Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 105 Big Pancake, Pig Killing Dish

"Master Cai, Steward Cai, this little pig is tender and not smelly. It is a gift from our Nanjia Village to Master Cai.

The other two piglets were rewards for the villagers, thanking them for helping to kill the wild boar." After letting the tribesmen deal with the wild boar, Hou Yangmin brought a few tribesmen and brought the three piglets to Cai Chongxin.

The three little wild boars weighed about thirty or forty kilograms each. They gave one to the Cai family just to show their favor so that they could talk about the next thing.

The other two piglets weighed about 70 to 80 kilograms in total, enough to be shared by the dozen or so villagers who helped.

"Okay, I'll thank Chief Hou on behalf of my father." Cai Chongzhong smiled and nodded, letting his men take the wild boar.

"Young Master Cai, I wonder if you are interested in the wild boar we hunted?" Hou Yangmin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Cai had captured the wild boar again, knowing that he had not offended the Cai family.

"Oh! How do you say that?" Cai asked with a smile.

"Master Cai, how can we bear to eat so much pork every meal?

We are just a group of poor refugees. It is good enough for us to have one or two meals. So I want to exchange wild boar meat and Master Cai for some food and money." Hou Yangmin said with a clasp.

"Patriarch Hou, you are a smart man! You made a wise choice. Our Cai family will accept your wild boar. We will give you both food and money." Cai smiled again and admired the wisdom of the patriarch in front of him.

After Cai returned, Butler Cai came to Hou Yangmin and said with a hint of deep conviction:

“Brother, it was a wise decision for you to sell the meat to the Cai family.

You don’t know that there are many bandits in our Huayin County. If you, outsiders, dare to openly bring so much pork to the county town to sell, you will definitely be targeted.”

"Thank you for the information, Brother Cai. I'll have someone cut off ten pounds of meat for you to take back later." Hou Yangmin clasped his fists in gratitude.

"Haha! Thank you, brother.

By the way, brother, the refugees who were digging sweet potatoes for us have run away. The master just said that the remaining sweet potatoes are for you to dig!

I will give you two mu of sweet potato vines and 20 kg of sweet potatoes as payment. I will give them to you in advance." Manager Cai got the benefits and also gave them to the villagers of Nanjiagou.

"Thank you, Brother Cai. I'll treat you to a drink after I sell pork this afternoon." Hou Yangmin also smiled and bowed.

The idea of sending meat just now was suggested to Hou Yangmin by the village elder Wu Ye. Refugees have no confidence when they go out, so they should try not to provoke the locals, otherwise if they are tripped up by the locals, they will have no place to cry.

Hou Xiaoge also joined in, saying that there were many bandits in Qin Province, so it would be better to sell the meat to the Cai family, which would not only earn them money and food, but also make friends with the locals.

This led to the scene where Hou Yangmin delivered and sold meat just now.

In fact, what Butler Cai said was true. A group of refugees from other places selling so much pork in a big way would be strange if they were not targeted by bandits!

In the end, Nanjiagou slaughtered six small wild boars and two large wild boars by itself, producing a total of 400 kilograms of meat and more than 200 kilograms of bones.

The hunters got more than 200 kilograms, and half a kilogram was given to each person in the village. The remaining 50 kilograms and bones and offal were prepared to be made into a big pot dish in the evening.

As for the remaining five wild boars and the pig king, they were taken to the Cai family by the tribe in exchange for money and food.

Of course, there were also the bristles and pig stomachs left after slaughtering the pigs, but the people in Nanjiagou didn’t want them, so they were all sold.

Pig bristles are strategic items and wild boar tripe is a precious Chinese medicine. It would be a waste to cook and eat them.

Don’t underestimate these five big fat pigs. In this era, they are worth a lot of money and are definitely a windfall.

After arriving in Qin Province, prices plummeted compared to the Central Plains. When in Tongguan, the people of Nanjiagou bought food.

One dollar can buy 14 kilograms of flour, 13 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of corn flour, 22 kilograms of sorghum flour, 60 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and 3 kilograms of pork.

After arriving in Huayin County, prices dropped slightly, but the price of meat remained high.

The five large wild boars killed in Nanjiagou weighed 1,152 kilograms.

The Cai family got a good deal. The price of raw meat was one dollar and five pounds. The five big wild boars, plus the miscellaneous bristles and pig stomachs, cost a total of two hundred and thirty-eight dollars, which was a huge sum of money.

Finally, Hou Yangmin discussed with several village elders and decided to take the hundred dollars back and divide them up, and use the rest to buy sundries such as bullets, food, and salt.

Bullets were really expensive these days, and after much persuasion, Hou Yangmin bought 100 bullets at a high price of 40 cents each.

The eighty dollars bought food, including fifteen thousand kilograms of bran, three hundred kilograms of millet, two hundred kilograms of flour, and seven hundred kilograms of cornmeal.

The remaining 18 yuan was used to sell some salt, iron pots, shoulder poles, carts and other sundries.

After returning to the camp, the tribe kept twenty dollars as a reserve and distributed eighty dollars to the villagers who were hunting today.

Then it was time to distribute the food. Apart from the 200 kilograms of flour for today's gathering, the rest would be divided equally according to the standard of one kilogram for adults and five ounces for children.

This time Hou Xiaoge's family suffered a great loss. There were eleven minors and only four adults in the family. They were supposed to share more than 150 kilograms, but in the end they only shared more than 90 kilograms. This made the aunt-in-law very angry.

"Hmph! The guns used by other families are the clan's public guns, but our two guns are our own. It's too unfair to divide them like this." The younger aunt Hou Cuiping sat on the ground and wailed in a low voice.

"Aunt, please stop crying. Our family contributed a lot of guns, and the clan has compensated us. Not counting the bullets, we gave them three silver dollars and ten kilograms of pork, which is enough.

Besides, uncle is the clan leader, so give him some face." Hou Xiaoge wanted to laugh when he saw his aunt wailing on the ground, but he held back.

"Humph! My eldest brother has become biased since he became the clan leader.

You, your uncle, and your uncle-in-law each get two catties of meat. You killed a big wild boar, so you got two catties as a reward. Your uncle-in-law killed two wild boars, so you got two catties as a reward. So our family is taking advantage of the tribe? I am really angry." Hou Cuiping sighed.

"Haha! Okay, aunt, if you're not angry about killing the pig tonight, eat more and eat it back." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.

"Did you hear that? We're going to make a lot of dishes tonight." Hou Cuiping said viciously to the group of little kids around her.

"Know it!"

Hou Xiaoge laughed secretly on the side and said, "I don't need you to tell me that. The one who has delicious food is not proactive."

In order to have a big meal, the refugees from Nanjiagou stayed in the wheat field of Caijia Village so as to avoid being extorted by other refugees.

At this time, the only six large iron pots in the village plus the three pots bought today were making pancakes non-stop, and next to them was a pig-killing pot borrowed from Caijia Village, which was cooking pig-killing dishes.

This pig-slaughtering pot is very large, and there may not be one in several villages. However, the landlord Cai’s family is in the pork business, so they specially ordered one in Chang’an for slaughtering pigs and burning pig hair.

The diameter of this iron pot is at least 1.5 meters, and its depth is at least 1.2 meters. A fat pig weighing 300 to 400 kilograms can be easily put in it.

The price is not low. I heard from the villagers of Caijia Village that Mr. Cai spent more than two hundred dollars to buy it in the early days of the Republic of China. It is worth at least six or seven hundred dollars now.

Dozens of women were busy for more than two hours, and it was already dark. Two hundred kilograms of flour had finally turned into fragrant sesame cakes, and the huge iron pot was also filled with pig-killing dishes.

Because the villagers of Caijia Village provided a lot of vegetables, firewood and kitchen utensils, tonight is a dinner for the villagers of Nanjiagou and Caijia Village.

The capacity of this full pig-killing pot is not small. It can cook at least 1,400 to 1,500 kilograms of pig-killing dishes, enough for more than 200 people in Nanjiagou and more than 300 people in Caijia Village.

"Let's eat!"

Mr. Cai also came out to show his presence and then announced that the dinner was ready.