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Life in Chang'an Chapter 58 Killing Pigs and Eating Meat

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    When Lao Wuyi saw Li Min coming in, he was frightened and hurriedly threw away the knife in his hand. He ran to Li Min to plead guilty, saying that he should not have bumped into the prince. Judging from his appearance, he was probably very frightened. Who could  I didn't expect Li Min to come in at this time.

    "I said, Lao Wu, what are you doing? The knife you sharpened doesn't seem to be a cooking knife?" Li Min calmed down. As long as he is not rebelling, it will be fine. He did not bring any guards in the house. If it is true,  Surrounded by these chefs who play with knives every day, it will probably turn into a pile of good pork belly in the blink of an eye.

    "Your Highness, today is the day for meat in the house. I bought a few pigs and was planning to sharpen my knife and kill them. I didn't expect that I bumped into the prince and your highnesses. Please forgive me!" Lao Wu said with a wry smile.  The food for the servants of the palace is still good, and they are required to eat meat once every half month. However, after the economic situation of the palace has improved recently, Gao Zhong, the head of the palace's internal affairs, has asked people to eat meat once every ten days as a reward for the servants. Today  It happened to be a meat-free day.

    "Oh, that's it." Li Min also knew that the palace had such a rule, "Okay, get up and leave the pig killing to others. I have some dishes for you to cook."

    "Brother Six, is it fun to kill pigs?" Before Lao Wu stood up, Si Zi next to him pulled Li Min's sleeve and asked.

    "Huh~?" Li was stunned for a moment, looked at Si Zi, and found that the little girl had a curious look on her face, as if she had some bad intentions.

    "Sizi, killing pigs is not fun. Those pigs are ugly and dirty, and their screams are unpleasant. When they are slaughtered, they are bloody and bloody. It will give you nightmares when you look at them." Qinghe also knows Sizi's character well and knows that this little pig  The girl was curious about everything and was afraid that she really wanted to see some pig slaughtering, so she immediately tried to dispel her idea.

    "Butbut Sizi really wants to see it. I have never seen what a pig looks like." Sizi said pitifully.  The meat of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty was generally mutton, and they also ate more venison, but they rarely ate pork. This may be because the appearance of pigs is really unflattering, and they like to roll in the mud, so they have always been favored by the nobles.  It is regarded as a vulgar and dirty thing, and its meat is not even bothered to be eaten. Therefore, the main consumer groups of pork are generally ordinary people and the large servant class.  As the most noble princess of the Tang Dynasty, it was of course impossible for Sizi to have ever eaten pork. She even learned about pigs from the palace's mouth.

    "This" Li Min hesitated for a moment and was about to give up the idea of ??Si Zi, but then suddenly there was a loud howling of pigs from the yard opposite the big kitchen. It was probably that the pigs waiting to be slaughtered also realized that they were in a bad situation and began to  In the last moments of the pig's life, he howled to express his protest against this unfair world.

    It was the first time he heard such a miserable sound of pig killing, but Sizi seemed very excited. He no longer cared about whether Li Min agreed or not. He ran a few steps and rushed to the yard of the big kitchen. There was only a gap between the two kitchens.  The courtyard wall also had a corner door open for easy passage. By the time Qinghe realized what he was doing and wanted to stop him, Sizi had already run through the corner door.

    "Forget it, let's go together, don't scare Si Zi." Li Min said helplessly. He often saw pig killings in his previous life when he was a child. There was a special pig killing machine in the small village where his grandfather lived.  The butcher will attract a group of children to watch every time he kills a pig, and no matter how many times he watches it, he will never get tired of it, and he will still run to watch it excitedly next time.

    Turning around the corner door between the two kitchens, everyone was surprised by the lively scene that greeted them. They saw several stone platforms specially used for slaughtering livestock set up in the yard. Each stone platform was tied with ropes.  There was a big, fat black pig, and there were several people beside it who were responsible for holding the fat pig down to prevent them from breaking away from the rope.  The screams of the fat pigs and the shouts of people were so loud that it made people's ears hurt.

    Compared with the cleanliness and tidiness of the small kitchen, the large kitchen is not so particular. The ground is full of potholes and there is dirty water in some places. Sizi is standing on tiptoes on a high ground, stretching his neck to look at it curiously.  Pig on the stone platform.  Li Min took a few steps and picked up Si Zi, firstly so that she could see more clearly, and secondly so that when she got scared, she could at least hide in his arms.

    "Your Highness, is thisthis pig still being killed?" Lao Wu also followed in and asked cautiously. Li Zhi and Lao Wu all knew each other, and they were afraid that the bloody scene of killing pigs would scare some of their highnesses.

    "It's okay, just do whatever you want." Li Min said this and turned to Li Zhi and said, "If you are afraid, just go out and wait. I will take care of Sizi."

    "Tch~, Sixth Brother, you underestimate us too much. Last time I went hunting, I shot a deer myself!" Gao Yang first shouted dissatisfied. Li Shimin likes hunting, except for some regular and large-scale hunting.  In addition to field hunting, some small-scale hunting is also held from time to time, and there are alsoHe likes to invite all his sons, daughters and ministers to compete together. I guess Gao Yang is the deer he shot when he went with Li Shimin last time.

    "Oh? I didn't expect our Gao Yang to be a goddess archer!" Li Min said with a smile. He had forgotten that this was in the Tang Dynasty. It was not like in later generations. When a grown man reaches more than 20 years old, he may not even have a chicken.  I have never killed one before, but here, a **-year-old little princess has already slaughtered wild animals with her own hands.

    At this moment, Lao Wu's side was ready. First, a tall and strong guy came out of each stone platform, holding a stick with an iron hoop on one end. He swung it and hit the pig behind the ear.  The man knocked the pig unconscious, and then another person took a cow-ear sharp knife and stabbed it in the pig's neck very skillfully. When the knife was pulled away, dark red pig blood immediately flowed out, and there was a basin underneath.  At this time, the pig was also awakened by the severe pain, and began to struggle and howl desperately. However, the people around him pinned it to the stone platform and could not struggle away at all. As more and more blood flowed out, the pig's howl also became louder.  It slowly weakened, and then slowly only the dying moans were left.

    When she saw this, Sizi was so scared that she covered her eyes with her hands. After all, the scene in front of her was still too bloody for her. However, the child's curiosity made her a little unwilling. After a while,  Yes, he opened a gap with his fingers and looked out secretly with his big eyes.

    After all the blood was drained, the pig was completely dead. The people around the stone platform lifted the pig and threw it into a large pot of boiling water. After a while, they lifted it out again, then blew it, shed its hair, and finally put it into the pig's head.  The boiled rosin was poured onto the pig, and some of the hair that could not be scraped off was just stuck off. The shed pig was no longer as dirty as before, but became white and fat, and even looked a little cute.

    But what happened after that was not cute. The next step was to disembowel them. Li Zhi and the others immediately died. Although they had shot many small animals to death, it was still the first time they saw the colorful intestines and internal organs flowing all over the floor.  Once, everyone said they couldn't stand it anymore, and ran out after a while covering their mouths, while Si Zi, as expected, got into Li Min's arms and acted like an ostrich.

    Li Min was fine. He was used to seeing it before. Even looking at the pieces of pork that had been divided into pieces, he started to drool. This was not because Li Min was abnormal, but because he remembered that he had not eaten pork for a long time.  Now, thinking of the fat but not greasy braised pork; the sweet and sour sweet and sour pork; the sweet and sour pork, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and other delicacies, Li Min's glutton was hooked again, and he didn't care anymore.  Regardless of his identity, he called Lao Wu to give some instructions. Without waiting for the embarrassed Lao Wu to object, he took Si Zi to the small kitchen.

    As a person who loves to eat, Li Min of course attaches great importance to the kitchen. Now the small kitchen is painted with cement inside and outside, and Li Min also ordered a batch of porcelain tiles, which have been pasted in the kitchen.  In addition, the internal layout has also been changed under Li Min's personal guidance, so now the interior of the small kitchen is almost the same as the kitchens of later large hotels. The chefs and helpers inside are all dressed in white chef uniforms and wearing high hats.  There is a strict division of labor in every step of the operation, and hygiene is the focus that Li Min asked Lao Wu to pay close attention to, so the whole kitchen feels quite neat and clean.

    As soon as Li Zhi and the others came in, they were immediately shocked by this modern kitchen. Although they had not eaten the delicious food yet, seeing such a neat and orderly kitchen made them look forward to it.  The cooks all knew Li Min, and they all saluted when they saw him coming in. Li Min nodded with satisfaction.

    After a while, Lao Wu also came back, carrying some things in his hand. Li Min's sharp eyes immediately recognized that among them were fine pork belly and tenderloin, as well as two pig feet and several pieces of pork.  Skin.

    Li Min has also chosen the ingredients for Li Zhi and the others. As a carnivore, Li Min has never cared much about vegetables, so Lao Wu orders the vegetarian dishes himself, and he mainly chooses duck meat.  And fish meat, this is mainly to take care of Si Zi. Let¡¯s not talk about duck meat. Sun Simiao personally recommended it. The fish meat is Li Min¡¯s own decision. After all, it is always right for children to eat some fish, which can promote intellectual development.

    Duck Li Min asked Lao Wu to make three cups of duck, crispy duck and iced plum duck. In addition, he also made the Lao duck soup for noon because Si Zi likes to drink it.  Li Min didn't like to eat fish in his previous life, so he didn't know much about how to cook fish, so he made a few dishes here and there. One was the fish head tofu that Li Min had eaten before, and the other was sweet and sour Yellow River carp.  Authentic Yellow River carp, Li Min specially ordered Lao Wu to buy it on the edge of the Yellow River. The last one is Dao fish balls. According to the later Fuzhou fish ball method, it is made of fish meat and flour as the skin, and shrimp meat is wrapped inside. It is bigger than Si Zi's.  The fist is even bigger.

    After giving these instructions, Li Min went behind Li Zhi's back and told Lao Wu how to make pork and pig's feet. Then he left the kitchen and waited in the front hall for a while. The dishes prepared in the kitchen were served one after another.  This time, Li Min specifically ordered it to be held like a formal banquet.There is a separate meal system, and each person has a snack table. The dishes on Li Zhi's and others' tables are all the same, but Li Min's is different.

    Except for a few similar vegetarian dishes, the meat dishes on Li Min's table are not fish and mutton, but the pork he asked Lao Wu to prepare just now. The dishes are very simple, only braised pork, sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour pork loin and stuffed pork  There are four kinds of feet, and there is also a pig skin jelly made from pig skin, mixed with vinegar and garlic juice. These were Li Min's favorite dishes in his previous life.

    After everyone sat down, Li Ming said with a smile: "Come on, let's try the food cooked by Brother Six. How do you like it?" After saying that, he didn't care about Li Zhi and the others, and he took a piece of braised pork with an attractive red color and threw it away.  When it comes to your mouth, you will definitely feel that it was made by Lao Wu himself. Although it is the first time to make this dish, it has already cooked the characteristics of braised pork that is fat but not greasy, and is soft and melts in the mouth.

    "Hey, Brother Six, why is your food different from ours?" Li Zhi took a few bites of the food and found that it was really delicious. However, he accidentally glanced at Li Min's table and discovered a problem, so he asked  road.  When Qinghe and the others heard this, they all noticed this problem and looked at Li Min with doubtful eyes.

    "Hmm~, is this a problem?" Li Min had already thought of a countermeasure in his mind, and he deliberately hesitated and replied with a sad face: "Oh, actually you don't know, Brother Six and I have some physical problems during this time.  The doctor gave me a strange prescription, asking me to eat more pork during this period, but you must not spread the word, otherwise others will laugh at Brother Six."

    "Brother Six, are you sick? Is it serious?" When Sizi heard that Li Min had a physical problem, he immediately dropped his chopsticks and ran to him with a concerned look on his face.  Qinghe and Gao Yang both looked suspicious. Although they felt that Sixth Brother's words were a bit suspicious, they could not find any obvious doubts. After all, in their perception, Li Min would not eat it if he was not forced to do so.  Pork that only servants eat.

    "Don't worry, Sizi. Sixth Brother's illness is not serious. He just sometimes experiences increased salivation, restlessness, and a little carelessness in doing things. It is probably the sequelae of the last injury." Li Min patted Sizi's head and said with a smile.  , what he said was all the truth, salivation increased and his mind became restless, which is the reaction of any person when he is greedy.

    "Eh? Brother Six, this pork is so delicious. Can you try it?" The little girl suddenly sniffed and asked, staring at the braised pork on the table with a greedy look on her face.  This is all because Lao Wu did it so well. The alluring aroma immediately hooked Si Zi.

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