NCCnovel Chapter 1154 The fat sheep that's already in our mouths can't get away.
Chapter 1154 The fat sheep that's already in our mouths can't get away.
"Grandma, I want to eat chicken drumsticks, not chicken feet. Chicken feet don't taste good."
The child, who looked only three or four years old, was holding two chicken feet in his hands. His greasy little hands grabbed Aunt Wang's clothes and he was acting spoiled and clingy.
Aunt Wang immediately punched the child on the back.
"Being picky is bad enough. I'm already grateful to have anything to eat. Why would I want chicken legs? Do I look like a chicken leg?"
The child, who had been scolded, burst into tears, looking around for someone to vent to.
Apart from Aunt Wang and the child in her arms, everyone else in Aunt Wang's family had already gone far away.
The child looked at Minglang and his group with a wrinkled face.
With greasy hands outstretched, he walked towards Minglang.
"Grandma said chicken feet are for women, she's offering them to me, but I won't eat them!"
As he was crying, the child swung two chicken claws at Minglang.
Minglang took two steps back, and the chicken claws landed on the muddy ground.
Aunt Wang cursed under her breath, "You brat."
It immediately rushed towards Minglang's feet, trying to pick up the chicken feet.
But the dogs that were surrounding it snatched it away and ate it.
Aunt Wang has a loud voice, which woke up the child in her arms, who started crying.
This time, Minglang actually saw kindness and gentleness on Aunt Wang's face.
With patience, she gently lifted the swaddling clothes covering the child's face.
Only after confirming that the child was alright did they cover the baby back with the swaddle.
Following the child's weak cries, Minglang glanced at the baby in the swaddling clothes.
His brows furrowed and then quickly relaxed, all within a few breaths.
"You brat, don't you know you should save the food for your mother to help with lactation? You're wasting food, you'll drive me crazy sooner or later."
Aunt Wang, seething with anger, used her free finger to poke the child's forehead repeatedly.
"My mother didn't have any milk at all, and my younger brother drank goat's milk. You've already had my brother, so you don't love me anymore!"
Minglang was listening when the head of the village interrupted the farce.
"Hurry up and take the child away, don't keep the guests from resting."
Aunt Wang chuckled twice and dragged the crying child away.
All along the way, Minglang could still hear the child's cries even when they were far away.
"That's how kids in the village are; they've never seen much of the world."
The head of the village tried to smooth things over after the farce.
Minglang didn't move. After Qin Xiaosi went in first to check the situation and came out to confirm that it was safe to stay, he led his horse inside.
When Qin Xiaosi returned after dealing with the head of the manor, the houses had already been assigned.
The main room has two large beds, enough to comfortably fit four people without having to squeeze in.
Minglang declined the offer and asked Qin Xiaosi for a room in the left wing.
The rest are up to them to divide.
After the group of ten quickly packed their things, there was a knock on the gate.
Qin Xiaosi glanced at His Highness: "It must be the feed delivery people. I'll go take a look."
When Qin Xiaosi opened the door to the left wing and went out, he saw that the other guards had also come out.
Qin Xiaosi opened the courtyard gate and saw piles of concentrated feed at the entrance.
"These are all what you asked for. Check them, and if there are no problems, we'll send them in for you."
Qin Xiaosi didn't move. The others stepped forward and carefully checked the feed. After confirming that everything was correct, they nodded to Qin Xiaosi.
“Over the years, many people have stayed overnight in our village. Our cattle are reluctant to eat this concentrated feed; it is all reserved for the fine horses of distinguished guests like you who come to stay.”
As they were talking, Chang Da and the others prepared to carry the concentrated feed inside, but were refused by the guards.
"We can handle these ourselves, you can go back."
Chang Da's outstretched hand remained in place, and he gave a couple of awkward chuckles.
"What would you like to eat for dinner? The stoves in everyone's houses are still warm, so it's easy to prepare food."
Qin Xiaosi was silent for a moment:
"Give us some rice, and we'll cook it ourselves."
Chang Da seemed surprised by his words. He glanced at the sword at Qin Xiaosi's waist out of the corner of his eye, and his neck, which had just been treated, started to hurt again.
"But I misspoke earlier and offended you, young master. The cost of dinner has been calculated and there is absolutely no mistake. You can rest assured, young master. I guarantee it with my life."
Qin Xiaosi ignored his words: "We only need some rice, we can cook it ourselves."
Seeing that this person was unyielding, Chang Da didn't want to keep pestering him, so he had no choice but to agree for now.
"Okay, I'll go back and get the rice now."
Qin Xiaosi and the others waited until these people had all gone far away before carrying the concentrated feed into the yard.
As soon as the concentrated feed was put down in the yard, Qin Xiaosi immediately climbed over the yard wall.
Sure enough, those people came back around.
The mouth is not very clean.
It wasn't too late yet, and the lights were still on in all the nearby houses.
If someone were to scale walls and rooftops at this time, they would definitely be seen.
After Chang Da and his friends returned, they eavesdropped at the courtyard gate.
Some people tried to climb over the wall, but Chang Da pulled them down.
Chang Da pinched the shoulder hard on the skinny man who was trying to climb over the wall, raised his hand as if to hit him, gave him a warning, and then continued to eavesdrop on the courtyard gate.
Chang Dacai knocked on the courtyard gate again after one of them brought the rice.
The guards who were tidying up the horses' resting place in the courtyard saw that Lord Qin was still lying on the courtyard wall, so they pretended not to hear.
After a while, Qin Xiaosi came down from the courtyard wall, opened the gate halfway, and took the rice from Chang Da's hand: "Thank you."
Then they closed the gate.
The meat and vegetables Chang Da was holding in his other hand were refused entry.
"We've also prepared some meat and vegetables, not much, but they're all fresh. Please take them and eat them."
Chang Da knocked on the door from outside, but Qin Xiao Si coldly replied, "No need, you can go back."
So he took the rice to the kitchen to start a fire and cook.
Chang Da had been upset here, and on his way back, he stood at his door for a while, glancing at the fine pork belly in his hand several times.
I held back and took it to the head of the village.
"They didn't want it?"
Old Zhuangtou was casually puffing on welding fumes when Chang Da walked in, his cloudy eyes immediately fixed on the meat and vegetables in Chang Da's hand.
"I only want the rice, Uncle Jiu. But was that rice soaked in medicine? It doesn't feel like it to me."
The man called Uncle Nine gave a disdainful sneer.
He tapped the pipe lightly on the table.
"You can tell just by looking at them. Those young ladies look incredibly wealthy, and the guards around them are no ordinary people either. They could easily be relatives of the royal family. How could they not tell?"
Chang Da's heart pounded as Uncle Jiu spoke, and he swallowed hard several times.
"So we're just going to let them go like this? If we just pick any one of them and sell them, we could make as much as we did in a year. If we don't do it, we'll lose out!"
Chang Da didn't even bother with the meat and vegetables in his hands, and just casually put them on the table.
He plopped down next to Uncle Nine: "Uncle Nine, you were the one who approved this business. There's a ready-made fat sheep right in front of you. Uncle Nine, you're not scared, are you?"