【Chapter 20】Save the Snow Fox
At midnight, Yu Wan was awakened by a heat wave. When she woke up, she found that Xiao Tiedan wet the bed.
Xiao Tiedan stopped wetting the bed since she was two years old, but after eating dumplings last night, Gulugulu drank three big bowls of water and finally successfully urinated the bed.
Yu Wan was so amused that she hurriedly got up to change the bedding. She was about to wake up Jiang, but she discovered Jiang's heroic sleeping position.
Mrs. Jiang lay flat, her left leg hunched lightly, and her right ankle casually rested on the knee of her left leg.
Yu Wan couldn't help but look dark. Didn't she say she was a lady from the city? She was a lady from the family, and she was like a female bandit sleeping for Mao?!
Yu Wan closed her eyes: "My mother is a lady, my mother is a lady..."
At the end, Yu Wan changed all the beds, but she couldn't wake up the lady Jiang.
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Before dawn, Yu Wan woke up. After washing up, she first went to the well shared in the village to carry water. Then she went to the field of my uncle's house, intending to cut some sweet potato vine leaves. Her hometown called this vine leaves pig grass. When there were no leftovers, my aunt cut them and fed them to the pigs.
But halfway through the way, she remembered that there was no pig grass in winter.
She had no choice but to dig some cabbage and radish from her own field.
The pig ate so well at the Zhao family that he was a little disgusted with the cabbage and radish, but fortunately he was about to sell it.
Yu Wan only plans to sell half of it and keep the remaining half for a good New Year with her uncle's family.
The day after tomorrow is the day to go to the market. She can dig more winter bamboo shoots in the past two days, and then call her elder brother and second brother to buy some fresh crucian carp, and then they can be sold at the market together.
After Yu Wan heated the breakfast in the pot, she brought tools and dry food to the backyard and went into the mountain.
All the bamboos close to this side were dug by Yu Wan. In order to dig up fresher and more plump winter bamboo shoots, Yu Wan walked into a deeper place in the forest.
The bamboo in the middle is either too old to produce bamboo shoots, or too tender to grow high-quality winter bamboo shoots well. Yu Wan walked forward patiently.
This bamboo forest is really big, and Yu Wan's legs are sore that she has not yet walked out.
Just let her discover the bamboo that she could dig.
Yu Wan determined the position of the bamboo whip based on the direction of the bamboo leaves, squatted down, took out a shovel from the backpack and was about to dig it, but suddenly, an unusual movement came from not far away, like... the sound of some claws scratching.
Yu Wan's first reaction was that there was prey!
The prey in the deep mountains and forests may be a ferocious beast. Yu Wan held the hatchet tightly and walked over step by step in the direction of movement and stillness. However, when she got there, there was no ferocious beast? It was obvious that there was only a little snow fox trapped in the animal cage.
The animal cage is already very old and has rust all around it. It doesn’t look like it’s used by hunters, so naturally there is no bait. I don’t know how this little snow fox locked himself in.
Its tail was a little damaged and its hair was bald.
Yu Wan looked at it with interest and began to estimate the "value" of the snow fox and sold it. I wonder if she could make up the money to go to the capital.
When Xiaoxue Fox saw someone coming, she was not afraid. Instead, she opened her dark eyes wide and showed a grievance.
Yu Wan laughed, opened the beast cage, and grabbed the little snow fox.
It was a long time to say that, and just as Yu Wan went to find a rope to tie it, it kicked its legs suddenly, twisted its body, and slid out of Yu Wan's palm.
It rushed into the depths of the bamboo forest!
"I want to run? It's not that easy!"
Yu Wan doesn't believe that she can't catch up with an injured young fox!
After running for a while, Yu Wan really caught up with it.
"You little thing, you still..." Yu Wan walked over with her backpack, and stopped halfway through her words. She saw the little snow fox suddenly stopped moving. Following the opposite side of it, Yu Wan saw a low-lying grass, with seven or eight pheasants walking around in the grass.
These pheasants are much more fatter than the pheasants she caught in the fields!
It is really rare that pheasants who can grow such fat in winter.
"Did this little thing actually take me to find a pheasant?" Yu Wan was a little incredible.
As if to confirm Yu Wan's guess, the little snow fox actually jumped out of the grass to catch chickens.
"You are not as big as a chicken! What are you catching?"
It scared the chicken away!
Yu Wan had no choice but to hurry to catch the chickens.
Yu Wan caught five of them in total, each of them was chubby.
The little snow fox chewed a chicken feather, but he didn't catch any of them.
Afterwards, Xiaoxue Fox ran to another hare nest, and Yu Wan naturally followed him and caught two fat and strong hares.
The young fox looked at the little one, but he didn't expect to be so familiar with the deep mountains and forests. The harvest this trip was worth as much as her digging hundreds of kilograms of bamboo shoots.
Yu Wan glanced at the little snow fox. Somehow, she suddenly felt reluctant to sell it. It would be better to keep it. It would be nice to take it up the mountain to hunt every day...
Thoughts flashed, Yu Wan took out her dry food from her backpack - two big meat buns she made with her own hands.
Although the buns are a little cold, they have thin skin and a lot of meat, exuding a strong meaty aroma.
The little snow fox sat upright, staring at the bag in Yu Wan's hand with green light.
"Do you want to eat?" Yu Wan asked terrifiedly.
The little snow fox moved forward.
Yu Wan went to untidy the burden. Halfway through the removal, Xiao Xuehu's head suddenly turned and his little ears moved. I don't know if he heard something, he picked up Yu Wan's burden and ran away!
Yu Wan thought it was going to take it to hunt again, but this time, it disappeared.
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On the other end of the bamboo forest, the waterside pavilions are quiet.
In an elegant farmyard, the middle-aged man put down his burden on his shoulders. He first went to see the little snow fox in the house.
The little snow fox lay obediently on the soft mat.
The middle-aged man nodded as if satisfied, turned to the guard's servant and said, "Young Master is coming soon. You go and make a fire first, burn the earth dragon, and I'll see what you can eat."
"Yes!" The two servants responded respectfully.
The middle-aged man left, and after a while, his expression changed drastically and walked in: "Why are the chickens we raise?"
The peddlers were confused.
No, I just fed it.
Xiaoxue fox carried her body guiltily and hugged her half-baked tail.
"Okay, your sir!" The middle-aged man went out again, and after half a quarter of an hour, he came back panting again, "Why are even a rabbit gone?!"
The little snow fox silently covered himself with his tail.
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Xiaoxue Fox: The baby has two big meat buns!
Brother Jiu: I'll share one.
Little Snow Fox: Humph!
Brother Jiu: Keep your entire body.
Chapter completed!