Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 32
Jiang Yutong broke the embarrassment with a smile, and continued the topic: "Actually, this material is really not bad. The thickness is close to 10 cm. The key is that the shape is very good. The curvature is very natural. The sculptor should have a lot of room to play. "

Cheng He seemed to understand but half understood.

Jiang Yutong thought of something, and asked with great interest: "What is the whole pig feast in your village? I think everyone seems very excited and happy."

Cheng Shi is the best at this question. He took a step forward and hurriedly answered: "Don't you understand the whole pig banquet? It is to kill a pig and use all the pork to make various dishes, such as braised pork, pork Meatballs, stewed pork scalp, belly cabbage, fried sausage, braised lion head, pork pie, stewed trotters, pork stew, pork vermicelli...there are so many, I can’t finish them.”

While talking about the name of the dish, Cheng Shi thought about the taste, and couldn't take it anymore, so he swallowed hard.

In the past, only during Chinese New Year, Taohua Village held a whole-pig feast and ate a feast.But today, a wild boar was harvested by accident, so we can have another whole pig feast in summer, how can it make people not coveted?

The whole pig feast in Taohua Village is out-of-the-box, unlike other places. Just to make sense, there are a few thin slices of meat in each plate, and there are seven or eight plates in total, so it is called the whole pig feast.

The whole pig feast here is to really kill a pig, and everyone in the village comes to help cook and eat together.Every year, the whole village gathers around the long table in the ancestral hall, eating in full swing.

Jiang Yutong had never seen what it was like for the whole village to eat together, and felt that thousands of people sitting together should be quite spectacular.

They didn't have a big reason, just because they got a pig, the whole village could be so excited.They should be the most optimistic people in the world.

She asked enthusiastically, "Excuse me...can I participate?"

Before Cheng He could speak, Cheng Shi rushed to reply: "Of course! Our mountain village is the most hospitable. You can just follow me in a while. I promise to open your eyes."

Li Tao, who had been silent all this time, raised his eyebrows and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

In front of this woman, he still doesn't have much right to speak, so he might as well just shut up.He has always known how to get along and how to deal with different women.

Jiang Yutong was very interested in the whole pig banquet, but she looked down at herself, and she had walked the mountain road all day and sweated a lot. She felt that it was disrespectful for people to do so.

She asked, "What time does the whole pig feast start? I want to take a bath first..."

Li Tao interjected at the right time: "Don't you want to see the farmhouse here? There is a place to stay at night..."

There is also a place to take a bath.

Looking at Cheng He's dilapidated house, he felt that there were cracks everywhere in the walls. It would be too unsafe for Jiang Yutong to take a bath here.These are all mountain village people, who have never seen such beautiful women, who knows what they will do?
One of them is still the kind that can kill wild boars with one hand!
Cheng He could guess what he was thinking, but he didn't bother to explain, so he said directly to Cheng Shi: "Honestly, take the beauties to find a farmhouse, and see which one is suitable for them..."

Firstly, Cheng Shi is at home all year round and knows the advantages and disadvantages of various farmhouses; secondly, Cheng Shi, who has never seen a beautiful woman, must really want the opportunity to get along with beautiful women.It's done for him!
As for whether Li Tao will be happy?Who cares!
Cheng Shile accepted the task in a dizzy manner, and said immediately, "Go, beauty, I'll take you there..."

Li Tao followed behind depressed.

Cheng He went to peel the remaining half of kudzu root, intending to chop it up and boil it into a paste for the three little wild boars to eat.This is very nutritious.

Cheng Shi's voice can be heard across the yard: "Beauty, my name is Cheng Shi, honestly, I am like this, honest and honest, you can definitely trust me..."

Cheng He felt that he could imagine what Li Tao's face had become.

The wild boars were carried back in the afternoon, and the people who were idle at home immediately took over the handling.For example, preliminary work such as building a stove, setting up a table, boiling water, scalding, etc.

Taohua Village has a tradition of eating a whole pig banquet every year. These things are very familiar, and everyone works together and moves quickly.

The water is being boiled and scalded here, and someone has arranged to prepare side dishes and condiments over there. They are busy but not chaotic, orderly, and very efficient.

The side dishes here refer to various picked mushrooms, wild vegetables, pickled bamboo shoots, sauerkraut, etc., as well as seasonal vegetables, etc. There are all kinds of them, and they will be used in cooking later.

The recipes are already in their hearts, and they don't need to ask for anything to prepare.

There are people in the village who are good at butchering pigs. With their butcher knives, they not only do it cleanly and quickly, but also clean up the meat, head, hooves, internal organs, blood, bones and other parts of the pig without wasting any useful things. Well organized, divided into categories, each for its own use, the utilization rate is very high, basically there is nothing to throw away.

Even pig hair can be left to make brushes.There is no need to say anything else.

Wild boar hair is longer and harder than domestic pig hair, making it easier to use.

After the pork is divided into large parts, it is then divided into small pieces according to the parts, and each piece has its own method.For example, pork belly can be partly fried with green peppers and partly made into braised pork with preserved vegetables.The foreleg meat is made into meatballs, etc., and it will be more delicious if it is suitable.

Even if the meat is removed from the bones and fried with green peppers, it is also a delicious dish.

There are many people, and these seemingly heavy tasks can be done in a few hours by experienced people.The whole pig feast is estimated to start at seven o'clock in the evening.

Cheng He was busy cooking kudzu root paste at home, so he didn't have time to go.Besides, with so many elders there, it was simply not his turn to do it.

In the evening, Jiang Yutong came again. Remembering the winding road in the village, she knocked on the door of his house and asked him to take her to the whole pig feast.

Cheng He laughed: "You can't wait, right? It's not that fast to process a pig. The meat has to be cooked and stewed. It may take more than an hour to finish. You just sit here and wait, when the time comes Someone will call."

Jiang Yutong smiled awkwardly: "I... I can't wait to eat. I just want to see how they make a feast for a whole pig..."

This is really an embarrassing misunderstanding. How can there be such a greedy person?
Cheng He wanted to ask, didn't Cheng Shi follow him?What about others?

So he had no choice but to say: "Okay then, I'll take you there to have a look, don't make a fuss for a while! The meat there is probably piled up like a mountain!"

Jiang Yutong urged him a little hastily.

Cheng He had no choice but to call his daughter to come quickly and go together.

Now Cheng Xinxin was playing with Napoleon's hair again, combing his golden hair into clumps with a comb.Napoleon didn't know what she was doing to him at all, and looked hopeless.

While busy with work, the little girl said to it: "Take it, you haven't eaten the roasted tree roots, have you? It was dug out by my father. I ate it. It's very delicious. You're so hungry... I also ate it. Rice cake, fragrant..."

Napoleon couldn't understand what she was saying at all, he only knew that she was talking, and then as if to respond to her, every time she made a sound, it would make a low "wow" sound, as if answering her.

The little girl would say dissatisfied: "You are stupid, you can't speak, you can only scream, I can't understand what you are talking about."

She probably thought that the dogs in cartoons could talk, but why couldn't Napoleon speak?

Cheng He couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Baby, let's go, let's go eat delicious food!"

As soon as Cheng Xinxin heard that there was something delicious, she walked quickly, leaving the dog behind and ran over.

The big yellow dog followed up like a dog.

Jiang Yutong smiled the whole time, looked at this warm family, and then walked out of the dilapidated courtyard.

Li Tao followed silently as usual.

(End of this chapter)