Jiaojiao and Xiaoya went out without permission, which frightened Shuixiu. Just after breakfast, someone from Yanjia Village came to ask Old Lady Feng to help deliver a baby for their village. Lianhua also went with them.
Seeing Jiaojiao sound asleep, Shuixiu went to the neighbor's house to borrow a thimble for sewing. Although they were neighbors, they were actually more than two hundred meters away. She only exchanged a few words with them, and when she returned, Jiaojiao was gone.
Shuixiu was so frightened that she looked around everywhere.
When Jiaojiao and Xiaoya came back from the mountain, everyone in the village went out to look for Jiaojiao.
As soon as Jiaojiao came down the mountain, she knew she was in trouble. She quickly used her short legs to run faster than Xiaoya.
Seeing someone from a distance, Jiaojiao immediately shouted, "I'm here!"
The man took one look and immediately shouted, "Found it! Found it! Dashan, go tell your sister-in-law Shuixiu that Jiaojiao has been found!"
Dashan ran away in a flash.
When Shuixiu received the news, she hurried back. Seeing that her daughter had returned home safely, tears immediately fell.
"Jiaojiao, it's Mom's fault. I shouldn't have left you home alone. I was scared to death!"
"Yes, yes, how could you let Jiaojiao stay home alone?"
"That's right! Like me..." The man thought, she also seems to often leave her children at home, "I have to be more careful next time!"
Xiaoya's eyes widened. She whispered to Jiaojiao, "If I run around by myself, my mom will beat me!"
"Little girl!" A lion roared.
The little girl was trembling with fear. It was over. Was she going to get beaten this time too?
Xiao Ya's mother had already learned from others that it was Xiao Ya who took Jiao Jiao out, so she hurried over and prepared to teach Xiao Ya a lesson.
"Mom! Mom! Look!" Xiaoya, quick-witted, quickly held up the pheasant egg. She had been carefully hiding it in her shirt, but when she revealed the pheasant egg, everyone in the room was stunned. An egg this big must be a goose egg, right? But no one in her village raised geese, but one family in Zhoujia Village did.
"Xiao Ya, where did you get the goose eggs? You didn't take Jiao Jiao to Zhou Village, did you? Are you brave enough to steal other people's goose eggs?"
Xiaoya hastily denied it, shaking her head like a rattle: "No! I don't steal! These are pheasant eggs. Jiaojiao and I found them in the mountains."
"Pheasant eggs? How big a pheasant must be to lay such a big egg? You're lying!"
"It's true! Jiaojiao and I picked it up on the mountain! If you don't believe me, ask Jiaojiao!" The little girl was so anxious that she jumped for her feet.
"I'm also asking Jiaojiao! Are you bullying her because she's young and naive?"
Xiaoya's mother pinched her ear with one hand. Xiaoya cried out in pain. She hurriedly called for help: "Jiaojiao! Tell me quickly, did we pick it up?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Jiaojiao nodded rapidly, "We picked it up."
The little girl pointed at Jiaojiao and said, "Look, Jiaojiao also said it was right. Jiaojiao was the one who saw it first!"
“Are they really pheasant eggs?”
When Xiaoya's mother heard what she said, she let go of Xiaoya's ear and took the pheasant eggs in her hand to look at them carefully.
The crowd was talking.
"I've never seen such big pheasant eggs!"
"What good luck!"
"That's not right. Where did the pheasant eggs come from on the stone? Besides, we have searched the mountain thoroughly, but there is no pheasant at all. There is not even a feather!" someone said.
"Don't even mention the chicken feathers, there's not even a blade of grass left!"
"Yes, the bark has been peeled off."
Xiaoya looked at everyone stupidly: "But we saw it on a big rock on the mountain!"
Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly someone said, "Why don't we go and take a look too?"
Everyone seemed to have come to their senses and ran up the mountain as soon as they could.
"Whoever sees it first owns it. No fighting allowed!" The village chief chased out and shouted.
"I know!"
It didn't matter that the people from Wangjia Village were gone. Just a few minutes later, Xiaoya's uncle Jianguo came running back, panting: "Hurry up the mountain! There's food! The whole mountain is full of shepherd's purse! Hurry up and grab some shepherd's purse!"
"What? What did you say? Are you dazzled?" the village chief asked Jianguo.
"No flowers, no flowers! The whole mountain is covered with shepherd's purse. Go! There are so many!"
Jianguo said to Xiaoya's mother again: "Sister-in-law, go home and get a basket, pick up the big ones, hurry up!"
Xiao Ya's mother sighed and ran home with two pheasant eggs - because Jiaojiao and Xiao Ya found them together, everyone who saw them could get two.
Regardless of whether it is true or not, people in Wangjia Village must go and see it.
At Daqing Mountain, west of Wangjia Village, the entire village was out in force, and laughter and joy filled the mountain stream.
Gradually, some soil appeared on Daqing Mountain. The villagers of Wangjia Village happily went down the mountain, carrying their baskets.
By dinnertime in the afternoon, every household was cooking wild vegetables. Some mixed them with grains and flour to make steamed wild vegetable dumplings. Some cooked a pot of porridge with the grains and flour, and some even cooked shepherd's purse and ate it directly.
The fresh scent of shepherd's purse floated over the entire Wangjia Village.
At the Feng family, Shuixiu also took Jiaojiao up the mountain to dig two baskets of shepherd's purse. Dinner consisted of shepherd's purse mixed with cornmeal and steamed dumplings. As the aroma wafted from the pot, Shuixiu began to mutter, "This shepherd's purse should be quite delicious."
By the time the shepherd's purse dumplings were out of the pot, Old Lady Feng and Lotus had returned exhausted. They had been busy all day, and the woman's family had given them a piece of navy blue cloth and a dollar.
"What delicious food did our team make today?"
As soon as she entered the team, Lotus asked with a sniff.
Old Lady Feng also smelled it: "It seems to be shepherd's purse. But where can I find shepherd's purse nowadays?"
This time, I only received a piece of cloth and a dollar for my delivery. Food is so scarce that I barely get any food these days, whether I'm delivering babies or seeing doctors.
"Sister-in-law, we're back. What delicious food did you make?" Lianhua started shouting towards the house from outside the fence.
Jiaojiao came out of the house and replied in a milky voice: "Shepherd's purse dumplings! Delicious!"
"It's really shepherd's purse?" Lianhua and Old Lady Feng were both surprised.
"Where did you dig it up?" asked Old Lady Feng.
"The back mountain!" Shuixiu came out with a smile. "Grandma, Lianhua, you missed something magical today. Hasn't our back mountain been dug bare recently? Today, it's suddenly covered with shepherd's purse. It's really covered. The hillside and the foot of the mountain are densely packed with shepherd's purse. Our entire team went out today and dug up a lot of shepherd's purse. You won't believe it, this shepherd's purse is delicious!"
Old Lady Feng looked at Jiaojiao suspiciously, but the latter, as always, smiled foolishly at her.
When Old Lady Feng took the first bite of the shepherd's purse dumpling, she was certain that this shepherd's purse was definitely related to Jiaojiao's mysterious space.
Old Lady Feng looked at Jiaojiao again, who shook her head and ate the shepherd's purse dumplings in one bite.
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