After moving the two tables that were later added to the house and putting them together in the yard, Butcher Gao and Su Laoer asked a few villagers who came to watch the fun to help, and together they moved the big fat pig from the oxcart to the table. superior.
"Uncle Gao, I'm going to make bacon and sell it. You can cut it into nice pieces for me. I'm going to make the two hind legs of the pig into ham. You can do whatever you want with the rest."
"Okay, Su Yatou, you just have to take a look. Now I'm going to show you your uncle Gao's craftsmanship."
The butcher Gao has been butchering pigs for ten years, and his skills are not bad. He removed the pig's head and trotters in a few strokes and placed them in a wooden basin nearby. He changed to an ax and cut the pig into two parts, then used a bone razor to shave off the pig's ribs and set them aside, and then used a different knife to remove the pig's front and rear legs. In the end, the remaining meat was changed into strips of pork belly. The size of the changed meat was about two kilograms. Su Yu was very satisfied with Gao Butcher's knife skills, which saved the family a lot of trouble.
In less than half an hour, a big fat pig turned into four big pots in the hands of the butcher Gao. One pot was filled with various kinds of pig offal, one pot was modified pork belly, the third pot was the front and rear legs of the pig, and finally the remaining It's pork suet.
"Uncle Gao, your skills are getting better and better. I plan to start a bacon business in the future, and I will buy pigs from your house after I finish it."
"That's a good relationship. If you keep it at my house for a long time, I will give it to you at a cheaper price."
"Thank you very much, uncle."
As soon as Butcher Gao left, the Su family also got busy. They brought the pork belly to be marinated on the table, sprinkled the previously mixed seasoning on it, poured in soju and salt, and left the rest of the kneading work to their boss. Dad, my small body really doesn’t have much strength.
Su Laoer took over the job. After kneading it, the bacon was put in another basin, and the couple went to the stove to put it away. After that, he started processing the pork ribs. At first, Su Yu planned to make cured pork ribs, just like curing the bacon before, and evenly spread the ingredients and moved them into the house. Finally, there are the two hind legs of the pig. Su Yu planned to make ham. He evenly coated the two hams with seasonings and put a thick layer of salt on the outer layer. He placed a lot of stones in the corner of the room, placed a board on top, and put the two hind legs on it. , then put a board on top, and finally press it with stones. It should be enough to press it for twenty days.
While the father and daughter were dealing with this, Mrs. Lian took a basin of pig intestines to the river to clean, and now she is back. The bacon is made from pork belly, and there are some pieces of leftover front leg meat. The mother and daughter chop it into pieces, mix it with seasonings, and start making sausages. In ancient times, sausage enema tools were not very convenient, and every household used bamboo tubes to fill sausages. After filling the bamboo tube with meat, put a casing on one end, and use a smaller bamboo tube on the other side to press it down hard. Repeatedly, it took the family a long time to finish everything. What was left was pig offal, and Su didn’t waste it. He braised it in one pot. The smell of Su’s braised pig offal spread to half of the village. At night, no one was in the mood to eat. People with children Crying and clamoring for meat, he was beaten until he screamed.
I'm complaining about the Su family in my heart. If your family eats meat, they eat meat. Why do you make it so delicious? You can't let anyone get past it by making your baby cry.
The Su family didn't have any sense of self-consciousness. When it was getting dark, Su Laoer went to deliver a copy to the village chief's family, and Mrs. Lian went to deliver a copy to Yang Ermei's family.
Yesterday, the village head and his family all went to visit relatives, and no one was at home. When they came back and heard about what happened to the Su family, the family was angry with Mrs. Liu for losing people from Yujia Village. The village chief planned to let his eldest son go to Su's house in the evening, but he didn't expect the second son Su to come.
"Second brother, that's what Mrs. Liu is like. Don't argue with her. She doesn't have a long memory no matter how much she suffers. Man Jiang is a good person, but with such a mother, her life is not decent. "
"Uncle, I know everything you said, and I won't care about Mrs. Liu's incident this time. It's just that my family will not dare to get involved with a family like this in the future."
The village chief sighed inwardly, and didn't say anything in the end. It was all his own fault. He wanted to help Mrs. Liu, but people probably wouldn't appreciate it if they knew about it.
The next day, Mrs. Lian went to Yang Ermei's house and asked them if they wanted to start a pig-seed business. If they wanted to, they could get the goods from her house.
When Yang Ermei heard that this was a good thing, how could she disagree? Everyone in his family ate the pig head meat that the Su family gave him last night, and their mouths were full of oil. It tasted weird, and even now when he thinks about it, his mouth is watering. What did the Su family do?
"Auntie, my family is doing this business. Let Doudou's father sell it when the time comes. It's just your family's work. I'm afraid he won't be able to do it."
"These are all small things. I just came to ask. If your family wants to make some, I will keep it for your family. There is still a lot of braised food from yesterday. Ask Zhushan to pick up an earthen pot and go to my house to get it. The price is five cents. A pound.”
"Okay, I'll ask Doudou's father to come over later."
After a while, Xu Zhushan came over, picked up a burden, and put an earthen pot on one end.
"Auntie."
"Zhu Shan is here, bring the earthen pot in, and Auntie will get you some brine."
Yesterday, I ate some of the food and gave some away. The remaining two earthen jars were filled with half a jar each.
"Auntie, I don't even know what to say."
Xu Zhushan is not a ungrateful person. He naturally knows that the Su family did all this to repay his mother and daughter-in-law for their help in the past two days. In his opinion, it is nothing. The Su family is giving money to his family for free. .
"They all belong to the neighbors. No one in my family has time to sell them. It's not for selling to anyone. It's better to give them to your family. But Zhushan, how much do you plan to sell a pound of braised sesame water?"
"Auntie, I plan to sell it for eight cents per catty."
"You are such a down-to-earth kid. You listen to my aunt and sell it for ten cents per catty. You carry a load and go to the alleys of the town to sell it."
Su Yu also told Madam Lian about this price in advance, otherwise Madam Lian wouldn't be able to remember it.
The Xu family plans to sell it for eight cents per catty. The pig offal is delicious, and they are afraid that others will shake their heads when they hear it is made from pig offal. Now my aunt told him to sell it for ten cents per catty. You know, pork only sells for ten cents per catty. Would anyone really buy this pig instead of pork?
"There are not many goods today, so you sell it for ten cents first. If no one buys it in the end, you can lower the price and sell it out before dark."
"I listen to my aunt."
As soon as Xu Zhushan left with his burden, word spread in the village that the smell of the stewed water was so strong, and the smell was the same as the smell that came from Su's house yesterday. How could the villagers not know about it.
Many people were attracted by the smell yesterday, and they are still scratching their heads. When they heard that Xu Zhushan was going to sell pig sewers, some people wanted to buy some to try. As soon as they heard that it cost ten cents a pound, many people hesitated. In the end, there were two or three stores that bought it, not much. Each family bought a pound to taste it. One pound sounds like a lot, but there are more than ten people in the family. Let’s divide it up. One pound can’t be divided into two mouthfuls.
