Chapter 222: Got Eaten
“What? Little Grey is missing?”
Li Sanmao heard the mother and daughter’s conversation and hurried over.
“Miaomiao, don’t worry, Father will help you look for it!”
Li Sanmao ran to where Little Grey was kept, searched around, and indeed there was nothing inside, only a pile of grass.
It was the little nest that the mother and daughter had made for it.
“Miaomiao, don’t cry, Little Grey must have sneaked out when it got dark.”
“But Mother, Little Grey has been very good these past few days, it really likes playing with Miaomiao, it didn’t seem like it wanted to run away.”
Miaomiao had probably secretly hidden away and cried for quite a while, her eyes were all puffy.
This girl really couldn’t hold it in anymore, she was increasingly worried about Little Grey’s safety and that’s why she came to find her.
“Mm, speaking of which, Little Grey is still a baby, maybe Little Grey misses its mother, doesn’t Miaomiao feel very sad and anxious to find Mother when she misses her…”
Miaomiao sniffed her little nose and nodded, “Mother, Miaomiao understands, Miaomiao shouldn’t have kept it locked up, I hope Little Grey can quickly find its family and reunite!”
“Mm, Miaomiao is really a good child!”
Luo Zhi’er saw that Miaomiao wasn’t crying anymore, and a glint flashed in her eyes…
Cold snort, that’s enough, they won’t even let a little rabbit go, truly a reincarnated hungry ghost.
She raised her head and exchanged a glance with Li Sanmao, both seeming to understand what was going on.
Earlier when they came back, they hadn’t seen Jiayong or Jiabao from the second son’s family come out, and thinking carefully, Chen Shi seemed to have grease around her mouth, trying to cover it up…
The eldest son’s family—Muqing Yunliang, Liuliu—all came out to look around, wanting to see if there were any snacks. By reason, the little kids from the second son’s family should be even hungrier and more greedy, so why didn’t they come out?
Earlier Jiabao had run out with something in his mouth.
Right, that seemed to be a leg bone, and Chen Shi had hastily scolded him and dragged him back inside…
The more she thought about it, the more upset she felt, utterly heartbroken…
Poor Little Grey, if only she hadn’t brought it back, she hoped it wasn’t what she thought!
Luo Zhi’er took the tired-from-crying little Miaomiao into the room, and since they had eaten in town and she had run around a lot, she coaxed her to sleep in no time.
No rush for now, to catch a thief you need the stolen goods, by this time it was probably already in their stomachs.
She and Li Sanmao then took out the soybeans they bought today, as dim nightfall descended, it was already getting hard to see.
She lit the kerosene lamp, picked out the impurities inside, sifted out the gravel with the bamboo sieve, took out the large wooden basin, added water, and soaked them.
“Wife, I know how to make tofu from soybeans, but that dried tofu you mentioned… can it really work?” Li Sanmao said in a low, puzzled voice.
“How about, how about we just make bread to sell instead!”
“Believe me, dried tofu can be stored, but if we make bread and can’t sell it all in this hot weather right now, it’ll go bad. Let’s take advantage of this time when soybeans are available and make some smoked dried tofu to sell!”
“Good!”
Whatever the wife says, that’s what it is.
Luo Zhi’er thought that making bread required a lot of flour, bean paste, and other fillings.
Buying too many materials would attract envy, and making it at home would definitely leak the secret recipe, letting those with ulterior motives take it and make a livelihood off it for free…
Her future dream was to open many bread chain shops!
She couldn’t be careless!
Besides, when they divided the family, they took quite a bit of her bread-making belongings, so she still needed to rebuild…
Might as well go all in—if selling bread, just rent a shop in town and build the bakery room right inside the shop, problem solved?
Use this bread kiln to make dried tofu, or roast dried sweet potato, hawthorn dried, fruit and vegetable dried things like that to sell, wouldn’t that be great?
These things aren’t afraid of them copying either, once they’re on the market everyone will learn to make them… better for her to reap the dividends first!
After soaking the beans, she didn’t idle around, she picked clean the radish vegetable leaves, chopped them into small pieces, and went to the river in the dark to wash them clean. Li Sanmao saw her staggering figure going to the river alone and, worried, followed along…
“Wife, it’s dark and the road is slippery, wait for your husband, I’ll go with you!”
Chen Shi saw the two being so close, especially how Li Sanmao was so attentive to that fat ugly wife, and her heart was filled with sour resentment.
In terms of looks, she was far prettier than Luo Zhi’er, and Li Lei used to be so obedient to her before, sweet-talking her every day.
Turns out when real trouble hits, you see how shameless he truly is!
“Yo, Third Brother, you’ve really lived up to that saying—got a wife and forgot your whatever… hehe, what can this village have? With her build, are you really afraid Third Sister-in-law will get lost?”
“Or what, in this pitch black, are you afraid Third Sister-in-law will sneak off with some man from the village behind your back… makes sense, I heard that Li Daniu…” Chen Shi looked at Li Sanmao’s strong back, her eyes flickering, and said with a half-smile.
Li Sanmao gave her a cold glance, “Shut your mouth! My affairs, Second Sister-in-law, don’t trouble yourself!”
Chen Shi choked.
“Wife, wait for your husband, I’ll go with you to give the mule some water!”
“Alright!”
Li Sanmao turned to untie the mule’s rope, and Chen Shi glanced at the mule…
That mule still had that mocking expression, truly a beast!
Luo Zhi’er let out a light scoff, glanced at Zhou Shi in the old house who was indeed cursing again in the room.
She rolled her eyes at her, and said to Chen Shi: “If we’re talking about doting on a wife, no one in our family can compare to Second Brother!”
“Luo Zhi’er, what do you mean by that?”
“Hehe! Back then, for his wife, he could abandon his parents for years and go to his father-in-law’s house in the city to work like an ox, people who didn’t know thought he was a live-in son-in-law!”
“But since Second Brother isn’t here, Second Sister-in-law, you better watch yourself…”
“You! Hmph! Luo Zhi’er, don’t you go too far!”
Chen Shi was about to cry.
“I don’t think so!”
Hah! If you want respect from others, first look at what you’ve done!
She was the one who offended her first.
This Chen Shi might look weak on the surface, but deep down she’s extremely sinister!
Luo Zhi’er picked up the dustpan and went to the river to wash the vegetable leaves.
Chen Shi started sobbing behind her, giving Li Sanmao a soft, weak look, “Third Brother, Third Sister-in-law is so fierce! She’s so capable now, bullying me when I’m all alone and helpless!”
Before, she wouldn’t even dare fart, seeming unsteady on her feet, about to faint from anger and wanting to lean on him,
“Second Sister-in-law, spare it! My wife is the kindest, she’s been good enough to you!”
Li Sanmao clenched his fist.
Hmph! If she weren’t a woman, he, Li Sanmao, wouldn’t hit women!
Just because she called him Third Brother, but earlier she had deliberately belittled Zhi’er, ruining her reputation—he’d make her too ashamed to show her face!
He quickly caught up to his wife and walked side by side with her.
The two had a harmonious atmosphere, and Li Sanmao reached out to take the dustpan from Luo Zhi’er’s hands.
“Zhi’er, let your husband carry it for you!”
“Hehe, you fool, how heavy can this thing be!”
Luo Zhi’er amusingly glanced at him, originally wanting to hand it over, but then she thought, he seemed to have gotten injured hunting the wild boar yesterday…
“Forget it, you’re injured, I’ll carry it!”
“Hehe! Wife… you really care for your husband!” Li Sanmao’s face reddened, and he trembled slightly!
Luo Zhi’er hurriedly looked away, her heart panicking—what was this fool thinking again?
“Wife, I saw you fuming, I thought you’d go find Master Ye or the young master of Hong Futai today!”
Li Sanmao paused and said.
He came back unscathed, he could figure it out himself—it must be that his wife had asked Master Ye for help!
And seeing the young master of Hong Futai come personally, saying there’s no relationship—he himself wouldn’t believe it.
“Hmph! At first I did think about asking, but then I realized, having an extra relative in prison doesn’t seem to benefit us much!”
Though releasing them early would affect her money-making plans a bit, thinking carefully, it was just a matter of releasing them a bit sooner—they probably thought the same, and it was good for her future development too!
