"Go ahead and hit me. If you kill me, I won't have to go to the back mountain." Xu Yuanyuan gave up struggling and lay down to be beaten.
Wang Xiuzhi didn't want to follow Xu Yuanyuan up the mountain either, as Xu Yuanyuan had disappointed her too much, so she let Xu Yuanyuan go up the mountain to catch wild boars.
The mother and daughter argued incessantly.
Xu Qingmo picked at her ear, chased the mother and daughter out of the yard, and the people who had helped her took the meat and left humming a little tune.
Some people are still eagerly waiting for Xu Qingmo to use her body to bribe people for help at any time.
Grandma Liu and Grandma Wang went to the kitchen to wash their hands and cook. They still didn't eat, and just like last night, they packed their portions to take home.
Xu Qingmo, feeling a bit full after eating and drinking her fill, strolled around the courtyard.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it's not good for Xu Yuanlong to stay in the main room any longer. She told Wang Xiuzhi to stop making a fuss and to find a way to bury Xu Yuanlong.
Wang Xiuzhi was still thinking of keeping Xu Yuanlong at home for a few more days, but when she heard Xu Qingmo tell her to hurry up and get him off the ground, she plopped down on the ground and wailed, scolding her for being unfilial.
“He’s still your father. You despise him so much. Without him, where would you be? An unfilial son will not have a good end.” Wang Xiuzhi kept making a fuss.
Xu Qingmo laughed in anger. The real Xu Qingmo had already died in that cowshed, and the original owner's life had been returned to Xu Yuanlong.
She is now far from falling into Wang Xiuzhi's verbal trap.
"You're right, unfilial sons do not have a good end, so Xu Yuanlong died." The words spoken in the childish voice shocked Wang Xiuzhi so much that she forgot what came next.
She stared blankly at Xu Qingmo.
It took her a while to find her voice, “You’re a born bad seed, you’re the one who brought death to your father.”
Xu Qingmo retorted directly, "You're the one who's born bad. First you killed your husband, and now you've killed your son. It won't be long before you kill your only daughter."
Xu Yuanyuan, who had been pacing around the door, became even more panicked.
She rushed into the house without a care in the world, knelt down in front of Wang Xiuzhi, and begged her, "Mom, I'm still young, I don't want to die. Please, have mercy and go hunting wild boars in the mountains for me, I beg you."
Xu Yuanyuan cried with tears and snot streaming down her face.
Wang Xiuzhi's expression changed drastically; Xu Yuanyuan's behavior was tantamount to acknowledging Xu Qingmo's words.
The villagers pointed at Wang Xiuzhi and started gossiping.
"I still remember the year Wang Xiuzhi married into the village. The village suffered a drought for a whole year, and everyone had no harvest. Then, when she gave birth to Xu Yuanlong, the drought subsided and torrential rains began to fall, directly drowning most of the crops. Everyone's pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks were all washed away by the flood. After that, there was an outbreak of plague for two years."
"You know what, it really happened that our village started to suffer great disasters after Wang Xiuzhi married into the village."
"Could she be a plague god reincarnated?"
"Her husband died after she had three children, but she's very resilient and has survived to this day. Now her youngest daughter and granddaughter want to go hunting wild boar in the mountains, and she not only doesn't stop them, but she also doesn't help them. She even acts like a bystander."
"Having someone like that as family is the worst thing that can happen."
After discussions among the villagers, Wang Xiuzhi quickly became known as a walking plague.
Xu Yuanyuan seized the opportunity to kick her, saying, "Mom, everyone says you're unlucky, maybe even a wild boar would die because of you. Why don't you go catch the wild boar?"
"I'll kill you right now, you jinxed brat!" Wang Xiuzhi got up from the ground and chased after Xu Yuanyuan, beating and cursing her again.
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After lunch, Xu Qingmo stood up and washed her face, looking refreshed and energetic.
Several hunters in the village wanted to go hunting wild boar with her, since Xu Qingmo was so small and had previously brought back a wild boar on her own.
The villagers thought she was lucky; she encountered a stupid pig that blinded her and accidentally crashed into a tree and died, which allowed Xu Qingmo to take advantage of her.
As for Xu Qingmo being able to pull back a wild boar weighing over 100 pounds at the age of five, they believe that Xu Qingmo is a natural strongman.
Good fortune doesn't last forever. The hunter said he was going hunting with her, but in reality, he was worried about the little girl and afraid she would be hurt by a wild boar.
Xu Qingmo saw through the intentions of the Liu and Wang family hunters, and although she never liked trouble, she didn't refuse this time.
Because Grandma Liu and Grandma Wang cooked delicious food, she didn't feel any hostility towards their families.
Old Liu, with his son, and Grandma Wang, with her son, along with Xu Qingmo and the reluctant Xu Yuanyuan, made it into the back mountain.
Along the way, Old Liu kept reminding Xu Qingmo to stay far away when she encountered wild boars, as they had guns and would hunt them down first.
Xu Qingmo ignored it and continued walking forward.
Halfway there, Xu Qingmo noticed two wild rabbits behind the bushes. She broke off a stick and threw it at the two rabbits, the stick piercing through their bodies.
Killing two birds with one stone!
Before the experienced hunter Liu could even process how he had hunted the two rabbits, Xu Qingmo had already retrieved them from behind the bushes by their ears.
She threw the rabbit into the basket behind Xu Yuanyuan. The rabbit's blood splattered onto her face, and she stomped her feet in fright.
"Take it away, take it away quickly..." Xu Yuanyuan tried to run away in a panic.
Xu Qingmo stretched out her leg and tripped her to the ground. "Trying to take this opportunity to escape? You'd better give up on that idea."
Xu Yuanyuan got a mouthful of dirt and got up from the ground with a dark face.
My knee was scraped open, and blood was gushing out.
Her eyes reddened. Wang Xiuzhi had taken good care of the three siblings. Xu Yuanyuan had never suffered much hardship, but now she had a leg injury and walked with a limp. She began to curse Xu Yuanlong in her heart, wondering why he had to leave Xu Qingmo, this little tyrant, behind.
"MoMo, how did you spot the wild rabbit in the grass?" Old Liu asked curiously.
Even though he was very experienced, his reaction time was not as fast as that of a five-year-old.
If I told others, they definitely wouldn't believe me.
I felt he was just flattering me.
"The grass in that area is the fattest and tenderest; the wild rabbits love it," Xu Qingmo casually made up an excuse.
Actually, she just saw the bushes move and guessed there was something inside, so she grabbed a stick and threw it out.
Unexpectedly, this directly exposed the two wild rabbits.
She couldn't say it directly, as that would be tantamount to slapping Old Man Liu and the others in the face.
"I see." Old Liu nodded, and then shared his experience with his son and Old Wang and the others beside him.
As the surrounding trees grew thicker and thicker, the higher you went up the mountain, the cooler it became.
Xu Qingmo saw the mark she had left earlier. Next to the mark was a cave, and inside the cave was a wild boar's den.
Xu Qingmo told everyone to stop, pointed to the cave not far away, and asked Xu Yuanyuan to go in.
Xu Yuanyuan looked unwilling. "My leg is injured. Why are you letting me in? I don't want to."
Xu Qingmo said, "As long as you go into that cave, I won't let you stay to catch wild boars. You can take the wild rabbits home first."
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