OBS Chapter 327: Completed Pig Killing Dish
Chapter 327: Completed Pig Killing Dish
On the fourth day, all the houses were finally built. There were twenty groups of five connected houses, four groups in a row, for a total of five rows.
Each room is four steps wide and nine steps long, which is relatively spacious compared to the rooms in farmers' homes in Daqing.
Each group of five rooms has two sides, the east and west sides. The layout on the edge is to separate two rooms in the middle with a fire wall.
The fire wall connects the kangs in the two rooms.
Each compartment has a side door leading directly to the living room of the second compartment.
In the living room, which is also at the southernmost end, a modern sofa-style kang is built with adobe bricks.
To be more precise, the "firebed sofa" and the coffee table for dining are all made of adobe.
After all, they ended up making a lot of adobe bricks, which saved wood for making furniture.
At the west end of the "kang sofa" is a cylindrical stove that can be used to stew soup or boil water.
In addition, there is a stove in the middle of the two partitions on the westernmost side. If you burn fire directly, the hot smoke can circulate in the kangs on both sides through the fire wall.
However, the chimneys at the end of the fire wall were opened on both sides of the kang.
The room in the middle has a kang. Since it is a large room, some round and square tables can be placed there. There is no partition in the middle, so only a side door is left on each side.
The fourth room also has a partition design. The inner partition is a kang, and the outer partition is a stove, which is equivalent to a kitchen.
Of course, the fifth room at the back has the same design as the first room.
The main purpose is to have five rooms that can accommodate as many people as possible to sleep in the family.
Although conditions are limited, we will try our best to accommodate everyone. Theoretically, there are 19 households in total.
But for the time being, Li Quan and his two companions will live with Shen Youyou and her family.
The rest are the villages, including Old Man Shen, with 18 households, each with five rooms. Of course, some of them have too many people to sleep in, while others have too few people to sleep in.
For example, some families with more people can let their daughters live in Li Xiu's house. After all, Li Xiu is just a woman with a little luck.
If there are too many kids to stay in, you can go live in a house with fewer rooms.
Shen Zhiqiu didn't make any arrangements for this, so he let Grandpa take care of it. Basically, no one had any objections to Grandpa's words.
Of the five rooms that were finally vacated, two were used as classrooms for the kids, and the other three were made into a large open room with rectangular pillars in the middle for support. This was their future public canteen.
Since there were so many people working, they took it easy and built a few chicken coops and animal sheds for them next to the west wall, forming a circle.
Although they didn't choose a specific date for the beam-raising ceremony due to time constraints and urgent tasks, Shen Zhiqiu and Mr. Shen and a group of old men discussed that they should do something good after the house was completed to reward the fellow villagers in Tangjia Village.
After all, we were able to reclaim the wasteland and build the house in such a short time, all thanks to the big guys.
Because today was a special day, Shen Youyou and the others did not set up a stall. Instead, a few brothers went to Fang County early in the morning to deliver jelly and steamed cake to Old Yu and the others.
He also told Old Yu that he could set up a stall at the market today and just ask Zhou Qian to get tables and chairs.
After all, their old customers who are used to eating their jelly and steamed cakes go there every day. If they suddenly stop setting up their stall today, it would be like standing them up.
Early in the morning, Shen Zhiqiu asked Shen Fugui to go to the village's large pig-farming family, Tang Guangshen, and order two pigs, each weighing more than 200 pounds, for five taels of silver.
The two fat pigs, with their limbs tied, kept kicking. Perhaps they knew what was about to greet them next, and they kept squeaking.
In those days, unlike in later times, there were not many ways of entertainment, so slaughtering pigs was a lively activity in rural areas.
Because some men are still cleaning the newly built houses, and they also have to make a fire, dry the houses, and other tasks. It will take at least a few days before they can move in.
Some also built thatched roofs on the last few houses.
But most of the women and children had nothing to do, so they gathered outside the house where Shen Youyou and her friends were temporarily staying, waiting to watch the pig being slaughtered.
It is not difficult to see that both the villagers of Tangjia Village and the people of the Nine Clans are in a very good mood.
Neighbors also helped to boil water, and the smoke and steam rising up gave the air a lively feel.
Generally, it takes several people to slaughter a pig. Tang Guangshen's two sons came to slaughter the pig. After all, their family is a big pig farmer and they are not unfamiliar with this job.
Of course, the people of the Nine Clans were no strangers to it, after all, they had killed two nests of wild boars along the way.
But things are different now. There are still many people working on their houses. They can't just stop working and come out to kill pigs.
In fact, Tang Guangshen's family used to slaughter pigs, but the pig offal was too smelly and they were not willing to eat it. They kept a few big dogs at home to guard the house at night.
After all, their family is said to be a large pig farmer. But can they be called a large pig farmer if they don't have a dozen or dozens of pigs?
What's more, that family was considered to be a well-off family in Tangjia Village.
Therefore, in the past, those big dogs always got the upper hand. However, after he first tasted the braised pork offal made by Li Jingshu, his three views were refreshed.
He has been raising pigs for half his life, but he never knew that pig offal could be so delicious and fragrant.
So now he knows how to live. Before he kills the pig, he calls out to the women of the Nine Clans: "Do you want pig blood? Hurry up and get the wooden basin to collect it."
Did you see it? Not to mention the pig's offal and blood, even the pig's skin. In Li Jingshu's words, "Uncle Guangshen, shave the hair off thoroughly. I'll make some pig skin jelly and send it to your house later. It's delicious with rice."
Even Mr. Shen, who lived on the west side of the river, would stand on his adobe and tiptoe to look over here from time to time, muttering, "I wonder when the family will slaughter the pig. Oh, no one told me. Did they throw the pig's tusks away?"
Shen Zhiqiu was helpless: "Grandpa, you have collected so many wild boar teeth and wild wolf teeth, almost enough for each of us to hang one around our necks, why do you collect so much of that stuff? And this is a domestic pig, it can't grow such long teeth."
The old man patted his head and said, "Oh, I forgot, I forgot. I always see wild boars on the way. I almost forgot what domestic pigs look like."
Shen Zhiqiu knew that the old man also wanted to join in the fun: "Grandpa, there's nothing going on here, why don't you go back to the west and give them some instructions."
Then, Mr. Shen called a few old men and happily went to the east side of the river to watch the pig slaughtering.
As a result, when they came back, they had already finished bleeding. Several young wives were scalding pig hair. Old Master Shen hurriedly stepped forward to stop them and said, "Pig hair is also a good thing. We can collect it and make toothbrushes."
Shen Youyou also hurriedly stopped the old man: "Grandpa, we don't want this pig hair. Aren't toothbrushes made of palm fibers? They are cleaner than pig hair."
You see, they were reluctant to throw away the pig bristles. And at the old man's age, he just remembered it after hearing Shen Youyou say once that wild boar bristles can be made into toothbrushes.
This is true no matter what time it is. We farmers have all survived the hard times. No one knows how to live better or endure hardships better than us.