Pig Killer

Chapter 146

"Why are you here?" Shen Hui'e said to Shen Peng who came in hurriedly.

"I heard you put the chickens in the fields." Shen Penglai stopped and looked at the endless fields and said, "Where are they!" He put his hand on his forehead and shouted, "Ah! I see the reed chickens." He counted in his mouth, "One, two, three, four..."

"How do you know?" Shen Hui'e asked casually.

"I heard the cockfighting people..." Shen Penglai covered his mouth with his hands, blinked his guilty eyes and looked at her and said, "Second sister, you didn't hear it!"

"You're playing around again," Shen Hui'e said, looking at him unhappily, "The autumn harvest is over."

"We've harvested it, we've harvested it." Shen Penglai put down his hands and looked at her beggingly, "We have to plant wheat again in just two days, so we need to take some time out of our busy schedule. Keep it a secret, keep it a secret, don't tell my brother."

"You! I feel happy just looking at you like that silly." Shen Hui'e looked at him with amusement and said.

"The fight was intense, the chickens were really ferocious!" Shen Penglai said excitedly, "The chickens' feathers were flying everywhere, and they were even bleeding. It was really fun to watch."

"It's just a fight between chickens. What's so good about it?" Shen Hui'e said with a graceful roll of her eyes.

"Second sister doesn't understand. It makes my blood boil." Shen Penglai said excitedly, his face as red as if he had put on rouge.

I don't understand. Compared to cockfighting and watching two chickens abuse each other, I prefer to abuse people! Shen Hui'e complained in her heart.

"Be careful, don't get caught by Big Brother. I'll let you reflect on your mistakes when you go home." Shen Hui'e pointed at him with her index finger and said.

"I know, I know." Shen Penglai said insincerely.

"Do you want to watch here? We have to go home for dinner." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright black eyes.

"There's no one here. What if the chicken gets lost?" Shen Penglai asked worriedly.

"We will go back first, Donglai will wait for us to take over." Shen Hui'e said with a smile, "Today we have freshly steamed buns and corn porridge." She said with a smile, "The corn porridge tastes good, so let's have more of it."

"Okay!" Cheng Donglai responded with a smile.

"That's right! The pork has been castrated." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Yoho..." The children jumped happily on the edge of the field.

"Mother, mother, will we be able to eat castrated pork in the future?" Da Chong said to her with excited eyes.

"Uh... it seems that we can't do that yet. There are still many pigs that have not been slaughtered, and they haven't been killed yet!" Shen Hui'e said after a moment of hesitation.

"Will it still be easy to sell?" Li Nu looked at her worriedly and said, "The contrast is too obvious."

"I have no choice but to lower the price. We really can't sell them anymore. I really have no other choice right now." Shen Hui'e looked at them with deep and bottomless eyes and said.

"Then the farmers will suffer losses," the tiger said with concern.

Shen Hui'e's eyes flickered as she said, "I got it. Breed! Give birth to piglets." Then she added, "I'll go check how many pigs are there that haven't been castrated yet." She raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "This will also reduce the losses of the farmers."

"This is the only way for now." The big tiger had no choice but to say after hearing this.

"Let's stop talking. Let's go home and have dinner." Shen Hui'e called them and looked at Shen Penglai and said, "Third brother, come home with me for dinner."

"No, no, I'm going home to eat. Amu's mother is cooking!" Shen Penglai grinned when he heard that.

"Then let's go home!" Shen Hui'e said, looking at them with a smile.

After dinner, the children couldn’t wait to run back to the fields, fearing that their chickens would run away.

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As the sun sets, tired birds return to their nests, and the blue sky is dyed red by the fiery clouds.

"Mother, how are we going to catch this chicken?" the big tiger said worriedly when he heard this.

"Who in our family feeds the chickens regularly?" Shen Hui'e asked them with her bright dark eyes.

"Cat slave! The chicken feed is ready. It was Cat slave who fed the chickens and laid the eggs." The big tiger looked at her with his round eyes and said.

"Cat slave crows the same way he did when he was feeding the chickens." Shen Hui'e said, patting Cat slave on the shoulder.

"So the chickens will come back?" The raccoon slave said to her with sparkling eyes.

"That's right." Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded slightly.

"Hehehe..." the raccoon slave shouted loudly.

As expected, the chickens came running over obediently. Cheng Donglai and his team had already prepared the chicken coop, and the chickens went in obediently.

"How is it possible?" Li Nu said in disbelief with his eyes wide open.

"Because the chickens recognize your voice! Smart little fellow." Shen Hui'e looked at the chickens in the chicken coop with her dark and bright eyes and said with a smile, "Let's go home!"

When the people in the fields saw Shen Hui'e releasing chickens into the fields, they all released their own chickens into the fields after they knew the reason.

Then there was a lively scene of chaos and confusion.

The chickens were kept like this for a few days, during which time it rained a little.

Shen Hui'e and her colleagues began to plow the fields where they had harvested corn and soybeans. This is how crop rotation works.

The land left over from the summer harvest will be used to grow corn and soybeans in the next spring...

With the new plow, plowing the land is much faster, easier and more economical.

Of course, it can't be compared with oxen, which are the real laborers.

After plowing the land, spread some fertilizer on it and wait for a few days before sowing.

When planting winter wheat, a vegetable plot is also cleared at home to plant garlic and harvest it the following year.

Shen Hui'e cannot do without garlic when cooking, and eating garlic has many benefits.

The autumn harvest is more than just food! The various wild fruits in the forest are also very tempting.

Shen Hui'e washed the hawthorns picked by the children and ate them raw, and sliced ​​the rest, removed the seeds, and dried them directly.

She really wanted to make hawthorn jam or hawthorn cake, but she didn’t have a tightly sealed container, so she had to give up!

The hawthorn slices are strung together with thin hemp ropes and hung on the door.

She would like to string some red peppers together and hang them on the door. They would look very beautiful in bright red, but unfortunately she could only think about it in her mind.

Other people who travel through time all have golden fingers! Eat delicious food, drink spicy drinks, she has nothing, and has to work in the fields like an old ox.

"Chestnuts?" Shen Hui'e looked at the hairy chestnuts the children had brought back with her clear eyes and smiled, "Just cut them open and steam them right away." She then instructed Da Chong, "Take the money and buy two chickens."

"Buy chickens?" Da Chong looked at her in confusion and asked.

"Yes! Chestnut chicken!" Shen Hui'e said to him with her crystal clear eyes.

"Hey!" The big tiger jumped happily and took the money out.

When he came back, he had two slaughtered chickens in his hands.

Because of her influence, people who sell chickens and ducks now slaughter them immediately, unless they buy them back to raise.

Shen Hui'e chopped the chicken into pieces, washed it, drained it and set it aside.

After the chestnuts were steamed, Shen Hui'e and the others ate them first because they had been cut into cross shapes, making them easier to peel.

"So sweet and chewy." The cat slave looked at her with his watery eyes and said.

"Delicious." The big insect said with a smile after swallowing the chestnut in his mouth.

"We've steamed quite a lot! We'll make chestnut chicken later, so save some for later!" Shen Hui'e smiled at them and reminded them, "Don't eat too much, it's hard to digest."

"Yes!" Da Chong and the others nodded in unison.

"There are plenty of chestnuts! They won't go bad. We can steam them if you want to eat them." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright black eyes and said.

"Listen to my aunt."

Shen Hui'e ate some chestnuts and washed her hands. She went into the house, took out two bundles, handed them to Cheng Donglai and the others, and said, "These are winter clothes. You can wear them when the weather gets cold."

"Ours?" Cheng Donglai's pupils shrank slightly. He looked at her in disbelief and pointed at himself.

"Of course." Shen Hui'e looked at them tenderly with her bright eyes, and stuffed the bundle into their hands, saying, "Here, one for each person." Then she added, "Dogskin mattress, put it under the body to keep warm and keep out moisture. Winter clothes are made of lamb, socks are made of rabbit skin. There is also a quilt made of rabbit skin." After a pause, she added, "Sew linen with rabbit skin, leaving a mouth to fill with hay."

This is the only way to survive the winter. She really wanted to stuff cotton into her clothes, but unfortunately there was none. Hay was used to keep her warm, so she hoped to have a warm winter.

"Auntie." Cheng Donglai and the others looked at her with red eyes and called out.

"Hey, don't get excited! We gave it to you only when we had the conditions. If not, I think it would be useless." Shen Hui'e looked at them tenderly and said, rolling up her sleeves, "Peel the chestnuts but don't eat them. Let's make chestnut chicken."

"Hey!" the tiger responded crisply.

Chestnut chicken is very simple to make, and the lard nowadays comes from castrated pigs.

The quality of lard has obviously improved. Put the chicken in cold water and boil it in water.

Stir-fry the scallion, ginger and garlic with lard, then stir-fry the chicken. Add salt and appropriate amount of water, then put in the steamed chestnuts. Bring to a boil over high heat and collect the sauce.

The chestnut chicken is served with a big hot steamed bun, which makes your mouth greasy and is so delicious that you can swallow your tongue.

"I didn't expect that chicken and chestnuts stewed together would be so delicious and sweet." Da Chong looked at her with sparkling eyes and said.

"Before the conditions did not allow it, we spent the winter thinking about delicious food." Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "Only fat ones can withstand the severe cold."

After half a year of feeding, the children didn't gain much weight, but they grew a lot taller, just like the small trees.

Her spirit and energy have changed drastically compared to when she first came.

"What else is there for mother to do?" said the raccoon, looking at her with his big watery eyes.

"Real braised pork." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Your uncle has brought some candy." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her dark and bright eyes, although she really looked down upon the candy, which was just black maltose.

"We can stir-fry sugar color." Shen Hui'e said to them with her bright black eyes.

By adding a dish of fried sugar color and using castrated pork, the braised pork tasted much more authentic.

"What a beautiful color, so red and bright." The raccoon's eyes like black grapes stared at the braised pork in the big iron pot.

The big bug took the braised pork and put it into his mouth. Hmm! He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It went into my stomach as soon as I slurped it up."