Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chen Xingbang really knew how to kill pigs. When the first pig was being held down by Li Anguo, Li Junfeng, Li Junshan and others and was still screaming, Chen Xingbang aimed at the right position and stabbed the pig's head with a knife. Liang Yuemei was squatting on the side and put a basin under the pig's head. Chen Xingbang just pulled the knife slightly, and a stream of blood spurted out and fell right into the basin.

The pig struggled violently, and almost at the same time Chen Xingbang shouted:
"Press it!"

Several people pressed the pig at the same time and applied force. The pig suddenly leaned back but did not struggle. Chen Xingbang did not pull out the knife immediately. He pulled it out a little bit and at the same time pulled it back, and blood spurted out again.

By the time Chen Xingbang had completely pulled out the knife, the pig was only twitching.

Li Long watched and felt that Chen Xingbang was more experienced in slaughtering pigs than Wang Caimi.

Basically no blood was wasted, as the knife stabbed the pig's heart immediately. The pig only struggled the most at the beginning, but had no strength left afterwards, so it was easy to press down the pig.

Li Long guessed that Wang Caimi was forced to kill the pig because he was not very good at it. It turned out that he was just a novice, but no one else had killed pigs before, so this task fell on him.

This is probably what it means when there are no heroes.

Of course, in the later part of his previous life, Wang Caimi could be called a craftsman when he was slaughtering pigs. After all, he had dozens of pigs a year to practice, so he had become a skilled butcher.

For ordinary people, there are two points to consider when it comes to killing animals. The first is whether or not you dare to do it. Most people can still kill chickens and ducks, but they may not dare to kill larger pigs and sheep. The main reason is that they have compassion for the animals and cannot bear to see them die.

This does not exist for Li Long.

The second is whether you can hit the vital part - this is what Li Long just watched. The position and angle of the knife are very important. The timing of drawing the knife and how to make the most blood flow are also a matter of skill and proficiency.

Li Long plans to give it a try on the next pig.

Once the pig is killed, the next step is to shave the hair and gut it. At this time, the pig is blown to make it puffy so that it can be shaved. Li Long is responsible for watering it, while Chen Xingbang is responsible for shaving.

When the pig was shaved clean and the belly was opened, ready to be cleaned out, Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang came over with a donkey cart.

Li Jianguo went over and chatted with Tao Jianshe. This was agreed upon yesterday. Come over today to weigh half a pig.

Tao Daqiang walked up to Li Long and greeted him:

"Brother Long." Then he greeted everyone else one by one.

"How are the preparations going?" Li Long said with a smile, "Do you need to build a stove in your yard? Do you want help?"

"No, no. Our yard has been cleaned up now, and we will build two stoves in the next two days."

"Have you bought everything else?"

"Most of them have been bought." Tao Daqiang answered the teacher's question as if it was a question, "The things can be put away, but we haven't started soaking them yet."

"Chef, are you ready?"

"Please come, Lao Huang and Lao Dong from our team. Bring the pork back today and start preparing."

It is not good to have a banquet in winter, as some dishes will get cold very quickly after being served. But there is no other way this year. The whole autumn is first the autumn harvest, then the land division, then the winter sowing, and then the reed harvesting. Things are one after another. Even if Tao Daqiang's family held a banquet at that time, I am afraid that few people in the village would go.

It can only be left until winter.

But these days, it’s good enough to have a banquet, and few people care whether it’s winter or not. What you eat is meat, even if it’s cold, it’s still meat, right?
When the team holds a banquet, there are usually chefs in the village. For ordinary people, preparing rural banquets is basically a layman. But these chefs were basically chefs when the team ran a collective canteen. They know what dishes to cook, how to cook them, how to prepare them, and how much ingredients to prepare.

When preparing fish a few days ago, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to pick out a bag of carp. He took it back and made it into braised whole fish when the banquet started. It was a very delicious dish with a good metaphor.

Of course, this kind of hard dish, the villagers in later generations, unless they hold a banquet, basically do not eat fish from outside. There is no way, the fish from the small lake have made their appetites picky, and the carp and silver carp from outside are mostly farmed fish, and the taste is really incomparable.

"Xiaolong, you guys cut the pig in half and weigh it. Daqiang's dad will take it back to clean it up."

"Okay." Li Long found an axe and chopped the pig on the table from back to front, one axe at a time.

"Xiaolong is really good. He can swing the axe without any changes. Your skills are really good!" Tao Jianshe praised Li Long as he watched his movements.

"Haha, he's used to dealing with wild animals in the mountains." Li Jianguo was very happy. He felt a sense of accomplishment when he praised Li Long.

Soon, the pig was split into two. Li Long stepped aside and let Tao Jianshe choose which one he wanted. After he chose, he put it on the scale.

"Fifty-six kilograms." Li Long said after looking at the number.

"It's OK." Tao Jianshe smiled, "This pig is really fat, at least three fingers thick... Lao Li, your pigs are well fed this year!"

"Of course not!" Li Jianguo was also very proud. "I was upset about what happened last year for half a year, but this year I'm finally feeling better."

Tao Jianshe knew he was talking about the superstitious pig, so he smiled and said, "That was just an accident. I see your family's life will get better and better in the future."

After weighing the meat, Tao Jianshe paid on the spot. Li Jianguo charged him one dollar and fifty cents. Tao Jianshe refused at first, but finally agreed.

We already have a good relationship and they are giving us face, so we will just accept it. At most, we will just let Daqiang work harder with Li Long.

Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang took the meat away, while the Li family continued to process it. People came over to weigh the meat, and Li Long, after Li Junshan and Li Junfeng had finished turning over the intestines, harnessed the horse carriage and went to get a wild boar to kill.

"I'll give it a try this time." Li Long said to Chen Xingbang, "Brother-in-law, please watch and give me some advice."

"Then do you still need my guidance?" Chen Xingbang said so, but he stood directly next to Li Long and really intended to give guidance.

He also admired Li Long's hunting stories after hearing about them. Although he didn't see them, to be honest, the wild boars and deer raised in Lao Mahao were enough to demonstrate their strength.

But hunting uses guns, while killing pigs uses knives, which is different. So Chen Xingbang didn't think that Li Long's first time killing a pig like this could be perfect, so he was more of a rescuer.

The wild boar was pulled out of the pen and started to struggle. It took three young men to hold it down - although this pig was smaller than the last domestic pig that was slaughtered, it was much stronger.

It seems that domesticated wild boars are still wild boars!

Fortunately, the three young men were quite strong, and the wild boar was hooked by the iron hook and had no way to break free. In the end, the three men pinned it down, tied it up, and took it to Li's house.

The Li family planned to keep the two sows and take the rest to the purchasing station to sell them alive.

It's so convenient.

The wild boar was pressed on the table. Li Long washed its neck. Knowing what it was going to face next, the wild boar struggled desperately.

Li Long held the butcher knife in his hand, found the right place, pressed the pig's head and stabbed it in without hesitation.

"Ow—!"

The wild boar's roar was much louder than that of a domestic pig. Chen Xingbang shouted:
"Press it!"

The wild boar had already straightened its body when it screamed. Li Long held the knife in one hand and pressed the boar's head with the other hand. Li Anguo, Li Junfeng and Li Junshan held the boar tightly. Li Junshan's body was almost on top of the wild boar.

Li Long did not dare to delay. He pulled back the knife in his hand and held it for a moment. Blood spurted out and sprayed into the basin prepared in advance.

"Xiaolong, you're good! The knife went straight to the heart—" Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "Not bad, not bad. You can kill pigs by yourself from now on."

"Hehe, it's not over yet." Li Long smiled, drew his knife again, and blood spurted out again.

The wild boar's strength weakened, and Li Anguo and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Be careful, this wild boar is very fierce, and it might charge at you later!" Li Long knew how powerful wild boars were, so he immediately shouted, "Hold tight!"

Li Anguo and his men immediately tried to push again, and sure enough, at this moment, the wild boar arched its body again and tried to break free from the control of others. Fortunately, this time, it lost most of its strength and failed.

After this, Li Anguo and his men finally let go of the wild boar until it was completely motionless and the bleeding had stopped.

"This guy is much more ferocious than that pig!" Li Anguo commented, "If I hadn't been prepared, I might have let it run away just now."

"That would be a big joke!" Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "Fortunately, it's okay. Now it's Xiaolong's turn to skin the wild boar, hey!"

He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was obvious and quite peculiar.

"Brother-in-law, why don't you try it?" Li Long asked.

"I'll forget it." Chen Xingbang waved his hands hastily. "I can still fool people by peeling sheepskin, but I can't peel this skin."

Li Long didn't hesitate, he untied the rope and started skinning the wild boar.

The others watched from the side and helped to turn the pig over.

Because there were not many people, it took until 3 o'clock to finish the work. What surprised Li Long was that some people still wanted to buy wild boar meat to try. In the end, one third of the wild boar was sold.

After lunch, Liang Yuemei asked people to come and help steam the pig blood buns. Under the command of Li Jianguo, Li Long and his men caught the two pigs, tied them up, put them on the horse-drawn carriage, and took them to the purchasing station.

The township purchasing station is responsible for purchasing all the pigs in the township. In the past, there was a task to do so, but now that the production quota is assigned to each household, the system is not so strict and the purchasing station’s task is not so rigid.

But live pigs are still collected.

"One kilogram of live pigs is 1.1 yuan." There is a small blackboard outside the door of the purchasing station, which lists the purchase price of live pigs. The price is quite good. It is normal to think about it. Now is an era of general scarcity of materials. Unlike in the mainland where almost every family raises pigs, no more than one-sixth of the families in the village raise pigs, and the same is true for the whole township.

Therefore, the price of live pigs is naturally the same as that of pork, with a slight increase.

The carriage entered the yard, and the staff who were warming themselves by the fire came out. Li Jianguo was in charge of everything, and Li Long was watching curiously from the side.

The snow in the yard had not been swept yet, and there were no tire tracks. The snow in the pigpen next to it had not been moved. Li Long guessed that the purchasing station had not opened for business after the snow.

After the technicians checked the condition of the two pigs, they weighed them and found that they weighed a total of 236 kilograms, which is a very good weight.

"Are you a professional pig farmer? These pigs are well fed!" (End of this chapter)