in2ebook Chapter 139 Reprimand
Chapter 139 Reprimand
"Then I want two duck legs." Huo Yun continued to bargain.
"Got it." Ning Yan replied casually, "Get up, wash up and go eat."
When Huo Yun walked out of the room, a group of children surrounded him and asked him what was going on and why he could sleep for so long.
"I don't know. I just sleep when I want to." Huo Yun said innocently.
He actually didn't know why he could sleep so well. He only knew that he felt very sleepy after he had used up his internal energy, and always felt like he couldn't wake up.
Upon hearing this, the little fat boy said, "You are such a good sleeper! Even a pig can't catch up with you."
"Are you envious?" Huo Yun said with a proud look on his face when he heard that.
Huo Yun and Ning Jing grew up listening to Ning Yan telling them stories from Journey to the West, so they don't hate pigs at all from the bottom of their hearts. They like them very much and don't know that "not as good as pigs" is an insult.
In the past, when the village slaughtered pigs at the end of the year, they would cry and make a fuss about it, and they would do anything to save the pig.
But there are so many pigs in the world, how can they save them all?
Moreover, the people here mainly rely on pork for their meat, so how can they not kill pork? If you forbid them from killing pork and offer them with good food and drink, people will definitely laugh at you and call you a fool.
Later, Ning Yan had to persuade the two people with all his might, making them believe that the pig raised in this family was not Bajie. He took them to the mountains to see the wild boar with fangs, and promised that the family would only eat wild boar meat in the future and not the fat domestic pigs. Only then did the two people reluctantly agree.
To the point that even now, whenever Ning Jian and his friends go to buy pork, they will lie and say that they bought wild boar meat.
After hearing this, the little fat boy felt for the first time that Huo Yun was not very smart. Didn't his father used to be called a pig-brained person by his mother? His father was very angry after hearing this, and the two of them couldn't help but have a quarrel.
So in his impression, words like "like a pig" were definitely not good words, but he didn't expect that when he met Huo Yun, he would actually feel happy?
As expected, people’s cognition is different.
After a few little kids quarreled for a while, everyone moved to their newly built straw hut in the yard to eat.
The straw hut is newly built and is mainly used for shade. Otherwise, in this weather with over 30 degrees Celsius, people would be sunburned to death before they even finish their meals.
Lunch was just as Ning Jing said, a bunch of flatbreads were made and served with wild vegetable soup.
All the usable tables and chairs were put away. Each person held a pancake in his hand and drank some wild vegetable soup. The meal looked as simple as it could be.
Huo Yun looked at the salty pancake in his hand, and sighed as he ate it.
His small face, not even as big as a palm, was wrinkled like a little old man.
Ning Yan, who was sitting next to him, looked at his disgusted expression. Although he was speechless, he did not scold him because he also felt that eating biscuits like this was indeed dry and tasteless.
After he came into this world, except for the first few years when he was young and the food was simple, he never treated himself badly in terms of food.
He hadn't experienced something like eating dry biscuits and drinking vegetable soup for many years, so he was a little uncomfortable.
It seems that I still need to discuss it with my brother and find a way to improve my living standards. Ning Yan took a sip of the soup and thought to himself.
Huo?, who was sitting next to Ning Yan, and Ning Jing, who was sitting right next to Huo?, also had bitter expressions on their faces while biting the pancakes. All the seasonings from the kitchen were spilled, and not a drop of oil was used in making the pancakes today, so the pancakes seemed a bit thick and difficult to chew.
Seeing that his youngest son was having a hard time chewing the pancake, Huo Yu tore it into pieces and put it in the soup bowl for him to eat. Then he turned around and whispered in Ning Yan's ear, "Wife, it's too unpalatable to eat the pancake like this. We need to find something to eat."
Ning Yan nodded silently when he heard this. His brother's idea coincided with his. He really needed to find a way to get food as soon as possible. Life was already hard enough, so why make things harder for himself?
I don’t know how many more hard days like this there will be in the future, so while I’m still alive, I might as well enjoy every day.
The family was eating here with wrinkled faces, and the food eaten by others was also a little boring. After all, they had been eating too well with Ning Yan and the others in the past few months, and they were a little uncomfortable with this sudden change.
Several men were also thinking in their hearts that they should discuss with Huo in the afternoon and see if they could find a way to get something to eat. At the very least, they should be able to go to the mountains and hunt some prey to eat.
While they were eating their meal with their own thoughts, they saw a beggar-looking child walking towards them from a distance.
There is no courtyard wall where they live now, and the surrounding buildings are standing there whether they are collapsing or not. No one knows whether the owners of these houses have died or not. Anyway, no one has come here to check until now, so they saw the child walking on the road from a distance, and the direction was exactly where they were.
When people got closer, they found that it was a boy of seven or eight years old. His clothes were dirty and his hair was uncombed, with frizzy hair sticking out in all directions. He looked really sloppy.
When the "activist" Huo Yun saw a stranger coming, he immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and ran outside.
But after just two steps, Ning Yan grabbed him by the back of his collar and warned him in a cold voice, "If you act so recklessly again, I'll ask your father to break your legs."
This kid's life is too easy. He has no guard at all and wants to get involved in everything.
If he can "meddle in other people's business" now, he will dare to sneak out in the future.
It's very dangerous outside now. If Ning Yan doesn't take the opportunity to teach Huo Yun a lesson, he is afraid that he will sneak out again one day, and then even his body won't be found, and he won't have anywhere to cry.
He knew his son's temper too well. He was very brave and he would never learn his lesson unless he was given a hard lesson.
Huo Yun didn't know why Ning Yan was suddenly so angry. His father had never been so strict with him before. He didn't know why he was like this today.
However, he was also frightened when he saw Ning Yan's sudden cold face, and his little face turned pale.
Ning Yan had never treated him so seriously before. Tears immediately fell from his eyes. He cried and said to Ning Yan, "Dad, I won't go. Please don't break my legs."
Ning Yan saw that he was crying, but his expression didn't soften. He loosened his grip on his collar and said to him with a stern face, "Go back to your seat."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yun wiped his tears and climbed onto the stool. After sitting down, tears were still falling from his eyes, and he looked aggrieved.
Ning Jing was a little confused when he saw his brother crying. He didn't know why his father Ning suddenly got so angry, so when he saw his brother crying so sadly, he didn't dare to go forward to comfort him.
Huo raised his eyebrows at this and glanced at his wife, showing no intention of comforting his eldest son.
I have never been so nosy before. I don’t know whose temperament this kid resembles, Huo thought to himself.
The rest of the people looked at each other in confusion. It was the first time they saw Ning Yan scolding a child so harshly. In the past, he would scold Huo Yun when he was naughty, but never so harshly. So for a moment, no one knew how to react.
Just when the air was quiet, a clear child's voice rang out from outside the shed: "I'm looking for Huo?"
Perhaps because he knew that he was dirty and it was inconvenient for him to get close to them, the little beggar stopped a few meters outside the shed and stretched his neck to shout into the shed.
Upon hearing this, everyone turned their gaze to the child, and then looked at Huo?, with a look of doubt on their faces.
Huo was somewhat surprised to hear this. He turned around and sat sideways on the chair, facing the direction of the little beggar, and asked curiously, "Looking for me? What do you want from me?"
The sun was strong, and the little beggar was sweating a lot. The sweat flowed down his cheeks and neck, making his face look even dirtier. The little boy wiped it casually with his dirty sleeve, then looked up and said to Huo?, "Someone asked me to give you something."
"What is it?" Huo asked.
"Can you give me some water to drink first?" The little beggar looked at the food on the table and smiled ingratiatingly.
After walking for several kilometers, his lips were dry from the heat and he wanted to ask for some water to drink. If he couldn't get some water, he was afraid he would die of thirst when he returned to the city.
"You tell me the story first." Huo Yu was unmoved. "Who asked you to deliver something to me?"
Seeing this, the little beggar had no choice but to stretch out his dirty hand, on which was a round, white jade pendant with a maple leaf carved on it and a green tassel hanging below.
Huo Yu was surprised to see the jade pendant in his hand, but he remained calm and asked, "What did the person who gave you this say?"
"He said that after you see this thing, you will know where to go." The little beggar said honestly.
Upon hearing this, Huo Yu didn't waste any more words with him. He took the jade pendant, poured him a bowl of vegetable soup, watched him finish it, gave him a piece of bread, and sent him away.