When Grandma Yu heard that she was not feeling well, she didn't say anything more, but reminded her, "It's too hot. You should quickly shovel away the pig manure and wash the pigpen clean. The pigs have just been bred and can't stand the heat."
After she finished speaking, she took the pig feed into the house, chopped it up, and started cooking it.
Although pigs are not as precious as cows, they are still very valuable. During the Spring Festival, Xujia Village relies on these two pigs for meat.
Xu Guoqiang didn't trust anyone else, so he entrusted the two pigs to his elderly mother to take care of.
But Grandma Yu is too old to do heavy work, so she only needs to chop pig feed and cook pig feed.
The village children were responsible for cutting pig feed, while the villagers took turns feeding the pigs and cleaning the pigsty.
But most of them were commune members like Xue Min who had made mistakes and were punished by being made to do work.
Xue Min was somewhat frantic as she looked at the pig manure that had filled the room after just one night.
She covered her mouth and nose with a cloth, picked up a shovel, opened the door, and went inside to start shoveling manure.
The two pigs, having gone hungry all night, assumed someone was coming to feed them and began squealing loudly at Xue Min, occasionally nudging her with their snouts.
Xue Min chased the pig away several times, but it still surrounded her. Already furious, she couldn't hold back any longer and grabbed a shovel to hit the pig.
With a bang, the pig squealed and started screaming wildly in the pigpen.
The other pig, startled, also started thrashing around.
"ah--"
Grandma Yu came out when she heard the noise and saw Xue Min lying face up in the pig manure, her face and body covered in pig manure.
"Child, what are you doing?" Grandma Yu was stunned.
Xue Min opened her mouth to cry, and just then a clump of pig manure was near her mouth. As she opened her mouth, the pig manure fell in with a splat.
Xue Min: "!!!"
Grandma Yu: "???"
Did you skip breakfast?
"Yueyue, does this ointment really whiten and protect the skin?" Huang Xinrui held a small, round, light green porcelain bottle in her hand, sniffed it, and found a faint fragrance mixed with the smell of Chinese medicine, which was not unpleasant.
Li Xiyue laughed and said, "I improved the formula of the snow cream by adding whitening and skin-conditioning Chinese herbal powder, so it should be effective."
"If you say it's effective, then it must be. I want one box." Huang Xinrui took out her money. "How much?"
"Just give me one yuan."
This box is so small, and it costs one yuan, which is quite expensive, but Li Xiyue used a lot of good medicinal herbs, so is it worth it?
"Here you go." Huang Xinrui, who was mentally prepared, was not surprised and stuffed a dollar into her hand.
Zhou Yunxia also bought a bottle, opened it and tried it, "It's very refreshing and comfortable."
"This is for removing freckles." Li Xiyue took out two small medicine bottles, each about the size of a thumb. "Trial packs, these are for you to try."
Zhou Yunxia smiled and accepted it, "Sister Xiyue, thank you so much. I happen to have some freckles on my face."
Before, when I lived in the city, I didn't get much sun exposure, so the spots weren't very noticeable. But after being exposed to the sun, the spots became darker.
“But I don’t have freckles.” Huang Xinrui touched her smooth face. “I don’t need them.”
Li Xiyue reminded, "You can give it away."
Huang Xinrui immediately pictured Xu Shanshan's face in her mind; Xu Shanshan had freckles on her face, so she smiled and accepted the gift.
As darkness fell, Li Xiyue tidied herself up and decided to go to the cowshed to check on the condition of the elderly people.
I knocked on the door and went in, only to be met with a pair of familiar eyes, and I froze.
What is he doing here?
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