书城外语阿米!走步!
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第54章 核!合!和!(40)

85.Actually,instead of purporting to send Haohao to school,Huang did intend to check out the situation of his opponent Cai.Haohao was smart a boy,and quickly,he finished his meal and left for school with schoolbag on his back,his hand taking Huang's.A few minutes later,they came to the upper land in the village's middle ridge from which Cai's new house can be seen clearly.Then,Huang felt for an excuse,"Boy!In my shoes is a grain of sand.I'm gonna shake it off.You go first and I will be coming to you later." Eyeing Haohao walk away,Huang fumbled out a glasses-cleaning cloth form his jacket pocket and wiped the pair of eyeglasses very carefully.Then,he wore the glasses on his nose bridge and focalized a bit by keeping on adjusting the eyeglasses frame,in an attempt to take a closer look at the new house of Cai.Everything was ready and Huang was observing the house—— it's a three-storey white building,with high bounding walls and a grand gate in bright red,the same and as adorable as that of his own.The shining windows and the new doors of the five rooms on the third story did catch the eyes."The contest is over.He won." Old Huang said to himself inwardly.At this point,his heart gave a physical lurch,his hand trembling in despair,which had his glasses fell off to the ground.And he tried twice to catch the falling glasses but failed.Things seemed to go from bad to worse,for his glasses just hit upon a tiny block in a soybean's size on the ground and cracked on the spot.As one of the transparent glasses broke perfectly,the shameful and depressed feeling amounted to an emotional slump to its extreme in Huang's heart."What the rough luck!" sighed Huang deeply with a saddened look in his face.After picking up the broken glasses,quite trembling,Huang fished out the cell phone from his trousers pocket and dialed his family."Take the caldron out to cook braised pork!" said Huang heavily to the other end of the call when it got through.On the way to school,Huang looked up to heaven sighing heavily,when one of his prentices named Wu Wang Sun(moniker,see below its meaning)ran to him breathlessly,yelling out," Mr.Huang!Mr.Huang!Cai just cheated in the contest and their firing firecrackers meant nothing!" Huang recognized the fellow instantly who was the senior prentice of Duode but may be his disciple's disciple in terms of the seniority in the clan.The guy was flying right without fear of hardships.After a couple of years of diligent study and strenuous training,he had finally made himself in the Huang family crew the number one of the five working procedures in butchering: slaughter,scalding,dehairing,splitting and picking.It's no easy a job to acquire all the five firsts simultaneously,and the gainer was so called Wu Wang Sun by the coteries.It is worth mentioning here his master slaughter skill,as the first procedure in a whole butcher,among other things.Generally,Pig-slaughtering could be classified into two: *******ish slaughter and master slaughter.Usually,the pig-slaughtering spectacle depicted in films and teleplays or literary pieces would be that several strong hands cooperate to slaughter the pig,with one to bundle it with ropes,one to hold it tightly with hands,one to suppress it with sticks,and the pig finally squeaked to death.This is recognized as slaughter carried out by persons or *******ish slaughter.Still,there is another way but more difficult: Nobody else will help out when the butcher alone is dealing with a pig weighing three to four hundred jin released from piggery but confined in a courtyard,which is recognized as master slaughter.In Huangjiawan in the past,only Cai Danian could make it.But another guy rose to his fame recently in this trade,known as Wu Wang Sun,bearing also the top master skill.In the spring festival that year,the Wang family living in the middle ridge were killing a pig raised for two and a half years,and in an unguarded moment had it run out of piggery.The huge monster weighing five to six hundred jin went on the rampage around the courtyard with its bucktooth holding up awfully,which stumped quite a few master butchers.Worse still,it happened that Cai was staying out,and "Wu Wang Sun" was so sent for.With a dagger in the sleeves,"Wu Wang Sun" walked into the courtyard in gentle steps.And in the place two meters from the wall roots,he stood still facing the wall,uttering out a touch of nothing.Because it's known to all that pigs in courtyard were apt to stampede in rings quite close the wall roots.The moment the monster passed by,"Wu Wang Sun" rushed fiercely at it,catching tightly its left rear foot with his left hand,hauling it backward within seconds.Losing the balance,the pig stumbled down the ground when Wu pounced on it and held onto its right ear swiftly with his free left hand and simultaneously raised his dagger fully to make a killing.This is known as the legendary killing.The unique feat,coupled with quite a few other good skills had made "Wu Wang Sun" the leading person among the grandsons of Huang family.