80s Taoism

The ferocious wild boar was very weak now, and it screamed in pain. Now it is really no different from ordinary pigs.

"Father, if they come to help carry the wild boar, do you want to give them some pork?" Zhang Jiaohua looked at the wild boar wrapped in hemp rope, as if he was looking at pieces of fresh meat.

"We can't finish eating such a big pig. If you don't ask others for help, you can give some to others. Children can't be stingy." Zhang Youping smiled and stroked Zai Zai's head.

"It can be sold for money. A lot of money." Zhang Jiaohua blinked his eyes.

"Then how do you get it back? Even if you get it back, you have to ask Master Tu to come and kill it. Even if it's scalding and hair removal, dad can't do it alone." Zhang Youping smiled, knowing that Zai Zai was reluctant to share the wild pork with other families, and said that Zhang Youping took the bamboo basket from Zhang Jiaohua's back and looked inside, "Is this the herbal medicine you picked? Didn't you go to pick wild ginseng, and you didn't find it."

When Zhang Jiaohua heard his father mention this, he immediately forgot about the trouble of having to share some of the wild boar meat, and said with a smile, "Of course I found it. It's a good one."

Zhang Jiaohua dug out the wild ginseng from the bottom of the bamboo basket, opened the newspaper and showed it to Dad, "Look, Dad, it's a big one. The old Taoist master said that the older the wild ginseng, the better the medicinal effect. This must be a very old wild ginseng."

Although Zhang Youping didn't know many medicinal materials, he still knew the wild ginseng, and he was surprised to see the wild ginseng handled so cleanly by Zai Zai. He didn't expect Zai Zai to actually find wild ginseng. In fact, it wasn't that he didn't want to buy wild ginseng for Zhang Jiaohua, who knew that the price of this wild ginseng was not cheap when he went to the medicine shop in the town. Although Zai Zai made some money back. Some can't bear it. After the Chinese New Year, traveling to Guangdong would cost money, so Zhang Youping dared not move his family's cash. He wanted to wait for the couple to make money in Guangdong, and then buy wild ginseng for Zai Zai to nourish his body. Now that Zai Zai has found wild ginseng by himself, it is naturally the best.

Zhang Youping couldn't tell how old the ginseng was, so he quickly wrapped it in newspaper and put it back under the bamboo basket.

"Where did you find this?" Zhang Youping asked.

Just as Zhang Jiaohua was about to say something, he immediately remembered that he had only found it when he went deep into the old forest, so he hesitated.

Zhang Youping doesn't know what's going on? He glared at Zai Zai, "Do you know how dangerous it is in the old forest? Fortunately, you only encountered a wild boar. If you encounter others, let's see how you can escape."

Zhang Youping didn't know the situation of Zhang Jiaohua being chased by the wolves. If he knew, he would be terrified again.

The two waited for a while, and Liu Qiaoye came, but she came alone. Pushing a wheelbarrow all the way creaking.

"You didn't call for someone?" Zhang Youping was dumbfounded looking at the wheelbarrow that the woman was pushing.

"What are you calling for? Why don't we get the wild boar back?" Liu Qiaoye obviously had his own plan.

It is already November, although there is still a long time before the Chinese New Year. However, if such a large wild boar is smoked with bacon, the Chinese New Year pig will not need to be slaughtered. Four or five hundred catties of wild boar can produce three or four hundred catties of meat. Can eat for a long time.

Although in any case, some of these bacon will eventually be sent out. But most of them will be stored by themselves. After begging, you can often eat meat. A wheelbarrow can completely carry this wild boar to the house. Of course, Liu Qiaoye still took some factors into account. For example, how to load the car. In fact, Liu Qiaoye still counted the strength of Jin Hu and the others. She had to get used to the few of them staying by Zhang Jiaohua's side. At least they already know that they are not harmful to Zhang Jiaohua.

"How can I carry this wild boar into the car by myself?" Zhang Youping said with a frown.

"Beggar, didn't you say that you dragged the wild boar here alone? You and your father carried the wild boar onto the wheelbarrow." Liu Qiaoye looked at Zai Zai with a half-smile.

Zhang Jiaohua knew that he couldn't fool his parents, so he didn't bother to hide it in front of his parents, "Okay, I'll do it by myself."

Zhang Jiaohua walked over pretendingly, grabbed the wild boar's tail which was bitten off by the mountain leopard, and then the wild boar floated up. It seems that under the traction of Zhang Jiaohua, the wheelbarrow was loaded very easily. In fact, all of this is the credit of the Jinhu couple.

Zhang Youping went to try to push the unicycle, and it was very difficult to move. But all of a sudden, Zhang Youping suddenly felt light in his hands, and the wheelbarrow suddenly seemed to become lighter. Zhang Youping was not very surprised either, he was no longer surprised.

Liu Qiaoye put the basket on her shoulders. Zhang Jiaohua was empty-handed and was very carefree along the way.

"Stinky boy, don't think that you brought back a wild boar, that's all for today. When I go home, I have to settle the score with you.

Upon hearing Liu Qiaoye's words, Zhang Jiaohua had a sad face. But at home, how could Liu Qiaoye have the time to settle accounts with Zhang Jiaohua.

Zhang Youping went to the butcher's house in the village to borrow tools such as a butcher's knife, and then went to a neighbor's house to borrow a trough for scalding pigs. Anyway, the wild boar had already been tied into a rice dumpling by Zhang Jiaohua, so there was no possibility of a struggle at all. Zhang Youping simply slaughtered the wild boar by himself.

But Liu Qiaoye still went to call Zhang Manyin and his wife over to help. Although Zhang Manyin is not a master butcher, at his age, he is not too unfamiliar with the process of slaughtering pigs and removing hair.

When Liu Qiaoye went to call Zhang Manyin and his wife, he just said that Zhang Jiaohua picked up the wild boar in the mountains, but didn't tell them how big the wild boar was. They thought that the wild boar picked up by Zhang Jiaohua would be great if it weighed more than a hundred catties. Unexpectedly, when I saw a wild boar in the yard of my second son's house, I found out that it was a big wild boar weighing four to five hundred catties. Zhang Manyin had never seen such a big wild boar at his age.

"Biaohua, you really picked up this wild boar?" Zhang Manyin felt incredible.

"That's right. This wild boar rushed down from the mountain and hit a rock with its head. I tied it with a rope, and then I came back to call my parents." Zhang Jiaohua's words were all taught by his mother in advance.

"This is really, this is really..." Zhang Manyin couldn't find the right words to express his feelings at this moment.

Ma Donghua looked at the big wild boar and felt terrified, "Beggar, why did you run into the mountains alone? Don't you know how dangerous the mountains are now? Think about it, if this wild boar rushed down and didn't hit the rock, what would happen if it hit you? You two are the same, why didn't you take care of the beggar? If something happened, you would have no time to cry."

"Mother, didn't we get called by the Sixth Uncle's family to help us today? Qiaoye brought the beggar with him. But he turned his back and ran away secretly. When Qiaoye finished his work and came back to look for it, this guy had already left. Qiaoye went home at that time. But it was too late, this guy had been away for an unknown time. When we went to the mountains, he had already returned from the mountains." Zhang Youping quickly explained to the mother-in-law. Since ancient times, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a very complicated relationship. Sometimes a sentence is wrong, and a conflict arises. At this time, as a son and a husband at the same time, this person needs to use his wisdom to resolve it.

Originally, Ma Donghua was also concerned about her grandson, but her words might be very sharp in Liu Qiaoye's ears. Zhang Youping took the initiative to take responsibility, so that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could feel good.

Liu Qiaoye is a reasonable woman, and she didn't lose face because of her mother-in-law's questioning, "It's all my fault, there were too many people at that time, I was so busy that I was dizzy, and I even forgot about the cubs."

Ma Donghua also noticed that her tone just now was a bit wrong, "Actually, I also know that no one wants to do this. But how dangerous it is. Not long ago, the big blue wolves demonstrated in groups on the opposite mountain. I am really worried. When the snow falls, the big blue wolves will not be able to get food on the mountain, will they come to the village?"

Zhang Manyin was a little dissatisfied with Ma Donghua's long-winded words: "It's over, it's useless to say so much. Hurry up and boil the water. Don't wait until we finish bleeding here. Your water is still cold."

Pigs are slaughtered in rural areas by piercing the pig's neck to the heart with a very traditional knife, and draining the pig's blood. In this way of killing, most of the pig's blood is released, and the pork will be whiter, not that kind of blood red. In addition, if the pig blood in the pork is cleaned, it will be more beneficial to smoked bacon.

However, it is not so easy to kill a pig weighing four to five hundred catties, even if it is just an ordinary domestic pig. The heavier the pig, the stronger the struggle. The most important thing is that the thickness of pigskin and pork has increased, and it may not be able to kill with a single knife. This is a taboo thing. The particularity about killing pigs is that it is the most auspicious to kill with one knife. But sometimes, when you meet a hand-born Master Tu, you may have to kill a few times before you can kill him.

Zhang Youping took a butcher's knife and measured the wild boar's neck several times, but he didn't use the knife. He was not sure.

"Father, why don't you kill it? Are you afraid of killing the wild boar?" Zhang Jiaohua watched for a long time, but Zhang Youping didn't move. Can't help but ask.

The adults were all amused and giggled. Zhang Jiaohua didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You brat, go play aside. Wait until the blood splashes on you."

"You can't kill with one knife, so kill two more. Such a big pig, the butcher will not be sure to kill it with one knife." Zhang Manyin naturally understood why the second son was hesitant.

"Father, I will read a spell to you, and you will kill pigs." Zhang Jiaohua came over again after hearing Zhang Manyin's words.

After Zhang Jiaohua finished speaking, he danced and recited the pig-killing mantra: "I obey the order to kill the ancestors in the thirty-three gangs and the seventy-two lands. When the disciple goes down the mountain, the white knife enters and the red knife exits. Thousands of arrows pierce the heart without stopping. I invite the six stars of the Southern Dipper and the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, and I honor the order of the old master to be as urgent as the law."