Pig Killer

"She will be back soon. Da Chong's father is very strong. He can carry an old sow weighing more than 100 pounds like a piece of cake. Don't worry." Huang's mother looked at her daughter-in-law without blinking and said optimistically. Her voice was full of energy. She was speaking to her daughter-in-law and also to herself.

What else can I do if I don't comfort myself like this? As long as the court doesn't notify them, my son will be fine.

Shen Hui'e curled the corner of her lip slightly when she heard this. She knew very well that the labor was arduous and it could be said to be a life-threatening situation.

The white sails hoisted by people in the county have not been taken down yet, but new ones have been put up.

The current situation is like Meng Jiangnu's reincarnation! I'm not really asking her to cry at the Great Wall!

They have no say on whether he will come back or not. Without him, they just can't live on.

Da Chong came back with three packets of medicine, and Huang's mother took a clay pot and boiled the medicine first.

Huang's mother looked at the brother and sister and asked, "Do you understand?"

"Yes!" Da Chong and Li Nu both nodded.

"Three bowls of water, boil the medicine over high heat until it becomes one bowl of water." Huang's mother explained carefully, and pointed at the inside of the pottery jar with chopsticks, "Qi is probably here."

"Remember." Da Chong and the other two nodded again.

Huang's mother boiled the medicine, poured it into a coarse earthenware bowl with a thick linen cloth, and placed the bowl next to her daughter-in-law.

"Can you see it?" Huang's mother asked worriedly.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e smiled and curled the corners of her lips. The whole room was filled with the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and she could identify the medicine from it.

Disperse blood stasis and relieve pain, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, effective for the symptoms!

"Then drink it quickly and have a good sleep, you will be fine tomorrow." Huang's mother instructed carefully.

Huang's mother watched her daughter-in-law drink the medicine, and then she heard a voice from outside the door, "Hui'e!"

"It's my uncle." Da Chong rushed to the door, pulled out the bolt, and opened the door with a creak.

Shen Changsheng walked in carrying a sack, smelling the smell of medicine in the room. He looked at the empty medicine bowl on his sister's bed, smiled and said, "My mother-in-law is here too!" He looked at his sister and said, "How do you feel after taking the medicine? Are you feeling better?"

How can it be that fast? Shen Hui'e looked back at him and whispered softly, "Much better."

"I went back and got you some corn." Shen Changsheng carried a sack and placed it next to his sister's bed.

Shen Hui'e blinked her blurry eyes and calculated the food at home, saying, "My eyesight is not good, so I have to ask Da Chong's grandmother to help with the cooking. I think I should give this corn back to her!"

Shen Changsheng's dark eyes flickered when he heard this and said, "Okay, I'll trouble my mother-in-law!"

This is good. My in-laws have a hard life, and these ten kilograms of corn will allow them to take good care of their sister.

"How can I feel embarrassed about that?" Huang's mother waved her hands embarrassedly, but her eyes were exceptionally bright.

Early spring is the time when there is a shortage of food, and every household is eating a lot of thin soup.

With these corns, the porridge is at least thicker and not watery.

"Stop saying that. My brother-in-law is not at home. Hui'e and the child are well taken care of by you." Shen Changsheng said politely.

"It's my duty to take care of them. Hui'e is my daughter-in-law, and Dachong and the others are my grandchildren." Huang's mother said cheerfully, "Since Dachong's father is not around, who else should we help?"

"Is there anything else? If not, I will send my mother-in-law back." Shen Changsheng looked at his sister and nephew and said.

"The medicine has been taken." Huang's mother said immediately after hearing this.

"We have already eaten." Shen Hui'e said softly.

"Then let's go." Shen Changsheng said as he picked up the corn.

"No, no, I can carry this little corn back by myself." Huang's mother said happily.

"I'll take you there." Shen Changsheng picked up the corn and looked at his sister and children and said, "It's getting late, let's go! Otherwise the road will be difficult to walk on."

"Big Chong, please send your uncle off." Shen Hui'e said hurriedly.

"Hey!" The big tiger responded crisply, turned around and opened the door.

Shen Changsheng walked out of the door and looked at his nephew and said, "Don't come out. It's cold outside. Go back quickly." Then he said, "I'll take your grandmother back. It's not far away. Just outside the city."

As soon as Huang's mother left the house, she yelled, "Close the door quickly, or the warmth in the room will escape."

"Come in quickly! We're a family, there's no need to be so polite." Shen Hui'e looked back at them and said, the cold wind was like a knife, pouring directly into the house, it was really cold!

The tiger quickly closed the door and bolted it.

"It's getting late, you should go to bed early." Shen Hui'e said with cloudy eyes as she looked at the figure swaying in front of her.

"I'll make the fire burn brighter." said the big tiger obediently.

"Good boy." Shen Hui'e praised generously.

There was only one bed, and when the fire was burning brightly, the brother and sister jumped on it, and the three of them huddled together to get warm and go to sleep.

Shen Hui'e listened to the faint snoring sounds coming from her ears and quietly took off her clothes. Without needles for acupuncture, she had to press the acupoints with her fingers, which would make her heal faster.

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After taking Chinese medicine for a week and massaging the acupoints every night, the lump on the back of her head gradually disappeared.

After her vision was restored, Shen Hui'e finally had the mood to check her home.

A low earthen house with a wood and earth structure and a thatched roof.

There is a small wooden table on the bed, which is used for eating on weekdays.

There was a low table against the wall, on which were several earthenware jars containing food, salt, spices...

There are two rooms on the left and right, the inner one is a bedroom, and the bed takes up half of the room. The bed is actually made of adobe bricks, covered with hay and straw mats.

Next to the bed in the middle was an earthen stove made of adobe bricks, with a clay pot on top for cooking and heating.

Low tables, small wooden stools, wooden basins and barrels are the only furniture.

The ground is compacted with loess and is bumpy, like the surface of the moon.

Shen Hui'e stood at the door and stretched. The sky was particularly blue, with occasional clouds floating by.

Shen Hui'e glanced at the yard. According to her memory, there were the woodshed and the kitchen on the left, and two rooms on the right. One contained a loom, and the other contained farm tools and other miscellaneous items.

Cock, cuckoo... A few chicken crows came from the utility room. There are five egret chickens at home.

The main gate is a row of thatched houses, which are used as pig slaughter stalls. This is the front store and the back yard, and across from it are noodle shops, grain and oil shops, and grocery stores.

Not far to the right is the county’s mobile vegetable stall, which is the busiest on weekdays.

Early in the morning, farmers from the outskirts of the city came over with shoulder poles filled with freshly picked vegetables covered with dew.

The rich families in the county do their shopping and the common people buy their vegetables all come here.

When the sun came out early in the morning, young girls and wives came in groups of three or four, carrying their vegetable baskets.

It's so bustling and lively.

However, in this cold winter, the whole vegetable stall was a bit deserted and there were no vegetables.