Chapter 1117 - 358: Cunning Capture of Chicken Thieves
"Yan girl, where did you pick up that child from?" Wu’s asked about the child’s origin as she came out of the house.
"Little Black came across him on the way back from the city, I’m not sure exactly where he’s from."
The child’s experiences in the textile workshop were too miserable, and Mo Yan did not want to upset Wu’s by telling her, besides she really didn’t know the child’s true origin, so she quickly moved past the question with a brief answer.
"I see..." Wu’s murmured absent-mindedly, nodding her head and saying, "Such a small child, looks even younger than my Si Nier, so thin he’s lost shape, and to run out in such cold weather, his family must be missing, I guess... It’s hard to say if he was abducted when he was young or if he got lost on his own..."
Seeing that Wu’s was reminded of Si Nier, Mo Yan felt glad she hadn’t spoken about the child’s plight; otherwise, Wu’s might have become distressed with all sorts of worrisome thoughts.
This topic clearly couldn’t be continued, so Mo Yan quickly changed the subject, "Aunt Wu, thieves have just entered the village, and no one knows if they’ll come back. You should take a dog home with you; it will help you sleep more peacefully at night."
Wu’s, snapping out of her thoughts about her missing daughter, hesitated, "Right now, God Huang can’t find enough to eat, can the chicken farm manage with one less dog?"
Mo Yan smiled and said, "We have five dogs there; one less won’t matter."
When the chicken farm was first built, it attracted who knows how many yellow weasels, but every time they were chased back into their holes by the five dogs. After many such encounters, the weasels learned and seldom came to steal chickens again, and even the persistent few left behind only a scattering of fur as they fled in defeat.
With these words, Wu’s no longer protested, "Then my thanks to you, Yan girl. I’ll be able to sleep soundly tonight."