There were rhubarb and baa ba, and more than twenty roasted sweet potatoes with no skin left.

Basking in the warm sun, Qin Xiaoxiao leaned on her chubby and soft belly, patted her round belly and gradually felt sleepy.

"Sister, go collect firewood with your brother. Once the basket is full, let's... Ouch!" Dabao didn't dare to let his sister sleep on the mountain, so he walked over and pulled her little arm. As a result, before he even touched her clothes, he was slapped by Chubby.

The claws swatted away.

"Brother, there's no bleeding, right?" Qin Xiaoxiao's drowsiness suddenly disappeared. She got up and looked at the back of her brother's hand. She felt relieved when she saw that there was no bleeding or scratches on it.

"This is my sister, you are protecting her." Dabao muttered, then met his chubby, cold eyes, which frightened him so much that he thought this guy wanted to pounce and bite him to death.

Worrying that there was still fire in the ashes, several people used wooden sticks to push all the ashes into the stream. After watching the stream wash away the ashes bit by bit, they picked up their baskets and went halfway up the mountain to collect firewood.

Qin Xiaoxiao and Sanbao followed closely hand in hand, and the black wild raccoons did not leave, walking around her with graceful steps. Maybe they looked at Dahuang and Bieya and scratched them from time to time.

Rhubarb and Bieme refused to coddle the black raccoon with its slutty claws. They would fight back every time they were scratched.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't want either of them to get hurt, so she had to persuade them nicely to stop fighting, which made her unable to pick up a few firewood, so she just helped to keep the fight going.

The others were happy to watch the fun and picked up firewood. Before long, the baskets on their backs were filled with dead branches. At Dabao's reminder, Qin Xiaoxiao picked up the black raccoons one by one and waved goodbye to them.

"Meow~"

The black raccoons had already accepted the fact that the little cutie could not live with them, and this time they still did not pester her to let her go. They squatted on the mountainside and watched her go down the mountain as before.

Qin Xiaoxiao turned back three times step by step until the black raccoons completely disappeared from sight.

"Aren't you scared anymore?" Dabao looked at his sister's reluctant look and couldn't help but miss her when she was so scared by the cat that her legs were so weak that she couldn't walk.

Qin Xiaoxiao said distressedly: "The big cats I know are no longer afraid, but the ones I don't know are still afraid."

Dabao doubted: "They look exactly the same, can you still recognize them?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and shared his experience in cat recognition: "As long as you recognize the fattest big cat, the fattest big cat will definitely recognize the big cat he brought!"

Dabao was very speechless: This kind of cat recognition technique can only be thought up by my silly sister.

"Dabao, the black wild beaver likes Sister Xiaoxiao so much that he even gave you a big pheasant. In the future, your family will be short of meat. If you release Sister Xiaoxiao on the mountain, you will have endless meat to eat."

"Yes, if my sister can attract the love of the black wild fox like this, and take her up the mountain every day to keep her, she can sell the endless pheasants in the city for money!"

"Hey, this is a good method. You can get money quickly and effortlessly."

Ergou and others were more interested in the black beaver sending pheasants. They couldn't hide their envy in their words, and they all came up with ideas to make money for Dabao. It was not difficult to hear the instigation in them.

Dabao was repeatedly told by Mr. Qin not to use Qin Xiaoxiao's ability to instruct her to do anything, lest it bring disaster to her.

He kept these words in mind, and after hearing what Ergou and others said, he said angrily: "If I do this, wouldn't I be sending my sister to please the beast? In your eyes, my Dabao is the kind of person who betrays his sister for money?

"

Ergou and others did not expect Dabao's reaction to be so big, and they immediately dismissed their little thoughts: "Forget it if you don't have this idea, we are just talking casually, you don't need to take it seriously."

Dabao reluctantly accepted their words and looked better: "Our family loves my sister very much and is reluctant to let her please a bunch of beasts. Besides, it was just a coincidence that the black wild raccoon gave the pheasant this time. We hope to make money from this.

What’s the difference between that and the lazy guy in the story about waiting for something to happen?”

Ergou and others thought of the farmer who starved to death in the story, and couldn't help but blush. They felt ashamed for having that thought just now, and were speechless.

Dabao didn't want to lecture them or embarrass them. Seeing that they no longer mentioned the matter, he deliberately said: "Today, when we were roasting something on the mountain and encountered a black raccoon, none of you should tell anyone.

My grandpa will definitely beat me if he knows that I took my sister up the mountain!"

Ergou and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief, patted their chests and responded, "Don't worry, if I tell anyone about this, my parents will know that I stole food, and they will beat me up."

The half-grown child's emotions came and went quickly, and soon he started talking and laughing lively again. On the rugged mountain road, there were bursts of laughter.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, several people went back to their homes to look for their mothers.

Dabao held the hands of his younger brother and sister and never forgot to tell them: "Except for our family, if anyone coaxes you to go up the mountain in the future, you will not be able to go. Do you understand?"

Qin Xiaoxiao was in a good mood and jumped forward: "I know, grandpa and the others have already said it."

Sanbao also nodded: "If you don't go, there are bad guys."

"Yes, there are bad guys!" Dabao was very happy, fearing that they would not remember it well enough, so he deliberately scared: "The big cats on the mountain don't bite people, but there are many tigers and jackals that are bigger than the big cats. They like to eat things like

You are such a kid."

Qin Xiaoxiao and Sanbao were indeed frightened, their faces full of horror.

Dabao was very satisfied and quickly comforted them, saying that his family would protect them and they would not be afraid of tigers and wolves when going to the mountains... Anyway, they could only go into the mountains if their family took them with them!

When the three brothers and sisters returned home, gray-black smoke was rising from the chimney on the stove, and the smell of stewed radish floated in the yard.

Qin Xiaoxiao smelled the radish smell and felt that she was about to turn into a little radish. She felt her stomach, which was not hungry at all, and made up her mind not to eat lunch, so that she would not need to eat radish with her meal.

Seeing Dabao coming back with a lot of firewood, the adults couldn't help praising him for his diligence, but they didn't expect that under the guise of collecting firewood, he ran to the mountain with food to roast and eat. When he saw the pheasant under the basket on his back, Mr. Qin couldn't help but ask about the pheasant.

How did it come about.

Knowing that it was sent by the black wild raccoon, Mr. Qin didn't say anything and just put the pheasant out of the reach of the rhubarb.

Dabao, on the other hand, was very uneasy and told the two dogs that they saw the black raccoon giving away pheasants.

Speaking of which, Dabao also regretted it. He thought that in such a cold weather, the black raccoons must be sleeping in their holes. Even if they knew that his sister had gone up the mountain, they would not find her. Who would have thought that not only would they find her, but they would also bring one with them?

Pheasant, let Ergou and the others take a good look at it.

If he had known this, he would not have taken his younger brothers and sisters to the mountains to play. The only good thing is that the previous two times when the black beaver sent hares, no one knew about it. This time, it should not attract anyone's attention.

"Forget it this time. Next time there are others around, don't take your sister up the mountain again." Mr. Qin also felt that the problem was not big, so he did not blame Dabao, but just reminded him.

"Grandpa, I understand." Dabao responded, reminding himself to be careful in the future.

The grandfather and grandson talked for a while and then started to eat. Lin Qiuniang put the food on the table and didn't see her daughter, so she called out in the main room.

"Mom, I want to sleep and not eat." Qin Xiaoxiao had already crawled onto the bed to take a rest. When she heard her mother's cry, she hurriedly responded and wrapped herself tightly in the quilt.

Lin Qiuniang thought her daughter was not feeling well, so she hurried back to the room and put her hand on her forehead. She was relieved when she saw that she had no fever and her face looked normal: "Why don't you eat? You have been running in the mountains for a long time, and you are not hungry."

Qin Xiaoxiao felt extremely guilty. She rolled her eyes and said, "It's hungry, but its eyelids are fighting. It wants to sleep."

Lin Qiuniang said suspiciously: "In the past, you girl got sleepy after eating. Now you are complaining to me that you are sleepy. Did you eat something?"

Qin Xiaoxiao thought her mother saw it, and said in a panic: "No, no, there is no food on the mountain."

Lin Qiuniang became more and more suspicious. She rubbed her cold hands and reached into the quilt to touch her daughter's belly. She found that her belly was bulging and she pressed it gently. After confirming that it was not flatulence, her face instantly pulled down: "Still...

You said you haven’t eaten anything, so your stomach is filled with rocks?”

Seeing that she couldn't hide it from her mother, Qin Xiaoxiao hurriedly got up and said honestly: "Mom, don't be angry. I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes, so I begged my elder brother to take the sweet potatoes and take Sanbao and I to the mountains to roast them.

, I don’t dare to say it for fear of being scolded.”

Lin Qiuniang guessed that it was her eldest nephew's idea as soon as she heard it. Her daughter was doing it for her eldest nephew. She couldn't help but poked her forehead hard: "Roast sweet potatoes, just bake sweet potatoes. Will our family be reluctant to part with a few sweet potatoes? That's not it.

I'm afraid that if you bake it half-cooked and you'll get upset if you eat it, I won't let you bake it secretly?"

Qin Xiaoxiao, taking advantage of her small body, rolled into her mother's arms and hugged her like a baby: "Mom, I know I was wrong, and I will never hide it from you again."

Lin Qiuniang looked at her bare feet, pulled up the quilt and covered her up: "Forget it this time, if you dare to lie to me next time, let's see how I deal with you!"

Qin Xiaoxiao said hurriedly: "If you don't lie, you won't lie. If you lie to someone, you are just a puppy."

Lin Qiuniang heard this no less than ten times. She shook her head helplessly. She had no choice but to help her daughter: "Okay, you can go to sleep well. Mom will warm your food in the pot and eat it when you get up."

"Thank you, mother~" Qin Xiaoxiao kissed her mother on the face and cautiously asked: "Mom, don't leave the carrots, okay?"

Lin Qiuniang suppressed her laughter and refused without hesitation: "No, you lied to my mother today, and I have to eat a double portion of radish as punishment. Let's see if you dare to do it again!"

"Mom~ you are the best mother in the world, and I love you the most. Can you please spare me this time?" Qin Xiaoxiao looked at her mother pitifully, wishing she could squeeze out two more tears, but her acting skills were a pity.

There is no success if it is not in place.

Lin Qiuniang originally didn't want to agree, but the little girl was so good at teasing and coquettish that she "backed off" after a short time of persistence, so she had to give up the carrot punishment.

As Qin Xiaoxiao disliked the carrots more and more day by day, the three Qinshan brothers who had not been home for a month and a half finally came back.

The moment Qin Xiaoxiao threw herself into her arms and called her daddy, Qinshan, a grown man, hugged his beloved daughter and sobbed like a three-year-old child.

I learned that my daughter was so frightened by a white-flowered snake that I almost caught one and brought it back to burn incense and worship. Then I learned that the white-flowered snake was picked up by my daughter and had her father peel the skin and cramp the muscles to make a soup and offer it to the Five Zang Temple.

, his face twisted for a while.

Qin Chuan and Qin He didn't think too much. They happily hugged their little niece and teased her to talk. The stone that was weighing on their hearts was easily moved away by their little niece's crisp laughter.

This time, Qinshan Qinchuan not only brought back two taels of silver wages, but also brought back three pieces of very good quality materials.

Each piece of this material cost at least one tael of silver, but Qin Shan and Qin Chuan bought three pieces for only one tael of silver. This was because the workers at the cloth shop where they worked were accidentally dyeing and dyeing the good material.

Already.

Naturally, such fabric cannot be sold at a normal price. Qinshan saw that there were not many stained areas, and a little cutting would not affect the making of clothes. After discussing with Qin Chuan, he gritted his teeth and spent a tael of silver to buy three pieces to make for the whole family.

I still have two pairs of new clothes left.

The most important thing is that it is cheap, similar to the price of the materials they usually buy. If only the rich would buy this kind of material, and the rich would not look down on dyed materials, the cloth shop would not be willing to sell it at a low price.

"If you buy such a good material, you will make a profit!" Zhao Cao'er, who was worried about the money at first, touched the material with his hands and looked at the stained areas, and then his mind started to change: "There are other cloth shops with such material

No? We can buy more and sell them to the villagers with a little extra money. It’s almost the Chinese New Year, so there will definitely be people buying them.”

The others were stunned and subconsciously thought about the feasibility of this deal.
To be continued...