Reborn to Strive

Those three butchers had to kill three pigs in total.

Three pigs can receive a lot of pig blood. People here will prepare a bucket of water first, put salt in it, and when the pig blood is put in, they will keep stirring... Finally, the water will be mixed. The pig's blood mixed with salt will coagulate, and then it will be cooked and cut to form pieces of blood tofu.

Generally, there is a large pot of blood tofu made by one pig, and the whole family can't finish it. Guan Baiyu's adoptive father only needs the blood of one pig.

The pig's blood of the remaining two pigs was taken by the neighbors, and they took a share back to eat.

After the pig was slaughtered, it had to be shaved and the internal organs had to be disposed of. The three butchers worked together in a division of labor.

Shi Zhen went to talk to the butcher who he bought twice.

He has good facial features, but the clothes he wears are tattered. Coupled with his black skin, he looks like a simple rural youth. Anyway, he is the kind that people like and is easy to get close to.

The butcher was in his thirties, and his surname was Zhu. He liked Shi Zhen quite a bit, and talked to Shi Zhen casually.

These days, after some people get rich, everyone loves face more and more. Butcher Zhu sells meat in the town, and some people don’t have a penny, so they want to buy some meat on credit. If they can’t afford it, they have to buy it cheap. When eating meat, he also likes to find reasons, and some people even say that it is for dogs... The young man in front of him directly said that he has no money, and his rare sincerity also impressed him deeply.

"Brother Zhu, you all killed pigs the night before and sold them the next day? Can I learn how to butcher pigs from you?" Shi Zhen asked.

To be honest, you can't make a lot of money selling vegetables, but selling meat...you should earn a little more.

He remembered that when he was shopping in the vegetable market, there were quite a few people who bought meat, but not many people who sold meat. There were only a dozen or so people in total, which was fine, and a few of them had an obviously bad attitude towards customers. .

This should be a problem left over from history - in the past, meat was sold in the town, which was owned by the state unit, no matter how bad the attitude towards customers was, people still came to buy it!

Later, the meat joint factory was disbanded, but these people were still selling meat, and their attitude...was not very good.

The population here will increase in the future, and Shi Zhen believes that selling meat will be a good business in the long period of time when supermarkets and the like have not appeared in this town.

Of course, he won't sell meat all the time, but he came out to make a fortune, not only for himself... He tried to bring many people out of the village in his previous life, and it will be the same this time.

Even if he doesn't sell meat in the future, people from his village can still sell it.

"Learn to butcher pigs? You can't sell meat even if you learn it," Zhu butcher laughed. "We kill pigs secretly. Normally, the pork we want to sell must be taken from the slaughterhouse. And the stalls in the vegetable market are There are a lot of them, and it’s not easy for you to get them, and it costs several thousand to buy a stall.”

When Butcher Zhu mentioned the slaughterhouse, the people around him started chatting too.

According to regulations, the butchers in the town are not allowed to butcher their own pigs for sale, because they will pay less tax—at present, a pig needs to pay five yuan in tax, and there is also five yuan in slaughtering fees.

Butcher Zhu and the others came out to kill pigs just to save this tax and slaughter fees, so that a pig could earn an extra ten yuan.

"Butchering pigs is so tiring. If I didn't owe money to build a house, I would definitely not do this job." Butcher Zhu sighed.

He said a lot of miscellaneous things. For example, the pigs in the slaughterhouse will be stamped with edible paint. The pigs they kill outside are not stamped, so he must be careful when he sells them in the town, otherwise If found, you will be fined.

When they come out to slaughter pigs, the price they buy pork from the villagers is the same as the price that the slaughterhouse buys meat from the villagers. The reason why the villagers give them pigs instead of sending them to the slaughterhouse is because they can pick up pigs after killing them. Blood, and the second is because of the slaughterhouse. The villagers don't know how many catties the pigs weigh after they are slaughtered.

"When we buy pigs at the slaughterhouse, they sometimes write us a few catties less in the weight of the pigs," Zhu butcher laughed, "then come back to our stall and get the meat from us."

Nowadays, the staff in the slaughterhouse are all from the former meat factory, so there are many messy things like this.

Shi Zhen remembered that when he bought a pig tail, someone came to Zhu Butcher's place, and Zhu Butcher gave him a piece of meat without saying a word.

Butcher Zhu was probably also depressed. He talked about some messy things about the slaughterhouse. For example, the slaughterhouse kills several pigs every day, and the pork is nothing more than pork. You have to weigh them in front of them, and you can’t give them less, but pigs have sizes. Their internal organs also vary in weight. In the end, whoever has a good relationship with them will give heavy pig internal organs, even if the pigs taken from the slaughterhouse are light in weight.

Pork belly, pork liver, pig heart, etc., the price is not cheap. There is a lot of money difference between a two hundred catty pig and a hundred catty pig's offal!But the pigs sold here are paid for by the weight of the whole pig without the viscera after killing, and the viscera is just a free gift.

Shi Zhen chatted with Zhu Tuhu, and the more they chatted, the more speculative they became, and he also found out all about the price of pork.

I'm afraid you won't be able to be a butcher, but... Shi Zhen asked, "Only fifty cents a catty for a pig's head?"

Butcher Zhu said: "If the tongue and ears are removed, it costs fifty cents a catty."

At the end of the year, the price of pig heads will be very expensive, because local people like to buy pig heads to worship their ancestors, but usually pig heads are very cheap. As for why they are so cheap... there are many bones in pig heads and less meat. I bought them for fifty cents a catty. How many bones were removed.

The pig's head is quite big. Most people will not buy a pig's head when they want to eat pork.

Shi Zhen didn't go back to bed until he finished killing the pig. Of course, he didn't forget to ask for some pig's blood.

Everyone in the village already knew about him and Guan Baiyu. They were very curious about him, but they didn't have any malicious intentions, and they didn't mind sharing some of his pig's blood.

Early the next morning, Shi Zhen went to the town to buy a piece of tofu for dinner with pork blood and tofu soup. He also bought some spices such as cinnamon and bay leaves.

He planned to save money for a few days, buy a pig's head to stew, and then try to sell pig's head meat in the town during the weekend.

On weekends when the children are out of school, people in the town are willing to buy some delicious food for the children.

Besides... At this time, there are almost no cooked food sellers in the town, so there should be no problem selling pork heads.

The most important thing is that you can't sell it or lose a lot of money, and you can eat it yourself.

As for him going to dig river mud... on weekends, Guan Baiyu can watch him sell it.

Of course, this needs to be discussed with Guan Baiyu.

Shi Zhen had a plan, so he planned to discuss it with Guan Baiyu Shi Xinghuo that night.

As a result, when he got home that night, he got bad news—the person who sold mud with Shi Xinghuo stopped selling mud.

Selling mud to cement factories can make money, but this mud cannot be dug randomly. Even if you sell mud from your own land, you cannot dig your own land into a big hole.

In fact, selling mud is not allowed in the village, but most of the time you just turn a blind eye and close your eyes - digging a hole is not enough, digging a slope or something is fine.

So it is impossible for that person to sell mud all the time.

It's just that he stopped selling mud, so he didn't need to hire Shi Xinghuo, and Shi Xinghuo had no job for the time being.

Shi Zhen thought for a while, then said: "Brother, come with me to my work tomorrow, and I will do my work for you."

He decided to start selling pig head meat tomorrow.

Shi Xinghuo is capable of digging river mud. Let Shi Xinghuo do this job, so he can free up his hands to start a small business.

Before, he could only find a job as a small laborer, because doing a business like selling pig's head meat required at least a pot and money to buy pig's head, but he didn't have it.

Now, he can make it and sell it at Guan Baiyu's place.