No matter how chaotic it is outside, my hometown can always give people a different kind of peace.
Especially at the end of the year, adults don’t have to think about work and children don’t have to think about school. All day long, I was thinking about the delicious food to buy for the New Year, and how to have fun today. The strange decadent life made people feel indescribably relaxed.
Du Heng was given a leave by Yang Dongxu. After all, Yang Dongxu couldn't be in danger in Yangjia Village.
Especially with the rise of homestays, there are eight villages in Yangjiacun, every village and every market has more people doing business from outside.
Although the original countryside was more mixed with dragons and snakes, with tourists from all over the country, the security force here has risen to a higher level. Yang Dongxu's eyeliners are present in almost every village in the ten miles and eight villages, and the Yangjia Village is firmly guarded in the center. .
In addition, driven by the development of Yangjia Village, the pharmaceutical market in Jiaocheng City has been particularly prosperous in recent years, and the construction of new rural areas has begun to be at the forefront of the country.
Not only have cement roads begun to open in every village, further accelerating homestay tourism that can boost the local economy, but even high-tech means such as Sky Eye, which have just begun to be used in cities, have also begun to be deployed in rural areas of Jiaocheng City, including Yangjiacun.
In every village where there are B&Bs, you can basically see surveillance cameras at the intersections of county roads, provincial roads, national roads, or at the entrances to the front, back, left and right of the village.
At the same time, at the end of the year, after several dog-stealing bastards were caught and severely sentenced, the spirit of the entire countryside was boosted.
This also allows many tourists to go to the countryside in droves regardless of the heavy snow and cold, even if they are in the middle of the year. Driving in the car, I bought in large quantities cheaper and more affordable New Year goods than in urban supermarkets.
Some even plan to celebrate the New Year in the countryside and not return to the city. In recent years, many cities have begun to ban the setting off of cannons, and even burning paper and worshiping ancestors have to go to designated places.
However, in the face of such a group of tourists, many villagers who usually run homestays will basically not provide rooms. After all, the family is having fun during the Chinese New Year, and no one wants to be disturbed by outsiders.
Moreover, in addition to eating, drinking and having fun at the end of the year, we also have to visit relatives at the beginning of the year, and many of the visiting relatives are traveling with their whole families. It is uneasy to leave the house to out-of-town tourists.
In addition, at the beginning of the year, relatives came to visit us, eating and drinking, and some even stayed overnight after drinking too much. There were not that many rooms available for tourists.
Therefore, such tourists are uniformly arranged into exclusive courtyards.
This is also a major feature of current B&Bs, which are single-family houses built in the form of courtyard houses on some vacant land in the village, which are rented out to tourists who want to experience rural life.
You can stay in these small courtyards for two or three days just like staying in a hotel, or you can rent them for a long time. In addition to the small courtyards, you can also rent some fields and even have nests for chickens, ducks and poultry, and you can also raise them. Some chickens and ducks.
This kind of rural life experience courtyard was very popular once it was launched, but it is so popular that no one can actually live here for a year and a half.
After all, everyone is very busy now, and many tourists are very curious. After renting a house for a month or two, the rural life that originally seemed very interesting gradually becomes boring.
If you do something repeatedly, you will be excited at first, then gradually become normal, and even become bored in the end.
Therefore, those tourists who are willing to rent an independent small courtyard for a year or two, after being persuaded to experience rural life in a small courtyard for a month or two, the novelty has worn off, and they are no longer willing to stay in the small courtyard.
After all, compared to the feasting and prosperity of big cities, life in rural areas is still too monotonous and simple.
Therefore, except for some tourists who are retired and have nothing to do, most tourists come to experience it during holidays. At other times, tourists are mainly tourists who come for sightseeing.
Yang Dongxu started to get up when it was just dawn. Xiao Wenchen, who was sleeping soundly, opened his sleepy eyes and got up when he heard the noise.
Yang's mother persuaded him to sleep more and not stop, insisting on following his father to the pig farm to catch big pigs.
Pigs are raised here at the pig farm, but pigs are no longer slaughtered here, so the two marked pigs selected early in the morning and the night before will be pushed onto a cart and taken to the entrance of the village to be slaughtered collectively.
The pigs raised by the Yang family are basically brought to the city slaughterhouse. In the past, they would sell a few pigs to farmers from all over the country who wanted to kill pigs at the end of the year, but now they basically no longer sell them.
Because now, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine cultivation or homestay tourism, many people who have gone out to work have returned to the countryside. And to entertain guests in the city.
The only thing that can be obtained is the local specialty of the countryside, chicken, duck and fish. Therefore, because of going out to work, there are only old people and children in the countryside all year round.
Now that all the strong laborers in every family are at home, in addition to raising some chickens and ducks, the previously abandoned pig pens, sheep pens and cowsheds have begun to have livestock again.
Compared with the past when I went out to work, I could only buy pigs to kill when I came back at the end of the year. Now I raise my own pigs, so there is no need to go to the Yang family pig farm to choose.
Therefore, the pigs raised by the Yang family are not only supplied to their son-in-law's farmhouse throughout the year, but are also sent to the slaughterhouse in the city and are no longer sold to farmers.
I woke up early this morning to kill a pig. It was my own New Year pig.
Every year, the Yang family kills two big fat pigs, two to four or five sheep, and some chickens and ducks to celebrate the new year.
And the livestock and poultry killed are not sold for takeout.
The reason why I killed so much and didn’t take away the food was because I was saving it for giving as gifts at the end of the year.
Not to mention anything else, Yang Dongxu’s grandpa and little grandpa received half a pig, a sheep, a few chickens and ducks as a New Year’s gift for the New Year. In addition, they also had to pay for the New Year gifts from their son-in-law Xiaocheng Farmhouse. Get some big fish and some old turtles and send them over.
Then after adding some more to each of the seven aunts, eight aunts, and grandparents, the remaining two pigs were less than half.
There were many people slaughtering pigs today, so they set up five large pots. The firecrackers hung up one after another as soon as it was dawn, and the killing continued until about 11 o'clock in the morning, almost noon.
More than 70% of the residents in Yangjia Village have killed pigs. If they don't kill a pig at the end of the year when their life is good, they feel like they are half shorter than other people.
In addition, if you have a pig at home, you don’t have to spend money or feel bad to kill it, so more people will kill pigs at the end of the year.
At the same time, businesses on the street make wishes every year. In addition to burning 100 pounds of incense, a pig is the minimum standard for making a wish, so more people kill pigs.
However, although a lot of pigs were killed, there was not much smell of blood, because the pig blood was turned into food in large basins.
Except for the pig manure produced when cleaning the large intestine and the pig hair that cannot be used, there are no other wasted parts of the whole pig.
"That's all. Your sister also sent a lot of sausages and bacon. I can't finish them all. They take up space hanging there." Yang's mother waved her hand, indicating that Yang Dongxu, who was cutting the meat, should stop. I had meat enema.
As food becomes more and more abundant, people are increasingly studying various delicacies.
Whether it is enema or blood sausage, although it has been around for a long time, these dishes were not available in Yangjiacun before.
People in the past were relatively poor, and the meat cut during the New Year was not enough to entertain guests, let alone making bacon and sausages.
In recent years, every household has become rich, and pigs are slaughtered at the end of the year, so delicacies such as blood sausage, bacon, and sausage that were not made before have begun to appear on everyone's dining tables.
The Yang family killed two pigs, five sheep, and some chickens and ducks here this year.
Most of the pig blood was made into blood sausage, and two large basins were made. In addition to blood sausage, I also bought a meat grinder to make sausages. I made five large pots of pork and mutton sausages.
Four pots of pork sausage and one pot of mutton sausage. My own pig intestines were not enough, so I spent extra money to buy a few pig intestines. However, the seller did not charge me any money, so I could only give the other party a bunch of prepared sausages.
If the pork belly and lamb tripe were not reserved for hot pot, I would probably have to make some tripe meat.
"If you don't want to make enema, you can lend me the meat grinder for home use." The general with a cigarette in his mouth came over from nowhere.
While saying this, he scattered cigarettes to Yang Dongxu, Yang Dad and others.
The Yang family came together to kill pigs and make enema. The grandparents and uncle's family came, plus the people from the nearby village. Basically, a pack of cigarettes was gone after a round of smoking.
"Come and help you lift it." Yang Dongxu lit the cigarette and held it in his mouth. He usually did not smoke.
However, when he returned to the countryside at the end of the year, he would accept cigarettes whenever offered, and he would also carry cigarettes in his pocket. He would greet people he met and let them go, and then smoke one after them.
"No, no, I can lift this thing weighing dozens of kilograms by myself." The general lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. His eyes were narrowed by the smoke and he said, "Are you okay tonight? Go. Have some drinks at my house.”
"Let's go to my house. My mother lives in the courtyard of my old house all year round and helps with cleaning. It's not very popular. After a while, I said hello to Xiao Wu and others, brought my wife and children with me, and opened a table for two or three in the evening. Warm room." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
I don’t know if it’s because of my psychology, or because the house is too big and I can’t live in it for a long time. , even if I suddenly move in, it always feels too shady.
I invited a group of friends to open a few tables, and a group of children were chattering and running around in the room. I immediately felt that there was a different kind of warmth in the room, and it was very comfortable to live there.
The old man calls this popularity!
"Okay, you can go to the greenhouse tonight." The general teased, "Mom, if I want to eat mutton sausage tonight, please cook more."
"Okay, make more preparations tonight, how about you take one back with you?"
"No need, just eat. Even eating and taking it is too much." The general smiled and shook his head, moving the meat grinder to the other side, where his pigs had just come out of the dehairing pot and had them shaved. Clean and ready to be disemboweled.
"Why didn't General Yue'er come over today?" Yang Dongxu glanced at the general's house and asked a little strangely.
Now that the general's wife and children have been born, although Lao Yue's family is not as noisy as before the marriage, every year in Yangjia Village, pigs are slaughtered after the stove sacrifice at the end of the year.
His father-in-law and his mother-in-law didn't even need to go to the uncle to deliver the New Year's gift. It was just like trying to get free New Year's goods. A cart full of all kinds of things could be piled high.
If the general's family kills a pig and doesn't bring it in, half of it will be taken away by Lao Yue'er's family.
The entire Yangjia Village, or eight villages within ten miles, is uniquely famous for this matter.