Early in the morning, in the courtyard on Xi Shan of Dong Jie Homestead Village in Lai Mountain District, steam billowed from a large pot of boiling water on the wood-burning stove.
Old Dou glanced at the time and made a call to his son, Xiao Dou, asking, "Where are you now?"
"Alright, alright, I' m waiting here."
After he hung up the phone, he went to check the pigsty.
Old Dou, whose real name is Dou Yuan Shan, is fifty-six years old and is a well-known pig butcher in the surrounding villages. Whenever someone wanted to kill a pig, they would call upon him. However, fewer people in the rural areas are raising pigs nowadays, and it isn't the holiday season, so sometimes he has to wait several days to demonstrate his skills.
He hadn't had the chance to use his knife for a week when his son, who works in a large city company, suddenly called last night. He told him that his boss wanted to buy his six pigs at a high price and asked to learn the art of slaughtering pigs.
