Pig Killer

"Ah..." Li Nu stood up and looked at his mother anxiously.

"What's wrong?" Shen Hui'e looked at her worriedly and asked.

"Mother doesn't sell lard, Xiong's butcher shop sells it!" Li Nu said nervously, grabbing her arm.

"Everyone is buying, how much do you think she will get?" Shen Hui'e looked at her with amusement and said, "The demand for business is huge. We have a little at home, which is enough for us to eat." Then she said, "It's not suitable if the price is too high. It's too far to go to the next county, and it's not cost-effective." She smiled and said, "Besides, the spread of delicious food is fast, and the next county is not enough!"

"Is that so!" Li Nu smiled with relief.

"But! Scarcity makes things valuable. If we sell them at a high price, perhaps people will flock to them." Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at her and said, "As long as we have something to eat, that's enough."

"I'll just stay hidden." The raccoon slave said with some fear.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded repeatedly, "Take our Huang Er with you wherever you go."

"Yeah!" Li Nu nodded vigorously when he heard that.

"Okay, let's eat pancakes now." Shen Hui'e took a fire starter, lit the earthen stove on the bed, and put the iron plate on the fire.

Get lard and a wooden spoon ready.

"Set the table, dishes and chopsticks." Shen Hui'e tilted her head slightly and looked at her and instructed.

"Hey!" Li Nu obediently placed the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table, and put a small stool in front of the bed.

Shen Hui'e put the solidified lard on the iron plate, and it melted quickly. She took a wooden spoon, scooped some batter and poured it on the iron plate, making a sizzling sound.

Shen Hui'e miscalculated a little. The iron plate could not be turned in circles to spread the batter.

There was no board to scrape it smooth.

Now just use a wooden spoon to flatten the paste.

The thickness will definitely not be uniform.

Anyway, it can be eaten after it is cooked.

"This is a pancake! We used to eat steamed cakes." The raccoon sniffed, and the rich aroma rushed straight to his nose, "Wild vegetable steamed cake."

Shen Hui'e nodded in understanding, picked the wild vegetables she had dug, washed them, chopped them up, added some salt, mixed them with corn flour, rolled them into balls and steamed them in a pot.

It’s that simple, you can imagine how good it tastes.

It’s good enough to eat, who cares about the taste.

"Can I say that wild vegetable steamed buns are not delicious?" The cat slave said embarrassedly, sticking out his tongue.

"It's indeed not tasty. I just forced it to eat." Shen Hui'e said to her with a smile.

"So mother is the same." Li Nu looked at her with a smile.

"I'm not from outer space, of course I'm the same as you. You'll know whether it's good or not once you taste it." Shen Hui'e looked at her with her bright eyes and said, picking up the shaped pancake with chopsticks and turning it over.

"Golden yellow!" Li Nu said as he swallowed and looked at the pancakes on the iron plate.

"Let's try it and see how it tastes." Shen Hui'e picked up the pancake that had been flipped three times and put it in the bowl, "Be careful, it's hot!"

The raccoon slave picked up the chopsticks and impatiently picked up the pancake and put it into his mouth. His eyes lit up instantly, "Great."

"Swallow it before you speak. It won't look good." Shen Hui'e looked at her gently and said.

"Hmm!" The raccoon pursed his lips, puffed up his cheeks, and nodded vigorously like a hamster.

"Silly girl, don't be in a hurry to speak." Shen Hui'e said to her cute daughter with a doting look in her eyes.

Although I didn’t have any handy tools to make the pancakes, I became more and more skilled at using the wooden spoon, and the pancakes I made were a very tempting golden color.

The rich aroma makes people swallow their saliva.

"Go and call your brother and Brother Cheng to come for dinner." Shen Hui'e looked up at Li Nu and said.

"Hey!" The raccoon slave ran out in his straw sandals.

"It's delicious! I never knew corn was so delicious." Da Chong looked at her with exceptionally bright eyes.

"How come it's so soft!" The tiger said in surprise, "It doesn't make my throat hurt." He guessed with certainty, "They added white flour, two mixtures!"

"Yes! Pure corn flour is not okay." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Mother, if we eat like this, can we make it until the summer harvest?" Big Tiger said worriedly, frowning.

Cheng Donglai and the others nervously put down the bowls and chopsticks in their hands.

Shen Hui'e glanced at her son, then looked at Cheng Donglai and the others and said, "Eat as much as you want." She looked at them with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "There is enough food." She smiled and said, "Your uncle has sent us the flour he ground. It's enough for us to eat until the summer harvest."

"My uncle has oxen and they cultivate more land than we do," said the big tiger with a smile, "and they harvest more grain, too."

"We'll return the grain to your uncle after the summer harvest." Shen Hui'e said to them with her deep, bright eyes.

"Yeah!" The big tiger nodded vigorously when he heard that.

"Besides, we are earning money now. Even if your uncle doesn't support us, we can still go to the grain store and buy food!" Shen Hui'e said to them with her dark eyes.

"The food in the grain shop is expensive." Li Nu said with a pout.

"This is normal. You can only make money by buying low and selling high!" Shen Hui'e smiled and shook her head, looking at her daughter who was as cute as a pufferfish, and said, "The reason for making money is to fill your stomach. What's the point of not eating?" She said regretfully, "There is no other place to spend the money."

Small peasant economy, self-sufficiency, low desire, there is nothing you can do. There is only the most primitive desire for survival, higher level desire, I have never seen it, how can you make them buy it.

Everyone's living standards are similar, so it's good enough if they can just take care of their food.

Raising children should be a major item of family expenses, but now those who have stutters are all raised in the wild.

Without upward mobility and the right to education, spending will naturally be lower.

"What do you want to use it for, mother?" the big tiger asked, looking at her with his black eyes.

"I'll send you off..." Shen Hui'e thought for a moment and said, "Go and become my disciple and study."

"I won't go." Da Chong grabbed her arm nervously and said, "I won't leave my mother." He said hurriedly, "I will study hard and learn to read."

"No, no!" Shen Hui'e patted his hand and comforted him, "You have nowhere to go even if you want to! Let's study by ourselves first, and see how things change in the future, and then send you to receive higher education." She smiled and said, "I'm afraid that by then you won't be able to wait to leave and see the outside world." She teased, "You'll think I'm nagging."

"How could that be?" The tiger held her arm and said, "No, I won't leave my mother anyway." His round eyes rolled around as he said, "If I leave, I'll take my mother with me."

"Silly boy." Shen Hui'e looked at him lovingly and said, "Anyway, don't worry about the food. Just eat the money. That's what you should do."

Shen Hui'e's eyes fell on Cheng Donglai and said, "Eat! We'll have enough."

"Hey!" Cheng Donglai and the others picked up their chopsticks again.