Juanjuan, whose adoptive parents had died, was sold by her uncle for ten silver dollars into the Warlord's Mansion to bring good luck to the severely ill only son, Si Jinchen.
She thought...
Chapter 65: Plucking Chicken Feathers to Make Shuttlecocks
Si Jinchen looked at him and smiled: "This is Juanjuan's style."
Juanjuan looked at her two brothers standing beside her, turned around and smiled at them, revealing her little white teeth.
After finishing today's homework, Mayang went to the store and the two children played in the house.
Juanjuan found a box from somewhere and when he opened it, he saw some very old toys inside.
"Juanjuan, where did you find it?" Si Jinchen squatted beside her and looked at the box.
"It's in that room!" Juanjuan pointed to a room that looked like a storage room.
Old Madam Si walked over to them and was stunned when she saw the box. She squatted down and took out a shuttlecock that was almost hairless.
"These are the toys your father and his friends used to play with when they were little. I almost forgot about them because they were left here. The feathers on the shuttlecock are gone."
"Is shuttlecock fun?" Juanjuan looked at the shuttlecock with only the base in her hand curiously, and felt it was strange no matter how she looked at it.
"Chicken feathers were stuck on it before, so you had to kick it sideways and catch it." Old Lady Si explained with a smile.
"Grandma, can you play shuttlecock?" Juanjuan looked at her expectantly.
"Of course, grandma is still very good." Madam Si looked down at the shuttlecock: "It's a pity that this one has no feathers."
"Juanjuan has a way." After she said that, she ran towards the chicken coop.
Madam Si and Si Jinchen immediately understood what she was going to do.
Songsong couldn't help but frown when he saw her coming. Was this girl trying to bully me again?
Seeing her change direction, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It's okay as long as you don't harm it. Harming other animals has nothing to do with it.
Juanjuan squatted next to the chicken coop: "Huahua, can you give me a few of your feathers?"
"Cock-a-doodle-doo. No, it will become ugly if I give it to you." The three roosters defended their feathers with confidence.
Juanjuan pointed at the three hens with her little finger in anger: "You are not hens that can lay eggs, and you are so stingy to give feathers. Let Auntie stew you into soup."
The three roosters fell silent in an instant, and their arrogance disappeared one by one.
Even the screams were quieter: "Ohhhh. How many do you want?"
"Just enough to make a shuttlecock." Juanjuan didn't know how many feathers were needed.
The three roosters looked at each other and immediately started fighting. One of them pulled off one tail, and the other one pulled off two tails of the other one.
Songsong looked at the chicken feathers all over the room and was speechless: "Woof woof. Aren't you afraid of plucking yourselves bald?"
Ruanruan also said in a baby voice: "Woof woof. Wow! There's a fight!"
"Oh, oh, oh. A dog catching a rat is meddling in other people's business."
Songsong got angry when he heard this: "Woof woof. I'll beat you up."
"Woof woof. Dogs helping dogs." The soft little puppy also rushed forward.
When Madam Si and Si Jinchen came over, they saw chicken feathers and dog hair all over the sky.
It was a pure scene of chaos, and their boy Juanjuan had a head full of chicken and dog feathers, and was picking up the chicken feathers with a smile on his face.
The housekeeper and the others heard the noise and ran over: "What happened?"
"A mess." Si Jinchen used a very appropriate word.
"Everything was fine normally, wasn't it? Why did it fight today?" Jiang Ze was full of questions.
"Yeah, when I was out buying groceries, I met people who told me that my chickens poop outside on their own, but they didn't believe me. Now that I'm told that they suddenly got into a fight with a dog, I'm afraid no one will believe me even more."
What Wu Ma said was a little inconsistent.
Juanjuan ran over, plucking a handful of chicken feathers: "Grandma, have you seen enough?"
Old Madam Si looked down at the colorful chicken feathers in her hand. This was more than enough to make three or five, not to mention one.
"Juanjuan, why are they fighting?"
Juanjuan scratched his head and turned to look at the few who were happily fighting: "I don't know!"
"Juanjuan, what did you say to them just now?" Si Jinchen looked at her curiously.
"Yeah, Juanjuan and Huahua Chicken asked for feathers, but they refused to give them. So I told my aunt to make soup with them, and then they started fighting."
Juanjuan thought carefully about her answer.
"Well, these three roosters usually don't admit defeat to each other, so they are fighting because they want to make the other one uglier than themselves." The housekeeper analyzed.
"Then why did Songsong and Ruanruan also fight with them?" Bailing looked at the housekeeper with confusion.
The housekeeper coughed lightly a few times: "I really don't know about that."
"How about trying to persuade him?" Jiang Ze said in a low voice.
"If you can do it, go ahead." Bailing looked at the dog's teeth, dog's claws, chicken's beak, and chicken's claws. If they were hit by anything, they would probably bleed.
Madam Si looked at Juanjuan, whose hair was covered with chicken and dog feathers: "Let them fight. When they get tired, they will naturally rest."
The housekeepers thought about it and decided to just go about their business and clean up after they were tired of fighting.
"Bai Ling, take Juanjuan to change into pants." Old Madam Si also went back to her room and changed into a comfortable set of pants.
The three of them stood in the reception room on the other side and put feathers on the shuttlecock.
Juanjuan looked at the colorful feather shuttlecock and asked, "Is this a shuttlecock?"
"Yes, grandma, try it first. I haven't played shuttlecock for many years." Old Madam Si took the shuttlecock and found a spacious place to try it.
Juanjuan saw the shuttlecock being kicked up, then falling down, and then flying up again.
She clapped her hands and shouted, "Wow! Grandma is amazing!"
Madam Si felt a little tired after kicking a few times. She gasped and waved her hands: "I can't do it anymore. I'm old. I'm so tired after kicking for a while that I'm gasping for breath."
"Juanjuan, you try it." She handed the shuttlecock to Juanjuan.
Juanjuan held the feather in her little hands and gestured for a long time, not knowing how to start.
"Let go of the shuttlecock and lift your little feet to kick it." Old Madam Si taught patiently.
"Okay." Juanjuan loosened her hands and lifted her feet.
"Bang!" He didn't kick the shuttlecock, but he lost his balance and fell directly to the ground with his little butt.
"Are you hurt?" Si Jinchen ran to her and helped her up.
"It doesn't hurt. The carpet is soft." Juanjuan said while patting the carpet.
"Do you want to try again?" Mrs. Si handed her the shuttlecock.
"Try." Juanjuan took the shuttlecock and tried several times but still failed to kick it. He couldn't help but frowned.
She handed the shuttlecock to Si Jinchen: "Brother, you kick it."
"Okay." It was also Si Jinchen's first time to play shuttlecock. Thinking about how Old Madam Si had played just now, he gave it a try.
As soon as he let go of his hand, the shuttlecock fell down, and he easily caught it with his feet.
"Wow! Brother is so awesome, why can't Juanjuan do it?" Juanjuan's little face wrinkled into a bun.
Madam Si smiled and rubbed her head: "That's because Juanjuan hasn't grown up yet. When Juanjuan grows up a little bit, he will be better than grandma and brother at kicking."
"Really?" Juanjuan looked at her with sparkling eyes.
"Of course it's true. Let's go to the street to buy New Year's goods in a few days, okay?" Old Lady Si smiled and touched her little head.