Meng Ying, who was watching the show on the side, had had enough and called Zhao Yueling out, "Practice again next time you have a chance. If you keep practicing, I'm afraid you'll tear all the feathers off these chickens."
"Mom, please let me try again. I can catch it soon. I almost grabbed its wings just now, but my hand slipped and it ran away again. Can you let me try again? One last time!" Zhao Yueling was unwilling. She had been trying for so long and still couldn't catch a chicken. How could she possibly waste her time like that?
"Forget about calling me mom, even calling me grandma is useless. These chickens are for your sister to nourish her body during the confinement period. If you ruin them all, where will you catch chickens later?" Meng Ying said ruthlessly.
Is it easy for her to get so many live chickens these days? For these chickens, she traveled to several surrounding villages to exchange them. She was also afraid that the authorities would not allow her to raise chickens, so she asked around before she was allowed to temporarily raise them for more than a month until Jianshu finished her confinement.
It would have been fine at other times; one or two chickens wouldn't have been a big deal. But now, it was impossible. If all the chickens were destroyed, where would she find more? All the chickens available for exchange were here. If she wanted to eat chicken, she could only try her luck at the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Okay, get out now. You scared these chickens. Go pick some leaves for them to eat." Meng Ying drove Zhao Yueling out and went in herself.
Zhao Yueling: "..." Her mother has changed. She thinks these chickens are more important than her own daughter, and her status in the family is getting lower and lower.
"Okay, don't feel aggrieved. I'll ask your brother-in-law to find you another chicken to practice catching later, okay?" Jian Shu pulled Zhao Yueling and comforted her.
This child has never given up since she was young. She must be feeling bad for not catching the chicken this time. It’s better to let her get her wish as soon as possible. It’s not a good thing to keep thinking about it.
Isn't it just a chicken? She has plenty of them in her space, but it's not easy to take them out right now. She'll just find a suitable opportunity in a few days and take them out.
"Sister," Zhao Yueling whispered, "am I being too childish?" She hadn't noticed it before, but now she felt her face getting slightly hot. It was just catching a chicken, wasn't it? Why was she making such a big deal out of it?
Even Ruirui might not be able to do such a thing.
"What's childish about that? You're not even allowed to have your own hobbies? You haven't done anything bad, just do whatever you want, why do you care so much?" Jianshu has always been protective of his younger sister, so he stood on his sister's side without saying a word.
Besides, isn't Zhao Yueling's reaction a common one for city kids? I've never seen it before, but she's having fun with it.
"Okay, don't think about it. Let's go and find some vegetable leaves for the chickens. Auntie will urge us to come soon!" Without letting her think any more, he pulled her and walked towards the vegetable garden.
The weather is getting colder, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden have changed again, and they are no longer as lush as in summer.
Jian Shu, with a nine-month-old belly, stood carefully on the path paved with various gravel and pebbles, directing Zhao Yueling to pick some cabbages without yellowed leaves and to pull two small cabbages over there.
I was muttering, "Pull two more radishes, I want to eat radish balls." The radish balls made by my aunt are delicious whether eaten directly or stewed in soup.
Zhao Yueling obediently turned back to pull the radish.
Bullshit, I’m bullshitting!
It didn't move.
"Hmm?" Zhao Yueling made a puzzled sound, looked at the torn radish tops in her hand, and the spirit of not wanting to admit defeat came back.
I threw everything in my hand to her, but she insisted on pulling out this carrot today!
"Damn radish! Those chickens bullied me, and now you want to bully me too? I tell you no way! I must pull you out and make you into shredded radish balls today!" Zhao Yueling poured all her resentment for not catching the chicken on the radish in front of her. She used all her strength, her features flying, before she finally pulled out a - huge radish!
The radish was truly enormous. Zhao Yueling fell flat on her back, still clutching the large radish she had pulled out with such great effort. The radish pressed against her stomach, completely covering it. The radish was almost as thick as her waist.
"Sister, has this radish become a spirit?" Zhao Yueling lay on the ground in a trance, as if asking a question or muttering to herself.
Jianshu was also a little confused, but after all, he had seen a lot of things. It was just a thick-waisted radish, wasn't it? He had seen countless green onions taller than a person online, so this was nothing.
"Hurry up and get up, the ground is so dirty!"
Zhao Yueling finally woke up from her dream. She quickly held the big radish in one hand and supported herself on the ground with the other. She used both hands and feet to get up from the ground. "Hiss—this radish is really heavy, at least ten pounds!"
Her stomach was aching slightly from the pressure, and she could still feel the heavy weight.
"Let's weigh it on the scale later. I think it's more than ten pounds." Jianshu also wanted to hug her, but when he looked down at her bulging belly, he had to give up regretfully.
"Come on, let's go weigh it!" Zhao Yueling couldn't wait and ran into the house with the fat radish in her arms, not even bothering to pick up the leaves on the ground.
Meng Ying just came out of the chicken coop with four eggs in her hand. As soon as she came over, she saw the radish Zhao Yueling was holding, "Oh! Is this... a radish?" She said this with a little unconfidence.
Are radishes.....are they this big?
"It's a radish. I just pulled it out of the ground!" Zhao Yueling held the radish in both hands and showed it off to Meng Ying.
"It really is a carrot." Meng Ying saw it and touched it before confirming, "Okay, hold it tight quickly, don't break your thin arms." The contrast between the two is too obvious.
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