Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 1122 - 1124 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Chapter 1122: Chapter 1124 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Nan Feng was frying dishes and said, "And you’re making fun of me? Hurry up and eat your porridge. We still need to spray the lychees with pesticide later, and the potatoes in the field need fertilizing too."

Behind their house, there was a lychee forest and a potato garden. When the lychees were ripe, they would pick and sell them, and the same went for the potatoes. Sometimes they hunted wild game and gathered herbs to support the family and raised two children.

Nan Feng had also thought about opening a noodle shop in town and letting Xia Dabao manage it, to earn some extra money. If Xia Dabao married close by, she could run it with her husband. If she married far away, Axian could manage it.

She didn’t seek great wealth, but she still wanted to pass on survival skills to her children. In the village, many families treated their daughters like outsiders and their sons like their own parents, believing that once a daughter was married off, she belonged to another family. Yet they scrambled to pay for their sons to build houses and marry wives. Nan Feng didn’t see it that way. Whether a daughter or a son, all should be independent. Even if their spouses were not kind to them, or if there were difficulties at home, they could still live with some dignity.

The couple ate a simple breakfast and then went to the Lychee Forest. It was still early, the sun had not yet risen, but Xiaobei considerately put a straw hat on Nan Feng to shade her from the sun.

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At the market, at the Lucky Building.

Xia Dabao was holding a rabbit, waiting for the boss to come out while Axian quietly stood by.

Axian was a well-behaved boy but very inquisitive. Seeing Xia Dabao getting a bit impatient, he asked her in a milky voice, "Sister, why do you like eating rabbit meat?"

Why did she like rabbit meat?

This question was somewhat difficult for Xia Dabao to articulate and explain.

She used to oppose eating rabbit meat. Rabbits were so cute—how could anyone eat their meat?

When she was seven, her father caught one in the mountains and was about to slaughter it, but Xia Dabao insisted on keeping it and raising it. Her mother, unconcerned with her sobbing, decisively killed the rabbit. Xia Dabao was so upset that she refused to eat, but her mother roasted the rabbit meat until it was fragrant and enticing. Unable to resist, she carefully tried a piece and began to cry as she ate.

How could something taste so delicious? From that day, Xia Dabao not only fell in love with rabbit meat but also with hunting. She constantly nagged Kung Fu to teach her how to hunt rabbits. And that was how her martial arts skills were honed.

Her father said, "In these mountains, it’s either you eat them, or they eat you, so you need to train your skills well."

Whatever father said was right.

"Sister, you haven’t answered my question yet?" Axian, seeing Xia Dabao silent, asked again.

Xia Dabao responded evasively to Axian, "It’s just because I like eating it. And why do you like eating candied haw so much?"

"Because candied haw is crunchy and sweet, and it feels like the sweetness spreads from my mouth straight to my heart," Axian replied, repeating what Nan Feng had taught him.

"Rabbit meat is the same, crunchy and fragrant, and it crunches all the way to your heart," Xia Dabao said.

Axian pondered Xia Dabao’s explanation and realized that it actually made sense—it really could crunch all the way to the heart.

Xia Dabao finally saw the boss come to settle the bill, and she quickly excitedly grabbed Axian’s hand and headed outside.

The market had plenty of snacks: fried dough, fried sweet potatoes, shrimp stacks, and of course, candied haw. Xia Dabao used the money from selling the rabbit to eat from one end of the street to the other, buying one for herself and one for Axian. If Axian couldn’t finish his, she took it over without minding his slobber.