"Big brother, why are you and Yiyi the only ones going down the mountain? Why didn't the second and third brothers go down the mountain?"
Brother Yun swallowed the cake in his mouth and said, "Mom, the second and third sons are still busy picking persimmons in the mountains."
"Yiyi found three persimmon trees and a hawthorn tree on the mountain. We only picked fruits from one persimmon tree and left the rest unpicked."
Zhang was heartbroken when she heard this. "Big brother, you have to go down the mountain to eat first. If you and Yiyi bring food up the mountain, the second and third brothers will be starving."
"Yes, boss, you should persuade the second and third brothers to go down the mountain together." Butcher Yun looked at Big Brother Yun with disapproval.
"Dad, Mom, don't worry. The second and third children won't starve. I roasted some sweet potatoes for everyone before we went down the mountain, and everyone had enough to eat."
"And I told them when I came down the mountain. If they're hungry, let them roast some sweet potatoes for themselves."
"It's not that they don't want to go down the mountain, it's just that the place we're going to today is too far. The round trip takes a lot of time."
Zhang nodded. Suddenly, she felt something was wrong. "Boss, I remember I didn't bring you any sweet potatoes when you went up the mountain this morning, did I?"
"Could it be that I remembered it wrong?" Zhang said doubtfully.
"Boss, did you bring sweet potatoes to the children this morning?"
Butcher Yun hurriedly shook his head. "Wife, I didn't bring any sweet potatoes for the children. Didn't you bring them?"
Zhang was also bewildered, "I didn't bring it either."
Yun Yiyi shook her head and said, "Dad, go take a look at the basket my brother just brought back, and you'll understand what's going on."
After hearing this, Yun the butcher immediately brought the basket that Brother Yun had just carried back to the dining table.
He quickly removed the weeds from the basket, but when he saw what was underneath, he was so shocked that he was speechless.
Seeing Yun the butcher remain silent, Zhang became anxious. She hurried to the basket and, upon seeing the basket, she quickly stifled the scream that was about to come out of her mouth with her hands.
Two minutes later, Yun the Butcher came to his senses first. "Boss, are these all sweet potatoes in this basket? Are they the ones you found in the mountains?"
Zhang also looked at Brother Yun and Yun Yiyi with shining eyes.
"Mom, Yiyi found a large field of wild sweet potatoes on the mountain. It took Yiyi and the others half a day to dig out all the wild sweet potatoes."
"But, Dad, Mom, guess how many baskets of sweet potatoes we dug?"
Zhang and Butcher Yun exchanged a glance. "Boss, did you dig two baskets of sweet potatoes? That's too much."
Brother Yun shook his head. "Mom, you guessed wrong. We dug three baskets of sweet potatoes, and all three were just like this one, and they were all just as full."
When Zhang heard this, she was overjoyed. She looked at Yun the Butcher with shining eyes and patted his arm hard.
"Boss, does your arm hurt?"
Butcher Yun rubbed his arm and said, "Wife, my arm hurts."
After Yun the Butcher finished speaking, he was slow to react. It turned out that the children had indeed dug three baskets of wild sweet potatoes on the mountain.
"Wife, the eldest brother and his children really dug three baskets of sweet potatoes on the mountain. Three full baskets."
Zhang's face flushed with excitement. "Ah, yes. I'm so happy. These three baskets of sweet potatoes are enough for our whole family to eat for a long time."
"Haha, now we don't have to worry about not having enough food at home. With these sweet potatoes to go with them, we won't go hungry this winter."
Yun the butcher was also filled with mixed emotions. His children were so young but so sensible and capable.
It's all because I, as a father, am incompetent, so I let my children go to the mountains to find food at such a young age.
Butcher Yun turned around and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes before turning around again.
Yun Yiyi and Brother Yun also saw this scene, but they just focused on eating and didn't say anything else.
Zhang excitedly picked up a sweet potato and found it was quite large. However, there were also some small, long potatoes in the basket.
"Boss, this sweet potato field is not small, otherwise we wouldn't be able to dig up so many sweet potatoes."
"Mom, this sweet potato patch is really quite big. And it's quite far from where we picked persimmons. Yiyi discovered it later."
Zhang said excitedly in a low voice, "Yiyi, you are really our family's lucky star. Now that's good, we won't have to go hungry this winter."
"Mom, as long as my family doesn't go hungry, it's worth it for me to run a few more laps in the mountains."
Zhang put down the sweet potato, came to Yun Yiyi, and happily rubbed Yun Yiyi's hair, "Yiyi is really my mother's little cotton-padded jacket."
"Boss, among these sweet potatoes, are there more big ones? Or are there more small ones?"
"Dad, Mom, generally speaking, there are more big sweet potatoes. There are fewer small ones. However, it is precisely because we have to dig small sweet potatoes that we spend so much time digging sweet potatoes."
"These small sweet potatoes are all grown after the sweet potato vines have taken root in the ground. No one has ever turned over the sweet potato vines in that sweet potato field."
"So, there were so many of these small roots. We were afraid of missing any sweet potatoes, so we dug them side by side like we were digging the ground. So it took us a long time to finish digging."
Butcher Yun listened to Brother Yun's complaints and consoled him, "Boss, you did the right thing. Although you wasted time, your approach was quite good."
"Dad is proud to have such smart and capable children like you."
Butcher Yun’s words made Brother Yun’s ears turn red.
Yun Yiyi has always been confident. After hearing this, she raised her chin proudly.
Yun the Butcher and Zhang saw the two children's reactions and laughed at the same time.
"Mom, please hurry up and fill the bowl. My eldest brother and I have to go up the mountain after we finish eating. My second and third brothers must be hungry."
"Okay, Yiyi. I'll go wash my hands and then serve the food. Don't worry, it will be ready by the time you two finish your meal."
"Okay, Mom, thank you. You're so kind."
Zhang happily went to get the food.
"Dad, please load the sweet potatoes into the mule cart. They're too conspicuous if they're outside."
"And, Dad, you have to come up the mountain with us later. There are still two big baskets of sweet potatoes that haven't been brought down the mountain yet. And there are also persimmons and hawthorns that need to be brought down the mountain too."
"There are too many things. We definitely can't finish transporting them all this afternoon just relying on my brother and the others. So, you have to go up the mountain with us to help transport the things."
"Also, Dad, my eldest brother has tied up three big bundles of sweet potato vines. We need to carry those down the mountain too."
When Butcher Yun heard this, he immediately said, "Okay, Yiyi, I'll go put this basket of sweet potatoes into the mule cart right now."
After saying this, Yun the Butcher carried the basket of sweet potatoes and put it into the mule cart.
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