"A few pigs died last year. After they were handed over, there should be only four left. We should kill three this time." Grandma Bai was quite clear about the property in her village.
"It's quite a lot." Dongzi sighed.
Pigs are not easy to raise.
He often gets sick and dies accidentally.
After raising fish and handing them in for the New Year, you can kill three of them, which is considered a pretty impressive number in the surrounding villages.
Domestic pigs are different from wild boars.
Wild boars are small and have firm meat. They are low in oil and fat, so the villagers mainly eat meat.
But raising pigs in the village is different.
This kind of pig is large in size and rich in fat.
Fatty meat is a good thing in this time of lack of oil and water.
It is not only used for eating, but the family may rely on the oil extracted from the little meat of the pig for a whole year.
These three pigs can produce much more meat than three wild boars.
However, pigs are slaughtered earlier this year than in previous years.
Usually, the pigs would be slaughtered half a month before the New Year. Later, when the educated youth came, they would choose to slaughter the pigs two days before they returned home so that they could take the pig meat back with them.
This time, there were still more than ten days before the educated youth were due to return, but the pigs were suddenly slaughtered.
Except for Tang Wan, everyone else here knows this rule.
Luo Ying couldn't help asking immediately, but Grandma Bai really knew the reason.
"In one village, the pigs are sick and will die in a few days, so they are slaughtered earlier this year." Grandma Bai probably asked this question when she learned about the early slaughter of pigs.
Everyone present understood her explanation.
Even Tang Wan, who had no experience in pig farming, knew that pig breeding was the most strictly managed. Workers at modern pig farms had to shower and change clothes before entering, and the farms were all under closed management, with people only allowed out once every three months for fear of bringing in any diseases.
Even though the villagers don't understand what viruses are, their survival experience tells them that if the pigs in the neighboring village are sick, they are in danger.
So we choose to slaughter them in advance without waiting for more than ten days.
It takes a lot of people to slaughter a pig in the village, mainly because one or two people cannot control such a big pig.
This is different from slaughtering wild boars. Wild boars are already dead when they are transported down, but here someone has to be found on the spot to hold the boar down and slaughter it.
Every year, the pig-slaughtering scene is a show comparable to a circus.
There are often many jokes in the process of catching them.
Even Tang Wan had told a story about a man who rode a pig for half a mile while slaughtering it one year.
Just from Luo Ying's anticipation, you can tell how fun it is to kill the pig.
The next morning, before Tang Wan woke up, Luo Ying knocked on the door and called her to get up and watch the pig being slaughtered.
When Tang Wan got up, only Luo Ying was waiting for her outside. Qin Zheng and Dongzi had already gone to the cafeteria.
After Luo Ying urged Tang Wan to wash up quickly, she told her to eat quickly and then pulled her to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria is bustling all day long.
From a distance, you can hear the villagers cheering and cheering, and of course the terrifying pigs crying.
Tang Wan felt that all the villagers were here, young and old, regardless of whether they could move or not.
The cafeteria was packed with people, making it impossible to get in or out.
Fortunately, Grandma Bai had already arrived and taken a seat, so Tang Wan and Luo Ying were able to squeeze in and stand next to her.
As soon as I entered, I saw Qin Zheng and Dongzi massaging pigs.
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