Chapter 279: The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms
It wasn’t mealtime yet, so there was nowhere to eat.
“What do you want to eat?”
Wu Xiaohu asked, although it wasn’t mealtime yet, they could have someone buy food from outside.
Qin Wanwan’s eyes sparkled: “I want to eat roast lamb, do you have it?”
“That might take a while…”
“Yes!”
Wu Xiaohu suddenly interjected: “You forgot, our Master Liu raises three sheep in his courtyard.”
The tutors and masters at the academy were assigned housing, and they were the kind that came with a not-small courtyard.
“You mean?”
“This doesn’t seem right.”
A few minutes later, a group of people arrived outside the unlucky Master Liu’s residence and could hear sheep bleating before they even got close.
Qin Wanwan squatted by the wall with them, her eyes shining as she watched them: “Are we going to steal a sheep now?”
“How can this be considered stealing?”
A rather handsome young man argued with righteous indignation: “See that residence next door? That’s Master Yang’s. He’s complained for a long time that Master Liu’s sheep aren’t just noisy, their droppings stink, and they’ve made the air in this area foul.
Because of this, the two masters often argue and even fight. As disciples of both masters, how can we stand by while they let a few sheep ruin their relationship? We’re doing this for their own good.”
Wu Xiaohu and the others looked at him with admiration.
“As expected of you, Le Mingli. You can make black out to be white. Among us, only your eloquence can rival those pedantic scholars from the literary academy. You’re our best strategist.”
Le Mingli: “If you can’t say something nice, shut your mouth.”
Wu Xiaohu called out to the others: “Quick, two people to stand guard, three people to lure the sheep out. Wanwan, you just need to follow behind us and do as we do.”
Qin Wanwan nodded like a pecking chicken, feeling a little excited.
Then, the group split up and cooperated.
Keke: “Looking at how skilled they are, they’ve probably done their fair share of sneaking and stealing.”
Qin Wanwan: “I really want to go see too.”
Keke extended his wings to cover her eyes: “Cub, you’re not allowed to learn these things. Let’s learn something good.”
Wu Xiaohu and the others rapidly scaled the wall into Master Liu’s residence. Several energetic young men sneaked in stealthily, and then ran out in a panic.
“Ahhh… why didn’t anyone tell me these sheep were so fierce!”
Several young men were chased out by an adult ram with long horns.
“Aoo! Run faster up front!”
“Keep your voices down, do you want to attract attention?”
“It’s not your butt it’s butting, so of course you don’t care. Ouch…”
The one running behind was directly headbutted and sent flying by the sheep.
Wu Xiaohu, his temper flaring: “What are you running for? With so many of us, can’t we beat one sheep? Let’s fight it out!”
“That’s right, I, this young master, refuse to believe we can’t beat a sheep.”
So, Qin Wanwan and Keke watched them pick up branches, stones, and the like, and charge back.
The few of them and the sheep started fighting, and after a period of chaos, the sheep got tired, and so did the people.
In the end, it was Lang Ya who couldn’t stand it and stepped forward to deal with the sheep.
“Fin… finally it’s dead.”
“If we had weapons, we wouldn’t have had trouble catching a sheep.”
“I’m so tired. This sheep is a total pervert. Why did it butt my butt? Hiss, my butt must be bruised.”
“How do we eat this?”
Qin Wanwan walked over and poked the sheep, which had wide eyes, a crooked tongue, and died with its eyes open.
“Let’s go to the back mountain, quickly, quickly, we won’t be able to eat it if Master Liu comes back.”
An adult ram was quite heavy, requiring several people to carry it.
“Just a few days ago we learned how to process prey in the wilderness, now we can practice.”
Many of the things taught at the Martial Arts Academy were quite practical, such as how to find food in the wild and how to navigate.
Although they were all young men around ten years old, they had been going out with their elders to ride horses and hunt since they were young, so they weren’t afraid of handling a dead sheep.
However…
They had never actually done it before.
They arrived in the forest in the back mountain, near a small stream, a good place to clean the lamb.
Wu Xiaohu and the others held the daggers borrowed from Lang Ya and gestured for a long time, not knowing where to start.
“What did Master Ke teach us?”
“Stupid, you have to skin it first.”
“But we killed a chicken in class, is this the same process as with a sheep?”
“It’s all meat, it should be the same, right? How long will it take to pluck all these hairs?”
Qin Wanwan sat on a stone that served as a small stool, which Wu Xiaohu had specifically found for her.
“Scrape the fur off with a dagger, and then you have to burn it to get rid of the remaining hair.”
The young men’s gazes all turned towards her.
“Wanwan, you know how?”
Qin Wanwan shook her head: “I don’t know, but I saw Daddy process one.”
With Qin Wanwan’s guidance, they began to prepare efficiently.
Actually, hot water should be used to scald it, but they didn’t have the conditions now.
The young men made a mess while processing the sheep, and various situations arose that almost led to a fight, but in the end, Lang Ya couldn’t bear to watch any longer.
When they finished, when would Wanwan get to eat?
So he snatched the dagger and, expressionless, began to skin the sheep directly.
Wu Xiaohu and the others watched from the side, eagerly learning.
“I’m here, I’m here, I brought the grill and the seasoning.”
This was borrowed from a master at the academy’s dining hall.
With Lang Ya’s help, the sheep was quickly processed.
Qin Wanwan followed Wu Xiaohu and the others to collect dry firewood.
As she collected firewood, her little mouth didn’t rest either.
“I’m a little girl collecting firewood. Oh, there are mushrooms here too. Keke, this mushroom is so beautiful, can I eat it? I want to eat grilled mushrooms.”
Keke glanced at it: “It’s poisonous, you can’t eat that one.”
Qin Wanwan said “oh.”
“Wow, this one is so cute. Keke, can I take it back and raise it?”
She found another beautiful small mushroom, a very beautiful and dreamy blue, with a lovely shape, like a little jellyfish.
“You can raise it if you want, but this thing is poisonous.”
Qin Wanwan carefully dug up the small mushroom along with the surrounding soil and branches: “It’s okay, little Qilin won’t get poisoned.”
What started as a little girl collecting firewood had now become a little girl collecting mushrooms, specifically poisonous ones.
“This green mushroom is also beautiful.”
“Wow… this one is pink!”
Keke: …No, how did she find so many poisonous mushrooms?
As Qin Wanwan was busily digging up her sixth cluster of beautiful poisonous mushrooms, Wu Xiaohu and the others came to find her.
“Wanwan, why did you come here? We have enough firewood, let’s go back quickly.”
“What are you digging up? Wow, is this a mushroom? It looks so beautiful, can we eat it?”
Qin Wanwan carefully placed a few beautiful mushrooms on leaves: “No, Keke said they are all poisonous.”
“Ah? They’re poisonous, so why are you picking them?”
Qin Wanwan said crisply: “They’re beautiful, I want to take them back and raise them.”
