I’ll Butcher Pigs to Support You! 45p2

Chapter 45 p2

Chi Jingming also went out early and returned late every day. He didn’t see much of his neighbors, and his impression of them was a little blurry. He couldn’t help but ask his daughter beside him, “Is that the family you had a meal at yesterday?”

“That’s right, Dad. I had wontons at their house yesterday. They were so delicious.”

Chi Jingming had an idea and nodded slightly. “Since they’re your friends, go and say hello and buy two catties of meat.”

“Oh, okay.”

Chi Xiangyue replied and skipped over.

“Yugui, Xizhi, let me help you sell meat.”

Just as she walked over, she had already completely forgotten her father’s words.

Shen Xizhi bit her lip and looked at Song Yugui, her watery eyes filled with a lot of urging emotions.

Hoping that she would refuse.

The corners of Song Yugui’s mouth twitched. “I’m afraid that’s not good. I see your father is still waiting for you.”

Being reminded, Chi Xiangyue looked back. Her father was looking at her warmly, waiting for her where he stood.

But she still waved her hand without a care. “What’s the big deal? I’ll just tell my dad in a little while and let him go first. I want to play with you guys.”

Shen Xizhi was so anxious she kept pulling at her wife’s sleeve, but she was also afraid that her wife would be too embarrassed to refuse her. In a fit of anxiety, she blurted out two words before her wife could. “No!”

Chi Xiangyue was puzzled. “Why not?”

“I… my wife and I can sell it ourselves. We don’t need to trouble Miss Chi.”

“Oh~”

Chi Xiangyue understood. “You don’t want me to disturb you and Yugui, do you?”

Shen Xizhi’s small face turned red. Although… although that was the gist of it, she hadn’t expected Chi Xiangyue to understand and say it so directly. She was too embarrassed to admit it and quickly denied it in a fluster.

“No, no! Don’t talk nonsense.”

Her small face was flushed.

The more it was like this, the more confident Chi Xiangyue became. “It must be. In that case, I really shouldn’t disturb you.”

Shen Xizhi hid behind Song Yugui in embarrassment. Song Yugui had just handed a portion of meat to a customer and casually protected her wife. “Don’t bully her. Hurry up and go back. We’re busy at our stall.”

There was no time for idle chatter.

Chi Xiangyue’s teasing gaze swept over the two of them. Shen Xizhi was even more ashamed and almost hid behind her, not daring to come out, her slender, jade-like fingers gripping a corner of her wife’s clothes.

“Alright, alright. I can’t win against the two of you alone. Then give me a few catties of meat.”

“How many catties?”

How could she remember how many catties her father had told her to get? She hesitated for a moment and said, “Five catties. Five catties is fine.”

“What kind of meat?”

What kind of meat? Chi Xiangyue didn’t understand and just said whatever. Song Yugui told her to go and ask her father, but she was too lazy to go and just casually pointed at the streaky pork.

Song Yugui thought, Forget it. It’s a bastard not to earn money.

With a sharp cut of the knife, she cut off a little over five catties of meat, and the extra was her gift.

Chi Jingming waited for a long time. When his daughter came back with five catties of meat, his brow furrowed. “How many catties did you tell them we wanted?”

“Five catties.”

“…”

Two people eating five catties, how long would that take?

Chi Jingming shook his head helplessly but didn’t say anything and took his daughter away.

Today’s meat sold a little more easily than before. It was sold out before noon, and she had earned over eight thousand wen.

Shen Xizhi had been hiding on the side, counting it one wen at a time.

She would count money whenever she was free. She really was a little money-grubber.

Song Yugui pulled her up. She didn’t rush back but took her to a stall selling sugar paintings not far away.

She had been eyeing this stall for a while. Seeing the old woman draw tigers, rabbits, and other things with ease, and they were quite lifelike, she wanted to try.

Shen Xizhi also felt that this was a waste of money, but seeing her wife’s happy expression, she didn’t say anything. If she wants to buy one, let her. Money can’t buy happiness.

Who knew that when they got there, Song Yugui would say, “Granny, can you draw one that looks like her?”

Shen Xizhi blushed and gently touched her finger. “What are you doing? Just draw a little rabbit.”

Why draw her face?

But Song Yugui wouldn’t listen to her and insisted on drawing her face. Shen Xizhi muttered a couple of things but didn’t say anything more.

The old woman’s cloudy eyes stared at her intently. After a long moment, she smiled. “I can draw it, but drawing a person is more expensive. It’s six wen.”

Drawing a small animal was simpler and easier, and only cost three wen. Drawing a person was more troublesome, and everyone was different.

Six wen was not a large number. Song Yugui replied with an “okay.”

The old woman then said kindly, “Little girl, don’t hide behind your sister. Come out and let this old woman see you to draw.”

Shen Xizhi had been very shy, but when she heard the word “sister,” she was immediately annoyed. She stomped her foot but still came out, her expression pouting.

The old woman didn’t know she was angry and called out to Song Yugui, “Tell your sister not to frown. It won’t look good if I draw it like that.”

Song Yugui comforted her by rubbing her back and said gently, “She’s my wife, not my sister. Granny, you’re mistaken.”

The old woman was stunned. Seeing that she wasn’t going along with the mistake and hiding it, Shen Xizhi’s expression improved a little. Her furrowed brow relaxed slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.

Only then did the old woman realize what her expression had meant and said apologetically, “It’s this old woman’s old eyes. I was mistaken.”

Song Yugui shook her head. “It’s alright.”

Anyway, people often made mistakes.

Hearing the old woman muttering that they were both beautiful and looked very suitable together as she prepared to draw her, Shen Xizhi was happy, and the smile on her lips couldn’t be suppressed, even her eyes curving.

The sugar painting took a lot of effort. They had to wait for a while before it was ready. Song Yugui counted out six wen and paid, then took her wife and left.

Shen Xizhi held the stick of the sugar painting and didn’t even help to push the cart. She followed beside her, looking at the sugar painting with great curiosity.

It really did have a three-point resemblance to her.

“You can’t bear to eat it?”

Song Yugui, pushing the cart with great effort, turned her head to ask.

Shen Xizhi’s eyes were filled with light, and she replied with an excited “Mmm.”

She was unhappy when she had to spend money, but now that the money was really spent, she was quite happy.

“If you don’t eat it, it will melt later. Hurry up and eat it.”

She smiled at her, urged her, and said, “If you like it, I’ll buy it for you again next time.”

“Mmm!”

In the past, every time she said she would buy her something, she would persuade her against it. But this time, she agreed very quickly, which showed that she really liked it.

The villain was happy, and she was also happy. On the way, the smile on Song Yugui’s lips also didn’t fade.

Until the not-so-small sugar painting appeared in front of her. “You eat first.”

Shen Xizhi couldn’t bear to eat it. If she didn’t take a bite, the other would probably hold it in her hand and look at it all day.

So Song Yugui stretched out her neck and took a bite of the small face of the sugar painting. For some reason, looking at the missing piece, Shen Xizhi inexplicably lifted her hand to touch her own cheek.

Her ears gradually became hot.

She didn’t say anything more and obediently held the sugar and licked it in small licks.

Since it was cold now, the sugar painting melted slowly. She could still lick it all the way home.

When they passed by the pig farm, Song Yugui conveniently paid the two thousand five hundred wen she had owed from the morning, leaving her with six thousand wen on hand.

The daily income was still quite a lot even after deducting the cost of goods. After Shen Xizhi had finished her sugar, she counted the money again at home and came out with a bit of joy. “There’s still a lot of money. Let’s go to town tomorrow and get a few feet of cloth. I’ll make you a set of clothes.”

It was rare to hear her talk about spending money. Song Yugui’s eyes lit up. “Yo, you know how to make clothes?”

The young woman nodded demurely. “Mmm, it’s much cheaper to make them yourself than to buy them ready-made. It’s just that I haven’t done it in a long time, so I’m afraid my skills are rusty. If it doesn’t look good, will you wear it?”

She looked up at her with a small, snowy white face that was almost glowing.

How could Song Yugui say no to that?

Anyway, the original owner’s clothes were all very ugly. She had already given up. Her own villain was so skilled with her hands. How bad could it be?

I don’t believe it.

“I’ll wear it. As long as you make it, I’ll wear it even if the sleeves are of different lengths.”

Shen Xizhi pushed her a little, her expression with the shyness of a young lady, a little unhappy as she chided her, “How could I make it that bad?”

They talked in the room for a while, and it was getting late. They hadn’t had lunch, and their stomachs were already growling.

Fortunately, there was the dough she had kneaded last night. Shen Xizhi took it out, kneaded it for a while longer, and finally cut it into thin strips. She added a little shredded meat and two scrambled eggs to the pot, then added some water and boiled it for a while. The soup turned a golden yellow color.

When it was almost done, Shen Xizhi added the cabbage and a little shredded carrot she had bought at noon, and finally the noodles. Song Yugui could smell the fragrance from a long way off. The scrambled eggs were fried with lard, and lard noodle soup was the most fragrant.

Soon, a pot of hot noodles was ready. Song Yugui went over and served two bowls of noodles on the table. The smell was so good it almost made her faint.

“Xizhi’s skills are getting better and better.”

Being praised by her wife, her face couldn’t help but turn red. “Hurry up and eat. Stop talking.”

“What, you don’t like it when I talk?”

Song Yugui’s brow furrowed slightly. “It really breaks my heart. Now you’re not happy when I talk. In the future, will you be unhappy just seeing me?”

The noodles were very hot. She stirred them to cool them down while being unreasonable.

“Don’t talk nonsense. When was I ever unhappy seeing you? You… if you keep talking like this, I won’t talk to you anymore.”

Seeing a hint of faint anger in her brow, Song Yugui finally smiled and admitted her mistake. “Alright, alright. I was talking nonsense. You must not ignore me. If Xiaozhi’er ignores me, I’ll be so sad every day I won’t be able to eat or sleep.”

Shen Xizhi was coy. “You’re just talking nonsense. I don’t believe a single word.”

She was also angry yesterday, but this person slept so soundly. How could she have time to care about her? Now that she’s saying this, it’s clear it’s not true.

They bickered for a while, and after eating the fragrant noodles, they went out to the courtyard to feel the wind for a while before they took their baskets and went up the mountain to cut pig feed. Today, Chi Xiangyue was not around, and Shen Xizhi was relieved. Although with her around, things were twice as efficient, she talked too much, which gave her a headache.