Divorce with three kids? I'll build a house and eat meat, driving my in-laws crazy.

Chapter 76 What just ran past?
Several konjac plants by the roadside had their stems cut in half.

Peipei looked around again and said, "Mom, a lot of konjac plants here have been cut off."

No wonder they couldn't find it; someone had tampered with it.

Konjac grows in the soil, and you have to identify it by its leaves to dig it up.

Li Ruru looked closely and found that some of the konjac plants had been cut off close to the soil, and even the cut leaves could not be found.

Even if such a konjac were placed right under their noses, they wouldn't be able to find it.

Some were cut in half, with wilted leaves all around.

Most of the time, they just slashed around a few times and that was it; that's what Yinyin just discovered.

It seems that the person causing this damage is becoming increasingly impatient.

That's true. With so many konjac plants on the mountain, causing damage would be a tiring and impossible task.

Li Ruru put down her basket, took out a hoe, and said, "Dig."

Enough said, let's get to work.

Peipei and Yinyin both went to help. Peipei helped dig, while Yinyin used the cut grass to circle the cut konjac pieces so they could see them more easily.

After a long time, the mother and her two daughters finally managed to dig out a small konjac.

The konjac stalk was cut off, and when I tried to pull it out, there was nowhere to grab it.

Li Ruru wiped her sweat. "Let's take a break."

The mother and her two daughters had just sat down in the shade of a tree when they saw a dark figure running past them.

Peipei rubbed her eyes. "Mom, did something just run past?"

"Is there anything?" She was so tired she didn't even want to lift her eyelids.

"Mother, there's blood!" Peipei suddenly cried out, pointing to the bloodstains on the ground.

Li Ruru suddenly opened her eyes and saw the line of dark red blood on the ground. She stood up with a start.

"Go, it's dangerous here, let's go quickly."

Although we don't know what happened, seeing blood is never a good thing.

She guessed that either someone was injured, or some animal was injured.

Unable to discern the injured person's condition, she dared not rashly offer assistance, fearing that the story of the farmer and the snake might one day unfold.

She didn't dare go looking for the injured animal; with so much blood on the ground, it must have been a big one that they couldn't handle.

These large prey are most frantic when they are dying, and she didn't want to cause any trouble since she already had meat at home.

Peipei put the konjac back in the basket, picked up the hoe, and with a tense little face, went to pull her younger sister.

Yinyin shook off her hand and called out to someone not far away, "Brother Yishan~ We're here~"

Yinyin has excellent eyesight, but Li Ruru and Peipei couldn't see Xiao Yishan at all, and the two were eager to leave the place.

"Yinyin, stop fooling around and let's go." Li Ruru picked Yinyin up.

Yinyin waved her hand and continued calling out, "Brother Yishan~"

"Yinyin~" a man's voice came.

Peipei's eyes widened. "Mom, it really looks like Brother Yishan."

The mother and her two daughters stood still, and after a while, Xiao Yishan indeed appeared.

Yinyin ran over happily and hugged his leg, "Brother Yishan, did you catch any prey?"

Xiao Yishan frowned and said, "The prey has escaped."

As he spoke, he placed Yinyin on his neck, saying, "You have sharp eyes, find out where it went."

Seeing that only Xiao Yishan was there, Li Ruru asked with some concern, "Where are Chu Xiu and Xiao Wu?"

"Auntie, we're here!"

As they were talking, Xiao Wu carried Chu Xiu over with difficulty.

Xiao Wu was exhausted and sat on the ground after putting down the young master, refusing to get up.

Chu Xiu blushed slightly, "Um, I... this mountain is too high."

He was too embarrassed to say he couldn't climb, but Xiao Yishan walked on the mountain path as if it were flat ground, and they couldn't catch up with him at all.

Li Ruru took out water bottles and bread from her basket and distributed them to everyone, saying, "Take a rest."

Chu Xiu was deeply moved when he saw that Aunt Li not only did not scold or laugh at him, but also shared food with him.

"Auntie, you're so kind." "Eat up, nothing can shut you up," Li Ruru said irritably.

Everyone had just taken a few bites when Yin Yin suddenly pointed downwards with her eyes shining.

Li Ruru and the others rested next to a large tree high up, with a pile of rocks below the steps.

"There, there!" Yinyin waved her hand and called out, pulling Xiao Yishan down the stairs.

The others followed, and when they saw the enormous creature before them, they almost cried out in surprise.

It was a huge, adult black wild boar, with several arrows stuck in its body and bite marks on its belly. It was already dead.

"So that dark figure was a wild boar," Peipei suddenly realized.

Li Ruru circled the wild boar, poked it with her finger, and everyone saw her worthless smile. She had never eaten wild boar meat before.

"Hehe, it's huge, it'll last a long time. By the way, where's Qiqi?"

Xiao Yishan whistled towards the distance, and soon Qiqi ran over happily.

"Brother Yishan is so amazing!" Yinyin clapped her hands happily.

"Ahem, we did our part too," Chu Xiu said with dissatisfaction. He and Xiao Wu had also fired arrows, and although they hadn't hit their targets, they had still put in some effort.

Yinyin rolled her eyes. "You need someone to carry you up a mountain? How embarrassing!"

"You...I..." Chu Xiu was speechless. Li Ruru patted his shoulder and said, "Xiu'er, you'll have to work hard to carry this pig downstairs later."

Everyone has things they're not good at, and it's clear that Chu Xiu isn't very good at hunting or mountain climbing.

"Okay." After hearing Li Ruru's words, Chu Xiu suddenly felt that he wasn't completely useless.

Xiao Wu rested for a while before getting up. He looked at Li Ruru's basket and asked, "Auntie, did you dig up any konjac?"

Before Li Ruru could speak, Peipei had already indignantly recounted the general events.

"The Chen family is simply wicked. They're afraid we'll have a good life, so they're always trying to sabotage us."

Everyone agreed with this, and while helping to dig up konjac, they also launched a campaign against the Chen family.

With three men around, the konjac harvesting process was much faster.

Li Ruru estimated that she had dug up enough konjac for tomorrow, so she didn't dig any more.

Now there are three baskets of konjac, and a big wild boar to take home.

How to get back has become a problem.

"I have a way," Chu Xiu said, putting his clever mind to work and directing everyone to get to work.

Soon, following his idea, the group tied one end of the cut branch together and placed the wild boar on it.

Li Ruru smiled and said, "That's right, it'll be much easier to bring it home this way."

Chu Xiu shook his head. "Auntie, there's no need to take it home."

He pointed to the edge of the cliff, "If you push it off from there, it will land right in the backyard."

Behind Li Ruru's house is a mountain, not a very high one. If all goes well, the pig might actually end up in her backyard.

"Won't that break the flesh?" Yin Yin asked.

"No, it will only become more bouncy and delicious," Chu Xiu joked.

Yinyin ignored him and looked at Xiao Yishan, "Brother Yishan, what do you think?"

"It's not impossible," Xiao Yishan nodded.

"Then let's get started." Li Ruru is a woman of action, never procrastinating.

With all their might, the group pushed for a long time before finally managing to get the wild boar down the mountain. After waiting quietly for a while, they heard a loud bang.

Good, the wild boar landed safely and wasn't stuck halfway up the mountain.

Li Ruru breathed a sigh of relief. It was better to send it directly to the backyard, so that others wouldn't be envious if they saw it.

"Shuh is so smart. From now on, we'll just throw the things we can't take back down here."

Having solved a major problem, everyone happily descended the mountain.

Li Ruru pushed open the door and saw Ren Si Niang with her two children constantly looking into the backyard.

What are you all doing here? Where's my Chaochao?

Ren Si Niang's lips twitched. "Miss Li just went to the backyard. I heard a loud bang, like a stone falling. Miss Li... I'm afraid she's in grave danger."

(End of this chapter)