In the end, Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin left with their bellies full. Mu Yangling and her siblings also ate until their mouths glistened with oil. Finally, they went to sleep in satisfaction.
The next morning, Mu Yangling woke up early and ran to look for her father. "Father, let's drag that deer to the county and sell it?"
"Mingshui County has just suffered a calamity. Other than a few officials, who else can afford it?"
"Then sell it to them."
Mu Shi smiled and said, "They don't care for it. I heard that the Sun family is raising dozens of deer in their farm, waiting to kill them during the new year."
Mu Yangling frowned. "Don't tell me I have to go to the prefectural capital to sell a deer?" She was very unhappy, for she had originally thought that it would be easier to buy and sell things now that she was living beside the county. But it turned out, she still had to travel.
