When they planted these saplings, they were filled with joy, as if they were welcoming new lives. Everyone's face was beaming with happiness.
Now that they had to take these saplings away, everyone looked dejected.
However, they worked quite fast. By evening, they had already loaded the saplings onto carts one by one and taken them home.
Yun Que'er told Yun Jianzhou to pile up all the cut - down saplings in the yard and stack them neatly. Then they were left under the scorching sun.
It was the hottest time of summer recently, and these saplings were very thin, so they dried out quickly.
Yun Que'er checked them one by one, knocking on each. Finding that they were completely dry, she sat on a small stool with a small axe and started to study them.
Maybe they could turn these pieces of wood into artworks...
Since they were useless anyway, they might as well carve them carefully to see if they could still be of some use.
Without delay, Yun Que'er immediately started to study.
When Yun Yi went out, she saw Yun Que'er laboriously chopping at the wood with a small axe. She quickly walked over.
"What are you doing? You should be careful not to hurt yourself. Let me help you."
"I want to carve these pieces of wood to make some patterns," Yun Que'er said dejectedly, handing the small axe over. "But I've tried several times. All I can do is chop the wood into pieces. I can't do anything else."
Yun Yi couldn't help laughing. "You've never been to school, let alone studied art. How could you know anything about this? Don't be too sad. It's normal not to know. If you did, I'd really think there was a ghost."
Yun Que'er had been feeling sad, but was amused by Yun Yi's words.
"Then, Third Sister, why don't you give it a try?"
Yun Yi thought for a while and took the file and the small axe from Yun Que'er.
She chopped the thin tree trunks into small sections and then started to carve and polish them with the file.
Yun Que'er watched from the side. Before long, the shapeless piece of wood in Yun Yi's hand turned into a lively little rabbit.
"Wow, Third Sister, you're so amazing!" Yun Que'er clapped her hands in surprise. "Third Sister, you've got such a skill. Why didn't you tell us earlier?"
"To be honest, this is the first time I've done this," Yun Yi said. "I just carved it according to what I had in mind."
Yun Yi held the little rabbit in her hand and looked at it for a while. Suddenly, she smiled.
"You've always said you wanted to raise a rabbit. But our living conditions are limited for now. So I carved a wooden one for you. You can play with it for the time being."
Yun Yi handed the little rabbit to Yun Que'er. Yun Que'er held it carefully, afraid of dropping it.
She looked at it for a long time before asking, "Third Sister, if I can find some books about carving for you, can you make the rest of the wood at home look nicer?"
"I can only give it a try," Yun Yi said, smiling as she tapped Yun Que'er on the nose. "Don't expect too much from your Third Sister. I don't want you to be disappointed later."
How could Yun Que'er be disappointed? She had already had an idea when she heard what Yun Yi said.
Yun Yi had never systematically studied carving, but she was a natural talent, with an innate sense of art.
They had such a treasure at home, and they should make good use of her.
Yun Que'er immediately went to a corner to draw a lottery. Maybe because she had accumulated a lot of luck from doing tasks over the past year, the prizes she drew were getting closer to what she wanted.
Although there were still some useless things, Yun Que'er also won a batch of saplings, a book about wood - carving and some more delicate carving tools.
When Yun Fujin got the saplings, he wanted to plant them in the field right away, but was stopped by Yun Que'er.
"Brother, don't be in such a hurry. These saplings won't die for a while. First, pick out a few good ones and plant them in our yard. We'll move them to the field later."
Yun Fujin was puzzled. "But the yard is so small. And the soil is different from that in the field. Can they grow? Isn't it a waste to use such good saplings?"
"No, it won't be," Yun Que'er said firmly. "Brother, you have to trust the quality of these saplings. And don't you want to know who watered our saplings to death?"
Hearing Yun Que'er's words, Yun Fujin frowned. He really wanted to catch that person and ask him why he had done it.
But unfortunately, that person had hidden himself so well that Yun Fujin couldn't find him.
So, according to Yun Que'er, planting the saplings in the yard was to lie in wait for the rabbit?
"But even so, will he come?" Yun Fujin still thought it was a bit risky.
It was their yard. Even if they left the gate wide open, that person might not dare to come.
After all, except in extreme cases, who would knowingly walk into danger?
Yun Que'er had the opposite view. "Brother, think about it. Our previous batch of saplings just died, and soon we have new ones. He must be wondering why our family always has such things. And we're like indestructible cockroaches. Even if we suffered a setback this time, we can quickly bounce back. He'll be even more jealous. So he'll take the risk and come to our yard to destroy these new saplings."
Yun Fujin understood what Yun Que'er meant. They were going to take this gamble.
They were gambling that this person would be so jealous that he would go crazy, lose his mind, and come to the yard to cause damage even though he knew it was dangerous.
"Okay," Yun Fujin nodded. "Let's do it your way, but we can't wait too long."
"Of course not," Yun Que'er nodded slightly. "If this person doesn't show up after a week, we'll plant the saplings in the field and then secretly keep watch."
Yun Fujin and Yun Que'er hit it off and went their separate ways to take action.
For those few days, the yard was very lively.
On one side, Yun Fujin and Yun Jianzhou were planting trees in the yard, while on the other side, Yun Yi and Yun Que'er were studying how to carve wood.
When some people saw this, they couldn't help sighing.
"Your family is really amazing. When you got poor land, you planted trees. When the trees died, you planted new ones. If it were me, I'd be so angry that I'd fall seriously ill."
Yun Fujin looked up and smiled at the passers - by outside.
"What else can we do? Even if God is playing a joke on us, we still have to strive to live on."