"Prose" pig, a selfless hero all his life.

[Prose] Pig, a selfless hero all his life

Author: nongyan

Grandparents often say: "Pigs are the treasure of the family, and fat meat is the gold in the field."

I believe many people are familiar with the pig. It has a face with ravines, two big ears like cattail fans, a long mouth like scissors, two nostrils like pipes, four short hooves and legs, and a big belly. It may be ugly, but as a rural farmer, it is complete to have pigs; Maybe it's stupid, but it's related to people's livelihood and also incites the leverage of the private economy.

Farmers have been raising pigs since ancient times. I have watched my grandparents raise pigs since I was a child, and I have raised pigs since I got married, so I am familiar with pigs. In my grandparents' time, the life of farmers was simple, so the life of pigs was simpler. In addition to eating bran three times a day, sometimes you can't eat all the bran, so you can only eat green feed such as grass, tender leaves and rattan leaves to fill your stomach. However, pigs never feel cold at home. Just take a bite and it will give you a cash cow.

I remember my grandfather bought a black sow from the market town, wiped his sweat and said, "This little pig weighs more than 20 kilograms, which is not big, but it will definitely grow fast in the future!" Grandma said, "Be young and spend less. Be a sow with piglets when she grows up. "As a piglet who has just been weaned and still lives happily under the care of maternal love, I am a little unaccustomed to a strange new home at once. I can't see mother pig, and I don't have any brothers and sisters to play with me. When I am lonely, I lie on the grass and sleep, sucking my mouth in my dream and thinking about the sweet milk of mother pig! But what makes it depressed is, why does the owner buy it? After being angry for three days and hungry for three days, the pig could not compete with hunger after all and began to stand up and look for food to satisfy his hunger. Suddenly, I heard a familiar cry of "Aunt Luo Yi", jumped up and instinctively ran to the food basin next to the fence. The pig is still young. This is its first lunch in its new home. Grandma added some barley flour to the feed. He thought lunch was so delicious that he swallowed it without looking up. After a while, he ate brightly in the basin and his stomach was round. When it licked its mouth and remembered this, it remembered to look up at grandma and wag its tail to thank the new owner. Grandma looked at the cute appearance of the pig and was overjoyed.

As the days passed, it gradually adapted to the new home environment. From the moment it first entered the door, the young pig has grown into a black sow. One day, he suddenly lost his appetite. He kept walking around the pigsty and couldn't sleep well. Sometimes the pig's ass sticks to the wall like a tickle. My grandmother has been raising pigs for many years and is familiar with their living habits and even physiological phenomena. I know quite well when I see the abnormal behavior of a sow, which is a reaction of a sow's sexual germination after maturity. If it doesn't match, the desire to miss your lover will become stronger and stronger. Besides, my grandmother still has the idea of letting it have piglets. The next day, my grandmother contacted a healthy white pig couple for it. Come all the way to meet each other. They didn't feel shy on the day they met. They sang songs from mouth to mouth, communicated in each other's language, and gradually became intimate. They embraced in the presence of their grandmother. ...

The couple reluctantly left, and the sow in the spring breeze recovered its former calm. After pregnancy, my appetite increased greatly. My grandmother knew she was pregnant with piglets, and she thought there would be at least five or six piglets in her first child. A few months later, my stomach was big and my waist was round, making it difficult to move. Sometimes it is obvious that the pig in the belly is moving and often has a straw in its mouth. According to these conditions, it is judged that the sow is about to give birth. So grandma brought a straw from the haystack and made a comfortable and warm maternity bed for it.

It was a bright night in a month, and the sow ate the last bite of feed in the feeding basin and slowly lay on the straw. At this time, grandma brought a kerosene lamp from home, quietly guarding it, always ready to deliver the baby. It may be the first time to have a baby, which is a difficult process for it. After a period of pain, the first pig was finally born. Grandma grabbed the pig with one hand, wiped the transparent mucosa with a rag with the other hand, and then put it in her mother's arms. One, two ... no more, no less, just six pigs. At midnight, the sows that have given birth look exhausted. Grandma comfortingly touched the sow's stomach, so tired that she couldn't hold back, but she enjoyed it. When she left, grandma also checked whether there was milk in each nipple of the sow one by one, caring about the great events of the growth of the piglets.

If you have a pig, you will be a maternal pig mother. Lying next to a litter of piglets after every meal during lactation, piglets can't wait to find their nipples and supply them as needed. However, after drinking the milk, the big piglet grabbed the milk of other piglets first and arched on his mother's stomach crazily. The situation was a bit chaotic, so mother pig simply stood up and punished them for not feeding. However, a litter of pigs was noisy and followed with their nipples pinched, which made it fidgety and had to lie down again and let it flutter.

The pig grew up quickly and its teeth fell out. Sows are weaned gradually. When it's time to eat low, it's time to sell. It was a sunny morning, and grandma put porridge and vegetable leaves in the pig's trough, which aroused the appetite of the pigs. After a while, everyone was hungry, but I knew it was their parting breakfast. After eating, my grandfather went into the pigsty and caught a pig. The pig suddenly cried out with a "wow", and four paws kicked around and pulled a bubble of shit and urine. Mother pig doesn't know what's going on, and she hums loudly to show protection and protest. The grandmother on the side quickly tied the pig's four legs with two short ropes and put them in the laundry basket.

For the first time, I sold four pieces first, and Zhuang Dad went to the market town to catch the morning market with a laundry list. After coming back, grandma bought some daily necessities and fried dough sticks with the money from selling pigs. At this point, I have a deeper understanding of pigs-pigs can give birth to piglets and piglets can sell money.

There is no denying that sow is the hero of the family. In the next few years, it gave birth to several piglets in succession, and made a lot of money for the family, not only supporting the daily expenses of the family, but also subsidizing my tuition and clothes.

However, every litter of piglets suffers, especially once pregnant. Once full of vitality, she has now become a bloated old sow, unable to walk, with drooping ears, dull eyes, sunken back, thin skin and soft belly. When walking, her nipples rub against the ground, but as a conscientious sow, she has exhausted her life's energy without complaint and regret.

Raising pigs is not only for civilian use, but also a processing plant for farm organic fertilizer.

Mom and dad also raise pigs, which are fat pigs. Father transformed the original humble pigsty, dug an open-air pigsty pond in front of the hut where pigs slept, and built a wall with bricks, which was strong and not easy to collapse, and could raise two fat pigs at a time. That huge belly is like two big pockets. There's nothing I can do. No matter how big it is, it's just three meals a day. In order to ensure that pigs grow fat, I often cut grass on the embankment with bamboo baskets for pigs to eat; Grandma sometimes cuts sweet potato vines from vegetable fields, which can be used to fill pigs' stomachs and accumulate fat; When my father came back from the field, he put down his shoulder pole and forgot to take a sip of water. He took a shovel, picked up a dung dustpan, shoveled turf on the ridge, poured it into the pigsty pond, and then dusted himself into the house.

At this time, the pig kicked while eating and chewed a mouthful of green. The long pig nose is like a plow share, constantly ploughing and mixing pig excrement, soil and grass stalks together. After exposure to rain and sunshine, it is fermented into natural organic fertilizer, and a pigsty pond is full, and the thick fat smell permeates the whole pigsty. After harvesting wheat in summer, my father used a wheelbarrow to transport a pond of pig manure to the wheat field. After the fertility is mixed with the soil, the crops get continuous support from the roots. Perhaps these organic fertilizers can't increase the grain yield for the time being, which is not as obvious as applying chemical fertilizers, but the fertilizers accumulated by pigs not only save money but also enrich the soil, and the grown grain is pure and pollution-free.

Where there are pigs, there is meat, and the days when there is meat are delicious.

When the pig enters the kitchen from the fence, it turns life into magic and cooks many delicious dishes. The lion's head with a long history is a famous dish in Yangzhou, also called sunflower chop meat. In the Tang Dynasty, Qi Huangong gave a banquet, and when he was happy, he praised the sunflower minced meat for its delicious taste. The huge meatball is as delicate as a lion's head, so it was renamed "lion's head". Since then, this well-known dish has been on the elegant stage from the beginning, and its reputation is far-reaching at home and abroad. I have to say that pigs add a charm to Yangzhou cuisine. Pigs become substances, substances become commodities, and commodities create wealth. While providing delicious food and nutrition, it has shared prosperity with merchants and pulled an economic chain. Farmers have a good life, and the contribution of pigs is indelible!

A house and a tapir are home. Pigs thrive and piglets are happy, so rural people worship a pig as a mascot. Pigs are indispensable for any happy event in the village, such as a daughter's wedding, a child's full moon birthday and an old man's birthday. There must be pig's head, pig's whip and pig's trotters on the box, which means happiness, having many children and grandchildren, and being the champion. At the banquet, there are lion's head, braised pork, boiled pig's trotters, braised pig's trotters and tripe soup.

Pigs are also a sign to measure the index of happy life. If you have money, you can kill pigs for the New Year. This is the custom of rural farmers, who are busy all year round, eating meat in large pieces and drinking in large cups for family reunion on holidays, enriching the dining table and strengthening the flavor of the year.

Actually, pigs and people live in the same world. Although there is no great wisdom, it has provided nutrition for human beings, stimulated economic development, made all contributions, knocked on the door of happiness for the people and made Hummer contributions.

Although life is short, the cost of dedication is higher. Pigs are selfless heroes all their lives!

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