Chapter 422 Killing the New Year Pig
When Le Xiao's classmates happily returned to their hometown, the lives of people in the capital were still as tense and busy as ever.
After the school holidays for my primary school friends, the Guwu family who came to Beijing also left Beijing and returned to their respective families.
They came to the capital to find the suspected immortal doctor. Now that they knew who it was, and she was not in the capital, of course they had to go home to make a detailed report and then plan what to do next year.
The Tantai family was an exception. On the third day of Qingda University's holiday, the head of the Tantai family drove Tantai Mixue back to the seaside city where she chose to practice, leaving only her two grandsons to recuperate in Beijing. She also asked Shou Bo to accompany his two children in Beijing, and he returned on his own. My family is going to host the New Year ceremony to worship ancestors.
Tantai Mixue wanted to stay in the capital with Tantai Xunyang Xunhuan, but she couldn't go against the family leader's words and left alone as she had come.
Lan Shao did not see her off because he took the opportunity to return to his family's residence on the 18th.
Mr. Jiang and his two elder brothers also returned to Long Province on the 18th.
The young masters and young masters of the ancient martial arts sect evacuated from the capital on the 18th and 19th. They came back quickly, which was quite cool.
Yan Xing had stayed in the garrison for so long, and Chi Shisi's eyes had adapted to the light. He didn't have to stare at it all the time. He led the team to leave Beijing for the mission, completely ignoring the mess of the Zhao family.
The captain stopped monitoring. The first thing Chi Shishi did was to go see the unlucky guy who donated the eyes. The eyes showed no strange reaction to the original owner. He was relieved and secretly made a plan to join the training in preparation for the early arrival. Participate in tasks.
Jin Er Er has been under observation in the hospital for a long time, and his leg injury is progressing towards good recovery. Professor Lu Kang taught Director Qin that he originally wanted to keep him under observation for a few months, but Commander Liu of the garrison area requested that he be taken back to the garrison to recuperate for the convenience of care. They Unable to resist, he had no choice but to let him go.
After returning home, the beautiful young man studied every day, visited relatives, played ball and socialized with his younger friends, occasionally showed up at banquets of important dignitaries, and practiced meditation in the evening and morning, living a very comfortable life.
Zhao Yixiong and his son were on pins and needles every day, and on the 17th, they were even more worried: the He family, who collaborated with the working group to verify official accounts, found many loopholes and traced evidence and traces of him and his son transferring company property. , the working group followed the clues and found various evidence of tax evasion.
Zhao Yixiong and his stepson were so bold that they kept the company's money privately for more than ten years. They owned a total of 18 real estate properties in their names. Zhao Zongze used the company's money to privately invest in the factory and transferred the company's money to The factory becomes its own private property.
The father and son seriously infringed on the company's property, with the total amount exceeding 800 million. The company has maintained a minimal annual profit for many years, which also seriously infringed on the interests of the company's owners.
At the same time, the father and son collaborated with their cronies to create false accounts and evaded and evaded taxes totaling more than 300 million. The money was also divided between the father, son and other participants.
The amount of money involved is huge and it is an economic crime.
The working group obtained the true evidence and verified it, confirming that the acting chairman of Feixia Group and his stepson transferred and misappropriated company property, evaded taxes, and were prosecuted. At the same time, Yanxing entrusted the He family to prosecute in the name of the legal owner of the group.
On January 19, Zhao Yixiong and Zhao Zongze's nightmare came. Their superiors approved the arrest of Zhao and his son. On the morning of that day, the relevant departments arrested Zhao Yixiong and Zhao Zongze with lightning speed, and also arrested several high-level personnel involved. .
Zhao Yixiong was taken away from the company, and Zhao Zongze was taken away from home. Zhao Li saw his grandson being taken away, and heard that Yan Xing had entrusted the He family to sue Zhao Yixiong and Zhao Zongze in the name of the company owner. He was furious and fainted on the spot. After passing by, the Zhao family was so frightened that they lost their minds and were in chaos.
After being woken up by a group of people messing around, Zhao Li sat there for a long time, called Yan Xing and turned off the phone!
He braced himself and tried to contact some Beijing officials he had known before, but everyone avoided him and no one was willing to say a word to him.
With no way to ask for help, Zhao Li burst into tears in front of the domestic servant for the first time, and Yan Xing avoided seeing her. He would no longer protect the Zhao family. Without Yan Xing's protection, his son and grandson would not be able to enjoy good things.
Finally, he couldn't bear to see his grandson and son suffer, so he went to the court to ask for a meeting. Because Zhao Yixiong committed a financial crime, the court allowed the father, son and grandson to meet once.
Zhao Li met his son and his son once and expressed his willingness to return the money embezzled by the father and son and make up for the evaded taxes. He asked the bailiff to tell the He family to give him some time.
The He family gave him three days. Zhao immediately returned home and rushed to fix the leak. He first found a lawyer, and then dug out all the money in the accounts of his son, grandson, daughter-in-law, and real estate in the names of his son and grandson, and handed them over to the lawyer for evaluation. value.
While Zhao Li was working hard to remedy the situation, the He family was entrusted by Yan Xing to formally take over the Feixia Group. He Qili appointed professionals and lawyers to carry out drastic rectification and adjustments to the Feixia Group, eliminating all the cronies and bugs arranged by the Zhao family, and implementing We will appoint people based on their talents and promote a large number of mid-level people who are truly capable and reliable.
The He family took control of the group in a lightning-fast move, without giving the Zhao family's cronies and several small shareholders any time to react. By the time they reacted, their cronies had already been arrested or arrested. dismiss.
The people who were fired all resigned voluntarily. The reason was, of course, that they also participated in or helped cover up the Zhao family's corruption, misappropriation of public funds, tax evasion, etc. If they did not resign on their own initiative, once the official business was done, what was waiting for them would be the fight with the Zhao family. If father and son enter the same class, they will become notorious accomplices. In the future, they will not be able to find a job among their peers, let alone work part-time in Kyoto.
No matter how efficient the lawyers entrusted by Zhao Li are, they may not be able to keep up with the plan in other aspects. Especially at the end of the year, people in every industry are extremely busy. Zhao Li can only wait anxiously until the new year. Twenty-seven still had no news, and he was so anxious that his mouth was blistering.
At the end of the twelfth lunar month, the whole country is busy preparing for the New Year. Rural areas are even busier, collecting New Year goods and killing New Year pigs. Generally, after 20, some people kill New Year pigs, mostly after the small New Year. Pig, so the pork will still be fresh during the Chinese New Year.
The girl did not celebrate the New Year at home, and Le's father Zhou Qiufeng did not neglect it either. According to custom, he offered sacrifices to the gods and sent the gods to heaven. Afterwards, he cleaned up and prepared whatever was needed. Some people in the village were also busy killing pigs for others, and some also Busy with settling payroll accounts before the year and so on.
Village Chief Zhou's family was slaughtering pigs on the 25th, but Zhou Qiufeng couldn't help and didn't go. Village Chief Zhou sent a big piece of meat and liver to the Le family, saying it was for the Le family girl.
On the same day, many people in the village were killing pigs. The Cheng Youde family also killed the New Year pig and gave a piece to the Le family. There were two villagers who also got along with Zhou Qiufeng and gave a piece to the Le family.
On the 26th, the Zhou family was killing the New Year pig, and Zhou Qiufeng went back to her parents' house to help with odd jobs. When the work was done, Brother Zhou took away a piece of seven or eight kilograms of meat and half of the pork belly for his sister without saying a word.
Carrying a piece of meat, Zhou Qiufeng couldn't laugh or cry. Their family had been killing pigs for twenty-eight, and the time was only one day apart. Since it was a gift from her brother, she took it home rudely.
Zhou Chunmei returned to the village during the summer vacation from school and was relieved to see Leyun not at home. If Leyun didn't come, their father wouldn't compare them with others.
Leba’s boss, Boss Wu, is very considerate of everyone. After working a 26-day shift, he will have a holiday starting from the 27th of the new year, allowing the workers in the workshop to go back to work during the New Year. He himself also returns to Han, the provincial capital, to reunite with his family.
The workshop invites two lonely old people to help guard it. This is the case every year. They make reservations very early, prepare new year's goods and red envelopes for the caretakers early, and pay half of their wages in advance.
In fact, during the Chinese New Year every year, old bachelors and lonely old people are happy to show Boss Wu a workshop. They can eat, drink and receive money, which is perfect for them.
Dad Le and his colleagues finished their last shift of the year and ended the work perfectly. They went home with the New Year’s red envelope and year-end bonus given by Boss Wu. It was dark when he got home and he didn’t hear his daughter laughing outside the building. There was a sound, so I guessed that the person didn't come back.
After dinner, Le's father handed over the red envelopes and bonuses to his wife. He has a virtuous wife at home. He just does things and doesn't have to worry about money or worry about food, salt, firewood and rice. It couldn't be better.
January 24th is the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, and that day is the Xinhai Day. Some people in the countryside do not kill pigs during the Xinhai Festival, so there are fewer people killing pigs on that day.
After dawn, Le's father Zhou Qiufeng was thinking about the girl and looking forward to her coming home. However, he didn't wait from dawn to dusk.
If the girl doesn’t come back, the New Year pig will have to be killed. Therefore, on the 28th day of the year on the 25th, Le’s dad and Zhou Qiufeng got up early in the morning to have a delicious breakfast, put away the odds and ends in front of and behind the house, and waited. At nine o'clock, a large pot was boiled in front of the house and the items needed to kill the pig were prepared.
The water for scalding pig hair on the Lejia stove has not yet boiled, and the people who are helping to kill the pigs are arriving one after another, including Brother Zhou, Cheng Youde, Cheng Youliang, Father Cheng, Village Chief Zhou and his son Zhou Dahai, Zhou Xiaohai, and Yu Le's father Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu played well.
Zhang Poluo is his nickname. He has a rough voice, so the troublemakers gave him a nickname, and he got used to it.
The parents of Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu were very close to the older generation of the Le family. When Yueqing was in trouble, the two families also lent money to the Le family, and they still have a good relationship.
Both of them worked outside a lot, so they didn’t help Lejia during the double robbery. The construction site had a holiday during the Chinese New Year, so Lejia killed the New Year pig and came to Lejia to help. As for their parents, they were picked up by their sisters. , I wasn’t at home, so I didn’t come to Lejia.
Cheng Youde's wife Liu Sister-in-law, Liu Lu's wife Hu Sister-in-law, and Zhang Poluo's wife Zhao Sister-in-law also came to Le's house to help. The women had nothing to do before killing the pigs. When the pigs were killed, they helped clean the internal organs and marinate the bacon. etc.
The Cheng family brothers, Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu went to help others kill pigs early in the morning. After breakfast, they went to help another family kill the New Year pig before coming to Lejia.
The men and women went to Le's house and sat for a while, waiting for the water to boil. The men went to the backyard pig pen to drive the pig to be killed and rushed it into the Le's main room. Rural people are very particular about killing the New Year pig in front of the ancestor's shrine. After killing the pig, incense must be burned to pray for a strong pig in the coming year.
Drive the pig into the main room, hook the pig's chin with an iron hook, and then everyone swarms up, pulling the tail of the pig, scratching the ears of the ears, gaiting the legs, tying up a big fat pig, dragging it on a horizontal stool, and A basin for collecting pig blood is placed under the pig's chin, and Father Cheng kills the pig with a knife.
The fat New Year pig howled, the white knife went in and the red knife came out, blood flowed like a drop, and the howl became weaker. The pig's blood was released, and the pig was thrown off the stool. The pig didn't even kick its legs and flew away in bliss. .
The grown men carried the pigs outside to iron and shave them. While working, they chatted about everyday things. They all said that Zhou Qiufeng had good hands and that the pigs he raised for only half a year were stronger than others who had raised them for a year. With more people and greater strength, the pig hair is scalded, washed, hung, split, and the pig head is cut off. The owner puts it on the ancestral incense table, puts wine on it, and burns incense to worship the land god who is in charge of livestock.
After the sacrifice, the cook weighs the pig's head first, then removes the hair and handles it carefully, then chops the pig head in half into pieces and stews it.
In rural areas, there is a custom of eating pig head meat. If you kill a pig but don’t cook it, you will be regarded as the most stingy person. If you don’t say anything to your face, you will be looked down upon behind your back, and no one will be willing to help you unless you do it next time. Because there are many people killing pigs that day, if you don’t eat here, you don’t have to cook the pig head meat for the people who help kill the pigs.
Both men and women went to work, separating the pig's internal organs and carrying the meat to weigh it. Not counting the pig's head, it actually weighed 230 kilograms. This is the net weight. If it had not been weighed before killing, it would have been nearly 300 kilograms by visual inspection.
Everyone has a job to do, helping the master clean the pig's intestines, intestines, belly and other internal organs. After washing them thoroughly, they are really clean. After scrubbing them with salt and cornstarch, they can be put into the pot directly.
The men were very strong, so they put the pork on the board, then cut it into pieces, chopped off the pig's feet, and some people used them to burn and scald them. Prepared, some are left as gifts, and the pieces of meat are clearly divided into pieces that have their own uses.
Brother Zhou and Cheng Youde listened to Zhou Qiufeng's advice and even left a piece of the best meat for Xiao Lele to make barbecue when he came back. They also left some to make dumpling fillings.
Because it was not yet noon, Sister-in-law Liu and the other women were helping to marinate the bacon, and Brother Zhou and others were also busy, helping to cut the fat meat into three-finger-wide pieces. When the time came, the refined oil was poured directly into the pot, no need to trouble.
As the owner, Dad Le is the most idle. He only does small things such as lighting the fire, washing the vegetables for lunch, and peeling bamboo skewers for barbecue in his free time.
The men and women were busy until half past eleven. When all the work was done, the table was set for dinner. Le's father picked up his mother-in-law, his eldest sister-in-law, and the Zhou siblings.
There were a lot of people, the women were sitting in the kitchen eating, and the men were setting up a table outside, and it was very lively.
After eating pig head meat at Lejia, the Zhou brothers and sister-in-law Zhou sneaked home early. Father Cheng, village chief Zhou and sisters-in-law Liu also went home. Brother Zhou, brothers from the Cheng family, Zhang Poluo and Liu Lu went to another place. Every family kills pigs.
After sending away the helpers, Zhou Qiufeng and Le's father washed the pots and made lard. Grandma Zhou had nothing to do at home, so she also helped Le's family with the firework.
Grandma Zhou didn't see Lele at noon. She originally wanted to scold her daughter and Yue Qing, but she finally held back. When no one else was around, she nagged her daughter and son-in-law in the afternoon, blaming the young couple for not having the authority of their parents. He didn't even urge the girl to go home and so on.
The elders scolded them, and Le's father and Zhou Qiufeng had no room to resist. They carried the black pot given by their elders with tears in their eyes, hoping for the stars and the moon, hoping that the girl would come back to save them from the fire and water.
Le Yun also wanted to go home before the 28th, but she still hadn't found anything, so she could only run in the mountains in pain, and didn't emerge from the deep mountains and old forests until noon on the 28th.
Before returning to the real world from the savages, I put a lot of medicinal materials in my backpack and packed them into a big bag, all packed in thick black plastic bags.
Drill out from the mountains and find a natural dirt road. First hitch a ride to the road. In the Shennong Mountains, the mountain people in some places still maintain their simple and enthusiastic nature, making it easy to hitchhike. Of course, those who speak the local dialect People, it is more difficult for people who speak foreign languages. They are afraid that they will not say anything good after doing good deeds. If something happens along the way, they will be beaten back by others, and they will be ruined in the end.
I took a ride to the highway and waited for a long time for an empty van operated by the operator. I chartered a bus back to Jiudao Township. The van could only be delivered not far from Meizijing Village, as roads were blocked in some places.
After paying the money, Leyun carried her big and small bags and hurried forward. She passed by several houses on the way and was spotted by someone. She asked them questions. She also met several villagers on the road and was questioned again. .
After being asked N times, Le Xiao’s face almost froze with laughter, saying that she couldn’t bear it anymore and begging to be let go!
When she was liberated, she did not dare to walk slowly and started running around.
She ran so fast that others couldn't see her clearly, so naturally she couldn't be caught. She also successfully escaped the "fire reconnaissance" of several people and ran safely to the garden road outside her building.
After adjusting her breath, Le Yun had to run home in staggering steps. When she could see the door of her house, she could smell the fragrance from far away and knew that lard was being made at home. She saw the new mother standing holding something. While turning the meat in the pot, I heard the sound of an iron spoon hitting the pot.
"Aunt Feng, Dad, the little cotton-padded jacket is back!" he shouted happily and rushed towards the building jumping happily.
Hearing the shout, Zhou Qiufeng turned her head happily and saw that Lele was back. Lele's little cotton-padded jacket was wearing her father's camouflage uniform, carrying a backpack, and carrying bulging bags in both hands.
She dropped the long-handled pot and spoon for mixing the meat in her hand and ran to meet it. When she ran to the side of the house, people rushed over. She grabbed two bags and helped carry them: "Lele, you are late again."
"I also want to come back early, but I can't make it in time." Le Yun bared her teeth and jumped to the big pot to look at the unpalatable oil residue.
The meat that has been rendered into oil is called oil dregs, and some are also called oil ribs, such as pork belly, which has been made into oil. There are also some meats with skin that are made fragrant and especially crispy, which is a favorite among children.
Xiao Lele ran around and looked around, but Zhou Qiufeng ignored her and helped her carry her things to her bedroom.
Le's father was cutting pig intestines in the main room. When he heard the little cotton-padded jacket shouting, he wiped the oil off his hands with a rag and walked out with a cane.
When I saw Xiao Lele rushing in after Zhou Qiufeng, I was full of bitterness and wanted to pour it out. But when I saw the child's bright smiling face and heard the sweet "Dad", I was blamed by the elders. The grievances disappeared immediately.
"Lele, have you had lunch?"
"No, I'll save my stomach and come back to eat pig head meat." In order to make her father and new mother happy, Le Yun was not hungry and said she hadn't eaten anything.
"I left some delicious food for you. You put down your things and go take a shower, and I'll heat up the food for you." Dad Le heard that the sweet little cotton-padded jacket hadn't eaten yet, and wasn't curious about what the child had brought back, so he turned around and went to the kitchen.
Zhou Qiufeng opened the door with the key and carried the things into the girl's bedroom.
Le Yun slipped into the room, put down her backpack, sat down on the ground, and took off the bag to get some air.
"Fragrant fungus and fungus?" Zhou Qiufeng was confused when she saw what was in the bag. Did Xiao Lele run all over the mountain just for wild fungus and mushroom?
"No, it's just an appearance," Le Yun explained while taking the fungus and shiitake mushrooms out: "It's filled with medicinal materials. I was afraid that others would find out, so I covered the top with fungus and shiitake mushrooms."
Zhou Qiufeng wiped her sweat and felt the rhythm of Lele going to clean up again. Just as she expected, when she took the mushrooms and fungus, there was a tied bag underneath. When she opened it, it was full of various medicinal materials, including roots and branches. Rods, and those with leaves.
Opening the bag, Le Yun took out another bag of honey from her backpack. The bag was tightly tied and there was not much honey, weighing about two or three kilograms.
She didn't care about taking out the things. She found clean clothes, took a bucket to the kitchen, poured hot water, took a shower in the bathroom behind the house, washed herself from head to toe, dried her hair, and rolled into the kitchen to eat.
Zhou Qiufeng admired what the girl had brought back and went to refine oil. Dad Le continued to work on his own.
The New Year pigs raised in the countryside were fed with grains. The meat was particularly delicious. The pig head meat was stewed fragrantly. Le Yun ate a lot of meat and boiled vegetables, making her eighty percent full.
After a full meal, she used a bamboo sieve to dry her own medicinal materials. Because her parents did not allow her to work, she found a few medicinal materials and pounded them into juice, mixed up a bowl of sauce, and then cut the meat into thin slices and marinated it in the sauce. Make it, marinate it for about ten minutes, grill it piece by piece, put the meat slices in the sauce and rinse them three or four times after grilling for a while. The grilled meat will be fragrant and extremely delicious.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, also had the opportunity to fill up his stomach. He ate until his eyes narrowed. He ate some for himself and sent some back to Zhou's house.
Grandma Zhou tasted two skewers, Zhou Chunmei, Zhou Tianming smelled the aroma wafting from Lejia and her mouth watered, but she was too embarrassed to go see what delicious food was made. When her aunt brought the barbecue, she greedily rushed to eat it.
In the midst of the delicious food, the siblings also selectively put aside what their aunt said that the barbecue was made by Le Yun, and snatched up all the food. They were not satisfied yet, but no matter how greedy they were, they couldn't help but run to Lejia. He asked Le Yun for barbecue, so he had to smell the aroma secretly to satisfy his hunger.
Le Yun got over her craving for barbecue, so she ran to wash her clothes. After washing her clothes, she found that it was still early, so she cut the meat again to make barbecue, roasted it, and set it aside to cool. When it was almost dark, she saved a lot and took it home. The vacuum packer I bought on the road was connected to the power supply to seal the barbecue.
Zhou Qiufengle's father is a daughter-in-law. It's up to her to do whatever the child wants. As long as she is happy, she heard the child say that she would pack up a copy and take it back to the school in the capital, giving one copy each to the Chao family and her teacher. They also readily agreed with her idea. She is considerate and even helps her grill, cut and package meat when she has time.
There was a lot of fat and the refining was not finished by the time it got dark. Zhou Qiufeng was not in a hurry and refined the oil while doing housework. It was finished at about ten o'clock in the evening. The stove fire was turned off and all the oil drums were moved into the house. There was no need to move the stove and pots. Just set up a few bamboos and cover them with rainproof cloth.
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