"It's delicious, so delicious! I've never eaten anything so delicious." Xiaocao nodded vigorously while holding the bun she had taken a bite of.
"Oh~ How can this meat bun be delicious if it's not tasty? Tsk tsk tsk... Yuanyuan~ Are you a little bit stupid, little girl? Why don't you eat such delicious buns at home but share them with others? I'll tell your mother!" A sharp voice rang out, scaring Yuanyuan and Xiaocao.
Zhou Yuanyuan looked up and saw a woman in her thirties staring fiercely at Xiaocao, or more precisely, at the large meat bun in Xiaocao's hand. The woman was wearing a washed-out blue cloth gown, had short hair cut to her ears, and a round face. If it weren't for a pair of vicious, inverted triangle eyes that ruined her appearance, she would have been quite pretty in her youth.
"Aunt Biyun," Xiaocao said timidly. This Aunt Biyun was the wife of Tiezhu, the nephew of Xiaocao's grandmother, Aunt Gu.
Xiaocao had heard from her grandmother that Wang Biyun was short-sighted and had a bad mouth. She gossiped about other people in the village all day long. She was not a good woman.
Today, Wang Biyun caught me eating the buns given by Yuanyuan. Will I try to imitate her mother in eating?
Thinking of her mother's obvious preference for boys over girls, Xiaocao knew that if Wang Biyun went to her house to learn how to talk today, she would definitely be scolded when she got home.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't have the same concerns as Xiaocao. She glanced at Wang Biyun, ignored her, and started biting the bun in her hand.
The rich aroma of meat mixed with the unique fragrance of flour wafted through the air, making Wang Biyun's mouth spit. She couldn't remember how many years it had been since she had eaten steamed buns. It seemed to be after Yunxiang got married, about eight or nine years ago?
The road from Zhaojiagou Village to Daqing Mountain is only wide enough for two people. Xiaocao and Zhou Yuanyuan have already arrived at the foot of the mountain. With Wang Biyun blocking the middle of the road, Zhou Yuanyuan and Xiaocao cannot get through.
Seeing Zhou Yuanyuan enjoying her meal, Xiaocao calmed down and lifted the bun to her lips. They were already at the foot of the mountain, so it wouldn't take long to get back up. Her goal today wasn't to pick pine cones, but to play with Zhou Yuanyuan. Since it was about playing, it didn't matter where.
Just as Xiaocao was about to bring the bun to her lips, her hand suddenly felt empty and the bun disappeared.
While Zhou Yuanyuan was stunned, Wang Biyun had already reached out and snatched the bun from Xiaocao's hand, put it in her mouth and took a big bite.
Wang Biyun has a big mouth and bites hard. After one bite, one third of the white and plump bun disappeared.
Xiaocao was stunned. After coming to her senses, she cried out "Wow!"
"What are you doing? Why are you stealing Xiaocao's buns?" Zhou Yuanyuan was furious. She stuffed the bun in her hand into her mouth in two or three bites, then rushed forward and snatched the remaining half of the bun from Wang Biyun's hand.
I didn't expect it would be so easy to get the buns back. It seems that these few days of martial arts training have made me more agile, Zhou Yuanyuan thought.
"Hey Xiaocao, auntie is here to help you taste the buns and see how they taste." Wang Biyun accidentally had the buns taken back by Zhou Yuanyuan. She felt embarrassed to try to snatch them back, so she hurriedly explained to Xiaocao.
Wang Biyun swallowed the steamed bun without even savoring it. What a shame! Looking at the half-eaten, plump bun in Zhou Yuanyuan's hand, Wang Biyun smacked her lips. The meaty aroma momentarily satisfied her taste buds.
"Auntie, compensate me for my buns, compensate me for my buns!" Xiaocao saw Zhou Yuanyuan snatch back half of the bun and refused to give in. She tugged at Wang Biyun's clothes and started to make a scene. An adult snatching food from a child was unacceptable. Moreover, Wang Biyun was Xiaocao's elder after all. How could an elder be so shameless?
"Biyun, there is no water at home and we are waiting to use it. Why are you still dawdling?" An old woman in her fifties walked out of the house and saw her daughter-in-law still standing on the side of the road. She was very unhappy and her face was very long.
"Mother-in-law, I'll go right away." Wang Biyun then remembered her purpose and responded loudly.
The old woman was standing about ten meters away from them. Wang Biyun's mother-in-law could see their figures but couldn't hear clearly what they were saying.
"Aunt Biyun, you have to compensate me for the buns, you have to compensate me for the buns!" Xiaocao was speechless and just kept repeating these two sentences over and over again.
"Okay, okay, stop making trouble. I'll compensate you with a whole one later." Wang Biyun saw her mother-in-law coming over here. She was afraid that her mother-in-law would know the "good deed" she had just done, so she quickly agreed.
Seeing her mother-in-law, Tie Zhuniang, Wang Biyun broke out in a cold sweat. She didn't know what had happened, but just now, upon smelling the delicious smell of the buns, she had actually snatched food from the child. Tie Zhuniang was a very strong woman. If she knew she had snatched food from the child, a scolding would be the least of her worries. She was most afraid that she would instigate Tie Zhuniang to beat her up.
It's all Zhao Yunxiang's fault. Why was she making buns? Was she trying to show off her family's wealth? She didn't let the children eat them secretly at home. Isn't that just deliberate temptation?
Wang Biyun picked up the two empty buckets at her feet with the hook in her hand, walked around the grass and Yuanyuan blocking the way, and walked quickly to the stream.
Wang Biyun had made up her mind. She had to fetch water from the stream anyway, so she would take a detour to Zhao Yunxiang's house to ask for a bun. At most, she would just take a bite and give it to Xiaocao as compensation.
Zhou Yuanyuan was holding half a bun in her hand and wanted to stop Wang Biyun, but when she heard Tiezhu's mother say that the family was waiting for water, she let Wang Biyun go.
Xiao Cao was crying. Seeing Wang Biyun walking away, she didn't dare to stop him. She just kept saying, "You have to compensate me for the buns, you have to compensate me for the buns."
Tiezhu's mother didn't know what happened in the human world. Seeing that her daughter-in-law had gone to work, the two children left behind were only five or six years old. She thought that there would be no conflict between her daughter-in-law and her, so she didn't care and turned around to go back to her own home.
Xiaocao was furious and walked towards Wang Biyun's house with her short legs. Aunt Biyun was too bullying, and she was going to complain to Grandma Gu today.
"Xiaocao, come back! Don't make Granny Gu angry." Yuanyuan grabbed the angry Xiaocao. Zhou Yuanyuan had heard that Tiezhu's mother was ill during their time in Zhaojiagou. It would be bad if she got angry about Wang Biyun's situation.
"Xiaocao, forget it. I'll get you another bun when I get back." Zhou Yuanyuan chose to keep the peace.
"I don't want you to compensate me, I want Aunt Biyun to compensate me." Xiaocao pouted and said, "I won't tell Grandma Gu. I'll go home and tell my grandma and let her scold Aunt Biyun." Xiaocao's grandmother, Aunt Gu, is Tiezhu's biological aunt. Even if she teaches Wang Biyun a lesson, she probably won't dare to talk back.
"Hmm, Xiaocao is such a smart and good kid," Zhou Yuanyuan praised. Girls her age crave recognition the most.
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