Chapter 30: Let Keke Hatch It
She sat with her little fat legs crossed, holding a goose egg and stretching her little neck to peek around, looking at Xie Chong sewing pants.
Xie Chong looked rough and strong, but the stitches he sewed himself were very tight.
This was all due to poverty.
Since he was young, he had sewn his own clothes.
“Done.”
He finished his stitches and Xie Chong shook his old loincloth. Although the scraps of fabric he found were similar in color to the loincloth, the patches were still clearly visible.
“Daddy is amazing.”
Placing the egg between her legs, Qin Wanwan, like a little seal, clapped her hands.
Her gaze of praise was exceptionally sincere.
Xie Chong scratched her little chin.
When it was almost time to sleep, he took the goose egg she had been holding in her arms away.
“Don’t put it on the bed, it’ll get crushed. Let Ke Ke hatch it.”
Ke Ke protested, “I’m a parrot, not a goose. What kind of skill is it to bully a parrot!”
Xie Chong ignored it. As he lay down to sleep, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He reached under his pillow and pulled out a hard fruit.
Qin Wanwan’s little face was innocent, “Wanwan forgot, this is a milk fruit for Daddy.”
“What milk fruit?”
He had never even heard of the name of this fruit.
“Daddy, eat.”
It was almost bedtime, what fruit was there to eat: “I’ll eat it tomorrow.”
He put the fruit aside.
After lying down, Qin Wanwan, whose hair was already dry, skillfully rolled into his arms.
Just as Xie Chong was about to hold the clingy little one, he suddenly frowned.
He pulled a little black snake from Qin Wanwan’s body.
Xie Chong: “…Why do you bring everything to bed?”
“Did you bring the rabbits up?”
That nest of little rabbits had also been brought back.
Qin Wanwan nuzzled against his neck.
“No, the little rabbits didn’t take a bath.”
“Even if they did, they can’t be brought up.”
Qin Wanwan let out a soft “oh” and mumbled with her eyes squinted.
“Sleepy, Daddy, sleep.”
Xie Chong threw the little black snake off the bed.
Little Black Snake: …
In the end, it could only feel wronged and coil on Qin Wanwan’s little shoes.
The next day, when Xie Chong got up, he didn’t see it and almost stepped on the little black snake.
He picked up the little snake: “It actually didn’t run away.”
Those animals seemed to particularly like his daughter.
His warhorse, the hornet, this snake, and the rabbits that didn’t struggle at all even when caught.
What kind of spirit or monster was this little one?
When he went out today, the lawn in the courtyard had changed again.
“It’s grown taller again.”
In just three days, the grass had already grown to the height of a finger.
And the front yard had truly become a beautiful lawn.
Xie Chong went to the stable to lead out his horse. As he passed the front yard lawn, it went to chew grass, and Xie Chong had a hard time pulling it back for a moment.
“Zhan Feng, let’s go.”
Horse: Don’t want to go, delicious, delicious…
Xie Chong said with a cold face: “This is Wanwan’s lawn.”
The horse, with grass in its mouth and a patch of the lawn gnawed bald, seemed to understand.
“Heh, when she wakes up, you can explain it to her yourself.”
A lawn planted only three days ago.
Zhan Feng felt guilty. This time, without his owner’s urging, he walked out, but his eager little eyes remained fixed on the lawn.
It was truly too fragrant!
Xie Chong, with an expressionless face, tugged it along: “Alright, I’ll let you eat it when this grass grows a bit taller.”
Zhan Feng immediately wagged its tail happily and trotted away, its hooves making a clatter.
When Qin Wanwan got out of her room and looked into the courtyard.
“Why is it bare?”
The neatly kept green lawn, even a bald spot at the edge was quite noticeable.
Lang Ya knew, but he couldn’t speak.
Lu He came with water to wash Qin Wanwan’s oily hands that had been holding baozi.
“It was the General’s horse.”
Qin Wanwan wasn’t angry. Instead, her expression held a hint of pride.
“Animals love to eat this grass the most.”
She grew it~
The bald spot should grow back soon.
Qin Wanwan ran over to look. Fortunately, the grass roots weren’t pulled out.
She then thought of the little rabbits she had brought back yesterday.
They had only just opened their eyes, tiny things as big as her hand.
Qin Wanwan picked some of the taller grass leaves. She didn’t just focus on one spot, tearing off a leaf here and a leaf there.
She grabbed a handful and then ran to feed the little rabbits.
There were five little rabbits in the litter. Three of them were grayish, one was black and white, and one was white.
The moment Qin Wanwan took out the grass leaves, the five little rabbits swarmed forward, even climbing over their brothers and sisters to get a bite.
Qin Wanwan: “There’s enough for everyone, don’t crowd.”
On her wrist, a little black snake revealed its head.
Little Black Snake: Hungry.
After feeding the rabbits, she still had to feed the little black snake she had found.
Fortunately, it could eat the eggs and meat at home.
It was just too small now; a whole egg was too big for it to swallow.
The wheat and mung beans in the backyard grew slower than the pasture grass. Anyway, Qin Wanwan didn’t see any growth today when she checked.
“Daddy didn’t eat the milk fruit.”
Holding the big milk fruit, Qin Wanwan opened it herself with Lang Ya’s help, and still gave them a small cup.
This was to nourish the body, and Lang Ya, who was thin, needed to be replenished.
When Daddy gets back, she’ll buy him another one.
Thinking this, Qin Wanwan contentedly hugged the milk fruit juice and drank it little by little.
Aunt Zhang still made some tofu pudding for breakfast today. In the afternoon, under Ke Ke’s direction, she made tofu and douhua.
She and Lu He were both stunned. They never expected that there were so many different ways to prepare soybeans after grinding them into juice.
They had misunderstood soybeans all along!
Lang Ya didn’t care about these things; he just needed to eat.
Besides eating, all his thoughts were focused on Qin Wanwan. The entire General’s Mansion only obeyed Qin Wanwan’s orders; even the General’s arrival made no difference.
“Lang Ya, carry me up. I want to pick the pomegranate across the way.”
Next to the wall of the General’s Mansion was a pomegranate tree, and the fruit on it was already mostly ripe.
But there was no one living in the house across the way.
To be precise, the people living in the house across the way, the neighboring house, were also familiar people; they were her father’s subordinates.
But most of the time, they lived in military tents.
This pomegranate tree was not tended. The pomegranates either got eaten by birds or fell to the ground.
Lang Ya squatted down and, with one arm, lifted the short, stout little one.
Although he was thin, his frame was large and he was tall.
Qin Wanwan sat on Lang Ya’s shoulder, her eyes curved into a smile.
She wasn’t afraid of falling, she was very brave. She stretched out her two chubby arms and began picking pomegranates.
One, two, three. She couldn’t carry any more.
“I’ve finished picking. Put me down quickly.”
The young man obediently put her down.
“Here’s one for you.”
Turning, she handed one to Lang Ya. She hugged the other two and walked slowly back to give them to Lu He and Aunt Zhang.
After giving them away, she ran back to pick more.
Going back and forth, she didn’t seem bothered by the trouble.
The seeds of this pomegranate were not very plump, nor was it very red.
Qin Wanwan sat on the threshold, holding the opened pomegranate and picking out the seeds one by one to eat.
Lang Ya found this troublesome to eat, so he directly took a handful and put it in his mouth, crunching and swallowing the flesh and seeds together.
