Lin Weiming convinced himself!
He was tall and had long legs, and was a frequent hunter in the mountains. He knew the mountain paths of West Mountain like the back of his hand. Carrying Lin Wanyue, he moved swiftly and quickly, reaching the top of the mountain in less than half an hour.
Lin Wanyue hugged his neck and blew in the wind with her soft, childlike voice.
"Daddy, Guoguo said the locust trees on the mountain are really beautiful, Wanwan wants to see them~"
"Okay, Dad will take you to see it!" Lin Weiming agreed without even thinking.
The little girl just wanted to see the old locust tree, didn't she?
Wild goats often gather in that area, so maybe we can catch one to take home. The hide of one wild goat would be enough to make a winter coat for Wanwan.
A cotton-padded coat will stop keeping you warm after a year, but a fur coat can be worn for many years and will keep you warm year after year, as long as it is not gnawed by insects or rats!
Moreover, the meat of a wild goat, besides being sold for money, can also leave some internal organs and scraps, enough to feed the family for several meals.
As Lin Weiming walked, he pondered these mundane family matters.
He didn't have any grand ambitions; he just wanted to protect his mother and the children in the family, and live a peaceful life with Xuefu.
When they arrived at the location, Lin Wanyue finally understood why Ding Taiping had pointed her to the old locust tree.
This old locust tree is incredibly tall, its age unknown. Even a strong man like Lin Weiming would need several men to encircle it.
Lin Wanyue stood under the tree, looked up at the canopy of the tree, and unconsciously let out a "wow".
Lin Weiming patted his daughter's head: "Wanwan, be a good girl and wait here for Daddy to come back, okay? Don't run around! It's dangerous up here. If anything happens, call Daddy loudly, okay?"
“Chicken way!” Lin Wanyue nodded obediently.
She even found a small tree stump to sit on, rested her chin on her hand, and looked at her father with a smile.
Lin Weiming was relieved.
He took his bow and arrows and trap ropes and searched around the old locust tree, looking for traces of wild goats and rabbits that often roamed the mountain.
He quickly found a path where these little creatures frequented, and it was covered in fresh goat droppings.
Lin Weiming rubbed his hands together, somewhat excitedly setting up the trap at the end of the road.
If any wild goat or rabbit is blind and steps into the trap, then it can get a whole pelt!
Lin Weiming was an excellent hunter. He lay in the grass, waiting and holding his breath.
Therefore, he did not notice that as soon as he turned around, his well-behaved little daughter, Lin Wanyue, pulled out a small shovel from somewhere and began digging around the old locust tree.
Lin Wanyue quickly found the ginseng with a small red flower blooming on its top.
She moved very carefully, afraid of damaging the ginseng and also afraid of being seen by her father.
However, it is clear that she was overthinking it.
Lin Weiming remained motionless hidden among the bushes, showing no intention of looking at her.
The ginseng leaves growing on the outside are not very big, but I didn't expect the ginseng under the soil to be so big!
Hehehe!
It's incredibly big!
That would definitely fetch a lot of money, and we'd give it all to Grandma.
Lin Wanyue, holding the ginseng, stood up with a happy expression when a breeze suddenly blew in her face, followed by something bumping into her. Lin Wanyue felt a sharp pain in her head.
"Ah..." He only managed to utter a short sound before everything went black.
Lin Weiming, who was intently waiting for his prey to come to him, suddenly heard his daughter's voice and quickly turned around to look.
Then, for some reason, her daughter suddenly lay down on the ground!
"Wanwan?" He didn't care about disturbing his prey anymore. He jumped up and ran to Lin Wanyue's side in a few steps, gently shaking her. "Wanwan, wake up?"
They saw Lin Wanyue lying motionless on the ground, and next to her head was a large wild rabbit weighing six or seven pounds.
Lin Weiming's lips twitched.
So it turns out his daughter was knocked unconscious by a rabbit hitting her head?
He didn't know whether Lin Wanyue was too lucky or too unlucky.
He had seen tigers and wild boars weighing several hundred kilograms on this mountain, but he had never seen a rabbit this big before.
After all, rabbits don't live long because of their own longevity, but entirely because of their ability to reproduce, which is why they haven't been eaten by the wild beasts in the mountains.
Lin Weiming picked up the rabbit, cuddled his daughter, and was about to pinch her philtrum when he noticed the ginseng that Lin Wanyue was gently holding in her arms.
Lin Weiming wasn't an ignorant brat like Lin Wanyue. He knew the price of ginseng. A ginseng weighing one tael could sell for twenty or thirty taels of silver, and the one Lin Wanyue was holding weighed at least two taels, so the price was more than double!
Lin Weiming thought for a moment, but still didn't dare to pinch Lin Wanyue's philtrum. If he accidentally pinched her too hard and hurt her, his mother would definitely beat him when she saw it at home.
Thinking of his mother's whip, he couldn't help but recall that Liu Junlan had once said that Wanwan was their family's lucky star.
So at that time he didn’t think the rain was because of Wanwan. Now he sees that his daughter did nothing but find such a big rabbit and such a rare ginseng.
Lin Weiming also began to waver.
Could it be that Wanwan is truly a lucky star sent to their family by God?
Just as he was debating whether or not to wake his little girl, Lin Wanyue regained consciousness in a daze. When she looked up, she saw her father's concerned face and the prickly beard on his face!
Lin Wanyue quickly put the small shovel back into her spatial storage while her father wasn't looking. Just as she was about to force a smile, she felt a sharp pain in her forehead.
"Daddy, it hurts." This body was still small and couldn't withstand such intense pain. Lin Wanyue's mouth trembled, and her beautiful eyes filled with physiological tears.
Lin Weiming panicked and blurted out, "Father isn't in pain, don't worry."
Lin Wanyue: "?"
"It hurts!" Lin Wanyue cried out anxiously, pointing to her head with her little finger.
"..." Oh, so my daughter meant she was in pain.
Upon closer inspection, Lin Weiming saw that Lin Wanyue's forehead had indeed begun to swell.
Fearing something might happen to her, and having such a large rabbit as prey was enough, Lin Weiming carried Lin Wanyue down the mountain and home.
...
Xuefu was the first person in the family to discover that Lin Wanyue was missing.
She had just finished washing the clothes and was about to go home when she saw her two young sons playing in the mud next to the bamboo grove. She glanced at them but didn't notice Lin Wanyue.
"Where's your sister? Why didn't you bring her along to play?" Xuefu asked, somewhat puzzled.
Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu answered in unison, "Our little sister is sleeping at home."
But when she got home, Lin Wanyue's small figure was nowhere to be seen on the bed.
If the other children hadn't been found immediately, Xuefu wouldn't have been so frightened.
Lin Wanyue had only been in Ning'an Village for a few days and hadn't even gotten to know all the villagers yet. Besides, she was always well-behaved, so where could she possibly run off to?
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