Pig Killer

Huang Jichang looked at his second sister-in-law with sparkling eyes and said, "I know how to trap rabbits. This rabbit runs too fast and is hard to catch." He tightened his grip and said, "But a trapped rabbit basically can't run away."

"It's hard to catch them now. The fields are bare and there's no cover. The rabbits run very fast." Huang Bochang smacked his lips.

Shen Hui'e looked around the fields. The wheat seedlings were lying listlessly in the fields, and most of the fields were bare and gray. It was not yet the spring ploughing season.

"We have a wide field of vision, so it should be easy to catch them." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her sparkling eyes and said, seeing their disapproving looks, "Let's dig out the rabbit's den." She gestured with her hands and said, "It is said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Let's put a cigarette at the entrance of each den and put a bag at the entrance."

The Huang brothers understood immediately after hearing this and looked at her with sparkling eyes.

Huang Jichang said with some difficulty, "But how do we find this rabbit hole? It's hard to find a cunning rabbit with three burrows. Even if we find it, how do we catch it?"

"Don't worry about this, I'll find it." Shen Hui'e rubbed her nose with her index finger and said to them.

"Then let my second sister-in-law help us dig rabbit holes, so we can get through this spring." Huang Jichang rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "We can eat the meat and make a coat out of the rabbit skin for next winter."

"Who knows how to saltpeter rabbit skins?" Shen Hui'e asked them with her ink-black eyes.

"Second sister-in-law finally asked the right person. My eldest brother knows how to nitrate leather." Huang Jichang said with a chuckle.

"Then I'll trouble you, big brother." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep eyes and said, "By the way, are there any good pigs raised in the village?"

"What is Second Sister-in-law going to do?" Huang Jichang looked at her with his honest eyes blinking.

"Kill the pig!" Shen Hui'e said simply and easily.

"Cough cough..." The Huang brothers were so frightened that they kept coughing.

"Why are you so surprised?" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her innocent big eyes.

"Butcher, butcher, I've only heard of butchers, and never seen a woman doing this job." Huang Bochang swallowed and looked at her disapprovingly.

"What should we do? Da Chong's father is not here, so what else can we do if not this?" Shen Hui'e looked at them with dark eyes and said, "The tools for killing pigs are all here, so it's easy to pick them up again. We still have to buy other things."

Buying means spending money.

"Sister-in-law, butchering pigs is a strenuous job." Huang Jichang looked up and down at her thin arms and legs. Did she have the strength? Then he asked, "Have you ever butchered a pig?"

"I have killed chickens." Shen Hui'e blinked her clear eyes and looked at them and said.

"Sister-in-law, killing a chicken is different from killing a pig." Huang Bochang looked her straight in the eye and advised, "You can grab this chicken with one hand, but only my brother is strong enough to kill this pig, so killing a pig is the same as killing a chicken."

"Strength comes from practice. Practice makes perfect. It will be easy to get through the beginning." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her shiny black eyes and said, "Give it a try! We don't know when Da Chong's father will come back. We have to get on with our lives!" He said with a bitter smile, "It's not pleasant to beg for something."

Upon hearing this, the Huang brothers naturally knew that it was not easy to ask for a loan and they would owe others a favor.

"Sister-in-law, can you kill a pig?" Huang Jichang looked at her worriedly and asked.

"I've seen your second brother slaughter a pig." Shen Hui'e said to them with her clear eyes.

The Huang brothers looked at her with a smile and said, "Watching and doing it yourself are two different things."

"So! Kill the rabbit first, and when you've practiced it, you can kill the pig." Shen Hui'e said confidently.

Huang Bochang smiled innocently when he heard this. It turned out that he had a plan in mind and it was not an impulsive decision. "Well, almost all the pigs were slaughtered during the Chinese New Year. Now you either catch piglets or the pigs are not grown up. It's really hard to find pigs if you want to slaughter them now."

"My second brother said he was a butcher, but more often he went to the woods to hunt game." Huang Jichang said with particular nostalgia.

When the second brother was around, they could eat and drink delicious food, but after he left, they became indifferent to him.

As a grown man, who doesn't know how to hunt? This is really not something that ordinary people can do.

"Let's start practicing with the rabbit first." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright dark eyes and said.

"Mother, that's what you mean. We have rabbit meat to eat." The big insect looked at her with its big, beautiful crystal eyes glowing green.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with a jade-like gaze and said, "Before the spring ploughing starts, let's make up for it so that we will have enough strength for the spring ploughing."

"Uncle, Third Uncle, are we going to catch rabbits tomorrow?" Li Nu said as he looked at them with bright eyes.

"You're free at home too, why don't you get ready to catch rabbits tomorrow?" Huang Bochang said as he looked at them with a smile in his dark eyes.

"Great! I'll go too. I'll go too." The big tiger said with a jump.

"Go!" Shen Hui'e replied with a smile.

"Mother, mother, I want to go too." Li Nu said, grabbing her arm.

"Let's go, everyone." Shen Hui'e replied with a smile, "There is strength in numbers."

"The noise will scare the rabbits away." Huang Jichang said worriedly as he looked at them excitedly.

"We promise not to talk." Da Chong covered his mouth and said in a muffled voice, "We promise to be quiet."

"Yeah, yeah!" The raccoon slave looked at them with his bright eyes and nodded vigorously.

"The more people there are, the better. This way we can excite the rabbits and make them run around so that we can catch them!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her dark eyes and said, "It also saves us the trouble of using fire."

"Mother is right." Da Chong looked at them with bright eyes and said, "Call Fourth Uncle, brothers and sisters to come along."

"Then these guys will be happy to do so." Huang Bochang said happily.

"That's right, that's right. It's freezing cold and my nephew is bored at home." Huang Jichang echoed after hearing what he said.

Huang Bochang looked away from him. How could he speak so rudely? Turn around and talk to him nicely.

Huang Bochang said, "Let's go! Let's talk while we walk." Then he squatted in front of the backpack and picked it up.

Shen Hui'e followed them into Huangjia Village. After entering the village, she felt that the thatched houses were even lower. The courtyard wall only reached a person's chest, so it was very easy to climb over the wall.

The village is not big, with only about a hundred households.

Although it's spring, it's still icy and snowy and we can't do farm work. We're all just staying at home!

The village was very quiet. When Shen Hui'e and her friends walked in, the occasional barking of dogs broke the tranquility of the village.

"Grandma..." The big tiger stepped over the gate and shouted at the top of his voice.

This courtyard gate is not only neat, but also has a doorhead!

Although the door is just a thatched roof in the shape of a human.

"There are so many fish! You guys need to catch them." Huang's mother opened the door and looked at them and said.