064. Killing Pigs (Part 1)
As Sun Yang's wedding approached, Sun Gang's family also became busy. So, I woke up early in the morning and prepared to kill pigs. When I was a child, Sun Gang often saw others killing New Year pigs.
There are two pigs in the pigpen, and now they all have more than 200 kilograms. One is made by Sun Gang who needs to use meat when getting married, and the other is ready to kill the New Year pig.
Dad Sun pulled one of the pigs to his grandfather's yard one day in advance. He also had an empty pigpen there, but he had not raised pigs for several years. He was temporarily placed there to avoid being stimulated and not having enough food these days.
The pig that was about to be killed today was not fed the day before. Sun Gang only fed some space water. The purpose was very simple, which was to let the pigs drain the feces in their bodies.
As soon as the morning was dawn, three or four laborers invited by Sun's father came to the yard, including Sun Gang's uncle, neighbors Hu Jincheng, Zhou Haisheng and others.
Sun Gang released the hungry pig from the pigpen. The pig might have premonitioned his fate and hummed and ran left and right, trying to get rid of the strong men's encirclement.
Finally, Sun's mother came up with a trick to close the gate of the yard and sprinkle a handful of soybeans in the yard.
So the pig's thoughts were all about eating soybeans. Hu Jincheng and Zhou Haisheng grabbed the hind legs of a pig from behind, and put the pig on the ground with one son. Sun Gang's uncle also held the pig's head from the front, and finally tied its four hooves with ropes.
It doesn't matter if it fails to catch the pig and take off his hands for the first time, because it is a guy who remembers eating but not beating. After a while, it will concentrate on eating soybeans, so it has a second chance to start.
The loud screams of pigs broke through the silence of the winter countryside. This was Sun Gang and his friends catching pigs.
The place where pigs were killed was in a family next to Qianyantang. The surname was Wang. Everyone called him Boss Wang. He was a butcher in the village. If you have any questions, everyone would come to him to collect pigs. Whenever he was in the market, he would open a stall on the street to sell pork. He was a famous pig slayer.
I saw him wearing a leather apron on his chest and dragging it to his feet, carrying a long strip of thread on his shoulder. The strip was made of steel bars as thick as a finger. There were two scrapers made of iron plates about half a foot square. The scraper was bent into an iron cylinder on one side and just put it on the strip. He held a sharp pig-killing knife more than one foot long, and a cold air appeared out of thin air.
The pig seemed to know that his doomsday was coming, and it took a lot of effort to get it to the scene.
The pot with water was burning with water over 1.5 meters in diameter.
Then lift the tied pig onto the large chopping board. The technique of this step is that the chopping board should not be too high, it should be slightly higher than the pig's legs. Two people lift their front legs, so that the front half of their body should be raised first, and then lift the hind leg to put on the table. If you master the skills, you can do it, and two people with great strength can complete it. The chopping board is slightly shorter than the pig's body, so that the hind legs will be suspended in the air, so that there is no force to use. Its head is tilted downward, and a large iron basin is placed on the ground below, and some clean water is filled in the basin, which is intended to be used for receiving pig blood.
Boss Wang arched his left leg and pressed the pig's back neck, and his left hand tightly grasped the knot in the pig's mouth and pulled it back, and the pig's front neck protruded. Boss Wang first fumbled the pig's throat with his right hand, perhaps looking for the place to cut the knife. After a while, he found the right place and pointed the knife at the pig's neck with his right hand. Before the knife was stabbed in, Boss Wang said: "Pigs and sheep are just like a knife, so don't be surprised if I'm here to kill you." After saying this, the knife stabbed deeply into the pig's neck.
After slaughtering pigs for many years, there may not be many pigs under his hands, so chanting a few times is also a psychological sustenance.
Boss Wang is an experienced pig killer. He has quick eyes and quick hands. With one knife, the pig's blood gushed out. Soon, the sharp pig's cry slowly became deep and gradually became silent.
This knife is stable, accurate, and ruthless, and it is too important. It is said that it is to seal the throat, so that the pig will not scream dyingly. This knife is not stabbed in the pig's throat tube, but must be stabbed in the pig's carotid artery. If it is broken, then even a few more people will not be able to hold on to the old pig struggling dyingly.
I also heard laughter from the villagers that when some novice kill pigs, the pig was stabbed on the chopping board, jumped off the chopping board, fled all over the fields, and the villagers were chasing and blocking the world. It was a lively scene of a slash.
Sun's mother held a wooden stick in her hand and kept stirring it in the basin, so that the water would dilute the blood without coagulating into a blood clot. Then she mixed the seasoning and used the small intestine that was opened for a while to fill the blood sausage. The most delicious blood sausage is just out of the pot, and most people can't cook this dish well.
The diluted pig blood is bright red, and the timid people will be frightened after seeing it. When the blood has almost flowed, the pig will twitch a few times, and finally it will completely collapse there, with no sign of life.
People untied the rope of the pig, picked up its hind legs and raised it, so that all the blood in the pig's body would flow out and then put it down.
At this time, Boss Wang used a knife to cut a hole in the back of the pig's hooves. Then he picked up the long steel strip and stabbed it under the skin of the knife with the pointed tip until it was pierced to the back of the pig's neck. Then he pulled it out or stabbed it in another direction from the knife's mouth until it was pierced the whole body of the pig. After piercing the strip, Boss Wang held the knife in his mouth and blew it hard. When he was tired of blowing for a while, he would pinch the knife with his hands to rest and then blow it. When he was blowing, another man was holding a wooden stick and hitting the pig's body.
According to him, when hitting with a stick, the gap between the skin and flesh can enter the gas, so that the whole is inflated and easy to shave.
As the blow and the beat of the rods were blown, the pig was blown up. Until the end, the whole pig was blown up. Boss Wang tied the blowing knife edge tightly with a rope to prevent the air from running out. Then several people raised the bulging pig and placed it on the pot. At this time, the boiling hot water was boiling in the pot. People placed two wooden boards horizontally on the pot and moved the pig to the wooden board.
The water is ready before it is killed. The temperature should be about 80 degrees before boiling. In this way, the soup will not damage the pig skin. Of course, the bright skin will add to the meat. Keep turning it over in a large pot, and the purpose is not to burn the pig skin.
Take a scoop of water and pour it on the pig, then make a piece of pig stone, and start to fade hair. The pig stone looks like a volcanic stone, with many small holes, and it will float when thrown in the water.
The pig whose hair was shaved by the stone is not counted as Yu Jing. Boss Wang also needs to use a special shave to scrape all over his body until the pig's body is snow-white.
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