Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Killing Pigs Professionally
Zhang Fu and others soon realized something and looked at her in disbelief.
Is this pig afraid of her?
They all walked around her, obviously not daring to get close to her. If not because they were afraid of her, what could they be?
But, what is so scary about her?
No matter how you look at her, she looks like a skinny little girl. Her waist doesn't seem as thick as Zhang Fu's arm. Not to mention her pale and skinny face, it's hard to believe that she is such a powerful figure that even pigs would be scared to death.
Zhang Fu sighed and asked curiously, "Li Niang, what did you do to make them so afraid of you?"
"I didn't do anything." Yu Li said.
She really didn't do anything. She just stood there and did nothing. Everyone could see it. But the three pigs kept walking around her. When she approached, they were so scared that their legs went limp and they fell to the ground.
Zhang Yaoping was a quick-talker, and he said incredulously, "What's so scary about a skinny girl like you?"
Even people aren’t afraid of her, so how could these pigs be afraid of her?
He would rather believe that the pigs were sick.
Zhang Fu slapped him, "What are you talking about? It's rude!"
This was Young Master Xuan's savior, so what if she was a little bit supernatural? Since ancient times, masters have always been supernatural. She was able to save Young Master Xuan, so she must be a capable person.
As for being thin, isn't it allowed for Yi Ren to have some special preferences? What if she just likes to look like this?
Zhang Yaoping had no choice but to shut his mouth, but he still kept looking at Yu Li. No matter how he looked at her, she was just a skinny little girl. He felt that he could knock her down with one punch, she was not that powerful.
At this time, Tu Lao said: "Okay, hurry up, it will be dawn soon."
Although he didn't know why the pig reacted like this when facing Yu Li, there were too many unusual things in this world, and Boss Tu felt that there was no need to explore anything.
As long as we are sure that she is Yu Li from Qingshi Village and not a bad person, it will be fine.
If we really look into it, Yu Li's strength is unusual. Can't we just say that it's innate?
Maybe it's natural for pigs to be afraid of her, there's nothing strange about that.
Since ancient times, there have been many talented people, some of whom are even supernatural.
Although people find these miraculous things strange, they do not think of them as demons or monsters when they see them. Instead, they prefer to believe that there is something special about this person.
In addition, Boss Tu and Zhang Fu were obviously protecting her, so Uncle Luo and Zhang Yaoping naturally couldn't say anything.
Soon, they discovered that the pig's fear of Yu Li was a good thing.
Before slaughtering a pig, you must first tie the pig up with a thick rope and place it on the slaughtering stool so that it is easier to start.
Every time this happens, the pig probably understands its fate and struggles violently, requiring several big men to hold it down together.
However, this time, because Yu Li was there, the pigs were so limp that they lay on the ground and let them tie them up without any struggle. Even when the knife was inserted into the pigs' necks, they just howled and died. Unlike in the past, the screams of the pigs being slaughtered would be heard from far away, waking up the neighbors.
"Hey, it was killed pretty quickly this time." Uncle Luo couldn't help but laugh. He felt that no other time he had ever killed a pig was as easy as this time. He didn't even have to put in much effort to press the pig down.
Zhang Yaoping was holding a bucket to collect the pig's blood, and he was also very happy. "The blood didn't splash onto me this time, so I don't have to bother with washing clothes."
As they talked, they looked at Yu Li at the same time, and suddenly felt that it was a good thing that the pigs were afraid of her.
After killing the pig, they start to scrape off the hair, gut it and cut up the meat.
Zhang Fu, Luo Shu, Zhang Yaoping and others all became busy.
Boss Tu turned around and asked Yu Li, "Mother Li, do you want to give it a try?"
There are still two pigs left to be slaughtered.
"Okay!" Yu Li said, and walked towards a pig. When she approached, the pig fell to the ground with weak legs, and then she pulled it up effortlessly by its legs.
The three people who were shaving the pig hair: "..."
The three of them stared at her actions in amazement.
I saw her holding the pig with both hands, lifting it up easily, and then pressing it directly on the slaughtering stool, without even tying it up with a rope. She took a slaughtering knife and stabbed it neatly into the pig's neck.
It was a one-shot kill. The pig didn't even struggle or howl. It was completely silent.
It was like some pantomime.
They had never seen a pig slaughtered like this before. It seemed so simple that they had the illusion that they could do it too.
Boss Tu took a bucket to collect the pig's blood.
The pig was killed quickly because of her quick movements. The pig didn't feel any pain before dying, which was a quick death for it.
I heard that the more peacefully the pig dies, the better the meat will be.
Some people who don't have good skills will kill the pig halfway before it's dead. Blood will spurt everywhere and the pig will howl miserably. The blood may even flow backwards and the pork will smell fishy.
Therefore, when slaughtering a pig, people always insist on killing it with one blow. This is auspicious and will also make the pork taste good.
Looking at Yu Li's calm expression, Zhang Fu and other men swallowed silently.
The calmer this girl looks, the more ruthless she seems. Looking at the way she slaughters the pig, it is so clean and efficient. Without more than ten or twenty years of experience in slaughtering pigs, it would be impossible to be so efficient.
But she was only a teenager and it was her first time to slaughter a pig, so she had no experience.
Little did people know that Yu Li had killed many alien species in his previous life, and sometimes when he got ruthless, he would chop off their heads one by one with his knife.
Compared to alien species, pigs are so much cuter. They don’t attack her and their meat is so delicious.
Of course Yu Li had to give them a quick death, which was the highest respect for pork.
After bleeding the pig, Yu Li carried it to the pot of boiling water and scooped hot water from the pot to scald the pig's hair so that it would be easier to scrape.
The knife was sharp and she was very strong, so she scraped the pig's hair quickly and effectively. In no time, the pig's skin became smooth and the hair was scraped clean.
The three men were stunned.
Boss Butcher put the pig's blood away and turned to look at them. They looked dumbfounded, which was a bit funny.
He reminded them: "Hurry up, we have to deliver the meat later."
Hearing this, the three men finally came to their senses and quickly continued with their work.
Then they soon discovered that the efficiency of the three of them working together was not as good as that of Yu Li, a girl.
She could kill a pig by herself, and she did it quickly and efficiently.
After she took out the internal organs and threw them into the bucket, she placed the two halves of the pig on the chopping board and cut off every part of them according to the instructions of the butcher.
Boss Tu didn't work today. He was just helping her, and mainly giving her instructions so that she could get familiar with the process of slaughtering pigs.
"...There are many wealthy families and restaurants that come to us to order pork. After the pigs are slaughtered, we have to deliver them. This piece of meat is ordered by Fulai Restaurant. The restaurant orders 50 kilograms of pork from us every day. It must be delivered to the restaurant's kitchen for Chef Bao before noon..."
Yu Li listened to him while working.
At this time, she heard Boss Tu say again: "Li Niang, do you want to help deliver the goods? I'll give you five cents for each delivery..."
Before he could finish, Yu Li said, "Okay!"
After dealing with one pig, Yu Li saw that they had not finished dealing with that one yet, so he continued to kill the next one.
Same steps, same cleanliness.
Zhang Fu and the others had become numb. They looked at how efficiently the girls worked, and then looked at themselves. Normally, they thought they were quite efficient at work, but now, they suddenly felt that they, as grown men, were actually quite slow.
Watching Yu Li slaughtering a pig is like watching a violent aesthetic performance. She puts her hands on the pig, and the pig remains motionless while she kills it. With one blow, the pig's blood gushes into the bucket instead of splashing everywhere.
Even the ground was only splattered with a few drops of blood.
Zhang Fu smiled and said, "It seems that we don't need to clean the yard today."
"That's great." Zhang Yaoping looked happy. Who wouldn't be happy to reduce the workload?
Uncle Luo seemed to be thinking about something, and turned to Zhang Fu and said, "Do you want to kill a few more pigs in the future?"
With Yu Li joining, it wouldn't be difficult to kill a few more pigs.
The county town is so big that it consumes more than three pigs every day. Some people who have butcher shops at home but don't want to kill pigs themselves will come here to order pork and sell it, or send pigs here to be killed.
Although Zhang Fu's butcher shop didn't slaughter many pigs every day, there were still many people who came to order pork. There were even wealthy families who wanted to have banquets and would ask Zhang Fu to help slaughter pigs or send pigs to them for slaughter.
This can be considered a small slaughterhouse.
Because Zhang Fu didn't want to hire too many people, the number of pigs slaughtered every day was not large.
Zhang Fu said, "That's fine. Let's notify those who want to order pork later and see how much they want. Then we can kill a few more tomorrow."
By the time they had dealt with the three pigs, the sky was just beginning to turn pale.
Everyone is doing the final finishing work, putting the cut pork away separately, ready to be sent to different places later.
After packing and selecting the pork, everyone sat down to drink some water and take a break.
Looking at the pale sky, Zhang Yaoping suddenly said, "Oh, it's still quite early. It's not even bright yet."
The butcher's stall only opens after daybreak. In the past, when they finished their work, it was already daybreak. They would drink some water and then continue working.
Only today, they can actually sit here and rest for a while.
Zhang Fu smiled and said, "It seems that we don't have to come so early in the future. At this rate, we can come half an hour later."
Because only the pigs slaughtered on the same day are fresh, they have to come early in the morning to prepare to slaughter the pigs.
In the past, they would go to the butcher shop to slaughter pigs according to the time of the day, and the time was allocated.
This was agreed by everyone. Zhang Yaoping said to Yu Li happily, "Yu's sister, I heard that you live in the village. You don't have to come too early in the future. You can sleep a little longer if you stay up half an hour later."
Young people are sleepy, so he can sleep half an hour longer in the future. Thanks to Yu Li, he is now convinced of Yu Li.
"Why call her A-mei? Li Niang is one year older than you." Zhang Fu said, "Call her A-jie from now on."
Zhang Yaoping nodded quickly and called her "Sister Yu" obediently.
He secretly glanced at Yu Li. She was too thin, with a pale and hungry face, and looked young. He never expected that she was actually one year older than him.
Everyone rested for about half an hour and then started to work again.
The butcher brought a few bamboo baskets and put the large pieces of meat wrapped in banana leaves into the baskets. Then they prepared to deliver the meat.
In order to distinguish which house the meat was being sent to, they even put some marks on it.
Zhang Fu took out a booklet with the addresses where the pork was to be delivered.
He wanted to take care of Yu Li, and knowing that she was willing to deliver the pork, he told her the location to deliver the pork.
The county town is so big, everyone has to deliver the meat separately, so it will be faster.
"Do you remember?" Zhang Fu asked her.
Yu Li nodded and glanced at the booklet in his hand. The words written on it were crooked. She even pointed out a wrong word, "Is this word wrong?"
Zhang Fu was surprised and asked, "Li Niang, can you still read?"
Yu Li said: "Yes, he and Fu...we have known each other for a long time."
Everyone was a little surprised, "Oh, you're married? Your husband is a scholar?"
This time, they looked at Yu Li with unusual eyes.
Nowadays, anyone who can read, regardless of gender, will be looked up to. Moreover, literate people can do more jobs and are more respectable. They rarely do physical work like slaughtering pigs.
Zhang Yaoping asked in confusion: "Sister Yu, you can read, why are you still doing the job of butchering pigs? You can find an easier and more respectable job."
However, what kind of decent job can a literate girl find?
Accountant? Manager? He was a little unsure again.
Yu Li: "I'm strong." She is currently very satisfied with her job of slaughtering pigs and has no intention of changing it.
Everyone was speechless.
Indeed, she was very strong. It seemed effortless for her to slaughter pigs. It was estimated that she could slaughter dozens of pigs a day without feeling tired. Unlike other butchers, they would feel exhausted after slaughtering two or three pigs a day.
Yu Li wrote down the location where he would deliver the goods later, then picked up the basket of pork on the ground and started delivering the goods.
The county town gradually became lively in the early morning. Shops on both sides of the street opened one after another. People who got up early hurried to work or bought food on the street.
Yu Li carried a basket of meat and his first stop was Fulai Restaurant.
Fulai Restaurant is considered a large restaurant in the county, and it consumes a considerable amount of meat every day.
She went to the back door and knocked. Soon an old lady came over and found out that she was the one delivering meat from Zhang's butcher shop, so she led her in.
Yu Li put down the bamboo basket, took out a large piece of meat from it and handed it to a fat chef.
The chef was none other than Bao, the chef of Fulai Restaurant. Seeing a skinny girl carrying such a large basket of meat, he couldn't help but look at her a few more times and said, "Why did you change people today? Didn't Lao Luo or Lao Zhang deliver it in the past?"
Yu Li said: "They are busy, I will send it over later."
"Okay." Chef Bao nodded, looked at her a few more times to recognize her, and asked her to wait.
He carried the meat into the kitchen, and when he came out, he paid her for the meat, then stuffed an oil-paper bag into her pocket and said, "This is the braised meat I made yesterday. It's already heated up. Take it back and show it to Lao Zhang and the others to try."
Yu Li had already smelled the aroma of the braised meat wrapped in oil paper. He swallowed secretly and nodded.
Chef Bao added, "Tomorrow I'd like to trouble you to send over two more pig heads. Pig heads are delicious when made into stewed food. I'll let Lao Zhang and the others have a taste then."
"OK."
Yu Li wrote down his words.
After delivering the meat to Fulai Restaurant, she went to deliver it to the next one.
The next restaurant was a small one run by a couple. They didn't order much meat, only ten pounds. After Yu Li delivered the meat, he collected the money and continued to deliver it to the next restaurant.
She delivered the meat to thirteen families, and the meat in the bamboo basket was gradually delivered.
It was already daybreak.
Yu Li walked back with the empty bamboo basket on his back, calculating in his mind how much money he had earned that day.
She slaughtered two pigs, which earned her a total of 100 wen. She also delivered goods to 13 families, at 5 wen each, for a total of 65 wen, so she earned a total of 165 wen today.
It turns out that killing pigs is very profitable.
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