Farming? I'm making a killing with my fairytale vegetables!

Chapter 148 Killing Pigs

A few days later, Yuan Shi and his group decided to head back home; they could no longer stay there.

Yuan Shi and the other volunteers' cars and bags are now stuffed full of fruits and vegetables. If they weren't worried about not having enough room, they would have liked to buy more. They wanted to pack everything they could carry.

Sangsang looked regretful. "It's such a pity, Boss Xia. Your business didn't extend to our area. If we want to eat it in the future, we'll have to ask you to mail it to us."

As a true foodie, coming here was the best decision she ever made.

Xia Shiyu shook her head and chuckled, "It's okay, we'll add each other's contact information. Just tell me what you want to eat later, and I can also send you other fruits and vegetables when they're ripe."

"That's good, that's good. I've been craving your grapes for a long time."

Sangsang's eyes sparkled; she really wanted to eat it.

Yuan Shi and several other people came over and hugged each other in turn.

"Goodbye, Boss Xia. We'll come visit you again next time, and we'll help you promote your business when we get back."

"Okay," Xia Shiyu said with a smile as she bid them farewell.

Grandma waved to them, "Come again next time, there will be more dishes here next year."

"Okay, Grandma, we'll come again next time."

Xia Shiyu and her family watched the group leave. Her grandmother sighed, "These city kids are so generous. I earned more than 2 yuan while they were staying in our village."

These children basically eat at their house. Although they eat ordinary food, there are so many of them that they can earn a couple hundred yuan a day.

The total amount adds up to quite a bit. You have to understand that they usually work hard to grow a lot of crops and only earn a little over 1000 yuan a month.

Xia Shiyu patted her grandmother on the shoulder, "This is normal. There will be more of this kind of situation in the future."

Grandma sighed again, "Yes, yes, but it's all thanks to their hard work. We've almost used up all the cured and salted meat at home. It's always better to eat fresh meat."

Xia Shiyu agreed with this point, saying that there was just too much meat at home, and the fresh meat that had been sitting there for so long had turned into "zombie meat".

However, we're out of meat at home; I guess we should buy some.

She turned to her parents and said, "Mom and Dad, should we go fishing for a pig this year?"

Yu Juan nodded, "We should go fishing for one."

Previously, their family raised two pigs, selling one and fishing for their own food. Later, due to complicated family circumstances, they stopped raising pigs and started buying ready-made meat, choosing whichever part of the pig they wanted.

However, since my family is all here this year, and pork is being consumed quite quickly these days, it's better to catch a whole pig.

Xia Lihua nodded, "That's easy. Everyone in the village has been fishing for pigs lately. We can just buy one and kill it together."

Xia Shiyu happily suggested, "That's great, we can also have some fresh blood tofu."

At home, the blood curd served at a pig-slaughtering banquet is usually not made spicy. Instead, you simply blanch cabbage in boiling water, then cut the pig's blood into pieces and put it in, and the taste is already quite good.

When Xia Shiyu was a child, the adults said that she should eat more pig blood to cleanse the dust from her lungs, and she loved eating pig blood since she was a child.

"Okay, okay, I'll go ask about it later," Xia Lihua replied happily.

By the afternoon, he had already found someone. "I've already found someone in Huaihai, which is close to our home. They can use a tricycle to bring the pigs back and put them away. They're going to slaughter pigs tomorrow, and the butcher will slaughter both ours together."

"Okay, sure, sure."

Xia Shiyu agreed readily, and she was really happy that she could eat the "pig-killing feast" tomorrow.

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The next morning, everyone in the family got busy. Grandpa was busy preparing the ropes to hang the pork. He usually collected the leaves of a fan-shaped plant in the village, twisted them, and that was it.

Dad was preparing various tools, while Mom and Grandma were preparing containers for the meat, basins, and salt.

In particular, salt is added to the basin containing the pig's blood. When the blood is drained, it is poured into the basin and will solidify after a period of time.

Xia Shiyu looked around at how busy the house was, but it seemed like she couldn't do anything.

Yu Juan waved her hand, "It's not busy now. It'll be busy when we're slaughtering the pig and making cured meat later. You should go and take care of your vegetables for now."

"Alright then." Xia Shiyu nodded, and could only go and check on how her newly planted vegetables were doing.

In the afternoon, Xia Lihua heard from Li Huaihai that the butcher had arrived, so he set off with his family.

When we arrived, the stove and pots were already set up and the water was boiling.

As soon as Xia Shiyu approached, he heard the heart-wrenching screams of the domestic pig. Several adult men dragged the pig out and pressed it onto the slaughtering bench. The butcher stabbed it with a knife, and pig blood seeped out from its neck.

Li Huaihai was catching the pot next to him, and only after he had filled the pot did he have it carried inside.

Next, they began the other steps of slaughtering the pig. Li Huaihai saw Xia Shiyu and her group of people and came over to talk to them.

"Lihua, you're here! Come in and have a seat. We'll slaughter you right after we finish this pig."

Xia Lihua nodded, "Okay, it's alright, no rush, we can still help."

Li Huaihai warmly invited, "Sure, sure, why don't you stay for dinner later?"

"No need for that, we can just go home ourselves."

Xia Lihua waved his hand, saying that they really hadn't expected to eat here at first.

"No problem, just stay and eat, it's nothing."

Xia Liu, Li Huaihai's wife, also chimed in.

After another round of traditional refusal, Xia Lihua finally agreed. He turned to Xia Shiyu and said, "Xiaoyu, go home and bring some vegetables to add to your Uncle Huaihai's meal."

After agreeing to "okay," Xia Shiyu drove her own car back to get the groceries.

Actually, she doesn't mind eating at anyone's house; eating together is more lively, and she can eat more dishes.