Having dealt with Erzhuzi, Tang Qiqi noticed it was getting late and guessed that Xu Lanzhi had already sent the three troublesome parents away.
The truth is, Tang Qiqi was exhausted. She had been running around all day and had used all her strength to fight three people at once. She was so tired that her bones felt like they were going to fall apart.
Tang Qiqi yawned and said, "Uncle Zhu, take me home!"
Erzhuzi picked up Tang Qiqi and said, "Okay, I'll take you home. Your mother must be worried."
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"Remember to say it the way I taught you!" Tang Qiqi instructed anxiously.
The two chatted intermittently along the way, but as they approached their doorstep, Tang Qiqi immediately shut up and pretended to be dead.
Erzhuzi smiled without saying a word. When they reached the door, Baixue barked twice to remind them that Tang Qiqi had returned.
Erzhuzi said to Xu Lanzhi, "Sister-in-law, Qiqi got tired from playing at my place and fell asleep halfway there."
Xu Lanzhi frowned and said, "This child, I bet she's hiding with you. Look at her, she doesn't look like a little girl at all. Today she beat three boys to a pulp, and they've come looking for her."
Upon hearing this, Erzhuzi pulled Tang Qiqi, who was halfway across the road, back into his arms and said, "It must be those naughty kids. Have the troublemakers left yet?"
Jiedi chimed in from the side, "They left with three chickens, three baskets of eggs, and quite a bit of money."
Erzhuzi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "It's a good thing your family is doing well now, otherwise you wouldn't be able to afford to pay for it."
As she spoke, she handed Tang Qiqi to Xu Lanzhi. Tang Qiqi closed her eyes, but pinched Erzhuzi hard.
Erzhuzi was suddenly pinched by her, and he jumped up.
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Xu Lanzhi asked with concern, "Erzhuzi, are you feeling unwell?"
Erzhuzi smiled awkwardly and said, "It's nothing. I just got bitten by a big mosquito. You hold Qiqi, I'll go back first."
Then came another hard blow, and Erzhuzi's face contorted in pain.
Xu Lanzhi was startled again: "Erzhuzi, are you alright? Should we get a doctor to take a look?"
Erzhuzi looked at the little one pretending to be asleep in his arms with a mournful expression, and mustered up his courage to say, "Sister-in-law, I see you're raising more and more chickens, the yard is almost overflowing!"
Xu Lanzhi said mournfully, "Of course! Although we're raising chickens quite well, with chickens, rabbits, Da Hua, and Bai Xue, there's hardly any room left in the house!"
Seeing Xu Lanzhi's words, Erzhuzi mustered his courage: "Sister-in-law, I have an idea, but I don't know if I should say it?"
Xu Lanzhi said with a warm smile, "Just say what you want to say, don't be so polite."
Erzhuzi hesitated for a moment, and it really was just a moment. The spot where he had just been pinched twice came back to him with a sharp pain. This little girl, doesn't she know to pinch somewhere else?
He knew that if he didn't do what Tang Qiqi had asked him to do today, she would strangle him to death.
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Erzhuzi didn't want to be strangled to death so quickly, so he hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, the terrain on the mountain in front of the door is open and the trees are not very dense. I think it's a good place to raise chickens. Why don't you consider moving the chicken coop there?"
Xu Lanzhi looked at Tang Qiqi suspiciously and asked, "This sounds like something Tang Qiqi would say. Don't listen to her nonsense. No matter how nice the mountain in front of the door is, it's still part of the village. How can you raise chickens there?"
Erzhuzi looked at the little dumpling in his arms and thought to himself, "This girl is incredibly insightful; she's predicted everything her mother said."
He hurriedly said, "That's easy. Just talk to Uncle Yongnian and ask him to contribute some money to the village every year. Everyone will be overjoyed."
Xu Lanzhi pondered for a moment and said, "That's true, but turning a barren mountain into a chicken coop isn't something that can be done just with money. As you know, there's only my mother and me with the children in my family. We can't clear the land and build a chicken coop, let alone have someone stay on the mountain permanently."
As Xu Lanzhi spoke, she thought of Dongsheng again, reflecting on how, although her family was better off now, they were still...
As Xu Lanzhi pondered these thoughts, she couldn't help but feel a little melancholic.
Seeing Xu Lanzhi's distress, Erzhuzi panicked and stood there at a loss.
The little one "sleeping" in his arms naturally didn't let him off the hook. Erzhuzi woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, don't be sad. How about this? I'm just toiling in the soil every day and can barely make ends meet. I want to benefit from you. I'll take care of clearing land and building the chicken coop for you. Once the chicken coop is built, I'll watch over it for you. You just need to give me some money every month."
Since Erzhu had already put it this way, Xu Lanzhi naturally thought it was feasible. However, she still didn't say anything definitively. She said to Erzhu, "Then thank you very much, but this is a big matter. I need to go back and discuss it with my mother-in-law."
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Erzhu hurriedly said, "Of course, of course." Then he couldn't wait to hand Tang Qiqi, this hot potato, to Xu Lanzhi.
Tang Qiqi, who had been holding on tightly, has now let go and obediently returned to Xu Lanzhi's hands.
After Erzhu walked away, Xu Lanzhi hugged Tang Qiqi and sighed, "I thought you were someone who wouldn't cause trouble, but it turns out you're never quiet. Why do you love to fight so much?"
Wang snatched Tang Qiqi away and said, "I think those brats deserved to be beaten. Niandi and Pandi have been bullied by them since they were little, and we never bothered to argue with them. Now that we've won, they're trying to extort money from us!"
Xu Lanzhi sighed, "My goodness, how can this be the same? Look at how badly those three children were beaten! If Qiqi weren't my daughter, I wouldn't believe they were beaten by a three-year-old. It's already quite generous of them to give something to settle things!"
Wang said with dissatisfaction, "You're just too kind. If you ask me, I wouldn't give them a single penny. Three young men bullying three young girls, they deserved to be beaten!"
Xu Lanzhi hurriedly advised, "Mother, please stop supporting them. If this continues, her six older sisters will follow suit and become just as fierce. Who will dare to marry them in the future?"
Only then did Wang stop, and Tang Qiqi, who was truly sleepy at the moment, drifted off to sleep.
When Xu Lanzhi told Wang about Erzhu's idea of expanding the breeding scale, Wang was still a little worried: "Such a big undertaking, can we handle it? Life has only just started to get better. If something happens, won't we have to go through a hard life with the children again?"
Xu Lanzhi didn't want to stop there. Without a man in the family, her children were looked down upon. All seven of her daughters would get married in the future, and she wanted to prepare more dowries for them so that they would have more confidence in their husbands' families.
After being persuaded by Xu Lanzhi, Wang was somewhat tempted. She said, "Alright, Erzhuzi is an honest and hardworking boy. With him helping out, it'll be fine. Ask her when Qiqi wakes up tomorrow. If she says it's okay, then let's do it this way!"
Xu Lanzhi said with a smile, "Mother, you're overthinking it. Qiqi stayed at his house all day today, so it's probably Qiqi's idea."
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