Pig Killer

Chapter 78

"Follow my mother and I'll have meat to eat and fill my belly." The cat slave said cutely while patting his belly.

"Little greedy cat." Shen Hui'e said as she stroked her finger across the tip of her upturned nose.

"Don't you think your mother is greasy and smelly after killing pigs?" Shen Hui'e said to her with her ink-black eyes.

The raccoon sniffed her like a puppy, looked at her with sparkling eyes and said, "Aniang smells so good."

"Little fool." Shen Hui'e rubbed her head and said.

"It's true!" Li Nu said seriously with a stern face.

"Don't you think I'm embarrassing you? Other people's mothers weave cloth and embroider, but I'm a butcher." Shen Hui'e looked at her with eyes as black as jade and said.

"Why should you be embarrassed? Many women setting up stalls are hungry! Noodle shop owners, vegetable sellers, egg sellers... there are so many!" Li Nu looked at her with innocent eyes and said, "We are selling well. There are so many copper coins in the earthenware jars." He gestured with his arms spread out.

"Our Li Nu is right. We all sell things and run small businesses." Shen Hui'e said, looking at the innocent her with her bright dark eyes.

The mother and daughter chatted casually and then arrived at Huang's house.

"Grandma, my mother and I are here to see you." Li Nu shouted and ran in as soon as he entered the gate.

"Why are you here?" Huang's mother turned around and looked at them and said.

"Drying clothes!" Shen Hui'e looked at the clothes for the change of seasons hanging on the racks in the yard.

"Yes! The weather is getting warmer now. These clothes have been lying around for the whole winter. They need to be dried in the sun." Huang's mother pointed to the small stool and said, "Sit down. Let's sit down and talk."

"Mother, I just took out all the clothes." Li Nu brought a small stool over and handed one to Mother.

Shen Hui'e took the small stool and sat down only after seeing Huang's mother sitting on the small stool next to her.

"It's time to dry them out in the sun. They've been kept for the whole winter. I wonder if they've gotten moldy." Huang's mother looked up at the clothes on the rack and said, "They already smell moldy. Fortunately, my clothes haven't gotten stained by it."

"No, the clothes at home don't smell musty." said the cat slave with a smile.

"What are you doing here at this time? Didn't you go to the countryside to collect pigs?" Huang's mother looked at her in surprise.

"Now the pigs are harvested every other day, so farmers still have few pigs." Shen Hui'e said with great regret.

"It's better to take a break. Killing pigs is not an easy job." Huang's mother comforted her.

"It will be fine next year." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her bright black eyes and said, "The time it takes to raise pigs has been shortened, and pork won't have such a strong fishy smell anymore. More people will like to eat pork." She smiled with curved eyebrows and said, "With more people liking it, more people will raise it naturally."

"You really are..." Huang's mother looked at her with concern and said, "Don't get too tired when the time comes."

"No." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her bright eyes and said, "I won't feel tired no matter how hard it is to make money."

"Haha..." Huang's mother laughed heartily, "You have something to do. Those guys ran away like wild horses after the spring plowing."

"It's good for my brother-in-law and the others to take a break. Plowing the fields is very tiring." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her eyes as black as black jade and said, "I slept for three days before I recovered."

"They were just sleeping! They went to watch cockfighting." Huang's mother scolded unhappily.

"Is it a big deal?" Shen Hui'e said after a long pause.

"No, they are more thrifty than their faces! They just want to join in the fun." Huang's mother smiled sheepishly, "Let me be honest! I just want to find something for them to do." He looked at her with burning eyes and said, "Look at your brother-in-law Tiefeng, and Liu Ding, even the bricklayers have endless business to do, and the money is pouring into the family!"

"Hehe..." Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed when she heard that.

"Big Chong's mother, please stop laughing!" Huang's mother looked at her embarrassedly and said, "You must not forget our family!"

"I didn't forget, I didn't forget. I came here today just to give you money!" Shen Hui'e said to her with her bright starry eyes.

"What should we ask them to do? Tell me!" Huang's mother looked at her anxiously.

"I came to see you today because of the roof." Shen Hui'e said, raising her eyes slightly and looking at the thatched roof.

"What's wrong with the roof? It's leaking. I'll ask Yuan Jita's father to fix it for you." Huang's mother said anxiously, and stood up.

"No, grandma, the roof of my house is not leaking." Li Nu quickly pulled her and said.

"It's not leaking, so what's wrong with the roof?" Huang's mother sat down again after hearing this.

"I think the roof is too high. I plan to cover it with straw curtains." Shen Hui'e simply stood up and asked, "Can we go inside and talk?"

"Yes, yes." Huang's mother nodded hurriedly when she heard that.

Shen Hui'e followed Huang's mother into the house. Huang's mother looked up at the roof of her house and asked, "What should we do?"

Shen Hui'e raised her hand and gestured how to install the ceiling.

"The roof will be lower this way." Huang's mother looked at her meaningfully and said.

"It's too high now." Shen Hui'e pointed at the roof and said, "My man is tall enough. Even if the ceiling is lowered, he can't reach the lowest point with his arms stretched out." Then she added, "Besides, after the ceiling is raised, the sun can't shine through directly in the summer, and it also provides heat insulation."

"Heat insulation?" Huang's mother looked at her puzzledly and asked.

"It will be cooler in the room than it is now." Shen Hui'e looked at her gently and said, "You can't sleep in this room in the summer, right?"

"It's hot! If you lift the curtain, the mosquitoes here can bite you all over. It's not safe to sleep outside with all the bugs and ants around." Huang's mother nodded hurriedly when she heard this.

"Don't you have any herbal medicine to repel mosquitoes at home?" Shen Hui'e looked at her with a frown.

"It's passed down from our ancestors, but the effect is not very good!" Huang's mother shook her head slightly when she heard it.

How did they repel mosquitoes in the past? Shen Hui'e's eyes flickered slightly when she heard this. Rich families had incense and gauze curtains.

Ordinary people can’t afford it, so they just hang a bed curtain. The rest of the time they have to endure it or swatter mosquitoes manually!

The linen bed curtains were not very light-transmissive, and the room was so hot that it felt like a steamer.

"I have them planted at home. I'll dig some and have Da Chong send them to you later. They're very effective." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her clear eyes and said, "Just plant them in the corners of the yard to repel mosquitoes."

"Okay, okay!" Huang's mother said happily.

"Dry this herb, grind it into powder, put it in a purse according to the proportion and hang it around your waist, then mosquitoes will not bite." Shen Hui'e said, patting her waist.

"Wow...that's great." Huang's mother looked at her with sparkling eyes.

"If you want to have fewer mosquitoes in the yard, you have to clean up the toilet, pigpen, and rabbit hutch in the backyard." Shen Hui'e walked outside the house and said as she walked, "Those places are most likely to attract mosquitoes and flies."