Defeat natural disasters with farming

As early as when the children were playing, Ye Shuan's house was bustling with activity.

Because there are only two pig butchers in the entire ten miles and eight townships, their village booked one of the familiar pig butchers half a month ago. Before he came, he still needed to do some preparations before slaughtering pigs.

Butchers prepare pig knives by themselves, but they need to prepare knives for shaving pig hair, chopping boards for slaughtering pigs, various pots and plates, and various side dishes.

After Mrs. Ye came over, she was in charge of cutting the sauerkraut. They had to slice the sauerkraut into several thin layers, and then cut it into thin shreds. At the end of the cutting, they filled a large basin.

Several people were chatting while working.

Hearing the wailing of the pigs outside, Ye Shuanniang said with a smile: "The pigs have been raised well this year, and the pigs mixed with bean dregs are used to feed them. I see that the fat on their bodies grows more and more every day."

Mrs. Huang responded, "Look at what the bean dregs are, but they are made of beans, and they can be eaten by humans, let alone pigs."

"The two pigs have been fed this year, and we can get a lot of meat. We can eat some during the Chinese New Year."

As soon as this was said, someone immediately agreed, "That's right, my little one wants to make dumplings every day, and when the pork is divided, I will make pork and cabbage dumplings for him!"

"Dumplings should be eaten during Chinese New Year."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Huang suddenly lowered her voice and said, "Do you think the Wu family will have the cheek to come over to eat pig-killing dishes this time?"

It is actually not expensive to buy piglets with the power of one village. Even if you buy two, you will only get a dozen or so big bucks among dozens of households. Basically no one can't afford it, but there are always Then one family refused to pay, and would come over to eat free food every time it was time to eat butchered dishes. They didn't stop them for the sake of fellow villagers, but the Wu family took a lot of advantage.

Ye Shuanniang stopped what she was doing, "How could you not come here? I get angry when I see them. I can't find another family in the whole village who don't want to face like them."

"The lady of the Wu family has reached the age of marriage, but based on their family style, how can anyone be willing to marry a girl from their family?" Mrs. Huang once again lamented why the lady of the Wu family was born in the Wu family. Whenever she changed a family, she wanted her grandson to marry Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Ye wondered, "Their family and Wang's family came from the same area, so why is there such a big difference?"

"That's not true," Ye Shuanniang replied, "The Wang family's brother Shu is now literate by Ye Tongsheng. It is said that he is quite intelligent. If he can enter the college in the county, it is said that he has a chance to be admitted to Tongsheng."

This is also the reason why the Wang family and his wife have been selling tofu from dawn to dusk these days. After all, if they want to send their children to the academy, they need to prepare for training, teacher apprenticeship ceremony, annual ceremony...

These add up to a lot of money.

Mrs. Huang calculated Wang Shu's age in her heart, "I remember that Brother Shu is already 13 years old this year, and this age is suitable for taking the county examination."

Don’t compare with other people, let’s just say Ye Tongsheng. He was sent to Heihe Academy by his family to attend the enlightenment class at the age of five, and was not allowed to take the county examination until he was 12. Even so, he was stuck in the college examination. It took five years to pass the exam, and then he failed to pass the township exam three times in a row, so he simply stopped taking the exam.

"Yes, but the result is hard to tell. The county test is not so easy."

They looked at each other with concern, and changed the subject tacitly.

The new topic was started by Ye Shuanniang, and it was about the marriage of men and women. After all, there was nothing else to gossip about in the village.

"The girl from Dr. Hao's family has turned 22 this year, but the matchmakers who came to propose marriage were all rejected by Dr. Hao. Could it be that their family really wants to recruit?"

Mrs. Ye continued to cut the sauerkraut, "Just recruit. Dr. Hao is such a charming and pampered daughter. It's normal that he doesn't want to marry her off."

Ye Shuanniang didn't have any opinion on recruiting a son-in-law, she was just a little worried that the son-in-law she hired would not be a decent person.

After all, only those whose families are too poor to let go of the blame will be willing to let a boy be a son-in-law. Under normal circumstances, such a man always has some unacceptable shortcomings.

Dr. Hao's daughter, Hao Yan, is really a good girl, with a quiet and gentle temperament, and she also learned medical skills from her father. Women in the nearby villages and villages would go to her for any illness that could not be treated by a male doctor.

When Ye Shuanniang gave birth to Ye Shuan, she had dystocia and almost killed two people. In the end, it was the mother and son who were rescued by Hao Yan.From then on, Ye Shuan's family regarded Dr. Hao's father and daughter as saviors, and would bring gifts to visit once every year and festival.

"Well, I hope I can recruit a man of good character."

Mrs. Ye glanced at her and comforted her, "Don't worry, Mr. Hao and his daughter are people who know their hearts well, and their character will definitely not escape their eyes. I'm afraid that nothing you worry about will happen."

After talking here, the sauerkraut in their hands was cut up.

The men had already caught the pigs at this time, and both pigs were tied to the case, and their limbs were tightly bound with hemp rope.

The invited pig butcher took a half-meter-long butcher's knife and made a small slit under the pig's neck. The pig's blood gushed out of the small slit and fell into a large basin on the ground. Ye Shuan's father Stand by the basin and stir the pig's blood vigorously with a wooden stick to prevent it from coagulating.

When a pot of pig blood is filled, just put it in the yard and freeze it for a while, and it will completely solidify. The frozen pig blood will not be smelly or sticky, and it will be delicious and smooth, no matter how it is made, it will be delicious.

As the pig's blood flowed less and less, the pig's movement became weaker and weaker, and finally the blood was drained dry, and the pig stopped howling.

After killing a pig, pour hot water on it, then use a razor to remove the hair, and finally cut off the pig's head and trotters, and disembowel the pig.

Some of the internal organs that have been taken out are edible, and they taste very good and have high nutritional value, so they must not be thrown away.

Just like a pig's small intestine, this thing looks dirty, but it is actually very useful. It can be used as a casing for blood sausage.

His mother Ye Shuan took the lumps of pig intestines away, and when she cleaned them, she found that they were more than ten meters long.

The method of blood sausage is actually not difficult. The difficult thing is to clean the pig's small intestine. You must first use plant ash to absorb the oil stains on the pig's small intestine, and then rub it with salt for a second time. Only in this way can you get a clean casing.

Now that the casing is ready, the next step is to make the pig blood stuffing. This work is handed over to Mrs. Ye. She mixes pig blood and water in a ratio of one to one, and then pours the minced green onion, ginger and garlic into the blood water. In the mixture, season again at the end, add a little salt, pepper and soy sauce.

After both are prepared, the enema can be performed. Tie a strong rope at the bottom of the casing, pour the stuffing from the other side, and then tie this side tightly with a rope after filling it all. This is the so-called pig blood intestinal.

Ye Shuanniang, who was standing by the basin, quickly took the finished blood sausage, put it into the pot and cooked it, then fished it out and cut it into thick slices, served it with sauerkraut and stewed it together, the taste was really soft and delicate, slippery to the bite It slipped down the throat.

The other large pieces of white meat were stewed in the pot, and the smell of the meat came to the face, making the whole Ye Shuan's house linger under the white steam.

When the three of Ye Yu came from home, it was just time for dinner. At this time, the whole village had already come, even the village chief and the elders, and because there were not enough tables, many of them without benches were filled with a bowl of meat. Squat on the ground in the house to eat.

Because Ye Yu's family was close to Ye Shuan's family, they were able to sit at the kang table with the village head and elders.

There is a pot of sauerkraut blood sausage in the middle of the table, and there are several plates beside it, with all kinds of white meat and dishes made of pork liver and pig heart.

Even though the weather was minus [-] degrees, this small courtyard was full of heat. The men ate meat on the table to brag about, while the women picked up fat meat to eat. They had to pay attention to the children around them from time to time.

Ye Yu's cheeks bulged from eating too. There was a burning kang under his buttocks, so it was not cold at all. The stewed sauerkraut with pork and blood sausage was delicious and not greasy. It was very appetizing, especially the blood sausage inside, which had a fishy smell None, it melts in the mouth.

"Grandma, it's been a long time since our family got the pork and refined it. It's been a long time." Ye He leaned over to Old Madam Ye and said, "It looks like we can get a lot of pork this year."

Mrs. Ye rolled her eyes at him, "This much meat is not enough for you to eat. You have to save it for the Chinese New Year to make dumplings. If you eat it now, what will you eat during the Chinese New Year?"

In fact, Ye He was just asking casually, but the old lady Ye didn't agree, and he wasn't angry, so he turned around and grabbed the big pieces of white meat on the table with his chopsticks.

Everyone at this table was full of greasy food.

Halfway through eating, there was a sudden wailing sound outside the door.

Ye Yu's hands that picked up the vegetables froze, what's the matter?

After Ye Shuanniang heard the movement, she ran out quickly, and came in again after a while, "Mr. Hao, come here quickly, someone fell outside and couldn't stand up."

Dr. Hao quickly put down the chopsticks in his hand, and walked out two steps at a time. At the same time, Dr. Hao couldn't sit still anymore, and she walked out with the two of them.

The villagers in the house looked at each other, curious in their hearts, and followed out by coincidence.

Ye Yu's family was no exception. They went out and saw that it was Mrs. Wu lying on the ground, wailing as she hammered the ground, "It hurts so much, what's going on with your house? The ice hasn't been shoveled clean. If I fall Either way, you will be held accountable!"

When she said this, she still didn't forget to hide the cloth pocket at her side under her body.

Dr. Hao was squatting on the ground to check her pulse, while Dr. Hao was feeling the bones on the other side, and no one paid any attention to her.

"What's the matter?"

The villagers who watched the whole process happened to be looking for someone to share gossip with, and when they saw someone questioning, they immediately answered: "Isn't it because she came here to eat the butchered vegetables by herself, and wanted to put the vegetables in her cloth pocket and take them away. This pig has no food at all. For their family's share, it would be nice to let her come to eat pig-killing dishes, there is no reason to even eat and take."

Speaking of this, the villager became amused again, "Who knew that she would lose a lot of rice by stealing chickens. Before she even got out of the yard, she stepped on the freshly frozen ice, slipped and fell to the ground."

Hearing this, Ye Yu saw the cloth pockets scattered around Mrs. Wu, which contained several pieces of white meat and ribs.

"Why didn't she bring Wu Shitou this time?" Mrs. Huang looked left and right and found that there was someone missing. In previous years, they, the old and the young, came to eat.

The villager slapped his thigh, "Why didn't I take it with me? Didn't the stone come home after the fall and call for someone to come?"

Mrs. Huang understood, and she said contemptuously, "Could it be that she still wants to rely on her?"

"Who knows."

The villagers were whispering, and most of them felt that Mrs. Wu had done it to herself.

"The foot is dislocated." Doctor Xiao Hao said concisely: "It's not serious, just reset it and it will be fine. If you are worried, you can also prescribe a prescription, and it will get better faster."

Mrs. Wu rolled her eyes, "How much money do you want?"

"Reset doesn't cost money."

After saying this, Dr. Hao started to attack. Ye Yu only heard a click, and then there was the wailing sound of Mrs. Wu.

The shrill voice made him shiver.

"It's ok. I've been resting in bed more recently and don't walk. I'll be fine in about a month."

At this time, Wu Shitou also led his parents over. As soon as Mrs. Wu saw her daughter-in-law, she scolded: "You are heartless, you didn't see that I was still lying on the ground, why don't you hurry up and help me."

Mrs. Wang quickly ran over to help Mrs. Wu up.

To be honest, this scene seemed a bit sad to Ye Yu. Imagine a short, fat and round old lady putting her whole body weight on a thin young woman. It's hard not to feel sympathy. , and both Wu Dalang and Wu Shitou are strong, but neither of them thought of helping.

The former stood with his hands in his hands and looked left and right, while the latter was only thinking about eating meat.

Mrs. Wu leaned on her daughter-in-law, stood on one foot, and said to Ye Shuanniang confidently: "Your house did not remove the ice and caused me to fall. I must be responsible."

Ye Shuanniang was also stubborn, and directly said: "There is no such reason in the world. It is obvious that you are not careful. Who can always pay attention to whether the yard is frozen in such a cold day. Besides, if you are not a guilty conscience, how could you step on it?"

"And don't think that no one saw the meat you stole."

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Wu immediately felt guilty. She hid the cloth pocket behind her back, still muttering, but she didn't dare to say anything else, for fear that the meat would not be in her hands.

Seeing the back of them leaving, Ye Shuaniang pouted and complained: "It's really bad luck."

Mother Ye took her arm and walked into the house, "Okay, don't be angry, it's not worth getting angry about this."

But the atmosphere in the house was not affected by this incident at all, and even the village head was happy after eating, and even asked his son to go home to get a bottle of wine, and gave everyone a small glass.

This is the common shochu in their area. It is slightly yellowish in color and has a spicy taste. Almost no one in the nearby area is used to drinking it. Soft and not flavorful at all.

Between pushing cups and changing cups, the sky gradually darkened.

This pig-killing meal lasted until the evening. At the end, the village chief presided over the distribution of pork. There were a total of two pigs with nearly [-] catties of pork, including pig offal and pig heads, which were distributed equally to each household. It is not bad to be able to get six catties of pork, after all, only three catties were allocated to each household last year.

In today's era, one catty of meat is enough for a family to eat several meals, and six catties of meat don't have to worry about running out of meat for a whole year.

Ye Yu's family got a piece of meat with pig fat, a piece of pork belly and a pair of pig's trotters. They were all good meat, and this was specially left for their family by the village head.

In addition, because Wang Qiang and his wife chose to sell four catties of the six catties they shared with themselves, leaving only two catties for their children, so Mrs. Ye took money from him to buy two catties of pork tenderloin and Two catties of pork offal.

When I got home, the old lady Ye scattered the pieces of meat in the yard. After they were frozen overnight, they could be put into a large tank outside the house. Put the meat on one layer and put snow on the other, and then put the lid on, and the pork could be stored In the spring of the next year, and when they eat the meat again, the meat is still very fresh.

Ye He stared at the pork and swallowed, "It's oily and delicious, especially if you sprinkle some sugar on it, the taste will be even better."

Taohua glanced at him, "Didn't you just eat meat? Why are you so greedy?"

"Whoever says that you can't be greedy when you are full, there is no such reason." Ye He said confidently: "I think I can eat two more pieces of meat now."

When Mrs. Ye passed by him, she happened to hear this, and she reached out and slapped Ye He on the head, "Eat whatever you want, wash up and go to sleep."

Ye He covered his head and wailed, "Don't hit, don't hit, I'm going right now."

Ye Yu was squatting in the corner brushing her teeth at this time, and when she saw Ye He running over with her head covered, she gave him a surprised look.

Everyone in the family knows that Ye He doesn't like to brush his teeth, and every time he has to ask his mother three times, why is he so active today.

Seeing his puzzled little eyes, Taohua gave a smirk, and explained: "I was trained by our grandma, who told him to keep his mouth shut every day."

As soon as Ye Yu heard this, she understood that Ye Hetian was not afraid of anything, only his grandma and his mother, every time he met them, he was like a mouse meeting a cat, he was very cowardly.

Thinking of this, he also wanted to laugh, but he forgot that he was still brushing his teeth, and he choked up as soon as he opened his mouth, and almost swallowed the tooth powder. He quickly put down brushing his teeth, drank saliva and rinsed his mouth.

Ye Yu's teeth were almost brushed after such a lot of tossing, so he took his things into the house, and was just about to go to bed when he saw Xiaomi poking his head out of the house.

Ye Yu waved at it, "Do you want to sleep with me?"

As soon as he said this, Xiaomi ran in and jumped onto the kang as if he understood, and nestled himself at his feet.

Ye Yu patted its head and said softly, "Good night."

I thought that tonight would be another dream until dawn, but the sky failed to fulfill my wish.

In the middle of the night, when Ye Yu was sleeping soundly, he suddenly heard a scream from the next door, breaking the silence of the night instantly. He opened his eyes suddenly, and then heard footsteps again.

Even Xiaomi was woken up, it jumped up vigilantly and looked around, Ye Yu patted its back to comfort it, then listened intently, the sound seemed to come from the Wu family.

"Brother Bao." Mother Ye rushed over with an oil lamp, she was only wearing a coat, and when she saw that Ye Yu had sat up, she stepped forward and touched his face, "Aren't you scared? "

Ye Yu moved his body to make room for his mother, "I'm not scared."

Mother Ye got on the kang from that position, and tucked the quilt for him, "It's fine if you don't get scared, it's still early, why don't you sleep for a while?"

However, whether he can fall asleep or not is not something he can decide. The Wu family has been quarreling all the time without knowing what happened.

The whole village was woken up by their family, and the lights were lit up.

It was at this time that the door of Ye's house was knocked. Ye Er Er put on a cotton coat and went out to open the door. After opening it, he found Wu Zhaodi. She was wearing very thin clothes, shivering in the ice and snow.

She said anxiously, "Second Uncle Ye, something happened to my grandma, I would like to ask you to help me."

Ye Lao Er rolled up his cuffs, "You go back first, I'll be there in a while."

When Wu Zhaodi left, he immediately went back and put on some thick clothes, and then said to Mrs. Ye who came out to check the situation: "Mom, let me go and have a look, you stay at home."

Hearing Mrs. Ye's answer, he hurried to the Wu's house. Just as he stepped into the yard, there was a stench blowing over his face, so bad that he couldn't help covering his nose and taking two steps back.

"what happened?"

Wu Zhaodi was standing at the entrance of the latrine, and upon hearing the words, she quickly replied: "My grandma accidentally fell down in the latrine in the middle of the night, and my parents are trying to pull my grandma back up inside."

The corner of Ye Laoer's mouth twitched, no wonder it stinks so badly. Although he felt disgusted in his heart, he didn't stop walking. When he went in, he saw that the toilet was completely dark, only a small oil lamp in Wu Dalang's hand was emitting a faint light. This light can see that Mrs. Wu is slumped at the bottom of the latrine.

Her hair, body and body were full of excrement and urine, and her whole body breathed in more and out of breath, and felt that if she didn't come back for a breath, she would be out of breath.

At this time, Mrs. Wang was trying to pull Mrs. Wu up from the bottom of the pit, but she was short and weak, so she was unsuccessful, but Wu Dalang stood aside in disgust, not even wanting to stretch out her hand.

Ye Laoer frowned and went out to look around the yard, and found a bundle of hemp rope from the woodshed.

Then he said to Wu Dalang: "In a while, you go down and tie the rope around your mother, and then support your mother's legs, and I will pull her on it."

"Why did I go down?" Wu Dalang looked disgusted.

Ye Lao Er blocked him back with one sentence, "Because this is your mother."

Wu Dalang was so blocked that he had nothing to say, so he took the rope and jumped down holding his nose.

After the efforts of the three of them, Mrs. Wu was finally pulled up, but the smell on her body was getting stronger and stronger, so that Ye Lao Er almost couldn't bear his breath.

Moreover, Mrs. Wu herself is also extremely bad, she has lost consciousness, and even the sound of breathing is very weak, so anxious that Zhao Di hurried out to ask Dr. Hao.

Mrs. Wang woke up her daughters and told them to boil water for Mrs. Wu to wash.

Ye Laoer saw that he had nothing to do here, so he got up and went home.

The first thing he does when he gets home is to boil water for a bath.

Second Aunt Ye hadn't fallen asleep since he left, and the first thing he said after he came back was, "Why is it so stinky?"

"Don't mention it, Mrs. Wu fell into the latrine, and I don't think I will forget the smell in my life."

"Then wash it quickly, and I'll find you some clothes."

The next day when Ye Yu woke up and found out about this, the corners of his mouth twitched. Could it be that Mrs. Wu and the Maokeng had an indissoluble bond?Last time I also ran into the latrine with a bad stomach, but this time it was even worse, and I fell directly into it.

Ye Lao Er had been tossing around in the middle of the night, and in the morning he had no appetite at all, so he just drank a bowl of porridge, "Old lady Wu doesn't look well, and I don't know what's going on now."

"I'll find out after I go and have a look. It's you, why do you eat so little?" Second Aunt Ye was really worried.

"Everything I smell smells bad now, wait for me to talk about it slowly."

Ye Yu just lost his appetite after hearing this, let alone Ye's second child.