1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 181 My Ali is not cute at all!

The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

In the early morning, before daybreak, there was already noise in the Su family's courtyard.

soon.

The miserable squeals of pigs woke Su Wenchen and Jiang Li from their sleep.

Jiang Li yawned and pulled the light cord on the wall.

In an instant, a dim yellow light came on in the room.

Under the light, the kang was separated by a curtain in the middle.

As if hearing some noise, Su Wenchen yawned and opened his eyes.

"Ali, why did you get up so early today? I finally got a day off today, let me sleep a little longer!"

After hearing Su Wenchen's words, perhaps because she didn't drink water at night, Jiang Li's soft voice rang out.

"Big brother and his friends are slaughtering the New Year pig today. They said that apart from the half of the pork that is for the task, the rest will be divided among us. Are you still waiting for them to deliver it to you?"

"Hurry up and get up. There are many people slaughtering pigs today. If you don't get up early, you will miss the chance to get a number! Didn't you say you would take me to the New Year's market?"

Listening to the words coming from behind the curtain, Su Wenchen gradually came to his senses.

He knew that what Jiang Li said made sense.

The twenty-sixth day is usually the day to slaughter the New Year pig.

Families who keep pigs for the New Year usually slaughter the pigs on this day.

In addition to the half of the pork that is delivered to the meat processing plant, some members will take the remaining pork to the annual market to sell.

Some members will also sell the surplus directly to the meat processing plant at one time.

Generally speaking, if you sell it at last year's market, you can get a little more money, but you usually won't get any meat coupons.

If you sell it to a meat processing plant, you will get less money, but the meat processing plant will generally give you some meat coupons to make it easier for you to buy meat later.

However, most members usually hand in the whole pig, so they can get more meat coupons.

When the Chinese New Year comes, you can either eat the meat distributed by the brigade in front, or buy some meat from the New Year market or from the people who kill the New Year pigs in the brigade. It can be said that each has its pros and cons.

But I heard the rustling sound of someone putting on clothes.

Su Wenchen rolled over wrapped in the quilt.

A thin curtain certainly couldn't block him.

Rolled straight into the other half of the curtain.

Jiang Li looked at Su Wenchen who was tumbling in and said unhappily.

"What are you looking at? What else have you not seen? Hurry up and get dressed. There are many families behind the butcher who has just finished slaughtering pigs. Go and help him. Don't delay his efforts."

Su Wenchen looked at Jiang Li with her long hair and said with a pout.

"My Ah Li is not cute at all. Before, when I stretched my head out, you would push me back with a red face."

"You're not shy anymore. What's the point of hanging these curtains?"

Jiang Li rolled her eyes and spoke in the tone of an old married couple.

"You don't have to be nervous to say that. You've already seen it, why are you still being shy at home?"

As he said this, he glared at Su Wenchen in annoyance.

"Okay, hurry up and get up. I don't have time to complain to you. You made my throat hurt last night. I feel a little tired when talking in the morning. Don't do this again in the future."

When Su Wenchen heard this, his face turned red. He knew that he had gone too far last night, and he quickly rolled back in embarrassment.

He said quickly.

"Since the leader has arranged the work, I will get dressed and go help."

When Jiang Li heard this, the corners of her mouth immediately rose slightly, revealing a triumphant smile.

After Su Wenchen put on his clothes and opened the door.

moment.

A white frost penetrated directly into the neck through the collar.

Su Wenchen shuddered and looked up at the horizon.

Because the days are shorter in winter, even at around six in the morning, the sky only shows a light blue halo.

Obviously, there is still some distance before daybreak.

However, the yard was already busy at this time.

Wisps of smoke were already rising from the adobe roof of the main house, and two large iron pots on the stove in the house were already bubbling with white bubbles.

At this time, the dark and strong black pig that had been raised in my eldest brother's house for a year had been tied up and tied to the rack.

Several men from the brigade who were on good terms with Su Wenzhang gathered around the black pig to comment on it.

"Ouch——! Ouch——!"

From time to time, Su Wenchen could hear the black pig's heart-wrenching screams.

Obviously, it also knows that it has been well fed and served for a year, and now its life has reached the countdown time.

Outside the other side of the yard, there were also several half-grown children wearing thick cotton pants and with runny noses, all standing on tiptoe, leaning over the fence and sticking their heads out to look.

Seeing this, Su Wenchen walked straight over and said.

"Dad, big brother, what do you need me for?"

Father Su waved his hand.

"We've tied us up, we don't need you anymore! You finally got a day off, go back and rest!"

Su Wenchen nodded upon seeing this.

Because he really couldn't help with killing pigs.

But he still took out cigarettes and distributed them to the people around him.

When a butcher worker from the slaughterhouse under the meat processing plant saw Su Wenchen passing out a cigarette, he immediately took it with a little respect.

"Director Su, so this is your house. Just wait and see! I will definitely use my best cooking skills to try to save you some meat."

Su Wenchen smiled and nodded.

"Then I'll trouble you, Master Sun!"

"I just didn't expect that your factory would actually let all of you old masters come out to slaughter pigs. It seems that my family is lucky!"

Su Wenchen had dealt with this man several times before. The pork that their chicken farm distributed as New Year's goods was also slaughtered in a slaughterhouse.

Generally speaking, such an experienced chef can rely on his experience to accurately cut and remove inedible harmful parts such as lymph nodes. An inexperienced chef may cut too much, causing waste, or cut too little, which may lead to the consumption of such harmful parts.

So it is a kind of luck to meet such an experienced master who comes to slaughter pigs.

Because there are very few private butchers at this time, the task pigs raised by each household need to be handed in, and they cannot be slaughtered privately.

If you don’t go to a public slaughterhouse, there won’t be so many pigs for you to kill!

People like him used to be pig butchers who passed down the family business. After the full nationalization, they basically went to the slaughterhouses under the meat processing plants to work as masters in the butchering business.

On the other side, Master Sun heard what Su Wenchen said and immediately said with a smile.

"Director Su, please don't flatter me. What master? I'm just a butcher."

"But everyone in your team is really rich this year. I alone have lined up with ten families in your team today."

"There are four slaughter workers from our factory who come to your brigade, including me."

"Today, I'm afraid we'll have to kill your entire team!"

As they were talking, the other party finished a cigarette and spoke directly.

"Su Chang, I have to hurry up. I have a lot of missions these days! Basically, I have to kill so many people every year that my hands and feet are weak."

Su Wenchen also knew that these days should be the busiest time of the year for the slaughterhouse.

The fat pigs that have been raised for a year are now being slaughtered.

With such a large number of people killed entirely by hand, one would be exhausted!

"Okay, Master Sun, you are busy, I will help you."

"Don't, Su Chang, just watch. It would be bad if the pig kicks you."

Then he turned around and said to the young man who was coming towards him.

"You bastard, you have no foresight at all. Come over and hold him down."

The young man rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath.

"I'm a bunny, what are you? A bunny!"

But he still walked over and helped hold the pig down.

On the other side, Su Wenjian also said quickly, "Master Sun, just make the arrangements, we can all help!"

Since no one else needed help, Su Wenchen was also happy and relaxed.

Then, several people held down the black pig, and Master Sun picked up a sharp knife that was sharpened to a bright shine.

A group of half-grown children were standing on tiptoe on the fence to watch, and someone suddenly shouted, "The pigs are going to be slaughtered."

A few timid children quickly covered their eyes, but the gaps between their fingers were so loose that light leaked in.

It was obvious that he was extremely conflicted, wanting to see it but being afraid at the same time, so he could only do this kind of thing of covering his ears and stealing the bell.

Master Sun's rough palm was used to examine the pig's neck.

Swish-!
The sharp knife sank cleanly into the pig's skin and flesh.

"Ow—!"

After a heart-wrenching roar, there was soon no movement.

Instead, there was a large basin of steaming pig blood on the ground.

But at this time, the happiest person in the yard was Little Stone, who was holding a pig's bladder.

After blowing the pig's bladder into a transparent balloon shape, he tied a thin hemp rope to it and ran out of the yard carrying it.

The little friend who was originally lying on the fence and sniffing his nose, quickly followed.

Begging them to play too.

Obviously in this age without plastic balloons, this is the most primitive form of balloons.

After slaughtering and removing the hair, the master chef will cut the meat into pieces with his skillful movements.

A whole pig, cut in half.

The side with the tail was loaded directly onto the slaughterhouse's truck.

Master Sun also helped them to split the other half.

For example, tear off the lard completely and keep special parts such as the heart meat and throat.

In a short while, half a pig's belly was cut into several large pieces.

"Su Chang, I've divided it up for you. You can sort it out yourself. I have to go to the next store."

Su Wenchen saw that the sky was almost getting brighter.

He knew that when slaughtering pigs during the New Year, the old masters usually didn't have the time to help you cut them up carefully. They would just remove the lymph nodes and other tissues and then rush to the next store.

The rest you can divide among yourselves.

As for the incomplete tearing of the lard, no one has the time to care about it.

The other party must have helped out of consideration for his face, but the pig was killed by his eldest brother's family after all, so he couldn't make the decision directly, so he took out a box of peonies that he had just opened from his pocket.

"Master Sun, thank you for your hard work. Take this box of cigarettes!"

"Su Chang, how can this be possible? Our factory has helped your chicken farm slaughter pigs and you have already given us a lot of things."

Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"This is different. Those are all public property, and this is mine. How can they be the same? Take it!"

As he said this, he put it in the other person's pocket.

Master Sun declined briefly before accepting it and turned to urge the young man.

"You bastard, pack your things quickly and go to the next house. You told them that you've boiled water for them, right?"

The other party muttered.

"Humph, do I need you to remind me? I've already notified them, and the people they called for help have gone over there, waiting for you to come over and strike."

"That's quite a good eye. Let's go! Hurry up and get over there."

Looking at the two people's hurried backs.

Su Wen Zhang came over: "Why are you giving me cigarettes? I was just going to give you some food..."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"I really don't want to give away offal, especially pig intestines. I think they taste better than pork after they are cleaned."

"You can also stuff some blood sausage into the pan and save it for later consumption."

Many of Su Wenchen's living habits were still influenced by later generations.

After all, pig intestines are much more expensive than pork.

Moreover, Su Wenchen also felt that for families that inherited the tradition of being butchers, there was no shortage of food such as pig offal in this era.

Giving someone a pack of cigarettes is more useful than giving them sewage.

After all, they have to buy their own cigarettes, and they need cigarette coupons, but they probably eat offal often.

But Su Wenchen is different. He really doesn't lack this kind of ordinary bills now.

Now their livestock farm can receive a fixed amount of tobacco coupons every month.

These miscellaneous tickets, such as tobacco tickets, liquor tickets, industrial tickets, etc., are generally distributed to each factory in a certain amount every month based on the degree to which they complete the task targets given above.

This can be considered as one of the means to motivate these factory leaders to work hard in production!

Although their farm has no tasks this year, they will naturally receive this quota for the extra eggs they provide at the end of the year.

Generally, this type of ticket allocation is usually allocated by the main leaders to each department that performs outstandingly.

The department leader will then distribute it to employees with outstanding performance in the department.

Therefore, generally speaking, the higher the leader, the less likely he is to lack various documents.

Because the bills issued by superiors are first distributed to these people.

Therefore, Su Wenchen now has no shortage of tickets such as cigarette tickets and wine tickets.

Moreover, he was not a heavy smoker and basically only smoked when he was doing things, so he saved a lot of cigarette coupons every month, most of which were used by his father.

Su Wen Zhang also knew that Su Wenchen didn't lack this little thing now.

Directly.

"Since you like to eat fish, I'll give it all to you. Each family in Dashan can buy a few pounds. I don't plan to sell the rest at the market last year. We can eat as much as we want this year!"

As he said this, he licked the corner of his mouth and divided half of the pork among the three families. Each family received at least thirty or forty kilograms of pork.

In this era.

During the Chinese New Year, buying thirty or forty kilograms of pork is definitely an extremely luxurious thing.

Su Wenchen nodded.

"Okay, since you and second brother don't want it, just give it to me! Then you can divide it up, big brother Pork! Just ask Ali for the price when the time comes."

Su Wen Zhang waved his hand.

"Why give me money? It's your own pig. Shitou has eaten a lot of your eggs this year."

"I'm telling you, I won't give it to you even if you pay me, and your sister-in-law was able to enter your venue thanks to you!"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"This is different, and my sister-in-law also gave me money, so I didn't suffer any loss."

"I didn't lose anything, I didn't lose three hundred dollars!"

"Now you don't know, once your farm releases the New Year goods, people from all over the country will want to go to your farm the most."

"There really is a work quota. It is said that even people in the city are willing to buy it for 1,000 yuan!"

"But I also heard about this. Anyway, many families in the city are having trouble celebrating the New Year because of the issue of going to the countryside."

Su Wenchen also knew that he would have to go to the countryside after the Chinese New Year.

Naturally, everyone is busy finding good jobs for their children.

Many even let their children take over in advance just to avoid the fate of going to the countryside.

But he also knew that this was still relatively good. Once the first batch arrived, the real situation in rural areas would be known and news would be passed back.

It will be really lively then.

There are many cases of older brothers registering for younger brothers and younger sisters registering for older sisters.

There are also many families whose homes are in chaos.

However, seeing that his elder brother refused to take any money, Su Wenchen did not force him.

When the time comes, the New Year goods they bought will be shared among each family. Sometimes it is not good to divide them too clearly among the family.

But don't be too confused. To put it bluntly, this kind of thing depends on the person.

When you meet relatives who are just trying to take advantage of you, you should be clear about it, because they are likely to take advantage of you.

(End of this chapter)