Gao Yuanshan said that the pig had been empty for a day. This was necessary. It seemed that when he received the news that his son's classmates were going to have a reunion at his house, he had already planned to hold such a show.
Perhaps it was because of nostalgia, or perhaps it was because of memories, many of the older generation spared no effort in supporting tradition. This was different from some people who liked to shout about reviving tradition. This was because people like Gao Yuanshan had a very traditional lifestyle.
"Vigorously blowing the pig's leg, swiftly plucking the pig's hair, overturning the intestines and emptying the stomach … So smelly, I am the butcher, Liu Changan. I was entrusted by Master Gao to slaughter this animal, to cleanse it with one strike, to cleanse it of sin!" Liu Changan held the butcher's knife, and first sang the lines from "The Butcher and the Scholar".
"Hehe, it really is like that." Gao Yuanshan shook his head and sang a few lines, then laughed out loud. No wonder his son admired Liu Changan the most out of all his classmates. This child was indeed not ordinary.
The pig was tied up and carried onto the table. What Liu Changan had to do was actually very simple. He knelt on one knee on the pig, one hand holding the pig's chin, forcefully protruding the pig's throat, and the other hand holding the butcher's knife. He stabbed it straight into the pig's heart, turned the knife over, and pulled it out. Blood spurted out, flowing into the blood basin.
One method was to hang the pig upside down and cut its throat. It was more convenient to bleed, but this method only made the pig die a little faster.
Liu Changan really raised his hand and slashed it down cleanly, killing it with one slash. After the pig screamed a few times, it soon stopped. Instead, the screams of the girls were more like endless pigs being slaughtered. Although the boys didn't scream, they were also somewhat surprised that they had seen the world.
More people were thinking, did Liu Changan even know how to butcher pigs? Was there anything he couldn't do?
Butchers had to do more than just stab the pig. In the past, besides collecting money, butchers had to sell the pig's hair, intestines, and pancreas to the butcher. The kidney and tenderloin had to be fried for the butcher. Of course, it was different now. Some butchers didn't sell the pig, and some only sold the pig but didn't kill the pig. They were all mechanized production lines.
Liu Changan wasn't interested in playing games with his classmates, so he simply stayed there with the Gao father and son as they continued to deal with the pig. They shaved it, cut it open, emptied its intestines, and cleaned the red and white guts. They were busy for the whole afternoon.
The front yard of the farmhouse was covered in blood. Obviously, people were just curious about the pig slaughter. Except for David Gordway, no one else was as interested as Liu Changan in the whole process. However, when Liu Changan finished processing the whole pig and cut it into various ingredients, everyone felt familiar with it. This was a pig!
"Little Liu, it's New Year. You must come and play again. Uncle will take you to slaughter sheep and cows again. That's the New Year. It's really boring to stay in the city now." Gao Yuanshan invited him warmly.
"Okay, no problem." Although Liu Changan was especially adaptable to life in different eras, it was still quite interesting to reminisce about the past and the things that would inevitably disappear.
He could also accept that anything would be buried in time and would never shine again. He could also accept that he would try all kinds of strange new things … He was not an alien professor who only tried to use a mobile phone when he met a female celebrity. He even used a pager to show that he was old.
"We will teach our son how to slaughter pigs in the future and pass on this skill." David Gordway said with foresight.
"Yes, we must know how to slaughter pigs." Gao Yuanshan nodded. "That's how children are. There are so many sissies nowadays because they haven't even slaughtered a chicken."
Liu Changan cupped his hands to show that he agreed with the father and son's views.
The whole pig was slaughtered. Naturally, it would be a pig feast at night. Liu Changan also had the opportunity to show his skills. How many dishes could a pig make? This was definitely a number that a non-professional chef could not imagine.
Of course, today's main purpose was to eat, not to test the skills. Liu Changan only chose pig trotters, ribs, pork, intestines, liver and kidney stir-fried and so on. In the afternoon, he would slaughter the pig, and in the evening, he would be the chef.
An Nuan couldn't help when slaughtering the pig, but when it was time to prepare dinner, An Nuan finally found the opportunity to help. She could cut the vegetables and prepare the supplementary ingredients.
"You don't have to worry about me not being able to support you in the future." Liu Changan stir-fried with the iron pot. The agritourism gave him the feeling of cutting the queue in the countryside decades ago. In the recent two to three hundred years, ten to twenty years, it was a change of era. It was overwhelming. The novelty in life was far more than in the past hundreds or thousands of years. Liu Changan felt that his mentality was healthy and lively. For example, he even planned to live a good life now.
"Who needs you to support me?" With a proud look, An Nuan glanced at Bai Hui who was not far away, "I'm not a picky person who places high hopes on my boyfriend."
An Nuan actually supported Lin Xinhuai more and more. Although according to Liu Changan, there was no right or wrong between Miao Yingying and Lin Xinhuai, An Nuan could choose who she was more inclined to support.
"If you put it like that, it's too unfulfilling." Liu Changan said with regret, "Your criteria for choosing a boyfriend are too casual. It's too unfulfilling. If your choice is a dragon or phoenix among men, a favored son of heaven, then I'll be so satisfied. "
"You fit my criteria for choosing a butcher as a boyfriend." An Nuan chuckled, put down the kitchen knife and chili in her hand, ran over and jumped onto Liu Changan's back, and hugged his neck.
This was An Nuan's favorite thing to do, hugging his neck and swinging it back and forth.
"I'm cooking, go play on the side." Liu Changan helplessly said, but his body did not move a bit. If it was someone else, he would have already given them a slap.
An Nuan giggled twice and came down. What girls liked to do the most was to make boys feel helpless, but have no choice but to pamper them.
An Nuan did not go play on the side. She still accompanied Liu Changan to cook. She had waited for the whole afternoon, worried that others would say that she was too clingy to Liu Changan. But it was already night time, who would dare to say that she only knew how to be clingy?
David Gordway counted the number of students who would stay overnight today, and finally arranged a double room for An Nuan and Liu Changan.
An Nuan and Liu Changan did not know that David Gordway had originally arranged it casually. As far as possible, the male students would be with the male students, and the female students would be with the female students. In the end, there was only one double room left, and only Liu Changan and An Nuan were left. But it did not matter, it would just be troublesome to change.
Another couple in the class, a male student secretly looked for David Gordway and asked him to arrange a single room for them. After all, when a couple came out to play together, how could the boy not have arrangements in that aspect?
Therefore, David Gordway was naturally inspired. Although there was no deliberate arrangement, since only Liu Changan and An Nuan were left, wasn't it natural? David Gordway was worried that Miao Yingying would commit suicide, so he also arranged a room next to Liu Changan and An Nuan for Miao Yingying and Bai Hui. When that time came, he told Liu Changan not to sleep too soundly and to pay attention.
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