Chapter 44 Lingling seems to be quite clever.

"Meow!" Just as Ning Bao was about to speak, Lingling, who had just run away, jumped back. It stood on Mu Chunping's shoulder and looked at Ning Bao, meowing twice at her.

Ningbao looked at it, puzzled.

"Lingling, what are you meowing for? Ningbao doesn't understand cat language."

"Silly master." Suddenly, a little boy's voice echoed in Ning Bao's mind.

Ning Bao quickly looked around. Because Ning Bao had the ability to see spirits and ghosts, her first reaction was...

"A ghost?"

Because Mu Chunping and Shen Junshan were around her, a normal person's conditioned reflex is to be afraid of ghosts.

Ningbao was afraid of frightening her family members, so she kept quiet and asked in her heart,

"Who are you? Are you talking to me?"

Lingling rolled her eyes at Ningbao.

"Of course I'm talking to you; no one else can hear me."

Seeing Lingling roll her eyes, Ningbao was stunned for a moment. She stared blankly at Lingling and asked herself,

"Is that you talking to me? You can speak now?"

Lingling shook her head.

"I can't speak yet, but because you gained a lot of merit by sending the female ghost to reincarnation and catching the hanged ghost, my spiritual power as your spirit pet has increased a lot."

"My spiritual power is insufficient to speak right now, but I can communicate with my master using my thoughts."

Suddenly, Lingling noticed that it had left the place it had just gone, and it hurriedly slapped Ningbao with its paw.

"Master, I just found some wild eggs. Tell your father to stop and collect them."

"Wild eggs?" Ningbao exclaimed excitedly upon hearing about the eggs, inwardly marveling that Lingling seemed quite clever.

"Father, let's go that way."

Ning Bao quickly told Mu Chunping the directions Lingling had given her.

Mu Chunping was accompanied only by Shen Junshan, Lin Jianfei, and Mu Youcai. Although Ning Bao's shout of "wild eggs" wasn't very loud, they all heard it.

Now that Ning Bao was pointing the way, Lin Jianfei, Shen Junshan, and Mu Youcai quietly protected Mu Chunping and Ning Bao, trying their best to collect the eggs without alerting others.

Lingling found the eggs not far away, in a haystack in a ravine not far from there.

When they arrived, Mu Chunping bent down and put Ningbao down. Ningbao, with her short little legs, followed Lingling and darted into the hay.

Ningbao, hiding in the bushes, was so excited by the large nest of eggs in front of her that she almost jumped up. She lowered her voice and called out to the outside of the bushes.

"Wow! Daddy, Uncle, come quick!"

Shen Junshan and Mu Chunping rushed towards Ning Bao upon hearing the shouts, and were surprised when they saw the eggs in front of her.

"So many eggs!"

Eggs are good, but raw eggs are not easy to store or carry. Just as Mu Chunping and Shen Junshan were worrying about how to get the eggs, Ningbao squatted down and used her chubby little hands to pick up the eggs from the ground one by one and put them into her bag.

“One, two, three… thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six…”

Ning Bao picked up Mu Chunping and Shen Junshan and silently counted in their minds that there were a total of thirty-six eggs in the pile.

Ningbao stuffed everything into her crossbody bag, but...

"Ningbao, where are your eggs?"

"Can your little bag hold that much?"

Shen Junshan looked at the small cloth bag, which appeared flat and empty from the outside, with great puzzlement.

Ning Bao proudly raised her chin, looking smugly at Shen Junshan and Mu Chunping.

"Of course, I have a storage talisman. I can fit not only a few eggs, but even several cows in it."

After Ningbao finished speaking, he patted the dry grass off his clothes.

"Chunping, what are you doing? Hurry up and leave!"

A villager from the same village happened to walk by and was quite puzzled to see Mu Chunping and the others squatting in the haystack.

Mu Chunping quickly bent down, picked up Ningbao, and came out.

"Oh, I brought my Ningbao here to use the restroom."

"Dazhu, have you found anything?"

Dazhu nodded and then shook his head.

"We didn't find water, but we did find a few wild vegetables."