Chapter 79 Killing the Rabbit, Skinning it, and Taking Its Blood
When he returned home, Sang Xingjia had thrown away his crutches and was trying to limp around the shed.
He caught a glimpse of Sang Yu's figure out of the corner of his eye, and was so scared that he wanted to run away, but he forgot that his legs were not fast enough, and he almost tripped over his left leg and fell.
He finally managed to steady himself by holding onto the wall with both hands. Before he could even catch his breath, he heard Sang Yu's faint voice beside him: "Brother, why are you running away when you see me? What have you done wrong?"
Sang Xingjia turned around slowly with a stiff face, only to see that Sang Yu had come close to him without him noticing, staring at him with her eyes fixed.
He tried hard to force a smile and laughed dryly: "Haha, no, no."
"Then what are you doing?" Sang Yu raised her eyebrows slightly. If she hadn't done anything, why did he turn pale with fear when he saw her, as if he had seen a ghost?
"Oh, what am I doing..." Sang Xingjia's mind was racing, trying to find a reasonable excuse for his behavior.
Sang Yu could see through his little thoughts and patiently advised: "Your leg hasn't fully healed yet, don't rush to leave. If you accidentally twist it again, you will have to recuperate for a long time."
After saying that, she didn't say anything else and carried the vegetables into the shed.
Take out the things in the basket one by one and put the rice wine jar in the corner to prevent it from being accidentally knocked over and broken.
As soon as he saw the gray hare, Sang Xinghao immediately became interested and came over to touch it tentatively.
The warm and plush touch under his hand made his eyes light up, and he couldn't help but touch it again and again.
Just when Sang Yu was wondering if he would be reluctant to let her kill the rabbit, he asked, "Sister, can you give me some of the rabbit skin? It feels so good to touch."
"...Okay." She was thinking too much. He was just a foodie who was greedy for the food, not someone who liked small animals.
Sang Yu was no stranger to rabbits. In later generations, the Sichuan and Chongqing regions raised a large number of rabbits to make delicious food.
The process of slaughtering wild rabbits and domestic rabbits is similar. She picked up the kitchen knife she bought and was about to walk out with the rabbit in her hand. Sang Xinghao followed her eagerly.
"Sister will kill the rabbit later and there will be blood. Aren't you afraid?" She didn't really want Sang Xinghao to go with her. A child of this age might have a nightmare at night if he saw her slaughtering and skinning the rabbit.
Sang Xinghao nodded firmly: "Don't be afraid, if my sister can see it, Hao'er can see it too."
He is a real man. It's just killing a rabbit. Why would he be afraid?
Sang Yu asked twice more, and he gave the same answer each time, so she stopped trying to persuade him.
Whether he has nightmares at night after watching it is his own choice, and people must be responsible for their choices.
As if it had sensed that death was approaching, the gray rabbit, which had been quiet and motionless before, suddenly struggled, but the tightly tied thin hemp rope made it impossible for it to break free.
Sang Yu deliberately walked a little further away and found a place with trees downwind from the shed to prevent the bloody smell left by peeling from being carried away by the wind.
Letting Sang Xinghao stay a little further away from her, Sang Yu officially started slaughtering.
She grabbed the gray rabbit's hind legs with her left hand, held its head with her right hand, and then straightened it quickly and stretched it hard.
The gray rabbit, which was originally staring with its two black eyes, suddenly felt its neck soften and drooped its head.
This is the most commonly used cervical dislocation method for slaughtering rabbits. An experienced butcher can kill a rabbit quickly and painlessly within seconds.
The series of movements were so fast that Sang Xinghao couldn't see clearly. He just felt that his sister stretched out her hand and pulled, and the gray rabbit was dead.
Sang Yu did not stop working. After the rabbit died, it had to be skinned and bled in time, otherwise the blood would coagulate and affect the taste of the rabbit meat.
She used a knife to cut open the rabbit's mouth, first separating the skin and flesh in the mouth, and then pulled the rabbit skin towards the neck.
When the skin reaches the ears, cut off the ears and skin together with the knife. When the rabbit skin is peeled below the neck, use the thin hemp rope that was previously tied to the rabbit to tie the rabbit's neck and hang it up for subsequent operations.
When peeling the rabbit's front legs, you need to reach your hand between the skin and flesh to separate the fat inside.
Then, pull the skin with one hand and the flesh with the other hand and pull them out with force. When you reach the front end of the joint, cut off the skin and bones together.
At this time, it is easy to peel the skin all the way to the buttocks, cut off the rabbit's tail between the skin and the meat, and repeat the operation on the front legs with the hind legs.
In this way, a complete rabbit skin is peeled. If it is stretched with something, it will become a complete cylinder.
Of course, if you want to get a complete and beautiful rabbit skin, you need to go through a series of follow-up operations, including removing fat and muscle from the rabbit skin, cleaning, nitrification, etc.
Sang Yu didn't have time to take care of the rabbit skin for the time being, so he chose a clean place to put it aside and continued to process the rabbit meat, but he hadn't bled it yet.
The small bowl that Sang Xinghao had brought earlier came in handy at this time.
Rabbit blood, like chicken blood, is edible, and Sang Yu is reluctant to waste it.
She untied the hanging rabbit and cut its carotid artery with a knife. The bright red, warm rabbit blood instantly gushed out and fell into a bowl sprinkled with salt.
She picked up the skinned rabbit and shook it by its hind legs. Seeing that only a few drops of blood came out, she knew that the blood had been almost drained out and smiled happily.
Looking at Sang Xinghao again at this time, his mouth was wide open, his chin almost dropped to his chest, and his eyes were full of admiration when he looked at Sang Yu.
Hey, this doesn't seem to be the result she imagined.
"Sister, you are so beautiful." After holding it in for a long time, Sang Xinghao finally uttered this incongruous sentence.
This made Sang Yu laugh: "Pfft, silly boy, this is called handsome."
As for what is handsome, she will explain it to him after she cleans up her internal organs.
The blade was gently pressed along the midline of the abdomen and instantly penetrated into the abdominal cavity. The knife vendor was indeed right in his boasting.
Use force to pry open the rabbit's abdominal cavity, take out the internal organs one by one and put them into an empty bowl, and clean up the remaining debris and blood in the body cavity.
Finally, take the processed rabbit, soak it in water, place it under the outlet of the mountain spring water, and let the water flow to wash away the remaining blood.
Clean the remaining fascia and fat on the rabbit skin, remove the excess bones and meat, and soak it in water.
After washing her kitchen knife and hands, Sang Yu walked back to the shed and was met with Sang Xingjia's equally admiring gaze.
Although he didn't go with them just now, he was watching from a distance and saw all of Sang Yu's quick and decisive movements.
Not to mention anything else, just her skinning skills are so sophisticated that even ordinary hunters are not as good as hers. She really deserves to be called my little sister.
"...You're almost done, come and help me with the dishes."
Sang Yu, who couldn't stand being stared at, couldn't help rolling his eyes. It's just a rabbit. I didn't see you guys worshipping me so much when I killed a pheasant before.
Speaking of pheasants, she remembered something. She had previously saved a few long tail feathers from the pheasant's tail and planned to make a shuttlecock for Sang Xinghao.
I've been busy lately and forgot about this.
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