Chapter 73: Fresh Meat (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
Gao Mingcheng handed the dagger to Gao Zhuang with some doubt, and reminded him: "It's very sharp, be careful."
"Okay, alright!" Gao Zhuang's smile almost reached his ears. He hurriedly took the dagger and began to look for a good place to start.
There was a wound on the neck, so he simply started working from there. The dagger in his hand was indeed sharp, and with just a slight cut he severed the flesh.
What man doesn't love weapons? Especially since he has read so many martial arts novels recently!
Gao Zhuang was having a lot of fun playing with the dagger, but it made Xiao Nainai quite worried. She kept saying, "Slow down, don't rush!"
Gao Zhuang was annoyed by her noise and grumbled unhappily: "Grandma, please stop disturbing me! Go boil a pot of water, we have to wash the pig stomach and intestines later!"
Even though she was disliked by her grandson, the grandmother was not angry.
Her only grandson was her treasure, so whatever he said was fine. She smiled and went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water.
Pig stomach and intestines are relatively dirty, so wash them with hot water to make them cleaner.
Gao Mingcheng sat on a low stool, eating his meal at top speed while watching Gao Zhuang working out of the corner of his eye.
His skinning movements were not standard and neat, but fortunately the dagger was sharp, and he managed to peel off some skin in a short while.
Wild boars have less fat than domestic pigs. After peeling the skin, there is only a thin layer of white fat, and the rest is mostly lean meat.
A few minutes later, Gao Mingcheng finished a big bowl of food. He put down his bowl and chopsticks and took out a kitchen knife.
He handed the kitchen knife to Gao Zhuang and said, "You use this."
Gao Zhuang hadn’t had enough fun yet and looked unhappy, but he had no choice but to return the dagger to Gao Mingcheng and took the kitchen knife.
I just sharpened the kitchen knife today, and it's actually quite sharp, but it feels different.
Holding a cool-looking dagger in your hand, you feel like a heroic knight; holding a kitchen knife... no matter how sharp it is, it is still a kitchen knife!
When the dagger was in Gao Mingcheng's hand, it became extremely flexible. With one smooth movement, he cut through a large piece of flesh, one cut after another, without any obstruction at all.
The light bulb illuminated the small courtyard. Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang were busy under the light. Two shadows were reflected on the ground, moving left and right, busy and agile.
Soon, the pig skin was almost peeled off, and Gao Mingcheng made the last cut to separate the skin and flesh that were stuck together.
"Gao Zhuang, you lift that side, and we'll get the wild boar onto the door panel together." Gao Mingcheng said.
Gao Zhuang responded with a "OK" and held the front half of the wild boar tightly with both hands. With the combined efforts of the two, the skinned wild boar was placed on the door panel.
Most of the wild boar's skin had been peeled off, but the pig's head and four hooves were not peeled off because they were difficult to peel.
Gao Mingcheng took an axe and chopped off the pig's head and feet.
"These pig heads and pig feet are delicious only with the skin. I'll use a torch to burn off the hair on them, and then wash them clean." Gao Zhuang looked at those hairy things and proposed a solution.
Gao Mingcheng hummed, and then said: "We will keep one pig head and one pig front foot. I want to give the other three pig feet away, so you don't need to keep them."
"Oh, okay!" Gao Zhuang was also happy to save trouble. He took the pig's head and a pig's front foot and walked towards the kitchen. There was still fire in the stove, which was just right for burning the pig's hair.
After removing the head and four limbs, Gao Mingcheng prepared to cut open the belly and take out the internal organs. His grandmother had already prepared a basin for him, so after taking out the internal organs, he put them directly into the basin.
Grandma squatted on the side to help, and took the cleaner pig heart, lungs, kidneys and liver into another clean basin, and removed the water and oil that were stuck to the internal organs.
Gao Mingcheng used an axe to cut the wild boar meat into two halves, and then cut off some meat with a kitchen knife.
The meat on the neck is fatter and doesn't taste very good, but it can be used to make oil. He also got the lard off, but the wild boar lard is very thin and does not contain much fat.
By this time, a pig has been almost processed and all that remains is good meat.
Gao Mingcheng thought for a moment, then he picked up his knife and cut out a piece of good meat weighing about two pounds from the front leg.
"Grandma, don't worry about the small intestine, just clean the pig's stomach and large intestine." Gao Mingcheng saw that Grandma was about to do these things, and hurriedly spoke up.
He likes to eat pig stomach and pig large intestine, but not pig small intestine. He thinks the taste of pig small intestine is not good, a bit powdery and bitter, and not as crispy and delicious as the large intestine.
Of course, he would not lose it. He planned to give it to his parents.
He hasn't been back home since he started cooking in the new house, and his family hasn't come to see him. He only met with his younger sister a few times and asked a few questions about the family situation.
He took a basin and put the pig's small intestines separately. He also carried a vegetable basket, which was filled with a pair of pig lungs, pork fat, pork lard, hairy pig's feet, and two pounds of good meat.
It was full and exceptionally rich.
However, Gao Mingcheng himself does not really need these things. It would be nice to use them to honor his parents and improve his family's life.
As for my grandmother's family, she had bought two sets of lard before and boiled a full jar of lard. There is still a lot left after eating it till now.
"I'll send it to my parents." Gao Mingcheng said, and went out with the things.
The grandmother looked at his back, her face full of relief.
Gao Mingcheng had a falling out with her family, and she knew that. When she was working in the fields, she met Luo Xiaohua, who said a lot of sarcastic things to her.
Now Gao Mingcheng has killed a wild boar and has taken the initiative to send so many things to his family. This is the right thing to do!
If nothing was sent, and the news spread, the gossip of the villagers would drown Gao Mingcheng.
Being unfilial is a great sin.
When Gao Mingcheng came back, it was already dark, and it was even later as he was busy now.
When he arrived at his house, he found that the yard door had been closed, but there was still some light coming through the crack in the door, which showed that people were not completely asleep yet.
"Knock, knock, knock." Gao Mingcheng raised his hand and knocked on the door, saying at the same time, "It's me."
Luo Xiaohua hadn't slept yet, and was busy with some chores. When she heard the knock on the door, she subconsciously walked towards the door, but then she heard Lao Er's voice, and her face instantly turned bad.
At this time, there was another knock on the door.
Gao Yuanjian also heard the noise. He was lying on the bed, resting and getting ready to sleep.
Seeing that Luo Xiaohua was still not opening the door, he said angrily: "What are you standing there for? Go open the door!"
After he sobered up that day, his mother talked to him and he felt that he had done something wrong.
But as a father, he had no reason to take the initiative to find his son and make peace.
Therefore, the relationship between father and son remains deadlocked.
Now that Gao Mingcheng has come to his house on his own initiative, Gao Yuanjian is actually quite happy in his heart. You see, a son should act like a son!
(End of this chapter)
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