"Meow~"
Xiao Hua dropped the rabbit and looked up at Lu Fangfang.
"Hmm."
Upon seeing this, Lu Fangfang quickly picked it up.
The rabbit's mouth was covered in blood, making it look rather pitiful. Putting it on the kang (a heated brick bed) was rather creepy.
"hiss."
Lu Fangfang gently got off the kang (a heated brick bed), frowning as she felt some pain all over her body.
It was getting dark, and Lu Fangfang picked up her watch from the bedside table and saw that it was already past seven o'clock.
It's summer now, and it gets dark late in the Qilian Mountains, but she didn't expect that she would sleep from morning until night.
That beast, he really wore her out last night.
"Mingcheng? Zhuang Mingcheng? Where did he go?"
She looked around inside and outside the house but couldn't find Zhuang Mingcheng. So she took a dagger and started skinning the rabbit in the yard.
At the county's purchasing station, a first-grade rabbit pelt costs eight cents. She has to be careful not to tear it again.
She estimated that, based on Xiaohua's appetite, she could save up at least a dozen rabbit skins in a month, which could be sold to the county's purchasing station for seven or eight yuan a month.
From now on, Xiaohua will also be a snow leopard that can earn money for the family.
"Hehe, Xiaohua, don't worry, I'll save the money for you and give it to you when you're older."
"Come on, open your mouth."
Lu Fangfang took a rabbit leg and stuffed it into its mouth.
Xiao Hua sat on the ground, shaking her head, showing no interest in eating.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Lu Fangfang scratched her head, somewhat confused. Did Xiaohua have to be cooked with the mushrooms before she would eat it?
She glanced at the half-dried mushrooms on the tarpaulin, then washed them and prepared to cook them with the rabbit meat.
Just as I was busy working, there was a knock on the door in the yard.
Looking back, she saw Zhuang Mingcheng carrying a rabbit as he strode in.
"Where did you get this rabbit?"
"I took a taxi on the way."
Zhuang Mingcheng carried the rabbit, looking rather smug.
He glanced around casually and suddenly noticed that there was also a rabbit in the basin in his lover's hand. He was immediately stunned.
"Fangfang, where did you get this rabbit?"
"Little Flower caught it."
Zhuang Mingcheng looked at Xiaohua in surprise.
"Meow~"
Little Flower bared her teeth and called out to Zhuang Mingcheng.
Forehead……
Zhuang Mingcheng felt a little guilty. He put down what he was holding and hurriedly took the basin from his lover. "I'll do it, Fangfang. You go and rest. Give me all the work today."
"snort."
Seeing how attentive he was, Lu Fangfang got angry.
Too lazy to care anymore, she took out a chair, sat in the yard, petted the little flowers, and watched Zhuang Mingcheng busy himself.
"Be careful not to ruin the rabbit skin. It's eighty cents a piece at the county purchasing station. By the way, where did you go? Why is your face a little red when you come back?"
Lu Fangfang looked at Zhuang Mingcheng's face and felt increasingly uneasy. "Have you been drinking again?"
"Yes, I went to Hairang and had a drink with Xu Huayun."
Zhuang Mingcheng nodded.
As he skinned the rabbit, he recounted his experiences in Hairang.
"The grasslands over there are really fertile, especially teeming with rabbits and pikas. There's also a large lake there, fed by water flowing down from the snow-capped mountains, and a small waterfall that's quite beautiful. Old Xu told me that the waterfall freezes over in winter. I'll take you to see it sometime..."
As he spoke, he took out two pikas and tossed them to Xiaohua.
"Meow~"
Xiao Hua lay in Lu Fangfang's arms, not even glancing at her.
Zhuang Mingcheng was a little embarrassed. He continued, "When I arrived, Xu Huayun was catching small fish by the lake and feeding the chicks he had brought. He's quite an interesting person."
He smiled and shook his head.
After spending an afternoon with Xu Huayun, he found that the man was indeed cultured, but without the arrogance and pretentiousness often associated with cultured people; he was someone he could get along with.
“I’ll see in a few days if there’s an opportunity to get Xu Huayun back to the farm to teach. I’ll feel more at ease knowing he’ll be teaching our children, and I’m sure they’ll succeed.”
Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes at him.
This guy is really funny. He's barely started planning anything, and he's already thinking about having kids.
I glanced down at Little Flower; the little guy was nestled in my arms, his eyes half-closed, so comfortable he was almost asleep.
"Mingcheng, what happened to your arm this time? Who scratched it?"
Zhuang Mingcheng turned his head and glanced at her. Seeing that Xiao Hua wasn't paying attention, he secretly pointed at her.
Why is Xiaohua scratching you?
"Little Flower, why are you scratching your dad? That won't do."
Lu Fangfang stroked Xiaohua's head, waking the little one up.
Hearing Lu Fangfang's words, Xiaohua bared her teeth and called out to Zhuang Mingcheng twice more.
Zhuang Mingcheng was startled.
There was really no way to deal with this "rebellious son." He cut off a piece of rabbit meat and carefully handed it to Xiaohua.
"I was wrong, I was wrong, I will never dare to 'bully' your mother again."
"Meow~"
Xiao Hua took a big bite of the rabbit meat and chewed it vigorously.
It chewed while looking at Zhuang Mingcheng.
Lu Fangfang was stunned. The little guy didn't eat the rabbit he caught himself, so why was he eating Zhuang Mingcheng's?
Thinking about Zhuang Mingcheng's words, she asked naively, "When did you bully me?"
"Ahem, last night, when Xiao Hua heard you...you call out, it thought I was bullying you, so it started scratching and biting me first thing this morning..."
"Pah, serves you right!"
Lu Fangfang blushed and spat at him fiercely.
She patted Xiaohua's head and realized that the little one had caught a rabbit, which explained why she hadn't eaten it; it was for her.
"Oh, she's such a good girl."
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