With the help of her two daughters, Wang successfully cultivated the land.
The family then had some free time. Sidi, Niandi, and Pandi still took Dahei and its twenty chicks out to find insects to eat every day without fail.
Wang was very curious. The chicks hadn't been fed any grains, yet they grew incredibly fast. She assumed it was because Niandi and the others fed them a lot of insects, but little did she know that Tang Qiqi had secretly given them extra food.
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Now that the cows are gone, Sidi, Niandi, and Pandi no longer have the job of cutting grass to feed the cows, and they are bored all day long.
Pandi often asks, "Mom, when is Dahua coming back? I miss it a little, and I want to drink milk again?"
Zhao Di touched Tang Qiqi's face and said, "Qiqi hasn't been drinking milk lately, and her little face has gotten thinner!"
Xu Lanzhi sighed and said, "Dahua won't be coming back. The Sun family helped us, and the cow was supposed to be used to pay off the debt. You guys take good care of the chicks. Wait until they lay eggs in a few days and then try to appease me. I'm being stingy by letting you raise them."
Xu Lanzhi said it casually, but Tang Qiqi took it to heart. Later that evening, Si Di carried a plump rabbit in each hand, and Nian Di and Pan Di each carried one back.
Seeing that Si Di was already unable to move, Xu Lanzhi hurriedly asked, "Where did this rabbit come from?"
"I found it in the wild in the backyard," Sisi said, panting as she put the rabbit in her basket.
Niandi and Pandi followed suit, throwing the rabbits they were holding into their baskets.
Jiedi ran over, picked up a rabbit, and said, "Grandma was right, Qiqi is a lucky star. There's been so much stuff at home lately. Mom, this rabbit is plump and healthy. I'll skin it and we'll make a stew of rabbit meat!"
Xu Lanzhi said with a smile, "You little glutton, that's a pregnant mother rabbit, you can't eat it!"
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Jiedi was a little disappointed and said to Tang Qiqi, who was engrossed in playing with her hands, "Qiqi, are you doing this on purpose? It's always either a hen or a rabbit. Can't you let your older sister have a taste of meat?"
Tang Qiqi smiled sweetly at Jiedi. After the old hen incident, she knew that Xu Lanzhi was terrified of poverty and was single-mindedly thinking about how chickens could lay eggs and eggs could hatch into more chickens.
So this time she was more careful and released three pregnant female rabbits and a large male rabbit.
Actually, the university cafeteria doesn't lack meat; she's just afraid that making too much noise will be too much for them to handle.
Moreover, Tang Qiqi hopes to see them be able to be self-reliant and strive for excellence.
Sure enough, Jiedi asked, unwilling to give up, "Mother, are all four of these female rabbits?"
Xu Lanzhi looked closely and said, "The biggest one is a male rabbit, and the other three are pregnant!"
Jiedi grabbed the rabbit, held it in her arms, and happily went to find Wang Shi.
She knew it was no use talking to her mother; whether or not the rabbit could be killed depended on her grandmother's approval.
Looking at the girl swallowing hard, and remembering that the children hadn't eaten meat for over half a year, Wang surprisingly spoke up and said, "Alright, skin the rabbit, we'll have an extra dish tonight!"
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Upon hearing this, Jiedi happily carried the rabbit back to the yard and announced to everyone, "Grandma said there will be extra dishes tonight!"
Xu Lanzhi was in a dilemma. She couldn't bring herself to kill the rabbit, and besides, she didn't know how. Killing chickens was something Dongsheng used to do!
Jiedi patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, leave this to me. I've seen Hunter Zhang skin wild rabbits before; it's very simple."
She skillfully killed the rabbit, cut off the fur from its head and four legs, then found a rope, hung the rabbit up, and tore it off completely.
"Third sister is awesome! We'll have meat for dinner tonight!" The three younger children cheered excitedly.
Jiedi smiled broadly at them and said, "Wait patiently, I'll clean the rabbit."
After saying that, she cut open the rabbit's belly, removed its internal organs, cleaned it thoroughly, and then chopped the meat into small pieces with a cleaver.
Zhaodi and Jiedi had already started a fire and were steaming white rice in a wooden steamer.
Seeing that the children were happy, Xu Lanzhi was generous and didn't add cornmeal to the rice that night.
This is a big dish tonight, and Xu Lanzhi has to be in charge of cooking. She carefully skimmed off the fat from the rabbit meat, sautéed it in a pan until fragrant, added some dried chili peppers, and then added the rabbit meat and stir-fried it over high heat.
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Once the aroma of the rabbit meat is released, add a little water, cover the pot, and simmer. Before long, the fragrance of the rabbit meat will fill the entire kitchen, and you can smell it from far away outside.
Tang Qiqi's six older sisters didn't dare to blink, afraid that if they did, they would find that the big pot of meat was an illusion and would disappear.
They huddled around the stove, unconsciously swallowing their saliva.
Niandi and Pandi kept asking, "Mom, is the meat ready yet?"
Xu Lanzhi patted their little heads and said, "It'll be ready soon!"
Taking advantage of the moment, Xu Lanzhi quickly heated up the rice porridge she had prepared for Tang Qiqi and fed it to her spoonful by spoonful.
When Wang returned from the vegetable garden, she took Tang Qiqi from the garden and said, "I'll feed them. You go and watch the pot of meat, be careful not to burn the children!"
Looking at Tang Qiqi, who had been chubby, and who had lost a lot of weight, Wang said with heartache, "It's all Grandma's fault. I made sure your cow was gone. You've been trying so hard to bring us things, but Grandma can't even let you have a sip of milk. It's all my fault!"
Tang Qiqi waved her little hands, babbling and occasionally revealing her dimples; she was incredibly cute.
The more obedient she was, the more guilty Wang felt.
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The rabbit meat was finally cooked, and Xu Lanzhi picked a handful of wild scallions and cooked a pot of scallion and egg soup before having dinner.
Although the rabbits were plump, there were eight people eating them, including children who hadn't tasted meat in six months. The scale of the meal was truly indescribable.
Xu Lanzhi was farsighted; she served her mother-in-law a bowl of meat before serving the other children.
He gnawed on a few bones, ate half a bowl of rice with the broth, and then put down his chopsticks.
Seeing this, Wang picked some meat from her bowl and put it into Xu Lanzhi's bowl, saying, "You cooked this meat too tough, this old woman can't chew it!"
Upon hearing this, Jiedi quickly brought her bowl closer and said, "Grandma, if you can't chew it, give it to me. I can even swallow the bones!"
Wang rolled her eyes at her and said, "You're a young lady, and you've already eaten such a big bowl of soup, aren't you satisfied? Go drink some soup!"
Xu Lanzhi knew that her mother-in-law was worried about her, so she looked at her mother-in-law gratefully and said, "Thank you, Mother."
Pandi took a piece of meat, swayed over to Tang Qiqi, and said in a childish voice, "Little sister, eat meat!"
Xu Lanzhi quickly stopped her and told her that her younger sister was too young to eat meat.
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Tang Qiqi lay in the little straw nest that Niandi had built for her, feeling the warmth of this family's happiness. After being an orphan for more than 20 years, Tang Qiqi finally had a home and a large group of relatives and friends.
Xu Lanzhi gently hugged her and said, "Oh dear, Qiqi, why are you crying? Did the meat your sister gave you get too spicy? Baby, be good, your sister just wanted to share something good with you!"
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