Not long after lying down, Shen Miao suddenly remembered that Yang had undergone surgery and might have a fever that night. She had forgotten to check on him earlier, so she quickly got up again.
Since it wasn't far, Shen Miao was too lazy to light another torch, so she walked towards the sheepfold by moonlight.
When she arrived at the sheepfold, Shen Miao discovered a dark figure inside, bending down and feeding something to a sheep.
The hairs on Shen Miao's back stood on end. She rushed forward and grabbed the dark figure. Before the figure could react, it let out a sharp scream.
It turned out that Shen Miao had grabbed her hair.
"It's you again, you little green pearl! You're not satisfied with causing trouble during the day, you have to come at night too. Tell me, what are you going to feed my sheep?" Shen Miao's voice was full of hostility.
Green Pearl's scalp was being ripped off by Shen Miao, and she screamed, "Let me go! I didn't do anything, I just came to check on the sheep!"
Shen Miao sneered: "Watching sheep? You're kidding me. You can't even come up with a logical excuse. Do you think I'd believe you? Hold out your hand!"
Green Pearl refused to stretch out, but Shen Miao pulled hard, tearing her scalp as if it were about to split open.
"Ah, let me go! I really didn't have time to do it. Look at your sheep if you don't believe me!" Green Pearl cried pitifully.
"Stretch out your hand," Shen Miao said, repeating the same phrase.
Green Pearl reluctantly extended her hand to Shen Miao.
By the moonlight, Shen Miao saw that Green Pearl had spread out dozens of croton seeds in her hand. You should know that eating this stuff can cause diarrhea and exhaustion.
The moment Yang underwent surgery, Green Pearl came to his door late at night to feed him croton oil, revealing her sinister intentions.
"You actually fed my sheep croton oil! Did you think that because the sheep didn't die during the day, it didn't meet your expectations, so you wanted to kill it at night? Too bad you ruined your plan." Shen Miao tried her best to suppress her anger.
When she saw those croton seeds, she felt like she was about to explode.
Green Pearl, oblivious to her impending doom, retorted, "No, I haven't had a chance to feed you yet. Let me go, or I'll call for help and let everyone know that you've been abusing me in the middle of the night."
"Okay, go ahead and shout." Shen Miao grabbed the croton seeds and stuffed them all into Green Pearl's mouth. "Shout, shout louder, otherwise no one will hear you."
Green Pearl struggled to spit out the croton seeds, but Shen Miao covered her mouth, forcing her to swallow them all.
"Get lost! If you come to my house again, I won't be this patient with you." Shen Miao kicked Lü Zhu in the butt, sending her flying.
Green Pearl cried and cursed Shen Miao, while also being terrified, she desperately tried to dig her throat with her fingers.
Shen Miao rushed out: "You still don't want to leave?"
Green Pearl was so frightened that she ran away without looking back.
Shen Miao turned around, took out a flashlight, and examined the sheep from head to toe. She confirmed that Green Pearl had not succeeded, but the sheep did have a fever.
She took out some antipyretics and fed them to the sheep. The sheep rubbed against her hand, rested its head on the animal skin, and fell into a deep sleep again.
Shen Miao stayed for a while before going back to her room to sleep.
...
After the snow melted, the sun came out, and the temperature rose considerably.
The children were overjoyed and begged Shen Miao to go up the mountain. Shen Miao thought that the children had been stuck at home for a while and it was indeed time for them to go out for a walk, so she agreed.
The children were very happy to go up the mountain, and they were also quite lucky, as they found a lot of wild fruit.
Logically speaking, wild fruits should be mostly frozen by this time of year, but the wild fruits that the children picked up were all very fresh. They didn't know what kind of fruits they were, but they tasted sweet and sour.
Shen Miao packed all the wild fruits into her basket, leaving one or two for the children to carry, and the group happily headed home.
"Mommy, aren't we going hunting today?" Erbao ran over and asked.
Shen Miaoxin found it amusing and teased him, "With so many of you cubs with you, when the prey comes, you won't even be able to run away. How will you fight?"
Erbao retorted, "I don't need to run. I can help Mother hunt."
"Then forget it. If your father finds out I let you go hunting, I'm afraid I'll be in big trouble."
After returning home, Shen Miao unloaded the basket and went to the kitchen to cook. However, the children didn't seem to have much of an appetite today, and more than half of the dishes she made were left over, which was very unusual.
Has her cooking skill declined?
No, because Qingchen ate the same amount as usual.
Finally, she concluded that the cubs had probably eaten too many wild fruits and were too full to eat their meals, so she told them, "Don't eat wild fruits anymore, or you won't be able to eat your meals."
The children responded with "uh-huhs," and after Shen Miao went to Qing Chen's place, they started grabbing wild fruits and eating them like crazy.
Little Sibao frowned and said pitifully, "Brother, I can't eat anymore, my teeth are so sore."
Sanbao taught, "Just bear with it for a bit. Look, there's not much left. We'll finish it soon."
"But there's still more than half left in the basket!" Little Sibao said, feeling extremely wronged.
In order to have room for all these wild fruits, she didn't even eat the delicious dishes her mother cooked today, just to save room for the wild fruits.
Da Bao encouraged, "It's okay, Si Bao. The four of us will eat well. Don't be afraid, your older brothers are here with you."
Little Sibao touched her bulging little belly, wanting to say that she really couldn't eat anymore, but seeing how hard her brothers were trying, she couldn't bring herself to say it.
"What are you doing here?" Shen Miao's suspicious voice rang out from behind.
All four kids felt a little guilty.
When Shen Miao walked over, she found a pile of fruit pits on the ground, and the children were each holding one and stuffing them into their mouths.
She was surprised: "You ate so much fruit? Didn't you say you were full and couldn't eat any more food? How could you eat so much fruit?"
The children were all a little embarrassed and didn't say anything.
Shen Miao took the fruit out of Da Bao's mouth and asked seriously, "Da Bao, you tell me, what's going on here?"
Da Bao gave a dry laugh: "Mother, we wanted to eat these wild fruits because we didn't want them to spoil, not because we were greedy."
They're almost sick of eating it now.
“Yes, Mother said that fruit that has been covered in snow doesn’t keep well and will spoil quickly, which would be a waste,” Da Bao said earnestly.
Shen Miao was both amused and exasperated. She was pleased that her children had taken her words to heart, but also found their actions quite amusing.
No wonder they ate so little rice; they were saving room for wild fruits.
"Stop eating." Shen Miao took the fruit out of their mouths and threw it on the ground. "Eating so much will make you sick."
Little Sibao secretly breathed a sigh of relief; finally, she didn't have to eat anymore, her little tummy was almost bursting.
Noticing Xiao Sibao's actions, Shen Miao was both amused and annoyed. She patiently said, "These fruits won't spoil. Mother will find a way to preserve them."
"How should Mother preserve it?" Erbao asked curiously.
Shen Miao thought for a moment: "If we make it into jam, it can be preserved for a long time."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
