Chapter 21: Killing Pigs Lin Shu's cry is sweeter than honey
After Zhou Ye finished eating, he looked up and met the shocked faces of Lin Dashan and He Guixiang. Then he remembered that Xiao Pu had only told his secret to Lin Shu and had not told his uncle and aunt. He actually ate to his heart's content. Wasn't he confessing his mistake?
A quarter of an hour later, after Lin Dashan and He Guixiang confirmed that Zhou Ye did not have an upset stomach, they couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
He Guixiang: "Aye, you used to..." Have you never been full?
Before He Guixiang could finish her question, Lin Shu took over, "Father and Mother, I've seen Brother Aye's physique in ancient books. It's called a gluttonous iron stomach. His stomach can hold as much food as three people, and at the same time, his strength increases exponentially. If he eats the amount of food for three people, he can exert the strength of three people. If he eats the amount of food for ten people, he can exert the strength of ten people. It can be said to be a god-given power!"
Lin Dashan and He Guixiang were not very knowledgeable and were stunned when they heard this.
Is there such a physique in the world?
Their focus was immediately diverted by Lin Shu's interruption. If eating the amount of food for ten people could produce the strength of ten people, then this was too terrifying. Ten people's strength, how much would that be! Wouldn't that mean they could even lift a small mountain?
Zhou Ye looked at Lin Shu, who was talking nonsense seriously, with a subtle expression.
Lin Shu received his gaze and immediately blinked at him, as if to say: It's a small matter, leave it to me.
"Aye, is it really what Ah Shu said?" Lin Dashan was half-believing and half-doubting.
Zhou Ye nodded hesitantly, then immediately said, "But uncle, my daily meal is enough for three people."
Lin Dashan muttered to himself for a while, then suddenly laughed out loud, clapping his hands. "Great, what a good physique!"
He Guixiang also laughed and complained: "This is the first time I've seen this kind of physique. Ah Ye has never mentioned it before."
Lin Shu jokingly said, "I guess they're afraid that Dad and Mom will feed him the amount of food for ten people and ask him to do the work of ten people."
Lin Dashan and his wife both laughed at this. They'd thought about it, but how could they possibly have so much food at home? Later, when they'd saved enough money, they could add a few more acres of land. With Ah Ye's physique, they wouldn't have to worry about having too much land to farm.
Seeing that the two believed Lin Shu's words, Zhou Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Aye."
Lin Shu suddenly called him, and the call was sweeter than honey, but it made Zhou Ye's heart skip a beat.
He looked up at the woman who was leaning on her small face to look at him. An oil lamp on the table cast a layer of warm yellow light on her jade-white face. In her dark eyes, a smile danced with the flames...
Zhou Ye looked away suddenly as if he had been burned.
Lin Shu asked with a smile, "Brother Aye, do you think the fish tonight is delicious?"
Zhou Ye: "...delicious. Do you want me to do something? We are family, so there's no need to be polite."
Lin Shu was indeed not polite to him. "I want to dig a fish pond next to the vegetable garden behind the house and draw spring water from it. In the future, Xiao Pu and I will raise the fish in this spring water pond. Whenever you want to eat fish, I can always catch fresh fish and cook it for you. What do you think?"
Zhou Ye was silent for a moment, "If uncle and aunt have no objection, then of course it's fine."
Lin Shu smiled immediately, "They agreed, and Dad also agreed. You will be mine for the next three days!"
When Zhou Ye heard this, for some reason, his heart suddenly tightened and then began beating wildly.
"Not tomorrow. I have to take the wild boar meat to town to sell it tomorrow." He replied, his voice a little tense.
Lin Shu's heart moved, and her head and neck leaned forward subconsciously, "Let's go to town... I have something to do tomorrow, otherwise I really want to go to town with you!"
"The road is long and difficult to walk, you'd better stay at home." Zhou Ye got up hurriedly, went to the kitchen, scooped up mountain spring water with a gourd ladle and gulped down several mouthfuls of it. Only then did the discomfort ease a little.
When he returned, Lin Shu and He Guixiang were already clearing the dishes on the table.
"Aunt, let me clean up."
Lin Shu also said, "Mother and father, go and rest. Brother Aye and I will clean up together."
Zhou Ye paused and said, "You go and rest too."
"Brother Aye, let me help you." The ending tone was sweet.
Zhou Ye's heart started to feel uncomfortable again. He immediately moved away from Lin Shu, and only then did his heart feel better.
Seeing him avoiding her like a snake or scorpion, Lin Shu snorted inwardly. "What's the big deal? If it weren't for the need to finish my fish pond sooner, who would bother with you?"
After Lin Shu pretended to do it, she left the mess to Zhou Ye. She went into the house to wipe her body with the hot water in the pot, took out a willow branch that had been soaked in water, bit open the branch, and bit off all the fibers in the willow branch. She carefully cleaned her teeth, and finally chewed a piece of vanilla to make her mouth fragrant. After rinsing her mouth, she lay back on the bed beautifully.
Lin Xiaopu was so happy that he couldn't sleep and had already become envious of the big wild boar in the yard.
Lin Shu was also greedy. On her way back from the Marquis' Mansion, although Shi Qing had been willing to order a couple of meat dishes when they stayed at inns and post stations, they were just a few slices of meat mixed in with the vegetables, and before she could even pick them up, Nanny Gui had snatched them away. She did eat a few wild rabbits and pheasants caught by Shi Qing on the way, but she hadn't eaten pork in two months!
Braised pork elbow, Dongpo pork, preserved vegetable pork, steamed pork with rice flour, fried crispy pork, pork bone stew...
Hiss, hiss, Lin Shu's saliva was about to flow out.
Just because of the big wild boar that Zhou Ye caught, Lin Shu decided to forgive his rude behavior of avoiding her as if it were the plague today.
The next day, just after dawn, there was a commotion and noise outside.
"Sister, it must be the uncles who helped with the pig slaughtering!" Lin Xiaopu said, having already changed her clothes and tied her pigtails.
There were not only villagers helping to slaughter the pigs, but also a group of children watching the fun.
The villagers don't have many night activities. They go to bed early and get up early, unlike the capital, where there is no curfew, the lights are on all night and the nightlife is very rich.
Lin Shu put on her clothes, combed her black hair that reached her waist with a wooden comb, took a strand of hair on each side and braided them into a pigtail, and tied the rest of the hair loosely with a hairband. It was simple and beautiful, and did not affect her work.
Nowadays, women wear their hair in a variety of styles, but no matter what style they choose, unmarried women usually wear their hair half-down or in a braid to show that they haven't tied their hair up yet. Otherwise, Lin Shu really wanted to tie her hair into a big bun and call it a day.
By the time the two sisters had packed up and left, quite a few villagers had already arrived. Lin Dashan was talking to a middle-aged man who looked a good deal like him, and both of them seemed quite reserved.
If nothing unexpected happened, this person must be Third Uncle Lin Dashui. Last night, while resting, Mother must have told Father about her plan to teach Lin Yushu to read. Third Uncle's presence today, under the pretext of slaughtering a pig, was a way of putting down his pride and giving Father a way out.
When Zhou Ye saw the two men coming out, he called on the villagers to start slaughtering the pigs.
Although the wild boar was seriously injured, it still had considerable strength in its dying struggle. Four strong men helped to hold the wild boar down. Zhou Ye took out the axe he usually used and swung it lightly at the neck. The axe went deep into the lower neck. The wild boar let out a long cry, but soon the cry died down.
Blood was flowing from the neck, and the wooden basin prepared in advance was used to catch the pig's blood, which was half full.
He Guixiang and the two women who helped to light the fire had already boiled a pot of hot water in advance. They poured the hot water on the motionless wild boar, pouring it little by little with a ladle to wash away the dirt on the wild boar's body and boil the pig hair soup so that they could shave the hair.
Four or five enthusiastic villagers brought their own kitchen knives and helped shave the pigs. Lin Dashui was among them, buried in silence. He chose to shave the wrinkled areas like the ears and hooves, which were the most difficult to shave.
When it was time to turn the pig over, Zhou Ye turned it over by himself without the need for four or five people to lift it.
Someone immediately laughed and joked, "Aye boy is really worth five. Second Lin, you can enjoy happiness in the future."
Lin Dashan was preparing a brazier to roast pig skin later. He laughed when he heard this. "Aye is my son. I will enjoy the happiness of having him take care of me in the future."
After hearing this, Lin Dashui became even more silent and lowered his head.
After the wild boar's hair was shaved off, it looked black, smooth and glossy. Zhou Ye lifted the wild boar easily and placed it on the brazier to burn the pig's skin. He was not done until the skin of the whole pig became hard and brittle.
What comes next is the highlight.
Chop off the pig's head, gut the pig, and sort the pork.
Zhou Ye didn't ask anyone for help. He took He Guixiang's kitchen knife and cut the pork skillfully.
The pig's lungs, heart, liver and gallbladder were placed in a basin. There was only one wooden basin in the house, and this basin was borrowed from a villager.
After separating the two ribs, four trotters and leg bones, put them into another basin.
Put the pig offal with strong odor, such as large intestine, small intestine, and pig stomach, into a separate basin.
Lin Shu glanced at Zhou Ye's hand that was stroking his large and small intestines, and silently stood a little further away.
These things taste really good, but they are also really smelly before they are processed.
The small intestine looked like a lump when it was in the stomach, but when it was stretched out it was about three or four feet long, filling the wooden basin. At this time, a kind-hearted woman did not mind the smell and took the initiative to take the basin to the river to deal with it.
He Guixiang silently took note of the two women and was sure to share some of the processed pig intestines and pig stomachs with them.
"Mom, after Brother Aye finishes processing the wild boar meat, are we going to the town?" Lin Shu asked in a low voice.
"Raw pork can't be kept for too long in this weather. We'll definitely have to go to town to exchange it for money," He Guixiang said. Even if we use mountain spring water to cool it, it can only be kept for two or three days at most.
Lin Shu: "Then I'll make some dry food for Brother Aye and ask him to take it with him on the road?"
He Guixiang glanced at the busy villagers over there and whispered, "Mother has already prepared the bread."
Lin Shu understood. If the villagers cooked food in front of everyone, it would be unreasonable not to give them a bite, especially since these people came to help.
But there are too many people coming.
Ultimately, it’s all because of poverty.
Lin Shu thought about it and decided to prepare some snacks for the guests at home. She also needed to prepare some tea. She didn't have the expensive tea that the rich drank, but she could make some wild flower tea and herbal tea.
Kudzu flower tea can relieve hangovers and moisten the intestines, pine needle tea can beautify and nourish the skin, ox-tendon grass tea can dispel wind and dampness, mulberry leaf tea can clear the lungs and moisturize dryness...and these can be found everywhere in the mountains!
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Thanks to the baby who cast the mine: Victoria Song is my wife
Thanks to the baby who invested in the nutrient solution: Song Qian, my wife, Meng Qi, what do I want to eat every day
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