When they returned, it was still early. Xu Mumu slightly furrowed her brows; she really wanted a watch right now. Without a watch, it’s inconvenient to do anything.
"Mumu, I’m going to say hi to my cousins first." As soon as they got down the mountain, Du Yu saw a few people still fishing and chatting by the river.
"Alright, if it’s still early, co over and let us know as soon as you can. We’ll clean up the lamb once we get back." Xu Mumu said with a smile.
It would be good if they could establish a connection with the shoe factory.
"Don’t worry, I get it." Du Yu was in a good mood.
"By the way, if your dad disagrees, just say we’ll trade with food. There’s no need for money, and as for the lamb, we’ll go by market price." Xu Mumu’s eyes lit up; if reselling is not allowed, then they would take a different approach.
"Isn’t that the sa thing? Is your family really short on food?" Du Yu looked at Xu Mumu with even more pity. He always knew her family’s situation wasn’t good, but he didn’t expect they couldn’t even get enough to eat.
"There’s a big difference. Just tell your dad what I said and don’t say anything else." Xu Mumu gave Du Yu a speechless look. What imaginary scenarios was this guy conjuring up? That look was as if he was looking at a refugee.
"Alright, I’ll tell my dad precisely what you said." Du Yu said seriously, secretly deciding to be nicer to Xu Mumu in the future. He had never seen soone so poor.
After Du Yu left, Xu Mumu washed the two bamboo arrows briefly.
"Jiaojiao, help take this to Zhao Si’s house, and take these two radishes with you as well." Xu Mumu handed over the bow, arrows, and a basket of vegetables to Xu Jiaojiao.
"Got it, big sis." The little girl obediently nodded and headed to Uncle Zhao Si’s house with the items.
"Hey sis, do you know how to handle this wild sheep? Should I go bring Grandma back?" Xu Minghui looked at the wild sheep, uncertain about what to do.
"I know how, no need to call Grandma and them back, it’s too troubleso. They might as well earn more work points." Xu Mumu shook her head.
She had never handled a sheep before, but in her previous life, she saw sheep being raised and knew the general steps after slaughtering a sheep.
Xu Mumu made a cut on the sheep’s hind leg, and without an air pump, she had to use her mouth to blow it up.
"Bro, co over and blow this sheep up." Xu Mumu said with a mischievous grin to her brother.
"Blow it up? With my mouth?!!" Xu Minghui’s eyes widened, wondering if he heard wrong.
"What else? It needs to be blown up to remove the skin better." Xu Mumu smirked, "Or do you want to do it instead? Believe , if Grandpa, Grandma, and our parents co back, they’ll deal with you." She looked at her brother.
Thinking of how much Grandpa, Grandma, and the parents doted on their sister, Xu Minghui shivered and resigned to his fate. If it weren’t for being his sister, he’d definitely give her a good thumping for this.
With a grudging glance at Xu Mumu, Xu Minghui had no choice but to take on the task.
But using his mouth to blow it up was no easy task. After only a short while, Xu Minghui was already out of breath and the leg wasn’t even inflated.
Xu Minghui stared at Xu Mumu’s face, feeling utterly frustrated. His sister was looking at him with contempt as if saying, "Useless! What’s the point of having you!!"
Since there were no tools at hand, Xu Mumu couldn’t whip up a simple air pump for her brother; he just had to blow it up himself.
He took a short break and then continued.
Seeing that Xu Mumu wasn’t persuaded, Xu Minghui obediently resud his work.
Xu Jiaojiao quickly returned, having delivered the two radishes there. She even brought back a few pieces of candy, all maltose.
"Big sis, these are from Uncle Zhao Si for you." Xu Jiaojiao happily offered all the candies to Xu Mumu.
"I don’t want them, later you and your second brother can share them." Xu Mumu said, smiling as she patted the little girl’s head.
"Okay then." The little girl didn’t fuss; even when there’s candy, Xu Mumu hardly ever eats them, letting them have it all instead.
"Big sis, what’s big bro doing? Is he that hungry, gnawing on the sheep’s leg now?" Seeing her older brother with blood around his mouth, Xu Jiaojiao shrank behind Xu Mumu.
"Hahaha, no." Xu Mumu laughed even harder, explaining the principle to Xu Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao’s words made Xu Minghui look even more distressed.
For the sake of eating at and making so money, he was giving it his all.
"Why don’t I help big bro?" Seeing Xu Minghui’s unwilling expression, Xu Jiaojiao suggested.
"No need, save your little strength, this job isn’t easy." Xu Minghui said, dismissing her.
Before long, while they were busy at ho, Xu Minglei and Tiedan returned.
"Big sis, where did the sheep co from?" Xu Minglei’s eyes lit up, not caring if his clothes were wet.
"Got it from the mountain. Go change your clothes, there’s hot water in the pot, wash up. Tiedan, you should go change into clean clothes too, or you’ll catch a cold and get sick." Seeing the little brothers drenched, Xu Mumu couldn’t help but frown, but thankfully she had already heated so water.
That brat Xu Minglei, every ti he played with water, wouldn’t stop until his clothes and pants were completely soaked before thinking of coming ho.
"Sis, this is the fish we caught." Xu Minglei brought over the fish basket for Xu Mumu to see, full of pride. Their catch this ti was quite good.
"Not bad, this fish is about two or three pounds." Xu Mumu was sowhat surprised, seeing the biggest fish was a Silver Carp, while the rest were just about two fingers wide, around five or six of them. This was probably their afternoon’s catch.
"The biggest one was caught by ." Xu Minglei said proudly; it was all good luck, really. This clumsy fish swam straight into his net, not that he would complain.
"Not bad, we’ll keep this big one, and the smaller ones, Tiedan can take back to Aunt Cuihua to make fish soup." Xu Mumu said with a smile.
"Really, sis?" Tiedan looked at Xu Mumu in surprise, half of these small fish were caught by Xu Minglei and Xu Tao.
"Take them all back, and co back later to get so lamb to eat. Don’t tell anyone about us slaughtering the sheep." Xu Mumu nodded with a smile.
"Thanks, sis, but since the sheep’s yours, I won’t take any. I’ll just co and have a look later, and I promise not to tell anyone. I’ll head off now." Tiedan said happily, waving at Xu Mumu before running back ho.
These few small fish were enough to brew a pot of fish soup, which tasted especially good when accompanied by mixed-grain flatbread.
User Comments
0 comments from readers