Kill the pig, bleed it, and then skin it.
This wild boar has thick skin and is covered in mud. Even if we boil water to scald its hair, it will take a long time to stew it because its skin is too thick.
However, Gao Mingcheng planned to go into the mountains to cut some trees, and then ask a carpenter to make a large wooden barrel for scalding pig hair. When he had free time in winter, he could go into the mountains to hunt wild boars.
If you hunt a piglet, you can perm its hair and the wild boar skin is also very delicious.
The wild boars in the mountains suffered a disaster the year before last, so Gao Mingcheng rarely went into the mountains to hunt last year. It was only until now this year that he accidentally hunted a wild boar.
However, wild boars have strong reproductive capacity. After one or two years, the number of wild boars in the mountains will definitely increase again. There will be no problem in hunting a few wild boars this year.
There are few guns and ammunition here, so naturally there are few people who dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars. There are seven or eight air guns and bird guns in the area of Gaojia Village, but these guns can only be used to shoot birds and rabbits, not wild boars.
What's more, these guns are not obtained in a regular way and their quality varies. If you encounter a poor quality one and it explodes, you will be injured first.
When Gao Mingcheng was skinning a wild boar, he realized that the knife at home had not been used for a long time and was a little blunt.
It turns out that if a knife is not sharpened, it will become dull.
Chen Dasong immediately took over the task of sharpening the knife. There was a whetstone under a gardenia tree outside the yard. He walked over carrying a few knives and half a bucket of water.
He happened to see his eldest son Chen Duofu walking back from the valley where the beehives were placed. He immediately shouted, "Duofu, come and help!"
When Chen Duofu heard his father's shout, he hurried over.
Chen Dasong smiled and said, "Mingcheng has brought back a wild boar. Go and help him. Oh, you might as well call your mother and brother to help as well."
There is strength in numbers!
Moreover, Chen Dasong knew that Gao Mingcheng was generous, and after they helped to clean up the wild boar, they would at least be able to get some bones and offal.
But Chen Duofu didn't go to call for help. Instead, he said, "Mom is working in the fields with Duoxi. She's not home right now. I'll go call Brother Chengyuan!"
"Okay." Chen Dasong nodded. Zhang Chengyuan and Gao Mingcheng are brothers-in-law, so it would be natural for them to come over and help divide some of the meat.
So Chen Duofu walked all the way to the place where Zhang Chengyuan was working and called Zhang Chengyuan back.
When they entered the yard, they found it wet.
It turned out that Gao Mingcheng found that his knife was blunt and he could not skin the boar, so he had to stop temporarily. When he stopped, he felt that he should wash the wild boar with clean water, otherwise the mud on the pig skin would easily stain the meat when skinning it.
When wild boars live in the mountains, in order to prevent mosquito bites and hunting by natural enemies, they will roll in the mud and wrap their bodies in mud, layer by layer, as hard as armor.
Gao Mingcheng poured water on the wild boar, and Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Duofu used a brush to scrub the mud off the wild boar.
By the time the wild boar was almost washed, the ground was covered with mud and water.
Gao Mingcheng moved the wild boar under a clean eaves to avoid direct sunlight. At this time, Chen Dasong also sharpened the knife.
The newly sharpened blade glowed coldly in the sunlight.
Gao Mingcheng first used an axe to chop off the pig's head, feet and tail, and then skinned it.
Zhang Chengyuan's knife skills were not good, so he picked up the pig's head, feet and tail, went outside the yard to build a fire, and burned off the pig hair on the skin.
In the busy and intense work, a complete pig skin is peeled off. This pig skin can be sold to a leather nitrate workshop. After the nitrate is ready, it can be made into pig leather shoes.
People in later generations are keen on wearing cowhide shoes, but at this time, most people still wear pig leather shoes, after all, there is not so much cowhide available.
Gao Mingcheng transferred the skinned pig to a large clean board. This large board was specially made by a carpenter for him to process the prey.
Seeing that Gao Mingcheng was about to gut the wild boar, Chen Duofu quickly prepared a wooden basin and put all the pigs into the basin after they went into the water.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner. As a result, Gao Mingcheng felt some small lumps in the bile duct. He had an idea and decided to take the lumps out.
That hard lump is similar to bezoar, and is also a pig stone, commonly known as pig sand.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but laugh. He didn't expect that this wild boar also had gallstones. No wonder it was so weak that only two dogs could kill it.
He looked at the pig litter in his hand and threw it away casually.
Although some people tout things like pig gizzard and chicken treasure, in fact, only bezoar, dog treasure and horse treasure can truly be used as medicine, and bezoar is the most commonly used.
Although pig grit is also gallstones, it has no medicinal effect, just like humans also have gallstones but no one uses human grit as medicine.
Gao Mingcheng touched the gallbladder again, but this time he didn't feel any small lumps. However, he did not throw away the gallbladder because pig sand is not medicine, but the gallbladder is medicine.
The pig gallbladder is long and pear-shaped, and is filled with dark green bile. Gao Mingcheng hangs the gallbladder under the eaves to dry. After it dries, it becomes a Chinese medicine, which can then be taken to the medicine fair to sell.
He handed the internal organs to Chen Duofu to deal with, and picked up a kitchen knife to prepare to cut the pork.
There is a skill to cutting pork. You have to cut along the joints of the pig. This way it will be easy to cut and the bones will be intact.
Gao Mingcheng put the best front leg meat together and shaved off the ribs. Thinking that his grandmother needed to drink bone soup, he took out a few pounds of ribs, two leg bones, and a pound of pork, and would give them to his grandmother later.
As for the young breasts, there was absolutely no favoritism. Gao Mingcheng cut and divided the meat, and soon it was piled into small hills.
Although this wild boar was injured and had gallstones, it was an adult boar after all, and was not light in weight. Even after skinning and removing the offal, a lot of pork was still produced.
The two dogs were the heroes, so when cutting, Gao Mingcheng first cut three pieces of pork belly to add oil and water to them.
Dahuang was eating and drinking for free, but he felt that he had contributed and was eating happily, not feeling that it was wrong at all.
With the hard work of the three people, the wild boar was quickly dealt with.
Gao Mingcheng gave some meat to Chen Dasong's family and Zhang Chengyuan's family, which was considered an employee benefit.
Chen Dasong got a pound of hind leg meat, some bones and a pair of small intestines. He was in a very happy mood. He was not well educated, otherwise he would have to say: If you follow the right boss, everything will be different!
"Mingcheng, why don't you have lunch at my house? I'll ask your aunt to cook more rice." Chen Dasong said with a smile.
But Gao Mingcheng refused and said, "No, I'm going to my grandmother's house for lunch."
It is already half past eleven and it is time to cook lunch. He will go to the old village later to deliver meat to his parents' and grandmother's house, and have lunch at his grandmother's house.
He, who has no daughter, really likes Xiao Yuanyuan from Gao Zhuang's family. (End of this chapter)
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