher a question I didn't know, and I figured it out.

Then I met my deskmate who couldn’t do it, so he explained it to his classmates non-stop.

“It turns out that looking good in nature is also a danger.”

“It is indeed like this, and if you look carefully, you can also find that the roosters at home are more beautiful than the hens. It looks much better.”

Su Ying is like a teacher today, taking her students to swim in the ocean of knowledge.

She knew that Wang Min did not know forest musk deer and yellow muntjac, but only sika deer and hares.

So I was very proud to take Wang Min for a walk in Zhang An’s “family zoo”.

"Zhang An, is Huatou at home today?"

Su Ying asked Zhang An after coming out of the pen room.

"Yes, I'm probably squatting in the nest right now, sleeping."

Hua Tou basically goes out for a walk in the morning and comes back to lie down in the afternoon.

Zhang An usually wants to let him go for a walk in the mountains and bring back a wife from the old forest.

I will give birth to a litter of kites at home, but now this guy is a homebody.

"Then call it out quickly, I haven't seen it for a long time."

"Okay, okay, I'll call it out."

Zhang An Ti hand, blowing a loud whistle.

After a while, the flower heads on the roof flew out after hearing the sound.

There was a sharp hawk's anger, as if in response to Zhang An's whistle.

Then he swooped down from the air and landed on Zhang An's shoulders.

It is still rubbing Zhang An's hair with its own head, making it look docile and well-behaved.

“Is this an eagle?”

Wang Min looked at the flower head standing on Zhang An’s shoulder and was so excited that he stuttered while speaking.

"Yeah, well, it's called Huatou. It's actually a goshawk, a kind of eagle."

Su Ying said, and wanted to reach out and touch the flower head, but Huatou immediately felt He arrived and stared at Su Ying with sharp eyes.

But Huatou seemed to recognize Su Ying. Su Ying had touched it last time.

So he lowered his head again, and Su Yingcai slowly stroked its back.

At this time, Xiaohu also ran to squat at Zhang An's feet.

"Why do I feel so familiar?"

Wang Min looked at this scene and murmured.

"Is it right to hold Huang on the left and Qingcang on the right?"

Su Ying reminded her from the side.

"Yes, yes, that's it. If this dog is a yellow dog, it would be more like it."

"The little tiger is very fierce, and the yellow dogs are all its opponents."

“I know, just by looking at its head, I know it’s very fierce.”

The two of them finished reading, Zhang An shrugged his shoulders, and Huatou flew to the river to find something to eat. of.

When people fishing by the river often see it, they will throw a fish to it.

But the flower heads are not what Zhang An’s family throws away, so he won’t eat them.

This way Zhang An can rest assured that others will not drug him.

"Xiaoying is here." Zhang Jianguo came back now and saw Su Ying in the yard, with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, I came in the afternoon, uncle."

Then Su Ying and Wang Min accompanied Wang Fang to talk, and Zhang An set up a stove in the yard and started to light a fire.

"Zhang An, why did you light a fire?" "I'm going to boil water and kill the sheep."

I told Su Ying before that I would wait for her to come Slaughter the goat and roast it.

"Ah, you really want to kill them, or forget it. You just bought them, raise them more, and eat them later."

Su Ying discovered that Zhang When An talks, he really means doing what he says.

I said I wanted to buy a sheep before, but I bought it right away when I got back.

Then he said he wanted to kill a sheep and roast it, and he was preparing to boil water.

"Hahaha, it's better to say goodbye. I'm afraid that if I keep it for a long time, I won't be able to part with it in the end."

Zhang An has this habit of not wanting to part with something after keeping it for a long time. move.

The pigs raised at home were like this before. Zhang An didn't feed them very much, so that when the New Year pig was finally killed, there would be no reluctance.

“Most of the sheep I bought were eating grass well, but one of them didn’t eat much and felt like it was still missing its previous home, so I thought about eating it.”

"You, you can eat sheep if you want to eat sheep, and you still talk about whether people miss home and eat grass."

Su Ying saw Zhang An eating a rabbit last time. Also find a valid reason.

“It’s not that I’m looking for an excuse, but it really doesn’t eat much grass. Ask my dad.”

“There is such a sheep that doesn’t eat much. I drive it every day. When they go out, it will stand or lie down, and it doesn’t like to eat very much.”

This time Zhang An didn’t find any reason. If the sheep doesn’t eat grass, it will only get worse in the future. The thinner.

It's better to kill them now when they're quite fat, so that they won't have any meat when they become thinner later.

Hearing that Zhang An wanted to slaughter a sheep, Zhang Jianguo also came out to help.

"Tie Wazi, come here, uncle, let me tell you something."

Just when Zhang Tie was passing by the door, Zhang Jianguo called him in.

"What's wrong, uncle."

"Go and see your parents and your second uncle's house now. If they are busy with anything, call them over if nothing happens."

"I know, I'll go right away."

After boiling for half an hour, the water in the big iron pot finally boiled.

Zhang An and his father carried the case table out of the house.

Then Zhang An went to the sheepfold and dragged out the goat that did not eat grass.

Zhang An was dragging this sheep, which he estimated to weigh more than ninety pounds.

The meat yield rate of sheep is not high, and the black goats raised by Wang Mingqian's family are also average.

I guess it would be good to produce forty or fifty kilograms of mutton.

"Brother, Tie Wa said you called us for something."

After a while, Zhang An's second uncle and third uncle came over.

"I'm calling you to come over and kill the sheep. Second brother, go home and get a knife."

Zhang Jianguo is very skilled at killing chickens and fish because he kills them often.

But when it comes to killing sheep, I am a bit unskilled because I don’t have much contact with it.

Zhang An’s second uncle, Zhang Jianjun, is also here. He is considered a veteran and he learned a skill from Lin Youde before.

After Zhang An’s second and third aunts arrived, they sat with Wang Fang and talked with Su Ying.

"Mom, who is the sister-in-law?"

Xiao Yanzi remembers clearly that when Zhang An went out before, her mother told her that her brother had gone to find her sister-in-law.

Looking at Su Ying and Wang Min now, my little head was a little hard to turn around.

"Here, this is sister-in-law, go and call someone." Aunt Zhang pointed Su Ying to Yanzi.

In the end, the little girl really called out "sister-in-law", making Su Ying blush.

"It's not time to call sister-in-law yet, let's call sister first."

Wang Fang looked at Su Ying's shy face and turned red, and helped her out.

"It's okay. You will have to shout sooner or later anyway. Let Yanzi shout a few times first, and Xiaoying will get used to it first."

The little girl Yanzi is different now. Also pay attention to cleanliness and don't curl up on the floor to play.

The biggest change is that she no longer has the habit of wiping her nose with her sleeves, and the third aunt must have just changed her clothes.

Now she looks like a porcelain doll, clean and cute with two little pigtails.

Su Ying knew that Zhang An doted on this little sister, so she pulled Yanzi over and hugged her on her lap.

From time to time, Yanzi talked and made her laugh. The adults in the family were also very happy to see this.

"Mom, please take Su Ying and the others into the house."

Su Ying is not used to the blood that will come from killing the sheep later, so Zhang An asked them to enter the house in advance and not to watch. .

Hearing this, all the women at home returned to the lobby.

Four grown men were left working in the yard.

This sheep may also know that it is about to quack, and its cry is a bit miserable.

Zhang Anxin said, "If you don't eat grass, if you eat more, I won't be willing to kill you."

If you want to be a sheep in your next life, remember to eat grass.

A goat weighs less than a hundred pounds and doesn't have much strength. It's like a baby compared to the pigs at home.

Zhang An pressed it on the chopping board, and Uncle Zhang picked up the butcher knife very skillfully.

It only took one knife to send it away peacefully.

Then he put it into a large basin and scalded it all over with boiling water.

People in the south slaughter sheep differently from those in the north. Northerners need to keep the sheep skin to keep out the cold, so when killing sheep, they always have to skin it.

But it’s different in the south. They boil the hair directly and shave it off.

And when people in Guizhou Province eat mutton, they like to eat it with the skin on.

Not to mention, the lamb with skin is ready and tastes quite chewy.

The four people shaved off all the hair on the goat without spending much time.

A bald, white and naked sheep appeared in Zhang An's eyes.

Although it is said to be white, it is actually a little bit black.

Zhang Jianguo picked up the shaved wool and put it aside to dry.

The feathers of ducks and geese that are usually killed at home are also collected.

Because someone comes to collect this stuff, and it can be sold for money.

There should be people collecting chicken feathers, but Zhang An and the others have not seen anyone collecting chicken feathers here.

So generally chicken feathers are burned.

Then Uncle Zhang spent some effort to remove all the sheep’s internal organs.

Zhang An took out the steel scale and weighed it. Not counting the internal organs, it weighed more than fifty kilograms.

Zhang An was already very satisfied with the meat yield, which was more than half, but it was with skin on, and the four sheep's hooves hadn't been chopped off yet.

Originally, Zhang An planned to roast a whole lamb, but he had never roasted it before and there was no oven at home.

Moreover, it seems that roasting whole lamb requires removing the skin before roasting it. Not many people here are skilled in peeling it.

So Zhang An thought for a while and decided not to roast the whole lamb today. He would wait until he learned how to do it later.

This mutton weighs more than fifty kilograms, and it looks a little bit small. If it is not roasted properly, it will be a waste of mutton.

If you don’t roast the whole lamb, there are several more ways to eat it.

No wonder everyone talks about slaughtering fattened sheep but not fattening pigs or fattening cows.

Because it is really convenient to handle, it only took Zhang An’s family more than half an hour to handle this sheep.

(End of this chapter)