"Thief." Jiang Nian looked down at the wretched man on the ground with indifference in his eyes. If Yueyue hadn't told him not to see blood casually, the thief's hand would have been broken long ago.
When the young man followed his wife, his expression was quite gentle, although his aura was intimidating. Unexpectedly, his eyes and expression changed at this time, as if he could kill someone in the next second, which was very scary.
The man closed his eyes, rolled around on the ground and asked them to pay, and the scene instantly fell into chaos.
When Jiang Yue saw this, she didn't stop and called Jiang Nian back. "If you don't want to change things here, then let's go to the next village. It doesn't matter."
The faces of other villagers who had not yet changed their belongings were stiff. They thought that the young couple were about the same age as the grandchildren at home and were tender-skinned. Who knew they were so disrespectful, so they quickly begged them not to leave.
With only a few eggs in my hand, I couldn't enter Fucheng to exchange for anything. But here, even half a liter of soybeans and half a piece of cloth are exchanged.
Finally, the village chief came forward and scolded the man on the ground away.
Obviously, everyone in the village knew the man's face, but he just ignored it and just wanted to watch the excitement.
Human nature is like this, Jiang Yue is not angry, her purpose is very clear, if she has something, she will change it, and if she doesn't have something, she will leave, without wasting any time.
Keep the good eggs and throw away the rotten eggs when necessary. No face is given at all. No one dares to have an opinion.
She can collect live animals now, instead of wasting time waiting for someone to kill them and bring them over like before.
Of course, there aren't that many poultry in this village, so most of them still trade eggs for eggs.
The copper plates were worthless, and most of them were exchanged for grain and old cloth and rags. Country people think that moldy cloth is a good thing. It doesn't matter if it has black spots. The countryside is full of mud.
This time, after traveling to three surrounding villages, she got 20 chickens, 5 ducks, 2 pigs and 650 eggs.
Take it as soon as you see fit, retreat!
Those live chickens and ducks are extremely adaptable and can be kept in the same house as rabbits. The room was spacious and not crowded. As for the two big pigs, I don’t want to raise them, they are too smelly and troublesome.
She took the knife specially used for killing pigs that she bought from the iron shop and handed it to Jiang Nian.
He squatted and stared at the big pig for a long time. If he hadn't held a knife in his hand, she would have thought that the wolf and the pig were seeing each other...
Jiang Yue's strength was now comparable to that of a thinner man. She helped hold down the pig. Jiang Nian pressed the pig's head with his left hand, and used the knife in his right hand to cut everything quickly and accurately. Blood gushed out instantly.
The pig only had time to grunt twice before running out of energy.
Another pig was tied to the side, watching his own kind being brutally killed, and his legs were shaking with fear.
It's a pity that the "cruel" boy will not let him go, he is still waiting to gnaw on the big bone!
Nowadays, every family is greedy for meat, and they are afraid that the pig's braying will attract people, so they tie the pig's hands, feet and mouth tightly. Except for the Wang Xiucai family on the right who may hear a little sound, the rest of the family should not be able to hear it.
Even if you hear it, can you still come and rob it?
Wang Xiucai, who was studying in the library, did hear the sharp sound of pigs, and he was a little irritated.
What kind of family lives next door? The aroma of the food cooked every day made him uneasy. Occasionally he heard the faint cry of sheep, which he thought was a hallucination. But now there is a whole pig to kill?
He had been eating dry steamed buns with pickles for three days in a row. His face turned sallow and he lost a lot of weight. His mouth watered when he thought about the delicious taste of the meat.
He put down the book and walked to the kitchen. Looking from the door, it was filled with smoke. He covered his face and nose and looked at the pickles cut on the chopping board with an ugly expression on his face, "Mom, are there no fresh vegetables today?"
Mrs. Liu twisted her body and came out with a sad look on her face, "Wen'er, vegetables in the city are not only expensive now, but also hard to buy..."
Wang Xiucai was impatient, "I gave you all the money I earned from copying books every month, and now I can't have any left? I can't even afford some vegetables, how can I read when I'm hungry?"
Liniang looked troubled. Before, her husband could get six to seven hundred pieces of writing every month for copying books, but he had banquets every month and had to wear new clothes every two or three months. Except for the fact that this house was earned by my father-in-law before his death, there is no need to rent it. The rest of the firewood, night incense, rice, oil, salt, pen, ink, paper and inkstones, etc., are all free of charge?
But she didn't dare to refute what her husband said.
Then I heard my husband say, "Forget about vegetables, can't we buy meat?"
Liniang murmured, "Pork is more expensive, 45 cents per pound..."
"I just heard that a pig was killed next door. Go and ask if it can be sold. Neighbors should love each other, and they can't keep a whole pig to themselves, right?"
Liniang looked at him in surprise. Before she could speak, Mrs. Liu took over the conversation, a little surprised, "They actually have a whole pig at home?"
"Well, I can hear clearly, it's the sound of killing pigs."
When they were young, before their family moved to the city, they lived in the countryside. Next door was the pig butcher, so they were very familiar with the noise.
Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Okay, let's go ask and buy some to replenish my son's health."
As he spoke, he seemed to have determined that the other party would definitely sell meat.
Jiang Yue and the other two were dissecting a pig. Jiang Nian's ears moved slightly, "Yue Yue, there is someone here."
Um? Where is the person? Although the rain had lightened up, the sound of the rain hitting the tiles was loud enough to cover up the knock on the door. She still listened quietly for a while before confirming that someone was really knocking on the door.
She wiped her hands with a rag, took an oil-paper umbrella given by the shopkeeper and walked over quickly.
Who is visiting at this time? Don't you think the road is slippery?
"Here you go, stop taking pictures." The courtyard door had several bolts, and it took a lot of effort for her to open it.
The door opened and it was the scholar's weak mother-in-law and daughter-in-law next door.
Maybe because the yard was big, Liniang knocked on the door for a while but no one came out, so her mother-in-law asked her to knock on the door, and her hands turned red when she did so.
When I saw the neighbor's wife coming out, I was a little stunned. She seemed different from the last time we met. Her skin was smooth, her complexion was whiter, and she was taller. It looks so nice.
Mrs. Liu stared at the new oil-paper umbrella in her hand, with lifelike pictures of Jiangnan beauties painted on it. And I still use the old umbrella I bought last year, with no patterns on it...
Jiang Yue looked at the two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in a daze, a little confused, "What are you here for?"
Liniang lowered her head, and Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "We had some misunderstandings before. After all, we will be neighbors for decades in the future. We just want to apologize to you. It was our fault."
"Yeah." Jiang Yue responded without emotion.
Ms. Liu paused for a moment and then said, "The walls of your courtyard are high, but we don't know what's going on inside this house..."
The door faced a stone wall, blocking the view outside. Halfway through her words, Liu wanted to squeeze through the door.
Normally at this time, a discerning person would ask someone to come in and sit down, but the other person just stood there motionless, looking at her with a half-smile.
"If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't do those meandering things. It's very annoying."
Mrs. Liu was a little embarrassed, and her hands on the umbrella tightened.
But the dissatisfied daughter-in-law just stood there blankly without saying a word, so she could only come.
"We heard you were killing pigs over there, can you sell some to us? We haven't bought any meat for half a month, my son..."
She frowned, looking sad.
