Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 21 Wild Boar

Er Ya and the other younger ones also knelt down. They knew that these people were risking their lives to go in and find their eldest brother, so kowtowing was the right thing to do.

Although no one wanted their family members to go, they couldn't bear to say anything when they saw the old and the group of children.

"Grandpa Village Chief..." Just then, a shout came from afar.

Everyone's eyes lit up immediately, and they quickly looked over, only to see Da Bao running towards them from a distance.

Donkey Egg and Dog Egg were the first to get excited: "It's Da Bao! Da Bao is back!"

Xia Songshi rushed over immediately, ignoring her tears: "Dabao, I'm so glad you're alright."

"Grandma, I'm fine." Da Bao was very clever. Seeing the situation, he guessed what had happened and felt a pang of guilt.

"It's good that you're alright. If anything had happened to you, how could Grandma live?" Xia Songshi hugged Da Bao and sobbed.

Er Ya and the other younger ones also started crying, but San Ya, with her sharp eyes, noticed: "Big brother is injured."

Upon hearing this, Wang Tianshun hurriedly came over and, after examining the wounds, said, "They are all superficial injuries, and they have all been treated with medication. There are no major problems."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry," Da Bao quickly apologized.

"Alright, everything's fine now that you're back." The village chief breathed a sigh of relief. "Everyone, go back to what you were doing."

"Grandpa Village Chief." Upon hearing this, Da Bao quickly wiped away his tears and stepped back from Xia Songshi's embrace. "Um... she told me to come back and call you. She hunted a wild boar..."

"What?" the village chief exclaimed. "A wild boar? Where is it?"

"She said she needed help, right at the foot of the mountain over there."

"Qiangzi, Da Kui, come with me." The village chief waved his hand, calling over the seven or eight youths who had just been heading into the mountains, and hurriedly headed down the mountain.

Yunyi was waiting when she saw the village chief arrive with his men, and she quickly waved, "Uncle Village Chief."

"You little brat..." The village chief breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yunyi was unharmed, but when he saw the big guy next to her, he was surprised again. "You're really bold."

"This wild boar must weigh over 200 pounds, right?" Xia Kui exclaimed. "I remember Tianyin hunted one last year, and it was even bigger than this."

The way everyone looked at Yunyi changed.

"Luckily, I hit its vital spot with one axe strike." Yunyi smiled. "Please help carry it back."

Xia Qiang glanced at Yun Yi with a complicated expression, but said nothing. Instead, he called over a few of his companions to lift the wild boar up.

"Yunyi, what do you want to do with this wild boar?" The village chief walked back side by side with Yunyi.

"Uncle Village Chief, do we have anyone here who knows how to butcher pigs?"

“We don’t have any in our village, but if you want to kill one fresh, you can find Lao Quan.”

"Old Quan? Is that the person in the stone house halfway up the mountain?" Yun Yi pointed in the direction of White Tiger Mountain, which was half an hour away at her current speed.

"Yes, he's an old hunter who also slaughters pigs. People from several surrounding villages would come to him if they needed a pig slaughtered."

“Then let’s ask him to come over. I’ve been receiving a lot of help from the villagers these days, so I’d like to give back a little this time. Let each family have two jin of meat to treat themselves. If anyone else wants some, we’ll sell it to them at half the price in town. What do you think?”

The village chief was taken aback: "Girl, you... are so generous."

In town, fatty pork costs forty coins and lean pork costs thirty coins. This is half price, only twenty coins. It's not just cheap, it's incredibly cheap. Not to mention that each family gets two jin (1 kg), which is more than they can eat in one meal.

Yunyi smiled. The reason she was willing to do this was because there were few truly awful people in the village. Even the few who were shrewish were all soft-hearted despite their sharp tongues.

When the original owner of this body was living a carefree life outside, Xia Songshi and her seven children had nothing to eat. They were fed by villagers who gave them a cornbread or a piece of bread.

This can be seen as her returning the favor.

"Ersheng, go and call Lao Quan, tell him to come and slaughter the pig," the village chief shouted.

A young man responded and ran off.

After everyone carried the wild boar into the village, dozens of villagers came out, especially excited when they heard that each family could get two pounds of meat.

Those who previously looked down on Yunyi have now changed their minds, and some have even started praising her.

However, instead of directly praising Yunyi, they praised Xia Songshi for being blessed.

Xia Songshi was filled with complicated emotions, and her gaze towards Yunyi was even more complicated. However, she dared not say anything. The shadow of the original owner's previous actions of throwing whatever she wanted at them was still there. She was afraid of saying something wrong and angering the improved Yunyi again, causing her to revert back to her original state, which would make the children suffer.

The children's eyes were filled with complicated emotions. After all, Da Bao had said that it was this woman who carried him down the mountain; otherwise, he would have surely died there.

Yunyi pretended not to see Xia Songshi's gaze, turned around and went to Wang Tianshun's house to get a large basin, as they would need to collect the pig's blood when they slaughtered the pig later.

"Can I eat meat?" Xiao Bao is only three years old and cannot understand too many complicated emotions. He was afraid when we hit him before, but after we fed him, he was not so afraid.

"Sure," Yunyi said, patting Xiaobao's head. "You can eat meat if you help with the chores later."

“I can do it,” Xiao Bao said, and went over to drag the large basin that was placed next to him.

"Great job." Yunyi praised generously. "I'll stew some meat for you later. Go and wait patiently over there."

Xiao Bao drooled, then obediently stood in the spot Yun Yi had designated, even waving to his older brothers and sisters: "Work, eat meat."

Er Ya wanted to say that Xiao Bao was useless, but seeing everyone else drooling, she swallowed hard herself, then shut her mouth and looked at Da Bao: "Big brother, what should we do?"

Da Bao bit his lip and walked up to Yun Yi: "...What are we doing?"

Yunyi glanced at him: "What can you do?"

Da Bao: ...

“We…we can do anything.” Er Ya rushed over.

Yunyi's eyes flashed: "Then let's move this big basin of water there."

Er Ya: ……

Wuya actually went over and bent over to try to carry the water, but the big basin didn't budge an inch, and she even slipped and fell on her bottom.

The kids: ...

Yunyi looked at Erya: "You're only a few years old, yet you say you can do anything, as if you're gods?"

Er Ya's face turned completely red; she seemed to want to say something but didn't know what to say.

"You woman, don't bully people." Wang Qiao'er ran over at this moment, shielding the bunch of kids behind her, and glared angrily at Yun Yi.

"When did I bully anyone?" Yun Yi raised an eyebrow and looked at Wang Qiao'er.