It was definitely too late for the guests in the city to go back. After seeing off a group of people waiting, Hachiko led everyone back to prepare for a rest.

Looking at the chickens and ducks in the open dam, Hachiko sighed: "It's not easy. There has never been such a great gift in the past..."

Su You said: "I'm afraid it won't work if you leave it here. Wild animals from the mountains might come. It's better to move them to the yard."

Fortunately, the fish have been raised. At the water inlet ditch of the pond in front of the ancestral hall, Zhang Sheng commanded people to build a weir with rocks and mud, then set up a fence and closed a section of the channel. Now there are hundreds of carp and grass carp in it.

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After moving all the poultry into the outer courtyard, the children, including Hachigong and Hachiniang, each took out their toothbrushes, flossers and small handkerchiefs, brushed their teeth, washed their faces and feet.

Only Ersu didn't have these, and the two of them couldn't help but look at each other, why did we become bumpkins in the end? If not, give us two sets!

Everyone got up early the next day, but there was nothing I could do. The chickens in the front yard crowed one after another, and I couldn't sleep even if I wanted to.

Su You straightened up from the bed and said bitterly: "I'm angry, only keep the strongest rooster, and get rid of all the others!"

Hachiko slapped him on the head: "You can eat so much?! Isn't this a waste of things?!"

Shi Wei was chuckling on the side.

When the three of them came out of the inner courtyard, they saw chicken and duck droppings all over the yard of Hachigong's new house. They couldn't help but feel a headache: "I need to think of something..."

Su You touched his chin: "There is a way, but it's just a waste of a bottle of good wine..."

After breakfast, Su You sent Ba Niang and Twenty-Seven Niangs to board the boat. Afterwards, he also packed a bag of crispy meatballs, sugar-oiled fruits and the like, plus a few fat chickens and ducks, which was considered a favor without any expense.

But everyone's favorite was the wild rice they tasted yesterday. Su You had to take the children up the mountain to scavenge all the edible wild rice in the swamp before sending them away.

Su Shi pulled Su You reluctantly: "Mingrun, there are two more pigs... when will we get there?"

Su You put his hand on his forehead: "It's time to worship the ancestors. There are still three months left. I have to trouble you to wait..."

After sending the foodie away, Su You came back holding Shi Wei's hand, and went to the entrance of the village and told her to call the little butcher to learn the craft while he went home to prepare.

The preparation work is not complicated. I still have two small scalpels used to castrate pigs half a year ago at home.

Now that the murder weapon is available, modern rooster castration surgery also requires tweezers, expanded pliers, a small digger, and a probe.

Tweezers and probes are readily available, but small diggers and expanding pliers are not.

But it's not a problem for Su You. In those days, the village's old pig maker could use a bamboo bow to replace the widening pliers, and a piece of brown wire to replace the small digger.

Take a bottle of Evergreen Dew, add quicklime powder into it, and then cover it again.

Quicklime powder will react with water to form calcium hydroxide. In this way, the water in the alcohol can be removed, thereby obtaining pure alcohol.

Then boil the water and pass it through the condenser to get distilled water.

After that, three parts pure alcohol and one part distilled water are obtained to obtain medical alcohol with an alcohol concentration of 75%.

Then there is the chicken control device, which is actually a thin bamboo pole that is baked and bent into a U-shape.

Take a piece of bamboo, bake it into an arc shape, tie ropes on both sides, and tie two small bamboo hooks made of baked bamboo sticks to the ends of the rope.

Make sure that when the two bamboo hooks are hooked together, the bamboo bow can tighten the thread, but the elasticity cannot be too high.

You also need to use a thin bamboo tube to clean the inner hole, tie a piece of brown silk to one end of the bamboo tube with a thin linen thread, and then bend the remaining long part of the brown silk back and thread it into the bamboo tube, and then tie it from the other end.

Stretch out a section to become a brown silk sleeve.

After everything is done, all that's left is to polish the knife, sharpen the iron needle, and chop twice with a hatchet a little above the needle head to produce two small barbs.

Finally, wash everything and boil it in water to sterilize it.

After a while, Shi Wei jumped up and led the butchers, two of them, one big and one small.

When Butcher saw Su You, he smiled and said, "Young butcher is a scumbag, so I'm afraid he won't understand. You boy, please teach me first, teach me first."

Su You smiled and said: "Of course it would be better if you came. I'm just worried that you adults won't believe me."

Tu Zi waved his hand: "Whoever still doesn't believe You Wa is a fool! The orange trees at home are alive and well. I'm still waiting to eat sweet oranges next year!"

Su You said: "Okay, Brother Gou Sheng, you go to my room to get the drawings, and then lead the younger sisters to build chicken sheds and chicken coops. I will teach the butcher how to build capons first."

The folks are not stupid. There are many roosters sent as gifts, and the hens should be kept at home to lay eggs.

Moreover, the chickens were not very big. Su You estimated that they might have grown up from the batch of chickens that Cheng Wenying sent.

They were all still poor, and the villagers couldn't afford any decent gifts.

However, it was just right for the operation. I caught one and stuck its wings with a U-shaped bamboo pole, pinned its head to the U-shaped elbow, then straightened its legs and tied them with a rope between the bent bamboo poles. The little rooster couldn't move at all.

Su You said: "The key to this step is not to pull the legs too straight, so that the muscles can be more stretched, the pressure in the stomach will be less, and the intestines will not be squeezed out from the wound."

If a butcher learns this little trick, his skill in cooking chickens will be unparalleled in the Song Dynasty.

In his previous life, Su You exchanged two bottles of good wine for the old pig maker in the village. Ordinary craftsmen would pull the legs of the chicken too tightly, which would often cause accidents. Only the old pig maker wouldn't do it. Su You felt very

Curious, he pestered the pig maker to ask why.

If there is a slightly more useful skill, people will definitely not talk about it, but in future generations there will no longer be any chance to chop chickens. Well-bred chickens can grow nearly ten kilograms even if they are chopped. If you chop a chicken that weighs sixteen or seven kilograms, who will sell it to you?

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The cock was set up and Su You began to demonstrate the operation.

First, find the location. Su You pressed his finger on a place on the back of the rooster: "The last intercostal space of the chicken, one finger width away from the midline of the back, is where the knife will be cut. Come and touch it."

When Butcher knew the location very clearly, Su You plucked off the feathers around that part, and then wetted the surrounding area with water: "Wet the feathers and smooth them around so that the wound can be exposed."

Then he began to disinfect with alcohol: "This is disinfectant wine. The alcohol content is too high to be drunk. This thing is very expensive now, but you must do this if you want insurance."

"If you don't want insurance, you can just spit on it and apply some grass ash after the operation, but the survival rate is not guaranteed."

A small incision of one centimeter was made along the intercostal direction, and a bamboo bow was taken and the small bamboo hooks were hung on both sides of the incision. The bamboo bow would naturally open the incision. Then, a knife was used to expand the incision a little, cut the inner membrane, and then use a brown silk sheath.

Introduce it into the abdominal cavity, use brown silk to cover the connection between the mesentery of the vagina and the back, tie it tightly and pull it off, then prick the vagina with an iron needle and take it out.

After taking out one and then the other, Su You said to the butcher: "If the rooster is bigger, take the upper part first and then the lower part. This is more convenient."

"If the cock is smaller, you need to remove the lower part first and then the upper part, so that it will not be obscured by bleeding and cannot be operated."

After speaking, he took off the bamboo bow and smeared the wound again with alcohol: "Okay. You can do the rest, and I will guide you on the side."

The whole process was very light and smooth. Su You took the rooster off the bamboo bow and put it into a bamboo cage: "The castrated rooster needs to be placed in a clean, dry and quiet place, and carefully cared for for three or four days, and the wound

It will grow well."

Next, Tuzi took action, with Su You directing and reminding people of precautions.

For example, the incision site must be accurate. If the incision is too forward, it will damage the lungs and cause death.

For example, if the incision is deviated, it may injure the thigh muscles and affect walking.

For example, movements must be steady, accurate, and gentle to avoid causing massive bleeding and death.

For example, you need to check frequently before the wound heals. If you find air swelling under the skin, use a needle to prick it and release the air.

If the wound becomes suppurative, clean it with salt water and give medicine...

The butcher's skills were good and he learned quickly. In no time, more than a dozen roosters were slaughtered.

The butcher took the knife and looked around: "There seem to be a few more over there..."

Su You said: "Well...those ones are strong and strong. I plan to keep them for seeding and slowly produce better seeds."

The butcher pointed to a bunch of ducks again: "There are many drakes there!"

Su You finally rolled his eyes: "You're still addicted, right? Ducks don't fight! After learning the craft, I'll give you this set of guys. Remember to boil water for a while before each operation to disinfect. If you can find the brown silk ponytail,

It’s better to use ponytail instead.”

Butcher started looking around again: "I remember you came back on a donkey..."

Su You stood up and said, "Don't make trouble! That's Zi Zhan's beloved one. It's delicious and delicious. It's going to be returned in a week... Forget it, there are two mules tied behind the ancestral hall. You go pick a few. Be careful.

Just get kicked..."
Chapter completed!