January 15th, the New Year.

It is also the day when the Shen family kills pigs and invites the whole village to eat.

The night before, Zhou Haoran and Tan Zhengping stayed at Shen's house until they finished dinner and were chased away by Zhang Chunnuan before leaving.

It was still dark before dawn today, and Tan Zhengping was still in a daze when he was woken up by his good brother's wake-up call service.

"Ha-" Tan Zhengping yawned, rubbing his eyes and complaining:

"You remembered to get up early, why did you wake me up?"

Zhou Haoran was getting dressed and answered without turning his head: "Today is the day when Chun Nuan kills pigs and invites the whole village to eat. We have to go to the ancestral hall early to help."

"If you want to work, it's 'us'. That's not what you said yesterday..."

When Tan Zhengping saw Zhou Haoran's bed, he couldn't help but lie down again, "I'm so sleepy, let me sleep for another half an hour..."

"Chun Nuan said that the pig the captain caught at her house a few days ago was a fat pig of more than 200 kilograms."

Zhou Haoran buttoned the last button, walked to the bed, and took Tan Zhengping out of the quilt:

"I heard that the person in charge today is the famous red and white chef of the brigade. Don't you want to take the first bite of the butchered pig dish?"

"Pork-killing dish?!" Tan Zhengping sat up on the verge of dozing off and asked, "What kind of dish?"

Zhou Haoran raised his eyebrows and said: "Spicy fat intestines, pork liver with pickled peppers, twice-cooked pork, short crispy pork... and others, I can't even remember them."

"It sounds like it's all meat!" Tan Zhengping turned over and sat up holding the quilt, his head suddenly felt cool.

"No, we came back together last night. How come I didn't hear about what's on offer today?"

Zhou Haoran snatched the quilt away and asked without answering, "Have you forgotten that I learned cooking from the aunts and uncles in the village before I went to Beidi?"

Seeing that Tan Zhengping was still looking at him with doubt, he had no choice but to continue explaining:

"The pig-killing dishes in the village will not change for a hundred or eighty years. I heard what the uncles and aunties said when I learned how to prepare pig-killing dishes."

"They said you remembered it?" Tan Zhengping asked curiously.

Zhou Haoran nodded and said seriously: "I plan to secretly learn from the master chef later to see how to cook pig meat. If I want to kill pigs in the future, I don't need to hire anyone, I can do it myself."

"Wait!" Tan Zhengping stretched out his hand to explore Zhou Haoran's forehead, "Let me see if you went to the Northland and your brain was frozen."

"What a mess!" Zhou Haoran slapped his hand away, "You think I am you!"

"Old Zhou, Zhou Haoran, tell me seriously, what do you think?"

Tan Zhengping took back his red hand, looked directly into Zhou Haoran's eyes, and said: "I heard what you said, why do you think you want to settle down in this mountain nook? How did you follow me on the train when you came here?

What did I say?

You said that no one can take away what is yours, and the words are still ringing in your ears. Not only are you going to marry the widow in this mountain village, but you also have to learn to kill pigs and make pig-killing dishes. I really don’t know what you think.

That’s it.”

Zhou Haoran looked at him steadily and said solemnly:

"First of all, from now on, don't call me Chunnuan, the old widow or the younger one. She is someone I cherish. If you still treat me as a brother, please respect her as much as you respect me.

Secondly, I stick to my word. No one can take away what belongs to me. Even if it is temporarily taken away, it will be kept for me and I will get it back one day.

Finally, if you don’t get out of bed and get dressed, I will tell the captain that you are tired of eating meat and want to eat pickled cabbage pancakes alone in the courtyard."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out the door.

"Zhou Haoran, you... damn, I owe you!"

Tan Zhengping got out of bed, walked out of the room, walked into the kitchen, opened the lid of the pot and took a look.

Good guy, Zhou Haoran is such a stinky boy, he didn’t even leave hot water for me!

He angrily rushed out of the main room door, just in time to see Zhou Haoran pouring a basin of hot water into the corner.

"Lao Zhou, you poured out all the hot water, what should I use to wash my face with?"

"Why don't you stop washing it." Zhou Haoran shrugged, put the washbasin back in the room, put his hands in his cotton coat pockets, and walked out whistling.

When Tan Zhengping saw that he really didn't want to wait for him anymore, he gritted his teeth and washed his face with cold water, picked up his cotton-padded clothes, locked the door and chased out.

"Zhou Haoran, wait for me!"

…

When the two came to the ancestral hall, Zhou Lizue was directing Zhou Mingda and other young people in the village to make preparations for killing the pig.

Seeing the two of them arriving, Zhou Lixue was a little surprised: "Why are you two here so early?"

Tan Zhengping was about to speak, but was overtaken by Zhou Haoran, "Zhengping and I have never seen pigs slaughtered before. Let's see the scene and see if there is anyone we can help with."

Zhou Lixue nodded happily when he heard this. Although the village had never had any problems since these educated youths, fortunately, except for the educated youth Chu, the others were all good.

Look at these two juniors, they automatically come to help without being asked.

OK!

So he summoned the two of them unceremoniously: "Tan Zhiqing, go see if there is anyone in Mingda who you can help. Zhou Zhiqing, you look quite strong. Please help us pull him out later."

With."

"Okay." Zhou Haoran responded.

Tan Zhengping also said hello, and before going to find Zhou Mingda, he also said to Zhou Lixue:

"Captain, don't be so polite. For those of you who are educated and ignorant, just call me Xiaotan. And Lao Zhou, you can also call him Xiao Zhou!"

Zhou Li was amused, "It doesn't matter if I ask you to talk to me, but there are a lot of people named Zhou in the village, so asking Xiao Zhou to turn around will cause trouble."

Otherwise, from now on I will call you Zhengping and Zhou Zhiqing Haoran, and you two should stop calling me captain, just brother!"

Zhou Haoran and Tan Zhengping responded in unison: "Okay, Brother Lixue."

Tan Zhengping had just walked up to Zhou Mingda, who had brought a small basin of water, and was about to ask if there was anything he could do, when he saw the other person dipped his finger in the basin and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Brother Mingda, what are you doing?"

Zhou Mingda rolled his eyes at him and said, "I heard you call my father brother just now, and now you call me brother. You have messed up the hierarchy!"

"It's not a mess, it's not a mess." Tan Zhengping said with a smile: "Let's discuss our own things. Your father is my brother and you are my brother. There is no problem!"

Zhou Mingda was about to reply when he heard his father over there yelling that he was about to start killing the pigs, and he quickly bent down to bring the basin over.

"Brother Mingda, why are you carrying a basin?"

"Catch the pig's blood!" Zhou Mingda replied to him while thinking to himself: Tan Zhiqing is really a young man in the city. He doesn't even know that a basin is used to catch the blood when killing a pig!

"Then why were you licking your hands just now?"

"What do you mean by licking your hands? I'm trying to see if there's enough salt!"

"Why put salt?"

"Blood won't clump together without adding salt! Alas, you don't understand even if I tell you, just wait and see!"

With that said, Zhou Mingda took the basin to the place designated by his father, put it away, and then quickly ran away.

The next moment, there was a roar of animals, and a big fat pig with smooth water was pulled over by a group of young people.

The master held a sharp knife, found the right position, and inserted it hard.

Here the white knife goes in, the red knife comes out, and the steaming bright red pig's blood flows into the basin.
Chapter completed!