Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 602 Slaughtering sheep

I dragged the sheep back to the back door of the restaurant, and threw it directly on the snow field at the back door. No matter how the sheep struggled, the rope that Jian Heng put on its legs could only be tightened and could not be loosened. The lamb seemed to realize that he Today my life is over, so I kept bleating at the top of my throat.

  The cry of the sheep attracted Zhao Wei out, and when he opened the door, he almost bumped into Jian Heng.

   "Boss, what are you doing?".

   As soon as the words came out, he saw the sheep on the snow, and He Ye and Wu Yong who were standing beside them smiling and watching the excitement. Zhao Weiquan understood: "It turns out that there are guests at home who are going to slaughter the sheep."

   "That's right! I'll go into the house to get the knife," Jian Heng said.

   Zhao Wei heard this and said: "You wait here, I'll come!"

   Without waiting for Jian Heng to answer, Zhao Wei turned around and entered the back kitchen of the restaurant. Jian Heng heard what Zhao Ge said, turned around and walked to the side of the lamb, looking at the lamb struggling on the ground.

   "You are unlucky today, who made you look the best?" Jian Heng laughed.

   He Ye heard this and said, "It's a crime to look good!"

   "Well, that's not true. If a person looks good, that's another thing. If an animal looks so good-looking, isn't it just asking for fun?" Wu Yong laughed.

   At this time, Zhao Wei came out with a sharp knife and a stainless steel basin.

  He Ye knew what to do with a knife, but he didn't know what to do with a basin, so he opened his mouth and asked, "What's the use of this basin?"

"Take the sheep's blood, and I'll leave it to you to make sheep's blood tofu, or just cook the sheep's blood with scallions. It will taste good. If you can't put it in a hot pot, it's also a good way to scald it," Zhao Wei explained. Put the tools in your hands under the steps of the back porch shelf.

   "Big bosses, can someone help me?" Zhao Wei said.

Jian Heng knew what to do, so he directly pulled the sheep's hind legs, and together with Zhao Wei who was pulling the sheep's front legs, put the sheep on the steps of the corridor frame, so that the sheep and the basin below were about 30 to 40 centimeters apart. gap.

   "Hold it!" Zhao Wei said.

  Jian Heng nodded his head here, indicating that he has no problem.

  Seeing that the two were busy, He Ye and Wu Yong seemed to feel that it would not be a problem for them to stand and watch, so they both stepped forward, trying to help Jian Heng hold the sheep down.

   Jian Heng waved his hand and said, "No, I can do it alone!"

  Wu Yong smiled and said: "We are just pretending, you think we really have to contribute. That's all right, you can share the leg of lamb with two of us to press."

  Knowing that Wu Yong really wants to help, and looking at the excited look on He Ye's face, it seems that helping kill sheep is very interesting, although he looks a little eager to try.

  Seeing the appearance of the two of them, after Jian Heng thought for a while, he decided to let the two of them help, so he handed over the two legs of lamb to them, and when they were handed over, Jian Heng specially reminded them.

   "Remember to hold it down, and use the weight of the two of you to press it up. If you don't press it firmly, it will have a lot of force in kicking. If you are not careful, you can kick people out," Jian Heng said.

  Wu Yong and Wu Yong nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's just a sheep!"

  Jian Heng saw that the two of them were pressing well, so he turned his head, grabbed the front hooves and pressed the sheep to the floor of the gallery.

Zhao Wei picked up the sharp knife, picked up the brick-shaped whetstone placed next to the door with one hand, rubbed the sharp knife against the surface of the whetstone and began to swing the knife, only to hear the rustling sound of the knife and the whetstone , this sounds particularly exciting at this time!

   After going back and forth seven or eight times, Zhao Wei took a look at the edge of the blade, stretched out his finger and felt that it was almost done, and came to Jian Heng with the blade.

   "Hold it!" Zhao Wei said to the three of them, and at the same time reached out and grabbed the sheep's ears, and turned the sheep's head up.

  Jian Heng heard He Ye and Wu Yong hum, and then he nodded at Zhao Wei.

   Zhao Wei began to count down: "Three, two, one!"

   As soon as the word    fell, the sharp sharp knife in Zhao Wei's hand pierced the artery of the sheep's neck like a bolt of lightning, and the blood of the sheep spurted out the moment the knife came out.

  Zhao Wei threw the knife, then dropped the knife and turned the sheep's head, so that the direction of the knife was aimed at the basin on the ground, so as to prevent the sheep's blood from splashing out of the basin.

  Jian Heng held down the front legs of the sheep, and the whole sheep was firmly pressed to the floor of the gallery.

   Just when Jian Heng thought he was about to finish the job, he suddenly heard a muffled sound behind him, and with the muffled sound, he felt that the sheep started to writhe like crazy.

If you want to talk about Jian Heng's reaction, it's really nothing to say. He felt that there was a lot of force behind him, and he immediately pressed his body to the side of the sheep's belly and rubbed it back so that the position of the hind hoof was stuck, and then he went After being stuck like this for about a few seconds, he felt that the strength of the sheep was getting weaker and weaker, and Jian Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

   Turning his head and looking behind him, he saw Wu Yong sitting directly on the snow and rubbing the back of his head, while He Ye was two meters away, sitting on the snow with a confused expression on his face.

   "You two!... Alas!" Jian Heng didn't know what to say about the two of them, the two big men couldn't even hold back a sheep's hind legs.

  Wu Yong came back to his senses at this time, and explained for the two of them: "Who knew that a lamb would be so strong!"

  The two of them actually held it down, but after a while, they felt that the sheep didn't move much and suddenly relaxed. As soon as they relaxed, the sheep kicked its legs subconsciously, and the two of them were tragic.

Zhao Wei smiled and said: "I don't blame them, the sheep have worked hard all of a sudden, and the potential is also stimulated by a knife. They have never done this before, how can they not be kicked for the first time?" Yes, the first time I killed a sheep, I was not only kicked away by the sheep, but also kicked by my uncle."

"I really didn't expect it, I really didn't expect a sheep to be so strong!" He Ye was a little surprised, he had never done such a rough job, and a person like him only needs to have a mouth, don't It was said that he had killed the sheep with his hands, and he didn't even have many chances to see it.

The sheep couldn't move at all, it was completely dead, Jian Heng stood up, looked at half of the basin of sheep blood and said, "Leave one third of this stuff for us, and you can see how to use the rest." .

   As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and picked up the sheep, ready to hang the sheep on the hooks on the rack.

   Zhao Wei said: "Let me peel it off."

"Exactly, I have to go to the farm to pick some fresh vegetables or something. After you skin the sheep, I don't want the internal organs. I also cut off the sheep's head. I only want meat. Shabu pot at noon today," Jian Heng said.

   Zhao Wei heard this and said: "How much meat can be used in shabu-shabu? Two or three plates at most will do."

Zhao Wei is a small cook. He understands that it is normal for newcomers to have one or two plates of mutton from the ranch, but people like Jian Heng often eat it, and they pay attention to matching food, so at most three plates can be served with other dishes. The dish is enough, a sheep is a bit too wasteful.

   "The ones that can't be eaten are like lamb chops and leg of lamb. Take them back to the two of them. Anyway, the weather can handle it. When they want to eat, they can just peel it off and eat it," Jian Heng said.

  Hearing this, Zhao Wei nodded: "Okay, I understand, you can rest assured, I will send you to the house after I take care of it."

Jian Heng waved his hand, signaling He Ye and Wu Yong to get in the car with him, and was about to drive the SUV out to take them to the farm. The three of them had just got in the car and hadn't left yet, when they heard Zhao Wei shout One sentence.

"wait!"

  Jian Heng turned his head and asked, "What's the matter?"

   "Can you bring me a dozen sheep and onions? The onions here are running out," Zhao Wei said.

  Jian Heng nodded, indicating that he knew, then started the motorcycle and drove to his garage, put the snowmobile away, got in the car, and Jian Heng and the others went straight to the direction of the farm.

  As soon as he got out of the trail and turned to the entrance of the town, He Ye was shocked by the scene he saw. He stretched his head and looked outside and asked, "Is this the town when I came last time?"

"Isn't it? It's changed a lot. To be honest, I don't believe it. What does it look like? To be honest, it can't even compare with the small domestic markets. Now I look at it and it looks like it. Look at it. , There is a small supermarket, and there is also a spontaneous small vegetable market, see if there is a place with a canopy over there..." Wu Yong said.

  Jian Hengtong glanced at Wu Yong in the rearview mirror: "Why do I feel that you are more familiar than me?"

   "Every time I come here, I have to go here for a while. To be honest, your place will soon catch up with the prosperity of the place where I live," Wu Yong said.

   "There are more tourists, so there will be more things like this." Jian Heng saw a group of people in front of him who was holding a small flag, so he opened his mouth and said.

  (end of this chapter)