Jiaohua Growth Guide [Rebirth]

The next day, after Gu Ci had lunch in the restaurant, Gu Chunxiao asked the servant to take him to Old Man Xu's house.

I followed the boy for more than half an hour, seeing that the houses on both sides were getting fewer and fewer, and the location was getting more and more remote. Gu Ci trusted Gu Chunxiao, but the sensitivity developed in the march and battle was also faintly creeping in, and he took two steps. , or slowly opened the mouth: "Little Sanzi, you must have taken the wrong way, right?"

"Don't worry, I often go this way..." The boy looked back at Gu Ci, and seeing that she looked wrong, he paused for a moment, then looked around, with a hint of hurt in his expression, "Sister Gu, should you Do you suspect that I have evil thoughts in my heart?"

Knowing people, knowing the face but not knowing the heart, Gu Ci smiled at him, neither admitting nor denying, "I see this is getting more and more desolate, and I thought you were leading the wrong way."

Hearing this, the boy slapped his head, "It's also my fault that I didn't explain it to Sister Gu first. Xu the butcher is a responsible person. He was afraid that the pig's squawking when killing the pig would disturb the neighbors, so he lived a little far away."

Gu Ci raised his eyebrows, believed for a while, and took the lead, "This butcher Xu is really a good person."

"Isn't it?" The boy also hurried forward, Gu Ci picked a topic, and he also opened up the chatter box, "It's because Xu Tuhu is so honest that everyone wants to cooperate with him. Sister Gu is I don’t know, butcher Xu could sell two pigs a day, one for restaurants like us and the other for individual customers, as long as he is selling meat, many women will be waiting in line for him.”

Gu Ci listened to him quietly, seeing the boy turn his head to look at him in the middle of what he said, and replied nonchalantly, "Is there such a thing?"

The boy nodded, waited for Gu Ci to come closer, and then said in a low voice: "It's also because it's Xu Butcher, even if it delayed our restaurant's business for a few days, the shopkeeper didn't want to replace him, if he changed his mind, he would be the butcher." , I'm afraid our big shopkeeper has changed people long ago."

Gu Ci nodded her chin to show her reply. She thought that Gu Chunxiao was so anxious that she didn't change the meat delivery person because she couldn't find a butcher at this time of year.

"However, everyone in the restaurant was surprised that the big shopkeeper asked you to do this job of killing pigs."

Gu Ci laughed, recalling what Gu Chunxiao said before, he interjected curiously: "Have you ever seen a female butcher?"

"That's true." The boy nodded, and then took another look at Gu Ci, "Sister Gu doesn't look like a pig butcher, look at the butchers in the town, all of them have round waists and thick shoulders. With a face full of flesh, it looks greasy..."

"Little Sanzi, is this the butcher introduced by shopkeeper Gu?" While talking, the two of them arrived in front of an old courtyard, and a man in his 40s stood in front of the door, apparently waiting for a while.

"Uncle Xu, are you feeling better?" Hearing the voice, the servant immediately stopped talking, hurriedly raised his head to look at the person, said hello, and then glanced at Gu Ci behind him, "This is Sister Gu, it's us The shopkeeper asked me to bring it to the butcher."

"Uncle Xu." When he clicked on himself, Gu Ci also took a step forward, greeted him as a boy, nodded slightly, and introduced himself: "You can call me eldest sister from now on. It's about killing pigs." I have done it a few times, but the craftsmanship is definitely not worth mentioning, and I need you to mention more points.”

The old man Xu has the appearance of a typical pig butcher, probably because he has been ill for a few days, his face is obviously sick, and the rough facial features do not look fierce, but he just dislikes that Gu Ci is a young man, and he is still a young man. A woman, the disgust in her eyebrows was undisguised. After sizing up Gu Ci, she said impatiently to the boy: "Your shopkeeper is too busy? Sending a girl here is also capable of doing things?"

The young man was embarrassed by what the old man Xu said, touched his nose, turned his head to look at Gu Ci, and said bravely: "Uncle Xu, Sister Gu is strong, even more capable than the strong man in our restaurant. Sister Gu is busy, how can she be sure that she can't..."

"Butchering pigs is a technical job. Do you think it's enough to have brute force?" The old man Xu glanced at the young man, and from the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Gu Ci standing aside with a calm expression, neither ashamed nor annoyed, and he couldn't help but take a high look, "Then I Let's see how capable you are as a girl..."

Butchering pigs is not his profession, and Gu Ci didn't think the old man Xu's words were harsh. Seeing that he was relieved, he was also relieved, "I need Uncle Xu to give me some pointers."

The old man Xu didn't respond, and led the two of them into the yard. The yard was quite large, with three pig pens lined up on the right, and a large open shed on the left and right. On the other side is a large stove with a large iron pot on it. There is still a warm and small fire in the stove, and the big iron pot is also steaming.

"Should have eaten lunch, right?" When approaching the entrance of the large awning, the old man Xu suddenly turned his head to look at Gu Ci, "I boiled the water too, if you have eaten, add more fire, you take a breath, Just start right away."

"I've eaten." Gu Ci nodded, "Brother Chunxiao should have told you that I don't have any of the knives and other utensils used to butcher pigs, and I need you to provide them. You take them out, I'll be ready."

Old man Xu walked to the stove, took a look at the wooden cover on the pot, licked two handfuls of firewood into the stove, and brought them into the house, "Can I drink?"

Gu Ci was stunned for a moment, "You don't need to bother, just pour a bowl of water."

The old man Xu glanced at her, "I asked if you can drink? I have a rule when killing pigs. Before slaughtering pigs, I must drink three sips of wine."

Gu Ci smiled: "Of course you can't break the rules."

Old man Xu's eyebrows, which had been frowned because of impatience, relaxed a little, he took out the bowl and jug from the cabinet, got a small bowl for himself, and poured a small bowl for Gu Ci, and when the servant came, he gave it to the old man. He changed the teapot and poured a bowl of tea.

When the two bowls collided, Gu Ci imitated the old man Xu and drank the small bowl of wine in three sips.It's been a long time since she's had a drink, and besides feeling hot in her throat, she also feels a bit refreshed.

The old man Xu intended to make things difficult for her, but also to test her, but seeing her arrogance, he admired her a little bit. Although his face was still cold and indifferent, his tone eased a lot, "Before I killed pigs, I was blind." Did you figure it out, or was it taught by a master?"

"Uncle Dashan in the village taught me how to butcher pigs. However, I used to be a fireman in the military camp. I have been taught by a serious master about killing horses."

"Have you ever been in the army?" Old man Xu looked at her, sizing up her eyebrows, "No wonder, I underestimated you..."

Gu Ci was not humble and polite, raised his eyebrows, and followed Old Man Xu out of the house.

Putting on a large waterproof leather apron, Gu Ci tried the sharpness of those knives, and then followed Old Man Xu to the pigsty on the right to drive the pigs.

When killing pigs, Gu Ci didn't make excuses, he sincerely agreed with the old man Xu and asked for precautions, and he didn't flinch from the movements of his hands.

The big fat pig was killed smoothly with one knife, and the pig's blood did not splatter everywhere. The neat movement of the white knife entering the red knife made the old man Xu who was watching on the side stunned, and it took a long time to react. Come here and quickly help the planer who shaves hair.

"Uncle Xu, these young men can also help, you are sick, take good care of your health first." Gu Ci took the plane, saw that he was still about to come to help and wiped the broken hair back with his elbow, so he hurriedly stopped him He said, "If you are worried, just watch from the sidelines. If I do something wrong, please remind me aloud."

Old man Xu glanced at her, then took two steps back, watching her shave the pig familiarly, with such agility, he didn't feel at all that it was inappropriate for a female doll to do such a job.

After shaving, the whole pig has to be hoisted up, the hairs removed with a soldering iron, and the belly is disemboweled after cleaning.

When the busy work was over, two hours had passed, and the sunlight outside the courtyard was gradually falling into the opposite mountain. Gu Ci followed the old man Xu's instructions, divided the big fat pig into four legs, and put them into four different baskets. , this job is over.

Butchering a pig is not an easy task. After finishing the work, Gu Ci broke out in sweat and drank two large bowls of water to recover. "Uncle Xu, it's getting late, I'll go back today and come back tomorrow afternoon."

The old man Xu looked at her, moved his lips, hesitated to speak, pondered for a long time before changing his words, "I'm remote here, and the third son is going to deliver the meat again, you should be more careful when you go back alone. .”

Gu Ci was surprised, he didn't expect the other party to be so friendly, he recovered and thanked: "I can save it, Uncle Xu doesn't have to worry about me. There are still young brothers and sisters at home, I have to go back quickly .”

The old man Xu waved his hand, and seeing that Gu Ci was empty-handed, he quickly stopped her, "The shopkeeper Gu told you that these pigs are all yours, so hurry up and take them back to make some side dishes."

Gu Ci didn't delay, he went back and took a pair of pig intestines and a pig belly, and no matter what the old man Xu said, he didn't want the rest.

When she got home, it was already dark, similar to when she usually came back from the restaurant, and oil lamps were lit in the house for the first time.

Gu Ci entered the room with a puzzled look on his face, only to realize that the little girl was studying with A Bao, one of the siblings was concentrating on speaking, and the other was listening attentively.She stood at the door for a long while, and no one in the room saw her. She laughed silently without making a sound, then left cautiously, turned around and went directly to the stove to prepare dinner.

Gu Ci was busy working in the kitchen for a while before the little girl ran over, "My sister didn't tell us when she came back, so I thought my sister hadn't come back yet."

"Seeing that you two are studying so hard, I don't have the nerve to bother you." Gu Ci glanced back at her, and really wondered why this stingy butler lady was willing to light the oil lamp today. Did you finish the task assigned by the master before sunset? Why is it so late today?"

The little girl was not curious when she saw Gu Ci washing the small intestines of pigs with flour. Anyway, her sister would bring some pigs like this back from the restaurant from time to time. She also knew that it was Brother Chunxiao who paid attention to the three of them, so it was not surprising. Then he squatted down next to the wooden basin, "Abao said that before their school is on holiday, the master will prepare for a quiz. If you get the first place in the class twice in a row, then the next year's training will be exempted."

"Is there such a good thing?" Gu Ci has never heard of this before, but after thinking about it, the students in the school in the town are all capable and qualified, and he is afraid that his stupid brother will be pressured for this money, "Then you But you didn’t say anything to Bao, did you?”

"If my sister misses me so much, then I'll be angry." The little girl pouted dissatisfiedly, "Ah Bao is already so sensible, I can still use this to force him. I just watched him have this kind of fighting ability. I don’t want to dampen his enthusiasm for learning, so I encouraged him.”

"It's my sister who is overthinking." Gu Ci corrected his mistake and flattered him: "That's going to be hard for us Jiaojiao."

The little girl snorted disdainfully, remembering something, and said: "Ah Bao's homework has improved a lot, as expected, the school in this town is still different."

"Of course, after all, a year's repair will be much more expensive." Gu Ci joked.

The little girl naturally heard that she was teasing herself, curled her lips, and didn't care about her, just squatted aside and watched Gu Ci busy.

For ten days in a row, Gu Ci went to the restaurant in the morning and went to the old man Xu's house to butcher pigs in the afternoon. Gu Ci didn't tell the little girl that he was going to help butcher the pigs in the afternoon. Surprise the little girl.In the end, the little girl gave her a surprise first.