Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Early in the morning, Li Long, Li Anguo and three others had breakfast at Lao Mahao and then led the wild boar to Li's house.

In order to facilitate slaughtering, this wild boar was driven into a separate pen yesterday and was not fed this morning, so it was relatively easy to tie it up with a rope and lead it away.

Uncle Luo will feed all the animals before going to the Li family.

The two stoves in the Li family's yard are now burning. The pots on top are full of water, and the water is steaming. Although it hasn't been boiled yet, it shouldn't be long before it's boiled.

Lu Yingming from opposite door was already in the yard, chatting with Li Jianguo.

When they saw Li Long and the others coming, they all greeted them.

Liang Yuemei came out of the house, smiling and greeting people. Li Juan was washing pickled vegetables in the house, while Li Qiang happily pulled Li Long's clothes and asked him questions.

After a while, the butcher Wang Caimi came over with his set of knives. Seeing so many people in the yard, he immediately laughed:

"It's stable this time. Brother Li, when I saw your pig earlier, I thought it would take three or five people to hold it down, but you slaughtered two at once. With so many people, and they are all strong laborers, how did you hold them down?"

Li Jianguo smiled and said:
"Nothing else matters this year, we just have a lot of people!"

This is the truth.

A door panel has been built next to the pig pen with adobe wood, and the pigs will be slaughtered on this table. Next to it is a pile of grass, low in the middle and high on both sides. After the pigs are slaughtered, their hair will be scalded, shaved and cleaned here.

People came one after another. Some were called by Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei, while others came on their own initiative. No matter how they came, they were all guests, and the Li family welcomed them. No one would be driven away on this day.

Most of the women who came brought teapots, which would be used to boil water to scald the pig bristles later.

"Brother Li, if you want to slaughter pigs next year, you have to hire two butchers." Wang Caimi had the loudest voice in the yard. Today he was the protagonist and was in high spirits.

Chen Xingbang looked at Wang Caimi for a while, then whispered to Li Long:
"Xiaolong, actually I can also kill pigs in my hometown..."

"Really?" Li Long was a little surprised, and then the memories of his previous life came back to him. Chen Xingbang later settled down here, and after selling the bottles, he slaughtered cattle and sheep in the place where he lived for a long time.

Then killing pigs should be no problem, right?
"Of course it's true." Chen Xingbang nodded and said, "It's just that I don't have the weapons at hand now."

"That's easy. I'll go to the blacksmith shop this afternoon and get you a set. I have a lot of pigs at home," Li Long said with a smile, "you can slaughter them."

"That's fine—I just think he talks too much!"

Li Long understood what Chen Xingbang said, just like there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. They looked down on each other for a technical job like butchering pigs, just like scholars looked down on each other.

Wang Caimi is currently the best butcher in the team, so he is naturally the leader when slaughtering pigs. At least today everyone respects him very much, and no one else will think there is anything wrong with his big words, because he has the skills.

Even if he talked about Li Long and teased him today, Li Long would not think there was anything wrong with it.

But Chen Xingbang, who is also a pig killer, would feel uncomfortable. It is not a matter of character or personality, but simply because of this "industry" that makes them dislike each other.

"Almost everyone has arrived, let's prepare to slaughter them!" Wang Caimi said, looking at the many people in the yard, "Two pigs will take quite a while."

"Then let's kill this wild boar first." Li Long pointed at the wild boar they had brought over and said, "It's just right to tie it up, so it won't be troublesome."

After he said that, others naturally had no objections. Five or six people came up and directly surrounded the tied wild boar, knocked it down, tied its three legs with ropes, and carried it to the case.

"Pull the head out, otherwise it will be inconvenient to stab with a knife and collect blood later." Wang Caimi directed the people who were holding the pig.

The wild boar probably knew that its end was coming, and it kept roaring with a very loud voice. Li Junfeng and Tao Daqiang, who were pressing its head, both turned their heads away. It was too irritating to their ears.

When the Li family prepared the New Year pig before the Chinese New Year, the wild boar was a dead one that Li Long brought back. Although everyone ate the wild boar's meat, it was dead and they didn't feel its power.

The people who were massaging the boar today truly felt the wild boar's strength - with five or six people massaging a wild boar that weighed less than a hundred kilograms, it actually felt like the wild boar could jump out at any time!

"This wild boar is really strong!" Lu Yingming, who was holding one of its legs from behind, exclaimed, "Wang Caimi, be careful, don't let it kick you with its hoof. If it does, you'll be lame for half a month!"

"Don't worry, I won't let it kick me." Wang Caimi talked big but acted very carefully.

Mrs. Lu, who was collecting the pig's blood, came over with a basin. Wang Caimi asked her to stand aside and he gestured with the wild boar's neck with a knife.

The wild boar suddenly stopped screaming. Wang Caimi seized the opportunity and stabbed it with a knife.

It can be described as “stable, accurate and ruthless”!
After he stabbed it in the neck, he stirred it for a while before preparing to draw his knife.

Before the knife was pulled out, a stream of blood spurted out.

Mrs. Lu squatted there, leaning back and holding a basin to collect the blood.

There is flour and salt in the blood basin, which is prepared for steaming pig blood buns in the evening.

Just when everyone thought that the matter was basically over and were waiting to bleed the wild boar and skin it, the wild boar suddenly raised its head, let out an "ow", and shook its neck. The knife slipped out of Wang Caimi's hand and was thrown away by the wild boar!

The wild boar's huge resistance almost knocked over the person holding it, and it ran away! The butcher knife fell into a snow pile five or six meters away, leaving only the handle outside.

Wang Caimi was also startled and took several steps back before he calmed down.

Fortunately, the people holding the pig knew that they would not let go until the pig was dead, so the wild boar failed to break free despite its desperate struggle. After the knife flew out, a large amount of blood spurted out and splashed into the basin, and a lot of blood fell outside.

As the blood flowed, the wild boar struggled again, but this time its strength was much weaker and it was easily pinned back.

The blood gradually stopped flowing. Wang Caimi came to his senses at this time and said to the person who was pressing the pig, "Press hard to get as much blood as possible out. Otherwise, it will flow into the cavity and it will be difficult to wash out."

After a few minutes, the wild boar was completely motionless.

Li Long did not take action. There were many people holding the pigs, and he could not intervene. He just followed Gu Xiaoxia and watched from behind. When the knife flew out just now, he protected Gu Xiaoxia and stepped back a few steps, which won Gu Xiaoxia's warm smile.

"Okay, I have to go next." Li Long said to Gu Xiaoxia, "Come into the house and warm up for a while."

"I'll go to the kitchen to help my sister-in-law..." Gu Xiaoxia didn't want to be an outsider.

"I don't think I'll need your help. There are quite a few people here today..." Li Long just said this and went towards the wild boar.

Wild boars are not shaved, they need to be skinned. Li Long is quite familiar with skinning.

He took the knife that had been sharpened long ago, bent down and started to hunt the wild boar.

First cut off the pig's head and put it aside, then cut off a large piece of meat from the neck. Yang Yongqiang was about to take it, but Li Long waved his hand and said:
"Wait for me to peel the skin off the neck." He used a knife to not only peel off the fur, but also cut off the lymph nodes and other things. This stuff is really inedible. People don't care about it at this time, but Li Long is disgusted.

The pigs belong to him, so naturally no one has any objection to how he treats them.

After finishing, Yang Yongqiang immediately took the meat in. It needed to be cut into pieces as quickly as possible because it would be stewed with sauerkraut later, which would take a long time.

"Wang Caimi, you failed this time." Lu Yingming was older and joked, "I didn't expect you would fail sometimes."

"Who would have thought this wild boar was so strong!" Wang Caimi excused himself, "But since it's so strong, the meat will definitely taste good later!"

Li Long laughed when he heard this. Wild boar meat is not very popular these days, after all, it has little fat and is relatively tough. Of course, it would be fine if it was stewed together with the domestic pigs that would be slaughtered later.

He had the wild boar carried to another table to be skinned and gutted. At the same time, another group of people followed Li Jianguo's instructions and began to pull domestic pigs out of the pig pen, preparing to kill another pig.

This is the advantage of having a lot of people. Although it is freezing and snowy now, the yard is very lively and no one complains about the cold. If it is a little cold, there are two stoves there and you can just warm yourself up by the fire.

In the past, when there was a stove like this, someone would definitely think of roasting potatoes or something, but today no one had such an idea. Everyone was thinking about having a good meal of meat later. A good meal of meat.

Steamed buns were being steamed on the stove in the house. Freshly steamed buns were the best, and Liang Yuemei was already making room for them. The wild boar's trough meat had been cut into mahjong-sized cubes, and a large basin of pickled cabbage had been prepared, waiting for the other pig's trough meat to arrive.

As Li Long was peeling the skin, several people watched and admired him. Who would have thought that Li Long, who was so young, could peel the wild boar so skillfully?

After the wild boar skin was peeled off, the domestic pig screamed and then entered the blood collection stage. Compared with the desperate struggle of the wild boar, the final effort of the domestic pig was not worth mentioning, and it was easily solved by the cautious Wang Caimi.

The pig's trough meat was soon sent to the kitchen. Li Long started to cut open the pig's belly and shave the pig's hair.

Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang were waiting here with large basins. Li Long scooped out the offal from the wild boar's stomach into two basins and asked them to take it away for processing. A woman had already come over and took the liver, lungs, heart and other things into the kitchen to cut them up and prepare to stir-fry them.

The pig-killing dishes here are different from those in Northeast China. The main dish is stewed pork with sauerkraut, and then there are fried pork liver with bean sprouts, fried pork heart with celery, and if there is nothing left, you can make braised pork bones - this depends on the number of stoves in the host family. After all, if there is only one stove for cooking, two or three main dishes will be enough.

These days, having one signature dish is enough to satisfy the guests.

Li Long didn't think so. Since everyone came to support him, he might as well stew some spare ribs.

There is not much wild boar fat, which is used for steaming pig blood steamed buns. This wild boar has three fingers of fat, which is very good.

When Li Long cut up the wild boar meat, someone came over and asked:
"Xiaolong, please weigh two kilograms of meat for me. My kid is craving for meat."

"I'll get two kilograms, too."

"Get me a leg! Thanks to Xiaolong, I have some extra money this year. I'm going to have a good meal this winter." Someone said generously, and the others laughed when they heard it.

There were many people weighing meat, and Li Long started to get busy again.

I can feel that everyone is eating meat much better than last year. We did make some money this year.

The sense of happiness in life is really increasing.

By the time the wild boar's intestines and stomach were washed out, more than half of the wild boar had been taken away.

Not only this wild boar, but also most of the domestic pigs were bought by others. Most of the buyers came to buy the meat and then left in a hurry. Although Li Jianguo and Li Long repeatedly asked people to stay and eat, everyone still politely refused.

The Li family's house is so small that it can't accommodate so many people. (End of this chapter)