Chapter 923: Look How Scared the Little Furball Has Become

Liu Chuxue also has a temper; Zhui Feng has drunk plenty of space spring water, so this dog is very smart. If they hadn't treated him badly, he certainly wouldn't have run back.

Moreover, looking at Zhui Feng, he has lost quite a bit of weight. When they borrowed the dog back then, they promised to feed him well and certainly wouldn't let him lose condition. Liu Chuxue hugged Zhui Feng and took two rabbit legs from the space to give him.

Zhui Feng was so excited that it made Liu Chuxue's heart ache even more. Watching him finish eating, she finally took the key and opened the courtyard gate.

The courtyard was very clean, obviously because someone had come to sweep it from time to time. She first opened all the doors and windows of each room, then went around to the back to check the private plot. She didn't expect the Secretary's family to have cleared the land completely, ready for planting as soon as spring arrived.

It seems the New Year gifts given that year were too light. Not to mention how much effort they spent helping them, this favor is a huge debt.

Afterwards, she turned back to the courtyard, went to the storage shed, opened the cellar, and went down. There were over thirty large Chinese cabbages and quite a few radishes. These were autumn vegetables pulled and replanted later; they didn't grow very well, but stored in the cellar, they looked very fresh and crisp.

She found several urea bags, packed some Chinese cabbages and some not-so-large white radishes, and stored them in the space. Only then did she come up, lock the courtyard gate, and take Zhui Feng over the mountain to her eldest sister's house.

To avoid drawing attention, she still carried a hemp sack as a cover.

All the way up, Zhui Feng didn't run ahead for a bit and then come back to find her like before, nor did he just wait in front of her. Instead, he followed closely by her side the whole time, as if afraid she would abandon him again, which made Liu Chuxue feel very bad in her heart. She vowed that from now on, no matter who came to borrow the dog, she would not lend him out.

Look how scared the little furball has become.

The one person and one dog ran quite fast; in half an hour they reached the halfway point of the mountain. Looking down at the Guangming Brigade and the Northern Suburb Farm below, without the green cover of the whole mountain, everything was visible even more clearly.

Perhaps because the New Year was approaching, even from such a distance, one could smell the faint fragrance in the air; probably every household was making preparations for the New Year.

Just after walking down a stretch, she saw a middle-aged woman chasing a little boy with a broom: "Why are you so greedy? We didn't fry many in total, yet you stole and ate half. What will I use to entertain guests in the first month?"

The little boy ran while shouting: "I already said I didn't eat it alone; they all ate too. I just tripped over them when running."

In these times of scarce supplies, this was likely something like fried meatballs that was hard to make, stolen by the greedy cats in the family. This little one who was tripped became the scapegoat.

She had already reached the bottom of the slope, but the mother and son were still chasing each other; it seemed the middle-aged woman was very angry.

Liu Chuxue couldn't help but shake her head and laugh. Years later, talking about today's incident, she would surely miss it immensely.

Finding a hidden spot, Liu Chuxue put the prepared items into the carried hemp sack, tied the mouth shut, and draped it over the dog's back: "Zhui Feng, let's go deliver New Year goods to Big Sister."

When she arrived, she happened to see several women standing at the Qiu family gate peering into the courtyard: "Did Qiu Shaofeng shoot that pheasant?"

"Indeed."

"Then that An family daughter-in-law is really shameless?"

"Ever since she gave birth to a son, the An family elders can barely control her. That arrogant air, as if only she knows how to bear sons; it's truly hard to look at."

"She is the An family's daughter-in-law; why does she come to her sister-in-law's husband's family to show off?"

"Isn't it because the An family can't control her, and the Qiu family didn't want to provoke her? After a long time, she naturally came to think it was only right."