Chapter 147 Chapter 147 Brutal

Yu Jin had something else to do, so she told Fang Bihe where her sister was slaughtering pigs and quickly went to get busy.

When Fang Bihe went over, he found that there were quite a few people in the family that was going to slaughter a pig today. Some were in the yard, and some were standing outside the courtyard wall. Some were looking into the yard and chatting with people around them.

The wall of this family's courtyard is not high, only reaching the chest of an adult, so you can stand outside and look in.

Fang Bihe was a little surprised to see so many people.

He found a villager and asked, "Hey, why are you all gathered here?"

The villagers knew that he was Fu Wenxiao's friend. Judging from his appearance and demeanor, he looked like the son of a wealthy family in the city, so they couldn't help feeling a little reserved.

He said in an awkward and elegant way: "We are all here to watch Li Niang slaughter the pig."

It is the slack season during the farming season and everyone has nothing to do, so they all come to watch Yu Li slaughter the pig.

"Watch her slaughter a pig?" Fang Bihe was stunned. "What's so interesting about slaughtering a pig?"

When he asked this question, he seemed to have forgotten that he also came to watch Yu Li kill a pig.

Although he spoke elegant Chinese, most of the villagers could still understand him, they just couldn't speak it.

Someone nearby said, "Why isn't it beautiful? People from other villages can't even see it if they want to."

"That's right. If they want to watch, it depends on whether Li Niang is willing to go to their village to help slaughter the pigs. Li Niang will only go when those villages hold a Kitchen God Festival."

"Yes, Li Niang will not easily kill pigs for other villages."

Speaking of this, the surrounding villagers all looked proud.

Look at other villages, they have to ask Yu Li many times before she is willing to go there, but in their village, as long as they tell Yu Li, she will come back to help them kill the pigs.

Li Niang is thinking about them.

Not to mention, Yu Li is now the wife of a scholar, which is an extraordinary identity, but she is still no different from usual. When facing the villagers, she is the same now as before.

This is what moved them the most.

Fang Bihe couldn't quite understand the accent of the people in Qingshi Village, but he could still guess some of it by guessing.

Looking at the happy and proud expressions on the faces of these villagers when they mentioned Yu Li, you can tell that they are also very honored that Yu Li slaughtered the pig.

Just like Zhou, Fu Yanhui and his sister, and Yu Jin, they all regarded it as a lucky thing.

They did not think that killing pigs was a lowly job, but rather thought that her killing pigs was a very auspicious thing.

Fang Bihe wondered if there was something wrong with them.

Of course, if one or two people do this, it is indeed a problem, but when everyone does this, it is not a problem, but really magical.

He began to look forward to it.

Fang Bihe looked into the yard and asked, "Where is my sister-in-law... Li Niang?"

"She's going to catch pigs."

Fang Bihe understood the words "catch pigs" from this awkward elegant language. He was a little confused and didn't know how Yu Li caught pigs.

He soon found out.

Yu Li came from the backyard, holding a pig weighing about 100 pounds in his hand, and easily lifted it into the yard.

When she put the pig down, it lay there motionless, without making a single sound.

If I hadn't seen the pig kicking its legs after being put down, I would have thought it was dead. It was so quiet that it didn't look like a live pig.

The family had already prepared everything. When Yu Li came over with the pig, they placed a clean bucket under the pig-killing stool. Then Yu Li placed the pig on the stool and started killing it.

The process of slaughtering the pig is very short. When the pig is bled, the whole process is quiet, without any struggle or screaming.

Fang Bihe was stunned.

If he hadn't seen other people slaughtering pigs before and knew how the pigs reacted before being slaughtered, he would have thought it was natural for the pigs to be so quiet.

At this time, he heard the villagers around him talking excitedly about something. Because they spoke too fast and with a strong local accent, he couldn't understand. He could only guess from their excited tone that they were probably talking about Yu Li killing the pig.

No matter how many times they have seen it, the villagers still find this scene quite shocking.

Watching Li Niang slaughtering pigs is not scary at all, even children dare to come over to watch.

After Yu Li killed a pig and processed it, she went to clean the butcher knife and then went to the next house.

Three families have pigs to be slaughtered today.

She doesn't live in the village now, so when people in the village ask her to slaughter pigs, she kills the pigs of several families at the same time so that she doesn't have to make too many trips.

After Yu Li went to the next house, the villagers followed.

Fang Bihe mixed in with the crowd and followed.

This time he followed Yu Li to the pigpen of that family. He saw the lively pigs inside. When Yu Li approached, they suddenly lay down there quietly and let her pick them up.

Until it was stabbed in the neck, the pig was quiet and exceptionally well-behaved.

**

When Fu Wenxiao walked out of the village school, he saw Fang Bihe standing under a dead tree with a dazed look on his face.

He walked over and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Fang Bihe turned to look at him and suddenly said, "Master Fu, when my sister-in-law...slaughtered the pigs, were the pigs really grateful?"

The villagers all said that the pigs did not struggle or cry before they died because they were grateful.

They were grateful for Yu Li’s kindness to them, which saved them from suffering too much pain before death and enabled them to be reborn into a good family in the next life.

Fu Wenxiao paused and said, "I think so."

"Should it be?" Fang Bihe stared at him, "Is it true? Those pigs...are really grateful?"

Why did he always feel that something was wrong? But the villagers swore that it was true, and he had seen it with his own eyes, so he had to believe it.

Fu Wenxiao didn't want to say too much to him, so he turned around and went to find Yu Li.

Fang Bihe followed behind him, mumbling something. If you listened carefully, you could hear him talking about why the pigs should be grateful, what they were grateful for, whether they really had no pain before they died, etc.

Fu Wenxiao didn't want to pay any attention to him, but it was annoying to hear him nagging like that.

He said: "What's so strange about this? In this world, talented people always have some special abilities. There is no need to make a fuss."

Fang Bihe looked at him suddenly. He actually said that he was making a fuss?

He said unconvincedly: "What talented person? They are all lies. You know who the one in the capital is..."

At the end, he sneered.

Fu Wenxiao said coldly: "I'm not talking about the national teacher."

The word "national teacher" came out of his mouth with full of sarcasm.

Fang Bihe was slightly stunned, but soon understood. His pupils widened, "You mean, my sister-in-law is a talented person?"

Fu Wenxiao nodded slightly, "You've seen her kill a pig, don't you understand?"

You can believe it if you see it with your own eyes, right?

"But, but..." Fang Bihe stuttered rarely.

Fu Wenxiao looked at him, "But what?"

Fang Bihe opened his mouth and said, "But my sister-in-law looks quite normal, and she doesn't have three heads and six arms. How can she look like a genius?"

Fu Wenxiao sneered, "Who says that talented people must have three heads and six arms? Fang Bihe, are you stupid?"

If a person really had three heads and six arms, he would not be called a talented person, but a monster.

Fang Bihe also reacted and realized that he had said something stupid. He said uncomfortably: "I still can't believe it. She looks like a normal girl. How can she be a talented person?"

In fact, people of their status are well-informed and have never believed in any extraordinary people. They know in their hearts that most of them are swindlers, unless the swindler's methods are so advanced that people cannot see through his tricks.

Therefore, he actually didn't believe that Yu Li was some kind of talented person.

But when Fu Xiao said this...

"Master Fu, is my sister-in-law really an extraordinary person?" Fang Bihe asked in surprise.

Fu Wenxiao neither nodded nor shook his head, but walked forward leisurely.

However, it was his attitude that made Fang Bihe understand that what he said must be true. With Fu Xiao's personality, if it was not true, he would never say so. He also used to sneer at those so-called talented people.

Therefore, Yu Li is a talented person with special abilities!

She is not a charlatan, but a person with real skills. You can tell when you see her slaughtering a pig.

After being surprised, Fang Bihe looked at Fu Wenxiao in front of him thoughtfully. In an instant, he understood a lot of things and reached out to gently stroke the wound on his shoulder that had not yet healed.

It turned out that he was not wrong that morning. Yu Li did do something when he pressed his wrist.

Fu Wenxiao also knew it, so he suddenly turned his face away, not wanting him to see it.

"Master Fu." Fang Bihe whispered, "Are you serious about her?"

Fu Wenxiao stopped, turned to look at him, and frowned slightly: "Of course I am serious, she is my wife!"

What made this person think that he was not serious about his feelings for her?

Fang Bihe saw that he looked upset, and quickly said, "I don't doubt it, I just find it incredible." He scratched his head, "After all, you used to be... you know it yourself."

Finally he said confidently.

Fu Wenxiao looked at him for a while, then looked away and continued walking forward.

Fang Bihe hurried over and said, "It seems that my life was really saved by my sister-in-law. If it weren't for my sister-in-law... Hey, Master Fu, isn't 10,000 taels a little too little?"

He felt that his life should be worth more than ten thousand taels.

Fu Wenxiao said: "If you want to give more, I have no objection, but Li Niang may not want it."

When talking about Yu Li, his expression became very gentle, and even his tone became mild, and it was obvious that he was deeply in love and couldn't extricate himself.

Although Fang Bihe was used to his appearance, he still felt a little scared every time he saw him.

He said, "Is that so? Then she is really a good girl with principles!"

Then he looked at him with envy and jealousy. It was really true that comparing oneself with others would make one feel dreadful. He felt that he was no worse than Master Fu, but this guy not only got married, but his wife was also a capable girl.

Fang Bihe was just envious when he suddenly heard a noise coming from afar.

Seeing this, the two stopped talking and hurried over.

When they were almost there, they saw the surrounding villagers were all excited and said that more wild boars had come down the mountain.

"It's almost the New Year, and I thought there would be no wild boars coming down the mountain this year, but I never expected to encounter one now."

"It's probably because it's been cold recently and there's nothing to eat in the mountains, so the wild boars ran down the mountain. This has happened before."

"Has Li Niang passed away?"

"Yes, she also took a stick, so the wild boar couldn't get away..."

Fang Bihe didn't understand what they were saying, and asked anxiously, "Brother Fu, what are they talking about?"

Fu Wenxiao said: "There are wild boars coming down the mountain."

He has lived in the village for three years. Although he didn't communicate much with the villagers, he was very smart and had a photographic memory. As long as he listened a few more times, he could understand the dialect of Qingshi Village and even communicate with them.

Fang Bihe wanted to ask more questions, but seeing that Fu Wenxiao had already walked over there, he had no choice but to follow.

When they went over, they saw two wild boars lying on the ground, and Yu Li holding a stick, hitting each wild boar with it.

The wild boar fell down immediately.

Seeing this scene, Fang Bihe couldn't help but think of that night when she took a bamboo pole and knocked everyone on the opposite boat to the ground.

It was really hard to bear to beat those people at that time. They could be knocked down with just a bamboo pole.

Looking at the wild boar that was knocked to the ground by a stick, with its head bleeding and killed with one blow, Fang Bihe couldn't help but take a deep breath.

So, it’s not that those people are too weak, but that this girl is too fierce.

Seeing her holding the stick, looking so majestic, Fang Bihe couldn't help but move closer to Fu Wenxiao and said, "Brother Fu, your wife is so powerful, I'm afraid your husband's power will be weakened!"

With such a powerful daughter-in-law, Master Fu would be afraid that he would do whatever his wife said in the future. How could he dare to resist?

Fu Wenxiao didn't bother to pay attention to him, walked towards Yu Li, and asked, "Ali, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Yu Li turned around and looked at him, "Why are you here?"

He smiled and said, "The class is over."

Yu Li said, "Okay, let's go eat first."

Today she came back to help slaughter the New Year pig. The family that slaughtered the pig would prepare a pig-slaughtering meal to entertain the guests who came to help, and all three families hoped that they would come over to eat.

Yu Li decided to try all three restaurants so that he wouldn’t have to worry about which one to go to.

Fu Wenxiao smiled when he heard this and said, "Okay, let's go eat at Sanjia."

Fang Bihe behind him looked at him strangely, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.

If you eat at three restaurants in a row, I’m afraid your stomach will burst, right?

After he and the two of them finished eating the pig-killing meal at the three families, he was really full. Looking at Yu Li again, he seemed to be calm and even in good spirits, looking very satisfied.

After eating at three restaurants, she was finally full.

When they left the village, they took back half a pig's meat.

There were three wild boars that came down the mountain this time, all of which were killed by Yu Li. Half of the money should have been given to her, and the other half was sold for silver to compensate the villagers whose houses were destroyed and who were injured by the wild boars.

However, Yu Li only wanted half of the fan, and asked the village chief to send the rest to the village school as a snack for the children in the school.

When we returned to the county town, it was already dark.

When Zhou saw that they brought back half a wild boar's meat and heard that there was another wild boar coming down the mountain from the village, she clasped her hands together and thanked the Buddha for blessing everyone with safety.

Fang Bihe said: "Aunt, you should thank your sister-in-law for her blessing, right?"

If it weren't for Yu Li, anyone who encountered the wild boar would probably be injured, or even die.

He had heard before that when a wild boar came down the mountain last year, it was Yu Li who killed it. This girl is really amazing.

Zhou smiled and said, "Indeed, fortunately Li Niang is here."

Then she invited them to eat. She made a hot lamb pot to warm them up.

After the meal, Zhou went to process the wild boar meat. Except for the ones that were given away, the rest were pickled, boiled, or fried... In short, she had made plans for how to eat each part.

Yu Li took out the butcher knife and cut the meat according to her request.

The butcher knife shone brightly and in her hand it was as easy as an arm, cutting off pieces of meat with ease. Sometimes the knife turned in a circle in her hand, making a beautiful pattern that was dizzying to watch.

Fang Bihe and the two children squatted there and watched intently. Even after Yu Li finished cutting the meat, he still felt unsatisfied.

He turned to Fu Wenxiao and said, "Sister-in-law's skills are amazing. Look at how she turns the butcher knife. If she goes to the battlefield..."

I'm afraid the enemies will be terrified at the news.

Fu Wenxiao frowned slightly and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Why am I talking nonsense?" Fang Bihe looked at him in confusion, but soon understood, "I am talking nonsense."

That's right, although Yu Li is very powerful, she is a girl after all, and it is really not easy for her to do things involving fighting and killing.

Fu Wenxiao said: "She is a principled girl and doesn't like to see blood."

Hearing this, Fang Bihe looked at him with a strange look, hesitant to speak, "Have you forgotten what happened to me on the boat that night?"

Does that mean you don't like seeing blood?

She directly snatched the knife from the leader who was chasing him, and slashed at him with her backhand, causing blood to spurt out.

Fu Wenxiao said calmly: "They were the first to use weapons against her. If he hadn't used weapons, she would never have caused bloodshed."

The most you can do is knock someone out and leave them unconscious for a few days.

Just like she did in the gambling house.

From this we can see that she really doesn't like the sight of blood and will not easily kill anyone.

Of course, not taking their lives doesn't mean she will let those vicious people go. It will just make them completely lose their ability to move, and they will have to lie like a useless person for the rest of their lives, unable to do bad things again.

**

In the following days, Yu Li would return to the village from time to time to slaughter pigs for people.

Especially with the approaching of the New Year, the villages near Qingshi Village began to worship the Kitchen God and asked Yu Li to help slaughter pigs. She went out early and came back late every day.

Fang Bihe was amazed.

He knew how important the Kitchen God Festival was to a village or a clan. In the past, women had nothing to do with the Kitchen God Festival. But now, they actually wanted to ask a girl to help them kill a pig in order to bring good luck...

After hearing it so many times, he also felt that it was auspicious for Yu Li to slaughter pigs. He couldn't help but wonder if he should ask her to help slaughter pigs when his family held ancestor worship in the future?

Fang Bihe thought about this and said to Fu Wenxiao, "Master Fu, if you return to the capital in the future, can I ask my sister-in-law to help you kill the pig for the ancestral sacrifice at the end of the year?"

Fu Wenxiao glanced at him and said, "If you can afford it, then go ahead."

"Really?" Fang Bihe looked at him in surprise, "You don't object?"

"Why should I object?"

"This is not..." Fang Bihe said hesitantly, "In the minds of the world, I'm afraid that killing pigs is not a good thing."

After all, in the minds of the world, killing pigs is a lowly job and will be looked down upon.

Although after seeing Yu Li slaughtering a pig, he did not think it was a lowly job, but rather seemed like a very auspicious thing. However, people who had not seen it might think too much.

Fu Wenxiao said calmly: "No matter what she wants to do, I will support her. If anyone dares to laugh at her, let him kill a pig too."

Fang Bihe: “…”

Although he said it lightly, Fang Bihe knew he was serious.

Imagine that in the future, when Fu Wenxiao and his wife return to Beijing, someone makes fun of Yu Li killing a pig. Then, Master Fu, who has not changed his cruel nature, has people bring a hundred pigs and asks those who make fun of Yu Li to kill the pigs. If they fail to kill all the pigs, they will be brought to his house and he will be forced to live and eat with the hundred pigs...

Just thinking about that scene makes me breathless!

Because this guy is definitely capable of doing something like this!

Fang Bihe laughed, "Don't worry, no one will dare to laugh at my sister-in-law."

With your skills, Fu Xiao, who would dare?

Fu Wenxiao nodded: "Indeed, Ah Li is so good, and anyone who dares to laugh at her must be short-sighted. People who are short-sighted must have ugly hearts. I'll just stay away from them when the time comes."

Fang Bihe thought to himself, does this so-called "staying away" mean exiling people far away?

As expected, it was that Prince Fu.

When Qingshi Village held the Kitchen God Festival, the village chief came in person and asked Yu Li to kill the pig, and also asked Fu Wenxiao to go back.

As the first scholar in Qingshi Village, Fu Wenxiao absolutely could not be absent from the village’s Kitchen God Festival.

Fang Bihe couldn't help but join in the fun.

He had never seen what the Kitchen God worship was like in the countryside, and in fact, he also wanted to watch Yu Li slaughter pigs again. Every time he saw the pigs being quiet in front of her, and even lying down on the ground on their own initiative, he thought it was magical and wanted to watch it a few more times.

When returning to Qingshi Village, Yu Li looked at Fang Bihe who was accompanying him and suddenly said, "Your injury has almost healed, right? When are you leaving?"

Fang Bihe groaned, then said, "Sister-in-law, are you trying to drive me away?"

"No." Yu Li said, "You can leave if you have something to do."

Fang Bihe understood what she meant and said with a smile: "It's almost the New Year now, no matter how anxious we are, we won't rush. I want to wait until after the New Year before leaving."

His eyes dimmed slightly.

This time he was ordered to check the accounts in Jiangzhou, and found evidence of corruption by many officials. He had someone secretly send the evidence back to Beijing, and he stayed here to divert the attention of those people.

It doesn't matter when you go back.

Apart from that, he quite likes recuperating here. This period of recuperation is also a rare time for him to relax in recent years.

Although he didn't want to admit it, staying with Fu Wenxiao in this remote county in the south was actually one of the few relaxing days in his life. It seemed that as long as Fu Wenxiao was here, he felt that there was nothing to worry about.

Fang Bihe turned to Zhou and said, "Aunt, I want to celebrate the New Year with you this year. You don't mind, do you?"

Zhou said hurriedly: "How could I dislike it, it's just..." She said tactfully, "If you don't go back, your family will be worried, right?"

"It doesn't matter." Fang Bihe said nonchalantly, "They know I'm here, so they won't rush me back."

Zhou said nothing more.

As for Yu Li, seeing that Zhou had no objection, she naturally would not object either.

The Kitchen God worship ceremony in the village is very lively, from slaughtering pigs to worshiping the Kitchen God, it is all bustling with activity.

As a person from another village, Fang Bihe naturally could not go to worship the Kitchen God, so he watched the fun from outside. He was really surprised to see Fu Wenxiao being surrounded by villagers to worship the Kitchen God.

-

After the Kitchen God worship, it’s only a few days away from the Chinese New Year.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year, the Fu family was having dinner when they heard someone knocking on the door.

Yu Li went over to open the door and found Xuan Huaiqing and Tu Lao Da standing at the door. There were two large bamboo baskets at their feet, which were New Year's goods delivered to them.

This year, Xuan Huaiqing came personally to deliver New Year's goods to them.

Yu Li hurriedly invited them in, asked them if they had eaten, and asked them to eat something too.

Xuan Huaiqing smiled and said, "No need, we have already eaten, and we still have to rush to the camp later..."

Halfway through his words, Xuan Huaiqing saw a familiar-looking man among the people eating in the hall of the Fu family, and was stunned.