Pig Killer

Chapter 109

"Yes!" Huang Jichang tilted his head slightly and looked at his eldest brother-in-law and said, "Second sister-in-law doesn't want it either, saying that she eats too much meat now."

"No, that won't work. I've already pulled it here. How can you let me pull it back?" Shen Changsheng took a wooden shovel and shoveled the manure to the edge of the field.

"Is there enough fertilizer at home?" Shen Hui'e asked with concern.

"That's enough! Your sister-in-law and nephews are hardworking. They raised pigs and chickens this year." Shen Changsheng said with a smile, "I was worried that we wouldn't be able to finish the eggs and what would happen if they went bad? Now we have spoiled eggs and pickled salted eggs, so they can be preserved for a longer time."

Shen Hui'e agreed readily, "Okay then!" Suddenly she thought, "We have a lot of pigs and chickens, we have to sell them early before the New Year, otherwise we will lose money if the price drops."

"Not much, actually. Sister-in-law, you can't kill pigs every day." Huang Jichang kindly reminded, "I haven't tasted meat for several days."

Shen Hui'e was stunned when she heard this, then she smiled and said, "My pork stall has not been open for a while." She smiled and said, "Now the supply is less than the demand, so I will keep it going!"

"Yes! No matter how much pork there is, we can eat it all now." Huang Jichang said without exaggeration.

Shen Hui'e forgot that the current productivity is not high and it is impossible to crowd out the market in a short period of time.

"You guys go ahead and do your work! We'll do the fertilizing ourselves." Shen Hui'e said to them with her eyes as black as jade.

"This is not weeding. It's easy to weed and pull out the weeds when they just pop up." Huang Jichang smiled and said, "I'll stay and help my second sister-in-law."

"I feel embarrassed about this." Shen Hui'e said politely. She was indeed very happy in her heart. Who wouldn't like to have someone help with the work?

"Sister-in-law, you're too polite." Huang Jichang went to the field with a wooden shovel.

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Victory was in sight. With everyone's help, the farm manure was finally applied to the crops.

"Mother, mother, the bean leaves are ready to be eaten." The big insect said, pointing at the bean sprouts in the field.

"Then let's go back on time." Shen Hui'e said, looking at Douhuo with her deep black eyes.

People like her are the common people at the bottom of the food chain, who eat bean leaves and rice porridge. The opposite is the meat eaters, the ruling aristocracy.

Mencius said: If you plant mulberry trees in a house of five mu, people fifty can wear silk; if you raise chickens, pigs, dogs and pigs at the right time, people seventy can eat meat...

If you plant mulberry trees in a five-acre garden, people of fifty can wear silk. If you don't delay the breeding of chickens, pigs, dogs and other poultry and livestock, people of seventy can eat meat. If you don't delay the production season of a hundred acres of arable land, a family of several people will not starve.

The low productivity is beyond imagination.

"Bean leaves are smoother than wild vegetables and don't have too much astringency." Da Chong said after swallowing the porridge in his mouth.

"It tastes better than the usual bean leaf porridge." The cat slave said while smacking his lips.

"These bean leaves are grown. Wild vegetables are naturally not as delicious as grown ones." Shen Hui'e looked at them with curved eyebrows and said with a smile, "What's more, there are fish balls in this porridge, so the fish soup will naturally taste better."

"Anything cooked in broth tastes good." Da Chong said, holding the bowl and taking a mouthful of porridge.

"The weeds have been removed and fertilizer has been applied." Shen Hui'e looked at the blue sky and said, "It would be great if it rained."

Three days after the farmyard manure was applied, dark clouds rolled in and heavy rain fell continuously.

"It's timely rain!" Shen Hui'e was delighted as she watched the heavy rain outside.

"This year will be a good year!" said the big insect, sitting on a small stool at the door. "It looks like this."

"It's hard to say. It looks like the weather is good now. It will rain when it's supposed to." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes and said, "The grain will only belong to you when you get it home. It's not safe to worry about it in the fields."

"Mother, mother, it's raining, and you can't go to the countryside to collect pigs. Let's make tofu!" The big tiger looked at her with his black eyes and said, "The stone mill in the kitchen is not used yet!"

"Okay, okay!" Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded, "Let's make soy milk and tofu pudding first." She muttered, "Do you have gypsum?"

"Go ask Doctor Li. If there is any, buy some back." Shen Hui'e said to the big tiger with her bright dark eyes.

"Okay." The tiger responded readily.

"Put on your clogs. It's raining." Shen Hui'e reminded him, "Also call Donglai and the others."

"Got it." Da Chong took the purse, obediently changed into wooden clogs, rolled up his trouser legs above his knees, opened his oil-paper umbrella, and left the house.

Shen Hui'e first soaked the soybeans in water, then rinsed the stone mill, and ground the soybeans first.

Others are boiling the pot, but she is grinding the mill.

"Wow..." The raccoon slave looked at the juice flowing out of the millstone and said, "Is this soy milk? Is it for drinking?"

"You have to cook it before you drink it. It's still raw now!" Shen Hui'e looked at her with gentle eyes and said, "Don't use this soy milk. Dry it and feed it to the chickens later." She reached out and grabbed some soy milk, and the juice flowed through her fingers, leaving not much bean dregs.

"What's wrong?" Li Nu held his knees with his hands and looked at her and asked.

"This stone mill is good. It grinds very finely." Shen Hui'e clapped her hands and said, "There is not much bean dregs left on my hands."

"That's a good thing." Li Nu looked at her with her big, bright eyes.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded with a smile, "And it's not too heavy to grind."

"That's good." The raccoon's eyes curved into crescents, and suddenly he looked at her with wide eyes and said, "Mother, how about grinding wheat? This way the flour will be finer."

"I don't know, I haven't tried it." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at her with her black eyes flashing.

"Then let's give it a try!" Li Nu looked at her with shining eyes and said eagerly.

"Do we have time?" Shen Hui'e lowered her eyes and looked at her and said, "You are too young to push the millstone."

"Uh..." The raccoon slave ran to the millstone, held the horizontal bar, and used all his strength to make the millstone turn.

"Okay, okay." Shen Hui'e stopped the little guy who was still pushing the millstone and said, "It's not even as high as the millstone! Don't waste your energy." She smiled and said, "When we buy some oxen or horses, they can pull the millstone, which will be much easier than us."

"That's right!" The raccoon slave looked at her with green eyes and said, "Mother, when will you buy it?"

"Maybe next year!" Shen Hui'e said after thinking seriously.

"Don't we have money?" Li Nu whispered in her ear.

"We should not show off our wealth. We need to kill pigs to earn enough money to buy cows." Shen Hui'e said, scratching her small nose with her fingers.

"Oh!" the raccoon slave muttered with a pursed mouth.

"Time flies." Shen Hui'e reached out and rubbed her head.