Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 84 - 84 84 Kong Rong Gives Up Pears
Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Kong Rong Gives Up Pears Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Kong Rong Gives Up Pears Everyone said that the Family Head of the Bai Yang Clan had perished with the emperor, nobly sacrificing himself. Truly worthy of being the foremost Shi clan, true to the emperor above and to themselves below.
However, the scattered members of the Bai Yang Clan who had fled did not want to believe it.
After all, with the Family Head gone, they had lost their pillar of support, and in the end, they dispersed like monkeys scattering from a fallen tree.
But the truth was indeed so.
As news of the Family Head’s sacrifice spread, the collateral relatives and retainers began to defect, seizing the opportunity to steal a great deal of wealth.
Meanwhile, the direct descendants of the Bai Yang Clan suffered repeated devastating losses and plundering on the road.
In the end, only the three Bai siblings remained.
So when Sasa saw the family horse carriage again, he could not contain his excitement.
Stirred by Sasa’s reaction, Junjun grew even more curious about the people inside the carriage.
It was uncertain whether this was some minor clan related to or reliant on the Bai Yang Clan using the horse carriage, or if the person inside had simply found the carriage on the road.
However, by the look of it, the horse did not seem like one left to fend for itself; after all, in these areas where famines occurred frequently, if there were horses in the wilderness, they would have been consumed hundreds of years ago.
This could only mean that the horse carriage had been with its owner all along.
Furthermore, family crests also had their ranks, and crests like this one could only be used by the direct line.
The fact that someone had kept this carriage around indicated a connection with the direct line.
However, the person inside had not shown their face from beginning to end.
This was even more curious.
Initially, it was quite rude for the sisters to stare at someone else’s horse carriage, but since everyone in the clean zone was covertly watching the carriage, it would be stranger not to look.
Thus, the siblings who discovered the great secret did not attract any attention.
While the Bai sisters were evaluating someone else’s luxurious horse carriage, Madam Liu had begun to cook.
At that moment, Xiao Shan and Lingyu couldn’t care less about any grand horse carriage, nor where their dad and uncles had gone; they were only fixated on the bird eggs in Madam Liu’s hands.
To avoid drawing attention, Madam Liu still cooked mushrooms in the bamboo tube, slipping in 10 bird eggs only when no one was looking.
The two children simply waited for the bird eggs to be ready.
The bird eggs were exchanged by Junjun, so Madam Liu allotted two bird eggs to each of the three Bai siblings, and the remaining four went to Xiao Shan, Old Uncle Qiu, as well as Lao Er and Lao San.
She and her husband could not bring themselves to eat any.
Seeing that Madam Liu and Qiu Da had none, Lingyu and Sasa conscientiously handed over their own bird eggs.
Upon seeing this, Madam Liu repeatedly waved her hands: “Please eat, we do not fancy these.”
“Go ahead,” Sasa generously pressed them into Madam Liu’s hands.
To the children, the kindness from the Qiu family could not be compared to a single bird egg.
In contrast to the harmonious sharing of bird eggs, Junjun was not so circumspect.
Having grown accustomed to a survival-of-the-fittest world where more food could be secured by the strong, Junjun saw nothing wrong when Madam Liu gave her a double portion of bird eggs.
However, as Sasa and Lingyu enacted a real-life version of the story of Kong Rong giving up pears in front of her, the double portion of bird eggs in Junjun’s hands suddenly seemed too hot to hold.
She pursed her lips, struggling before finally passing the extra eggs to Lingyu.
Overjoyed by his elder sister’s gift, but understanding he should not accept it, Lingyu cleverly tried to give them back.
Junjun glanced at him profoundly and said, “When an elder sister gives, you must not refuse.”
Lingyu had not seen his elder sister show such authority for a long time and couldn’t help but pout pitifully, daring not to resist any longer.
As the Bai siblings modestly exchanged eggs, Ah Dao, the Old Monk, and Smiling Face were also preparing to leave.