Those Aren't Dogs at All. They're Wolves

Soon, Gu Sinian and Zhou Qingyan and the others walked in.

Zhou Qingyan looked at Zhou Wanwan and said, "I heard you're going to the Northern Desert? How about a few of us go with you?"

Zhou Wanwan thought for a moment and said, "That's fine, it's good to go out and broaden one's horizons."

Anyway, with the big trees around, they are relatively safe, and they can also go and see what the Northern Desert is like.

Zhou Wanwan was also busy during the day, picking some vegetables and fruits from the field and taking a few pheasants with her.

Since there will be no vegetables and fruits available in the Northern Desert, it's natural to bring more food.

These tree-people also work together, with specific tree-people carrying these things for her.

Furthermore, Zhou Wanwan discovered that the tree people's energy could be used to store these vegetables.

The idea is that as long as these vegetables are placed on the tree person, they will not rot for several months.

This energy is quite amazing; it has a preservative effect.

There's just too much fruit at home; we can't possibly eat it all.

At that time, we brought back more than 200 peach trees, more than 100 pear trees, several hundred grapevines, and all sorts of other fruit trees from Khotan.

Zhou Wanwan later discovered that there were many kinds of seeds in the warehouse, all kinds of fruit seeds.

That's where the strawberries were discovered.

The second prince of Khotan was quite useful; Zhou Wanwan discovered over 800 kinds of seeds.

I don't know what the second prince of Khotan is planning, but he's given everything to Zhou Wanwan anyway.

Regardless of whether it tastes good or not, plant it all.

Anyway, Zhou Wanwan directly supplied energy to these seeds, and they will germinate soon.

So Zhou Wanwan's family has more fruit than they can eat right now.

Sometimes Zhou Wanwan couldn't finish eating the fruit, so she would sell it.

And you know what? It's incredibly popular.

These fruits are quite expensive. Right now, there's a locust plague, so common fruits are scarce, and it's hard to even find wild fruits on the market, let alone good-quality fresh fruits.

Apples, grapes, and peaches are all out-of-season produce, rare even in normal years, and even wealthy families rarely get to eat them. In years of famine, they are more precious than gold and silver.

Zhou Wanwan took these fruits out to sell. Apples were priced at 100 wen per jin, peaches at 180 wen per jin, and grapes were even more expensive at 200 wen per jin.

Normally, no one would dare to dream of such a price, but now, with famine raging, ordinary people can only watch from afar, unable to afford it at all.

Those who came to buy were all wealthy people and officials from the city. They just wanted to give their elderly parents and children a taste of something new to satisfy their cravings, and they were willing to pay any price.

At first, Zhou Wanwan thought there wouldn't be any business, but she didn't expect there to be so many wealthy people in the city.

Zhou Wanwan picked two baskets of grapes, two baskets of strawberries, two baskets of cherries, one basket of apples and pears, one basket of oranges, and a few watermelons before she stopped.

As soon as she stepped outside, she saw a dozen or so children from Zhou Family Village sneaking off toward the back mountain.

Zhou Wanwan said helplessly, "It's one thing for the adults to be naughty, but the kids are naughty too. It's so annoying."

Lingbao stretched lazily from his pocket and said casually, "Wasn't the direction they went towards the zoo?"

Zhou Wanwan's family keeps many animals that they brought back from the mountains.

The children headed in the direction that led directly to her zoo.

Zhou Wanwan followed them, and the children entered the zoo, asking, "What is this place?"

Zhou Qingzhou shook his head and said:

Who knows? Maybe there's something delicious in there?

Since we came up the mountain, they've been making us drink porridge every day. This Zhou Wanwan has been really naughty."

"Why is this mountain village so poor? I don't see any houses at all."

Lingbao snorted coldly and said, "If you keep saying our mountain stronghold is poor, then why are you even coming to our stronghold?"

Zhou Wanwan patted its head and said, "Alright! Alright! These people from Zhou Family Village are all bad news. Let's see what they're up to!"

These children swaggered into the zoo and saw more than a dozen dogs.

Zhou Qingzhou rubbed his hands and said, "We finally saw a dozen or so live animals. If we eat these dogs, do you think Zhou Wanwan will be furious?"

"Isn't this a bit much? What if we actually give it to her and then kill us?"

Zhou Qingshan snorted coldly and said, "What are you afraid of? What would Zhou Wanwan really do to us? Quickly release those dogs."

The group released the dogs, and the dogs immediately stared intently at them.

Then they pounced on them. Zhou Qingyuan looked closely and said, "Oh no, these aren't dogs at all, they're wolves."

"Ah..." A group of people began to flee frantically.

These wolves moved very quickly, following behind them.

Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "A bunch of pathetic wretches, they're going to suffer again tonight."

Zhou Wanwan yawned and went back to sleep.

When she woke up, she heard Liu Su'e cursing and swearing:

"What business is it of ours if their child gets bitten by a wolf?"

The wolves were all kept in their cages, but those kids insisted on letting them out.

Serves him right!

Zhou Fusheng couldn't understand it either:

"Yes, those wolves never come out on their own, and we don't know what these children have done."

Anyway, the bites were quite severe this time; several children had chunks of flesh bitten off their legs.

Zhou Wanwan sneered. If she hadn't asked those wolves to show mercy, these children would probably all be crippled.

She raised these wolves specifically to work for her. She had many sheep to herd, so Lingbao would communicate with the wolves and get them to do her work.

These wolves were quite willing.

This zoo has all kinds of animals. Zhou Wanwan even found two tiger cubs before, and they are now being raised here.

In just a few months, the tiger cub has grown into a big tiger.

The two tigers rushed out when they saw Zhou Wanwan. Zhou Wanwan took out a bag of meat and said, "Little Good One, Little Treasure, time to eat! Tsk tsk tsk... You must be starving!"

The two tiger cubs are eating more and more, and Gu Sinian is the one who usually takes care of them.

Zhou Wanwan's dog is named Little Good One, Gu Sinian's dog is named Little Treasure.

The two tigers were quite affectionate; after finishing their meal, they didn't want to leave and kept cuddling around Zhou Wanwan.

Zhou Wanwan brought them into the front hall, preparing for dinner.

Tonight's dinner was quite plentiful: braised duck, stir-fried wild boar, pan-fried river fish, steamed sweet potatoes, braised pig ears, hot and sour shredded potatoes, stewed tofu, and fish head soup in a clay pot.

Zhou Wanwan was drinking fish soup when she saw villagers from Zhou Family Village carrying in the children. They said, "Zhou Wanwan, why did you raise wolves in your mountain stronghold? Now they've mauled our children like this, what are you going to do about it?"

Zhou Wanwan looked at them and said:

"Those wolves were all kept in their cages, why did you let them out?"

Why are you looking for me now?

Old Madam Zhou looked at her and said:

"Zhou Wanwan, these are all your cousins, how could you do this?"

So many people were bitten by your fish yesterday, and today they were bitten by your wolf.

What exactly do you want? Are you trying to kill us?