Transmigration: From Dragon Princess To Pampered Granddaughter
Chapter 248 - 249: Bitten by a Rat 2

Chapter 248: Chapter 249: Bitten by a Rat 2

Everyone else had a look of intense anticipation on their faces, they were itching to start digging up all the rat holes immediately!

However, Ma Xiulian waved her hand, saying: "I’m not going."

"Why not?"

The sons and daughters-in-law of the Chen family looked at her incredulously. Had their mother lost her senses? She knew that there was so much grain in the rat holes and still she didn’t want to dig it out!

This was totally not like her!

With a serene expression, Ma Xiulian said: "The monkey didn’t come tonight. Do you think you can find the rat holes on your own?"

Her sons were taken aback when they heard this. That’s right! Without the monkey, they wouldn’t be able to locate the rat holes!

Why did the monkey not show up tonight?!

Li Chunhua wouldn’t give up. She said, "We can look for them on our own. What if we find them!"

She needed to feed her young son. If they had more grain, they would be able to eat well every meal.

Ma Xiulian gave her a bland look: "If you want to go, go on your own. I can’t be bothered."

Then she picked up her granddaughter and walked into the house, saying, "Guibao, let’s go to bed."

Chen Jiandang always listened to his mother and wife. With his wife not around, he naturally took his mother’s word for it.

So he immediately said, "Then, I’m not going either."

Seeing his brothers disheartened, Chen Jianguo, the eldest brother sullenly said, "Everyone, go to sleep. We’ll look at the situation tomorrow night."

Li Chunhua secretly wished they would all give up. If only she and her husband went, they could hide away the grain they found and savor it in private.

All these thoughts she quietly shared with her husband.

Chen Jianye looked uncomfortable and said, "Isn’t that wrong?"

Hiding the grain away secretly and hogging it, he never even contemplated such a thing.

But Li Chunhua argued earnestly, "We have two sons to raise. All our scanty grain goes to that damn girl at our house, making her fat and sassy. But our poor Xiaobao is just a skinny stick! And Jinbao, he’s destined for great things in the future, but now he doesn’t even have enough milk to drink!"

Thinking about his two sons, Chen Jianye hesitated for a moment and then finally nodded in agreement, "Okay!"

He decided to hide only half of the grain they found and give the rest away.

As it turned out, the two searched half the night in the village but didn’t come across a single corn kernel.

Just as they had gone back home and fallen asleep not long after, they were woken up to work. The suffering they endured under the blazing sun was beyond words.

During a break in the midst of all this, Ma Xiulian, spoke in a hushed voice and came across as quite mysterious while talking to the old lady next to her, "Have you heard? Over in the next town, someone dug up grain from a rat hole. They scraped up three or four big baskets of grain."

"What?"

The old lady was taken aback, "You can dig out so much grain from a rat hole?"

While the rats here did steal a lot of grain, nobody had ever heard of anyone reclaiming grain from the rat holes.

"That’s what the people are saying, I don’t know if it’s true or not."

Ma Xiulian specifically added, "Don’t spread this around. The people who told me didn’t want this information getting out."

The old woman solemnly promised, "Don’t worry, I definitely won’t spread it!"

But in less than half a day, the news had spread all around the village commune. And it had been exaggerated too,

Someone from the town next door had dug up a huge amount of grain from a rat hole, enough to fill ten big baskets. It was more than enough to feed a family for quite a while.

And there was every kind of grain, all of which was hoarded by the rats.

Ma Xiulian stood to the side, quietly listened to the women discussing this, and was quite satisfied inwardly.

This Old White was well-known for her chatty nature, always prone to amplifying everything she heard into something more.