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Farmers usually don't want to spend money to buy meat, especially in a famine year when there is a shortage of food and drink. If a family can have meat, they are considered to be living a very good life.

In a famine year, the common people could not even get enough food, so it was impossible for them to raise pigs. As far as Xiaolan knew, there was not a single pig in Shengjia Village this year. In a good year, every household would raise a few pigs for a year, and then sell them during the New Year to supplement their family income. Families that were doing well would kill a pig for meat.

Xiaolan's family will prepare wild boar and roe deer this afternoon. The New Year is coming soon, and the family needs to prepare New Year's goods. Among the New Year's goods, the most indispensable is meat. The children have long been craving for meat, and everyone is eagerly looking forward to having a delicious meal of meat.

The women boiled water while the men processed the pigs and roe deer. Xiaowen, Xiaohu and Xiaoqiang all carried large wooden barrels, brought boiling hot water from the kitchen and poured it on the wild boars and roe deer. When the pig skin and roe deer fur were almost hot, Zhang Shanfeng, Zhang Qingfeng, Zhang Qingnian and Sheng Xuan each took a razor and began to remove the hair from the prey.

The Zhang family is good at disassembling prey. After all, Xishan Village is in the mountains, and they often hunt. They deal with the prey themselves. After the fur was cleaned, Zhang Shanfeng took out a bundle and took out four pig-killing knives and a whetstone. The knives were sharpened yesterday, and he gave them to his son and son-in-law in turn. Zhang Shanfeng first walked to the wooden board, looked at it for a while, and then chose the place to cut. Several people began to skin it. Because the wild boar was already dead, it was not difficult to deal with.

After skinning, they had to remove the internal organs. After removing the internal organs of the three prey, Zhang Shanfeng and several others took out machetes and separated the whole pig and roe deer.

The viscera filled two large basins. The job of dealing with the viscera was naturally a woman's job. Dealing with the viscera was actually very simple. The most complicated part was cleaning the large intestine. However, in winter, the prey ate less and there was less feces in the intestines, so it was relatively easy to clean.

Fu and Liu were responsible for cleaning the large intestine. Zhang wanted to help, but they refused. They took the large intestine to the manor behind the house for processing. Xiaolan's family had a well, so they had no worries about water. They also had bean flour at home, which could be used to scrub the large intestine clean.

It was a famine year, and most people would not be willing to use bean flour to wash the large intestine. Even in good years, farmers would repeatedly prick the large intestine with straw, and washing with bean flour was usually done by wealthy families. However, in order to eat with peace of mind, Xiaolan gave the bean flour to her two aunts, who were so distressed that they said that it could be washed clean without bean flour. Xiaolan didn't care about their arguments, and watched them use the bean flour before turning around and leaving.

After cutting the pork, Zhang put the pig's tail, trotters, liver, heart, lungs, large bones and meat into the pot and blanched them. Xin began to simmer the rice. The men cleaned the yard, rinsed the wooden boards, and cleaned the pig hair, roe deer hair and dirty blood.

Remove the blanched pork and odds and ends and clean them, heat oil in a pan, sauté scallions, add the washed pork, bones and pig tail, stir-fry for a few times, then add boiling water and stew. After boiling, add cabbage and pig offal, then cover the pot again and continue stewing.

Xiao Lan's family would naturally not invite only Bao, the shopkeeper of Chunshengtang, to such a good pot of pig-killing dishes and rice. When Zhang Qingfeng went to Xiao Lan to get the money to buy grain, she told him to ask the clerk of the grain store to go back and tell Liang, the shopkeeper, to come to their house for a feast.

The head of the village, the village elders, Mr. Sheng, Sheng Yugui, and Sheng Chunzhu were also invited to Xiaolan's house.

Xiaolan's family did not invite any female relatives. After the food was cooked, Xiaolan and Xiaoting sent a large bowl of food to the old Sheng family, Sheng Yugui's family, and Sheng Chunzhu's family.

Because they were hosting a dinner party, Xiaolan's family couldn't just cook one dish. Xiaolan and Xiaoting also made a cold bean sprout salad and a cold tofu skin salad, cut up the pig liver, lungs, and heart from the pot, and stewed a pot of roe deer meat.

At this time, the pig-slaughtering dishes are ready, and several cold dishes and cutting plates are also prepared. The house is filled with the aroma of meat, and the greedy people are drooling.

At this time, the large intestines have also been cleaned up and piled up in the basin. There are not only pig large intestines, but also roe deer large intestines.

Because it was a dinner party, the men had one table and the women and children had another table. The only difference was that there was a jar of good wine on the men's table.

The people who came knew that the meat was hunted by the Zhang brothers. This was Xiaolan's explanation to the public. She was afraid that the villagers would beg her family to take them to the mountains to hunt. Last year, the tragic incident of ten refugees going up the mountain but not returning was still fresh in their minds. Her family could not guarantee everyone's safety, so they would not take on this job of going up the mountain.

After hearing that the game was hunted by the Zhang brothers, the village head was at a loss for words. He also remembered the miserable situation of the refugees who went up the mountain last year. Now every household is hungry, and if they encounter danger in the mountains, they can't outrun the prey. It's hard to say who will be the prey. Although the Zhang brothers lived in Sheng Xuan's house, they were not from Shengjia Village after all, so he gave up the idea of ​​going up the mountain. When Bao heard that the game was hunted by the Zhang brothers, he guessed what was going on. After praising the two brothers for their skills, he changed the subject.

The women and children were eating happily at the table. They were all family members, so there was nothing to worry about. Zhang's stewed pig-killing dish had a lot of big bones in it. This kind of meat tasted the most delicious.

Xiao Lan especially likes to eat this kind of meat bones. The pig is stewed for a long time and the meat is stewed until it is mushy. Although wild boar meat is not as delicate as domestic pork, it is also very delicious for Xiao Lan who has not eaten pork for a long time.

After eating a piece of meat bone, he picked up a piece of roe deer meat. The roe deer meat is tender, delicious and has a unique flavor.

The rice cooked by Xin was also delicious. Xiao Lan had been eating bean rice for a long time. Today, she ate the fine rice and her eyes were narrowed with happiness.

It was already close to evening when the banquet ended, so there was no need to eat dinner. After seeing off the guests one by one, only Bao and Liang were left.

Sheng Xuan took out two roe deer legs and two pork legs and loaded them onto the carriage for the two men. "Take these meats back and let your family have a taste."

The two men had become familiar with Sheng Xuan's family, so they didn't bother to be polite with him. They took the meat, got on the carriage and went back to town.