Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 871 - 853. Chestnut Braised Chicken with Rice Cake (Can Skip)_3

Chapter 871: 853. Chestnut Braised Chicken with Rice Cake (Can Skip)_3

Thinking of this, Qiaoqiao quickly grabbed Datian and ran downstairs: "Sister! Sister! Is Datian not going to live much longer?"

Song Tan, who had just opened her phone to reply to a message: "??? No way, I’ve never heard that hamsters only live for one year."

She opened the door, only to see Qiaoqiao holding the increasingly plump Datian, who looked pitiful.

Song Tan: ...

She reached out to grab Datian and flipped her hand to weigh him by tossing him up and down, feeling the heavy weight in her palm:

"This doesn’t seem bad, right? Seems fatter than in the summer."

"But... but..." Qiaoqiao hesitated: "It hasn’t been eating properly for a long time! I brought two chestnuts today and it wouldn’t eat them."

What? Not even chestnuts?!

Song Tan felt something was off: Impossible! Back then, it went through so much trouble over some soybeans and rice with the squirrels, how come now?

While she was pondering this, she overheard grandfather Song Youde’s loud voice downstairs:

"Sancheng, where are those cats from our yard? Catch one and bring it to my room!"

Song Sancheng was puzzled: "Dad, didn’t you say cats carry fleas and shouldn’t be let in?"

Song Youde glanced at him: "I said they have fleas, but Qiaoqiao still cuddles and kisses them every day..."

Sancheng resignedly thought: They’ve been getting dewormed, and Daju’s family is particularly clean. Despite being in the wild for so long, that orange fur is still glossy and the white remains snow-white!

Much cleaner than the dogs at home!

Anyway, fleas aren’t the point right now, the main issue is that there’s a mouse in the house!

"Really!" Song Youde swore: "Your mother and I sun-dried five jin of chestnuts, and just now I checked and found a hole bitten through the bag by a mouse, leaving only three jin!"

Song Sancheng never grasped the main point—

"Dad, why are you sun-drying chestnuts? They’re too hard to chew... Don’t we have fresh ones frozen in the freezer? There are also sugar-roasted chestnuts, also frozen!"

Song Youde felt a bit uneasy: "Well, I was... saving some for Damei..."

Sancheng became even more baffled: "Didn’t big sis have an incident when she was younger, where she ate too many chestnuts and couldn’t go to the bathroom for days? She hasn’t eaten chestnuts since then!"

Song Youde: ...

"Why the fuss! Can’t I keep them for myself to nibble on at night? Hurry up, go catch a cat, we must find this mouse!"

Remembering the chestnuts his elderly couple had secretly dealt with, he couldn’t help feeling a bit indignant: "What kind of construction is this? How did a mouse get in here?!"

Sancheng: ... The old man’s making a senseless fuss.

Still keeping them for his own nibbling... Not worried about losing his teeth!

After those chestnuts are sun-dried, not even a stone could smash them. One time when he was hungry at the age of fourteen, he tried nibbling on one and chewed for hours!

Sancheng tried to guess who those chestnuts were meant for, feeling quite dejected at the moment.

But a mouse in the house was serious business, so he opened the living room door and called out: "Daju? Is Daju around? If Daju is not here, then what about that orange one? Is Wuju around?"

However, it was already nighttime, the prime time for cats to frolic all over the hills, so his calls went unanswered. Instead, he managed to call down Qiaoqiao and Song Tan.

"How can there be a mouse in the house?"

As Song Tan walked, she tossed Datian in her hand back and forth, making Qiaoqiao extremely anxious and worried!

Datian was disoriented from the tossing and turning, and as Song Tan stopped walking, it "gulped" and spit out a dry, yellowish chestnut kernel the size of a green bean!

Qiaoqiao furrowed her brow and stared for a long time before recognizing it! Immediately, she scolded:

"Datian! You stole chestnuts!"

No wonder it hadn’t been eating recently, who knows how many it had stolen each day! How long would it take to digest such dry food?

Song Tan handed Datian back to Qiaoqiao, then pondered thoughtfully: "It’s got quite a good set of teeth!"

But after some thought, she still couldn’t figure out Datian’s professional expertise and eventually gave up.

She then turned to Song Youde and said, "Grandpa, look at you, why didn’t you store stuff in the storage room? We wouldn’t eat your things... Datian never messes with the storage room."

"You hide nuts in the room, it’s just a hamster, it would be strange if it could resist!"

Song Tan spoke casually, but Song Youde couldn’t help feeling that she somehow knew he was planning to give the chestnuts to his eldest son. He glanced at the clueless Qiaoqiao and then at the golden-furred plump hamster, feeling guilty and out of breath:

"Well... Well..."

After all, those chestnuts cost Tantan quite a bit of money and effort to get, and now he was using them like this, albeit just a few jin of chestnuts, it really wasn’t very appropriate...

However, Song Tan pointed to the freezer: "Were you planning to give them to someone? There are frozen ones in the freezer, fresh and nicer looking, and more convenient to eat—whenever you want to give them, I’ll drive you."

What a good granddaughter!

Song Youde felt warmth in his heart, and recalling the phone call earlier, he clenched his teeth:

"Give? Not giving anything!"