Qin Qingman's loud and urgent shouting did not stop the knife from falling. With the flash of the shiny kitchen knife, the terrible goose cry came to an abrupt end.
Auntie Ayun stared blankly at Qin Qingman who broke into her home and forgot to say anything for a moment.
She had just been frightened by Qin Qingman, and unable to restrain her strength, she could only follow the force to change the position of the knife, thus saving the goose in her hand from being chopped off by the tragic knife.
Seeing that the goose was not killed, Qin Qingman breathed a sigh of relief, put Chuchu down from her back, then reached out her hand very embarrassedly and carefully took the kitchen knife from Auntie Ayun's hand, and at the same time kicked the frightened goose with her toes.
Kicked Chu Chu behind him.
At this time, Chu Chu was no longer afraid of the goose. She quickly hugged the goose and hid behind Qin Qingman.
"Are you... the daughter of old Qin's family?" Auntie Ayun shook her wrist which was numbed by the shock of the kitchen knife, looked at Qin Qingman in surprise, and then looked at Chuchu who was hiding behind Qin Qingman holding the goose.
If she remembered correctly, the goose belonged to her family!
"Auntie Ayun, my name is Qin Qingman, and I am the daughter of the old Qin family." Qin Qingman smiled apologetically at Auntie Ayun, and then told Auntie the purpose of stopping the killing of the geese, "Auntie, I want to use the cloth coupons to exchange for your geese."
"Trade cloth coupons for geese?"
Auntie Ayun looked at Qin Qingman with even more surprise.
"Yes." Qin Qingman did not hide it from Auntie Ayun, and said clearly: "Auntie, you also know that there are only Chuchu and I in my family. We are still worried about sleeping at night without a ferocious thing at home, so I thought of your geese. Your geese are fierce and can definitely guard the house."
Auntie Ayun, who was planning to kill the goose for its meat, started to think in her mind.
Seeing that Auntie Ayun was very interested, Qin Qingman continued, "Auntie, you must have killed the geese at this time because the mountains are closed due to heavy snow and it is difficult to raise them. So, I will exchange cloth coupons with you. I am sincere in exchanging."
Although meat is hard to come by these days, cloth coupons are even harder to come by.
In the era of material scarcity, each person was only given three feet of cloth ration coupons per year. It was very cost-effective to make clothes for a teenager, let alone for an adult.
Therefore, every household was in severe shortage of cloth coupons, and no family could afford to wear new clothes every year.
From the moment Qin Qingman said she would exchange cloth coupons for geese, Auntie Yun was tempted, but she was also afraid of being at a disadvantage, so she asked cautiously, "How do you plan to exchange it?"
Although Qin Qingman didn't know the exact prices of commodities in that era, she knew how hard it was to get cloth coupons. She smiled and said politely, "Auntie, you name the price."
"A goose is definitely not worth one foot of cloth coupons, but my family is just short of two feet of cloth coupons to make a new wedding dress for the child. If you give me two feet of cloth coupons, you can take both geese, and I will give you some corn as a reward." Auntie Ayun stated her desired price.
Qin Qingman, who only had two feet of cloth coupons on her, was a little hesitant.
"Thirty kilograms of corn." This time it was Auntie Ayun's turn to add to the stakes.
Qin Qingman calculated in her mind how big the geese's appetite was. Thirty kilograms of corn would hardly support their feeding for two months. Even though geese eat less than dogs, the daily consumption of two geese is not low.
"Forty kilograms of corn and fifty kilograms of radishes." Auntie Ayun was worried that Qin Qingman would go back on her word, so she made another concession, "Qingman, my two geese are both big, one weighs sixteen or seventeen kilograms. If we take them to the town, we can definitely exchange them for about a hundred kilograms of food."
Qin Qingman knew that Auntie Ayun had not deceived her, and thought that she could not do anything with the two feet of cloth coupons in her hands, so she simply agreed, "Okay, Auntie, I will exchange with you."
"Okay, okay, wait a minute, I'll have someone deliver the stuff to your house."
The deal was done, Auntie Ayun was beaming with joy, and her eyes softened when she looked at Qin Qingman.
Seeing that Auntie Ayun was happy, Qin Qingman was not on guard and directly took out two feet of cloth coupons from her pocket and handed them to her, "Auntie, it's cold, Chuchu and I won't stay any longer, let's take this goose back first."
The goose that was nearly chopped up for meat by Auntie Ayun just now was not sure whether it was really scared or was afraid of the kitchen knife. When Chuchu held it, it not only did not struggle but also buried its head under Chuchu's armpit. Not to mention being fierce, it was extremely docile.
It seems that we are one step closer to recognizing the master and guarding the house.
Seeing that Qin Qingman and her brother were in a hurry to go back, Aunt Ayun did not waste any time and went straight into the house to call her husband and children. One of them carried corn, one carried radishes, and another drove the geese. They happily sent the brother and sister back.
At the Qin family, after seeing off Auntie Ayun and her family, Qin Qingman and Chuchu looked cautiously towards a corner of the hall.
Two tall geese were squatting listlessly on the corn stalks.
Having experienced the fear of life and death, the two geese not only did not make random calls, nor did they show hostility or even peck at Qin Qingman and her brother.
"Sister, they are so pitiful."
Chu Chu squatted in the distance and looked at the two big geese with pity.
As arrogant as these two geese were before, they look so pitiful now.
"They will be members of our family in the future. We should treat them well and not show them pity." Qin Qingman planned to let the two geese die naturally from the moment she decided to raise them to guard the house.
"You don't want to eat?"
Chuchu is a genuine country kid, so she makes the best use of things.
Qin Qingman reached out and touched the child's head, smiling gently, "Geese have a long lifespan. If we take good care of them, they can live for at least ten years. They will guard our home for ten more years. Can you bear to eat them?"
"No...I can't bear it."
At this moment, Chuchu looked at the two geese no longer as food, but as little friends.
"Okay, go get some water to wipe the geese's bodies. The temperature in the room is high, so they must also pay attention to hygiene." Qin Qingman instructed Chu Chu while cutting a juicy radish and placing it in front of the two geese.
Smelling the fragrance of radish, the two geese raised their heads to look at Qin Qingman and Chuchu, then lowered their heads dejectedly.
It seemed that they were quite frightened and it took them a while to recover.
Chuchu was very fast. She came with her short legs to fetch water. She even knew that the water was mixed with hot water. At least it was warm when Qin Qingman put her hand in it.
A piece of rag soaked in warm water, which was cut from old clothes that had long been unwearable, was used as a tool for cleaning the geese.
Crouching beside Qin Qingman, Chuchu stared at the two geese with her big eyes. She looked very nervous, her face was tense, and even her words were trembling. "Sister, will they peck us?"
He still remembered clearly how the two geese pecked at Liu Sangun.
Qin Qingman felt a little nervous when she heard Chuchu's question. She was not sure whether the two geese would peck at her savior.
Although geese are intelligent, these two geese were not raised by her since childhood, and they have no feelings for her and Chuchu. Without feelings, anything is possible.
But it is impossible to raise geese outdoors in the winter. If you want to raise geese at home, you must take care of them, otherwise the smell will be sour.
"Sister, how about we put them in the yard? I heard that geese like to be clean and can bathe themselves in snow." Chuchu looked at the geese with fear, for he was worried that the geese would hurt Qin Qingman.
Qin Qingman certainly knew that geese could use snow to take care of themselves, but these two geese had just arrived at their home and were not familiar with them at all. She didn't dare let the geese go. If she let them go and couldn't catch them back, then two feet of cloth coupons would be wasted.
"Let's keep them for a few days first. Once they are familiar with us, we can let them walk around the yard every day."
"Okay." Chu Chu was at a loss.
Facing the two famous geese, Qin Qingman stretched out her hand very carefully. At the same time, she glanced at the rope tied to the geese's legs. The two geese's legs were tied before she dared to wipe them.
Auntie Ayun's two geese are indeed famous for their ferociousness. Not only are they fierce, they are also smart and vigilant.
As soon as Qin Qingman's hand approached, the two geese, which had originally drooped their heads, quickly raised their heads and looked at Qin Qingman.
There was a fierce vigilance in his eyes.
Facing the humane side of the big goose, Qin Qingman's hand stopped in mid-air.
"Eat...eat some vegetables." Looking at the confrontation between Qin Qingman and the two geese, Chu Chu nervously used a pair of flints to push the chopped radish towards the mouths of the two geese. Fearing that she would be pecked, she quickly retracted her hand after doing so.
Qin Qingman kept her eyes on the two geese and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that they didn't peck at Chuchu.
She didn't expect Chuchu to take the first step.
Even though the fire tongs were quite long, with the geese's beautiful long necks and lightning speed, no one could get within three feet of them. The fact that they didn't peck at them showed that the two geese were not hostile to them.
"Chu Chu, squat further away and don't move around." Qin Qingman warned Chu Chu.
She had to wipe the goose's body, which was a very dangerous job and could anger the goose at any time because it had just been frightened.
"oh."
Chu Chu obediently stood up and squatted a little further away.
This one is only half a meter farther than the previous one, and this position is already the limit of the child's tolerance.
Qin Qingman knew that Chuchu was worried about her, so she didn't chase her away. Instead, she slowly stretched out her hand in the air towards the goose again.
The two geese became alert again because of Qin Qingman's action.
The black bean-like eyes stared at Qin Qingman's hands, as if they would attack if Qin Qingman dared to get closer to them again.
If it weren't for the need to gain the trust of the two geese, Qin Qingman could actually quickly control the geese's wings and lift them up. Anyway, the geese's two feet were tied up, and it would be difficult for them to break free from control even if they struggled.
But doing so will definitely increase the goose's fear, making it difficult for the other party to trust it.
Qin Qingman decided to wipe the geese's bodies after careful consideration. On the one hand, it was for hygiene, and on the other hand, it was to use the kindness of being a lifesaver to lower the two geese's defenses and let them recognize their master as soon as possible.
Only geese that recognize their master can guard the house and be loyal.
The fair and slender hand slowly approached the big goose again. Both Qin Qingman and Chuchu held their breath. They stared into the big goose's eyes without blinking, their hearts pounding.
The two geese were very wary of the approaching hand, and their eyes became increasingly sharp.
Normally, Qin Qingman should have given up at this time, but she always had a subtle feeling deep in her heart that these two geese would not really hurt her.
With this feeling, she kept extending her hand.
As the hand got closer, the two geese suddenly stood up, arched their long necks and pecked at the hand that caused the trouble...
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