Transmigration: From Dragon Princess To Pampered Granddaughter
Chapter 539 - 540: Giving You a Bone to Gnaw On

Chapter 539: Chapter 540: Giving You a Bone to Gnaw On

Just after finishing dinner, someone from the commune came over. An old woman, as soon as she entered the yard, craned her neck and shouted, "Xiulian? Xiulian, are you there?"

"Ah, yes, I’m here."

Ma Xiulian emerged from the stove room at the sound of her voice. Seeing the old woman, she politely asked, "Aunt Seven, what brings you here?"

Though the two women were about the same age, Aunt Seven belonged to a generation two degrees higher than Ma Xiulian.

Aunt Seven smiled and explained her goal, "I just saw Dabai coming back from town with Guibao and the others, and thought I’d like to borrow Dabai and the sled to make a trip to town myself."

She was one of the villagers who had been planting crops at the village entrance in the morning, and had seen, with her own eyes, Dabai pulling Jiang Manyun and the two children back from town.

Ma Xiulian was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Aunt Seven, why do you want to borrow Dabai? Doesn’t the commune have a cart?"

Around the New Year, to facilitate the villagers’ trips to town to buy their New Year goods, the commune organizes cart trips to help transport things twice a week.

Aunt Seven countered, "But Dabai is faster than the cart! It only took an hour or so to make a round trip without showing any signs of tiredness. Isn’t that more convenient?!"

Even for an adult on foot, it would take more than an hour each way to go to town.

But Dabai could complete a round trip in less than an hour!

Moreover, people couldn’t sit in the oxcart. Just to transport some goods, you’d have to pay two cents. Borrowing Dabai, on the other hand, was different: it saved money and energy.

Strictly speaking, Aunt Seven was a senior relative within five degrees of the Chen family, so Ma Xiulian certainly couldn’t bring herself to charge her a fare.

Most importantly, her little grandson had seen Chen Erbao riding in the sled and had made a fuss about wanting to ride in one too, pulled by a dog!

But their family didn’t have either a sled or a dog to offer to their grandson. As a result, the boy had refused to eat his lunch, throwing a tantrum at home!

Feeling sorry for her little grandson and thinking that as an elder, the Chens certainly wouldn’t refuse her little request, she decided to go and borrow the sled herself!

Hearing this, Ma Xiulian wasn’t too surprised, since Dabai usually ran quickly anyway!

She could tell Aunt Seven was trying to take advantage of the situation, but as Aunt Seven was a senior, she didn’t feel it right to resist the request. Instead, she smiled and said, "Dabai belongs to Guibao. If you want to borrow it, you should ask Guibao if she agrees!"

Aunt Seven’s face sank immediately, a touch disheartened.

She had thought that Ma Xiulian, considering that Aunt Seven was her senior, would have agreed no matter what. Who knew that she would have to swallow her pride and ask a little girl for a favor!

But thinking of her little grandson at home who was refusing to eat and of the money she could save on oxcart fares, she managed to muster a wrinkled smile and looked at Helian Qiao, "Guibao, you are so obedient and filial. You’ll definitely lend Dabai to your great-aunt, right?"

"No!" Helian Qiao flatly refused without second thought.

Her mount wasn’t just for any human’s disposal.

However, she extended a chubby finger and pointed at Dabai, who was lying in a corner of the wall, saying, "If Dabai is willing, I can lend him to you. Why don’t you personally ask Dabai?"

Aunt Seven’s face darkened even further.

This damn girl had no respect for elders, so rude!

She had the audacity to ask her to speak to a dog!

The old and the young in this family were the same!

A case of the apple not falling far from the tree!

But before she left home, she’d promised her little grandson that she would certainly borrow the sled. Suppressing her displeasure, she tried to coax Dabai, "Dabai, if you run to town with me, I’ll give you a bone to chew on."

Even though her words sounded courteous, her gaze was filled with a human’s sense of superiority.