Pig Killer

"I still want to eat this fat meat! How can I bear to part with it?"

"The oil residue from the fat can also be eaten!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright eyes and said, "The oil residue is so fragrant!"

"I've tasted it, it's very delicious." Da Chong said, and then added sweetly, "Auntie, you can go home and try it, this way you can kill two birds with one stone."

"Fat, grease?"

"It's all about eating in the end anyway!" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with bright eyes.

"Okay, let's go home and try it."

Neighbors left one after another.

Shen Hui'e washed the dishes and chopsticks, boiled them again with boiling water and put them away. Next time she made something delicious, she would taste them and then use them.

"Everyone has left, let's cook some noodles." Shen Hui'e looked at them tenderly with her eyes as gentle as jade.

"I'll go pick some leeks." The cat slave said enthusiastically, turned around and ran towards the yard.

"Big Chong, go get all the eggs." Shen Hui'e said to her son with gentle eyes.

"Bring them all here?" Da Chong blinked, thinking he had heard wrongly.

"Let's fry some eggs." Shen Hui'e looked at him with eyes as bright as stars and said, "One for each of us."

"Brother Cheng, do you have one too?" Da Chong asked in a low voice.

"Of course." Shen Hui'e said in the same low voice, "They are even helping us lay the cobblestones in the backyard! It's only right that they provide us with meals."

"Then I'll count the number of people and get a few more eggs." The big insect said to her with a smile in his pure eyes.

"Go!" Shen Hui'e said, looking at him gently.

The big bug took the basket, ran into the house, took out the eggs, and said, "Mother, how do you fry eggs?"

"Fry in oil." Shen Hui'e refined the pork fat and then fried the eggs.

Crack the egg and put it whole into the oil pan. Use chopsticks to lightly add some salt and poke it into the egg yolk which is not yet soft.

"Isn't this a fried egg? It's just that oil is used instead of water." Da Chong said to her with his innocent little face.

"That's right." Shen Hui'e smiled and said, "Both sides are fried golden brown, and taste better than fried eggs."

Shen Hui'e fried the eggs one by one and put them in a coarse earthenware bowl. The oil in the pot was almost used up, so she added water, covered the pot with a wooden lid, and turned the fire on high.

"Mother, the leeks have been picked." The cat slave came over and said, holding the leeks.

"You guys watch the fire, I'll go wash the leeks." Shen Hui'e took the leeks from the cat slave, took them to the well to wash them, and came back to chop them into pieces.

After the water boils, put the noodles in.

"Go get the dishes and chopsticks, and tell your brother Cheng and the others to stop working, wash their hands and eat." Shen Hui'e tilted her head slightly and looked at the big tiger and said.

"Hey!" Da Chong obediently ran to the backyard and called Cheng Donglai and the other four.

Shen Hui'e put the fried eggs one by one into the coarse earthenware bowl, so that she wouldn't be reluctant to eat them. If she really wanted scrambled eggs with leeks, she would share the food.

When the noodles are cooked, Shen Hui'e puts the leeks into the pot and adds appropriate amounts of salt and soy sauce.

It was made directly into noodle soup.

She wanted to make noodles with gravy and noodles with臊子, but all the pork was sold out today, not even the offal or the pig tail was left.

Now she knows how to cook pork deliciously. Every day when they slaughter pigs, they keep the pork fat for her determined attitude and not even the residue is left for her.

Shen Hui'e served them each a bowl of noodle soup, and said to them as they sat down, "Eat! There's a fried egg under the noodles." She smiled and said, "Try it and see if it tastes good." She took out the fried egg from her own bowl and said, "It's fried with lard."

"When I was at home, I used to exchange eggs for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar." Cheng Donglai said as he looked at the eggs in his bowl.

"We don't need any! We won't let ourselves suffer." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright black eyes and said, "It's getting hot, and eggs can't be kept for too long. I'd be sad if they went bad."

"Stop being so pretentious and eat quickly, otherwise the noodles will clump together." Shen Hui'e picked up the noodles with chopsticks and put them into her mouth.

Honestly speaking, these noodles are not chewy at all, but rather grainy and not very smooth.

The flour ground by the stone mill is too coarse, so the noodles made from it are naturally not very good.

Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at the children. They were eating with such relish that one could hear the slurping sounds one after another.

Shen Hui'e's eyes were filled with smiles, and the sound of eating noodles was the same from ancient times to the present, "Is it delicious?"

"Hmm!" The big bug held the noodles in his mouth, nodded vigorously, sucked the noodles into his mouth, and said after swallowing, "Delicious, very delicious."

"It's delicious, eat more, there's more after you finish it!" Shen Hui'e said with a smile, pointing at the big iron pot.

It turned out that they were all foodies. I made a big pot of noodle soup, which was eaten up completely.

After cleaning up, Shen Hui'e told the children to look after the house and went to the countryside pushing the wheelbarrow.

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Now that her reputation as a butcher has been exposed, it is easy for Shen Hui'e to collect pigs.

Shen Hui'e will not push the price too low. It is not easy for farmers to raise pigs, and it is not worth it to fight for a few copper coins.

Once the pig was in her hands, she really made the most of it and made money in various ways.

As she used the big iron pot, people lined up to order it at Tiefeng's blacksmith shop.

The appearance of the bench made Liu Ding's business prosperous.

This is inconvenient, but everyone has eyes and can see it!

Chinese people are very receptive to new things.

Even if you have to queue up and still can’t buy meat, you should come and try this new thing!

Very cute!

Melons and beans are planted around the Qingming Festival, and Shen Hui'e's vegetable garden also begins to be plowed and sown.

There are very few varieties of vegetables now. There are no cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers... any more!

Shen Hui'e is so anxious that she can't even eat to her heart's content. I'm so frustrated and angry!

I can’t even plant grapes or build a grape trellis.

Nowadays, we just grow more loofah and green leafy vegetables.

"Mother?" Li Nu looked at her worriedly with an unhappy look on her face.

"Ah! What's wrong?" Shen Hui'e came back to her senses and looked at her.

"You don't look well?" Da Chong looked at her with concern and asked, "Are you sick?"

"No." Shen Hui'e, who had been bending over to sow seeds, stood up and looked at them in frustration, saying, "It's just that I feel like there are too few things planted in this vegetable garden."

"It's quite a lot, they're all planted." The cat slave said, drawing a circle with his index finger.

"I mean the variety. The vegetables they grow are too monotonous." Shen Hui'e was stunned when she heard this, then shook her head and laughed.

"Everyone grows it this way. Can we grow other vegetables?" Da Chong looked at her with a puzzled look on his face and said, "Do you know?"

"I don't know?" Shen Hui'e looked at them without blushing or panting and said, "I just hope this dish can be as delicious as the food, with a thousand variations."

The big bug tilted its head and blinked its big eyes at her, "But it's still made from the same food! It hasn't changed!"