books44 Chapter 275 I tripped and fell on my bottom
Chapter 275 I tripped and fell on my bottom
It was cold and the road was slippery, and Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang just slumped onto the muddy ground and lay down.
The two sisters were still standing there, staring blankly. After all, it had been a while since they had seen these guys lying neatly on the ground like clay sculptures.
Peach has relatively long limbs, so when she slips and falls, the sound is the loudest, and she must feel the most pain. That's why she's already groaning and moaning.
Tuanyuan and Ankang are small, so they didn't fall hard and weren't hurt much. Their clean feathers were just covered in mud, and they look a little unhappy now.
Seeing that their owner was still standing there watching them and not coming over to do anything, they simply stopped moving.
He just lay there, howling at the heavens and the earth.
"Ga~ga~"
"Giggle~"
His voice was loud and powerful, and he shouted many times without even panting. Anyone who didn't know better would think it was some wild beast in the mountains shouting in broad daylight!
The two sisters knew that with their fluffy feathers as cushions, they wouldn't break.
So, prioritizing their needs, the two ignored them. They put down their things, bypassed the things, and went to check on the peaches.
As she got closer, Lin Lanshan scolded them, "With such skillful claws, how can you slip on the ground? If anyone in the chicken or goose world knew this, they would laugh at you! Stop howling, aren't you ashamed? Get up now."
Tuanyuan and Ankang were shocked. Although they didn't know what it meant, they felt like chicken clowns and goose clowns... and covered in mud, they were now ugly and dirty.
No one cared about them, and the ground was dirty and cold. There was nothing I could do but get up, feeling wronged and grumbling.
He then retaliated by approaching the two of them and vigorously shaking off the mud covering his body.
The two sisters, covered in mud, weren't worried about anything else; they were currently checking on Peach. They were concerned that her leg might be broken or her neck might be injured.
Lin Chunyi gently pressed its bent left front leg. "Peach, where did you fall? Does it hurt?"
Peach stretched her neck to rub against her hand.
She carefully examined all four of Peach's legs, especially pressing on the joints that were prone to injury, and it showed no signs of pain.
"They all look normal, not like they have a fracture."
"Then it shouldn't be a big problem. He probably just fell suddenly and was so frightened that he couldn't get up." Lin Lanshan breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he squatted down and patted its head to comfort it: "Good girl Peach, don't be afraid. Get up and let me see if there are any other injuries."
Peach slowly got up, supporting herself on her hooves, but didn't walk immediately. She struggled to lift her hind legs and then put them down again, still whimpering softly.
The two sisters were a little confused. Could it be that there was some injury on his hind leg that they hadn't been able to find?
But I didn't feel any foreign object, and I didn't see any wound. He can still stand up fine, which shouldn't be the case.
"Eek~" Peach, seeing that its two owners did not understand what it meant, anxiously turned its head back and swished its tail back and forth.
This action? It's kind of human-like...
So Lin Lanshan said uncertainly to Lin Chunyi, "Sister, when it sweeps its tail across its butt, does it mean its butt hurts?" It's similar to how when someone falls and hurts themselves, they subconsciously rub their butt with their hand.
"Ah, this?"
Their gazes moved up from Peach's hind legs to its firm buttocks.
Being stared at so intently by two pairs of eyes, Peach, though just a beast, still felt quite shy. She whimpered and moved her hind legs a few steps to the side, covering her rear end.
"..." The two sisters inexplicably felt as if a row of crows had silently flown past their heads.
What?! They just wanted to check carefully for any injuries, but their dodging made them look like hooligans.
Lin Lanshan sighed and said, "There's such a thick layer of dirty snow on the ground. I don't think it's a big deal. It just slipped and fell on its bottom and is now embarrassed."
The girl has grown up; she's even learned to be shy now!
Taking advantage of the moment, Lin Chunyi stretched out her index finger and poked the peach's bottom.
I hadn't noticed before, but the elasticity is actually pretty good, hehe!
"Ugh! Ugh!" Peach seemed startled, or perhaps in pain, and the whole mule jumped up.
"Yeah, nothing really happened except for a little fuss." She saw that after Peach finished jumping around, it continued to swish its tail around, so she knew that it was really alright.
No fractures, no injuries, great, everyone's happy!
"Then, let's go, Lanshan, get back to work. In the time it takes to waste this much time, I could grind a couple more chestnuts."
"With all this commotion, I can shovel a couple more baskets of snow now." Lin Lanshan propped herself up on her thighs and went to get the shovel to continue shoveling the grayish muddy snow.
Lin Chunyi also got up and continued to grind the chestnuts by turning the millstone.
Only Peach, who had been hurt a second time, and Tuanyuan Ankang, who was ignored by everyone, stood there covered in mud, lost in thought...
They're all stubborn creatures. They were originally planning to stand there looking aggrieved, but someone shouted, "Go bask in the sun and don't catch a cold. We'll come and wash you after we're done cleaning up."
Someone else laughed and shook their head, agreeing, "Tsk, they're all creditors~" before going back to their work.
Peach's ears twitched, and Tuanyuan and Ankang twisted their necks, happily finding a good spot not far from them to bask in the warm sun...
The inner courtyard wasn't large; after walking around and shoveling the snow from the corners, it didn't take long for Lin Lanshan to finish cleaning it all and pile it up in the open space of the outer courtyard.
Seeing that her older sister was still turning the millstone round and round, and that less than half of the chestnuts in the basin had been used, she went back to the kitchen to start preparing the nuts to be roasted.
Since it's for breakfast, it needs to be substantial, nutritious, and taste good.
She grabbed some peanuts, pine nuts, plain sunflower seeds, walnuts, and dried longan from the cupboard and put them in a large bowl, then started peeling them.
Simply pinch the top of the peanut with your index finger and thumb, and with a "snap," the peanut shell cracks open, revealing two round, red shells.
Lin Lanshan had only pinched a few when she felt an emptiness behind her. She looked back...
Oh, so you didn't have a chair to sit on.
She carried a bowl of dried fruit and a divided plate with only a few lonely peanuts on it, and left the kitchen to walk under the osmanthus tree.
Lin Chunyi's right hand got tired from grinding chestnuts, and she had just switched to her left hand when she saw her younger sister come over without a word and plop down on the cold stone bench.
"These stone benches are so cold, don't you find your bottom freezing?"
Lin Lanshan leaned her elbow against the stone table and continued peeling peanuts. "It's alright. It won't be cold after I sit for a while. It's so comfortable to sit here."
"You're just lazy~"
"So what? Lazy people don't suffer, and they even have their own kind of luck!" Lin Lanshan shifted her position back and sat down to work.
Lin Chunyi stopped talking, but simply swept the freshly ground chestnut pieces into the basin and continued to put chestnut meat into the mill.
The warm winter sun shone on the two sisters, one standing and one sitting, working, and also on Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang, who were playing with mud nearby...