It would have been better if he hadn't said anything.
Zhang Shufang got angry as soon as she heard it, "That brat can catch pheasants, how come you can't? I told you to go up the mountain and take a look, go and take a look, and now look what happened? The pheasants have been caught by someone else."
Listening to Zhang Shufang's incessant muttering, Wang Dagang frowned unhappily. "Stop coveting other people's things. What do you mean the pheasant was caught by someone else? They were just lucky to catch it. If you're so capable, go up the mountain and catch it yourself."
"Did I send you to catch him for my own sake? Didn't you see your three sons are as skinny as monkeys..."
Immediately, chaos erupted inside the house again.
This is the mud-brick house.
Every part of a pheasant is valuable.
These dark green chicken feathers are nowhere near as good as the feathers of a free-range chicken at home. They're perfect for making feather dusters—they're both beautiful and useful, much better than dishcloths.
An hour later, Lin Yuxi carried half a pheasant to Gu Zhixiang's house, and the three of them shared a chicken leg.
"Girl, where did you get this meat? It looks like a pheasant!" Aunt Gu looked at the meat in Lin Yuxi's hand and immediately recognized it as chicken.
Lin Yuxi smiled with her eyes narrowed, "Auntie, you can have this pheasant. I just wanted to ask for some seasoning."
"These pheasants are so hard to catch, you can take the meat home and eat it yourselves. It's just seasoning. If you need anything, just tell me and I'll give it to you." Aunt Gu quickly declined. Pheasants are hard to catch, and her family was poor and had nothing. How could she take her chicken?
“The pheasant was injured, and I picked it up from the ground. I estimate it weighs about ten pounds. It’s hot and we can’t finish eating it all. Auntie, please accept it. I’ll ask you for some scallions and celery later.”
Aunt Gu hesitated for a moment but then stopped refusing and pulled her inside, saying, "Alright, come in and sit for a while, I'll get it for you."
She thought to herself, "How can just a little bit of scallions and celery be enough? There are still quite a few things in the cellar. I'll decorate them with them later."
This girl has brought them things several times already. She can't just eat what others give her. Even if it's some cheap food, she has to pick some up.
Aunt Gu took a basket to the cellar, which contained her stored sweet potatoes. She took about ten of them, then another ten or so large potatoes, along with scallions, celery, some cilantro, and a few greens. In no time, the basket was full and incredibly heavy.
"Xixi, take these things home and eat them. They're all grown at home and don't cost much. The taste might be so-so. If you like them, come back here for more."
Lin Yuxi looked at the full basket and said, "Aunt Gu, this is too much. You can keep it for yourself."
"Why refuse? You've given us a lot of things before. Now that it's hot, you can take these sweet potatoes back and cook them into some white porridge. They're fragrant and sweet, but they're a bit heavy."
"Gu Chen went to town on business today, otherwise I could have had him deliver it to you."
Lin Yuxi was carrying a basket that weighed at least thirty or forty pounds. The sweet potatoes were bigger than her palm, and she could probably only cook one at a time.
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