"My little sister is only letting everyone off the hook because we're all from the same village." Su Erhu gently stepped in front of Su Hua, a cold smile appearing on his dark, thin face. "However, if you aunties keep worrying like this, I'm afraid you'll grow a lot more gray hairs. By then, all the uncles and elders will probably run off to—other people's houses!"

The last five words were spoken with significantly more emphasis.

After Su Erhu finished speaking, he gave Widow Liu a meaningful look. "Yesterday I saw the three brothers, Chunniu, Xianiu, and Qiuniu, each holding a full bowl of meat and eating it. Compared to eating meat, how can my Su family compare to your family, Aunt Liu! I don't know where Aunt Liu gets so much meat every day, since there are no grown men in her family and she doesn't even own an acre of land?"

These words were spoken.

The villagers who had been watching all turned to look at Widow Liu.

Yes, this widow Liu's husband died long ago, and she herself is a woman who doesn't do any work.

But whether it's this widow Liu or her three children, they are all tall and strong, with rosy complexions, clearly living a very comfortable life. Could it be that this family was really raised by her own husband?

Their gazes were intense, making Widow Liu, who was already vomiting sour water, turn her face red and black. "You little brat! I'm your elder, how dare you make up stories about me like this? You've really gone too far!"

"What's the rush, Aunt Liu?" Su Erhu pulled Su Hua forward, then turned back with a smug grin. "Aunt Liu is even curious about the pork fat from my whole family's oil pressing, so naturally I'll be curious about the meat your family can't finish, right?"

"Whose pork can't be finished..." Widow Liu's face turned pale with anger.

The words that were about to come out were uttered in a low voice.

When Su Hua and her brother returned home, their three little ones were all gathered around the newly built rabbit pen, their three similar little faces scrunched up in a frown.

"Why don't these little rascals eat grass?"

"Yes, my aunt said that the grass the rabbits eat shouldn't have any moisture on it, so I specially dried it for them."

“Not eating is a minor issue, but what if they keep ramming into this rabbit pen and die? My aunt might just kill us with it…”

Su Hua: ...How come she didn't know she had become so ruthless?

However, the way they were banging their heads against the wall was clearly a stress response from the rabbits.

Rabbits are very timid and have exceptionally sensitive hearing. They are easily frightened by the slightest disturbance, let alone suddenly being moved from a mountain valley to a human dwelling. It's considered lucky if they only bump into walls without foaming at the mouth.

It's a bit worrying that I'm not eating or drinking.

Su Hua was frowning.

Tick-tock!

It's the sound of water droplets.

She subconsciously glanced towards the pigeon egg-shaped space.

A single, crystal-clear drop of water was seen falling from the top of the space.

Then two more drops, and then everything returned to calm.

Seeing this, Su Hua breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought that the water droplet from yesterday was just a disposable item.

She turned and walked towards the kitchen, dripping two drops into the large water vat in her house. As for the other drop of water in the pigeon egg space, she would store it for later use in case of need.

“Come on, these little guys are probably thirsty.” Su Hua smiled.

Su Dalang and the other two stood up abruptly.

"Has...my aunt returned?"

The changes in Su Hua yesterday did not leave a deep impression on the three people after one night. On the contrary, they would be subconsciously afraid whenever they saw her.

But the girl just smiled and put a small bowl of water into the rabbit pen.

Almost the instant the bowl hit the ground.

The eight little rascals, who had just been filled with righteous indignation, almost simultaneously wrinkled their noses.

Immediately, it rushed toward the small bowl as if it had gone mad.

They pricked up their ears, stuck out their tongues, and buried their heads in the water in the bowl.

In the courtyard, only the sound of gulping water could be heard. The water in the small bowl was drunk up in the blink of an eye, leaving not a single drop at the bottom. Then, the person looked up at Su Hua with a blank stare.

But it's just a tiny rabbit, no bigger than the palm of your hand.

At this moment, he wished he could stretch out his four hairy legs and jump onto Su Hua.

Outside the rabbit enclosure, there were three pairs of eyes, six pupils in total, staring intently at Su Hua.

Su Dalang, being the oldest, was the first to recover and gave Su Hua a thumbs up, saying, "Our little aunt is really amazing! She can even raise wild rabbits."

They also thought that this little rascal couldn't eat grass with water on it.

It means you can't drink water.

Su Hua chuckled, pointed to the pork fat and bones in the kitchen, and changed the subject, "I bought a lot of pork fat in town today. I'll fry some pork cracklings for you guys to enjoy later. As for these bones, Da Lang will go to the cellar and get some radishes to stew. This stuff is even more fragrant than meat!"

The three members of the Su family were all tall and slender.

These are the grandchildren. Now, Dalang and Erlang are four years old, and Chunhua is three years old. They all look very thin and are severely malnourished.

If we don't supplement our diet with more nutrients when we're young, we might end up raising a whole family of Wu Dalangs (idiots).

"My Hua'er is back?" Su Hua was just starting to ramble on when she heard Su Bai's voice, as loud as a lioness's roar, coming from outside the courtyard, "What kind of thing can smell even better than meat?"

Su Baishi returned with her two daughters-in-law, carrying baskets full of small, exquisite snails.

"Mother, why did you bring back so many snails?"

"Hey! Didn't you say you wanted these snails yesterday? Is there enough in this basket?" Madam Su smiled and directed her two daughters-in-law to put the snails in a basin of water. She then brought out some food from the stove. "These are the fish that Xiao boy gave us yesterday. You must be hungry after a long day. Try them quickly."

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