Chapter 61 My head is full of clever ideas (Seeking monthly votes)

"What else could it be? Its brain, of course," Xu Qingmo replied casually.

"I think your head is full of crazy ideas," Lu Ting couldn't help but tease.

Xu Qingmo looked at him with a half-smile, "You'd better watch out, or I'll target you next."

"Qingmo, don't be angry. I can sing you a song. I recently learned it at school."

Lu Ting cleared his throat and began to sing. His voice was very pleasant, and his singing had a unique charm.

Xu Qingmo nodded in agreement.

Shen Jiang put the person down, and Xu Qingmo stepped forward and put a white steamed bun into Lu Ting's bowl, "This is a reward for you."

"Thank you, Qingmo."

"I've noticed that you sing better than you talk. Why don't you just sing and talk less from now on?"

Lu Ting pouted, "No way. I'll talk to you every day from now on. Once you get used to it, you'll think my voice is nice too."

Xu Qingmo took the steamed buns from his bowl back and ate them herself.

Lu Ting made a face at Xu Qingmo.

The family was enjoying a happy time together. Shen Jiang and Wang Jing witnessed all of this and felt that all the hardship and fatigue were worthwhile.

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The next day, Meng Panpan came to find Xu Qingmo early in the morning after dropping off her child. She was full of energy and was worried about where to put it to use.

Xu Qingmo yawned and looked at her with a resentful look, "Don't come to see me in the morning anymore. At least come after nine o'clock."

"So late? I have to pick up my child at noon and cook for them. A day isn't long, and cutting down trees isn't enough time. How can I still get meat from you?" Meng Panpan asked curiously.

Her goal was clear: to earn meat by using her physical strength.

Xu Qingmo said, "Just deliver at least 20 jin of firewood to me every day, and don't exceed 50 jin. I'm afraid you'll get tired if you chop too much."

"That's all?" Meng Panpan was prepared to chop several hundred kilograms of firewood a day.

She even got up early to go for a run, fearing she wouldn't have enough strength to keep up when cutting down trees.

I didn't expect the requirements to be so simple.

Xu Qingmo nodded and waved to Meng Panpan, "You go home first, I'll take a nap and then we'll go up the mountain together."

Xu Qingmo went straight back to her room and fell asleep immediately.

Meng Panpan hesitated for a moment, then called out into the house, "Xu Qingmo, I'm going up the mountain first. Just come find me when you wake up."

After saying that, Meng Panpan turned around, picked up her axe, and went up the mountain.

Xu Qingmo woke up at 9:30. She stretched, got out of bed and put on her shoes. She went to the kitchen, drank a glass of water, and grabbed an apple to eat.

I went to Meng Panpan's house after leaving home, only to find the door locked.

She suddenly remembered that Meng Panpan had told her that morning that she was going to the mountain first. Xu Qingmo immediately felt something was wrong and quickly ran up the mountain.

Some time ago, Xu Qingmo found traces of wolves on the mountain, and she hoped that Meng Panpan would not encounter any wolves.

Although she was very strong, wolves are very clever, especially when they attack in packs, and many people cannot escape their jaws.

"Xu Qingmo, where are you going?" Wang Xiaohu limped over and asked Xu Qingmo's back.

"Go up the mountain."

"Could you take me there?"

"Is your butt all better? You're not allowed to go if it's not better, or you'll get carried away by wolves and chewed to pieces." Xu Qingmo scared Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu stopped in his tracks, but he stubbornly retorted, "Pshaw, how could there be wolves? If there really were wolves, I'd smash one to death with my fist."

Xu Qingmo had already walked far away, and Wang Xiaohu felt bored.

He was craving something again. He thought that eating the rabbit that Xu Qingmo had given him would satisfy his craving, but he was still not satisfied after finishing it.

He really wanted to go up the mountain with them, but his backside wasn't healed yet. If they encountered wolves, he would be so scared he wouldn't be able to run fast at all.

After thinking about it, I decided to go home.

On the other side, Meng Panpan sat on a branch of a large tree, waving an axe in her hand, trying to scare away the three-headed wolf below.

Not only did it not scare them away, but a wolf even tried to climb the tree and drag Meng Panpan down.

Meng Panpan had been calling for help for a while, but the place was too far from the family compound, and no one came after waiting for a long time.

Suddenly, a tiny voice came from above her head.

Meng Panpan looked up with a tense expression and saw a bamboo viper emerging from the tree.

She's been terrified of snakes since she was little, and she was so scared she almost lost her balance.

Meng Panpan immediately began waving the axe in her hand rapidly into the air, shouting, "Don't come any closer, none of you come any closer..."

Xu Qingmo went into the mountains and walked for quite a while before she heard a sound.

She noticed that the three-headed wolf was staring at a tree, sometimes lying down, sometimes crouching, its eyes fixed on Meng Panpan above.

Xu Qingmo picked up a stone and smashed it hard against the head of one of the wolves.

The wolf howled and quickly looked towards Xu Qingmo.

The three wolves split into two groups. One wolf ran towards Xu Qingmo, while the other two remained in place to wait for Meng Panpan.

Xu Qingmo frowned. Only one wolf had come; they had clearly underestimated her.

She hadn't killed a wolf in a long time, and she was getting rusty.

Picking up a stick, Xu Qingmo stabbed it directly into the neck of the wolf that was running towards her.

The stick, still ablaze with flames, was plunged into the wolf's neck, and the aroma of roasting meat filled the air.

The wolf did not die immediately, but it had lost its ability to move and fell to the ground, twitching in pain.

The other two wolves noticed the commotion, glanced at Xu Qingmo, and dared not go any further. Reluctantly, they left Meng Panpan behind and ran into the deep mountains.

Seeing that the wolf had disappeared, Meng Panpan immediately hugged a tree and retreated to the ground.

Still shaken, she suddenly noticed a wolf lying at Xu Qingmo's feet and cried out in fright.

"How come there's another wolf? Didn't they run away?" Meng Panpan collapsed to the ground, too exhausted to run any further.

Xu Qingmo remained calm. "It's already dead. We'll eat wolf meat tonight."

"What? Wolf meat?" Meng Panpan was terrified and dared not eat wolf meat.

Xu Qingmo remembered that Butcher Li had killed a wolf in front of her before. She recalled for a moment, then took out the short knife that Wang Jing had given her and began to skin it.

Meng Panpan sat there, her eyes wide open like saucers.

From her perspective, a five-year-old girl was wielding a short knife and viciously stabbing a wolf bigger than herself. Her movements were swift and decisive.

Xu Qingmo was covered in blood, her face stained with blood, but she remained expressionless as she continued to carve the wolf's flesh.

At this moment, Meng Panpan felt that Xu Qingmo was like someone who had walked out of hell, cold and devoid of warmth.

Any other five-year-old child would have fainted from fright at such a large wolf.

Xu Qingmo didn't hear any movement from Meng Panpan's side, so she looked up at Meng Panpan. After meeting her gaze, Meng Panpan's eyes rolled back and she fell to the ground, completely unconscious.