Pig Killer

Chapter 149

Eating meat was not allowed during the national mourning period. In those days of extreme material scarcity, the number of times common people ate meat throughout the year could be counted on one hand.

There were not enough pigs to kill, so butchers started killing dogs instead.

After all the calculations, this one is still aimed at your noble person.

It’s just because we kill pigs at home and we eat meat all the time that we find it hard to bear.

"There's no rush to pull out the radishes. Let's make vermicelli with mung beans first." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"What do you mean? Mung bean jelly?" The big tiger looked at her with sparkling eyes.

"It's dried vermicelli, similar to noodles." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her bright black pupils.

"Pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew..." Shen Hui'e became greedy again as she spoke.

"Mother, mother, do it now." The big tiger looked at her impatiently and said.

"No! The mung beans need to be soaked for a longer time." Shen Hui'e looked at them with clear eyes and said, "The finished vermicelli can be eaten for half a year without any problem."

"Ah! Can it last that long?" Li Nu looked at her in disbelief.

"That's right!" Shen Hui'e nodded with a smile, "We need to prepare some tools."

"Are you looking for Uncle Liu again?" Da Chong asked cleverly.

"We have to use your Uncle Liu again this time, but this time it's very simple." Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes like glass beads and said.

"How simple?" Li Nu looked at her curiously with his bright eyes.

"You know what a colander is, right?" Shen Hui'e said, making a circle with her hands.

"I know. It's used to drip oil for making dumplings and frying things." Da Chong looked at her and said with a smile.

"Now make the colander into a round hole." Shen Hui'e gestured with her fingers and said, "This will make it easier to pass the net."

"Is it that simple?" Li Nu looked at her with eyes wide open.

"It's that simple." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Then let's go and find Uncle Liu." Da Chong said hurriedly.

"Go ahead! I'll soak the mung beans first. We've run out of wheat at home." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her glassy eyes and said, "We'll be eating more noodles in the future, so we need to grind more."

"Then I'll go." said the big tiger excitedly.

"Take the money." Shen Hui'e waved and reminded him.

"Hey!" Da Chong took the money and left home in a hurry.

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"Let me grind the flour!" Cheng Donglai said as he rolled up his sleeves.

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e cleaned the millstone and started grinding flour.

"Mother, what should we do with the wheat bran?" The raccoon looked at her with his bright eyes blinking. "We have already saved so much."

"I don't want to eat." Shen Hui'e pursed her lips and looked at her.

"Hehe..." The cat slave looked at her happily and smiled slyly.

"What are you laughing at?" Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at her deliberately and asked.

"I'm just like my mother. I don't want to eat bran." The cat slave looked at her with his eyes like black grapes and said with a smile.

"Aunt, you are so bold. If we feed the wheat bran to chickens and pigs, we will be scolded and beaten." Cheng Donglai muttered softly, "Besides, I can't bear to do it." His eyes widened and he said, "That's wheat bran!" The speed of grinding flour with the millstone did not change at all.

"Just say whatever you want to say. If you don't like it, then you don't like it." Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "In the future, just say whatever you want to say. Don't hide anything. I'm not a worm in your stomach who knows everything. It's better to be frank like this! There will be no misunderstandings and regrets."

"Yeah!" The raccoon slave nodded at her with his crystal-clear eyes, and asked curiously, "Mother, what are the roundworms in your stomach? There are also worms in the stomach."

"Of course, if you eat unclean things, it's easy for worms to grow in your stomach." Shen Hui'e looked them up and down and said.

"It's really...really...full of worms!" The cat slave said with fear as he looked down at his belly, stammering, "It...it...how is it going to get out!" He pounced on his mother.

Cheng Donglai and the others were pale and very scared.

"It's okay, let's go find Doctor Li, he has anti-worm medicine." Shen Hui'e patted her back soothingly.

"Anti-worm medicine?" The cat slave looked up at her in disbelief, with his tender little face raised.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e said with a smile, "The crops are infested with worms, so shouldn't we kill them? The same goes for worms in the stomach, so just kill them!"

"Huh..." The cat slave let out a long sigh of relief, "Ah!" Then he became nervous again.

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

"The worms in the stomach died inside, how do they get out?" The cat slave looked at her nervously and asked.

Cheng Donglai, who was pushing the mill, also stopped and looked at her anxiously.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her gentle eyes and said, "After taking the anthelmintic, they will be excreted with the feces and will not harm our bodies."

"Ah!" The cat slave turned his head to look behind his butt.

"What a silly girl." Shen Hui'e looked at her with amusement, but when she raised her eyes, Cheng Donglai and the others turned their heads to look at their butts, and her laughter became louder.

"You seem so nervous. Let's go find Doctor Li when the tiger comes back." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her bright dark eyes.

As soon as he finished speaking, Da Chong came in hurriedly, "I'm back."

"You're back just in time. Let's go find Doctor Li." Shen Hui'e clapped her hands and said to them.

"Looking for Doctor Li? What's wrong? Who is sick?" Da Chong looked at them nervously. They looked fine, but they got sick after being out for a while.

"Brother, let's go get rid of the bugs. There are worms in my stomach." Li Nu walked up to him and said.

"There are worms in your stomach?" The big bug looked down at his stomach and said, "How could I not know? I can't see through the stomach!" He looked up at his mother and said, "And, and, how did you know?"

"If you eat unclean things, you will easily get worms." Shen Hui'e looked at them gently with a smile on her face and said, "Let Doctor Li take your pulse to find out if you have worms." She took off her apron and hung it on the clothesline. "Let's go and talk while we walk."

Shen Hui'e and the others locked the door and left the house.

"We can tell if there are worms in the stomach." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her deep and penetrating eyes as she spoke, "Among the techniques of medicine, observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation are the most important."

"How can you tell?" Da Chong asked her with curious eyes.

"Eat a lot, but don't get fat." Shen Hui'e looked around with clear eyes and said, "That's because the food you eat is eaten by bugs." She smiled and said, "Just like when bugs infest crops, the crops won't grow." She smiled and asked, "Do you understand?"

"I understand." The big tiger nodded with a smile.

As they were talking, they arrived at Doctor Li's pharmacy. Doctor Li, who was sitting behind the counter, looked at them in surprise and said, "Why are you here? Who is feeling unwell?"

"Uncle Doctor, let's go and get rid of the bugs." Li Nuo looked at him with her watery eyes while leaning against the counter.

"Big insect?" Doctor Li looked at the big insect and said.

"Uncle Doctor, we are killing worms, not big worms." Upon hearing this, the big worm jumped up to prove himself, "I ate something unclean in my stomach, so I have worms."

Doctor Li nodded in understanding, frowned slightly, looked at them and said, "Is that so? But, but I have never killed insects before!"

"Ah..." Da Chong and the others looked at Doctor Li in astonishment, then looked at their mother and said, "Mother..."

Shen Hui'e looked at Doctor Li and said, "Then Doctor Li, please feel Donglai's pulse, especially the lower abdomen."

Doctor Li's eyes lit up when he heard this and waved his hand, "Come, come, come and take your pulse."

"I really need to take your pulse!" Cheng Donglai said with some fear.

"It's okay. It's normal to have worms. We just need to kill them." Shen Hui'e pointed at him with her index finger and said, "Be good, go quickly." She smiled and said, "Why are you afraid?" She looked at her son and said, "Big worm, give your brother Cheng's hand to the doctor uncle."

"Hey!" Da Chong responded crisply, grabbed Brother Cheng's hand and placed it on the pulse pillow, "Uncle Doctor, take a look."

Doctor Li looked at them with amusement and said, "Don't be afraid." He placed three warm fingers on Cheng Donglai's wrist, "Eh..."

"What's wrong?" Shen Hui'e stepped forward, stood in front of the counter, looked at him and asked worriedly.

"Why is your pulse the same as mine?" Doctor Li looked up at her and said.

"How is this possible?" Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and shook her head, "One old and one young, it's impossible."

"I'm not talking about the internal organs, I'm talking about..." Doctor Li pondered for a moment and said, "Come here, all of you, come over and take my pulse."

After Doctor Li took the pulse of Shen Hui'e and the others one by one, he looked at them with disbelief on his face.

"Uncle Doctor, are you saying something?" The cat slave looked at him with eyes like black grapes and urged.

"What do you mean when you don't speak?" Da Chong looked at him puzzledly, then turned to look at his mother and asked, "Mother?"

"I'm afraid our pulse conditions are the same, which is why Doctor Li is so shocked." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her eyes slightly narrowed.

"That's impossible!" Da Chong looked at her hesitantly and said, "We don't eat unclean things!" He looked at Cheng Donglai and said, "Brother Cheng is possible."

"Yeah!" Cheng Donglai nodded, "Before we settled down here, we didn't eat clean food, and some of it was even eaten raw."

"But I don't have it!" Doctor Li looked at her in confusion.

"Then do you drink raw water?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with confusion in his eyes, and then said, "It means drinking this water directly without boiling it."

"Of course I drink it directly, especially in summer." Doctor Li said as a matter of course, "Who drinks hot water in summer? It's not hot enough!"

"This is the source. How do you know the water is clean?" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with eyes as clear as water.

"No wonder mother doesn't mind wasting firewood and insists on boiling the water." The big tiger looked at her with sparkling eyes and said.