Chapter 188 Entering the twelfth lunar month, Zhuangzi kills pigs
"Master, all arrangements have been made for the five big pigs in the village, and they can be slaughtered tomorrow morning."
Some time ago, Zhuangzi slaughtered a few animals, but for them, slaughtering like that was just for eating meat and had no other meaning.
On the contrary, every twelfth lunar month, Zhuangzi killed pigs and everyone gathered together.
Eating butchered vegetables, pork, and blood sausage, the taste reminded me of the feeling of my hometown in that era. "Yue'er, Zhuangzi is going to kill the pig tomorrow morning, so there should be enough time now.
You arrange for someone to go to Chang'an City and tell Lao Li that I will invite him and a few other friends to come over tomorrow to eat butchered vegetables."
"It's Mr. Zhao!"
Li Yue stood up and left, called the guard, and arranged the conversation.
The guard left quickly and met His Majesty at the palace.
After hearing the news from the guard, Li Er put down his pen.
Recently, Zhao Guogong has been arranged to be busy with each other in Zhaojiazhuang and Chang'an City.
On the contrary, he has been busy in Chang'an City and has not left.
Since he received the invitation from Xiandi today, Li Er decided that he must go there no matter how busy he is tomorrow.
After arranging the guards, he called Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, and several other masters who had been to Zhaojiazhuang that day, and explained what was going to happen tomorrow.
Hearing Mr. Zhao's invitation, everyone smiled and felt flattered.
After leaving the palace, they returned home and waited quietly for tomorrow.
Early the next morning, everyone changed into casual clothes, left Chang'an City, and headed towards Zhaojiazhuang.
In the morning meeting this morning, Li Er directly issued an order. He had important matters to deal with in the past two days and would wait until the day after tomorrow.
After they left, a patrol team from Chang'an City left the city and began to spread out along this road.
The main reason is that this time there are a lot of people with us and there are relatively few escorts, so be prepared in advance to avoid any mistakes.
"Father, what are we going to do today?"
Changle's eyes widened and he looked at his father with a puzzled expression. But seeing the clothes of the prince, brother, father, emperor and mother, he knew that he must be doing something big!
"Yesterday, your Uncle Zhao invited us to come to Zhaojiazhuang to eat pork today.
I will bring you here with me, let’s have a great time today!”
Wow, eating pork?
This pork is called cheap meat in their upper class society, and only ordinary people will eat it.
Mainly because the pig eats everything and lives in a very bad and dirty environment, so it is disliked by people.
In addition, people who raise pigs nowadays don’t know that the taste of the meat will be more beautiful only after the boar is castrated.
So the pork doesn't taste like castrated pork.
In addition, there is also the reason for seasoning.
Because the seasoning is sparse, the taste is not particularly impressive.
But because most of the people who eat pork are ordinary people, it is called cheap meat.
"Father doesn't know how Uncle Zhao and Zhuangzi's pork tastes.
Anyway, it was the first time I ate the pork at Li Mansion, and it was not particularly delicious, not as good as other dishes!"
Ha ha ha ha.
Li Er couldn't help but burst into laughter. His daughter really said anything!
"Ah, father, did I say something wrong again?"
"No, silly girl, okay, your uncle Zhao Zhuangzi's pork is very delicious, you will know when you get it!"
The group of people arrived at Zhaojiazhuang and saw several large pots standing outside Zhaojiazhuang.
Someone was chopping firewood, boiling hot water was boiling in the pot, and from the other side, the sound of pigs squeaking could be heard.
One by one, the big fat pigs were tied up and brought out. After raising these big fat pigs for a year, it was time to eat pork during the Chinese New Year.
On the other side, the pig-killing vegetables that were dried in the autumn were also taken and soaked in water. After the soaking was completed, they were cut into pieces and awaited use.
"Good brother!"
Li Er and others got off the carriage and rushed over. After asking Zhuangzi's people, they found Zhao Mu.
"I have met Mr. Zhao and Uncle Zhao."
"Old Li, Aunt Sun.
Everyone, my village is killing pigs today, and I invite you to come over and eat some pork.
But it’s still early for dinner. Linglong, please take everyone into the village to rest and sit for a while.
When things get better here, we can bring everyone here!"
"Oh, it doesn't matter, dear brother, let's just stand aside and watch for a while.
The pigs raised by you Zhuangzi are really fat, this must taste quite delicious."
On the other side of the slaughtering table, several large basins were placed aside. Everyone held the pig tightly and stabbed it in the throat.
He raised the knife and dropped it, and blood gushed out. Everyone had only eaten pork and had never seen a slaughtered pig. They were quite excited to see a slaughtered pig for the first time.
After bleeding, the pigs were inflated, beaten, and hot water was used to shave the pigs' hair. Several pigs did this simultaneously and reached a consistent speed.
"Brother Xian, this is the first time I have seen a pig being killed. The process is quite interesting."
"Okay, let them leave the rest of the matter to them. Let's go, let's go to Zhuangzi and wait."
A group of people entered Zhuangzi, leaving only Li Chengqian and Changle and two others watching quietly outside.
Zhuangzi's other children rushed over, stood in front of Li Chengqian, and quickly called "boss".
He saw the girl standing next to him, and after being introduced by Li Chengqian, she turned out to be the boss's sister.
Since she is the sister of the boss, that is, the sister of their big guy, if anyone dares to bully his sister, he has to ask them if they agree.
Several people gathered together and quietly watched the skilled operations of this group of adults.
A set of smooth and flowing water was used to fill the blood sausage, cut the meat and cook the vegetables, and put the blood sausage one by one into the pot and start cooking.
Just wait for the pot to start and everyone can eat.
"I remember last time you said that Zhuangzi would kill the pigs after he still had some time left. Are you talking about today?"
"Boss, the pig killing we talked about before was just an ordinary pig killing, purely for eating meat.
Today's pig slaughter is the young master's intention. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Zhuangzi slaughters several large pigs.
It's been really lively today, luckily you guys came over.
Especially the meat and blood sausage, they taste quite delicious.