Pig Killer

Chapter 171

"Now I can tell after tasting it and comparing it, I realize that wild game is not as delicious as domesticated ones." Da Chong pouted and muttered.

"My grandma has rabbits at home!" Li Nu said suddenly remembering.

"Grandma's family doesn't even have enough food for us!" Da Chong reminded her.

"What I mean is that we should raise rabbits at home. Don't rabbits eat grass?" Li Nu said to them with sparkling eyes.

"Okay! Let's modify the pigpen at home and raise rabbits. Rabbits give birth quickly." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her eyebrows slightly raised, revealing her black pupils.

"Rabbits give birth to many babies. I wonder how many there are at grandma's house." The cat slave asked, looking at her with her big, bright eyes.

"Either go and take a look yourself, or wait for Zhao Ye to come tomorrow and ask him." Shen Hui'e said to them with her bright black eyes.

After hearing this, Li Nu thought about it seriously and said, "Now that the mourning period is over, it's time for Grandmother's family to get busy. I guess we won't know until Brother Yuanji comes this afternoon."

"If you are anxious, go now." Shen Hui'e looked at her gently with a smile in her eyes.

"No, let's talk about it in the afternoon!" Li Nu said sensibly, "We haven't slaughtered pigs for a few months, so mother has to wash all the things for business at home!"

"Yes! Pots and pans." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Second Aunt, Second Aunt." Huang Yuanji came over with a basket of vegetables and said, "Grandma asked me to bring some tofu pudding. It's just out of the pot and hot."

"That's great, we haven't eaten yet!" Li Nu stepped forward and took the tofu pudding from his hand.

"Be careful, it's a little heavy." Huang Yuanji said to her while holding the basket.

"I can lift it." Li Nu said with a smile.

"Let me do it!" said the big tiger, picking up the basket.

"I'm leaving! I'm busy reopening the tofu shop at home." Huang Yuanji turned around and left.

"Brother Yuanji, wait a minute, wait a minute." Li Nu called him.

"Sister Li Nu, what do you want me to do?" Huang Yuanji turned his head and looked at her gently and asked.

"How is the rabbit at home?" asked the raccoon with his watery eyes.

"Rabbit?" Huang Yuanji blinked and said, "They are fine! They are plump and fat." He smiled and said, "If you want them, I will bring you a few."

"No, no, I want to ask if this rabbit gives birth to many babies?" The cat slave looked at him with his big, twinkling eyes.

"A lot! We caught about ten at the beginning of the year, and now we have almost two hundred." Huang Yuanji's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Wow... can you get off so fast?" Li Nu's eyes almost popped out of the window.

"Rabbits lay a litter every month or so. There are usually six to eight rabbits in a litter. You can do the math." Huang Yuanji looked at her with a smile in his black eyes and said, "It's probably because the weather is cold, so they separated them on purpose." She asked curiously, "Why are you asking this?"

"Domestic rabbits are delicious. We want to raise rabbits." Upon hearing this, the raccoon slave looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"What are you raising? If you want to eat it, just go home and get it!" Huang Yuanji said straightforwardly, and then added, "If you really want to raise it, you can't do it now."

"Why?" Li Nu looked at him puzzledly and asked.

"You little fool, there is no fresh grass, and everything is yellow and withered." The big insect looked at her with amusement and said.

"Then next spring." Li Nu shook his head and laughed when he heard it.

"Is there anything else?" Huang Yuanji said to them with a smile on his face.

"That's all. That's all. I just asked about the rabbit." The raccoon slave quickly waved his hands.

"Don't rush to send the basket. We'll come over in the afternoon and take it back." Huang Yuanji looked at them with his clear black eyes and said, "I'm leaving."

"Goodbye, we won't see you off." Li Nu and the others watched him leave before turning around and going home.

"Wow... the stew is ready." Shen Hui'e opened the lid and looked at the tofu pudding in the jar. She touched the edge of the jar and said, "It's ready to be steamed together with the buns."

"Okay!" the big tiger nodded.

After breakfast, Shen Hui'e took out all the tools used for slaughtering pigs, washed them, and planned to reopen the slaughtering stall tomorrow!

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The next day, Shen Hui'e got up before dawn, prepared everything and started slaughtering the pig.

"Mother, can you sell this pork?" Da Chong looked at her with some concern and said, "Life is not easy nowadays."

Before Shen Hui'e could say anything, she heard a voice coming from outside the door, "Pig-killing lady, have you killed the pig? We are waiting!"

"It seems like they are very anxious!" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at him with bright eyes full of warmth.

It's really true that meat tastes terrible in March. Shen Hui'e's pig hasn't been slaughtered yet! There's already a long line in front of the meat stall.

As soon as Shen Hui'e's meat was cut, Da Chong took it to the stall to sell it.

By dawn, Shen Hui'e had sold out all the pork.

The big tiger picked up the earthenware jar and shook it, making a tinkling sound that was pleasant to the ear.

The raccoon slave pulled his mother's arm and whispered, "Mother, don't you have any pork left?"

Shen Hui'e put her index finger to her lips and said, "Shh..." and winked at her.

Seeing this, the raccoon slave smiled and understood, "Hehe..."

Shen Hui'e waved her hand and said, "Closing the stall."

After closing the stall, Shen Hui'e divided the remaining five pounds of pork, keeping a palm-sized piece for herself, "Let's eat wontons. Now we can kill the pig and eat it later."

"We have no objection." Li Nu said with a smile, carrying the basket to deliver the pork.

Shen Hui'e kneads the dough first and then lets it rest.

Wontons do not require much pork, so Shen Hui'e chopped the remaining half a pound of pork into puree and mixed it with green onions.

"Mother, this stuffing doesn't look like much!" said the cat slave, looking at the stuffing in the big iron pot with eyes like black grapes.

"That's all the pork left." Shen Hui'e looked at her with clear eyes and said, "It's no good. Cut the remaining wonton skins into slices and make noodle soup."

"This is the only way." Upon hearing this, the raccoon slave had no choice but to say.

"Mother, mother, I brought back two rabbits." Da Chong walked into the house holding the rabbits by their ears. "My grandmother gave them to me. Look how fat they are."

"Got it." Shen Hui'e looked at the plump rabbit with her inky eyes and said, "Let's eat rabbit meat dumplings."

"What about the pork filling? It's all ready." Li Nu pointed at the pork filling in the big iron pot.

"That's a waste. There are two kinds of stuffing!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her crystal clear eyes and said, "I'll go kill the rabbit. You guys put the stuffing into a clean earthenware bowl for me."

"I'll do it." Li Nu volunteered.

Shen Hui'e took a rabbit from her son's hand, killed it with a knife, hung it on a tree branch and began to skin it.

Shen Hui'e removed all the rabbit meat, leaving the skeleton and internal organs to make offal soup in the afternoon.

Just like the pork filling, the side dish for the rabbit filling is not green onions, but chopped Chinese cabbage.

Roll the rested dough into strips and cut into small pieces of similar size.

Li Nu and Da Chong rolled out the dumpling wrappers, while Shen Hui'e and Xiao Douzi worked together to make dumplings.

"I haven't made dumplings for three months, and my hands are a little rusty." Xiaodouzi said clumsily.

"After wrapping two or three times, you'll get the hang of it." Shen Hui'e smiled and said encouragingly to them, "You're wrapping pretty well."

Strength lies in numbers. The dumplings were wrapped in the blink of an eye. The water just happened to boil, so all the dumplings on the lid were put into the big iron pot and cooked in one pot.

"The dumplings are cooked." Shen Hui'e took a colander and scooped up the dumplings and put them into a coarse earthenware bowl. There was too much room in the bowl, so she scooped them into a clay basin.

If one bowl is not enough, transfer the dumplings from the clay pot to your own bowl.

"I wonder if dumplings with rabbit stuffing taste good!" said the raccoon while holding chopsticks and looking at the hot dumplings.

"As long as it's meat, it must be delicious, especially since we haven't eaten meat for a while." The big tiger took a bite of half of the dumpling, looked at her with shining eyes, and nodded vigorously.

"It must be delicious," Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her shiny black eyes, and warned them, "Be careful, it's hot!"

"Yeah!" The big tiger puffed up his cheeks and nodded.

They hadn’t eaten for a long time, so Shen Hui’e and the others were full of dumplings.

"I'm so full. I'm so full." Da Chong leaned back and supported himself on the bed with his hands.

"If you really feel uncomfortable, I'll boil some hawthorn water." Shen Hui'e stood up and said to them.

"No, no, it will be digested in a while." Da Chong immediately sat up straight and said, "If I drink now, I will feel even more full."

"I'm not asking you to drink it now." Shen Hui'e boiled hawthorn water, "Just drink it as water." Looking at them, she said, "I have made an appointment to teach them how to catch rabbits."

"Who?" Da Chong looked at her with a puzzled look on his face.

"The guys who fought with Xiaodouzi." Shen Hui'e explained the whole story.

"Did we win?" Big Tiger asked Little Bean with burning eyes.

"Of course I won. How could I lose?" Xiaodouzi looked at him proudly and said.

Shen Hui'e clenched her fist and coughed twice, looking at Xiao Douzi who had forgotten himself a little.

"I told you not to bully the weak." Shen Hui'e said to them with a stern face.

"I was wrong, Master." Xiaodouzi and the others stood up straight, bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes, "Please punish us!"

Shen Hui'e looked at them who had a good attitude in admitting their mistakes, "You will be punished." Then she continued, "After the table is cleared, you will stand in horse stance and recite Wude ten times."

Xiao Douzi looked at her in astonishment. Shen Hui'e looked through his eyes and raised her eyebrows slightly, "Why do you feel that the punishment is too light?"

"No, no!" Xiaodouzi shook his head like a rattle and looked at her.

"They have the same hard life as you. This ice hole is not good. The river is so big, just go somewhere else! Why fight for this spot?" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her ink-black eyes.

"I was in a hurry at the time, and I'm used to snatching things." Xiao Douzi scratched his head and said honestly, "I've snatched food from dogs before. I took action when I saw them coming to snatch it." He looked at her firmly and said, "I won't do that again in the future."