"Second brother, I've brought the pig back. Has the water boiled yet?"
After recovering from his shock, Li Changlong said, "It's boiling, it's boiling."
Upon learning that the water had boiled, Lu Qiqi instructed the Shadow Guards to unload the black-haired pig from the oxcart and place it in the courtyard.
The black-haired pig had been drugged by Lu Qiqi and lay unconscious on the oxcart the whole way, not moving an inch.
Lu Qiqi pointed to a spot on the courtyard wall and said, "Let's hang it on this beam."
There is a shade canopy in the yard, with four large, exceptionally sturdy pillars, enough to easily hang a 300-pound pig upside down.
Li Changlong was worried that it wouldn't hang securely, so he specially placed a square table underneath to ensure it was absolutely safe.
When bleeding a black-haired pig by hanging it upside down, its neck must be thoroughly cleaned to prevent filth from the pigpen from soiling the blood.
After finishing all that, Li Changlong took a stick and a wooden basin for washing vegetables.
Taking advantage of this break, Lu Qiqi fed the black-haired pig the root of the hallucinogenic drug.
The black pig had been drugged with hallucinogens. If it wasn't given the antidote beforehand, the anesthetic would still be mixed in even after the pork was cooked.
In this way, it's not a feast for slaughtering pigs, but rather a collective moment of despair where everyone gathers together and knocks themselves out.
Lu Qiqi removed the anesthesia from the black-haired pig and said, "Nineteen, take the stick. When the pig's blood is released, stir it with the stick to prevent it from congealing into lumps."
Nineteen has lived in the Shadow Guard since childhood and has never experienced the joys of farm life. Being directed to do chores by Lu Qiqi, he is actually quite impatient.
He took the stick that Li Changlong handed him.
Li Changlong raised the knife he had sharpened the night before and slashed it across the neck of the black-haired pig.
As the blood trickled down, the black-haired pig felt the pain, but it was tied up and hung upside down from the beam. Its violent struggles couldn't make much noise, and it could only let out painful howls.
Lu Qiqi remained unmoved by the sounds of pigs being slaughtered. On Monday, when she was fetching hot water in a wooden bucket, she handed the blades and sharp kitchen knives from the low table to the Shadow Guards.
The Shadow Guards took the razor blades or kitchen knives, their faces stiffening for a moment before all turning their gazes to An Yi.
An Yi nodded slightly, and the Shadow Guards looked at the weapons in their hands with blank expressions.
Most of them were orphans without parents. The first thing they learned in the Shadow Guard was how to use knives and sticks. Even the least damaging weapon was a dagger. Holding such a weapon was a first for them.
Lu Qiqi had no idea that they were having such complicated thoughts. She instructed them, "After pouring hot water on the black pig, it's best to use this blade to scrape off the hair. But you have to be quick, otherwise it will take a lot of effort to remove the hair completely after it cools down."
The Shadow Guard understood the reasoning, and his body immediately tensed up. He secretly set a goal for the project: to remove all the black pig bristles!
Seeing that they all looked tense, even An Yi was no less so, Lu Qiqi turned to look at Nineteen, who was squatting on the ground, stirring the blood with a stick.
Nineteen was seen stirring the blood with a serious expression, as if he were conducting some important experiment.
Um~
Okay, she'll just consider this the Shadow Guard's culture for now.
The black-haired pig, weighing over 300 jin, filled a third of the wooden basin. Li Changlong then had the nineteenth pig take away the blood for later use.
After waiting patiently until the blood had drained completely, Li Changlong untied the rope and shouted towards the boiling water, "Zhouyi, bring hot water over."
"Okay, I'm coming." Zhou Yi carried a half-full bucket of hot water and walked over.
He raised the wooden bucket high and poured it directly onto the black-haired pig. A burst of hot air instantly swept over everyone, and wisps of white smoke rose from the pig.
"Quick, quick, remove the hair!"
In his haste, Li Changlong had already forgotten the sword the Shadow Guards had placed in the corner and hurriedly ordered them to get to work.
Li Changlong picked up a razor blade and began to carve the black-haired pig. The areas where his blade had cut immediately revealed clean pigskin.
The Shadow Guards followed suit, imitating Li Changlong's actions as they removed the hair from the black-haired pigs.
Eight people surrounded a pig, scraping it as they went. After they finished scraping it on Monday and poured the next bucket of water on it, they continued scraping.
Many hands make light work, and with many people involved, things got done much easier. Before long, the hair on the black pig was completely scraped off.
The hair on the head and limbs of the black-haired pig is difficult to remove, so Li Changlong plans to cut it into pieces before removing the hair.
So he ordered his Shadow Guards to flip the black-haired pig over so that its four legs were in the air, and then he raised his cleaver and slashed at the pig's belly.
The slaughtering and hair removal of the pig was none of Lu Qiqi's business, so she went inside and moved a long bench to the yard.
He then used his mind to retrieve a bag of melon seeds from his spatial storage, divided them into two handfuls, and gave them to Doctor Luo and Doctor Huang, who were adding firewood to the fire.
Then she called to Nineteen, who was still stirring the blood with a stick, "The blood is mixed very well. Go wash your hands and come sit down to rest for a while."
Upon hearing this, Nineteen reluctantly put down the stick, went straight to the bucket of cold water, and used a gourd ladle to scoop two scoops of water to wash his hands clean.
Just as he was watching his clean hands, about to wipe the water off his clothes, Lu Qiqi called him to get a dry cloth to dry his hands.
Nineteen still had some pig's blood stains on her body. If she wiped her hands directly with her clothes, how filthy that would be! It felt like she had washed them, but also like she hadn't.
In any case, given the opportunity, Lu Qiqi would definitely prevent such a thing from happening.
After Shijiu wiped the water droplets off his hands and came over, Lu Qiqi handed him a handful of melon seeds. "Sit down."
Nineteen blankly took the melon seeds, sat down next to Lu Qiqi, and started cracking melon seeds in the same way.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up; he hadn't expected that this salty and savory snack would taste so wonderful.
While Lu Qiqi was happily cracking sunflower seeds, Li Changlong had already removed the heart, liver, lungs, gallbladder, and intestines from the black-haired pig's belly.
He handed over the large and small intestines, as well as the pig's lungs, to Zhou Yi and his men to clean them. Then he placed the pig's head and limbs at Dr. Huang's feet.
He was instructed to use fire tongs to brand the hooves and the stray hairs on the pig's head clean.
The remaining Shadow Guards were not idle either. Except for An Yi, who helped Li Changlong debone the pork, the others followed Li Changlong's instructions, holding sharp kitchen knives and slicing the pork into thin slices for drying and making pork jerky.
Everything was arranged in an orderly manner, and Lu Qiqi took in all of Li Changlong's arrangements.
In her opinion, Li Changlong has improved a lot at Yunbian Winery and has learned how to allocate people's work reasonably.
Unlike when she taught villagers how to grow vegetables in Tianping Village, where she wanted to do everything herself, it was only after she gave them some pointers that she let them do it themselves, in order to prevent them from not being able to learn.
Even after she gave him some pointers, Lu Qiqi still noticed that he would unconsciously start doing things. Fortunately, the villagers of Tianping Village weren't stupid. By watching Li Changlong's actions, they had already learned most of the techniques, which was enough for growing vegetables.
With that in mind, Doctor Huang handed the prepared pig's head to Li Changlong for further processing.
Li Changlong raised his cleaver high and chopped it down on the pig's head. With a loud bang, the pig's head split in two!
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