Chapter 1694 Hometown at the End of the Year

No matter how chaotic things are outside, my hometown can always give people a different kind of peace.

Especially at the end of the year, adults don't have to think about work, and children don't have to think about going to school. All day long, I am thinking about what delicious food to buy for the New Year and how to have fun today. The unusual decadent life makes people feel indescribably relaxed.

Du Heng was given a holiday by Yang Dongxu. After all, Yang Dongxu couldn't be in danger in Yangjia Village.

Especially with the rise of homestays, there are more outsiders doing business in every village and every market in Yangjia Village.

Although the original village is more mixed with dragons and snakes, and there are all kinds of tourists from all over the country, the security force here has risen to a higher level. Almost every village has Yang Dongxu's eyes, guarding Yangjia Village firmly in the center.

In addition, due to the development of Yangjia Village, the medical market in Jiaocheng City has been particularly prosperous in recent years, and the construction of new rural areas has begun to take the lead in the country.

Not only have cement roads been built in every village, further accelerating the homestay tourism that can boost the local economy, but even the high-tech means of Sky Eye, which has just begun to be used in cities, has begun to be deployed in the rural areas of Jiaocheng City, including Yangjia Village.

In any village with homestays, whether it is the intersection of county roads, provincial roads, national roads, or the entrances of villages in front, behind, left and right, you can basically see surveillance.

At the same time, during this period at the end of the year, after several dog thieves were arrested and sentenced in succession, the spirit of the entire rural area was lifted again.

This also makes many tourists go to the countryside in batches, regardless of the heavy snow and cold, even at the end of the year. They drive in large numbers to buy New Year's goods that are cheaper and more affordable than those in urban supermarkets.

Some even plan to spend the New Year in the countryside instead of returning to the city. In recent years, many cities have begun to ban the setting off of firecrackers, and even burning paper to worship ancestors must be done in designated places, making the New Year's atmosphere more and more dull, and there is no lively scene in the countryside at all.

However, in the face of such a group of tourists, many villagers who usually run homestays basically do not provide rooms. After all, a family is happy during the New Year, and no one wants to be disturbed by outsiders.

Besides eating, drinking and having fun at the end of the year, people also have to visit relatives at the beginning of the year, and many families go out with their families when they visit relatives. They are not at ease leaving their homes to tourists from other places.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, there are also relatives who come to visit, eat and drink all kinds of food, and some stay overnight after drinking too much, and there are not so many rooms available for tourists.

Therefore, such tourists are all arranged in exclusive courtyards.

This is also a major feature of homestays at present, that is, houses with independent doors and courtyards built in the form of quadrangles on some open spaces in the village are rented out to tourists who want to experience rural life.

These courtyards can be lived in for two or three days like staying in a hotel, or they can be rented for a long time. In addition to the courtyards, you can also rent some fields, and even chicken and duck poultry nests, and you can also raise some chickens and ducks.

Such rural life experience courtyards have been very popular since they were launched, but no one can really live here for a year or two.

After all, everyone is very busy now, and many tourists are very curious about renting for one or two months, and the rural life that originally felt very interesting gradually becomes dull.

If you do something repeatedly, you will go from being excited at the beginning to being normal, and even get bored in the end.

So those tourists who want to rent an independent courtyard for one or two years, after being persuaded to experience the rural life in the courtyard for one or two months, the novelty is over, and they are unwilling to stay in the courtyard.

After all, compared with the various lights, wine, and women and prosperity in big cities, rural life is still too monotonous and simple.

So except for some retired tourists who have nothing to do, most tourists come here to experience it during holidays, and tourists at other times are mainly sightseeing tourists.

Yang Dongxu started to get up when it was just dawn, and Xiao Wenchen, who was originally sleeping soundly, opened his sleepy eyes and climbed up when he heard the noise.

Yang's mother persuaded him to sleep more and didn't stop, and insisted on following his father to the pig farm to catch big pigs.

The pig farm raises pigs here, but no longer slaughters them here, so the two big pigs selected and marked the night before will be pushed onto a cart and pulled to the village entrance for collective slaughter in the early morning.

The pigs raised by the Yang family are basically taken to the slaughterhouse in the city. In the past, they would sell a few pigs to farmers in the surrounding areas who wanted to slaughter pigs at the end of the year, but now they basically don't sell them.

Because now, whether it is Chinese medicine planting or homestay tourism, many people who work outside have returned to the countryside. And in order to entertain guests in the city.

The only thing that can be shown off is the local specialties of the countryside, chicken, duck, fish and meat, so the countryside that used to be home to only the elderly and children all year round because of working outside.

Now the strong laborers in every family are at home, so in addition to raising some chickens and ducks, the originally abandoned pig pens, sheep pens and cow sheds of each family have also begun to have livestock again.

Compared with the past when working outside, when you could only buy pigs to slaughter at the end of the year, you can now raise your own pigs, so there is no need to go to the Yang family pig farm to pick them.

Therefore, except for supplying the pigs raised by the Yang family to their son-in-law's farmhouse, they are all sent to the slaughterhouse in the city and no longer sold to farmers in small quantities.

I got up early this morning to slaughter the pigs, that is, to slaughter the annual pigs of my family.

Every year, the Yang family slaughters two big fat pigs, two to four or five sheep, and some chickens and ducks for the New Year.

And these slaughtered livestock and poultry are not sold outside.

The reason why they slaughter so many but do not sell outside is because they keep them for gifts at the end of the year.

Let’s not talk about anything else. Grandpa Yang Dongxu and his grandpa gave half a pig and a sheep and a few chickens and ducks as gifts before the New Year. In addition, they also sent a few big fish and a few old turtles from their son-in-law Xiaocheng’s farmhouse.

Then, with the seven aunts and eight uncles giving a little more, and grandpa and grandma and uncle’s family, there was less than half of the two pigs left.

There were many people slaughtering pigs today, and they set up five big pots directly. As soon as the sky was light, the firecrackers never stopped. The slaughtering lasted until more than eleven o’clock in the morning, and it was almost noon before it was considered finished.

More than 70% of the residents in Yangjia Village slaughtered pigs. If they didn’t slaughter a pig at the end of the year when life was good, it would be like being half a head shorter than others.

In addition, they had a pig at home, so they didn’t have to spend money or feel bad when slaughtering it, so more people slaughtered pigs at the end of the year.

At the same time, merchants on the street made wishes every year. In addition to burning 100 kilograms of incense, a pig was the minimum standard for fulfilling the wish, so there were more people slaughtering pigs.

Although a lot of pigs were killed, there was not much bloody smell, because the pig blood was used as food in a large basin.

Except for the pig manure when cleaning the large intestine and the pig hair that could not be used, there was no other wasted part of the whole pig.

"That's all. Your sister also sent a lot of sausages and bacon. If we make too much, we can't eat it all. It takes up space to hang it there." Yang Ma waved her hand, signaling Yang Dongxu, who was cutting meat, to stop making sausages.

As food became more and more abundant, people studied more and more delicacies.

Whether it was sausage or blood sausage, although they had existed for a long time, these dishes were not available in Yangjia Village before.

In the past, people were relatively poor, and the meat cut during the New Year was not enough to entertain guests, let alone make bacon and sausage.

In recent years, every household has become wealthy, and pigs are killed at the end of the year, so delicacies such as blood sausage, bacon, and sausage that were not made before have begun to appear on the tables of each family.

This year, the Yang family killed two pigs, five sheep, and a number of chickens and ducks.

Most of the pig blood was made into blood sausage, and two large pots were made. In addition to blood sausage, a meat grinder was also bought to make sausages. Five large pots of pork and mutton sausages were made.

Four pots of pork sausages and one pot of mutton sausages. The pig intestines at home were not enough, so I spent money to buy a few more pig intestines, but the seller refused to accept the money, so I could only give him one of the sausages I made later.

If the pig stomach and mutton stomach were not prepared for hot pot, I would probably have to make some tripe meat.

"If you don't make sausages, lend me the meat grinder." The general with a cigarette in his mouth came over from nowhere.

While saying this, he distributed cigarettes to Yang Dongxu, Yang's father and others.

Killing pigs and making sausages, the Yang family joined the battle, grandparents and uncle's family came, plus the nearby villagers, and basically a pack of cigarettes was gone after distributing cigarettes.

"Come and help you carry it." Yang Dongxu lit the cigarette and held it in his mouth. He usually doesn't smoke.

However, when he returned to the countryside at the end of the year, he would accept any cigarettes offered to him, and he would also have cigarettes in his pocket. When he met people, he would greet them and give them cigarettes, and then smoke one.

"No, no, I can carry this thing weighing dozens of kilograms by myself." The general lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, his eyes narrowed by the smoke, and he said, "Are you free tonight? Come to my house for a drink."

"Come to my house. My mother lives in the old courtyard all year round and helps clean it. There are not many people there. I will say hello to Xiaowu and a few others, bring my wife and children, and open two or three tables to warm up the house in the evening." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, the house is too big and I haven't lived in it for a long time. , Even if I suddenly move in, it always feels too cool.

Invite a group of friends to open a few tables, a group of children chattering and running around in the house, and instantly feel a different kind of warmth in the house, and it is very comfortable to live in.

The old people call this popularity!

"Okay, I'll go to the greenhouse tonight." The general teased, "Auntie, I want to eat mutton sausage tonight, please cook more."

"Okay, prepare more tonight, or you can take some back?"

"No need, just eat it, it's too much to eat and take it." The general smiled and shook his head, moving the meat grinder to the other side, where his pig had just come out of the hair removal pot and was scraped very clean, ready to be gutted.

"Why didn't the general's mother-in-law come today?" Yang Dongxu asked a little strangely after taking a look at the general's house.

Now the general's wife and children have given birth. Although the family of the mother-in-law is not as noisy as before the marriage, every year in Yangjia Village, pigs are slaughtered after the end of the year after the Kitchen God Festival.

His father-in-law and mother-in-law don't need the general, the son-in-law, to deliver the New Year gifts at this time. It's like bringing free New Year goods, and all kinds of things can be piled up in a car.

The general's family slaughtered a pig and didn't bring it in, and the mother-in-law's family would take half of it.

This incident is unique and well-known in the entire Yangjia Village, or in the surrounding area.