After get off work, I went to the supermarket to buy vegetables. Because the "mask" is a little nervous now, I thought about stocking up some meat for the refrigerator. But when I saw that the pork on the counter was almost not fat and looked dry, I was very disliked! In an instant, the black-haired pig in the pig farm, and the pork fan hanging on the hook, which was oily and fat and greasy~
1. Pig farm
After moving from the Foreign Trade Bureau to his new home, there was a pig farm located across the wall from the opposite side of the yard. Standing on the balcony on the third floor, you can see the panoramic view of the pig farm. The pig house is very neat, and each row has more than a dozen rooms.
Every time we reach the feeding point, the staff will open the door of the pig house, and a group of black-haired pigs suddenly slapped their ears and ran to eat.
At that time, the growth cycle of black-haired pigs was much longer than that of today's pigs, so the meat was also fresher and more fragrant. When I was a child, my grandparents, uncles and aunts also raised pigs at home, and the piglets basically had to be fed for one year or longer before they could be slaughtered.
Nowadays, white-haired pigs have become a delicious food on people's dining tables in a few months. Because of their short growth cycle, the pork has no oil and does not taste as much as the pork aroma as I did when I was a child.
In that era, people usually eat meat, refining fat, fried lean meat, and marinating it in a lard jar. If there is no jar, they will take a covered enamel basin. Dig a small spoonful of oil and meat for each meal, and a pot of (jar) of oil can be eaten for several months.
The biggest advantage of living opposite the pig farm is that you can’t eat pork every day, but you can watch the pigs run. To be honest, the scene of the pigs having a meal is quite spectacular.
2. Tofu Floor
It is really bad to say that living opposite the pig farm, just watching the pig run and can't eat pork, but another kind of delicacy in the pig farm directly makes up for this regret.
Since my grandfather’s generation, my family likes to eat tofu. In the countryside, every year during the Chinese New Year, my grandfather’s house will make a pot of tofu, which can be eaten until the spring of the coming year. In the city, I can’t remember how to buy tofu before 1980, but since moving, the tofu in the pig farm tofu shop has been very fresh and fragrant.
The tofu shop should be privately contracted, because no matter how much you buy, it will be worth it to you at a wholesale price. In my memory, it seems that it is just over a cent and ordering a pound, which is much cheaper than the market price at that time. Let’s look at the current tofu for about three or five yuan, and it has increased by more than 30 times in 40 years.
How did the old father discover that the tofu shop was nowhere to be asked, but I clearly remember every pattern and mark on the large and deep enamel plate.
For a long time, my brother and I would take it to the pig farm to buy tofu from time to time. Moreover, we would choose two pieces of horns (the corners are pressed more on the porcelain, and there is less moisture). Often, my brother and I wouldn't help but bite off the two pieces of horns on the way.
At that time, people just entered the 1980s, and people were not rich. The three meals a day were potatoes, cabbage, radish ate in different ways. Occasionally, when stewing vegetables, scoop a spoonful of lard, put a handful of dried powder, and then make a layer of tofu on top, sprinkle some scallions of scallions and coriander when it comes out of the pot (some people will also apply some black sauce ), that is the absolute beauty of the times Taste ~
3.Prlanica
Now I think about it, there is another advantage in living next door to the pig farm back then, that is, you can eat delicious wild vegetables. Now bitter vegetable and other products have become the first choice for people to eat healthy food. However, when we were young, we went to the pig farm to dig out tacit vegetable in spring and purslane in summer, which was really what we used for the current food.
When I was a child, I didn’t know much about chicory and sweet chard (bitter vegetable). I couldn’t eat any vegetables I often dug home.However, purslane is easy to identify. At that time, the locals rarely eat purslane, and we didn't recognize it, and we didn't even know that this kind of creeping leaves could still be eaten.
At that time, an aunt who spoke Mandarin in the yard shared with us this wild vegetable. One day at noon, several people in the yard saw this aunt digging wild vegetables in the pig farm yard on the balcony. When she saw that she came back, she got purslane. After asking, she realized that she could eat it.
Later we also dug a lot to go home, but we always feel that its sticky taste is not as sticky as bitter vegetables. Now people are purslane, and purslane is already a special health dish on the table (it is said to lower blood lipids, blood pressure, , but it is said that it has not been personally verified).
4. Sawla ancient
We were all wild when we were young. As soon as the children in the yard gathered in the pig farm to play, because there were grass, trees and wild flowers. I don’t know who was the one who took the lead, so I took two wooden sticks into the wet soil, rubbed them up and down hard and made a sound and vibration. Soon a pile of alarmed bugs would pop out of the soil, and the boys called it “Lagu (sound)”.
The bug is flat and has a pair of long and hard-looking tentacles on its head, like a radio antenna on the back of a transmitter. At that time, we were all happy with Sawlagu. As for Sawlagu's purpose, I still don't know. Maybe it's just a boring game for children.
Many of us born in the 1970s almost mingle in the soil and sand when we were young, or in the rivers and mountains. Unlike the children nowadays, sometimes they can not go out for a day by playing with their mobile phones. In this era when only eating pork but not seeing pigs run, children have lost too much childhood fun.
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PS: I remember when I was back in high school, my father cut a big piece of pork. My grandmother asked me to cut a piece and said I wanted to steam the buns. After cutting the large pieces of meat filling, my hands, kitchen knives, and chopping board were covered with raw lard. The scene was hard to see now, and the aroma of pork was difficult to eat again.
PS again: Although the double reduction is now, I feel that the children are still busy making up for the lessons. They started to take the exam from kindergarten class, and went all the exam until high school and university, and started working~ The game of Saw La Gu when we were young is probably going to be lost~
