Double Egg scratched the cat's head: "Oh yeah, how could I forget? No, this doesn't seem to be rechargeable. I remember it being solar-powered."
Qian Xiao looked at the tablet in her hand, which wasn't much different from the one she used in her previous life: "This thing is so high-end, and it's even solar-powered!"
Where she lived in her previous life, such a high-end tablet hadn't been built yet. She'd heard of them, but she'd only heard of them and never actually seen them.
"Yes, you can take it out to air it tomorrow and then you can use it."
The problem is, I need to find a place to secretly dry this thing, otherwise what if someone sees it?
"Okay, then I'll go back to sleep. I'm really tired today. I'll watch movies with this after I find a chance to charge it."
If she hadn't been missing electronic products for so long and was feeling restless, she definitely wouldn't have come in today. But when she looked up and saw the half-ruined floor, Qian Xiao instantly felt all her previous happiness vanish. She shook her head, deciding to let it go today and clean it up tomorrow. She had suffered a huge loss this time.
In the days that followed, Qian Xiao spent her days recuperating in the house, and her nights going into her space to tidy up the fields that the two calves had ravaged. It was quite a chore for her, and she vowed never to do that again.
"Big sister, big sister, what are you thinking about? Hurry up and tell us the picture book."
Qian Xiao came back to her senses and looked at the three pairs of almost identical little faces. She was amazed again. What kind of luck did her family have? They had twins in one birth! Could she really be the lucky baby her grandma had mentioned, bringing good fortune to the family?
She looked at the comic book in her hand, which the boys had almost worn out: "You guys can almost recite this book by heart, right? Go read it yourselves and see what I'm going to say." She had been reading the same comic book over and over again, and the six of them hadn't had enough of it. She was almost sick of reading it.
"Big sister, please tell us about it. It's not as interesting as when we read it ourselves."
"I won't tell you, you can go play by yourselves. When your older sister comes to the commune next time, she'll find you some comic books and tell you about them."
She had only been to the commune once in her life, when she went with her family to deliver grain to the village. She hadn't had another chance to go to the commune, and she planned to go with her family next time they did, and maybe even visit the scrap yard to get some comic books.
Another point is that it's almost 1958, so I'm wondering if I can get some scrap iron from the junkyard so that we don't have to hand over our iron pots during the Great Leap Forward.
"Really? Big sister really bought us new comic books?"
"Really, Big Sister doesn't lie." As for whether she could find the new comic books, she wasn't sure, after all, the commune wasn't a big place.
"Big sister, can you tell the story one last time?" Si Dan loves listening to his big sister tell stories, and he never gets tired of hearing them.
"Erdan, Erdan, I'm coming in."
Just as I was getting annoyed by the six little ones, I heard the dog's voice: "Don't worry, look, the person who's going to tell you a story is here."
The dog came in and asked, "Erdan, is your foot all better yet? Shall we go fishing?"
"What are you fishing for? These six boys are waiting for you to tell them a story."
The dog scratched the back of its head: "I can't read, I can't tell stories. What's the point of telling stories? It's much better to catch fish and then come back to eat meat."
Qian smiled and looked at the six little ones: "Do you want to hear a story, or do you want to eat meat?"
Don't be fooled by the fact that Qian Xiao brought back two cows and there was a lot of meat. They don't eat meat every day. It's pretty much the same as before. They're lucky if they can get two pieces of meat a week. Although her grandma might occasionally give her a piece of dried meat or something as a special treat, she would never actually sneak a bite on her own.
The six little ones answered without hesitation: "Meat."
"Alright, San Dan and Si Dan, keep a close eye on your little brother and don't let him be naughty. I'm going fishing with your brother Gouzi. You two stay home and listen to Grandma."
San Dan disagreed: "Big sister, I want to go with you."
Si Dan quickly followed: "Big sister, I want to go with you too."
"Where are we going? The river is so deep, what if we fall in? If you come with me, I won't go, and then none of us will have any meat to eat."
San Dan and Si Dan hesitated between eating meat again and going out to play with their eldest sister. They still wanted to eat meat and go out to play with their eldest sister.
"Five Eggs, Six Eggs, what about you? Is your eldest sister staying home with you, or do you want to eat meat?"
The two boys answered without hesitation: "We want to eat meat."
As for Seven Eggs and Eight Eggs, their suggestion doesn't count, since they're the youngest: "Alright, the minority shall obey the majority. Three Eggs and Four Eggs, stay home and watch over your younger brothers, and your eldest sister will go fishing for you to eat."
As for whether she can catch any fish, it depends on luck; she didn't guarantee that she would definitely catch any.
Qian Xiao put on her shoes and went out of the house: "Grandma, I'm going fishing by the river with Gouzi."
The old lady glanced at the sun in the sky: "Go ahead, but if you can't, go into the water, remember? And don't go up the mountain, where are those boys?"
"They're all still in my room, Grandma. Keep an eye on them. I'm leaving now."
Qian Xiao went to the shed to get her homemade fishing rod, and she and Gouzi ran off with their small buckets. Oh my god, finally she didn't have to stay at home taking care of the kids.
Perhaps she scared her family last time, because she's been stuck at home taking care of the kids lately. It's okay to play with the kids occasionally, but being with them all day long is too annoying.
Gouzi chased after Qian Xiao, asking, "Erdan, where are we going fishing this time?"
"Let's go back to the same place, there are big fish there."
"You've already kowtowed there and you still dare to go?"
"What's there to be afraid of? It wasn't me who fell in by accident, it was someone else who caused it. Why are you talking so much nonsense? Have you dug up the earthworms yet?"
The dog wiped its snotty nose with its sleeve: "It's done. It was dug up next to my vegetable garden."
Qian Xiao grinned and said, "Can you stop wiping your nose with your sleeve? Isn't that dirty?"
"What's wrong with that? All the kids in our village are like this. It's abnormal for you to be like this." I don't know why Erdan is so clean and fussy all the time.
Qian rolled her eyes and ignored him. This guy wouldn't change even if she said it a hundred times. If he weren't her relative and someone she grew up with, she wouldn't play with him.
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The little system, Shuangdan, stared at Sun Kaicheng with its two cat-like eyes: "Are you serious? This is a core secret of your planet. You really intend to have me make a copy for you? Do you want to rule this planet?"
Sun Kaicheng stared blankly, wondering what all this was about. He had been preparing to return to his own world, and he was just thinking that he had come across a system that was willing to work in exchange for resources, so he could copy some of the technology and stuff from here and take it back with him.
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