Pig Killer

Chapter 131

"Change the taste." Shen Hui'e said to them with her crystal clear eyes.

"At least this business can continue." Shen Changsheng had no choice but to say, "It will be fine next year. Next year we won't have to worry about slaughtering pigs. There are many farmers raising pigs, and we raise several ourselves!"

"The pork will still taste good next year!" Shen Hui'e drooled greedily.

"I really want next year to come soon." The cat slave said while sucking his saliva.

"Speaking of delicious food, you all look so greedy." Huang Bochang said to his niece with a doting look.

"It's not just us! The neighbors too. Whenever A Niang makes something delicious, the stall is immediately surrounded by people." The tiger looked at them with its round, bright eyes.

"We never tire of fine food, and we never tire of delicate minced meat. Now that the world is peaceful, as long as we plant the land well and have something to eat, it's good to think about delicious food to enrich our dinner table!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with curved eyebrows and said with a smile, "Don't you see that Da Chong and the others have grown taller?"

Huang Bochang looked up and down at the big tiger, which stood up suddenly, and said, "It really lives up to its name, as strong as a little tiger."

"Really?" The tiger straightened his head and chest, crossed his shoulders, and pounded his chest, pretending to be very burly.

"Hehe..." Shen Hui'e shook her head like a gorilla, "Silly boy." She said gently, "A strong body is right." She pointed to her heart and said, "And here."

"Heart?" The big tiger looked at her with his round eyes and said.

"That's right. If you are strong in your heart, you will be like a big tree that is not afraid of wind or rain!" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at him with her bright dark eyes.

The big bug returned to its normal appearance. Its dark eyes reflected the mottled sunlight as it looked at her and said, "I know."

"I want to be like my brother too." Li Nu said to his mother with his big blinking eyes.

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e reached out and touched her head and said.

"Are you here to tell me that we don't have to worry about the suspended ceiling business anymore?" Shen Hui'e looked up at the two of them and said.

"First is this, and second, can only straw mats be used for suspended ceilings?" Huang Bochang asked her with his dark eyes.

"Of course not, but they are usually made of wood." Shen Hui'e looked at him with bright eyes and said, "We use straw mats because they are cheap." She smiled and added, "The wooden ones can be painted with patterns, and even the nobles can paste gold foil."

"Gold?" Shen Changsheng raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

"Yes! To show off, or to demonstrate power, they use gold foil." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with deep and penetrating eyes.

"I've never done this before, so I don't know how to do it!" Huang Bochang scratched his head and said, "This pattern is not very good either, I don't know how to draw it."

"Then we won't take on such business!" Shen Hui'e said with amusement, looking at him in a panic, "Let's just do business with the common people. They have more people, and we won't be able to finish all the business."

"That's right!" Huang Bochang said with a smile, "The nobles are all skilled craftsmen. I can't do that, so I won't think about it."

"Don't look up, let's look down." Shen Hui'e said to him with her eyes like black jade.

"Yeah!" Huang Bochang nodded vigorously, "A little bit adds up to a lot."

"That's right." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her crystal clear eyes.

"We are here for this matter. I have to leave now. I am busy at home!" Huang Bochang stood up and looked at them and said, "Don't worry."

"Yeah!" Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded slightly.

"I'm leaving too." Shen Changsheng stood up and said.

"I'll see you off." Shen Hui'e and the others sent them out of the house, watched them disappear from their sight, and then turned around and went home.

"Come on! Process them and soak them in salt water." Shen Hui'e used three large wooden basins to soak the crabs, shrimps and loaches in mud.

"Mom, how do I eat this shrimp? It's too small." The cat slave asked while looking at the small shrimp.

"Fry it. Coat it with flour and fry it directly." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her shiny black eyes and said, "Fry it until golden, golden, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside."

"Eat it directly?" Da Chong pursed his lips and looked at her and said.

"Yes, it smells delicious!" Shen Hui'e said, slurping her saliva, "I can eat it tomorrow."

Really looking forward to tomorrow.

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The next day, Shen Hui'e fried the crabs and shrimps that had been soaked in mud all night in lard.

"How is it?" Shen Hui'e said with her eyes as black as jade as she looked at them after they had eaten crabs and shrimps.

"Shrimp is delicious." The raccoon slave looked at her with sparkling eyes and said, "It's so delicious, better than crabs. Crabs really have no meat."

"If it tastes good, eat more." Shen Hui'e said to them with eyes as gentle as jade.

The crabs and shrimps were fried until golden brown, and the rich aroma attracted a long queue in front of the meat stall early in the morning.

"Thank you, pig killer!"

"Why are you thanking me?" Shen Hui'e looked at the person who was thanking her, not quite understanding.

"Because you give children the opportunity to make money, they won't be naughty and cause trouble for others."

"Yes! Yes! These half-grown kids are the hardest to deal with. They disappear in the blink of an eye. There's no telling when they'll get into trouble."

"Now that we are by the river, we don't have to worry about them going to deep water."

"Haha..." Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed, "I should thank them. They are all very well behaved and capable. They know how to earn money for the family at such a young age."

"Tsk...them! It's good enough that they don't cause me any trouble."

"Yes, yes!"

Everyone echoed the sentiment, and although they expressed disgust, they had smiles on their faces, which showed that they said one thing and meant another.

"Mother, how do we eat this loach?" The raccoon slave looked at her with bright eyes and said, "The crabs and shrimps have been sold out. I didn't expect them to sell so well."

"I told you, good things will never be hard to sell." Shen Hui'e said to them with her bright eyes.

"Since the loaches are big, we can cut them into pieces and fry them." Shen Hui'e peeled, cleaned, cut the marinated loaches into pieces and fried them in a pan.

Fry until golden brown, take out, drain the oil, and put it in a clay pot.

"This looks delicious." The big insect looked at her with its big black eyes and said.

"Don't look at it! Eat it with something between you and your mouth." Shen Hui'e pointed at them and said.

"Hmm!" Everyone ate with their mouths full of oil, "Delicious, delicious."

"Mother, this little loach is still alive! How do you plan to eat it?" The cat slave looked at her expectantly and said.

"Well!" Shen Hui'e smiled mysteriously, "I'll perform a trick for you."

"Where's the tofu?" Shen Hui'e looked up at Cheng Donglai and asked.

"Here, here, this is the tofu I got when I came here." Cheng Donglai quickly took the basket with two pieces of tofu in it.

The freshly made tofu is still hot and tender.

Shen Hui'e turned down the fire, cleaned the big iron pot, let it cool down, and then put it on the stove.

Add some lard, green peppercorns, onions, ginger and garlic, stir-fry, a little salt, tofu, water, loach, cover the pot and cook together.

"Mother, you haven't cut the tofu yet?" said the cat slave, pointing at the big iron pot.

"The loach is still alive! Butcher lady." said the neighbors gathered in front of the stall.

"I know, just wait and see!" Shen Hui'e said with a mysterious smile.

"Pig butcher lady, what pipes are you selling?"

"Be patient." Shen Hui'e put her index finger on her lips and smiled slightly.

"That's right, don't worry."

"If we put this live loach in there, it won't burn to death, will it?"

"That's for sure!"

"Why is there no movement in this big iron pot?"

"What could be going on?"

"If you put it in, it's alive. The water didn't boil all at once, so there must be some movement!"

"That's right!" The people surrounding the stall looked at the pig-killing lady in unison.

"Why are you looking at me?" Shen Hui'e said to them with a smile on her face.

"What happened in this pot?"

"I don't know. We'll know when we open the lid." Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes as dark as ink at their obvious disbelief. "Really, I really don't know. This is my first time doing this, too."

"There's movement in the pot, there's movement."

Swish... everyone's eyes were fixed on the big iron pot.

After waiting for a long time, he said, "No movement!"

"The pot did make a noise."

"I was asking about the movements of the loaches."

"Who hears the pot making a noise?"

"Pig-killing lady, can you open the pot lid and take a look now?"

“I think it should be possible!”

"Wait a little longer." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her dark pupils.

"Just wait a little longer and it will boil. Once it boils, it will all become one pot."

"No, I'm watching the pot! I will definitely open the lid the moment it boils." Shen Hui'e smiled when she heard that.

"It's silent. It's on. It's on."

"Why isn't there any smoke?"

"It's hot in the summer, so there's no smoke."

"You can tell at a glance that you've never cooked before."

Shen Hui'e opened the lid of the pot upon seeing this, and everyone's eyes turned to the big iron pot.

The only sound in the silence was the cicadas in the trees, "Where are the loaches?"

"That's the tail! Where's the head?"

"The head has been stuck in the tofu." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with curved eyebrows, picking up the tail with chopsticks, which was very unique and interesting.

"Wow...this is so interesting."

"How could this be?"

"why?"

"As the water got hotter, they ran around everywhere! Finally they found the tofu and crawled into it." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with a smile.

"Makes sense."

Shen Hui'e added some firewood into the stove and started to simmer over low heat!

"Pig-killing lady, you are too thoughtful!"

"I didn't expect that loaches would get into tofu." Shen Hui'e said to them without blushing or panting.

"Now we have another dish: loach in tofu."

"Pig-killing lady, what should we pay attention to?"

"Yeah!"

"Don't use too high a fire for this, simmer it slowly over low heat." Da Chong looked at them with interest and said.

"Why? In the past, there was always a big fire!"

"The fire is too big. The loach will be cooked in an instant. How can it get into the tofu?" The big insect looked at them with its round and bright eyes.