Chapter 131 Killing Pigs
"You dare to hit your father?" Gu Cheng smiled and tickled his armpit with his big hand.
Gu Yanyan laughed so hard that her face turned red.
The father and son made noise in the room for a few minutes before coming out to eat dinner.
At night, the couple talked together. Liu Yinyin nestled in the man's arms and told him what had happened recently.
Upon hearing that a thief had broken into the house, Gu Cheng's eyes dimmed.
"But it's okay. He could only pry open the lock of the utility room. The other rooms are fine." Liu Yinyin has also changed the lock of the utility room, so there shouldn't be any problem in the future.
Besides, Gu Cheng is at home now.
Maybe she's used to it, Liu Yinyin feels more secure with the man around.
"Sorry." Gu Cheng felt a little guilty. He had decided to go on a business trip on the spur of the moment and he hadn't had time to explain many things at home.
Liu Yinyin shook her head: "This has nothing to do with you."
Besides, she doesn't want to rely too much on others. She still has to learn to face some things independently.
Liu Yinyin is not a timid person.
It has already happened, just learn from it.
Liu Yinyin nuzzled into his arms and changed the subject, "Get up early tomorrow. We're going to kill a pig at home. My third brother is getting married the day after tomorrow."
Gu Cheng was slightly stunned: "Third brother is getting married?"
He had just learned about this and had only been away for a month, but he didn't expect that Liu Mingyuan's marriage would be settled so soon.
"Well, there's a girl from Shuangxi Village. She's a nice person." Liu Yinyin told him about Huang Laizi's family.
The eldest brother-in-law's marriage was settled, and Gu Cheng was happy for him.
He said, "Then I will take a day off the day after tomorrow to help."
He just came back today and can have another day off tomorrow. However, if nothing else, he will definitely have to go to work at the steel factory the day after tomorrow.
"No need." Liu Yinyin shook her head. "Mother said that the current situation is special, so we won't hold a wedding banquet for the time being. We can hold it when the harvest is better in the future. We can just pick up the bride tomorrow, and the two families will have lunch together at noon.
The Huang family is small, so they prepared a table of food. My parents asked us to go over and have a meal. If you are free, you can come back the day after tomorrow for lunch. If you are not free, it is okay."
You can't delay your work just to have a meal.
Gu Cheng said without hesitation: "If I'm free, I'll come back for lunch at noon."
It's actually still in time to ride a bike back and forth for a meal.
Liu Yinyin didn't say anything. She thought of something else and asked, "We are going to kill a pig tomorrow. How are we going to deal with the pork?"
The pig at home is now very fat, with a gross weight of at least 300 kilograms. After removing the hair and blood, it is about 280 to 290 kilograms.
There is so much meat that we can keep too much for ourselves.
However, Liu Yinyin actually did not want to exchange food with others. Although pork was good, it could not compare to food.
Therefore, Liu Yinyin does not plan to exchange food with the villagers tomorrow.
Besides, the villagers might not necessarily change. They had just eaten meat during the three-day hunting trip last time, and now food is in short supply, so they probably won’t change their diet for meat again.
Gu Cheng: "It's up to you to decide."
He really didn't care. His family was not short of money. He could sell the pork or keep it for himself.
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Let's keep half of the pork for ourselves and make more bacon and sausage."
She quite likes to eat bacon, but leaving half of the meat for bacon is enough.
"From the other pork, give ten pounds to your parents, and leave twenty pounds for you. Sell the rest of the meat."
She thought that Gu Cheng could send some pork to his leaders and colleagues, and also send some to the Gu family.
In fact, if the current year is not bad, the family will kill a pig to make pig dishes and invite relatives and friends to eat.
"Just leave me a dozen kilograms." Gu Cheng holds a high position and does not have many leaders or colleagues to maintain relationships with.
"It's up to you." Anyway, we have plenty of pork at home, so it doesn't matter if it's a few pounds more or less.
If the current situation did not allow it, Liu Yinyin would have specifically asked him to bring more pork to the factory to see if he could sell it to his colleagues.
As for the rest of the pork, Liu Yinyin was going to take it to the county town to sell it to Aunt Zhou and a few neighbors.
Sell any that cannot be sold to the system.
In fact, the supply and marketing cooperatives also purchase pork, but the price is low, so it is not cost-effective to sell it to the supply and marketing cooperatives.
The next day, the couple got up very early because they were going to kill a pig.
Jiang Cuihua and several brothers from the Liu family also came, and Gu Cheng went to busy himself with killing the pigs.
Liu Yinyin woke up Gu Yanyan, otherwise the pork would make too much noise and she was afraid that the little guy would be woken up.
Gu Yanyan was woken up early in the morning. He didn't get enough sleep, so he lay on Liu Yinyin's shoulder, looking a little listless.
When he heard the sound of pigs being slaughtered, Gu Yanyan suddenly became alert and looked outside with curiosity in his eyes: "Ah ah..."
After killing the pig, Liu Yinyin carried the little guy out.
This pig weighed 302 kilograms. After removing the hair, blood and internal organs, it still weighed 272 kilograms.
The Liu brothers were extremely jealous. How much could more than 200 kilograms of pork be sold for?
After processing the pork, Liu Yinyin gave Jiang Cuihua four pounds of pork fat, four pounds of pork meat, a pig's trotter, a pig's lung, and a piece of pig's liver.
A basin of pig's blood was also given.
Jiang Cuihua knew that her daughter's family was going to make bacon and sausage, so she asked her sons to carry the things back and she stayed to help.
Gu Yanyan can play by himself now. Liu Yinyin gave him a small wooden barrel, and the little guy played in the mud in the yard by himself.
Half a pig contains about 120 pounds of pork meat, a set of pig intestines, and more than ten pounds of dried intestines.
Tie them into sections with ropes and hang them on racks to dry.
After making the braised intestines and braised meat, Liu Yinyin mixed two flavors, five-spice and spicy, and made a total of about 80 kilograms.
I kept twenty pounds of fresh pork for my own consumption.
The other half of the pork must be taken to the county town to sell in the afternoon.
There was also a pig's head, three pig's trotters, a pig's tail and some pig's entrails.
Liu Yinyin planned to make brined meat in the evening and then take it to the county town to sell it tomorrow.
It is actually possible to sell it directly, but it is not as valuable as making it into brined meat.
Even in winter, pork is difficult to store, so it is better to deal with it as soon as possible.
It was almost noon after a busy day. Liu Yinyin went to cook and left Jiang Cuihua at home for lunch.
She originally wanted to invite other members of the Liu family to come for lunch, but Jiang Cuihua refused.
There are so many people in the Liu family, and it will take most of the day to cook a table of dishes. Later, the daughter-in-law and son-in-law will have to go to the county town to handle business.
Liu Yinyin thought that she did have something to do in the afternoon, so she didn't insist.
At noon, Liu Yinyin prepared several main dishes, including braised pork, crispy pork, stir-fried pork tongue and garlic oil sprouts.
I made a bowl of yam and lean meat porridge for Gu Yanyan, and added some pig blood and pork liver foam to it.
Gu Yanyan ate with great relish.
In the afternoon, Jiang Cuihua helps take care of the children at home.
Liu Yinyin packed a basket of things and followed Gu Cheng to the county town.
Gu Ben originally had to go to the county town and would be away from home for about a month.