Xia Qingqing led Gou Dan out of the supply and marketing cooperative and stopped in a quiet place.

Dog Egg looked at her with some confusion: "Sister, why aren't we leaving? Aren't we going to the oxcart?"

Xia Qingqing patted his little head: "Dog Egg, do you still remember the candy your sister gave you before? I said it was our little secret."

Thinking of those White Rabbit candies and fruit candies, Gou Dan swallowed hard, afraid that his sister would suspect him of tattling, and quickly emphasized, "I didn't tell anyone, not even Da Niu knows about this."

Da Niu is Gou Dan's good friend. Gou Dan likes to share his little secrets with Da Niu, and of course, Da Niu will also tell Gou Dan his secrets.

"You did a great job. Don't tell anyone about what happened today. Can you do that? If you can, I'll give you two candies every day from now on."

Xia Qingqing planned to bring some of the things she bought today home, but there were some things she didn't intend to take out.

For example, those candies. If Zhang Hongyan knew that she had splurged on several kilograms of White Rabbit candies and fruit candies, she would definitely scold her to death.

This requires Gou Dan to cooperate with him.

Upon hearing that he would receive two candies every day, Gou Dan didn't even bother to ask Xia Qingqing why she didn't want their parents to know. He immediately agreed, "Sister, I promise I won't tell anyone."

A triumphant smile flashed across Xia Qingqing's face; she had successfully bribed the child!

I'm home.

Zhang Hongyan looked at the brown sugar, steamed cake, animal crackers, salt, rice, and a pound of meat that her daughter took out of the basket, and frowned with heartache: "Why did you buy so much stuff?"

Suddenly she realized something was wrong. These things would cost several yuan each. Even if Xia Qingqing had that much money, where would she get the tickets?

Xia Qingqing said the words she had prepared beforehand: "These tickets were given to me by my classmate. She said that those 'blouses' made them quite a lot of money, and her family happened to have some spare tickets, so they simply gave them all to me."

Dog Egg, already bribed by his older sister, immediately nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's right. That older sister insisted on giving these tickets to my sister, and there was no way to refuse."

Zhang Hongyan's furrowed brows relaxed slightly: "Won't this be a bad thing, taking so many votes from others?"

Xia Qingqing put her arm around her shoulder and said, "Oh, Mom, don't think so much. They earn a lot of money anyway, so they don't care if we eat some meat soup with them."

Zhang Hongyan thought about it and realized that it did seem to be true.

But looking at all that stuff on the table, I couldn't help but mutter a few more words: "You can't just spend it all at once. Look at this huge pile of stuff. Isn't it a waste to spend it all on holidays?"

“These tickets are all nearing their expiry date, it would be a waste not to use them,” Xia Qingqing’s excuse came on casually.

"Oh, I see. No wonder then," Zhang Hongyan nodded in understanding. It turned out that the tickets were about to expire and they couldn't use them all at once, so they gave them to her family.

Xia Qingqing took out a handful of White Rabbit candies from her pocket and stuffed them into Zhang Hongyan's hand: "Mom, these were given to me by my friend. You and Dad can have a few to sweeten your mouths."

Zhang Hongyan looked at the handful of White Rabbit candies in her hand and pretended to stuff them back to Xia Qingqing: "Mom doesn't want to eat them. You can keep them and Gou Dan eat them together. I heard that these White Rabbit milk candies are a good thing. One candy is equivalent to a glass of milk. You two can eat them to supplement your nutrition."

"We still have plenty, don't worry."

"Mom, I'm so sleepy. I want to go back to my room and sleep for a while. I got up too early today," Xia Qingqing said, giving Gou Dan a wink before quickly running back to her room.

Gou Dan, having received a hint from his sister, also said to Zhang Hongyan, "Mom, I'm going to go play with Da Niu."

In an instant, only Zhang Hongyan was left in the main room. She curiously peeled open a White Rabbit milk candy and put it in her mouth. A rich milky aroma spread in her mouth: "So delicious."

She's really enjoying the blessings of having a daughter; her Qingqing is truly accomplished.

Zhang Hongyan thought that she was fortunate that she had insisted on sending her daughter to school even though it meant splitting up the family property. Otherwise, her daughter would probably be like other girls her age in the village now, married and having children early, with endless housework and farm work to do every day, serving the whole family.

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In another primordial dimension, the Tiger Tribe encountered a major problem.

After the salt stone found by the Fierce Tiger Tribe was stolen by the Mad Lion Tribe, the world soon entered the cold season, and heavy snow fell, covering the ground with a thick layer of snow. The beastmen could not travel because they were easily buried by blizzards.

After the tribe's last salt stones were exhausted, the females and cubs in the tribe began to show symptoms of loss of appetite and weakness in their limbs due to lack of salt intake.

The beastmen, on the other hand, were able to maintain their bodily functions because they consumed large amounts of meat every day.

Inside Chief Kun's cave sat more than a dozen strong orcs, all of whom were warriors of the tribe.

One hot-tempered orc was the first to lose his temper: "Damn the Lion Tribe! In my opinion, we should go and take back the salt rocks right now!"

“But the number of orcs in the Mad Lion Tribe is almost twice that of us. We can’t possibly defeat them. Going there would only result in us getting beaten up,” a more rational orc poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

"What are we going to do? Are we just going to watch the females and their cubs suffer like this?" The hot-tempered orc glared angrily.

“It’s not like there’s no way out. We can seek the Goddess’s help. She’s so powerful, she can definitely help us,” the rational orc said, his gaze falling on Ali, because Ali was the only one who could communicate with the Goddess.

Ali stiffened under his gaze and said somewhat awkwardly, "But the goddess has already helped us a lot. We can't ask the goddess for help with everything."

When the orc saw that Ali refused, he felt that Ali was unwilling to think about the tribe, and immediately started arguing with Ali.

The orcs inside the cave were immediately divided into two factions.

One faction agreed that Ali should seek help from the goddess, while the other faction believed that one should not seek help from the goddess for everything.

Kun coldly watched everyone making a ruckus, then slammed his hand on the stone table: "Enough, all of you shut up."

His gaze fell upon the orcs who were clamoring for the goddess's help: "You have really disappointed me. When you encounter problems, all you think about is asking for help. How can our Tiger Tribe continue to develop like this? Are you all going to lie in your caves every day waiting for the goddess's blessing? If the goddess decides not to help us one day, we'll all just wait to die together."

Hearing their leader's scolding, the orcs lowered their heads without realizing it: "Leader, we know we were wrong."

Kun said with a dark face, "I will find a way to handle this."

After hearing the chief's words, Ali guessed that he must want to go out and find salt stones on his own. A deep worry flashed across his eyes, as it was too dangerous to travel in a blizzard.

Just as Ali was debating whether or not to contact Xia Qingqing, he received a video call invitation from her.