Chapter 48 The Unanimous Pampering from Everyone in the Qiao Family

Around 10:30 a.m., Qiao Changhong and the others returned.

Qiao Changcai pulled the cart in front, while Qiao Changhong pushed it from behind.

Fang Zhengnan walked in front, carrying something in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he happily greeted Qiao Qiao, who was sitting in the yard waiting for them to return.

“My dear, come and see… what good things did your third aunt bring you…” She stopped before she could finish the word “good things”.

I stared wide-eyed at the bamboo fence in the corner of the yard, which was covered with chicks and contained a nest of fat rabbits.

"Why are there so many rabbits? Are these kids really that good?" The two men who followed in asked in surprise.

Seeing Fang Zhengnan looking excited, Qiao Qiao, who was sitting obediently on a small stool waiting for the others to return, ran over to her side with her short legs.

Only then did I realize that she was also carrying two rabbits in her arms, but they were two baby rabbits, only the size of an adult's palm, fluffy and especially cute.

"Mom, did you go rabbit hunting in the back hills too?" Qiao Hai asked curiously as he walked over, a small cake that Qiao Changdong had bought from the provincial capital dangling from his mouth.

Fang Zhengnan then came to his senses, put the little rabbit in his hand on the ground, and explained helplessly, "This was dug out of the ground."

Rabbits love to burrow in fields where sweet potatoes are grown.

The rabbit burrow they dug today happened to be shallow. As soon as the rake went down, the mother rabbit led the others away. Fang Zhengnan was quick-witted and pounced to catch two of them.

She wouldn't have put in this kind of effort before, but today, seeing her little niece suddenly want to go to the back mountain, she assumed that the niece really wanted a rabbit.

These two are too small to eat, but they're cute enough that I wanted to bring them back for my little niece to play with.

Who knew they would be so amazing today, actually bringing back so many rabbits.

Each one looks to weigh about four or five pounds.

When the adults learned that they had not only hunted a brood of rabbits but also collected more than two hundred wild eggs, all thanks to the little blisters on Qiao Qiao's forehead, they were once again astonished.

Once they were sure that none of this would harm their little niece, they all breathed a sigh of relief and began discussing how to eat the rabbit.

Around 11:30.

Qiao Changdong returned from town.

Similarly, even before they were outside the yard, they called out to the inside, "Sweetie, sweetie, Daddy's home! Come and see what good things Daddy brought you."

Qiao Qiao ran out to look again.

Then they saw Qiao Changdong carrying Fu Yu on the back of a bicycle, while Fu Yu was carrying two iron cages, inside which were two gray and white rabbits.

"..." Qiao Qiao.

It's obvious.

The adults in the Qiao family all agreed that the Qiao boys would definitely not be able to catch a rabbit, but they didn't want their darling to be disappointed, so they all brought her a surprise.

"Wow, Uncle, you brought a rabbit back too." The other boys who came out with him all looked surprised when they saw the rabbit Fu Yu was carrying.

"What, did someone else bring him?" Qiao Changdong carried Fu Yu out of the back seat of the car, and after he stood up, he turned around and picked up Qiao Qiao from the ground, asking casually.

Without waiting for the boys' answers, he looked at his precious daughter with a beaming smile and asked, "My darling, do you like it?"

Qiao Qiao nodded, grinning happily, "I like it."

How could I not like it?

These are all expressions of her family's love and care.

When Qiao Changdong carried Qiao Qiao into the yard, he stopped in his tracks as he saw Grandma Qiao and her two sisters-in-law squatting by the well, processing a rabbit.

Following behind him, Fu Yu, who limped along, using a cane for support under his armpits, and insisted on carrying an iron cage, walked unsteadily and refused to give the rabbit to the Qiao brothers beside him, also stopped.

The Qiao brothers had to explain themselves again.

Qiao Changdong's first reaction was the same as Grandma Qiao's.

He thoroughly examined Qiao Qiao from head to toe and asked her questions repeatedly.

I was afraid that she might be feeling unwell.

The Qiao family had an exceptionally lavish lunch.

Excluding the five rabbits that were given away, the Qiao family still had twelve.

Each one weighs about five pounds, and after removing the hair and internal organs, it still weighs about three pounds.

Grandma Qiao killed two rabbits and made the spicy rabbit hot pot that Qiao Qiao had been longing for.

I caught more than ten wild eggs and made a stir-fried wild eggs with chili peppers.

These are all meals that the government provides for everyone to eat together at noon.

The main dish for lunch was sweet potato stewed with white rice. Before taking it off the heat, Fang Zhengnan scraped off almost all of the layer of white rice covering the sweet potato and served it to Qiao Qiao in her small porcelain bowl.

“I can eat sweet potatoes too.” Qiao Qiao, being held by Mo Wenpei, pointed to the large pot on the stove that was almost entirely filled with sweet potatoes.

Nowadays, the stoves in the countryside have two pots, one large and one small, and an iron kettle in the middle for boiling water.

Large pots are mostly used for stir-frying, while small pots are used for cooking rice.

However, since there were many people eating at home today, Grandma Qiao was worried that the small pot of rice wouldn't be enough, so Fang Zhengnan used a large pot to cook the rice.

Qiao Qiao was too young in her previous life to understand the meaning of special meals, so she ate whatever her family gave her.

But after being reborn, she knew how profound this special love was.

She didn't want to be treated as a special case anymore.

In her heart, as long as she could live with the Qiao family forever, she would be happy even if they ate coarse food and wild vegetables.

But the Qiao family couldn't bear to see her eating coarse food.

Upon hearing this, Mo Wenpei immediately said, "Good boy, let's be good. You have a narrow throat, so just eat white rice. Give the sweet potatoes to your brothers."

Sweet potatoes are high in fiber, and even adults feel choked after just one bite, often having to pound their chests with their hands, let alone a three-year-old child.

Anyway, the Qiao family couldn't bear to let Qiao Qiao eat these things.

All right.

Seeing that the adults were insistent, Qiao Qiao didn't force them.

But in her heart she was thinking that she would work even harder in the future and make good use of her abilities so that when the family had money, the whole family could eat white rice.

She carried her small Western-style bowl to the main room.

Several men were already seated at the high table in the main room. Qiao Changdong was serving Qiao Qiao food in a bowl and deboning the rabbit meat.

Qiao Qiao sat down on the small stool and waited obediently, her eyes scanning the main room, but she didn't see Fu Yu.

"Dad, where's Brother Yu?" she asked.

"Huh? They were just here." Qiao Changdong looked up and scanned the room, but didn't see anyone.

"He's outside watching the rabbits." Qiao Hai, holding a piece of rabbit meat in his hand, sat on the threshold of the main room, munching on it with relish. Hearing this, he pointed to the yard with his still greasy fingers.

Grandma Qiao cooked two rabbits for lunch, and the rest were still kept in enclosures, along with the four rabbits owned by Qiao Changdong and Fang Zhengnan.

Fu Yu stood there leaning on his cane, watching for quite a while.