Chapter 226: Pig Slaughter Underway—precise Butchering
Xiang Chuan arrived in front of the dissection platform, took off her mask, and a strong bloody smell that she was used to from the meat stalls near the vegetable market in her previous life hit her face. She had lived too long as a corporate slave in her previous life and hadn’t visited the market much. The raw pork she got in this life was also simply processed, so this almost made her unable to hold back from vomiting.
Steady, steady, get to the main task. Xiang Chuan endured the nausea, leaned close to the pork divided into four large pieces, and carefully smelled it.
The castrated pig being dissected didn’t have the fishy smell she often tasted on pork before, which slightly relieved Xiang Chuan. She turned her head and saw Ouyang Yating looking at her with a strange expression, as if asking: Are you okay? This thing can’t possibly smell good at all?
“I just wanted to confirm some things first.” Xiang Chuan waved her hand. She pointed to Liang Gong, who was sitting on the nearby hover seat in a completely burned-out state, and said, “Yating, go take care of Liang Gong first. I need to study this next step a bit more.”
Ouyang Yating glanced at the operable hologram next to the dissection platform, nodded, took off her gloves, and went to comfort Liang Gong, who had been quite frightened just now.
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Xiang Chuan started with the hind leg meat first.
She held the stylus, removed the tailbone from the holographic projection of the pig hind leg, then cut off the pig hind hoof. Up to this point, it was an operation Xiang Chuan could do on her own without looking at the steps she found on Geegle. Looking at the holographic projection hind leg meat in front of her, she had no choice but to open Geegle.
What came next was actually quite simple: deboning. Xiang Chuan looked at the stylus in her hand and imagined herself scraping bones with a compressed laser cutter. If her hand shook and punctured the bone marrow bone… Just thinking about it made tears well up in Xiang Chuan’s eyes.
Bone marrow bone! That’s the hind leg bone marrow bone! Even if lotus root couldn’t be found now, it didn’t stop the bone marrow bone from being used in other dishes!
While imagining delicacies like braised bone marrow and hotpot bone marrow in her mind, Xiang Chuan followed her saliva, used the stylus to extract the bone marrow bone. Although the extracted bone marrow bone was intact, the cutting surfaces on the holographic projection hind leg meat and bone marrow bone were terribly uneven.
Haha. Xiang Chuan gave a dry laugh twice and decided to ignore those uneven spots.
One major use of pig hind leg in Huaxia was the most famous ham. If it was marinated to make ham, the remaining parts didn’t need Xiang Chuan to continue cutting, but she thought about the stock of castrated pig on hand and the time to make ham… She wasn’t confident she could keep this hind leg meat “alive” for half a month—no, even possibly not a week.
She still honestly followed the pork disassembly tutorial she found on Geegle and separated the lean meat from the pig hind leg.
At the same time, wails rose and fell from the internal organ processing team. This was within Xiang Chuan’s expectations, so she didn’t even bother to lift her head and continued dismantling the other hind leg, aiming to give a good demonstration to Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong, who would actually get hands-on later.
Five minutes later, the other hind leg was also disassembled by Xiang Chuan. This time, the cutting surface between the hind leg meat and bone marrow bone was much better; at least the cut cross-section was very clear.
“Ainuo, reset the previous hind leg for me. I’ll operate it again.” Xiang Chuan waved the stylus in her hand toward Ainuo at the control panel.
Soon, the first hind leg that had been disassembled earlier was restored to its original state. Xiang Chuan rolled up her sleeves and began her “revenge battle.”
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Because it was the third operation, Xiang Chuan’s expression was much more relaxed. She looked up and saw quite a few Class 8 members standing near her control panel. She remembered that the conversation had been interrupted by the hair-removal machine before she could finish asking, so she spoke up:
“By the way, Old Lu, what was the thing you forgot to tell me earlier?”
“Hm?” Class President Lu Daiqing, who was focused on observing the holographic projection of the pig hind leg meat, was stunned. He didn’t expect Xiang Chuan to suddenly talk to him. It took him several seconds to react to what she was asking. “Oh, you mean that? It’s nothing big. Just this morning, we asked the homeroom teacher and principal, and applied to designate this actual operation experience of the edible processing of this pork as the summary of our class’s visit activity. We got a reply at noon; the homeroom teacher and principal approved our proposal.”
“Ah?” Xiang Chuan stopped the stylus in her hand in surprise and looked at Class President Lu Daiqing. “Is this something that can just be casually approved? And we’re just…”
Just slaughtering a pig, what’s there worth writing about? Xiang Chuan held back from saying the second half.
“Hey, Xiang Chuan, don’t underestimate this edible processing. You don’t know, after the last field training, when we wrote the summary report, many people submitted their edible processing experiences with chicken and fish, and they even got A-level evaluations.” Nancy said cheerfully, “Don’t forget, this is edible processing of ancient ingredients. For the agriculture bureau and our fleet’s education bureau, it’s very valuable summary.”
Hearing Nancy say that, Xiang Chuan got it.
Yeah, all along, the meat processing plant and crop processing on the production escort ship had been done on the premise of making solid food and liquid food, just like the white rice on the first day of the visit. If not for Xiang Chuan’s impulsive idea back then, the first canteen probably wouldn’t have steaming white rice now.
Meat was the same. After Xiang Chuan taught her classmates the processing methods during field training, they wrote those actual operation experiences into the report, allowing the agriculture bureau to get more data reports.
“But with this, won’t people from other classes have opinions?” Xiang Chuan asked worriedly.
Over these past few months, she felt modern people’s emotional fluctuations were too steady, but not completely absent, so she had no doubt some would develop jealousy, just like the commotion during the previous school anniversary.
“Maybe before, but now…” Nancy looked toward the internal organ processing team wailing nonstop in the distance and chuckled.
Xiang Chuan and the other Class 8 members gathered in front of the holographic projection fell silent. Indeed, even their Class 8, famous in the first year high school for being bold and daring, couldn’t handle mere pig offal. If it were other classes without close-range acceptance of the ancient culture impact brought by Xiang Chuan, they might faint just seeing her pull out the pork liver.
The students from other classes watching all this in the holographic space also nodded in unison.
They were very envious of Class 8’s treatment, because Class 8 always got to taste new gourmet food from A Bite of China Club or Yue Xiang Restaurant before it was released, but they had also witnessed Xiang Chuan’s various magical operations. Over time, in the minds of other class members, only Class 8 members, whose worldview and values had been repeatedly refreshed by Xiang Chuan with various ancient gadgets, could tolerate her.
After all, not everyone wanted to personally touch the pork large intestine just pulled out from the pig’s belly.
Especially seeing this group of fearless Class 8 people with expressions of utter despair while cleaning the “filth” from the large intestine.
—We just need to be responsible for eating. Things like helping A Bite of China Club’s boss, better leave them honestly to Class 8 people to enjoy.
At this moment, all the first year high school classes besides Class 8 reached a consensus.
