Pig Killer

Chapter 37

"No, no." Cheng Donglai said, shaking his head.

As soon as he finished speaking, his stomach started to growl unkindly.

"Go home quickly." Shen Hui'e waved her hand to urge them.

"Hey!" Cheng Donglai, whose emotions had stabilized, responded and left with his companions.

"Mother, we don't have much food at home." The big tiger said in a low voice.

"I calculated that we can survive until the summer harvest, so we can just make porridge." Shen Hui'e tilted her head slightly and looked at him with clear eyes. "Now that we have enough meat, we can't eat as much food as before. Right!"

"In the past, I could stick chopsticks into corn and soybean rice without it falling over." The raccoon slave nodded hurriedly, "Now I feel full just by drinking porridge."

"Don't you see that we have no shortage of meat now, but our stomachs are so big. If we eat too much meat, we will naturally have less food." Shen Hui'e said to them with her glassy eyes.

"I didn't expect to catch so many fish." The raccoon said in amazement, making the number three with his fingers, "Three big baskets!"

"What luck!" Shen Hui'e said with a chuckle. She had not expected this. When she put the basket into the water and took it out again, it was full of fish.

"It would be great if we could catch so many fish every day." The raccoon's eyes, like black grapes, curved into crescents.

"Let's see! It's hard to say." Shen Hui'e blinked her clear eyes and looked at them and said.

"Hope, hope." The cat slave wrote with hopeful eyes.

"I think there are a lot of fish in this river!" Shen Hui'e stretched out her hand and began to pack up the stall. "There should be some harvest, it's just a matter of how much."

In the memory of the natives, there were really a lot of fish in the river, but the local people seldom caught and ate them. One of the reasons might be that it was too much trouble!

Fish has a strong earthy smell and many bones. If you spend that time on it, you might as well work harder in the fields and produce more food.

Now she kills the fish and even chop it into meat paste, which reduces the trouble for the villagers and naturally sells better.

After the mother and her two daughters packed up the stall, Shen Hui'e started cooking. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, they cleaned the stall and all the large and small basins.

Otherwise the fishy smell is too strong and the meat stall is too dirty, which will affect business.

Who doesn't like clean and refreshing?

"Is this the butcher's house?" Wang Su shouted loudly while standing outside the stall.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Shen Hui'e ran out after hearing the voice, "It's you!"

"I have bought the piglets, let me do it..." Wang Su's meaning was very clear, but he was too embarrassed to say it.

Wang Su looked at her wet hands and asked, "Are you busy?"

Shen Hui'e quickly wiped her hands on her apron and said, "Not busy, not busy."

"Is that okay?" Wang Su looked at her hopefully.

"We should go to ask Doctor Li first?" Shen Hui'e said to him with pure eyes.

"Doctor?" Wang Su looked at her, not quite understanding.

"Let me do the cutting, no problem. But you have to watch it carefully after the cutting, otherwise the piglet will be ruined if the pus forms." Shen Hui'e expressed her worries, "At least stop the bleeding! And make sure it doesn't affect the piglet's urination!"

Wang Su blushed and nodded quickly, "You are right, you are right." After hesitating for a moment, he said, "It's just about the cost of finding a doctor."

"Let's ask first and then make plans." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes.

"Oh! Let's go ask." Wang Su hesitated for a moment and agreed.

"Wait for me." Shen Hui'e turned and walked towards the yard, took off her apron and said, "I'll go see Doctor Li, you guys lock the door." She lowered her head and looked at Huang Er again, "Look after the house."

"What are you going to do at Uncle Doctor's house?" Da Chong asked curiously.

"Only with the doctor's help can the piglets grow fat as quickly as possible." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright black eyes and said, "I'll be back soon."

"Let's go too. Uncle Doctor's house is very close." Li Nu looked at her hopefully with his big round eyes.

"This?" Shen Hui'e pouted and thought for a moment, then said decisively, "No."

Cutting off a pig's testicles is just a joke, but children should not be allowed to come into contact with it too early.

"You guys wait at home!" Shen Hui'e patted their heads and said, "Be good and listen to me." She put her apron on the hemp rope she pulled in the yard and said, "I'm leaving now. Come and close the door."

The brother and sister had no choice but to close the door and bolt it.

Shen Hui'e and Wang Su went to Doctor Li's pharmacy.

After Shen Hui'e explained her purpose, Doctor Li embarrassedly avoided her gaze.

"Hey! Doctor Li, don't hide! Whether this matter will succeed or not, we are dealing with pigs, not humans." Shen Hui'e said quickly.

When Doctor Li heard this, the hand that was twisting his beard trembled, "hiss..." He pulled out a few strands of his beard and shrank his neck in pain.

"Can you please give me a straight answer?" Shen Hui'e said anxiously to Doctor Li.

"Sure, why not?" Doctor Li nodded repeatedly, "It's just that it's not right for a woman like you to do this!"

"Why don't you come?" Shen Hui'e looked straight at Doctor Li and said with a sigh, "I don't want to either! But the child's father is not here, so how can we live like this? What else can we do if we don't kill pigs? We need to buy things to do other things."

"Uh..." Doctor Li's eyes moved back and forth, and he didn't dare to look Shen Hui'e in the eye.

It's easy for me to talk without any pain. Who wants to be bald if they have hair? It's just because of the pressure of life.

"Doctor Li, if this pig is well raised, it will enrich everyone's table and food." Shen Hui'e said in a high-sounding manner, "This person needs to eat meat. Only by eating meat can he have strength and grow strong."

"Pork is cheap meat, not worthy of being served on the table." Doctor Li said truthfully, "It has a strong fishy smell."

"As long as you cut off the testicles, the fishy smell will be much less." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her eyes like black jade.

"Really?" Doctor Li looked at her suspiciously and asked.

"You'll know after trying it. You can ask him later." Shen Hui'e tilted her head slightly and looked at Wang Su and said, "He raises pigs. He can feel the smell before and after cutting."

"I'll tell you if there are any obvious changes." Wang Su agreed hurriedly.

"Pork is cheap, but we can't afford mutton or beef!" Shen Hui'e looked at Doctor Li with deep and bottomless eyes and said frankly, "Working cattle can't be slaughtered casually, and mutton is high-quality but we can't afford it."

Before pork testicles are removed, it has a strong fishy smell and is not suitable as a luxury food, so it has a low status in the eyes of literati.

In ancient times, pork was not as popular as higher-end meats such as beef and mutton. During the Tang and Song dynasties, mutton became the mainstream meat and was the exclusive favorite of high-ranking officials and nobles.

Pork is called cheap meat and dirty meat.

The food that pigs eat is not clean. The pigs are raised in a house with a toilet below and a pen below. You can imagine what the pigs eat.

After seeing this form of pig farming, I really can’t eat pork.