rebirth all over again

The head of a tiger and the tail of an ox, the waist of four sheep; the twelve horses and bones are divided into yin and yang.

The first month is the tiger, and the twelfth month is the ox. Now it is the twelfth lunar month, and every family is preparing for the new year.

Prepare to kill pigs, make tofu, and push glutinous rice balls.

People in the north eat dumplings, and some in the south also eat dumplings, but in Chen Xiaoyun they eat glutinous rice balls.

On the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Grandpa Chen is going to kill the New Year's pig.

A few days ago, I just sold two other big fat pigs. Grandma Chen fed them well. Each pig weighed more than 300 catties. In their case, pigs weighing more than 200 catties cost 6 or 7 cents a catty, and pigs weighing less than 200 catties cost 4 or 5 cents. money.So this year, Grandma Chen’s pigs were big and fat, and the pig receiver paid a high price of 7 cents. Grandma Chen sold two big fat pigs that weighed more than 700 catties for more than 400 yuan, almost 500 yuan.

Grandma Chen was so happy that she counted the money from ear to ear, because it was worth the hard work she had put in this year with so much money, and the highest price was also a good recognition for her raising pigs.

Afterwards, others will say that Shuangyan is the capable daughter-in-law of Chen Laosan, and the pigs she raises are more than 300 catties. …

Grandma Chen started to work early in the morning, and Grandpa Chen also dug an earthen stove by the side of the dam early in the morning, and set up a large iron pot after digging.Boil water in it.

After breakfast, people who came to help arrived one after another. The Nian pig was a little big for a few years, so Grandpa Chen called a few more people to help.

The pig butcher is Grandpa Chen's brother, ranked fourth. His name is Chen Yuan, but everyone is used to calling him Chen Laosi. He also has a nickname because he likes to drink, and when he drinks, he starts bragging and shooting guns. , so everyone gave him a nickname "Yuan Da Pao" O(∩_∩)O!

Don't think he likes to brag and shoot, but he is good at killing pigs. Whenever the New Year comes, he will help others kill New Year's pigs without charging money, but after killing them, he will give a piece of meat. It depends on whether the family is generous or not, the Chen and Lao four families do not miss meat every year.

Chen Xiaoyun and others from all over the world asked him to butcher pigs. He didn’t have a piece of meat, even if it wasn’t much. The fourth daughter-in-law is also hardworking. Although the pigs at home are not as big as Grandma Chen's, they weigh more than 100 catties.

Chen Xiaoyun likes Chen Lao Si very much. He remembers that the relationship between the two of them was not very good in the previous life, and they always quarreled, but they never blamed the children when they quarreled. Every time the fourth grandpa made something delicious, the fourth grandpa would call him Chen Xiaoyun to eat.

Chen Xiaoyun remembers that the funniest thing was that Grandma Chen and Grandma Fourth got into an argument over some trivial matter, and the two of them were scolding you, but Grandpa Chen and Grandpa Chen were sitting at Chen Xiaoyun's house drinking together, After half of the drink, Grandma Chen and the others were still arguing. The fourth grandpa asked Chen Xiaoyun to bring them some tea, saying that they would become thirsty if they quarreled too much. As a result, Grandma Chen and Grandma Chen were speechless after hearing this.

"Third Brother, is the water ready?" Fourth Grandpa asked with his butcher on his back.

"Okay, just wait for everyone to arrive now." When Grandpa Chen was talking, all the people who came to help had arrived. Except for Grandpa Chen and Grandpa Fourth, there were four people who came to help butcher the pigs. One was Grandpa Xi and the other It was the man of Second Grandma Lian mentioned earlier, Chen Xiaoyun's cousin, named Chen Quan.The other two are Grandpa Chen's biological brother, the second one named Chen Guang, and the fourth one is Wang Qi's father Wang Lu.

Chen Lin and Wang Qi also came together. Children are very curious about slaughtering pigs, and Chen Xiaoyun was the same in his previous life. They would go to watch wherever the pigs are slaughtered. Usually, adults would not say anything at this time.

Chen Xiaoyun and two friends were watching from the side.

The fourth grandpa set up the butcher's board. The pig's board was actually the door panel lowered and set up on several large benches.

Grandpa Chen opened the door of the pigsty, went in and invited the pig out, surrounded by four people at the door, as soon as the pig came out, those who caught the ears caught the ears, those who caught the feet caught the feet, and those who caught the tail caught the tail. With heart-rending screams, he was dragged to the pig killing board that Chen Xiaoyun's fourth grandfather had set up before, and tied to the board with a rope so that he could not move. He probably knew that he was going to be killed today. Awow screaming, struggling desperately.

The fourth grandfather took out a butcher's knife and took a sip of wine, then sprayed the wine on the butcher's knife, and then stabbed it into the pig's neck. It was really a white knife in and a red knife out, and the pig died instantly .

Bright red pig's blood gushed out from the knife edge, and Grandma Chen hurriedly used the basin filled with salt to catch the blood. This pig's blood is a good thing, it can be filled with blood sausage.

After a while, the blood of the pig will flow clean.Then the fourth grandfather took a pipe or something to blow the pig up. Several people dragged the pig to the side of the boiling water pot, scooped up the boiling water and poured it on the pig. It took a few more times. After the shower, the fourth grandpa began to cut the hair on the pig.The shaved pig was big and white, like a big white winter melon.

After lifting the pig to the pig killing board, a small cut was made on the pig's back, and then Grandma Chen brought three incense sticks and lit them and put them on top, and the fourth grandfather bowed three times to the incense sticks.

I don't know exactly why they worshiped Chen Xiaoyun. I heard that it was an industry ceremony for their pig killers or something.

After worshiping, he took out the incense sticks, and the fourth grandpa chopped off the pig's head with a knife.Then a hook was hooked into the pig's butt, and several people hung the pig on a wooden ladder placed against the wall.

The Fourth Grandfather started to disembowel the pig. He took out the internal organs of the pig first, and then put the pig back on the slaughtering board after the stomach was cleaned. Then he started chopping the meat. The meat in the countryside is different from that in the city. The meat in the city is lean and fat Meat and ribs are separated, Chen Xiaoyun and the others are not.

Their rules for cutting meat are: a piece of meat is four fingers wide, and it must be connected with four batches of ribs. A piece of meat must weigh at least 10 catties. The largest piece of meat is pork leg meat, which is the pig's leg connected to the pig's buttocks. Which piece of meat is not separated, it is very big, and this kind of meat is usually kept as a gift meat from the natal family.

Fourth Grandpa chops meat, Grandpa Chen and the others are his helpers, those who pick up the meat take the meat, those who dismantle the intestines dismantle the intestines, and boast about the good fat and fat of the pig while busy. Grandpa Chen's joy is beyond words.

When the adults were busy, Chen Xiaoyun and the others were not idle. The three children picked some green vegetable leaves and brought them back after Grandpa Chen cleaned up the pig's iron making [pig's spleen]. Put some salt on it, wrap it with green vegetable leaves, and submerge it in the stove of boiling water.

In a few minutes, the smell of pig iron making was around Chen Xiaoyun and his nose, and several friends hurriedly took out the vegetable leaves that had been mushy. The fragrance of green vegetable leaves is divided into three pieces, one piece for each person.

Chen Xiaoyun hurriedly put the smelting iron in his hand into his mouth. It tasted so delicious that Chen Xiaoyun wanted to cry. He hadn't tasted it for many years, and now he finally tasted it again.

After eating the iron smelting, they also roasted a lot of small pieces of lean meat that Grandpa Chen and his family dropped, and the three children ate the oily and smooth ones.

If Grandpa Chen was not afraid that they would eat too much barbecue and would not be able to eat the rice for a while, Chen Xiaoyun and the others probably would continue to eat barbecue.

After the pork was chopped, Grandma Chen put all the pork on the banana leaves that had been washed before, and Grandpa Fourth, Grandpa Xi and the other three helping grandpas sat in the main room to rest and drink tea.

Grandpa Chen pried the pig farm to wash in a small river next to it, and Grandma Chen began to cut the meat to make rice for slaughtering pigs.

Chen Xiaoyun and the others have a saying: “It’s not as good as killing a pig’s rice.”

Killing the New Year's Pig is only half of the work. This can only be regarded as the completion of the men's task. The next part is the important task of killing the pig, which is also the task of the women.

The fourth grandma who came to help make the pig-killing rice, Chen Xiaoyun and the others are very powerful women, one of them is worth two, so the two of them can completely handle the cooking of pig-killing rice.

When Grandpa Chen came back after washing the pig's intestines, Grandma Chen and the others had already prepared rice for slaughtering pigs.

Everyone gathered around the table, and Grandma Chen and the others began to serve the dishes.

A pot of fat and thin, sweet and soft braised pork that melts in your mouth.

A pot of fresh and tender texture, ruddy color, made of soaked red pepper.Fish-flavored shredded pork made of onion, ginger, garlic, sugar, and salt sauce.

A pot of braised pork ribs with golden red color and salty taste.

A pot of golden-yellow, tender and soft potato roasted meat lumps. The potato is deep-fried until golden-yellow, and then the pork belly is cut into pieces and stir-fried until the color turns yellow and a lot of oil is flattened out. Then add water and seasonings. After boiling, simmer on low heat for half an hour.

A pot of farmhouse stir-fried pork, pork belly and green peppers, sauteed and spicy.

A pot of salted vegetables with braised meat. Salted vegetables are a kind of vegetable chopped and marinated with green vegetables in late autumn and early winter. It is not pickled vegetables, sauerkraut, or preserved vegetables.The salted cabbage meat is black and yellow, fresh and fragrant, the meat is delicious, fat but not greasy, it is really delicious in the world!

The last big dish is steamed pork with flour. The steamed pork with flour is glutinous and fragrant, crisp and refreshing, fat and thin, red and white, tender but not emaciated. The rice noodles are oily and rich in five flavors.The taste can be spicy or sweet, depending on personal taste, Chen Xiaoyun and the others are too spicy.

After the meat dishes are served, there are some vegetarian dishes and soup. The vegetarian dishes are regular potato chips, oily cabbage, and stir-fried lettuce.

The soup is vermicelli meat slice soup.

Looking at the delicious food on this table, both adults and children are welcome to eat.

The men were eating and drinking while discussing this year's harvest, and the women were discussing the new year's goods that will be prepared for the new year.

The few children didn't have time to listen to the adults' discussions at all, and they were too busy to eat.