Chapter 8 Killing Pig Rice
"Squeak~Squeak~" A fat big black pig was tied to a stone slab. Perhaps it had already had a premonition of its fate, so it began to roar desperately, complaining about God's injustice. In despair, it hoped that at this time there would be a great hero who would ride a colorful auspicious cloud to save it. However, the hero did not see it at this time, but the butcher had already raised his butcher's knife to attack it.
"Slow!" At this moment, a righteous voice suddenly shouted. The butcher who was already preparing to take the knife finally stopped. This made the already desperate black pig suddenly burst out with hope. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the young human who interrupted the butcher's movement. In its dark little eyes, the young human seemed to emit pure white light all over, and there was still a colorful auspicious cloud under his feet. This is his extraordinary hero!
"Uncle Big-eyed, you are too wasteful. Pig blood can be eaten. You can flow into this basin later!" Li Xiu said as he took out a large basin from behind and placed it under the pig's neck. He just saw Liu Dayan was about to cut his knife, but there was no basin to catch blood. It was estimated that the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have the habit of eating blood tofu, so he stopped the other party.
After the basin was put down, Li Xiu signaled that Liu Dayan could cut the knife. Speaking of which, killing pigs is a technical job, and you must find the right place to kill them with one knife. Liu Dayan's father-in-law is a butcher, and sometimes he also goes to help, so he also kills pigs. Otherwise, he has to hire a professional butcher. Although he doesn't pay, the end of going into the water is the butcher's reward. Now that Liu Dayan is doing it, these things will naturally be saved.
"Squeak~~" At this time, the black pig on the stone slab suddenly let out a heart-wrenching roar, which shocked Li Xiu to pull out his ears. I don't know if it was an illusion. He felt that the black pig's screams seemed particularly miserable at this time, and even had a sense of determination. This made Li Xiu shake his head. It seemed that the impact of time travel on him had not subsided, and such a bizarre hallucination actually occurred.
Liu Dayan raised his eyes and stabbed the big artery on the black pig's neck with a knife. As the knife was pulled out, a dark red blood spurted out. The black pig's shrill cry slowly weakened, and his struggle became weak. Finally, he finally passed away with anger and unwillingness.
After the pig died, Liu Dayan immediately cut a small hole in the pig's feet and poked it with a long iron bar several times before he started to blow air inside, causing the entire pig's body to swell. Then he put it in a boiling water pot to scald the pig's hair, and then used a special shave to shave the pig's hair. Because the pig's body has air and is stretched round, it is very convenient to shave. In some places where it is inconvenient to shave, the boiled rosin must be poured on to glue the pig's hair off.
Slaying pigs is a cheap karma that is looked down upon, but whenever you kill pigs, there will be a large circle of people around you. At this time, it is the performance time of the pig slayer. Everyone is attracted by his every move. It is estimated that Liu Dayan's current mood is similar to those of the stars who hold concerts in later generations, and they are the focus here.
The black pig with hair removed immediately became white and tender. The next picture was some children who were not suitable for children. The whole pig was hung up and bleached. If it were placed in later generations, it would definitely be an inappropriate picture for children. However, there were not so many things to pay attention to at this time. The happiest thing around was the children in the village. Even while watching, he swallowed his saliva. Looking at these children with a greedy look, Li Xiu had to admire their heavy taste. After all, he could drool at a bunch of colorful intestines, which was not something that ordinary people could do.
The fire had already risen on the threshing ground. A large iron pot was placed on the fire. The water in the pot had boiled. After cleaning the internal organs such as the heart, liver, and kidneys, they were thrown directly into the big pot to cook. In addition, some parts of the pig's body, as well as some big bones and sticks, were all thrown into the pot to cook.
Li Xiu even saw Liu Dayan turning a basin of intestines over and rinsing them twice, then pouring them into the pot. He was so scared that he hurriedly stopped them. If he washed like this, the soup he made would probably have a smell of pig shit. Others may not care, but he had to care, so he decided to deal with these intestines himself, as well as pig heads and pig feet, so he let Liu Dayan keep them all for him. If they were thrown into the pot and cooked together, it would be a waste of things.
Some people like pig intestines, and some people feel disgusted when they see them. Li Xiu belongs to the former type. He took the pig intestines to the well to prepare for cleaning the road himself. However, at this time, Liu's daughter Su Niang ran over and refused to let Li Xiu take action even if she died, because everyone in the village thought that Li Xiu was a scholar, and he would not let him do such dirty and tiring work. In the end, Li Xiu could not resist Su Niang and had to point her to clean her intestines.
Although the intestines are delicious, they are very troublesome to clean. They first sprinkle flour to remove the mucous membrane on the surface of the intestines, and then rub them with salt. These actions were seen by Boss Liu and others next to them, and they were all thrust in pain. Although there was money in the farm, they were still very frugal and were not willing to waste any food. Fortunately, Li Xiu did this. Otherwise, if it were his own boy, he would have been beaten to death by them with a stick.
After washing the intestines, Li Xiu took out a piece and made the blood sausage with the adjusted pig blood. The other part was stir-frying. Of course, he was also directing the Liu family's wife to cook. As a result, after the preparation was completed, he immediately received praise from everyone and was stolen in the blink of an eye.
This made Li Xiu feel a little proud, thinking that his cooking skills had conquered everyone, but later he discovered that as long as there was meat, no matter what kind of dishes were snatched, such as the internal organs and bones in the big iron pot were snatched away as soon as they were cooked, and in the end there was no soup left.
Seeing a three-year-old kid holding a pig bone thicker than his thighs and gnawing her face, Li Xiu suddenly remembered that when he was a child, the conditions were not good at that time. Every time he ate meat, it was like the New Year. His mood at that time should be similar to those farmers in front of him. As long as there is meat, it doesn’t matter how it tastes.
As the main family, Li Xiu personally served him a bowl of cooked pork, but Li Xiu immediately lost his appetite because the bowl was full of fat meat, and he couldn't even see a trace of lean meat. This was not that Liu Lao Da cheated him, but in this era, pigs were free-range, like raising sheep, and they ate grass, so the pigs were full of lean meat and less fat meat. In the eyes of the ancients, fat meat was very delicious, and only the elderly or noble people could enjoy it.
Li Xiu was also very greedy, but he was not as greedy as a meal. Su Niang was holding a small basin with a lot of meat bones in it. Li Xiu liked to eat this one the most, so he snatched Su Niang's basin and stuffed her his fat meat. At first, Su Niang refused and was worried about being scolded by her parents, but Li Xiu said he was thanking her for helping him deal with her intestines, so she had to accept it. Finally, the little girl nodded barely and ran to eat with her two younger brothers with a big bowl.
After a lively pig-killing meal, Li Xiu helped everyone get the pork. He was a bachelor, so he only took two kilograms of pork, and there were also a pig head and four pig feet. The remaining large pieces of meat were all distributed to Boss Liu and the others.
In the afternoon, Li Xiu chopped the meat into meat filling at home alone, and the noodles were already ready to make dumplings. His hometown in his previous life was located in an ordinary small village in the Central Plains. When he was a child, he lived a hard life. Dumplings were also a rare delicacy for his family. Later, his living standards improved. As a result, every festival, no matter what kind of festival, he would make dumplings at home. There is no need to mention the Winter Solstice and the Chinese New Year. Even the Dragon Boat Festival and National Day are also made dumplings.
Today, if he was still in his previous life, he probably was making dumplings at home. Unfortunately, he has come to the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. The dumplings have not become popular yet, but it doesn’t matter. Anyway, he doesn’t have many family members now, so it’s also a kind of nostalgia for his previous life.
Li Xiu likes to eat pork and cabbage stuffed dumplings the most. He has pork, but there is no cabbage yet. He remembers that cabbage seems to be a hybrid of two kinds of vegetables, so he can try to do it in the future. Li Xiu is going to make pork and radish dumplings because there are only radish in winter. As for using bean sprouts as filling, he has never eaten it before, and secondly, bean sprouts are too expensive. The situation in the village has just improved, so it is better to keep the bean sprouts and sell them for money.
Mix the filling, roll out the dough, make dumplings, and put the dumplings after the water boils. After a few rolls, the dumplings will be cooked. Li Xiu likes to eat dumplings with soup in his hometown. At this time, add salt, vinegar and chopped green onion to the soup. It would be even better if there is coriander. After the soup is prepared, give yourself a bowl full of it, eat dumplings and drink sour soup, and the original soup is transformed into the original food, and you will not get tired of it.
After eating two big bowls of dumplings, Li Xiu felt a little overwhelmed. It was already dusk, so he went out for a walk along the river. The Lijia Village opposite was also smoky. Every household was cooking, and there was a faint smell of meat in the air. Listening carefully, you could even hear the laughter of the children, which made Li Xiu feel a faint happiness in his heart.
Before he knew it, he came to the Huangqu side. A tall and mighty middle-aged man walked towards the river with fishing gear. This middle-aged man was the middle-aged man surnamed Ma who cooked chicken for Li Xiu. However, the other party seemed to have no good feelings for Li Xiu. Seeing him snorted coldly, Li Xiu smiled helplessly. It seemed that he had really offended the other party last time.
When he met this middle-aged man surnamed Ma, Li Xiu suddenly remembered that he had been busy with bean sprouts for half a month and had forgotten to inquire about the other party's origin. He heard the information he had revealed before that he should be a military general of the Tang Dynasty, and he could have a good level of eating with Li Jing. But he really couldn't remember which general named Ma in the early Tang Dynasty?
Thinking of this, Li Xiu originally wanted to go to Mr. Liu to inquire, but now it is time for dinner. If he goes now, he will probably be pulled down to have dinner together, so he finally decided to ask again tomorrow.
Chapter completed!