It took a lot of effort to calm the little girl down.
Chen Wang felt both amused and distressed, but he did not feel impatient at all.
He knew how much of a blow the sudden death of her parents two years ago had been to the little girl.
"Xiaoyu, guess what I hit?"
Chen Wang pointed to the sack on the ground and asked with a mysterious smile.
The little girl sniffed and looked at the sack on the ground with curiosity.
On the side, Lin Xiuqin's face was also full of curiosity and anticipation.
"Brother, what is it?"
Chen Xiaoyu raised her head and asked back.
Chen Wang didn't beat around the bush and directly opened the sack and took out the remaining half of the sheep after skinning it.
"Dang, dang, we have mutton to eat."
"Ooooh, mutton!"
The little girl's eyes lit up instantly, and she clapped her hands excitedly and said, "Mutton is delicious, I want to eat it!"
The last time I ate mutton was during last year’s Spring Festival. The village slaughtered a few sheep and each household received some meat based on the number of people.
Lin Xiuqin looked at the half-sheep with surprise, and a look of joy appeared on her beautiful face.
"Wife, we were lucky today. We got this black goat and shared half with Dazhuang's family. We also got a hare and a flying squirrel, and dug up some mushrooms."
"Oh, right, there's also this bag of offal from the sheep. Brother Dazhuang gave it to us. We can use the mushrooms to make soup later."
While talking about his harvest, Chen Wang was taking things out of the sack.
"Brother, you guys are awesome. You managed to get so many things!"
The little girl praised with a look of surprise.
Chen Wang smiled complacently, took out a handful of nuts from his pocket and said, "And this, I got it from the flying squirrel's nest. Ask your sister-in-law to fry it for you. It's delicious as a snack."
"Thank you, brother!"
The little girl happily reached out to take it, but when she found she couldn't hold it, she put it in her pockets, filling several pockets.
"Wife, have you cooked yet? I'm hungry."
Chen Wang looked at his wife with a smile.
Lin Xiuqin gestured, indicating that she would do it right away.
It should have been done long ago, but the little girl kept crying and she could only comfort her. They haven't had dinner yet.
"That's perfect. Let's use the mutton, offal, and mushrooms to make a few more dishes!"
Chen Wang suggested with a smile.
Lin Xiuqin smiled and nodded.
"Come on, I'll help take the stuff to the back room."
Chen Wang stuffed the prey back into the sack, carried it up and walked towards the back room.
There was no way before, as a good cook cannot cook without rice.
Now with so many good ingredients, Lin Xiuqin's cooking skills are better displayed.
The dinner was more sumptuous than yesterday.
First there was a dish of mutton stewed with white radish, then the leftover bamboo shoots from yesterday were cut into pieces and braised, and finally there was a pot of mutton offal soup stewed with pine mushrooms, followed by two stir-fried vegetables.
The flying squirrel and the hare will be kept for now. It will take time to process them, and there is more than enough food.
Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, which included both meat and vegetables, Chen Wang was quite calm, but the little girl and Lin Xiuqin were a little excited.
You know, no one can eat so well during the Chinese New Year.
"Xiaoyu, how is it? My brother went to the mountains to hunt. If nothing else, we will have meat on the table every day from now on."
Chen Wang smiled and put a piece of mutton into the little girl's bowl.
We have to get the little girl to agree to this, otherwise she will cry every time she goes there later.
The little girl frowned when she heard that, looked at her brother, then looked at the delicious meat dishes on the table, and became conflicted.
Lin Xiuqin looked at the little girl with a smile, curious about what she would say.
Chen Xiaoyu is much smarter than other kids of the same age and is not easy to fool.
Today she had lied to her husband as he had instructed, saying that Chen Wang had gone out to play.
However, as it grew darker, the little girl began to come to her senses and asked her brother if he had gone into the mountains to hunt.
Lin Xiuqin couldn't hide it any longer and could only nod and admit it.
Then the little girl burst into tears and complained that she shouldn't have let her brother go to the mountains. No matter how she tried to comfort her, it was useless and she cried so sadly.
"Brother, I'm still afraid..."
The little girl showed an aggrieved expression.
"Brother knows you are worried about me and afraid that I will encounter some danger."
"Well, I only have you and my sister-in-law, my brother. Dad was... I was scared!"
"Silly girl, Dad was just an accident, understand? Let's put it this way, even if we don't go into the mountains, we may still encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters if we stay at home every day. We can't just be afraid and not dare to do anything, right? How are we going to live like that?"
As Chen Wang spoke, he put two pieces of meat into his wife's bowl.
The little girl remained indifferent.
"I used to be stupid and could only rely on you and your wife to take care of me. Now that I am not stupid anymore and I am capable, I can't still rely on you, right? Don't you think so?"
"Brother is a man. Mom and dad are gone, so I am the head of the family. I have to find a way to take care of you and let you live a good life!"
"My parents are watching over me in heaven. If I live in a daze and do nothing every day, relying on you to support me, and you don't have enough food or warm clothes every day, then if I really die one day, how can I face my parents?"
"Wuwu... No, brother, please don't talk nonsense!"
When the little girl heard this, she couldn't help crying again.
Chen Wang raised his left hand and placed it on her head, rubbing it gently, and comforted her: "Okay, I won't say anything more. I said so much just to tell you that you are still a child, don't think too much, your brother will hold up the sky if it falls!"
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