Author: Ying Jian.
There is a grain warehouse in the oil mill opposite the old house, and the hemp bales are usually stacked as high as a hill. Soybeans and corn fatten swarms of rats, and they often come to my house as guests. One morning, the brothers and sons came and went into their grandparents' bedroom, and went into the corner of the cabinet to look around. Grandmother was bold, and accepted all the gifts sent to the door, first closed the door to cut off the retreat of the mouse, and then went to the kitchen to the ** tongs, and returned to the room to chase and beat.
The rats were so fed that they walked clumsily, and in a moment they were bedridden twice. That day, my grandmother put on reading glasses and skinned rats alive in the sun. Use small scissors to continuously cut the transparent diaphragm and tendons between the skin and flesh of the mouse, and after a while, the two intact mouse skins will peel off the body, leaving only the bright red flesh. Coincidentally, at noon that day, my sister-in-law Jinqiu returned from Xin'anjiang to visit her mother, and a bowl of braised pork was served on the table at lunch. At that time, there was a shortage of materials, meat tickets, and meat was rarely seen on the table. The sister-in-law tasted delicious at first glance, and hurriedly asked, "Grandma (Mom), what kind of meat is this?"Grandmother grinned and said, "Is it delicious?"Tell you, it's rabbit meat. "My sister-in-law was overjoyed and said that it was delicious, and there was still half a bowl left in the meal.
My sister-in-law explained that she would continue to eat at night and go shopping. Grandmother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, put on reading glasses and began to pick up rat skins. First, use gray miscanthus powder to carefully wipe the whole body, then rub the mouse skin repeatedly, and finally tie the two popsicles into a cross, support the upper and lower corners of the mouse skin, straighten and flatten, and hang it on a clothes pole to dry. In this way, the skin will not be curled after drying. I asked my grandmother what the rat skin was used for, and she said that she kept it to make rat skin insoles and put them in cotton shoes in the winter to be comfortable and warm.
When my sister-in-law came back in the evening, she saw at a glance the two mouse skins on the clothes pole. Hurriedly asked his mother: "Oh, grandma, why are there two mouse skins?"Grandmother smiled: "Isn't it its meat that you eat at noon?"The sister-in-law was shocked when she heard this, and bent down and coughed repeatedly: "Ouch, grandma!."AhhOops, I'm going to vomit!Ouch, what a sin!I'm most afraid of rats!