That night, Lin Ying asked Zhao Qinghuai, "Why did you come up with the idea of ​​hunting today and distributing the meat to the compound?"

Zhao Qinghuai knew Lin Ying would ask about this, and he said somewhat guiltily, "I didn't originally intend to. I just wanted to take the kids up the mountain to play. Who knew that not long after we got up there, we saw a walnut tree. Didn't you say before that we didn't have any walnuts at home this year? So I thought I'd pick some to take back."

"Hmm, and then?" Lin Ying was a little confused. Weren't we talking about dividing the meat? How did we get onto walnuts?

Wait, "picking walnuts? You climbed the tree?"

Zhao Qinghuai coughed and said, "The ones below aren't very good."

Lin Ying continued, "And then you put the two children on the ground and climbed the tree yourself? And then what?"

"Then I heard Er Ya laughing very happily from the tree. I looked down and saw the little one playing happily with two half-grown tigers on the ground. Shuanzi found a stick and wanted to hit the tiger cubs, but he was pinned to the ground and rubbed against the ground."

Lin Ying said irritably, "Those two are Niu Niu and Hu Zi. It's a good thing it was them; if it were Wild Wolf, what would you have done! You're really carefree."

Zhao Qinghuai wasn't particularly worried, but he felt incredibly guilty: "I didn't expect that these two tigers would learn to sneak around like this, coming over without a sound, their breaths barely audible. It was my oversight."

Now it was Lin Ying's turn to feel guilty. Those two little ones had grown up drinking from the spiritual spring, so their bodies were probably different from the other tigers.

"And then what?"

“I guessed it was those two tiger cubs you mentioned before. Seeing that they wouldn't hurt the children, I simply let them play. But when we came down from the tree, the two tigers were gone, and there were two wild boars instead. Judging from the wounds, the wild boars were probably attacked by the adult tiger. But the cubs must have dragged them over.”

"How do you know it was the little tiger that dragged it here? Didn't you see it?"

Zhao Qinghuai said, "I didn't pay attention the first time, but the second time I naturally paid attention to the movements below. Apart from those four, I can confirm that no other animals are approaching."

All right.

Lin Ying believed this.

The next day, Zhao Qinghuai took the two children up the mountain again. Before they went up the mountain this time, Lin Ying teased, "Are you going to throw the two children under the tree again?"

Zhao Qinghuai, feeling somewhat guilty, assured him that there would absolutely be no next time.

After Zhao Qinghuai took the child out, Lin Ying looked at the pile of walnuts with their shells still on and started working on them. Even though she was wearing gloves, Lin Ying's hands still got tanned from peeling them.

Since it was already dark, Lin Ying simply peeled off all the dark skin.

When Zhao Qinghuai returned with the child, Lin Ying had finally finished peeling the black skin off the large bag of walnuts and was cracking the kernels. She planned to add some to her porridge or soy milk every morning from now on.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Qinghuai returned, put down a sack of things, and went back up the mountain.

When Lin Ying saw yet another sack of walnuts, she was devastated. Although many of the walnuts had already lost their skins, she was still devastated.

Did Zhao Qinghuai fry a walnut nest?

Lin Ying had no choice but to continue tidying up.

To Lin Ying's surprise, Zhao Qinghuai did not return until after 1 p.m. Instead, he sent three soldiers back with a car full of things and two children.

Lin Ying almost laughed out of anger. Yesterday you threw the child under the tree, and today you just dump the child on someone else?

When Lin Ying asked the soldier, he said it was a secret and couldn't be told to outsiders, so she didn't ask any more questions.

Seeing the two little figures covered in dirt again, Lin Ying had no choice but to boil water for them to bathe.

Afterwards, Lin Ying let the two children play at home while she unloaded the things from the car.

Lin Ying breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the bag didn't contain walnuts. She then transferred the apples and pears into baskets and carried them to the storeroom. She had just mentioned that Zhao Qinghuai had stirred up trouble with the walnuts, and now he'd brought back so many apples and pears.

However, compared to walnuts, apples and pears are what the kids prefer. Especially now that it's a bit hot and dry at home, they eat pears quite quickly.

Zhao Qinghuai didn't return home until the next morning.

Just as Lin Ying was about to bring up the matter of Zhao Qinghuai abandoning the child to someone else, she heard Zhao Qinghuai say, "Now I'm starting to believe that Er Ya is a lucky baby."

Lin Ying wanted to say, "What Fuwa? Er Ya is a lucky koi!"

However, she was more curious: "Why did you suddenly believe it again?"

Zhao Qinghuai told Shuanzi about yesterday's events: "Yesterday, I took the kids up the mountain, and Shuanzi asked me what I was doing there. I said I was looking to pick up some walnuts. And sure enough, some pretty good-looking walnuts fell to the ground. I didn't think much of it."

After picking the walnuts, I was thinking of going back home when Shuanzi said there weren't many pears left at home and asked me to look for some.

I was thinking, "How could that be? If you were around here all the time, wouldn't you know? You must have picked them all by now." Then, a gust of wind suddenly came and veered the car downhill. Since I figured I could get back anyway, I just went with the wind. Surprisingly, not long after I went down the slope, I saw not only pear trees but also several apple trees.

The bags I brought weren't enough, so I simply brought the walnuts back and got more bags to take them over.

The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed. How could they have everything they wanted? Then I remembered what you said about Er Ya. I jokingly said, "Er Ya, Uncle wants gold!"

After Zhao Qinghuai finished speaking, Lin Ying looked at him with disdain: "What would you do with that thing? These days, who doesn't keep it a secret if they have it?"

"Yeah, who wouldn't keep those kinds of women a secret? Otherwise, I wouldn't have met them, would I?"

"You really found it?"

Zhao Qinghuai then continued, "We really found it! But it wasn't hidden away by anyone; it wasn't buried there recently. I laughed at myself after saying that. Er Ya laughed along with me. Then Shuanzi did a somersault and carved out a gold ingot."

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