Li Xu smiled and responded, "I know, I just had this sudden feeling."
"Then you really are like our mother. When all the chickens and ducks are eaten, our mother will definitely feel distressed when she sees these unusable bowls."
Sun Xiu has always been a man who saves where he should and spends where he should.
Now there are quite a few chickens and ducks at home, and it is time to use bowls, so she won't say anything.
If there are no chickens or ducks in the future, she will definitely feel sad when she sees a few unusable bowls at home.
Li Xu also agreed with this statement, so he offered a solution, "Don't worry, wait until the disaster is over, I'll buy two hens and give them these bowls. As long as these bowls are useful, Mom won't feel bad."
After thinking about it, Hu Guilan nodded and said, "That's a good idea."
Li Xu smiled and walked into the kitchen to take out the dirty clothes he had taken off yesterday.
While washing clothes, she asked, "Sister-in-law, when are you going to slaughter the chickens and ducks?"
"Wait until around ten o'clock, and then you can help me boil some hot water."
"Okay." Li Xu agreed without hesitation.
He doesn't know how to slaughter chickens and ducks, but he can help boil water to pluck their feathers.
After washing the clothes, he played with Li Ju and Li Wenbai for a while.
Wait until the time is almost up before going to the kitchen to boil water.
He added some firewood to the stove, then went to the yard to watch Hu Guilan slaughter chickens and ducks.
Hu Guilan first bent the duck's neck backwards with her hand to expose its throat; then she used her other hand to pluck out the feathers on it.
As soon as the feathers were pulled out, the duck started to quack in pain and flap its wings continuously.
Li Xu suddenly felt his scalp tingling, and couldn't help asking, "Sister-in-law, are you really not going to give them some wine?"
Generally speaking, chickens and ducks are given some wine before being slaughtered.
This will prevent the chickens and ducks from resisting and will also make it easier for them to shed their feathers.
But Hu Guilan didn't want to.
Because she felt that doing so was too wasteful and it would be better to just kill it directly.
Seeing that she was very confident, Li Xu did not force her.
But now he felt the need to ask again.
Hu Guilan refused again, "No need. When I slaughtered chickens and ducks before, I always did it directly. It would take a while."
After saying that, she quickly plucked all the hair in the throat area, then pinched the duck's head with one hand to expose the area where the hair needed to be plucked, and cut it off with a knife with the other hand.
Then put down the knife, lift the duck's feet with one hand, and guide the duck's head with the other hand to let the blood flow into the basin prepared earlier.
After a while, the duck stopped moving completely.
At first glance, I found that not a drop of duck blood had fallen onto the ground outside the basin.
This made Li Xu feel very emotional.
Indeed, he has experience...
Li Ju and Li Wenbai were watching this scene with great interest, completely unaware of what fear was.
Li Xu asked curiously, "Little sister, aren't you scared?"
"Don't be afraid, what's there to be afraid of?"
"Then you can eat all this blood, okay?"
This made Li Ju hesitate, "Second brother, can this be eaten?"
"Of course you can eat it. You ate it a few years ago. I guess you forgot because you were young."
Hearing this, Li Ju nodded her head excitedly, "We'll eat together then."
Li Wenbai seemed to understand and kept saying, "Eat, eat."
Several people burst into laughter.
After all the duck blood was drained, Hu Guilan put the duck aside.
Then use chopsticks to stir the blood in the basin.
After a while, the duck blood coagulated.
Li Xu brought the basin of duck blood to the kitchen and did not leave again. Instead, he stayed in the kitchen to watch the water temperature.
Because the water for depilation cannot be boiled, but must be heated to between 70 and 80 degrees, so it must be observed constantly.
Based on his experience, Li Xu felt that the water temperature was about right, so he poured the hot water into the large basin prepared in advance.
Then he took the big basin out and placed it in front of Hu Guilan.
At this time, Hu Guilan had also slaughtered the chicken.
Seeing the hot water, she took the basin of chicken blood into the kitchen, and took some salt and aged vinegar from the kitchen and poured them into the water.
Then he put the chicken into the basin and kept turning it over, asking, "Xiao Xu, can you pluck the feathers?"
Li Xu: ...
"Won't."
Hu Guilan nodded. "Okay, I'll teach you later. You're so smart, you'll definitely learn quickly."
Li Xu naturally couldn't refuse, so he agreed directly.
After the chicken was soaked thoroughly, Hu Guilan took it out and taught Li Xu how to pluck its feathers.
It is indeed easy, but it requires patience and carefulness.
So the chicken was handed over to Li Xu.
Hu Guilan did the same with the duck and then plucked its feathers.
Li Xu was very careful when plucking the hair.
Because those chicken feathers are used to make feather dusters.
It took them more than twenty minutes to finally pluck out all the hair.
Then Hu Guilan took the chickens and ducks to the kitchen and gutted them.
Li Xu stayed there to clean up the scene, and then went to the kitchen to cook.
Hu Guilan finished processing the chickens and ducks halfway through and stepped forward to take over the cooking job.
When he arrived at the main room, Li Xu sat down on the stool.
He picked up the cold water and drank it in big gulps.
You know what, it’s really tiring to take care of chickens and ducks by yourself.
At this time, Li Ju came over holding Li Wenbai's hand.
Li Xu brought Li Wenbai to sit on his lap, then touched Li Ju's head and said softly, "Brother is too tired now. I'll play with you in the afternoon."
Li Ju shook her head and said crisply, "Second brother, I don't want to play with you, I have something to tell you."
This made Li Xu curious, "What do you want to tell me?"
Li Ju took Li Xu's big hand and said a little embarrassedly, "Second brother, Dad asked me to plead for him this morning."
Hearing this, Li Xu was really angry.
Unexpectedly, Li Jiakang actually set his sights on Li Ju.
But he couldn't get angry, so he forced a smile and asked, "Little sister, did our dad promise you something?"
Perhaps sensing his agitated mood, Li Ju lowered her head and spoke in a much lower voice, "No, Dad said the mistake he made wasn't serious. He also said that if Big Sister were here, she would definitely plead for him."
Now Li Xu understood.
But I felt even angrier.
Li Jiakang actually lied to a child. How could he have the nerve to say such a thing?
So he pulled Li Ju into his arms, lifted her little head with his hands, rubbed her little face, and then said, "Don't listen to our father, he is lying to you. The mistake he made is very serious, so no one spoke for him this morning, not even my eldest sister."
"Huh?" Li Ju's eyes widened, a look of astonishment on her face. "Second brother, is Dad lying to me? But when I asked him, he was very sure that Big Sister would definitely help him."
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