CHAPTER 20: CHAPTER 20: THE SCHEMING YANG QINGRUI

Moreover, this little kid was even more cunning than Yang Chuxia. He didn’t criticize Old Lady Hua indirectly like Yang Chuxia but drew a direct comparison between himself, Yang Dachuan, and Xiao’an. Admittedly, only by comparing Dachuan’s personal experience could he come to his senses at this time.

"Qingrui, your grandmother may have done something wrong, but she is still your grandmother after all,"

Yang Qingrui, imitating Yang Chuxia, rolled his eyes and said, "Dad, my grandmother is buried underground. If she knew you were treating her as your step-grandmother, she would come back to life from anger."

Yang Dachuan was at a loss for words, thinking that the child was a little too bold and not well-behaved. He deliberately pulled a face and said,

"Hey, where did you learn those words from, boy? What step-grandmother? Watch out or she’ll skin you if she hears that."

"Dad, just drop it. Now that my sister is protecting me, I’m not afraid of her." Yang Qingrui grabbed two steamed buns and waved at Yang Dachuan, "I’m going to find my sister now, she and I will eat these. You’ll have to eat everything else left here. My sister said it right, we can’t get enough of our own crops, but we let outsiders fill their bellies. Isn’t that right?"

With that said, Yang Qingrui crawled into the woods, leaving Dachuan in a daze. After a while, he muttered to himself, "What a rascal, it sounds like he’s cursing me."

"Sister, sister where are you?" yelled Yang Qingrui as soon as he entered the woods. "Sister, sister?"

"Little brat, why are you yelling so loudly? You scared away a quail!"

Hearing the voice, Yang Chuxia climbed down from a sturdy pine tree and glared at Yang Qingrui discontentedly.

These few days, the bland food at Wang Family made her taste buds almost lose their sense of taste. Just now, when she was in the field, she got excited when she saw such a nearby mountain because there were so many game animals in the mountains. So she decided to go up the mountain for a while and catch some game to improve their food.

However, she thought too much. Although the mountain was so big, there was no game at all, like wild chickens, rabbits, and boars, which only existed in her imagination. The mountain was as clean as a manmade pine forest now. No wonder Yang Dachuan didn’t stop the two children from going up the mountain.

Although occasionally a few birds flew past, they were hard to catch.

She found the quail nest only by chance. In order to catch the female quail, she had been stalking at the bottom of the tree for quite a while. Just as she was about to grab the quail, Yang Qingrui’s shouting startled her. She accidentally touched the quail nest, causing the only quail left to run away, leaving behind five small eggs.

"Sister, what are you holding?"

"Quail eggs. There was a quail too, but it ran away."

"Ah?" Yang Qingrui was both happy and disappointed, "Sister, was it me who scared away the quail?"

"What do you think?" Yang Chuxia helplessly stuffed the quail eggs into Yang Qingrui’s arms, "Hold on to them, we’ll roast them later."

"Big sister, why is there nothing but bare mountains here? Look at how scarce the weeds are on the ground."

"The mountain has always been like this!"

"I was hoping to catch some wild chickens or rabbits for roasting. If we’re lucky, we might even come across a silly deer. But I haven’t found anything yet."

"Sister, if there were wild animals in these mountains, nobody would dare to go there."