Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 91 Handsome man and beautiful woman repay the favor of saving life

"The water is almost ready. Let's get it to Dad and the others."

After putting the fish away, Xiulan walked into the room and looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay, you hold your daughter, and I'll fetch water." Lin Heng nodded.

"Wait a minute. I'll go in and change my clothes. You should change too. You've been wearing these clothes for a few days."

Xiulan added that there were many people in the yard over there, so one had to pay attention to their image.

"Okay, look at your daughter, I'll go out and take a bath."

Lin Heng thought it was right, so he went out with a basin and soap.

I took a cold shower and rubbed my body and hair with soap. My whole body felt refreshed.

Then she put on shorts and short sleeves and the cloth shoes made by Xiulan herself, and she suddenly looked much more handsome and looked more eye-catching.

Xiulan also wore lipstick, had a high ponytail, and bangs parted in the middle, giving her a gentle and capable sister-next-door style.

"Honey, you are so beautiful." Lin Heng couldn't help but kiss her.

"Let's go." Xiulan glanced at him angrily.

Xiulan held her daughter in her arms, while Lin Heng scooped the boiling water into the barrel and carried it to the old house on a pole.

At this time, the sun had half set below the ridge, and the entire western sky was blood red.

There were a lot fewer people watching at the door of the old house, but there were still twenty or thirty people, which seemed very crowded.

"Give me a moment, be careful of scalding yourself with boiling water."

Lin Heng shouted and walked over carrying the bucket.

"Lin Heng is here. He looks so well dressed."

"Hey, not only does he look good, but his hunting skills are also impressive."

"That's right, otherwise we wouldn't be able to kill such a big wild boar."

"What a talented man and beautiful woman. Look at Xiulan, she is a perfect match for her."

Lin Heng and Xiulan were well-dressed and handsome men and beauties.

The Lin family has good genes, but lacks food and clothing. Lin Heng is [-] meters tall, with regular features and sharp edges.

Xiulan comes from Lushui County, where plenty of water supports people. She is [-] meters tall, has a slim figure, beautiful appearance, and the delicacy and gentleness of a Jiangnan woman.

The two of them together can definitely be regarded as a talented man and a beautiful woman.

There were many women present, including Jin Yan.

They all looked down upon Lin Heng before, and when Xiulan got married, they all thought she was being cheated and didn't realize it.

Even though she is not as beautiful as Xiulan, she is always proud of her husband's hard work and looks down upon her.

But now, these women are extremely envious. It has only been more than a month since Lin Heng returned to live a down-to-earth life, but the situation in the Lin family has been turned upside down.

Liu Lan, Li Caifeng and others all wanted to take Xiulan's place. After dinner, they would think about why they didn't see Lin Heng's potential in the first place and what a luxurious life it would be to eat meat every day.

After all, he has a junior high school education, so he is really different from the uneducated men in the village.

Jin Yan stood aside, looking at Lin Heng and Xiulan, regretting not marrying him in the first place.

She thought Lin Heng would look at her and show her how well he was doing.

As a result, they didn't look at her at all, their eyes were only on his wife, children and the big wild boar. When I looked over, it was calm and calm, without any show-off or other emotions, just like looking at passers-by.

This made her a little uncomfortable. After all, he had proposed marriage to her before, but now she didn't see any trouble at all, as if she was a gust of wind.

"Dad, the water is here, let's start souping the pig."

Lin Heng didn't have as many complicated psychology as others, and he didn't know what they were thinking.

"Pour it into the bucket and burn it in the house."

Father Lin nodded and said.

Lin Heng poured the water into a two-meter-diameter large wooden bucket, then turned back to pick up the remaining boiling water from home.

Xiulan went into the room to chat with Bi Caiyun.

The eldest brother Lin Yue's family also had water to boil, so it was enough to pour all the water from the three families in.

"Dad, have you weighed it? How much does the pig weigh?" Lin Heng put down the barrel and asked.

"We weighed it. It's not just [-] pounds, but [-] pounds."

Tian Baishun said with a smile.

"No wonder it's so heavy that I can't lift it." Lin Heng chuckled.

"Here, help lift the pig to the barrel for soup."

Li Niu, the pig butcher, looked at the crowd and shouted, a noose had been put on the pig's nose.

Lin Lin's father and four or five other people walked over and restrained Zhuzhu, shouting slogans in his hands: "Come on, one, two, three, let's go!!"

In one breath, the big wild boar was lifted into the barrel. Then one person pulled the noose around its nose, and the other pulled its tail and soaked it in the boiling water.

This step is to scald the pig hair off. Once one side is scalded, several people will help turn it over and continue scalding the other side.

Normally it takes about ten minutes to iron it, but this one took twenty minutes because it was a wild boar.

When the ironing is almost done, you can start to remove the hair from the pig. In rural areas, a black volcanic stone the size of a fist is used. There are many small holes on it and it is very rough.

He held his hand and smashed it on the pig skin, and the pig hair and the old skin were rubbed off, revealing the snow-white fur.

"Come on, work harder."

All the pig hair was removed, and everyone worked together to pull the pig out.

Use a stick to carry the pig in the middle of the barrel, and place the pig on it, with its head and tail resting on the edge of the barrel, and its waist resting on the stick. Position the pig upright with its belly facing down.

If it is raised at home, a firecracker should be set off at this time, and a small bowl should be placed on the pig's head to serve the Stove Lord.

Naturally, this process is omitted for wild boars. The butcher picks up a meat cleaver and first cuts along the pig's spine. This step is called looking at the fat.

"This pig is fat, three fingers wide." Li Niu said with a smile.

"This big boar eats a lot, so it must be fat." Tian Baishun said with a smile. The fat means more oil, which means the pig is fat enough.

After finishing watching the fat, the butcher went to cut off the pig's balls and anus, took out the large intestine and tied it with a rope to prevent it from pooping.

Then comes the chopping off of the pig's head. Watching the butcher cut open the meat and chop the bones easily is as beautiful as a cook cutting a cow.

After the pig's head is cut off, the tail is cut off and the tail is clamped in the pig's mouth. This is called having a head and a tail.

Then the ring of meat around the pig's neck had to be cut off. They called it the "row ring" here. Half of it, five or six kilograms, was sent directly to the kitchen to eat enough for today.

At this point, the operation was initially completed. The butcher took out two iron hooks and hooked them on the pig's chest.

"Here, help lift it."

Li Niu, the pig butcher, said something, and Father Lin and others came to help, lifted the pig and hung it upright on the shelf he had built.

Then the butcher took out the bone chopping knife, cut open the belly first, and took out the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and other internal organs one by one.

"Give me the large intestine and I'll turn it." Li Baiquan smiled and took over the task of turning the large intestine.

This is a technical job that requires turning the large intestine over and cleaning it. Most people really can't turn it over.

"I'll handle the small intestine." Father Lin took over the task of handling the small intestine.

The same goes for the small intestine, which needs to be turned over and cleaned.

"You guys beat me so hard, my intestines and liver were broken."

Li Niu looked at some feces flowing out of the pig and shook his head.

"Hey, you don't know how powerful this big wild boar is. Two shots and two arrows didn't kill it. It almost knocked down Old Man Tian."

Tian Baishun shook his head.

"That's because your skills are not good enough. If it were me, I would have shot him in the head."

Li Niu said loudly with a smile.

Lin Heng smiled and said nothing. This pig butcher was used to bragging and had no idea how powerful a two hundred kilogram wild boar could be.

"Hmph, it would be good if you meet someone whose legs don't get scared." Tian Baishun glanced at him disdainfully.

"Hey, I've killed five or six hundred pigs. What's there to be afraid of from a wild boar?" Li Niu didn't take it seriously.

Tian Baishun didn't bother to argue with the layman.

Although Li Niu had no experience, he did a good job of killing pigs. The pigs were decomposed piece by piece like art in his hands.

Lin Heng was attracted by the two fat pieces of pork suet, while Tian Baishun salivated over the pig eggs and pig guns.

In half an hour, the pork was chopped, and the ribs, pork legs, pork belly, etc. were all clearly divided.

"Okay, now that the pork is chopped, how do you divide it?" Li Niu finished his work and looked at Lin Heng and said.

Everyone's eyes also gathered, Xiulan, Caiyun, Liu Juan and others also came to take a look.

"As promised, take them one by one. You choose Li Baiquan first, Lin Heng second, Lu Honghai third, and me fourth."

After Tian Baishun finished speaking, he asked Father Lin to bring four dustpans from the Lin family and give them to everyone.

"Then I'm welcome." Li Baiquan said, first lifting a pig's hind leg.

Of all the cuts of pork, the hind legs are definitely the best part.

"Then I'll get a pig's hind leg too." Lin Heng also took one. The pig’s hind legs were gone, and the remaining two front legs were taken away by Lu Honghai and Tian Baishun.

"I took this pork liver." Li Baiquan chose pork liver for the second time.

Taking away the pork legs, other meats are pretty much the same, so offal is naturally the most cost-effective.

"I'll get a piece of suet." Lin Heng chose suet.

"I also want a piece of suet." His uncle Lu Honghai took another piece of pork suet.

Tian Baishun chuckled: "I take the pig egg and pig gun, the old man likes this."

"You old man knows how to pick."

"When people get old, they can't make up for it even if they eat."

The onlookers laughed and booed.

"Hey, old man, I'm invulnerable." Tian Baishun sneered.

At the beginning of the third round, Uncle Lin Heng targeted the pig heart.

Since the total weight has to be weighed at the end and averaged, it is more economical and cost-effective to get the pig heart.

Lin Heng looked at the remaining internal organs, including pig intestines, pig small intestines, pig belly, pig kidneys, and pig lungs.

No one eats the pancreas, it has been fed directly to the dogs.

Lin Heng wanted to choose pork kidney. He liked to eat this, but he was afraid that people would choose the large intestine. Xiulan liked to eat this.

"I'll choose pig intestines." Lin Heng still chose pig intestines.

Then his uncle chose pork intestines, and Tian Baishun chose pork kidneys.

Then Li Baiquan removed the pig belly, leaving only one pig lung.

"Let me get a piece of meat." Lin Heng gave up the pig lungs and didn't want to take the pig head. Although the ears, pig tongue and pig tail were delicious, the pig head was too heavy and didn't have much meat.

"I want meat too."

There was no good stuff left, so everyone started to pick the meat. Soon the pork was all divided, and there was only one pig head and one pig lung left.

"No one wants it. How about we weigh it? Whoever doesn't have enough can make up for it."

Tian Baishun said.

A scale was brought and everyone started weighing. The total weight of the wild boar was 280 kilograms, and one person should weigh [-] kilograms.

Because there are pig hairs in the tank, some of the meat used to eat is reduced by five kilograms for each person, which is calculated as sixty-five.

Lin Heng's weight is sixty-three pounds, Li Baiquan's weight is seventy-five pounds, his uncle's weight is fifty-eight pounds, and Old Man Tian's weight is fifty pounds.

"This pig's head and pig's lungs add up to about twenty-five pounds. They belong to you, Old Man Tian."

Lin Heng brought the meat to him.

Li Baiquan gave Lu Honghai some more meat, so the weight of the four of them was almost the same.

The sun has completely set, leaving only the last bit of afterglow to give to those who have not yet returned home.

The villagers who were watching the pig slaughtering in the yard also turned and left, carrying complex emotions such as envy and jealousy.

If they didn't leave, they were afraid that their saliva would flow from the smell of fried meat and their stomachs would make embarrassing noises.

Lin Heng and others were just being polite. In this era, they didn't have enough money to treat so many people to dinner. Everyone was living a very difficult life.

"Lin Heng, how much does it cost per pound? Sell me five pounds." At this time, Jin Yan walked up and said with a smile.

"The price of domestic pork has recently increased to [-] cents per catty, and we don't want much wild boar meat. Do you want to buy it for [-] cents?" Lin Heng looked at her and asked.

"Buy it, four and a half yuan, right?" Jin Yan took out a handkerchief from her pocket with scattered money wrapped in it. She found four and a half yuan and handed it to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng weighed five pounds of pork belly for her and asked her to look at the scale herself.

"No need to look, I trust you, I'm leaving." Jin Yan said, turned and left.

Lin Heng entered the house carrying the meat without paying much attention.

The dishes at Mother Lin's side have been prepared, and Xiulan and others have already started wiping the table and getting chopsticks.

"Li Niu, do you want money or pork?" Lin Heng asked.

"If you want money, just give me [-] cents." Li Niu said. He charges [-] cents to kill a pig, which is relatively expensive. A normal day's work in rural areas only costs [-] cents.

"Here." Lin Heng took eight cents and gave it to him.

"Okay." Li Niu grinned and took it.

"You can't give it to me. I already have the most meat, so I'll give it to you and cut off another two pounds." His uncle Li Baiquan said.

"Uncle, just sit down and eat. It's just a few cents, there's no need to worry about it." Lin Heng waved his hand and said.

After some pulling and pulling, Li Baiquan cut off two kilograms of meat for Lin Heng. Although eighty cents didn't seem like much to him, it was a lot for farmers.

"Have a meal!"

Father Lin said with a smile. The dishes were served and the wine was warmed.

There were adults sitting on the table. Caiyun and Lin Wei were in the kitchen, where there was a pot of meat, enough for them to eat.

Lin Heng took a bite of wild boar. This was an uncastrated male wild boar. The smell was still very strong, and the smell could still be smelled despite Mother Lin's handling.

The meat was a bit difficult to chew, because this male wild boar may have lived for many years, especially the skin, which was impossible to chew through.

The taste of the meat can only be said to be unique, which is far inferior to that of domestic pigs. However, some people think it is delicious, which may have something to do with personal habits.

Of course, in rural areas of this era, meat is delicious, and quality is not a consideration.

"Come on, drink!"

Father Lin held the wine glass and said that wild boar meat goes very well with wine.

At dinner, everyone was so happy eating meat that they didn't even eat much in the end.

After dinner, Lin Heng's uncle Li Baiquan carried the meat back. He was anxious to take the meat back and rub it with salt and smoke, otherwise it would spoil easily.

"Uncle, your honey." Lin Heng chased him out to deliver the honey. Everyone had already reached the river dam.

"You guys take it and eat it. I have bees at home, so that's all." Li Baiquan said with a smile on the other side of the river.

Lin Heng had no choice but to leave it at home until he could take it home next time.

"I'm leaving too. I haven't been back for many days." Lu Honghai also packed up his things and left, unable to stop him.

In the end, only Tian Baishun was left. He picked through the meat and packed the pig eggs, pig gun and two kidneys.

For the other meat, I only took a pig's head and a small piece of meat, and left the rest in the dustpan.

He turned around and looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile: "Lin Heng, these are all for you. Thank you for saving my old man's life twice. Thank you very much."

"I didn't save you because of your little flesh. Take it back as soon as possible." Lin Heng shook his head, not wanting to take advantage of this.

"I said this is a little gift. It's not a question of whether you want it or not. It's not a question of whether you want it or not." Tian Baishun shook his head and turned around to leave.

Lin Heng was speechless, holding the meat and stuffing it into his backpack.

As a result, Old Man Tian ran away without even catching up.

"What should I do with this meat?" Mother Lin and the others were applying salt to preserve the meat and asked when they saw the remaining meat.

"Put some salt on it first and leave it there." Lin Heng thought about it and decided to accept it.

By accepting this meat, even if Tian Baishun repays the favor of saving his life, there is no need to get entangled in it anymore.

I saved two of his lives, and no one dared to gossip even with this little thing.

Sister-in-law Liu Juan drooled when she looked at the meat in the dustpan, and she regretted more and more that she didn't insist on letting Lin Yue follow, otherwise how could she have shared some of it.

"Dad, brother, each of you has one piece of these two pieces of meat."

Lin Heng picked two pieces of meat weighing [-] or [-] kilograms and handed them to his father and elder brother.

"Why do we need this from you? You can take it home and eat it yourself." Father Lin refused.

"Yes, you worked so hard for it, we can't take it." Lin Yue yelled and couldn't accept it.

"Take it, you have done so much farm work, you should, I will be angry if you don't take it." Lin Heng forced it on the two of them.

This amount is enough for the time being. More than ten kilograms of meat is worth ten yuan. They will definitely not accept any more. This amount is the most appropriate.

"Xiulan, let's go home." Before the two could refuse, Lin Heng packed up the other meat and carried it home.

"This is too much, Lin Heng, you can give me a small one." Lin Yue was still a little uneasy. Lin Heng gave too much, and he was the elder brother, so there was no reason to take so much.

"Just keep it, he doesn't need this little meat, otherwise he will be embarrassed to be lazy in the future." Lin's father stopped his eldest son.

"Dad is right. Brother, please keep it. You have helped with too much work." Lin Heng said with a smile. Giving meat is nothing. What he wants to do is to lead everyone in the Lin family to live without worries. The peak days of worrying about money.

Lin Yue looked at the meat in his hand and nodded helplessly: "Okay then."

After returning home, Xiulan coaxed Xiaoxia to sleep. When she came to the main room, she saw that there was still more than a hundred kilograms of pork in the basket, and she was so grateful that it was a bit unreal.

From now on, the family won’t have to worry about running out of meat for more than half a year.

"Can you accept Tian Baishun's meat?" Xiulan asked a little worriedly.

"I saved two of his lives, and everyone in the village knows that it's normal for him to give him meat. It's nothing. He happened to return the favor, and I got the pork. It's the best of both worlds." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then what should I do with this meat? Fatty meat is okay, but lean meat may smell bad. The temperature is too high in summer." Xiulan did not expect that she would be worried about how to store the meat after eating it.

"I have an idea." Lin Heng said, he had already thought of a way.

(End of this chapter)