"Kill the pig! Kill the pig!" Early in the morning, I heard the joyful shouts of children outside.

Children ran around the village, calling their friends to go and watch together.

Song Jinxiu was also very excited. She had never seen a pig being slaughtered before.

He excitedly pulled Liu Ankang to join in the fun.

As soon as I got there, I saw a group of children gathered outside the yard. The children were more excited than the adults and chattered non-stop.

This yard is the village grocery store. The front is the shop, and this is the backyard, with doors on both sides.

There is only one grocery store in the village, selling needles and thread, salt, and candy. There is only one kind of candy, and it is the cheapest loose sugar, without any wrapping paper, and each piece is packed in a jar.

They also sell meat every five days and tofu every ten days. The quantity is small and it’s first come, first served.

Song Jinxiu had bought it several times, but she never dared to buy too much, and would eat it together with the meat from the space.

I bought tofu for the first time yesterday, I didn’t know about it before.

Song Jinxiu also lay on the courtyard wall and saw a pig hanging upside down and tied to a wooden stick, wailing.

Pigs nowadays are not as big as those in later generations. Each one weighs more than 100 pounds. After removing some miscellaneous meat, the remaining meat is only about 70 to 80 pounds.

The white knife went in and the red knife came out, and the pig wailed even louder.

Song Jinxiu shuddered with fear. What was so interesting about this? Was this really suitable for children to watch?

He took Liu Ankang's hand and left.

Too bloody and violent.

"Let's not watch it anymore. It's not interesting at all. Remember, don't join in the fun when there's a pig being slaughtered in the village in the future. Let's go find Aunt Cuihua." Song Jinxiu said as they walked.

Liu Ankang nodded. He didn't like watching it in the first place, but he was dragged here this time.

Aunt Cuihua was not idle at home either. She was going to make bacon and sausages soon, so she had a lot of things to prepare.

Several large basins were brought out to hold the marinated meat, and packets of seasonings were placed on the table.

Song Jinxiu was still worried about the seasoning for the sausages, after all, she only had salt for cooking. She didn't expect Aunt Cuihua to have prepared so many things.

"Wow, aunt. You have prepared everything." Song Jinxiu exclaimed in amazement.

"We only make this once a year, so it must be delicious!" Aunt Cuihua said with a smile.

Later, Song Jinxiu learned that making sausages and bacon was a craft passed down from Aunt Cuihua's ancestors.

After a while, the village chief and Dazhu came back pushing a cart with a slaughtered pig and a basin of pig offal on it.

The village chief and Dazhu were responsible for cutting up the pig. The pig they dragged back was left whole and uncut.

Aunt Cuihua took the hind leg meat and cut it into pieces to make sausages.

Song Jinxiu also took a knife and joined in cutting.

Liu Ankang sat on a small stool and scraped the pig hair, scraping off all the places that were not cleaned.

"An An is so well behaved. Look at Niu Dan, he ran away early in the morning. How could he sit here and help so obediently?" Aunt Cuihua praised Liu Ankang as he sat there seriously and helped.

"Hahaha! He's very well behaved and can help me with many things at home. But I wish he could just play around like Niu Dan.

"He's been stuck at home all day like an old man. Children should be more lively." Song Jinxiu glanced at Liu Ankang and said.

"It's good to be quiet. You don't know that naughty monkey Niu Dan. He runs out all day long, and when he comes back, his clothes can't even be seen in their original color.

An An is much better now. You don’t know, he used to like to squat alone and count ants, and he would never join us!” Aunt Cuihua said while cutting meat.

“Boys, if you are a little naughty, you will be smarter when you grow up, and Niu Dan is very polite.

"I remember he was the one who led me to the village the first time. He looked like a great general among the kids. Hahaha!" Song Jinxiu laughed.

"Isn't An An quiet enough now? How quiet was it before?"

"That's right, he used to..." Aunt Cuihua then started talking about Liu Ankang's past.

Song Jinxiu was listening on the side and burst into laughter when she heard something funny.

Everyone chatted while working, and it wasn't boring at all.

After the meat is marinated, it needs to be stuffed into the sausage casings. Aunt Cuihua has already prepared the sausage casings.

They took out two gags that looked a bit like funnels, and the two men gave the enemas there.

Song Jinxiu watched from time to time as the village chief and Dazhu and others made bacon.

First, sprinkle some white wine on it, then apply salt and spices. The salt and spices are fried.

"This year's harvest is good, so we didn't use much salt. Eating meat wasn't as convenient as it is now.

At the end of each year, bacon must be made very salty so that it can be stored for a long time.

When I feel like eating meat, I just cut a few slices and stew them with a pot of vegetables, and it can be considered a meat meal."

Aunt Cuihua saw Song Jinxiu looking at the pickled meat and explained to her.

"Life was so hard in the past." Song Jinxiu sighed.

"Of course not. Let alone meat, there's not even enough food to fill your stomach. But our village is surrounded by mountains, and there are wild vegetables and fruits everywhere.

And there are those wild potatoes. Anyway, if you work hard, you won't go hungry." Aunt Cuihua sighed.

This place was discovered by them by accident, it is really a Feng Shui treasure land!

Back then, the Japanese were fooled around.

But it was a hardship for the other villagers. When they couldn't get any benefits here, they started to cause more trouble to the surrounding villages.

"Now that New China has been established, life will get better and better in the future," Song Jinxiu comforted.

"That's right, I never dreamed of such a good day before.

I can farm peacefully and steadily, fill my stomach every day, and even have meat every three to five days.

"Look, they can still make so much bacon and sausage during Chinese New Year, as well as all kinds of delicious food. It's really beautiful." Aunt Cuihua said happily.

The Japanese were disgusting when they couldn't catch anyone. They would come into the village and destroy the crops every few days.

Everyone works hard for a year but doesn’t see any harvest.

But the villagers were not easy to deal with, and they seized several of their granaries.

This caused them to run all over the mountain, and finally everyone discovered this treasure land.

"I'll go cook first. It's almost noon." Song Jinxiu said.

After working for a whole morning, Song Jinxiu saw that no one was interested in cooking, so she spoke up.

"No need, I'll take you to eat the pig-killing meal later. No one needs to cook at noon today." Aunt Cuihua said.

"There's also the pig-killing dish!" Song Jinxiu had never eaten the pig-killing dish before. She didn't know if it tasted good.

"Yes, we slaughtered so many pigs today, and one piece of meat is enough for each person. It can be considered as a gathering of the whole village to celebrate the New Year in advance." The group of people worked for a while.

"Okay, it's almost time. Let's take a break and go eat first." said the village chief.

Liu Ankang went home and brought back three large bowls.

"Why do you need three?" Song Jinxiu asked in confusion.

Liu Ankang glanced at her without answering. "You'll know in a moment."