Yan Xiaoqiang readily agreed. Dongnan hid three rabbits in his basket, covered them with cabbage, and helped Yan Xiaoqiang load a bag of cornmeal onto the oxcart. Seeing this, the village women all wanted to marry Yan Xiaoqiang so that their families would have food to eat.
Southwest ran straight to the village chief's house. Xuemei quickly skinned and cleaned the two rabbits, then took them to the kitchen to cook. Zhongnan was waiting to eat them.
Grandma Yan watched the oxcart slowly disappear into the distance, closed the courtyard gate, and sat with Nan Nan in her arms at the entrance of the main room. She watched as Nan Nan wolfishly devoured two rabbits. In another month or so, two rabbits probably wouldn't be enough for the little wolf.
Xuemei started feeding the chickens, sweeping the floor, and washing clothes. She was spinning like a top. Yan Xiaonan was deeply impressed. If she were to do these things, she probably wouldn't finish them by evening. Thinking about her own procrastination, well, she probably wouldn't finish them even tomorrow.
There was a knock on the door, which startled Grandma Yan. Why did she have to knock when all the men in the house were out? This was a bit unreasonable. Just as she was about to get up to open the door, Yan Xiaonan stopped her.
Yan Xiaonan's consciousness had already been released, telling her grandmother that it was Grandma Wang who had come to knock on the door with her three granddaughters. Wang Erniu and his parents were waiting by the gate of the courtyard, holding a shovel and a carrying pole.
Grandma Yan was so shocked she almost fell over. Could they be planning to rob her? This door absolutely must not be opened.
He quickly told Xuemei to catch the three old hens and put them in the coop, then led Nannan and Zhongnan inside. He closed all the doors and windows tightly and even used a shovel to bolt the door to the main room, making it impossible for anyone to knock on it.
Xuemei was a little confused, but Grandma Yan told her to lock every door in the house. Then she went to the kitchen, got a cleaver and a rolling pin, and brought them to her room. Sensing her grandmother's nervousness, Xuemei quickly found the lock and locked every door securely. She then went to the kitchen, got the cleaver and rolling pin, and entered her grandmother's room.
Yan Xiaonan looked at her family members, some old and some young. Zhongnan was too young to be of much use. Xuemei looked fierce, but she was still just a child. The Wang family men could handle them with one hand. They still had to rely on the animals in the mountains.
He closed his eyes and released his consciousness. The distress signal was crystal clear, but the Siberian tiger was sleeping and didn't sense it at all. Yan Xiaonan cursed inwardly, "Go to sleep and die."
The wild boar was fighting a snake, so let the wild boar scare these people away from the doorstep. Realizing that the snake was on the wild boar, the wild boar was so frightened that it took several steps back before it realized what was happening and turned to run straight towards Yan Xiaonan's house.
Grandma Wang, who was banging on the door, grew impatient and started shouting loudly from outside: "Eldest sister Yan, eldest sister Yan, open the door! I need to talk to you. We're starving! Can you lend us some food?"
After watching Yan Xiaoqiang deliver grain to his in-laws, the villagers gradually returned home. Suddenly, they heard the voice of Old Lady Wang and curiously came out to see what was going on. Wang Gou Dan realized that his attempt to steal the grain had failed. "That old woman, she's really shrewd."
He left first with his son and wife, carrying weapons that would easily attract attention. Gradually, a crowd gathered at the Yan family's gate. Seeing the old lady of the Wang family kneeling at the Yan family's gate while the three young girls were actually kneeling in front of the door, people pointed and whispered, saying that the Yan family was dishonest.
He clearly has food to support his wife's family in another village, but he's unwilling to help his good sister in his own village. Isn't that too cold-hearted?
Besides, the eldest daughter of the Wang family is still lying in the village doctor's bed. I heard that it was Bei Nan from his family who caused this trouble. How can we just ignore it? The villagers hate people who hoard food. The Yan family has grain but doesn't share it, so they are hoarding food. We should ask the village chief to kick them out of Mushroom Village.
One after another, their words became increasingly absurd, and their initial jealousy was completely ignited. Some even went up to help the Wang family bang on the gate. Zhongnan, unable to bear it any longer, barked. The villagers outside became even more furious. They had enough food to feed their dogs, yet they wouldn't share it with us!
Looking at the villagers who were blinded by hunger, Wang Gou Dan was overjoyed. They even had a dog at home. Great! Today we can have dog meat. Heaven is on my side.
When Village Chief Ma heard from Southwest that the Yan family was building a house and needed to hire a few people to work, with lunch provided every day and a dime paid for their labor, he was overjoyed. He was considering which people to send when his son unexpectedly rushed back and explained in detail how the Yan family had been blocked.
As soon as Village Chief Ma heard this, he knew it was Wang Gou Dan's doing. He was so angry that he grabbed his pipe and ran out. When Xinan learned that his house was blocked, he was worried about his grandmother and Nan Nan, so he quickly found a shovel at the village chief's house and rushed over. When Sister-in-law Ma saw this, she quickly told her son to guard the door and then chased after them.
As expected, things were lively in front of the Yan family's house. Village Chief Ma raised his pipe and started hitting people, while his wife, Sister-in-law Ma, also started yelling: "You bunch of ingrates! Who bought you food when you had none? You really are the type to eat your rice bowl and then curse your mother when you put it down!"
One villager protested loudly, "We bought it with our own money, it wasn't a gift from the Yan family, how can you call us ungrateful?"
Ma Dasao threw a stone at her hard: "Buy your mother's ass! I'll give you money to buy me grain, cornmeal at four cents a pound, no, I'll give you eight cents a pound, go buy me ten pounds, how about it? Are you going or not? If you don't go, you're an ingrate."
Upon hearing this, most of the villagers remembered that the grain they treasured every day was brought back by the Yan family, and their morale immediately plummeted. Seeing that most of the villagers had lowered their heads, Granny Wang became anxious and said, "Sister-in-law Ma, the Yan family has dogs! Keeping dogs these days, how much grain must the Yan family have?"
Southwest objected immediately: "Grandma Wang, you brought Erniu, Sanniu, and Siniu to my house to borrow grain yesterday. My grandma gave you ten catties of cornmeal and fifty cents. Why are you coming to borrow grain again today?"
"Also, my Bei Nan is younger than me. He won't marry your eldest daughter, and he certainly won't exchange a hundred catties of grain and fifty yuan for your eldest daughter to be his child bride. Just give up on that idea."
Upon hearing this, the villagers erupted in a commotion. They thought the Wang family was dishonest; they had already taken ten catties of grain and fifty cents from the Yan family yesterday, and now they were trying to extort money from them.
Sister-in-law Ma spoke up promptly, "So that's why your eldest daughter eats alone. It's a family tradition. Over the years, how much grain and meat has Sister-in-law Yan given you? You don't even remember her kindness. It turns out that she's made you too proud to try and climb up to her. And when you can't, you start blaming her, right?"
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