Pig Killer

Chapter 136

"Then let's go to bed." Shen Hui'e looked at them with a gentle smile on her face and said, "I'll leave the plow here for you!"

"Put it here!" Tie Feng responded with a smile.

"I'm leaving!" Shen Hui'e looked at the couple and said, "Don't see me off."

"Brother Tie, please send my second sister off." Shen Yun'e said simply after hearing this.

"Hey!" Tie Feng sent his second sister and her family of three away and returned to the blacksmith shop. It wasn't completely dark yet! He could still work for a while.

&*&

Radishes in the first ten days, vegetables in the second ten days.

The agricultural proverbs of later generations are not very accurate in describing the varieties of vegetables.

You don't need much for your own consumption. There are only a few varieties of radish now, and there is only white radish. There are no carrots, water radishes, or green radishes.

Chinese cabbage is not cabbage, but is similar to bok choy.

Shen Hui'e and her colleagues still have to grow some vegetables. With the winter storage vegetables, they no longer have to dry them.

You need vegetables to dry them, but there are few varieties of vegetables now.

"Our loofahs are ready to eat." Shen Hui'e said as she stood under the loofah rack, looking at the loofah vines full of yellow flowers.

In her memory, loofah only appeared very late, which made her feel confused about the times.

Why aren’t there more varieties of vegetables?

Anyway, the result now is that there is too much loofah to eat, and my face turns green when I see the loofah.

"Mother, can we please not eat loofah?" Li Nu said in a low voice with a pursed mouth.

"I don't want to eat it either." Da Chong said as he looked at the racks full of loofahs.

"What should we do then?" Shen Hui'e was troubled when she heard this, "It would be a pity to throw it away."

"Give it away." The tiger said without thinking.

"Who are you sending it to? Every household grows it, and they can't eat it all. I wonder who you want to send it to?" Shen Hui'e said with amusement when she heard this.

"What should I do?" Li Nu scratched his head and said, "It seems that we can't dry vegetables."

"Feed the pigs, feed the chickens." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a slight movement in her eyes.

"We'll be called a spendthrift if we do this." Li Nu said in a low voice.

"What should we do?" Shen Hui'e looked at them with a frown and said, "I really can't eat it anymore. It will be worse if it rots." Her dark pupils rolled around as she said, "How can we do this secretly without letting them know?"

"That's the only way." Da Chong and Li Nu looked at each other and said in unison.

Shen Hui'e picked the loofahs and gave them directly to the farmers to feed the pigs when she went to the countryside to collect pigs.

"Mrs. Pig-killer, you are really imaginative to feed pigs with this loofah."

"My family is small, and we planted a lot of loofahs, but we can't eat them all." Shen Hui'e looked at them helplessly and said, "Can you eat all the loofahs you planted?"

"can!"

"How can we not finish this? Eat as much as you can, every meal. I can't bear to feed it to pigs!"

"Won't you get tired of eating it?" Shen Hui'e asked them with clear eyes.

"What are you talking about? Just stuff it into your stomach!"

"You can feed these to the pigs! Luffa is also good for feeding pigs." Shen Hui'e said to them with her clear and bright eyes.

The loofahs finally found their way to her hometown. Every time Shen Hui'e went to the countryside to collect pigs, she would give the loofahs to the villagers.

&*&

She finally made the fermented old dough, and next she needed a steamer, which was indispensable whether it was for steaming buns or steamed buns.

After selling pork, crabs and loaches and having breakfast, Shen Hui'e called Li Nu and Da Chong to go to Liu Ding's house.

Li Nu took her hand and shook it gently, and asked cheerfully, "Mother, what do you want to see Uncle Liu for again?"

"It's a steamer." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her bright eyes and said, "It's used on a large iron pot. When we cook, we either stew or steam. This time we'll steam it!"

"Does it need to be as big as a big iron pot?" The big tiger said with his bright black eyes wide open.

"That's right." Shen Hui'e stretched out her hand and gestured, "Big one."

"What do you want to steam, mother?" The raccoon asked with innocent eyes full of curiosity, "Wild vegetable cakes?"

"Can you please not eat it?" The big insect said with a frown, "It's really not tasty."

"Don't steam the wild vegetables. They are all old and not tasty anymore." Shen Hui'e smiled and said, "Let's steam them with flour. Pure flour, nothing else."

"Then if it's steamed, it will become steamed cake, right?" said the big insect, blinking its black eyes.

"Not quite the same, the steamed buns are too hard!" Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at them and said, "Ours are soft after steaming." Then she added, "You'll know when you see them after steaming them."

"Is it delicious?" Da Chong asked curiously.

"Everything made with flour tastes good." The raccoon slave looked at them with innocent eyes and said confidently.

"All white flour porridge tastes good." The big insect looked at her with his bright black eyes.

"It must taste better when steamed than plain flour paste." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright eyes and said, "Why else would I bother with that?"

As they were talking, they arrived at Liu Ding's door and shouted at the top of his voice, "Uncle Liu, we are here."

"Come in quickly." Liu Ding straightened up, looked up at them and said enthusiastically.

"Wow... I haven't been here for a while. Your place is much tidier." Shen Hui'e looked at him in surprise and said.

"There are so many people coming and going here now. It's not suitable to be in a mess. When people come, there's no place to stand." Liu Ding looked at them with a smile and pointed at the square table and bench under the shade of the tree. "Sit down!" He brushed off the sawdust and shavings on his body, walked over, sat opposite them and said, "What do you want to do today?"

"It's used for steaming food. Put it in a big iron pot." Da Chong gestured with his hand.

"What is my second sister-in-law going to do? Making steamed buns?" Liu Ding asked curiously.

"It tastes better than steamed buns." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes and said, "You can also make steamed dumplings!"

Liu Ding was stunned when he heard this, then smiled and said, "Okay, okay."

"This steamer needs three layers!" Shen Hui'e said, holding up three fingers.

"No problem." Liu Ding responded readily, "It's just that I have a lot of work to do and I don't have enough time."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Shen Hui'e shook her head gently, "Just do your work first."

"You don't have any requirements for this steamer. Can I ask someone else to make it for you?" Liu Ding looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "Zheng Yi is a very meticulous carpenter."

"It has to be deducted!" Shen Hui'e picked up the earthenware jar on the table, poured some water into it, and drew on the wooden table, saying, "Three layers."

"Of course, it fits perfectly." Liu Ding smiled when he heard that.

"The wood must be of good quality and not deformed." Shen Hui'e said to him with her glassy eyes.

"Of course." Liu Ding nodded and smiled, "Anything else you want?"

"That's all." Shen Hui'e looked at him with warm eyes and said, "Then we won't disturb you anymore." Then she stood up.

Liu Ding stood up, looked at them and said, "Walk slowly! Be careful on the road." He watched them leave.

&*&

Three days later, Liu Ding came pushing a wheelbarrow with a tall steamer on it when she had free time after selling pork.

"Sister-in-law, this is Zheng Yi. He made the steamer." Liu Ding introduced first.

"Really? Thank you." Shen Hui'e said, looking at the handsome boy.

Compared to Liu Ding's roughness, Zheng Yi looks gentle.

"No thanks, no thanks. I should thank Brother Liu for introducing the job to me." Zheng Yi said shyly.

"Sister-in-law, try putting it on the big iron pot." Liu Ding put down the wheelbarrow, looked at her and said with a smile.

"Wow! It even has a handle." Shen Hui'e said in surprise as she looked at the wooden handle on the steamer.

"It's easier to carry this way." Liu Ding said with a smile, "Come on! Try lifting it onto the big iron pot."

Liu Ding and Zheng Yi worked together to lift the steamer onto the big iron pot.

"How is it?" Liu Ding looked up and down to see if the steamer was properly placed. "It's in the right place."

Shen Hui'e took down the steamers one by one, "Wow..." her eyes were full of amazement, it was done very well.

The grates are polished very smoothly and the spacing is even.

"The cage cloth has to be prepared by the second sister-in-law herself." Liu Ding said with a smile, "This pot cover is woven with reed stalks, it's very tight. Use it first, and we can change it if it doesn't work."

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e responded readily, and said with a smile, "Big Chong will give you money, Uncle Liu."

"Uncle Liu, please come in with me!" said the big tiger, looking at him with a smile.

Liu Ding followed the big tiger into the house.

The neighbors in front of the stall looked at the big thing on the iron pot and asked curiously, "Slaughterer, what are you going to do?"

"Of course the steamer is used to steam things." Shen Hui'e said to them with a smile.

"We know how to steam things, but what are we steaming?"

"We'll know the day after tomorrow when we steam it. Everyone will know then." Shen Hui'e said to them with bright eyes.

"Why the day after tomorrow?"

"Because I still need to prepare some things!" Shen Hui'e looked at them tenderly and said, "Please wait patiently."

What else can we do now? Just wait!

"The day after tomorrow afternoon, the weather will not be so hot. Come, it will probably be steamed." Shen Hui'e reminded the neighbors. If you come too early, the food will not be steamed yet, and the weather is hot, so you can wait impatiently.

"OK then!"

"Pig-killing lady, please get busy! We are leaving now."

"Goodbye!" Shen Hui'e watched the neighbors in front of the stall leave in twos and threes.

Liu Ding came out with the money, "Second sister-in-law, I'm leaving now. Come find me if you have any problems!"

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e looked at him gently and watched him leave.

"Mother, what else do you need to prepare?" The cat slave asked her with watery eyes.

"Prepare the filling!" Shen Hui'e said to her with a smile on her face.

"It's really steamed dumplings!" Li Nu looked at her with her big, bright eyes and said.

"We'll know the day after tomorrow." Shen Hui'e smiled mysteriously at them.

&*&

The day after tomorrow, Shen Hui'e sold all the pork and kept about four or five pounds of pork, which she chopped into stuffing.

"Mother, there is only meat and no side dishes?" said the cat slave with his watery eyes as he looked at the pork that was chopped into paste.

"Yes! Your brother Cheng went to the vegetable garden to pick radish tops." Shen Hui'e said to her with a smile.

"Are radish tops the same as leeks and green onions?" the big insect said, looking at her with his round eyes.

"That's right!" Shen Hui'e said, looking at her with a smile.