The three butchers had to kill three pigs in total.
The three pigs can receive a lot of pig blood. The people here will prepare a bucket of water, put salt in it, and when the pig blood is put in, keep stirring... Finally, the water and The salted pig blood will coagulate, and then cook it and cut it open, it becomes a piece of blood tofu.
Generally, a large pot of blood tofu made from a pig can be eaten by a family. Guan Baiyu's adoptive father only needs the pig's blood from a pig.
The pig blood of the remaining two pigs was asked by the neighbors, and they took it back to eat.
After the pig is slaughtered, the hair must be shaved and the internal organs must be processed. The three butchers work together and work together.
Shi Zhen went to talk to the butcher who had bought things twice.
His facial features are very good, but the clothes he wears are tattered, and with a black skin, he looks like a simple rural youth. Anyway, he is very popular and easy to approach.
The butcher was in his thirties, and his surname was Zhu. He liked Shi Zhen very much, and he talked to Shi Zhen on and off.
These days, after some people get rich, everyone is more and more concerned about their face. Zhu Butcher sells meat in the town. Some people don't have a penny, and they also want to eat meat on credit. They can't afford it and have to buy cheap. When he was eating meat, he liked to find reasons, and some people even said that it was for dogs... The young man in front of him directly said that he had no money, and his rare sincerity also made a deep impression on him.
"Brother Zhu, you all killed pigs the night before and sold them the next day? Can I learn to kill pigs with you?" Shi Zhen asked.
To be honest, selling vegetables doesn't make a lot of money, but selling meat... should make more money.
He remembered that when he was shopping at the vegetable market, there were quite a few people buying meat, but there were not many people selling meat, there were only about ten people in total, and that's fine, a few of them obviously had a bad attitude towards customers. .
This should be a problem left over from history—they used to sell meat in the town, but it belonged to a state unit. No matter how bad the attitude toward customers was, people still came to buy it!
Later, the meat federation factory was disbanded, but these people were still selling meat, and... their attitude was not very good.
In the future, there will be more and more people here. Shi Zhen believes that selling meat will be a good business for a long time when supermarkets and the like have not appeared in this town.
Of course, he won't sell meat all the time, but he's not just for himself... He tried to bring many people out of the village in his last life, and this time it will be the same.
Even if he doesn't sell meat in the future, he can let people in his village sell it.
"Learn to kill pigs? You can't sell meat after you've learned it," Zhu Butcher laughed. "We kill pigs secretly. All pork that we want to sell must be taken from the slaughterhouse. And the stalls in the vegetable market are There are some, but it’s not easy to get them, and it always costs several thousand to buy a booth.”
As soon as Butcher Zhu mentioned the slaughterhouse, the people around him started chatting.
Meat sellers in the town are not allowed to slaughter their own pigs to sell them, because they will pay less tax—right now, a pig has to pay a tax of five yuan, plus a slaughter fee of five yuan.
Butcher Zhu and the others came out to slaughter pigs to save on taxes and slaughter fees, so that a pig can earn ten extra dollars.
"It's so tiring to kill pigs. If I didn't owe money for building a house, I would definitely not have done this work." Butcher Zhu sighed.
He said a lot of miscellaneous things, such as pigs in the slaughterhouse, they will use edible paint to stamp their bodies, and the pigs they kill outside do not have stamps, so he sells them in the town, be careful, otherwise If found, you will be fined.
When they came out to kill the pigs, the price of pork bought by the villagers was the same as the price of meat bought by the slaughterhouses. Blood, and the second is because the villagers didn't know how many kilograms the villagers' pigs weighed after they were killed at the slaughterhouse.
"When buying pigs at the slaughterhouse, they sometimes write down the weight of the pigs for us by a few kilograms," Zhu Butcher laughed. "Then come back to our booth and get the meat from us."
Now the staff of the slaughterhouse are all from the former meat factory, and there are many messes like this.
Shi Zhen remembered the time when he bought pig tails, someone came to Zhu Butcher's side, and Zhu Butcher gave them a piece of meat without saying a word.
Butcher Zhu was probably also depressed, and said some messy things about the slaughterhouse. For example, the slaughterhouse kills several pigs every day, and the pork is just nothing. If you want to exaggerate in front of them, you can't give them less, but pigs are big and small. Their internal organs also have weights. In the end, whoever has a good relationship with them will give them heavy pig internal organs, even if the pigs taken from the slaughterhouse are light in weight.
Pork belly, pig liver, pig heart, etc., etc., the price is not cheap, two hundred catties of pigs and one hundred catties of pig internal organs are a lot of money! It happens that the pigs sold here are paid for the weight of the whole pig without the internal organs after being killed, and the internal organs are just a free gift.
Shi Zhen chatted with Butcher Zhu, and the more he chatted, the more speculative he became, and he also figured out all the pork prices.
I'm afraid I won't be able to be a butcher, but... Shi Zhen asked, "A pig head only costs fifty cents a pound?"
Butcher Zhu said: "If the tongue and ears are removed, it will cost 50 cents a pound."
At the end of the year, the price of pig heads will be very expensive, because local people like to buy pig heads to worship their ancestors, but usually pig heads are very cheap. As for why they are so cheap... There are many bones in the pig head, and there is little meat. If you buy it back for 50 cents a pound, I don’t know if it will be dismantled. how many bones.
The pig's head is quite big. When people want to eat pork, they will not buy a pig's head and take it home.
Shi Zhen went back to sleep after watching the pig killing. Of course, he didn't forget to ask someone for some pig blood.
Everyone in the village already knew about him and Guan Baiyu. Everyone was very curious about him, but they didn't have any ill will, and they didn't mind sharing a little pig's blood with him.
Early the next morning, Shi Zhen went to the town to buy a piece of tofu, prepared to eat pork blood tofu soup in the evening, and also bought some spices such as cinnamon and fragrant leaves.
He plans to save some money for a few days, buy a pig's head to stew, and then try to sell pig's head meat in the town during the weekend.
When the kids are out of school on weekends, the townspeople are happy to buy something delicious for the kids to eat.
Besides... At this time, there are hardly any deli sellers in town, so there should be no problem selling pork head meat.
The most important thing is that you can't sell it or lose much money, and you can eat it yourself.
As for him going to dig river mud... On weekends, Guan Baiyu can watch and sell it.
Of course, this has to be discussed with Guan Baiyu.
Shi Zhen had a plan, so he prepared to discuss with Guan Baiyu and Shi Xinghuo that night.
As a result, when he returned home that night, he learned some bad news—the person who brought Shi Xinghuo to sell mud had stopped selling mud.
Selling mud to cement factories can make money, but this mud cannot be dug indiscriminately.
In fact, it is not allowed to sell mud in the village, but most of the time they just turn a blind eye - digging a hole is not good, digging a soil slope or something is fine.
So that person could not have been selling mud all the time.
It's just that he doesn't sell mud anymore, so he doesn't need to hire Shi Xinghuo, and Shi Xinghuo has no job for the time being.
Shi Zhen thought about it and said, "Brother, tomorrow you will go to my work place with me, and I will do my work for you."
He decided to start selling pork head meat tomorrow.
Shi Xinghuo is capable of digging river mud. If Shi Xinghuo does this work, he will be free to start a small business.
Before, he could only find a job as a small laborer, because a business like selling pork head meat required at least a pot, and he needed money to buy pig heads, but he didn't have it.
Now, he can sell it here at Guan Baiyu.