Chapter 242: You Didn’t Say There Was A Snake This Big
After agreeing with Jiang Yao, Madam Jiang brought her daughter to the General’s Mansion the next day.
As soon as they reached the doorway and saw Xiao Hei, who was hanging his head down from the tree to welcome them, such a thick and long black snake, Madam Jiang rolled her eyes, her legs went soft, and she immediately fell to the side.
Fortunately, the maid beside her caught her.
“M-Madam…”
The maid herself actually wanted to faint, but she endured it, her legs were already trembling.
“Woof woof woof…”
The two dogs that came with them, although also afraid of the snake that suddenly appeared, still stood at the front to protect their mistress.
“What’s wrong?” Qin Wanwan, hearing the sound, came running.
Xiao Hei lifted its body and hid among the trees, as if it wasn’t the one who had just scared people.
Jiang Yao: “A snake, such a big snake!”
Qin Wanwan looked up. Xiao Hei had already hidden itself and was motionless. If you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t be able to find it at all.
“Xiao Hei, you’re scaring people here again!”
Qin Wanwan, with her little chubby hands on her hips, began to discipline it.
“I told you already that the guests coming today are timid young ladies, you can’t scare them.”
“Hiss hiss~”
Xiao Hei poked its little head out, bowing its head in apology.
It just felt indignant; they were all animals, why should they be afraid of it.
“You, you…”
Qin Wanwan walked to Madam Jiang’s side, took her hand, and asked in a childish voice with concern: “Auntie, are you feeling any better? Xiao Hei didn’t mean to, it has already apologized to you.”
“Hiss hiss…”
Qin Wanwan: “It said that to express its apology, it also brought you a gift.”
Madam Jiang recovered and had her maid help her move away from the tree.
She looked at Qin Wanwan with a somewhat indescribable expression.
“That, that was raised by General Xie?”
Qin Wanwan shook her head: “No.”
Then, she proudly puffed out her little chest: “I raised it!”
Madam Jiang:…………
Why would such a soft and beautiful little girl raise such a terrifying snake?
“Hiss hiss~”
The sound from the tree gave Madam Jiang goosebumps all over. Her scalp tingled, and she nervously grabbed the maid’s hand, wanting to leave.
Now she finally understood what her husband had told her earlier about the General’s Mansion raising some animals she didn’t quite like.
Her husband had indeed told her there were snakes, but he didn’t say there would be such a big one.
Having traveled from Shangjing to this Border Pass, she considered herself no longer a timid young lady. Although she didn’t dare to grab snakes on sight normally, she had never been so afraid that her legs went weak and she screamed.
At this moment, her legs were weak. If it weren’t for her concern for etiquette and maintaining her composure, she would have truly wanted to scream.
Xiao Hei’s gift was… a snakeskin.
Such a large snakeskin, presented to Madam Jiang, made her vision go black.
“Madam, Madam, hold on!”
After a period of chaos, Madam Jiang was finally helped into the General’s Mansion.
Fortunately, Xiao Hei didn’t follow.
After drinking tea in the room, Madam Jiang recovered.
Jiang Yao, holding Qin Wanwan’s hand, chattered excitedly.
“Wanwan, you’re amazing, is that really such a big snake that you raised? How did you raise it? It looks so majestic.”
Madam Jiang wanted to roll her eyes. Was her daughter’s courage this great?
Qin Wanwan: “I just picked it up, gave it some food, and it grew this big. Now it hunts by itself and even brings meat back home.”
“Wow… amazing.”
“By the way, didn’t you say there were wolves too? I brought Da Huang and Xiao Huang.”
The names were quite casually chosen.
Earlier, Da Huang and Xiao Huang had been scared by Xiao Hei, and now they were entering the General’s Mansion with their tails tucked between their legs, huddled by Qin Wanwan and Jiang Yao’s feet.
These two dogs were formerly hunting dogs that followed soldiers in the military camp for herding, hunting, and tracking enemies.
Later, as they got older, everyone had feelings for these dogs, and no one would eat their meat. Jiang Chen took the dogs back.
It was difficult to train hunting dogs that could track enemies; there were even specialized dog training camps.
Those dogs, when they got old or were seriously injured and could no longer stay in the military camp, would be adopted or allowed to live out their lives in the camp.
Xie Chong treated those dogs as he would treat soldiers.
Qin Wanwan stroked the heads of the two dogs. They were old dogs, and their fur was not as soft as that of younger dogs, very rough, but they were also very well-behaved.
Their eyes gazing at Qin Wanwan were incredibly affectionate, as if an elder was looking at their own junior.
“Do you want to see them? They are quite big.”
Jiang Yao was curious: “How big are they?”
Qin Wanwan blew a whistle, and soon, a large head poked into the doorway of the room where they were.
Then came a second, a third…
Clatter…
Madam Jiang’s teacup fell to the floor, and her eyes were fixed on the large fierce beasts that appeared at the doorway.
This time, she truly fainted.
Qin Wanwan:…………
Auntie is too timid.
Jiang Yao was startled.
Aunt Zhang gave her some osmanthus tea, and she slowly woke up.
“Auntie, are you feeling any better?”
Madam Jiang’s face was pale, and her smile was more unsightly than crying.
“No one told me they were so big.”
She knew that the General’s Mansion kept wolves and a fierce beast that looked as ferocious as a tiger.
However, in her impression, wolves and dogs were not much bigger than each other.
How… how could they be so big?
Their mouths could open wide enough to bite off half of her!
“Auntie, why don’t you go look at the flowers?”
Auntie doesn’t seem very suitable for playing with her animals.
Madam Jiang nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: “Good, good, good, I’ll go, I’ll go look at the flowers.”
Qin Wanwan let Da Jinzi and the others leave and took Madam Jiang to the flower garden in the backyard.
A large area of the backyard had been cleared out.
Previously, it was all planted with Spirit Pasture Grass, looking like a lawn.
Now, it had been divided into several sections.
On the left side, against the courtyard wall, several kinds of fruit trees were planted. Among them, the peaches, plums, and pears had already grown large fruit, but they were still green and inedible.
They would be ready to eat in about a month.
At the farthest position against the wall, a patch of osmanthus trees was planted.
Outside the wall was a small patch of wild locust trees.
There was a small gate between the locust forest and the osmanthus grove. Every time Qin Wanwan went to water the osmanthus trees, she would also go outside to water the locust trees.
It was currently the season for locust trees to bloom, and this year’s locust flowers had bloomed more and better than in previous years. The floral scent was very rich, and the bees there were already busy among the locust flowers.
It wouldn’t be long before they could harvest locust flower nectar.
Besides these trees, the most striking was the overbearing rose flowers that twined around an entire wall.
The colorful and beautiful rose flowers bloomed all over the wall, a breathtaking and stunning sight at first glance.
When the wind blew, some petals were swept into the air, then drifted down gracefully, like flower fairies dancing and spinning.
There were also quite a few bees collecting nectar there.
Not far from the rose flowers was a flower garden, but because it had been planted for a short time, there were still very few flowers blooming.
