Pig Killer

"When Brother Wang came to find you, we caught the pig and tied it up. This saves time." The honest man looked at Shen Hui'e and said naively.

"You find someone and we'll weigh the pig." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright and deep eyes.

"Hey hey!" He quickly looked for someone to help.

When the two big men were carrying the pig, the pig began to struggle violently again.

Shen Hui'e stepped forward and chopped the pig unconscious with a single move, causing its head to droop.

Shen Hui'e looked up at the two people's dumbfounded expressions and said with a smile, "It's just fainted. Put it in the basket quickly and weigh it."

"Hey, hey!" The two men put the pig into the basket.

With their help, Shen Hui'e weighed the pig and paid according to the market price.

We also had to trouble them to lift the pig onto the wheelbarrow and tie it up securely.

Shen Hui'e pushed the wheelbarrow and said, "We are leaving. Buy the piglets and come back to see me."

"Okay, okay!" he said with a smile.

"If anyone is selling pigs, please let me know," Shen Hui'e asked.

"No problem." He replied with a smile.

"Doctor Li, let's go!" Shen Hui'e said to him with her dark eyes.

"Let's go, let's go!" Doctor Li followed her towards the county town.

&*&

The villagers watched them leave and talked about it, "This pig-killing lady is amazing."

"How did you do that? I didn't even see it clearly."

"The piglets didn't react at all. They only started squeaking when the medicine was applied."

"We don't know about that." Wang Su shook his head slightly.

"Brother Wang, this is really great!"

Wang Su laughed and said, "If you want to know if it's true, come to my house often!"

"How can you tell that?"

"It's easy. Let's weigh it every once in a while!" Wang Su said simply and easily, "Then we can see it."

"Yes!"

"If this can be sold in a year, that would be great, and we'd make a lot of money."

"Come and have a look in a year! See if this pig can grow to over 100 kilograms." Wang Su said to them with a smile.

"Definitely come."

&*&

"I hope it will be okay!" Doctor Li said as he held up his medicine box and looked at the obedient big black pig on the wheelbarrow.

"It's okay, I just felt dizzy. I'll be alive and kicking when I get home." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright eyes and said, "It's easier to walk like this, otherwise the hemp rope will hurt it."

Doctor Li's mouth twitched when he heard this. This sounded awkward.

"Do you think I'm being pretentious? You'll be killed tomorrow." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her dark eyes.

"I'd rather die quickly. I don't want to kill them cruelly." Shen Hui'e looked at him with pure eyes and said.

"This can be considered as mercy." Doctor Li said thoughtfully, twirling his goatee.

"I didn't think about it that much, it's just convenient." Shen Hui'e was stunned when she heard this, and then smiled.

There are no large trucks for transporting animals nowadays, only the most primitive wheelbarrows. How else can we do it?

The native husband used to tie the pigs alive and let them howl all the way. When they got home, they were tired and just threw them into the pigsty.

"No matter how you cook this pork, the fishy smell is hard to hide." Doctor Li said with some disgust.

"Add more peppercorns and ginger to cover the fishy smell." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her glassy eyes and said, "Your pharmacy has some herbs that can be added when cooking meat to remove the fishy smell."

"No, no, that won't work. Medicinal herbs are hard to come by. It would be a big loss to use them to stew pork." Doctor Li said immediately after hearing this, with a firm attitude.

"Doctor Li, have you ever heard of medicated diet? Medicine and food have the same origin." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her dark eyes and said, "No one likes the taste of this medicine. The medicine juice is bitter..." She stuck out her tongue with a look of disgust.

"You are afraid of hardship too! You are so old." Doctor Li looked her up and down in surprise and said.

"Who isn't afraid of hardship?" Shen Hui'e said unhappily, "Not many people like it."

"I see you drank the medicine very happily." Doctor Li said to her with his dark eyes.

"That's because I know that good medicine tastes bitter but is good for the disease, so I drink it with my nose pinched." Shen Hui'e shuddered and said, "If it is made into medicinal food, the patients in the wealthy families will be happy to pay for it."

"Haha... that's a good idea. Our county is too small, and the rich families are not that particular." Doctor Li chuckled and shook his head when he heard this.

"You see Tian Jie'er lets us buy on credit. Can this pharmacy survive?" Shen Hui'e looked at him worriedly and said.

Doctor Li was stunned when he heard this, then he shook his head and laughed, "It's enough to live on, and we won't go hungry." He smiled and said, "Life is okay here, we can make do. It's impossible to become rich and powerful."

Shen Hui'e looked at him gently and said, "It's good enough to be like this."

"That's right! I don't ask for anything else, just to live a peaceful life." Doctor Li sighed, "Fortunately, these chaotic years are over."

"Now that the war is over, shouldn't we be able to farm in peace? Large-scale construction projects..." Shen Hui'e said in a low voice, swallowing back the words "waste of money and time", just getting her point across.

"Be careful with your words, Madam Huang, please be careful with your words." Doctor Li said immediately with a stern face when he heard it.

"I didn't say anything!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her innocent big eyes.

Doctor Li blinked his dark eyes and smiled softly, "They only recruit one person, not all men will be required to perform labor service."

"If you go there, you can't come back." Shen Hui'e looked at him with icy eyes and said, "The white sail is still hanging on the door!"

I was wondering why he was so resentful, it turns out he was worried about this.

It's normal to miss your husband!

Doctor Li pursed his lips and looked at her and said, "We can only pray to God for help. The emperor's order cannot be disobeyed. It is also a supreme honor to build a mausoleum and palace for the emperor."

Upon hearing this, Shen Hui'e looked at him in astonishment. It turned out that their thoughts were not on the same wavelength, so there was no need to waste words on him.

Doctor Li comforted her, "The second son of the Huang family is strong and healthy, he will be fine."

"Thank you for your good wishes." Shen Hui'e looked at him with a sincere gaze.

She also knew that Doctor Li had misunderstood, so she decided not to explain it, or else it would be hard to explain.

The two chatted about this and that, and returned home before noon.

&*&

After entering the city, not long after parting with Doctor Li, Shen Hui'e stood outside her house pushing a wheelbarrow.

"I'm back." Shen Hui'e raised her voice and said while looking at the half-open door.

"What I said is the same as not saying anything, right?" Shen Changsheng appeared at the door and looked at her with a stern face.

"Uh..." Shen Hui'e looked at him helplessly and said, "I left in such a hurry that I forgot about it. I left Huang Er behind."

"You still have something to say?" Shen Changsheng looked at her unhappily.

"Mother, let's put the pigs in the pigsty first!" The big tiger came running over and pushed the handrail.