Pig Killer

Chapter 38

Although pigs have a low status, they are still used in sacrifices, and a large pig's head must be placed on the altar.

In later generations, the custom of slaughtering the New Year pig was also established in many places.

With the birth of Su Dongpo's Dongpo Pork, pork became even more famous and was further promoted to thousands of households.

Ordinary people don't care whether pork is cheap or not, it's meat! Compared with cattle and sheep, the price is much cheaper, so even if it doesn't taste good, people will still buy it to eat.

The cooking method is simple and crude, and the fishy smell cannot be covered up no matter how it is cooked.

Only by adding a large amount of seasoning can the fishy smell of pork be covered up.

But nowadays, even people in the upper class are reluctant to pile up spices to make a dish. The most important thing is that even if they are piled up, the dish may not taste good.

What’s more, there aren’t even that many seasonings!

Whether it tastes good or not and whether it can be eaten are two different concepts.

When you are hungry, you can eat anything, let alone the pigs you raise at home, so why would you care so much?

The Book of Rites states: A gentleman does not eat rich food.

"Guoyu·Chuyuxia": The emperor eats Tailao, which includes all three kinds of livestock: cattle, sheep, and pigs. The princes eat cattle, the nobles eat sheep, the officials eat pigs, the scholars eat roasted fish, and the common people eat vegetables.

Thereby reinforcing pork’s low status in the culture.

Butchering was considered a wealthy profession in ancient times.

The butcher, who held the power of life and death, was a very influential profession in history. The Biographies of Assassins in the Records of the Grand Historian recorded five assassins, Cao Mo, Zhuan Zhu, Yu Rang, Nie Zheng and Jing Ke, among whom Zhuan Zhu and Nie Zheng were all butchers.

Zhuan Zhu killed pigs, Nie Zheng killed dogs, and the most famous Jing Ke was not a butcher, but his good friend Gao Jianli was also a dog butcher.

Li Bai mentioned in "Xia Ke Xing" that he was about to feed the roast meat to Zhu Hai and hold the cup to toast Hou Ying.

The strong man who helped Lord Xinling steal the seal to save Zhao was also a butcher.

Those who are loyal are usually butchers, and those who are unfaithful are usually scholars.

The pig-killer Shen Hui'e is not afraid of what others say?

Butchers often become talented generals, so people in later generations also said: Therefore, those who sell silk and butcher dogs are fully capable of helping to achieve the emperor's cause.

Just kidding, just kidding. Shen Hui'e didn't think that far ahead. She just wanted to solve the problem of food and clothing first.

Shen Hui'e smiled at Doctor Li and said, "If you really want to get rid of this fishy smell, pigs will grow fast, get fatter, and be cheap. You are benefiting the people. Every household can afford to eat them and will be grateful to you."

Give Doctor Li all the compliments.

Doctor Li was so drunk by her that he smiled foolishly and said modestly, "You are exaggerating. Who knows me?"

"It's not an exaggeration, it's not an exaggeration." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes and said, "Future generations will definitely remember you."

"What do you need me to do? Just tell me directly." Doctor Li looked at her gently and said, feeling his old face burning.

"Thank you so much." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her clear eyes and said, "You don't have to do the operation yourself. I'll leave it to you to take care of the piglets after the operation. We are mainly worried that the wound will fester and endanger the lives of the piglets. Farmers can't afford it."

"Is that so? That's too easy." Doctor Li responded cheerfully, "It's just that the farmer is willing. After all, there are risks in everything."

"My family is willing to give it a try." Wang Su said, patting his chest.

"Do you believe this method will work?" Doctor Li said as he looked at him with his beard raised.

"I believe it, based on my family's years of raising pigs. Pigs are very violent when they are in heat and can hurt people. Once that thing is castrated, there's nothing I can think of anymore." Wang Su said honestly.

"Doctor Li, please analyze this method from the perspective of Qihuang. Is it feasible?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her ink-black eyes.

Doctor Li looked at her with wide eyes, swallowed his saliva and said, "Then give it a try."

"We just want to give it a try. After all, no one in our past has done this before." Wang Su said quickly, "After all, I don't have much to lose."

"Since we have decided to take action, please ask Doctor Li to come with us." Shen Hui'e looked at Doctor Li with a pleading look on her face.

"The weather is just right now, it's the right time for surgery." Doctor Li said seriously, "We need hemostatic medicine."

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded hurriedly.

"Then wait for me to get the medicine box and then we'll go." Doctor Li went back to the backyard and said something to his old wife, then he carried the medicine box and left the house.

When Shen Hui'e passed by her home, she went in, said hello to the children, took the large knife she was using, and pushed the wheelbarrow.

Because Wang Su told her that there were some domestic pigs in the village that were going to be sold.

When business comes to her, Shen Hui'e is naturally all smiles.

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Shen Hui'e and the other two went straight to the Wang family.

Doctor Li walked over and asked, "What are you going to do about the surgery?"

Of course Shen Hui'e wanted to anesthetize the piglet directly, but there was no anesthetic and no silver needles for acupuncture.

Wang Su said directly, "Tie up the piglet! The knife must be sharp and quick." Then he added, "The piglet's part is still small, so the incision won't be too big."

Doctor Li nodded when he heard this, "Yes!"

"How about the money for the medicine?" Wang Su hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Give me two eggs or a basket of wild vegetables." Doctor Li looked at him kindly and said.

"Hey!" Wang Su responded happily.

"In fact, you often use stove ash to stop bleeding." Doctor Li tilted his head and looked at Wang Su and said.

"If we are such a worthless creature, we can just cover it with a handful of stove ash if it gets scratched. But this piglet is precious, nothing can happen to it." Wang Su said honestly.

These words make people feel sad and uncomfortable. Human life is as cheap as grass.

"Doctor Li, do you have any medicine that can make people confused?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and clear eyes and said, "Or make people dazed and dazed, and their reactions are slower."

"You said this because you want to use it when you perform surgery?" Doctor Li looked at her with his dark eyes.

"Yes! The knife was already used before the piglet could react." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes and said, "Even if he was tied up, the piglet would still struggle, and it would be easy to hurt someone by mistake."

"Is there such medicine?" Wang Su asked Doctor Li with bright eyes.

"This?" Doctor Li looked at her hesitantly. This girl knew a lot.

"Looking at you, it's possible!" Shen Hui'e said to Doctor Li with burning eyes.

"I've heard of this. It's a cheap thing used by the rangers." Doctor Li looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "I don't have the recipe."

"You said it in vain, didn't you?" Wang Su said immediately after hearing this, "Distant water cannot quench nearby thirst."

"I am not worthy of this harmful thing!" Doctor Li said seriously.

"That's wrong." Shen Hui'e retorted, looking at Doctor Li with clear eyes and said, "It's the human heart that's bad, not the medicine! After being shot by a feather arrow, it's still dizzy to remove the feather arrow so abruptly. It's better to remove the feather arrow unconsciously!"