Since the adults may not be able to get back until New Year's Eve, you can't wait until then to kill the pig. Because at that time, the butcher has already closed the knife, and on the other hand, every household can't win the New Year. Who will come to help you kill it?

Where's the pig?

There are three butchers in the village. One is Butcher Wang, who is also a professional pig butcher. He usually kills pigs for sale. The other is Butcher Wu, who is a bit older and is the more experienced butcher in the village who kills pigs. He likes to occupy some small areas.

Cheap. I hated him very much when I was a child. Because he helped kill pigs, not only did he have to smoke, drink and eat to get money, but he also took away the pig's spleen and meat. The family was very poor at that time, and he only had to eat and drink occasionally.

I can afford to kill the New Year pigs, and the pigs are still very small, no more than 200 kilograms. So I really hate this butcher. Also, he doesn’t shave the pigs seriously. There are so many hairs on the pig’s head that we take it home.

It is difficult to clean up. The last butcher is Liu San Butcher.

Liu San was not a butcher originally. There were five sisters in their family, and he was the third. He had two older sisters. The eldest sister married a teacher, and the second sister married Xiao Linyin’s husband’s brother. His two younger brothers also

They all worked, one was a teacher and the other was a doctor. He had also worked as a miner before, and later as a carpenter. Once, he and his second brother-in-law had an accident while using an old-fashioned vertical electric saw to cut wood for a coffin.

The electric saw cut off his second brother-in-law's hand for some unknown reason. Although the second brother-in-law's hand was reattached after surgery, the severed meridians and nerves did not recover very well, leaving some disabilities.

.Since then, they have changed their careers from being a carpenter. He didn’t know how he learned to be a butcher. Maybe he was self-taught. It’s just that he is a butcher only during the twelfth lunar month. Usually he either grows crops or

Go out and work part-time.

I want to ask him to help kill the New Year pig. Because his home is not far from my home, only thirty or forty meters away.

Just do it. Go to his house and make an appointment with him. He promised to help my family kill the New Year pig early tomorrow morning.

Then when I got home, I arranged for my brother to invite his father-in-law and mother-in-law, as well as his uncle and aunt to come to my house for dinner tomorrow. I especially told my brother to ask his uncle to come early to help with the pig-butting. Then I went to invite Aunt Wenying and Mr. Fan.

Taihe Yaoshu's house. Invite them to have dinner.

There are some things to pay attention to when killing New Year pigs. The most important thing is that during the process of driving the pigs to kill, the pigs cannot run into other people's houses. Except the butcher's house. Otherwise, it will bring bad luck to other people's houses and cause trouble. To

Apologizing to others, setting off firecrackers, etc. Also, we must pay attention to "killing with one knife". It cannot be killed with one knife, or even with several knifes. It is also impossible for a pig to be killed by a big bench after being knifed.

Things like climbing up and running away. In addition, there are also things to pay attention to such as filling the basin with pig blood, making sure the pig intestines don't leak, etc. There are really too many rules.

After making an appointment with the butcher and inviting the guests, we need to make some preparations for curing the bacon. We need to buy more than ten kilograms of salt to prepare. One is to make bacon, and the other is to make pickles.

The preparation of the pickles has been done in advance. I bought the salt, soaked the glutinous rice straw with water, and rubbed out seven or eight straws. I wiped the back of the armor clean with a wet handkerchief. I also had to hang the bacon.

Wipe the wooden sticks clean, prepare some braided rope, and sharpen the kitchen knife. Finally, prepare some scented wax paper money.

Think about it, I have to buy a pack of cigarettes and give them to the butcher tomorrow.

As soon as it dawned, I picked up the corn-packing sticks and some grain-packing poles, picked up the salt water basin, and went to the butcher's house to boil water. When I pushed the door open, I saw that Liu San had already boiled the water. There was a big iron pot on the stove.

There was already bursts of steam coming out of the house. I was very moved. I put the firewood in the basket and hurriedly handed over the cigarettes.

Liu San: "What are you doing? No, no."

Seeing him politely declining, I quickly said: "Old man, just pick up the cigarette and play with it." As I said that, I put the cigarette in his apron pocket.

Liu San: "The water is almost boiling. Is the person who will help your pigs come here?"

Me: "It should be coming soon."

Liu San handed me a cigarette, and I said, "I don't smoke."

He put the cigarette back and lit it himself. While smoking, he said, "How big is your pig?"

Me: "It weighs about two hundred pounds each."

Liu San: "A pig like this is very powerful. It weighs more than 200 kilograms. A pig of almost 300 kilograms is fat and has no strength."

After a while, he picked up the rope and said, "Let's go and drive the pig over first."

As soon as we entered the door, we found that two uncles were here. We opened the door of the pigsty, and the butcher walked in. As soon as he entered, the pigs probably smelled the blood on his body. It seemed that the pigs were very scared, and both pigs hid in the corner.

inside.

Liu San stepped forward, grabbed a pig by its ears and tried to drag it out. The pig was so frightened that it ran around in the pen and refused to leave the pen. After waiting for a while, he said: "Forget it, let's tie it with a rope."

You need to be safer when starting."

I saw him tying a slip knot on the rope, then cautiously approaching a pig, and caught a hind foot while the pig was walking. Then he tightened the slip knot and tied the pig's foot tightly. The pig was tied with a pull strap.

The tied ones were pulled out, and the untied ones also came out.

The butcher held the rope in his left hand and the bamboo pole in his right hand, and drove the two pigs away. We stood guard at the fork in the road, and together we drove the pigs into the butcher's yard, and then closed the door.

After taking a breath, the butcher shouted to push the pig to the big bench. Liu San grabbed two pig ears, uncle grabbed the pig's tail, and we pushed the pig's buttocks, got the pig to the big bench and held it down. The younger brother quickly put the pig down on the big bench.

He handed the rope to Liu San and tied the pig's mouth to prevent it from being bitten. Liu San tied the pig's mouth and then directed everyone to hold down the pig. The younger brother quickly put the salt water basin under the pig's neck and handed Liu San the butcher's knife.

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I quickly followed the example of an adult and lit the scented wax.

Liu San took the foot-long butcher's knife and looked at the killing hole. The knife penetrated the pig's throat. The pig immediately screamed at the top of its lungs.

It is said that the tip of the knife was going to hit the pig's heart. Liu San stabbed the knife in, and stabbed it in two or three times before slowly pulling the knife out. Blood flowed from the killing hole.

It gushed out. The pig's whole body twitched in pain.

Liu San: "Thousands of scoops of food, thousands of scoops of chaff, I will be stabbed today. In the next life, I will be reincarnated and become an official."

I don’t know if he was talking about a spell or something. After all the pig’s blood flowed out and the pig stopped twitching, Liu San told everyone to relax.

Then everyone lifted the pig onto the stove, and first put the pig's head and front half into the pot for soup. Liu Sankai scooped water from a ladle, shook the pig's body, and pulled the pig's hair with his hands. After a while, he said:

"Here it comes, here it comes." Everyone dragged the pig out of the pot and shaved it with a scraper.

With the rhythmic "swish, swish, swish", the pig's hair was shaved off. First, the pig's head, which was difficult to shave, was shaved clean, and then the hair on the body and legs was also shaved, and the four legs were shaved with a chain hook.

The hoof shell hook was pulled off. Then a hole was made in the pig's left hind leg with a butcher's knife, and a small chain hook was passed through. Everyone lifted up the naked pig, and Liu San hung the large chain hook on the big wood.

Then use a chain link to hang the pig's right hind leg. In this way, the whole pig is hanging upside down.

Pour some cool water and pour it on the naked pig, wash away the blood and hair, and then shave the missed hair.

Liu San changed the knife, then put the dustpan under the pig's head, picked up the knife and cut a circle along the pig's neck, then grabbed the pig's head and twisted it, and the pig's head fell off.

After removing the pig's head, he used a knife to start from the pig's butt and cut along the belly until it was killed. Then he took out the pig's internal organs, including the large and small intestines, and then quickly tore off the "flower oil". Skillfully removing the intestines

Turn over and squeeze out the contents. Take the straw rope and tie it up, letting Xiaojie lift it back first.

Then there are the pig belly, pig heart, liver, and pig lungs. Clean them and wash your hands. Cut the suet with a sharp knife and cut off the suet on both sides of the pork ribs.

Then turn to the back and cut along the spine from the buttocks. Then change the machete and cut the backbone. The pig body is divided into two and separated on both sides.

Then it's time to carve up the pork. This is how a pig ends its life.

Following the same pattern, the second pig ended quickly.

My uncle helped me carry the meat back. I rinsed the underground water clean, and then mixed water into the big iron pot so that the next family could kill the pigs.

Then I followed the example of an adult and put some pig blood on the paper money on the ground, took it back and pasted it on the wall of the pig pen.

Go home and continue to imitate the adults, place the pig's head under the shrine, and then light the fragrant wax.

Then everyone helped cut some meat and make some simple lunch. Then we started to prepare dinner.

Fortunately, Aunt Wenying, Xiao Linyin, and Aunt Yao came to help with the cooking and cooking. By the afternoon, almost all the guests had arrived. One table was not enough, so I went to Xiao Linyin's house to borrow a table and benches.

The adults sat down. Children who couldn't sit down picked up their bowls, put some vegetables in the bowls and stood up to eat.

Everyone was drinking and eating meat, it was so happy and lively.
Chapter completed!