"Alright, I’m hungry. You treat to a al!" Mu Xiangxiang said.
So Sun Dali took Mu Xiangxiang to his house.
At this ti, Sun Dali still didn’t know that the woman in front of him was Mu Xiangxiang, the person Matchmaker Sun had ntioned to him.
He just thought she was a relative of soone in the village.
No wonder, Mu Xiangxiang hardly ever appeared in the village; most of the ti, she was either sleeping at ho or eating in the kitchen.
She’s considered an unusual young lady.
It was the ti for spring planting, and Sun Dali was actually quite busy. But it was his first ti eting a girl willing to talk to him, so he couldn’t help wanting to spend more ti with her.
When they arrived at the Sun’s house, Mu Xiangxiang pulled Sun Dali into the kitchen.
At this mont, the Sun family had just finished breakfast and left a basket of stead buns on the stove, planning to eat them with two hot dishes for lunch.
As soon as Mu Xiangxiang entered the kitchen, she complained about her hunger.
Sun Dali took two stead buns from the stear for Mu Xiangxiang and, worried that she might choke, gave her a cup of water.
"By the way, girl, whose family do you belong to?" Sun Dali asked.
Mu Xiangxiang had a naturally weak voice and, with food stuffed in her mouth, muttered several tis "Old Mu Family", but it was too muffled to understand.
Thinking Mu Xiangxiang was embarrassed, Sun Dali simply stopped asking.
Mu Xiangxiang swallowed two stead buns and exclaid, "So sweet, these buns are much tastier than the ones my mom makes."
Sun Dali scratched his head in embarrassnt: "Really? My mom made them. I eat three buns every day."
A normal person would find one bun per al sufficient.
But Sun Dali was strong and worked hard, so while others ate one, he ate three.
Hearing Sun Dali’s words, Mu Xiangxiang scoffed: "What’s the big deal? I eat ten in one al!"
"Huh?" Sun Dali was skeptical.
Mu Xiangxiang decided to demonstrate.
She took out the remaining six buns from the stear and spread them out one by one.
Before Sun Dali’s eyes, she ate all the buns.
After finishing, her stomach was round.
She burped and slumped on Sun Dali’s chair, sitting for half an hour.
Sun Dali widened his eyes, trying to see if the girl in front of him was indeed a pig spirit transford.
How could she eat more than him?
Feeling compelled to ask, Sun Dali said, "You must be able to do heavy work, right? Can you carry a three-hundred-pound rock?"
Mu Xiangxiang replied weakly, "I’ve never done such work; my mom doesn’t allow it."
Mu Xiangxiang had been spoiled by Old Mrs. Mu since childhood, treated like a deity with the best food and drink.
Indeed, she had never done any work.
In the kitchen, she didn’t even know how to start a fire.
"Oh, I see..." Sun Dali was sowhat envious.
Since childhood, Sun Dali ate a lot more than most, and his work was three tis that of the average person.
Yet he truly didn’t understand how the person before him could consu so much.
After a while, Mu Xiangxiang went to the outhouse and returned with reddened eyes.
Her eyeballs slightly bulging outward.
"Hey, what’s wrong?" Sun Dali stepped up to support Mu Xiangxiang.
"It’s nothing, I need to take a nap. Later, cook sothing to eat, the buns... buns are necessary.
Cured at, and other stuff, prepare a portion for , I want to eat when I wake up."
After instructing Sun Dali, Mu Xiangxiang asked Sun Dali to find her a room.
She began to sleep soundly.
At the Old Mu Family’s place, Old Mrs. Mu waited for two hours but hadn’t seen her daughter return.
She frantically went to find Mr. Mu.
Mr. Mu had almost stopped concerning himself with Mu Xiangxiang.
So when Old Mrs. Mu asked, he replied impatiently, "Xiangxiang isn’t she watched by you every day? She’s a grown person, how could she possibly get lost?"
"Old man, Xiangxiang is inherently innocent, what if she encounters bad people outside? Didn’t the villagers say that today Wang San dropped his pants in front of the village won?"
Old Mrs. Mu said.
"Xiangxiang is also your daughter; you can’t bla Xiangxiang because of the Qin Family incident!"
This was the first ti Old Mrs. Mu spoke softly to Mr. Mu.
Previously, the two would start arguing after three sentences.
Nonetheless, this showed Mu Xiangxiang’s importance.
If Mu Xiangxiang were gone, Old Mrs. Mu would lose half of her life.
"Old man, have you forgotten how sensible Xiangxiang was when she was with us before? Have you forgotten you said you’d be good to Xiangxiang later?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Mu rembered those past events.
Over the years, Mr. Mu was also responsible for Mu Xiangxiang turning out like this.
He had always indulged her.
"Go call the family to search!" Mr. Mu said.
After speaking, Old Mrs. Mu went to the second and fourth branches, but Mu Danian and Chen Hong hadn’t returned from town yet.
The whole family went out to look for Mu Xiangxiang and hadn’t found her even by lunchti.
Old Mrs. Mu panicked and asked Mr. Mu, "Old man, what do we do? No matter where Xiangxiang goes, she never misses a al."
Mr. Mu found it strange, too.
"Think she went to the mountains?" Mrs. Lin said. "Xiangxiang rarely goes out; maybe she wants to eat bracken and went to the mountains?"
Mrs. Lin herself was craving it.
She was too lazy to go up the mountains, afraid of encountering wild beasts or sothing.
"That’s nonsense! From a young age, I told Xiangxiang not to go near water or the mountains; she absolutely wouldn’t go to the mountains.
Stop dawdling and find other places to search. If you don’t find Xiangxiang, you won’t have lunch either."
Old Mrs. Mu said angrily.
Just then, from the direction of Niuwei Mountain, a man and a woman approached.
From afar, it seed like Mu Shuang from the third branch and Lu Yuanfeng.
When they ca closer, it indeed was.
Mu Shuang carried a bamboo basket on her back, Lu Yuanfeng held a rattan basket and also carried a bamboo basket on his back.
On the bamboo basket hung two wild chickens, their feathers long and smooth, appearing very eye-catching.
"Shuang, you’re coming down from the mountain?" Mrs. Lin rushed forward.
Mu Shuang nodded, "Yes!"
"Did you see Xiangxiang in the mountains?" Mrs. Lin asked again.
As she asked, she inched closer to Lu Yuanfeng.
Mrs. Lin fancied the wild chickens tied to Lu Yuanfeng’s bamboo basket.
The at of wild chickens was chewy and delicious; if cooked into soup, it would be incredibly savory.
Mrs. Lin licked her lips, and as her hand nearly touched the wild chicken on Lu Yuanfeng’s basket, Mu Shuang slapped it away.
"Second Aunt, what are you doing?" Mu Shuang asked.
"No... nothing... just wanted to see what Fengzi was carrying."
Mrs. Lin rubbed her sore hand, awkwardly explaining.
"Second Aunt, you need to change this habit of yours of wanting to see everything; otherwise, it’ll end up being in your stomach again, making things difficult for !"
Mu Shuang reminded Mrs. Lin of the ti she had stolen a vase from the restaurant and had to pay four taels of silver.
Sure enough, upon hearing Mu Shuang ntion it, Mrs. Lin’s face twisted.
Her attitude was no longer as good as before.
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