Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 155 The aroma of braised pork and the love of my wife

"I gonna go see."

Throwing the rice seeds under the eaves, Lin Heng walked out and opened the courtyard door.

After opening it, a middle-aged man stood outside, carrying tools for killing pigs on his back.

This man was Li Niu, the pig butcher in the village. He looked at Lin Heng with a smile on his face: "I heard that you also killed a wild boar. Do you need help killing it?"

Lin Heng understood that this was someone who took the initiative to take the job after hearing the news. He smiled and shook his head and said, "The wild boar only weighs 70 to 80 pounds. We will kill it ourselves. I'm sorry, Uncle Li."

"It's okay, I'll just ask, so I won't bother you." Li Niu smiled and waved his hand.

"Uncle Li, come in and have some tea."

Lin Heng was polite, but it was definitely impossible for him to come in, so he quickly left with his things on his back.

Back in the house, Xiulan had brought him hot water and soap.

"Are you not injured?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

"No, this is all wild boar blood." Lin Heng grinned.

"That's good. You wash your hands and face, go into the house and change your clothes. I'm afraid that if the blood dries for a long time, it won't be able to be washed off." Xiulan winked at him and said.

"it is good."

Lin Heng nodded, washed his face and hands, and also washed his head.

When he walked into the bedroom, Xiulan had already found a change of clothes for him and placed them neatly on the bed.

Taking out the clothes she had changed, Xiulan took them and threw them into the tub to soak.

"Hurry up and eat." Lin's father shouted, and they had already sat down to eat.

"okay."

Lin Heng nodded, Xiulan cooked rice, and the dishes were three dishes and one soup.

Lin Heng drank half a bowl of spinach and egg soup before eating.

Women and children sat in the room curiously questioning the process, especially Lin Tao who was as curious as his brother Lin Wei.

Father Lin and his father talked about the process for a while, and the smiles on their lips could not be concealed.

Lin Heng also had a great time today. He had a great sense of accomplishment when confronting a little wild boar. It made his blood boil and it was extremely exciting.

After chatting for a while, the sister-in-law went back to boil water, and Xiulan also filled the two pots at home with water and started boiling them.

After several people finished eating, they began to process the prey.

Lin Heng took the rice seeds to peel, while his second nephew Lin Tao helped.

Lin and his father were responsible for Tangzhu and killing pigs.

After a while, Lin Heng peeled off the skin of the white rice and stretched it on a wooden frame to dry. The skin could be sold for more than 20 yuan.

Looking at the delicate white rice meat, Lin Heng felt a little nostalgic. He hadn't eaten it in many years. After scraping open the belly, taking out all the internal organs and cleaning them up, Xiongba drank a belly full of pig blood, so there was no need to feed him for the time being.

The small intestines and belly, which are mainly braised, are also very delicious. I couldn't bear to feed Xiongba, so I left a lung for him and continued to feed him pork for the next meal.

Lin Heng finished killing Bai Mi Zi, and Lin's father had just pulled out the pig hair. He went to make soup for the pheasant. All the internal organs of this poor pheasant were smashed by sharp arrows.

After Lin Heng took out the chicken gizzards that he liked to eat, he could only wash the rest and feed them to Jinbao. The little guy was a little shocked to see such a big pile of meat, and he ate it for a long time.

After finishing the pheasant, Lin Heng came over to help kill the pig. After plucking the hair, they weighed it and it weighed only seventy-five pounds, which was about the same as they expected.

Liu Juan said with a smile: "It is this kind of young wild boar that is the most beautiful and tender. The ones that weigh a few hundred kilograms are all six or seven years old."

"Yes, this little pig is the best." Father Lin also nodded and said.

The three men chopped off the wild boar's head and took out the internal organs bit by bit. The wild boar was wounded by the gun on its hind legs, but its internal organs were not damaged.

After taking out the internal organs, the pure meat weighed a little more than fifty pounds. The pig was not thin, mainly because of its young age. Once the head was removed, only forty pounds of pure meat remained.

After the meat was divided, Lin Heng looked at his father and elder brother: "You guys can pick some for yourselves and take them away. A dozen kilograms for each person is enough. If I divide it, I don't know what part you want to eat."

Seeing that the two wanted to talk, Lin Heng added: "Don't refuse. It's annoying every time. We are all our own people. Just take it and eat it."

Father Lin looked at his eldest son Lin Yue and said with a smile: "Take it, take it, he is not short of this little meat, don't be pretentious."

As Father Lin said this, he handed him a ten-pound piece of pork front leg, and gave him another three or four pounds of white rice meat.

"That's right, don't be embarrassed." Lin Heng waved his hand. He couldn't finish the meat at all. There was still a lot of wild boar meat left, as well as some muntjac jerky.

"Haha, then I will take it shamelessly." Lin Yue smiled shyly and did not refuse. His three sons are very good at eating meat.

Father Lin himself also took a pig front leg, and then a pork liver, which he liked to eat.

"You can dry sausages in autumn. Let's dry the pig intestines into sausages." Xiulan suggested.

"Then I'll help you." Mother Lin said with a smile.

Xiulan nodded, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the kitchen with pig intestines and several kilograms of pork.

Lin Heng marinated the pork with salt and fennel seeds. The weather in autumn was suitable for drying bacon. He left a piece of pork hind leg uncut and prepared to dry it into ham.

After cooking the pork, Lin Heng didn't go to rest. It was already past five o'clock, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

After cleaning his hunting arrows, Lin Heng took Xiaoxia to watch Xiulan and the others making sausages, while Lin's father and elder brother peeled off the pig's head.

Making sausage is very simple, just cut the meat into small pieces, marinate it with salt, soy sauce, five-spice powder and other spices, add white wine and pour it into the pig intestines, and it's almost complete.

Then blanch it in boiling water, and then hang it in the yard to dry. The autumn wind is dry and cold, and the sausage can be completely dried in about a week.

After the sausages were dried, Xiulan fried a little more sugar, added the previous brine, and began to braise the meat.

"I made it just like the New Year, I made a big pot of meat." Mother Lin looked at the pot of meat and said with a smile.

"What the heck, let's get some beef to braise during the Chinese New Year. Mom, please eat it better." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The aroma of braised pork wafted out, not only did the children run into the kitchen from time to time to watch, but people passing by outside the yard also suffered, and their mouths watered when smelling the aroma of braised pork.

Mother Lin glared at him: "Don't waste money. Just have meat to eat. Pork and beef are the same."

"But we will have no shortage of meat when we go to barbecue in a few days." Father Lin said with a smile.

A few people found a deck of cards and chatted while playing. Father Lin is planning to dig some fern roots and kudzu roots in the next few days. It is estimated that he can dig a lot.

Lin Heng said that he could only wait to eat, and let him and his elder brother go. Digging kudzu is similar to yam, and it is not easy at all.

Towards evening, someone knocked on the door again. Lin Heng opened the door and saw Wang Kaidian. He smiled and said, "Uncle Wang, what can I do?"

"Is your family braised pork? Can you braise some pig head meat for me? I'll pay." Wang Kaidian said with a smile.

He likes to eat braised pig heads, but there is no braised ingredients at home. He heard that the aroma of Lin's braised pork spread far away, so he came here shamelessly.

"No need to pay. Uncle Wang, you can go back and get it. My meat is also finished braised." Lin Heng said with a smile. When Father Lin saw it was Wang Kaidian, he also came out to chat with him. The two of them started making dirty jokes and exchanged a few words. Wang Kaidian ran back to get the meat.

Not long after, he took out a large peeled pig head weighing more than 20 kilograms, as well as pig liver, small intestine and pig belly.

"Excuse me, Xiulan." He put the meat down and said with a smile.

"It's okay, it doesn't take much effort." Xiulan shook her head and entered the kitchen with the meat.

Lin Heng and his father left Wang Kaidian to eat. They were able to catch the wild boar because of Wang Kaidian.

Wang Kaidian was a little flattered when he saw that the Lin family had set up a long table of sumptuous dishes. He smiled and said, "The food at your house is so good. My mouth is watering when I pass by."

"Then come in and eat. Don't run away quietly." Father Lin looked at him and said.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Lin Heng asked with a smile: "Uncle Wang, how many wild boars did you encounter last night?"

Wang Kaidian replied: "There were three of us guarding, and a total of six or seven wild boars came. My shotgun was good, and I knocked down the big ones with one shot.

Two others shot and wounded several of them. They found the most seriously injured little wild boar in the afternoon, which weighed more than sixty pounds. The rest were completely missing. "

Father Lin said with a smile: "It seems that we have some luck with you. We found blood stains in Tongshugou, chased several mountains and came across this one, and our hind legs were slightly injured."

Wang Kaidian waved his hand and said with a smile: "This is your skill. Whoever hits it belongs to whoever it is. It is a wild thing. If you really want to say it, I will be the first. If you encounter it, the big wild boar Lin Heng's compound bow will Arrows can also kill.”

After taking a sip of wine, Wang Kaidian added: "It's just that your tracking skills are great. You can catch him. They chased him almost to death all afternoon."

"Haha, my dog ​​has a sharp nose." Lin Heng said after taking a bite of the braised pig belly.

Among the braised meats, Lin Heng’s favorite is the pig belly and intestines, as well as pig ears and pig tails.

Even though the pig tail is meatless, it becomes more and more delicious the more you eat it, and the bones are still crispy. You can't stop eating it after just one bite.

Therefore, Xiulan was not willing to take out the pig's tail and cut it. She only cut the pig's belly, ears, and heart.

After the meal, everyone was full.

The pork head braised in the pot for Wang Kaidian was ready, and Xiulan fished it out and put it in a bucket.

"This small intestine is given to you. You don't need any money, so just take it and taste it."

Wang Kaidian took out the small intestine and put it on the chopping board.

No matter how much Lin Heng tried to persuade him, he persisted, and finally ran away with the bucket. This man had been a soldier, and they couldn't catch him.

Lin Heng was embarrassed because he had already soaked up all the pork, but he still had a pair of pig intestines left over when he was braised for someone else.

"Take it, he's like that, he's very polite in everything he does." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded helplessly.

After clearing the dishes, Lin Heng was so tired and sleepy after washing up that he almost fell asleep while telling Xiaoxia a story.

After a lot of effort, he was finally able to go to bed and rest. It could be said that he fell asleep.

The next day, he didn't get up until he was drying his buttocks. When he came out to wash his face, Xiulan was drying sausages and bacon in the backyard.

After breakfast, Lin Heng lay in the backyard to bask in the sun for a while. The sun at the end of October in the Gregorian calendar was no longer as bright as before.

For lunch, I ate stir-fried rice meat. The meat was very delicate and had no fishy smell. This may be because Bai rice likes to eat fruits.

After finishing lunch, Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said, "There's nothing to do in the afternoon. Let's go to Hongfeng Mountain to catch shrimps. It's quite delicious."

Lin Heng nodded: "Okay, I will accompany you to catch shrimps for a while, and I will finish the unfinished work on the wooden house."

The two cleaned up and went to Hongfeng Mountain with their daughter and dog. Mother Lin happened to be grazing cattle here and helped.

This time Lin Heng took two small earth dragons he made and threw them into the pond full of shrimps. After catching them for a while, he went to continue the construction of the cabin.

The wooden piers were buried last time. This time, we just used wooden boards to build the beams, and then nailed other wooden boards on top.

The process of nailing the wooden boards was very fast. Lin Heng installed wooden floors around the wooden house. The front of the wooden house was the largest, extending for fifteen meters.

Standing on the outside, you can see the scenery on both sides of the river, and you can also have a panoramic view of the fish ponds at the foot of the mountain. It is an excellent viewing platform.

After the floor was laid, Lin Heng got some tree trunks to make railings. Although the wooden floor was not high from the ground, it was still easy for children to knock on it.

He gave up after working on it for a while. He couldn't make the mortise-and-tenon structure, so he might as well find a time to ask his father to come over and help.

Back at the creek, Xiulan was fishing in a pool, and Xiaoxia was applauding next to her.

"How's it going? Is fishing fun?" Lin Heng looked at his wife and asked. When he came, he not only brought a ground cage, but also a small fishing rod.

Xiulan nodded: "It's quite fun. I've caught forty or fifty stream groupers."

"Now do you believe that the fish I caught before were real?" Lin Heng asked with his hands on his hips.

Xiulan nodded obediently, satisfying his strange psychology: "Yes, yes, I was wrong."

"That's good, you're so good." Lin Heng grinned and went to collect his cage.

He lowered a total of three small cages, which were filled with meat cut from home. When he picked up the first cage and took a look, he was immediately happy: "Blast the cage, there are half a catty of shrimps here, and there are still There are seven or eight streams of rockers.”

Lin Heng was so excited that he immediately went to look for the remaining two cages. As expected, he found a lot of money from all of them. The three cages added up to two kilograms of shrimps.

"Honey, look at what I gained, it's more than what you caught all afternoon!" Lin Heng smiled and ran to Xiulan to show off.

"Awesome!" Xiulan nodded and praised her husband, making him feel comfortable.

Lin Heng happily poured the shrimp into the small fish protector made of fine mesh. Adding the one pound of shrimp caught by Xiulan and the others, it was already three pounds, and the river grouper also weighed two or three pounds.

After pouring out the shrimps, Lin Heng found another puddle and threw the cage into it. He would come over tomorrow, so he could collect it then.

I went home and made shrimp fried rice, which was so delicious.

In the evening, Lin Heng and Xiulan discussed the meaning of life, because soon she would have relatives again, and Lin Heng would have to endure it by himself for several days.

So he had to release his energy in advance, otherwise he would really not be able to sleep when Xiulan held him to rest.

Early on the morning of the 22nd, Lin Heng asked his father and elder brother to carry the white ash on their backs, go to Hongfeng Mountain to spread the line, nail the wooden stakes to find the level, and spread the specific terrain map. When the workers arrive tomorrow, they can start work directly.

The construction of fish ponds here is still in accordance with the previous plan. It is enough for each row of fish ponds to be level. The cost of leveling them all is too high.

From the edge of the road at the bottom of Hongfeng Mountain, there are three rows going up. Each row is about 400 meters long and 16 meters wide. Seven fish ponds can be built in one row, with a road in the middle.

Lin Heng's task today is to spread these lines well and find the level. Lin Heng worked on construction sites all his life, so he is familiar with these things.

"Lin Heng, look, someone is coming!" Lin's father pointed not far away and said.

Lin Heng looked up and smiled immediately: "You finally have time to come down!"

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ps: Four thousand words, ten thousand words per day is really difficult. I have no inspiration recently, and I am not feeling well. However, I will still work hard to fulfill the promise I made.

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