Chapter 231 Buying Meat
If it weren't for the need to take care of Yuanbao, Lu Wan would have also wanted to join in the fun.
Unfortunately, it is not convenient to take the child out for too long in this cold weather. If the child is exposed to the cold wind for too long, he will easily catch a cold.
Zhu Aihua saw what Lu Wan was thinking and smiled at her, "My dear wife, I can stay at home to take care of Yuanbao. You and Zhenhua can go and see what's going on. There are quite a few people gathered at the rice field. Almost everyone in our production team has gone there."
Lu Wan said, "Mom, you go and take care of Yuanbao at home."
"Go ahead, I don't know how many times I've seen it, I'm tired of it, but you haven't seen it yet."
Lu Wan was a little tempted and was about to agree, but Su Zhenhua had already held Lu Wan's hand and said, "Let's go and take a look. We still have to get our share of pork. Just let mother stay at home to look after Yuanbao."
Lu Wan nodded and said, "Okay, let's go take a look."
Lu Wan felt relieved after handing the ingot to Zhu Aihua.
Compared with other old ladies, Zhu Aihua is very careful and patient.
Moreover, the way to raise the baby is basically to follow Lu Wan's instructions, not the old way.
The weather outside was very cold, but fortunately Lu Wan and Su Zhenhua were wrapped up warmly, so they felt okay.
Lu Wan also secretly added thermal underwear inside, which had a very good warming effect.
When we arrived at the rice field, as expected, there were quite a lot of people gathered there.
Even though the weather is very cold, it still can't stop people from coming out to watch the fun and the passion for pork.
The production team found a butcher to slaughter the New Year pig.
Su Changde was arranging people to boil hot water. The New Year pig would be slaughtered later and needed to be cleaned first, plucking the hair and then cleaning the internal organs.
If you want to get the pork earlier, the more people who help you, the faster it will be.
Those who help will also be given a certain amount of compensation.
Generally speaking, you can give an extra 100 grams of meat.
With hard work pay, more people will naturally be willing to help with the work.
After handing in the required number of pigs this year, the production team kept six more pigs.
After removing the internal organs and bones, a pig can produce about 180 kilograms of meat.
There were several hundred people in the production team, and on average, each person could eat more than one kilogram but less than two kilograms of meat.
But some jobs are not enough, so there will be a little less.
Before slaughtering the pig, several strong men would hold ropes and tie the pig up tightly to prevent it from breaking free and running away.
The butcher took the ground meat and thrust it into the pig's body quickly, fiercely and accurately.
All I heard was the pig howling miserably, and it died after a long time.
Blood was oozing out of the pig's neck, and a clean wooden basin was placed underneath to collect the blood.
The pig blood tastes good too. In addition to the meat, the pig blood will also be shared with everyone.
Lu Wan looked at the pig-slaughtering scene and found it bloody and scary.
But everyone in the production team, including the children, had gotten used to it. I didn't feel scared at all, instead I felt a little excited.
As if sensing Lu Wan's emotions, Su Zhenhua reached out and gently embraced her, giving her a reliable sense of security.
After the pig's blood has been drained, it is thrown into a wooden barrel filled with hot water, and the hair is shaved and the internal organs are processed.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
Lu Wan watched the excitement for a while, and felt that it was not very interesting, so she went back first, and came back when the pork was ready, just in time to go back and feed Yuanbao.
It was probably because she ate well, had adequate nutrition, and had good milk, so Yuanbao grew fatter day by day.
Unlike the other babies in the production team, all of them were skinny and had very little flesh on their bodies.
Adults don't eat well on weekdays, so how can they have enough milk to feed their children?
After becoming a mother, Lu Wan felt distressed every time she saw those skinny children, but there was nothing she could do. There were so many children that she couldn't help them even if she wanted to.
After a few years of reform and opening up, when production quotas were assigned to households, people's living standards generally improved and everyone's life improved. By then, children's living conditions would also improve.
After staying at home for a while, the New Year pig was processed and the news of eating pork came.
Lu Wan and Su Zhenhua went out together and lined up to get pork like other families.
The pork is sold by the number of people.
Those who have large families can get a lot of meat.
Each branch of the Su family has already gone home, and each branch receives pork separately. Our family, plus Zhu Aihua, can only receive three people's portion.
Su Zhenhua and Lu Wan received four pounds of meat together, and Zhu Aihua received one pound and six ounces of meat.
Su Jinju didn't get any meat because she didn't work for any money.
Although the production team did not go, Su Jinju's factory also had benefits at the end of the year. Each employee could receive two kilograms of meat, one kilogram of sesame oil, and a bag of brown sugar.
Compared with what the production team gave her, she got more.
The eldest wife had a child, and with the addition of our two children, there were five people in the family, so they bought eight kilograms of meat.
The second room is similar.
I received so much meat, I can have a good New Year.
The families who received the meat all had smiles on their faces.
Su Zhenhua felt that, including Zhu Aihua, they only had 5.6 jin of meat in total, which was not enough to eat.
Especially during the Chinese New Year, if you cook a few more delicious dishes, they will probably be gone.
Lu Wan still has to breastfeed the baby, so she can't fall behind in nutrition.
So Su Zhenhua and Lu Wan discussed it and decided to spend their own money and buy some meat from the production team.
Lu Wan also had the same idea and plan.
One pound of meat costs one dollar, no tickets, it's quite a good deal.
Not only did she want to buy it, she also planned to buy more.
Because she planned to make some cured meat, ten kilograms of bacon and ten kilograms of sausage.
You also need to prepare a few pounds of meat for frying the meatballs, which is a considerable amount in total.
After some calculation, Lu Wan directly spent money to buy ten kilograms of meat.
Anyway, it's very cold, so if you keep the meat for a few days at home, it won't go bad, so you can just eat it slowly.
Su Zhenhua had no objection and would just follow his young wife's arrangements in everything.
If you buy so much meat before, you will definitely think it is too much. Now I don’t feel that way anymore, because I know I can finish it no matter how much I eat. Lu Wan is still breastfeeding, so it’s good for her to eat more meat.
If you eat as much as you want, the meat will be consumed quickly.
Seeing that Lu Wan and Su Zhenhua bought an extra ten kilograms of meat, everyone in the production team was envious.
We are no longer surprised by their actions. After all, they have money and can afford it.
In addition to the 10 catties of pork, Lu Wan saw that everything else about the pig was very cheap. Spare ribs were only 1 cent per catty, large bones were only 0.1 cent, and pig stomach was even cheaper, only 0.2 cents. Pig head meat is 50 cents, pig liver is 50 cents, and pig trotters are also 50 cents per pound.
Lu Wan then bought another five pounds of pork heads, two pig stomachs, and two pairs of pig trotters.
We ordered 15 pounds of ribs, and in addition to bacon and sausage, we also pickled another 10 pounds of wax ribs.
Big bones are even cheaper, so Lu Wan ordered ten kilograms.
Just buy this much, it will be enough to last for a long time.
If pig intestines weren't so troublesome to handle, she would definitely buy some.
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