Chapter 223: Pig Slaughter Underway—scalding And Scraping
Inside the management facilities of the Animal Husbandry Production Department.
The tube’s attraction was excellent. In no time, two glass-textured containers were filled with two large pots of pig blood.
Some students were squatting nearby, occasionally picking up the containers and shaking them left and right to see if the pig blood inside would really coagulate.
Meanwhile, most people had gathered around the pig that was almost dead from blood loss, observing Xiang Chuan’s next operation.
Xiang Chuan directed Ainuo and Liang Gong to push over a cylindrical glass steamer. This glass steamer was used by the Meat Processing Plant to process bristles and chicken feathers on cowhide. She had specially borrowed one from Aksim General Manager and Chief Steward An Jing.
After Ainuo operated the light screen to open the glass steamer, Xiang Chuan immediately had the mechanical arms suspending the pig’s neck and limbs lift the pig into the steamer, hanging it vertically. After the glass steamer closed, several threads about as thick as fishing line shot out from the top and bottom of the steamer, piercing the pig’s limbs, nose, and neck, securing it upright inside the steamer.
“Let’s begin.”
Xiang Chuan instructed. Ainuo nodded and activated the glass steamer.
The steamer’s heating speed was very fast. About half a minute later, hot steam flowed down from the top, gradually covering the entire glass steamer. Xiang Chuan touched the outer wall of the steamer and, as expected, felt no temperature. It was probably the same material as the glass wall of the porridge-cooking large pot in the First Canteen.
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However, what Xiang Chuan truly cared about was not the steamer’s material, but the steamer itself.
“Why can the steamer be casually authorized for civilian production, but the oven cannot…” Xiang Chuan reluctantly patted the outer wall of the glass steamer. She had to admit that the texture felt really comfortable. It was truly worthy of modern mysterious technology.
“Isn’t the roaster enough? Ovens are so dangerous.” Chou Manman patted her shoulder.
“Ignore this guy. Every time in the club kitchen when steaming cakes or buns, she has to say this once.” Ainuo stared at the operation light screen of the glass steamer, too lazy to even give their own club president a disdainful look.
“The ancient standard oven proposed by Xiang Chuan touches upon the forbidden zone of civilian equipment in terms of technology application. Unless there’s a chance in the future to meet the First Fleet, there might be an opportunity to apply for technical authorization from the First Fleet’s Agriculture Bureau. Until then, just honestly use the roaster.” Ouyang Yating comforted her, patting Xiang Chuan’s other shoulder. “By the way, when we go back this time, shall we find a chance to do a barbecue?”
“Barbecue?”
Hearing this, the group staring at the pig blood pots all suddenly lifted their heads, eyes gleaming as they looked at Xiang Chuan, their gazes full of expectation.
“Didn’t we just have it last week? And I probably won’t have time to organize a barbecue when I go back this week.”
Xiang Chuan pointed to the list on her light screen, which recorded the information she needed to check upon returning and the ancient technology registration project she needed to prepare for submission to the Information Turbulence Processing Office. She had pulled out too many things during these three days on the Production Escort Ship, leading to an increase in these trivial affairs. Upon returning, she probably wouldn’t escape from the light screen for a week or two.
“Come on, isn’t that simple? Just ask us.” Nancy patted her head. “Like when you were integrating the information for that tofu thing earlier and temporarily authorized Yating and the others for viewing and editing rights on the document, distribute temporary authorizations to everyone in the class too. We’ll do it together, and it can definitely be finished in less than three days.”
Xiang Chuan thought about it. This seemed like a method too. Modern document temporary authorization functions were very comprehensive, and there basically wouldn’t be any leaks (after all, her document authorizations were specially monitored by the Information Turbulence Processing Office). Moreover, they couldn’t connect to the space-time network now, and the entire Third Fleet was using the local area network, so there was no worry that these files would flow to other fleets.
This group of gluttons in the class might not excel at other things, but at least their efficiency and enthusiasm stood out among the first year high school.
However, Xiang Chuan still had one doubt about this.
“I’m very grateful that you’re so enthusiastic about helping me, although you’re probably just eager for me to quickly submit the document and then have the barbecue—”
Hearing this, the people in Class Eight Grade One let out sporadic, unnatural coughs.
Xiang Chuan, dear classmate, don’t forget that there are people from other classes around and cadres from the entire Fourth Production Escort Ship watching. Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to expose your own classmates’ true intentions like this?
“—But don’t you have to write the report for this visit activity when you go back?” Xiang Chuan asked with a frown.
Although this Production Escort Ship visit activity had inevitably shifted in its three-day itinerary and focus due to Xiang Chuan, on the surface it was still a proper teaching activity. Therefore, they needed to submit a summary like after the previous field training.
Moreover, because the proportion of residents in the Third Fleet engaged in agriculture and agricultural product development was high, the quality requirements for the visit summary after organizing students to visit the Production Escort Ship even reached the level of summary short papers for first-year university freshmen from other fleets visiting Production Escort Ships. When Xiang Chuan heard about this before, she inwardly sighed that modern kids had their own involution.
But with Class Eight Grade One now so eager to participate in helping Xiang Chuan organize the information, it was inevitable to worry whether it would delay their writing of the summary report.
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Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of Class Eight Grade One became somewhat subtle, as if Xiang Chuan had asked a redundant question.
Nancy seemed to think of something and looked toward Class President Lu Daiqing, asking:
“Old Lu, you didn’t tell Xiang Chuan about this?”
Class President Lu Daiqing was also stunned: “I thought Ouyang Classmate and Ainuo Classmate and the others had already told her.”
Ainuo said irritably: “Do we look like we had free time to chat with her about this these past two days?”
Xiang Chuan: …In the end, none of you told me?
She sighed and quickly stopped their endless tracing back to the source: “Alright, alright, I know you all forgot to tell me something. So what exactly is this matter?”
“It’s just—”
【Beep——】
Just as Ainuo was about to speak, the glass steamer emitted the machine sound indicating the end of the operation.
Everyone, including Xiang Chuan, brightened up and instantly gathered in front of the glass steamer. Ainuo quickly opened the light screen, operating the glass steamer to start having the bottom device suck away all the internal steam.
In no time, a sleek big fat pig appeared before everyone.
The glass steamer retracted the threads fixing the entire pig, then the top lifted upward, leaving the steamer half-open. At this point, five mechanical arms extended over, re-lifting the entire pig and placing it on the platform that had been cleaned and sterilized once.
Xiang Chuan leaned in to look. She thought: Worthy of modern mysterious technology. The hair removal was done so cleanly; this pig probably wasn’t this sleek even when it was just born.
However, thorough modern people naturally wouldn’t end the process after just one treatment.
Class President Lu Daiqing quickly had Fu Chengkai and Long Xiaoxian push over the equipment for cleaning residual epidermal hair, performing the final epidermal treatment on the pig. After the arc-shaped device scanned the suspended pig back and forth four times, processing even the down as fine as cotton, this scalding and scraping process was finally complete.
