Pei Wenlee's face stretched with anger as she called for Pei Wenbo, also taking a rope, an axe, a hemp sack, and a bamboo basket to go up the mountain.
Lady Zhu worried about the two children, so she called for Old Pei to follow them.
Old Pei took the ox out and let it graze halfway up the mountain.
However, the whole morning passed, and they hadn't brought back anything.
Pei Qin peeled corn absent-mindedly, only finishing one after a long time.
For two days straight, Pei Wenlee and Pei Wenbo didn't even catch a glimpse of a bamboo rat, nor did they see a single hair from the wild rabbits and pheasants they had boasted about earlier.
Lady Zhu scolded indirectly.
Pei Qin adopted a nonviolent, non-cooperative attitude, fiddling with only two ears of corn after eating or just sitting back and basking in the sun.
Si Ya couldn't stand it anymore and kept urging Pei Qin over and over again.
Finally, it rained.
This kind of late-autumn, early-winter rain was especially chilling.
