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Chapter 4 - 4 3 All Familiar
Chapter 4 - 4 3 All Familiar
?Chapter 4: Chapter 3 All Familiar Chapter 4: Chapter 3 All Familiar Granny Lei had been too excited to sleep last night, worried that upon waking, it would all have been a dream.
Ever since the old man died on the battlefield, the Ruo Family had been plagued by one misfortune after another, with sons going mad, becoming disabled, or going blind… The once prosperous household was steadily declining, and Granny Lei’s heart was filled with bitterness.
Now Xuanbao had finally started talking, the only good thing in ten years, and she feared it was just a dream.
She dared not sleep all night, and before dawn, she suddenly heard the family’s old hen “cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck…” as if it had just laid an egg! But that was a call the old hen would make only after laying an egg.
But the family’s old hen was too old to lay eggs anymore, and she was just reluctant to kill it, planning to save it for the New Year’s feast.
Figuring it was just hungry and squawking, and since she couldn’t sleep anyway, she decided to get up and prepare breakfast for everyone, including a chicken egg custard for her precious granddaughter.
She went to the backyard first to feed the only old hen they had.
When the old woman got to the chicken coop, she saw two eggs lying quietly on the ground, while the old hen slept in a pile of straw.
She was so shocked that her eyes widened: Was this old chicken rejuvenated? Even when it used to lay eggs, it only laid one a day!
After feeding the chicken, she picked up the two still “scalding hot” eggs and went back to the kitchen stove. She used one to make the custard and put the other back into the pot.
In the pot, there were still a few wild duck eggs and bird eggs of varying sizes, collected by her grandsons from the river and the mountains. The family couldn’t bear to eat them, so they saved them all for Xuanbao, who had special needs and could only consume liquid food.
Granny Lei also cooked a pot of white porridge and then went out to the yard to wash the wild vegetables left over from the night before, planning to make mixed grain and wild vegetable pancakes.
The daytime was not like the night, when a bowl of wild vegetable soup could stave off the hunger until sleep took over. But during the day, with farm work to do, one couldn’t go without solid food for energy.
Granny Lei had just finished washing the wild vegetables when she turned around and saw Ruo Xuan standing with a “chicken coop head” of hair and rubbing her eyes sleepily as she walked out of the west wing.
The adorable sight softened her heart!
It wasn’t a dream, Xuanbao could really walk and talk now!
Granny Lei quickly put down the basket she was holding, wiped her wet hands on her clothing, and after drying them, she went to pick up Ruo Xuan and gave her a kiss, “Why did Xuanbao get up so early?”
“Hungry, want persimmons and eggs,” Ruo Xuan pointed towards the persimmon tree, then to the backyard.
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