Chapter 387 Rolling Mountain Pig
Hearing Zhang Jianwen’s shout, Zhang An walked to the door and immediately saw a car of black rolling mountain pigs.
These guys have small heads, but their pig noses are very long, much longer than ordinary pigs.
This is because they often move around in the mountains and prefer to use their noses to dig into the soil.
So the snout of this kind of rolling mountain pig tastes leaner and is all muscle.
But when eating, you have to remove the outer skin. After all, they often use their noses to dig into the soil, and the outside has long been covered with a layer of old skin.
If you don't remove it, you won't be able to eat it at all, and it won't stew well in a pot.
“Oh, uncle, our two families want this cart of pigs. You only need two, just pick the rest and give them to me. There is no need to pick.”
Most people buy piglets based on their mouth shape and appearance.
The pig's mouth is good, and the food will naturally be very fragrant, so generally the piglets with good pig mouth will grow quite fat.
But Zhang An doesn't pick on these things here. As long as it's not a sick pig or a defective piglet, he doesn't care.
Even a piglet that can’t think straight, is too skinny and doesn’t eat much will become fat when it comes to their home.
When Zhang Jianguo went to sell piglets, he bought a piglet that didn't like eating very much.
I was often nagged by Wang Fang at home when I came back, but in the end, that guy also had a delicious meal at Zhang An's house.
In the end, he was white and fat and was carried to the desk.
I guess it was a smart piglet. He knew that his life would be in danger if he gained weight, so he only ate a few bites per meal.
Probably he is thinking that he should eat less pig food so that he will not gain too much weight and can live longer than his other brothers and sisters.
But unexpectedly, Zhang An’s pig food is not ordinary pig food, even if the guy has a bad appetite and usually only takes a few bites of pig food.
In the end, I fell in love with the temptation of pig food and completely forgot about my previous dream of losing weight.
Because around the time when the piglet was bought, the pig grass used to cook pig food at Zhang An's house was all cut from Zhang An's space.
And in order to help them develop good eating habits, Zhang An added some space spring water when cooking pig food.
Space spring water has a magical allure to animals. Regardless of killing animals, they basically can’t walk when they see the spring water, let alone the most gluttonous among animals, the second senior brother.
"That won't work. You still have to choose what you have to choose. After all, this is a business."
Because the owner of the piglets is a relative of Zhang Jianwen, he wants to avoid suspicion and insist on Let Zhang An choose first.
After saving, some people will say that he is wrong in every possible way.
"That's it, I won't be polite to you, uncle."
According to Zhang Jianwen's moral character, if Zhang An didn't choose, he wouldn't pick first.
So Zhang An didn't be polite to him, stepped onto the carriage and started picking piglets, otherwise there would be another stalemate for a long time, which would be a complete waste of time.
Although he was picking pigs, Zhang An always took them as soon as he saw them, so he didn't look like he was picking pigs.
After all, there are only ten piglets in this car. Zhang Jianwen only needs two at home, and the rest are his, and it doesn’t matter whether he chooses or not. .
"Okay, uncle, I'll keep the last two pigs and take them back."
There were two piglets in a pig cage. Zhang An picked up four pig cages and got out of the car and put them in the yard.
There is still a pig cage left on the carriage. The two piglets in it are so fat that they are as round as balls.
Those two little pigs are good pigs at first glance. Their staple food will definitely taste very delicious in the future and they will grow faster. Otherwise, they would not have grown like a round ball at such a young age. .
"No Zhang An, take these two pigs back and give me two thinner ones, otherwise the skinny pigs will be given to you, how can you do this."
Zhang Jianwen knows that those two pigs must be Zhang An specially left it for his family, but how could he accept it.
It would be fine if someone else sold it, but this was a relative of theirs, and they were about to exchange it with Zhang An for two piglets.
Of course, Zhang Jianwen would not pick the thinnest one.
After all, when others sell things, the best and the worst are usually paired together and sold together.
The same goes for piglets. Piglet dealers usually mix better-looking piglets with worse-looking piglets and sell them together.
"Okay, uncle, just take them away. Don't look at the fact that some of these little pigs are thinner, but if you look at them again in two months, they will definitely be bigger than your two little fat pigs."
Zhang An was too modest to say this. It only took two months, at most half a month, and these piglets would definitely change a lot.
And if Zhang An wants them to grow faster, he can just throw them into the space for a few days, which is basically equivalent to raising them outside for several months.
Besides, the space is so big and the ground is full of fresh green grass.
The mountain pig is a breed that yearns for freedom, and space is undoubtedly suitable for them.
“Yes, your pigs are so good at growing, so I won’t bother to be stubborn with you.”
After hearing Zhang An’s words, Zhang Jianwen thought of Zhang An’s family. Pigs raised before.
The previous batches of piglets were obviously bought and raised by Zhang Jianguo and his family.
But within two months, Zhang An’s pigs looked bigger than theirs.
At first, Zhang Jianwen thought it was because his family was reluctant to feed corn, so he started feeding corn noodles.
But in the end, the longer time passed, the bigger the difference in the size of the pigs between the two families became.
By the end of the year, it would be no problem for Zhang An’s pigs to grow to more than three hundred kilograms, or even bigger.
As for their pigs, they can only grow to more than 200 kilograms a year. It is basically impossible to grow more than 300 kilograms.
More than once, he had suspected that Zhang An’s family was feeding feed. After all, feeding pigs with feed did make them fatter.
But when I went to Zhang An's house, I didn't find a feed bag.
When it was time to kill the New Year pigs at the end of the year, he believed that the Zhang An family had not bought feed to feed the pigs.
Because the taste of pigs raised on feed is obviously different from that of pigs raised on pure grains.
Especially for pigs fed a lot of feed, the taste is worse, and the pork still has a fishy smell.
Thinking of this, Zhang Jianwen stopped worrying. Anyway, the Zhang An family is good at raising pigs, so a few thin pigs are not a problem at all.
Finally, with the help of Zhang Jianwen and his relatives, several people lifted the eight pigs into the pig pen and then opened the pig cage.
These pigs have not been disciplined by him yet, Zhang An will definitely not let them out now.
He planned to keep them in there for a few days. After all, if they stayed there for a long time, the piglets would slowly call this place their home.
After Zhang An gives them ideological education, let them play outside, and they will not think about going home until dark.
It was only then that Zhang An found out that the man selling the pigs turned out to be uncle Zhang Jianwen's nephew.
That is, the nephew from my aunt’s family, Zhang Ping’s cousin, named Jin Xiaobo.
"Brother Jin, this is Piggy's money."
After closing the pigsty, Zhang An returned to the house and took out the money.
One pig is forty, eight pigs are three hundred and two. Although ordinary piglets are weighed by the pound before being sold, this Gunshan pig is different from ordinary pigs.
There are relatively few people selling them, so the price is calculated based on the whole head.
But it’s not expensive at all. A piglet weighs about ten kilograms, so it only costs more than three yuan per kilogram.
However, there are also thinner piglets, so if you pay 40 yuan a head, you will lose a little bit.
But Zhang An didn't care about the money. After all, the pigs were delivered directly to the doorstep, saving the family the effort of selling the pigs.
"Brother Zhang An, some of your piglets are relatively small, so you can take the twenty yuan and calculate it as three hundred yuan."
Jin Xiaobo I only took 300 yuan out of the 320 yuan that Zhang An handed over, and didn't ask for the rest.
If it is a big one and a small one, he will naturally not give up the price.
But Zhang An just left the two biggest piglets to Zhang Jianwen, so Jin Xiaobo thought of giving up the price.
After all, he is related to Zhang Jianwen's family, and they are relatively close.
Zhang An would naturally not refuse if someone offered him a price. That’s how business is, and it’s not just a favor.
"Uncle, please sit down first. I'll get you some tea. I forgot about it just now."
They were busy cleaning up the pigs just now, so the three of them were still standing in the yard talking.
After paying the money, Zhang An remembered this and greeted the two of them.
"No need to be busy, we still have to take the pigs back. The carriage is blocked on the road, and it is inconvenient for others to get in and out."
Zhang Jianwen refused Zhang An's guest and took him with him My nephew drove the carriage home.
After watching them leave, Zhang An walked to the pigsty again.
The little piglets, who were humming and barking just now, seemed very quiet now.
It turned out that Xiaohu and his family members were lying at the door of the pigsty watching them.
These piglets are still very young. Looking at the tiger cubs that are as big as lions, they are so frightened that they dare to scream.
And according to the relationship in the food chain, pigs are herbivores, while tiger cubs have the blood of green wolves.
So fundamentally, this group of rolling mountain pigs are restrained by Xiaohu and the others in terms of blood.
"It's okay, don't be too scared. You will be a family from now on. They are the bodyguards I have specially found for you. Make a good relationship with them and you can walk around in this village from now on."
Zhang An After comforting a few piglets, he turned back to drive away the tiger cubs.
Seeing Zhang An chasing the dogs, Xiaohu and the others returned to their dens dissatisfied, just looking back as they walked.
Maybe it’s because this group of piglets has just arrived. Xiaohu and the others are curious about the piglets and are observing these new tenants.
It is absolutely correct to say that they are tenants. The animals living in this enclosure basically have to pay rent to Zhang An.
Dahua's family, several stags used their antlers to pay off debts.
When Bohu and Qiuxiang gave birth to two little deer, Bohu used his own urine to repay the debt.
The Dahei couple help with the work all year round. Chickens, ducks and geese can contribute a lot of eggs every day. Sometimes Zhang An's family needs to sacrifice several family members.
The big tigers are responsible for looking after the house and the courtyard, and the sheep sometimes contribute milk and even mutton.
The only ones who can do prostitution for free are the Dahuang family, and they gave Zhang An nothing.
But there is no such thing as a free lunch. One day, they will have to use their own bodies to repay the rent they have owed over the years.
Not to mention these little piglets, at the end of the year it will be time for them to pay their rent.
While there was no one at home, Zhang An brought these piglets into the space.
It took some time to finally educate them, although they are not as humane as Xiaohu and the others.
But now these piglets can understand some of Zhang An’s instructions, such as circling, eating, etc.
But even so, Zhang An had no intention of letting them out and keeping them closed for a few more days until the plantains were dug out.
Otherwise if we let them out now, they will run into the orchard and seriously affect other people’s work of digging plantains.
Coming out of the space, Zhang An also picked up a few mud balls.
They are said to be mud balls, but they are not actually mud balls, because these mud balls are hollow in the middle, and space grapes are placed inside.
This is a foreign method of storing fruits. Zhang An only remembered it some time ago.
In fact, he doesn’t understand either, but the future is a big world on the Internet, and you can see a lot on your mobile phone.
For example, this method is what Zhang An saw on the short video.
Once he went to the orchard to pick grapes, and he picked a lot because they were cheap.
So on a whim, I searched online on how to preserve grapes for a long time.
Seeing that this method could preserve grapes for several months, Zhang An didn’t know what to think at the time, so he tried it himself.
As expected, those grapes were preserved for more than four months and can still be eaten during the Chinese New Year.
Although it is not as long as half a year as mentioned on the Internet, four months is already a lot, and Zhang An's technology is not mature yet, so it is normal for the time to be shorter.
So some time ago, he had an idea in his mind, and after remembering this method, he immediately picked some grapes in the space.
After all, the grapes in the space are so delicious. Zhang An really wants to give some to his family, but he has put it aside for no reason.
Now that he thought of this method, he immediately made a lot of mud cakes in the space and put a lot of grapes in them.
By now the moisture on the mud balls had dried, Zhang An moved them all to the cellar and stored them.
In order not to make the old mother suspicious, Zhang An specially placed them behind a pile of sweet potatoes.
That is the innermost part of the cellar. Normally Wang Fang would go there to get things and would not go there.
In a few days, when the soil is completely dry and dusty, Zhang An will take it out.
It will definitely be a surprise for Su Ying then. After all, since she was pregnant, besides being sleepy, she also likes to eat very much and her appetite has greatly increased.
But in this day and age, there are not many fruits available in this season.
Su Ying had eaten a lot of the fruits sold on the street and was already tired of them.
When the time comes, take out these grapes and give her a change of taste.
After placing the mud balls, Zhang An blended some white wine made from blood rice into the space.
When it is basically blended to more than 50 degrees, it is almost ready.
Most of this batch of blended liquor was stored in the cellar of the spatial courtyard by Zhang An.
Only a dozen jars were taken out and placed in the wine cellar they had just dug.
(End of this chapter)