Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

After Wang Jianjun left, the people in the logistics department felt a little overwhelmed looking at the two wild boars.

Live chickens and rabbits are easy to handle.

Just find a cage, put it in there, and feed it some food.

Wild boars are a bit difficult to deal with.

The meat processing plant usually delivers pork that has been slaughtered.

This is the first time they have encountered a living person.

It's impossible to send wild boars to a meat processing plant for slaughter.

Nowadays, all the butchers go to work in meat processing factories.

There is no place to find someone to slaughter the pigs for the time being.

It is said that the best way to solve a problem is to push it onto others.

In the end, the job of slaughtering the pig was assigned to the canteen kitchen by the logistics staff.

After all, the canteen is under the management of logistics.

After the task was assigned, the canteen found a few chefs with butchering experience to do the job.

And among them just happened to be Shazhu.

Sha Zhu used to be an apprentice in Fengze Garden, and slaughtering pigs and sheep were just basic skills for him.

Of course, these masters do not work for nothing.

The canteen director applied for some pig offal as welfare for them.

The two wild boars were kept in a warehouse and starved for a night to clean their stomachs before being slaughtered the next day.

Although he didn't get any meat, it was good to get some offal, because Shazhu often boasted about it in the kitchen.

Several butchers made an agreement that the offal would be cooked directly in the kitchen and shared among everyone to take home, which saved time and effort.

As the most skilled chef in the steel rolling mill, Sha Zhu is naturally the one who is in charge of preparing the braised dish.

The news that the steel mill had brought two wild boars spread quickly.

After hearing the news, the workers even looked forward to getting some meat the next day.

There were many people working in the steel rolling mill in the courtyard. When they saw Sha Zhu coming back, they surrounded him and asked him if he would have meat to eat the next day.

"What are you thinking? There are only two wild boars. There are thousands of people in the factory, and it's not enough for everyone to share. These two wild boars are for entertaining Soviet experts."

Everyone felt disappointed when they heard this.

"No, Silly Zhu, I heard people say that your wild boar has a share in your kitchen."

Some well-informed workers raised questions.

"What do you know? Tomorrow, several chefs in our kitchen will be in charge of slaughtering the pigs. We work so hard for half a day and only get some pig offal."

When everyone heard this, they fell silent.

When slaughtering a pig in the countryside, in addition to the wages, the butcher must also be given a piece of good meat.

It's only right for Shazhu to take some pig offal.

Seeing that there was no chance to eat meat, everyone lost interest and dispersed to their homes.

The next day, Sha Zhu came to the factory early.

A piece of land was specially cleared near the canteen for slaughtering pigs.

With the cooperation of everyone, the limbs of the two wild boars were fixed to the chopping board with ropes, and they struggled and let out shrill roars.

The person who did it was Sha Zhu.

He picked up a long knife and stabbed it into the wild boar's carotid artery.

The pig's blood gushed out directly into the wooden basin prepared in advance on the ground.

The blood was not wasted and was made into blood tofu for cooking.

After the bleeding stopped for four or five minutes, I started shaving.

The water had already been boiled in the canteen. The chefs skillfully poured the hot water on the dead pig, then picked up a sharp knife and began to shave the hair.

The last step is to chop off the head, gut the pig, remove the water, and then cut the pork into parts.

The two pig heads will be braised later as a snack for the leaders in the evening.

Keep a portion of the pork and send the rest to the freezer.

The more popular pig offal such as pig heart, pig liver, pig stomach and pig kidney are cleaned and put aside.

Especially the pig kidneys, which are placed separately together with pig penis and pig testicles.

These mysterious parts were divided up by several factory leaders yesterday.

It was also difficult for the logistics warehouse director. Every leader informed him privately and asked him to keep some good things for his health.

Those are the only things on wild boars that can nourish the body.

Although wild boar meat is not popular, they are still eager to eat things like pig kidneys, no matter how strong the taste is.

I don't know who told me that these things from wild boars are more effective.

They all came to him to ask for it.

But there is not enough to share with such a small amount.

The warehouse manager really wished that the wild boar had a few more whips and balls.

In the end, they had no choice but to cut these parts again, so that although the amount was small, everyone could get a little.

After distributing the food, the remaining pig lungs and intestines were considered a benefit for the chefs.

Sha Zhu has to be the chef for making the braised pork, because he is the best chef in the factory.

Sha Zhu took over the job without hesitation and started working directly in the kitchen.

When it comes to Sha Zhu's cooking skills, there's nothing to say about it.

At lunch time, everyone who was getting their meals in Shazhu's cafeteria could smell the rich aroma of braised pork coming from the kitchen.

Everyone was sniffing hard in the cafeteria, but when they got their food, they only saw radishes and cabbages without any meat at all.

Some workers with bad tempers directly started arguing with the chef who was serving the food.

It was only after Liu Lan came out to explain that the situation was stopped.

But the workers still refused to give in.

It is said that the problem is not the scarcity of wealth but the inequality of distribution of wealth.

You cooks eat the meat while we workers can't even have a sip of soup.

We are all noble workers, why do you kitchen staff have special privileges?

In the end, the canteen director had to come out to mediate the matter.

But the director had no other choice. He couldn’t ask him to create meat out of thin air.

Fortunately, this month's meat has been delivered from the meat processing plant.

The canteen director finally emphasized that the factory would arrange for people to eat meat in two days, and then everyone dispersed.

After wiping his sweat off, the canteen director went to the kitchen to find Sha Zhu and told him about what happened.

This incident was caused by Sha Zhu's unauthorized use of the kitchen to cook.

Strictly speaking, this is against the rules, but as long as Shazhu apologizes, it's fine.

But Shazhu has a stubborn temper.

After being told this by his leader, he immediately retorted.

The canteen director was unhappy about being humiliated.

There was nothing he could do, so he just kept this in mind.

Aren’t you a capable person, Shazhu? Then don’t blame me for making things difficult for you during the work-level assessment.

Sha Zhu didn't know that his words had brought him into trouble again.

After a pot of braised pork was cooked, he, who had done the most work today, filled two lunch boxes with the braised pork first.

As for the rest, they were shared among the other chefs and kitchen helpers, and each of them could get a box of offal.

This was what everyone had agreed on in advance, and no one had any objections.

Sha Zhu packed his two lunch boxes and prepared to take them back to his sister He Yushui as a snack in the evening.

Today is Friday, He Yushui will come back in the evening to have dinner and get some living expenses.

There was no entertainment in the evening, so Shazhu went home at a normal time this time.

He Yushui's school is quite far away, so she hadn't returned home when Sha Zhu came back.

Sha Zhu first took part of the two boxes of stewed food and sent them to the deaf old lady in the backyard. Before leaving, Bang Geng was worried and took the rest of the lunch box with him.

After he came back, he heated up the remaining stew and started kneading the dough to make steamed corn bread.