The Second Princess yawned, sat up, but didn’t open her eyes, looking extremely sleepy with her head hanging down.
The Great Princess, losing patience, sneered, "Li Yuzhu, are you done yet? Didn’t I dig up the wild vegetables yesterday afternoon? A big basket of them."
Li Yuzhu said, "That was yesterday. There’s work to be done today too. As long as people are alive, they have to work every day."
Li Yuzhu pulled the Great Princess up from the grass mat, "The house isn’t finished yet. Go help."
The Great Princess got angry, "I can’t build a house." She slapped away Li Yuzhu’s hand.
Li Yuzhu raised her eyebrows, "Can’t build, can’t even help carry something? You sleep here every day and ignore everything. You don’t even know what your house will look like when it’s done. Don’t be jealous when others’ rooms are beautiful and sturdy, while yours leaks rain and has crooked windows."
The Great Princess, hearing this, lifted her skirt and ran outside the cave.
No way, she had to keep a close eye on the masons building the house.
She couldn’t tolerate her room having crooked windows and a leaky roof.
As she ran, the Second Princess hurriedly followed.
The Xue Family shoved Li Guoguo into Li Yuzhu’s arms, "Guoguo, you go with her, I’m going to see the craftsmen building the house."
All three ran as fast as they could.
They washed up three times faster than usual.
Watching them rush around, Li Yuzhu gently curled the corner of her lips.
For curing laziness, she had her ways.
"Come on, let’s go see the house too." Li Yuzhu kissed her little niece in her arms and headed out of the cave.
Li Guoguo, unable to speak, gave her a wide grin.
"Third Sister, shall we go to the woods west of Taohua River Village today?" Li Xing’an stretched and yawned as he walked over to her.
"No, there are other things today." Li Yuzhu handed Li Guoguo into his arms, carried a basket to the clearing, and started sorting the wild vegetables.
The wild vegetables were dug up last evening by her, the Great Princess, and the Second Princess together.
Their pampered habits had been considerably worn down by hunger.
Though still somewhat spoiled, at least they now joined in digging wild vegetables instead of just sitting back and enjoying the results.
"Third Sister, there are wild rabbits in that forest," Li Xing’an coaxed as he squatted in front of her.
"Finish the leopard meat before going to hunt rabbits." Li Yuzhu wasn’t interested in catching rabbits.
They had been eating for half a month, yet quite a few pounds of leopard meat were left.
The weather was getting warmer; if they didn’t finish it soon, it would spoil.
Li Xing’an sighed in disappointment. When would he catch a rabbit to return to that Mu boy?
Once the wild vegetables were sorted, Li Yuzhu went to make porridge.
The brown rice they exchanged for leopard meat half a month ago was already gone.
Li Yuzhu thickened her skin and borrowed some more from the Li Zheng’s house, which needed quick repayment after earning some money.
Besides, what they borrowed wasn’t much, to begin with.
The family finished their repetitive breakfast — wild vegetable porridge with leopard meat — cleaned up the tools, and all headed out.
There was no one left to watch the house, nothing valuable inside but junk.
The Princely Heir held his son Li Jing, and the third brother Li Xing’an and the second brother Li Xingsheng took turns carrying the little baby Li Guoguo as the family walked down the mountain.
At the crossroads of the South Mountain Slope and North Hillside, they ran into Mu Yuanxiu.
In his hands were two child-sized items.
"It’s that guy again!" Li Xing’an scowled, pushing Li Yuzhu into the crowd.
Li Yuzhu, "..." What’s all this fuss about?