"It's nothing much, I'm just curious about what you're thinking so deeply about. I've called you several times and you didn't respond. Should we smoke this wild boar and make it into salted dried meat?"
The Eldest Lady, now renamed Qin Miao, had become more cheerful living with Qin Shuang over the years. She no longer had the timid and shy demeanor she once had, always with her head down, afraid to speak loudly behind Qin Shuangshuang.
Qin Shuangshuang nodded and brought the pork back into the house, saying to Qin Miao, "Let's make it into dried meat!" She looked around the house but didn't see Mrs. Bai, "Has our mother gone out to dig wild vegetables again?"
"Yes, lately every household has barely any greens. It's too dry in the fields, and nothing can grow. Even wild vegetables are very scarce." As Qin Miao spoke, she skillfully came out with a knife and a basin, ready to cut up the wild boar meat.
