On the way, Gao suddenly remembered Jian Ning's ferocious appearance yesterday. She cried out, holding her stomach and said, "Mom, sister-in-law, I have to go, I can't hold it anymore. You go first, I'll come later."
Liu saw through her immediately and curled her lips, saying, "Are you scared, Third Sister-in-law? With Mother here, what are you afraid of? Besides, we're not going to argue with them. We're just going to take back the things they should give to Mother. If you don't go, you won't get any."
Meng squinted her eyes and cursed, "Useless thing, if you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, get out."
Gao was really a little afraid of Jian Ning, but she was even more afraid that she would not get a share of the flowered cloth when it was brought back, so she had no choice but to go with them.
"Fourth Brother!" Meng shouted as she entered the yard.
Seeing the three of them rushing in, the four little ones quickly ran to a group. The eldest girl stretched out her hands to protect Dabao, Erniu and Sanniu, and said in a trembling voice: "Daddy and Mom have gone up the mountain to cut grass."
"Mom will be back soon," she added.
When Gao heard that Jian Ning wasn't home, she immediately came to her senses and rushed to the main house. Jian Ning had already put her things in the box, so she dug it out, picked up two pieces of cloth and was about to leave. Sanniu rushed over to grab the cloth from her hand, but she pushed her to the ground with a palm.
Seeing her push Sanniu down, Dabao walked up to her without a word and shoved her hard in the stomach. Dabao had some strength, and Gao staggered and nearly fell. Before she could react, Meng grabbed the small knot on Dabao's head and pulled him to the ground. When she raised her foot to kick him, Daniu pounced on him.
She hugged Meng's feet and shouted, "We have separated. Grandma can't hit my brother, and you can't take our things."
Sanniu got up and tried to snatch the cloth from Gao's hand. Erniu, who had always been timid, actually knew how to protect her food. When she saw Liu taking the eggs and cakes, she screamed and rushed over.
Before, Erniu complained that the old house was too shabby, but now she was absolutely unwilling to go back to live with her grandparents. Nothing was more important than having enough food and drink. Now Liu wanted to take away their eggs and cakes. She forgot her fear for a moment and only knew that she could not let Liu take away the food. She beat and kicked Liu.
"This is ours, don't take it, put it down, you are shameless, stealing our things..."
"You're a money-loser! I can't kill you!" Liu was so angry that she kicked her to the ground.
Erniu burst into tears, shouting at the top of her lungs: "Mom! Mom! My aunt stole our eggs and cakes. Come back soon, Mom!"
"Who stole your family's things?" Ma Xiaomai's voice was heard outside the yard. His father woke up. He came over to tell Jian Ning, but he didn't expect to catch Meng and others snatching the things his family gave them.
"Put them down!" Ma Xiaomai rushed in and saw the things in their hands, her face darkening. "These are what my father gave his life for. Aunt Jian saved my father's life. My mother asked me to bring them here, not for you. Put them down quickly, or don't blame me for being rude to you!"
Thirteen-year-old Ma Xiaomai was already quite tall and had some martial arts skills, as the Meng family knew. But he was still a child, so they didn't take him seriously and just took their things and left.
Seeing how shameless they were, Ma Xiaomai picked up a stool and blocked the doorway, shouting, "Whoever dares to take another step forward, I recognize her, but I don't recognize the stool in my hand!"
"How dare you! Look at how capable you are! Why don't you just go to heaven?" Meng pointed at his forehead and said, "Let me ask you, when you get married and have a family, will your parents accept things given to you by others? If your parents do accept them, will you still have any objections?"
Ma Xiaomai was dumbfounded by her barrage of questions.
After thinking about it, he felt that what Meng Po said made sense. If someone gave him something, he would give it to his parents even if they didn't ask him for it, not to mention that he would give it to them even if they didn't ask him.
Humph, seeing that he was frightened by her few words, Meng was secretly proud. She gave a look to Liu and Gao and was about to take them away.
"Stop!" Ma Xiaomai shouted at them, putting down the stool and snatching the floral cloth from Gao's hand. "You can't take it all, there are also cakes and eggs. You can only take half."
Although Gao felt sad that the flowered cloth was taken away, at least she had the blue cloth. She was worried that Jian Ning would come back and lose everything, so she quickly picked up the blue cloth and left.
But Liu refused. She had come for the floral fabric; she liked the pattern the moment she saw it. Her daughter, Zhu'er, was already engaged to a husband's family. She wanted the floral fabric to make her a new dress. When she married into her husband's family, she would have a nice dress from her parents' home, so that her in-laws wouldn't look down on her.
She handed the eggs and cakes to Ma Xiaomai and said, "Since they are from your family, you should divide them up."
Ma Xiaomai handed the cloth in her hand to Da Niu, but Liu snatched it from Da Niu and ran away. Ma Xiaomai was so angry that he grabbed an egg and smashed it on the back of her head. When he was about to run after her, he was held back by Meng.
He refused to share his two pieces of cloth, eggs, and cakes with Meng Shi. Hearing that no one could share them, Meng Shi argued that whatever was sent to her son's house belonged to her son, and what belonged to her son belonged to her, and she would rather break them into pieces than give them to a bunch of people who had lost money.
She cursed and snatched the eggs and cakes. The four little ones surrounded her, pulling and tugging. Ma Xiaomai, because she was an old woman and an elder, could not bring herself to hit her despite her harsh words. However, Mrs. Meng was able to hit the four little ones. She slapped one and kicked another. Ma Xiaomai could not protect the others. The whole basket of eggs and several packages of cakes were crushed to pieces by Mrs. Meng.
Finally, amid Erniu's loud crying, she walked away triumphantly...
On the back mountain.
Jian Ning saw that the grass and bamboo he had cut were almost done, so he tied them up and hid them, then walked towards the trap he had dug yesterday.
Ding Youtian wanted to persuade Jian Ning not to waste time. He didn't have any hope at all and just wanted to go back quickly to renovate the roofs of the east and west rooms.
But Jane Ning had already climbed up with the backpack on his shoulder, so he had no choice but to follow her.
As a result, before the two of them reached the trap, they heard a noise, and the noise was quite loud. Ding Youtian got excited and ran up behind Jian Ning to take a look.
Good job!
In addition to three turtledoves and two hares, there was also an adult silver fox in the cave.
The silver fox had its stomach pierced by a bamboo stick and looked dying. The moment it saw Jian Ning and Ding Youtian, it actually bowed to them, its eyes full of anxiety and tears streaming down its face.
Oh my god! Could this fox have gained intelligence?
Jian Ning raised his eyebrows, squatted down, looked at Silver Fox and said, "If you can understand what we say, just nod your head if you need anything from us."
As soon as she finished speaking, Silver Fox nodded immediately.
"Hey, are there really spiritual animals?" Ding Youtian was secretly surprised. Blind Liu had a lot of stories about the spiritual animals in the back mountain. Every time he went to the town to tell stories, he talked about the spiritual animals in the back mountain. In the past, he just thought he was making it up or talking nonsense after drinking, but now it seems that it is not entirely nonsense.
"Can you save it, ma'am?"
"It's almost bled out, and it's holding on for a breath, probably for its cubs."
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