Reborn Country Overlord

Chapter 21 Killing Pigs

Zhang Tao stopped watching after watching it for a while, packed his things and went to bed.Some things only belong to a certain period and a certain environment. When I look back at it again, I will never find the original feeling again.

Zhang Tao has no intention of continuing to watch, and it is better to go to bed early to feel comfortable.The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and Zhang Tao can't go hunting in the mountains because of customs, and his parents don't allow it, so he can only stay at home to play.

"What's wrong with Xiaotao? Why did he go to bed without watching TV?" Zheng Hu looked at Zhang Tao's reaction and asked his wife. He felt that Zhang Tao's reaction seemed abnormal. How could a child at this time not like watching TV? of?
"He has been like this for a while. He usually doesn't go to other people's houses to watch TV. He always stays at home. He probably has no interest in those TVs." Zhang Cuihua turned her head to look at Zhang Tao and replied indifferently, Zhang Tao has been like this for a long time, and he didn't go to Houzi's house to watch TV before, so there is nothing unusual about it.

The TV was not put on very late. Zhang Cuihua rushed Zhang Yong and Zhang Yan to the room to sleep after the "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" after ten o'clock in the evening. Zhang Tao didn't care about her and went back to bed early. up.

During the usual holidays, Zhang Cuihua would not let the children go to rest so early, but tonight is different. Their family will kill pigs tonight, and they have to do all these well when they are busy in the last few days at the end of the year, so tomorrow They have to get up very early in the morning, and they have to go to bed early, otherwise they won't be able to get up tomorrow.

At this time, every family in the countryside raises pigs. During the Chinese New Year, there will always be a few families that will kill a pig for the New Year, and then the people nearby will agree in advance how much meat to keep.The Zhang family's pigs were slaughtered a few years ago, and the days are relatively early, and they are usually killed at the age of 25 or [-].

Usually when the pigs are slaughtered, it is usually at dawn. The butcher who kills the pigs will kill the pigs and divide them. The pork is sent to the place where the butcher sells the meat.

But now it’s Chinese New Year, the pig doesn’t need to be given away after it’s killed, and the people in my own village can share a pig. The same goes for Zhang Tao’s pig. Don't be afraid that the meat will go bad.

Zhang Cuihua chose a good day. It happened to be the night when the electricity was turned on in her village, so it was much more convenient to butcher pigs. She didn’t need to use a flashlight to help. Just use a wire to lead a light bulb and put it outside. Indeed, these Zhang Cuihua had been prepared long ago, and the thread was pulled outside before dark.

The pigs in the pigsty obviously don't know their own fate. After eating enough, they fight with the guy in the same pen and then fall asleep on their stomachs. Meal is my last meal, and I will ascend to heaven tomorrow.

Before dawn, Zhang Tao was awakened by the sound of talking at home. It was the butcher who slaughtered pigs. He was drinking tea and chatting at home at the moment.

After hearing the sound, Zhang Tao quickly put on his clothes, washed and washed, and immediately ran to his stove to boil water first. This is what must be done at this time to kill pigs. After the pigs are killed, they must be scalded with boiling water. For pig hair, it won't need to be scalded in a few years, just rinse it with cold water and shave it.

Zhang Cuihua originally planned to boil the water by herself, but she didn't expect that Zhang Tao also knew how to do this. Seeing Zhang Tao coming to help her boil the water, she went back to her room to call the butcher to the pigsty.

The butcher brought an apprentice, plus Zheng Hu, and Zhang Cuihua, four of them were enough. They went to the pig pen and used a flashlight to confirm the killing of the pig, and then prepared to get the pig out.

Zhang Tao didn't follow him to see it. He had seen this kind of thing N times before, so he was very familiar with it.When slaughtering a pig, someone first drives the pig out of the pigsty, and then the butcher hooks the pig's chin with a special iron hook, and pulls it directly on the wooden bench prepared early in the morning, while other people help. Just drag on.

The strength of the pig is actually very strong, but because the jaw is hooked by the iron hook, it will be very painful when it struggles, so it has to be pulled away obediently, howling loudly all the way, the voice is particularly shrill, in this kind of It can be heard far away in the quiet early morning hours, and everyone nearby will be woken up.

Zhang Yong and Zhang Yan in the room were also woken up at this time, put on their clothes and ran outside to watch the pig slaughter.

After the two butchers over there, Shitu Er and Mrs. Zheng Hu, pressed the pig hard on the wooden bench, the rest of the butcher let go and bled the pig with a knife.This is a particular one, and the pigs with poor skills will have much less blood, and the pigs are not so easy to die.

At the same time, the butcher will be a little particular about it, like giving birth to pigs or something, Zhang Tao is not quite sure about the etiquette in it, this is the specialty of other butchers.

When the pig's blood flowed out, a large basin filled with salt water had been prepared to catch it all, and then put it aside to solidify.Pig blood is a good thing, and people in the country will put some chopped green onion and ginger after slaughtering a pig, add some meat bones to cook a big pot of pig blood soup, and then give a bowl to every family in the village. This is a custom .

When the blood of the pig is almost gone, it is time to start shaving.Before shaving, a hole must be made at the pig's foot, and then an iron rod is passed through the hole.At this time, the butcher's apprentice will blow hard through the opening.

After the pig’s whole body has swelled up, pour boiling water on the pig’s body, and the rest is hair removal—while beating the pig’s swollen body with a wooden stick, scalding the pig’s body with boiling water and scraping it with a special knife hair.

After the hair is shaved, the pig is opened and the contents of the pig's belly are separated out one by one.Pork liver, pig heart and pork kidney, these are all kept by the owner himself, and there is a lot of pig paste.This
One can be used to fry lard, which is a good thing in the countryside here in southern Shonan. Lard fried rice is the favorite food for children at this time when they wake up and study in the morning.

But it seems that no one eats this food in other places, and many people dislike it. At least Zhang Tao knows that people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the south don't like these things, and the market sells them very cheaply.

At this time, the butcher cut some good minced meat from the pig and handed it to Zhang Cuihua. Zhang Cuihua took these things and went back to the room with the pig's blood. She was going to prepare meals for the butcher.

The butchers who kill pigs usually stay at the host's house for a meal after finishing their work, and they will take the pork directly to sell after the meal.These minced meat are the more delicious parts of pigs. As professionals, they are naturally very familiar with these, so these things must be reserved for themselves.

After a pig is completely decomposed, Zhang Cuihua has already prepared the meal. There is a special dish in it, called "killing pig dish". It is fried with dried chili, garlic and ginger. The meat is the minced meat that the butcher just made. There are also some pig blood and offal.

This dish is probably the best dish in the eyes of rural children at this time. Even if people who are not very good at cooking make it, the taste will not be too bad, and the taste is very fragrant.

Zhang Tao and the others still have to wait for the butcher to eat it. This rule will gradually disappear in the countryside after Zhang Tao reaches junior high school. At that time, women and children eat with guests, and no one cares about that woman at all. Things that kids can't eat with guests anymore.

This is the first pig-killing dish that Zhang Tao ate after his rebirth. Compared with the pig-killing dish he ate outside the Hunan restaurant in his previous life, it tastes much more punctual. It seems that even the pork is better than the pork outside. Pepper Also very fragrant.In addition to the busy work all morning, he really felt hungry, so he ate a few big bowls of rice.

The panther also got up early, and kept circling around the place where the pig was slaughtered, staring at some minced meat left by the butcher.When other people's dogs heard the sound, they were all driven away by it. This site belongs to it, and some good things after slaughtering pigs are naturally owned by it. This opportunity is only a few times a year. Why? Can make other dogs take advantage of it.

At dawn, all the villagers who heard the sound of slaughtering pigs rushed over, and while talking about how well Zhang Tao's pigs were raised, they greeted the butcher according to their own needs and asked the butcher to distribute the pork to them.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, no matter whether you have made any money this year or how your life is going, you must prepare pork for the Chinese New Year, and you need to keep it for your family to give gifts to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year.

A whole pig was divided up quickly, and Zhang Tao’s family left dozens of catties of meat. This year, Zhang Tao’s mother made a lot of determination to keep so much for her family. The three children have gone through a lot of hardships these years. Days, it's rare to earn some money this year, and it's the pigs prepared by the family, so she kept so much.

After sending the butcher away, Zhang Cuihua prepared to boil the pig's blood while packing up the leftovers after the pig was slaughtered. This is a custom and a habit, and every housewife in the village would do this after a pig was slaughtered. "Mom, let me cook the blood, you can go busy with other things."

The reason why Zhang Tao took over this job was because the pig blood his mother cooked really didn't taste very good, and the housewives in their village made it casually, as if they could eat it, and didn't care about the taste at all.

So Zhang Tao once refused to eat this stuff when he was a child, because it tasted bad and had a fishy smell, which made his mouth feel a little nauseous.

But this thing is actually a good thing, and it is the best supplementary dish for Zhang Tao.The iron content in pig blood is relatively high, and it exists in the form of heme iron, which is easily absorbed and utilized by the human body.

Children in the growth and development stage and pregnant or breastfeeding women eat more can prevent iron deficiency anemia, and can effectively prevent coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis in middle-aged and elderly people.

(End of this chapter)