Chapter 347 Treasure and Handkerchief

"Mother!"

When Emma was talking to Leon, little Ellie was sensible enough not to come over to disturb them, but she would occasionally look longingly in their direction.

After Emma finished her conversation and entered the garden, she couldn't wait any longer and finally ran over, gently pulled Emma's skirt, and handed over the thing in her hand like offering a treasure.

"Look, look!"

Is this...holly berries?

After identifying the small orange-red fruit in front of her, Emma smiled softly, bent down and took off the leaves hanging on Ellie's bonnet and said:

"That's great. I thought all the holly berries in the garden had been eaten by the animals... Where did you find them?"

"over there!"

Pointing at a small patch of bushes that had been pulled apart, little Ellie, with a lot of sweat on her forehead and a few grains of dirt on her nose, said with joy in her eyes:
"Sister Melanie took me in to take a look, and there were these little red fruits growing inside, and there were also a lot of puppy-like footprints!"

Puppy-like footprints?

Emma was slightly startled when she heard this, and said in confusion:

"Is there a dog in the garden?"

"I don't know...but there are really a lot of small footprints!"

Little Ellie shook her head and said excitedly:

"I've looked at every corner of the garden many times, but this is the first time I've seen a puppy! William and his friends are amazing! They spotted footprints behind the bushes with just one look, and they even found the secret passage!"

Secret passage? Is there a secret passage in the garden?
"Really! There really is a secret passage!"

Seeing Emma's disbelieving look, Little Ellie couldn't help but said anxiously:

"I didn't lie to you. After discovering the secret passage, Melanie wanted to go in and take a look, but Aunt Anna wouldn't let her. So William went around to the other side and climbed a tree to trick Aunt Anna... Oh!

No! That... It's not a lie! It's... It's that..."

"..."

I see. It's the one that pretends to build a plank road but secretly attacks Chencang and transfers Anna away from the mountain, right?
These two troublemakers are working together!
Looking at little Ellie who accidentally let the secret slip and covered her mouth in panic, Leon couldn't help but sigh in his heart, then quickly walked into the garden and went around to the front of the bushes.

Sure enough, a dangling little butt was half stuck in the bushes, and Melanie, whose upper body had entered the so-called secret passage, was twisting her butt desperately and shouting in a muffled voice:
"It stinks! It stinks! Pull me out now!"

"Wow! It stinks! Ellie! Ellie, help me!"

"..."

I knew you two would cause some trouble for me!

After pulling apart the bushes on both sides and pulling out Melanie who was stuck in the secret passage, Leon looked at his sister who was like a mud monkey and couldn't help but said with a dark face:

"What did you promise me yesterday? Did you forget?"

"Ah? Big brother?"

After seeing Leon's darkened face, Melanie, who was caught in the act of mischief, couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. She broke away from the surprise of discovering the secret passage, smiled awkwardly and pointed behind her:
"Well... there's a secret passage! And there seems to be something in it. I even grabbed a handful! Maybe it's some treasure!"

Treasure?

Seeing Melanie's hand offering the so-called treasure, Leon stretched out his hand doubtfully, but after seeing her excited expression, he let Melanie put the so-called treasure in his palm.
Hmm... dark brown, relatively hard, slightly flat cylindrical, about a centimeter in diameter, and smells a bit stinky...

"These appear to be badger tracks."

After identifying the "treasure" in Leon's hand, Emma, who followed with her daughter, pointed at the footprints on the ground and said with a smile:

“The footprints on the ground don’t look like dog paws. Instead, they have five toes, and the front paws look much bigger than the back paws, which is the same as the characteristics of badger footprints. So what they found should not be a secret passage, but a white-striped badger’s cave.

As for the treasure in your hand... well... do you want to wipe your hands?"

"..."

The treasure dug out from the badger's burrow...isn't that just dried shit?!
After hearing Senior Emma's judgment, Leon's hands trembled violently, and he hurriedly threw away the dried shit in his hand, and his face suddenly darkened several shades. After Ellie found the berries, she hurriedly gave them to Senior Emma, and after drilling the dog hole, Melanie gave her big brother a lot of badger shit.

This contrast is really strong...

When Lyon glared at Melanie, who was cheating on him, and rubbed his palms with a handkerchief, Anna, who was "transferred" away, also pulled William and came around from the opposite side, panting slightly.

"I knew there was something wrong with you two!"

After seeing Melanie covered in dirt, Anna, who had always been competing with her brothers and sisters, immediately realized that she had been fooled. She grabbed William's ears and said to Melanie with gritted teeth:

"The gifts I promised you two are gone! Your pocket money for next week will also be deducted!"

"Wow! No!"

Although she guessed that the gift might be cancelled, she didn't expect that even her pocket money would be deducted. Melanie quickly looked at her eldest brother who loved her the most, and blinked her big eyes pitifully, hoping that someone would stand up and "administer justice". Unfortunately...

"Look, I'm useless!"

After recalling the feel of those dried dung balls, Leon hardened his heart for a rare moment:

"Your pocket money must be deducted. Not only that, you have to wash the clothes you soiled today yourself! You are not allowed to ask Anna for help!"

"Whoa!"

……

After the small disturbance caused by the "treasure in the secret passage", the Lyon family, at the invitation of Senior Emma, entered the small wooden house built on the side of the garden.

After brushing off the dust on the three children, Senior Emma took out two slightly wet towels, handed one to Anna, then held little Ellie in her arms and gently wiped her face.

Anna pinched her naughty sister's face with her left hand, and took a wet towel in her right hand, rubbing it hard like scrubbing her body.

"Gently...gently! It hurts!"

"Bear the pain! It won't be easy!"

"Then... um... just do the same as sister Ellie's!"

"no!"

After rubbing Melanie's forehead with a towel, turning her head red, Anna said unhappily:
"Ellie's face is just covered with dust, but the sweat on your face has been mixed with the dirt and turned into mud. How can you wipe it off without applying some force?"

“But… it hurts!”

Melanie, whose face was stuck, resisted her sister's "violence" while holding on to her last hope and applying:
“How about you help William wipe his face first? I can wait for Aunt Emma to finish wiping it, and then give it to me…”

"Bear it!"

"profound……"

Humph, my stupid sister!

Seeing that Melanie didn't forget to drag him into the water at this time, William, whose face was also dirty, couldn't help but glance at her, then smiled proudly with his hands behind his back, and a sense of superiority in IQ arose spontaneously.

Although it's uncomfortable to have mud on your face, since Sister Anna is furious, the first person whose face is wiped will definitely suffer, so I deliberately stepped back half a step and let you wipe your face first. Wait until Sister Anna's anger is almost vented, and then...

"William, come!"

Looking at his sister and senior Emma who were taking care of the child, Leon felt a little awkward with empty hands, so he took out a handkerchief from the mirror world and waved to William.

"Don't wait Anna, let me help you wipe your face!"

Big brother?
After hearing Leon's greeting, William thought for a moment and felt that it might be okay for his elder brother to come instead, so he nodded, walked over with a cool look on his face, and raised his little face towards Leon.

"vomit!"

"Brother, your handkerchief seems to smell a bit..."

(End of this chapter)

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