country bumpkin

Chapter 229 Curious View of Feeding Pigs

(Timeline May 2nd) The morning sun gently shines on the land of the farmhouse courtyard.

Pushing open the window, a gentle breeze carried the fragrant scent of fresh grass into the room. Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan woke up in their third uncle's room. Breathing in the fresh air, they both felt refreshed and invigorated.

Yunya rested with her grandmother in her aunt's old room. Kong Tongming rested in his usual spot.

Kong Tongming had already seen the three children when he got home from get off work yesterday. He went to work as usual today, but he had already decided that when he got home, he would buy some good food to add extra dishes and bowls for the children.

When the three children woke up, their grandfather had already gone to work, and their maternal grandmother was busy with housework in the yard.

Yunya quickly got dressed and ran out to find her grandmother. She saw her grandmother feeding the pigs and went to help. Taking the work from her grandmother, Yunya said, "Grandma, I'll feed the pigs for you. You go do something else!"

Mu Shuyun smiled and said, "Okay, our Yunya is the most filial, helping Grandma with chores."

When Mu Shuyun heard that the other two children had also woken up, she went to the kitchen to prepare noodles for them.

At this moment, Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan came out of the house and saw Yunya stirring something in the yard. The two were very curious and couldn't help but go over to observe.

Sun Limei asked, "Yunya, what are you stirring?"

Yunya replied, "Sister, this is pig feed, food for pigs."

Zhang Haiyan asked, "Is this made from grain? Ugh...it looks disgusting."

Yunya replied, "This is what it looks like after the dried sweet potatoes are crushed and cooked. There's also hay and soaked peanut cakes inside. The little pigs love peanut cakes the most."

Sun Limei asked, "What are peanut cakes?"

Yunya explained, "Those are cakes made from the residue left after pressing peanut oil."

"Oh! I see. Yunya, you know so much!" Sun Limei praised admiringly.

Yunya was pleased to be praised, so she answered every question. Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan found everything fascinating. Yunya and Sun Limei carried pig feed to the pigpen entrance.

Yunya scooped up a ladleful of pig feed with a water ladle and poured it into the pig trough. The old sow inside kept grunting, and when she saw her owner coming to feed her, she grunted even louder.

After the first ladle was poured out, the sow lowered her head and began to eat heartily.

Yun Ya scooped up a second ladleful, then a third, and poured them into the stone trough through the crack as the pig raised its nose and grunted.

Yunya poured food into the trough while the sow ate, and she seemed to be eating very quickly. There was no sign of the trough being full or overflowing.

However, the sow splashed around, making water everywhere. She was very good at scooping up thick food and avoiding the water.

Yunya had already poured a bucket of food into the trough. The sow lowered her head and stopped looking at her owner, chewing heartily and making "knock knock knock" sounds.

Sun Limei's mouth dropped open. "Wow! This pig can eat so much! It ate a whole bucket!"

Zhang Haiyan looked at the sows in the pigsty with the same expression.

At this moment, Mu Shuyun had already prepared the meat sauce noodles and called the three children into the living room to eat.

Yunya finished her work and put the empty bucket back in the kitchen. She then ran to the well to wash her hands before coming to the living room to eat.

Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan had already eaten a few bites, and Yun Ya quickly sat down, picked up her chopsticks, and began to eat.

Mu Shuyun had eaten breakfast with Kong Tongming and wasn't hungry at all. Seeing the children eating happily made her happy too.

She said, "I'm going to tell you something important, and you must remember it."

Yunya looked up at her grandmother and asked, "Grandma, what's wrong?"

Mu Shuyun said seriously, "None of you should go near the well, especially the two of you."

After saying that, she looked at Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan, and continued, "That manhole cover has been there for a long time and can't support your weight. You'll definitely fall in if you step on it. If you fall in, you'll drown, and that's the end of you, understand?"

The three girls nodded and replied in unison, "We understand."

Mu Shuyun was very pleased to see that the children were all well-behaved. If they were all difficult to manage and disobedient, she would really have a headache.

After dinner, Yunya led the two sisters to Grandma Niu's house to play with Caixia.

She also brought a gift for Caixia, which she packed in a small bag and carried into Grandma Niu's yard.

Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan followed behind her, like little tails, never leaving her side.

"Caixia, I've come to find you. Are you inside?" Yunya called out from the courtyard.

With a bang, the door to the side room was pushed open, and Caixia ran out.

"Yunya, Yunya, you're here! When did you arrive?" Caixia cheered happily.

"I came yesterday. I came to visit you yesterday, but you weren't home. So I came to see you again today," Yunya explained.

Caixia rubbed her nose shyly and said with a smile, "Hehe, I went to my uncle's house to play with my younger brother and sister yesterday, so I didn't come back."

Yun Ya smiled and replied, "It's okay, I can still see you today!"

As she spoke, Yunya stuffed the gift in her hand into Caixia's hand: "Here, this is a gift I prepared for you. See if you like it."

Caixia excitedly opened the gift bag, inside was a bright hair flower, and at the bottom of the bag were several colorful hair clips.

The small hair clips are all intertwined, like (unknown) X, or like a cross.

It also has tiny, sparkling colored diamonds on it, which shimmer and sparkle in the sun, making it very beautiful.

Caixia loved the gift and quickly thanked Yunya. Yunya replied, "Don't mention it, I'm glad you like it."

Caixia asked Yunya to put it in her hair, and Sun Limei and Zhang Haiyan praised how beautiful it looked.

When Yunya heard her older and younger sisters talking, she remembered to introduce them to Caixia.

Children are naturally outgoing; once they greet each other, they consider themselves acquaintances. After playing for a while, they all become good friends.

Caixia led them to her room and shared her collection of trinkets with them.

She opened her drawer and took out a bunch of small things, all in bottles and jars.

A transparent plastic jar was opened, revealing small stars folded from colorful strips of paper inside.

The girls stared in amazement, completely captivated by the little stars. They even asked Caixia to teach them how to fold them.

Caixia readily agreed. She then took out some unused colored paper strips from the drawer and distributed them to everyone.

The three of them took the slips of paper and began to seriously learn origami from Caixia. Caixia folded very slowly and carefully, and her serious demeanor made her look just like a responsible "little teacher."

Sun Limei was a year older than them, so she learned the fastest. After trying to fold it a few times, it roughly resembled a star.

Zhang Haiyan learned the slowest because she was the youngest. Yun Ya folded it but it didn't look right, so she took it apart and started folding it again.

Caixia patiently guided her the whole time, and it took a lot of effort for Yunya to finally fold a star.

Caixia tidied up the little star she had folded, and only then was the first little star completely finished. Yunya succeeded and was very happy, so she folded even more carefully.

The four girls spent the entire afternoon folding stars inside the house and didn't go out.