"It might not be true at all."
"It is true. I heard that the Qiu family at the foot of Shu Mountain bartered half a bag of Xiaomi for a few eggs to provide nutrition for their daughter-in-law who had just given birth."
"Is that the old Qiu who does odd jobs for the government?"
"Yeah, the child was just born and is not even a month old yet. Sigh, in this day and age, it's hard to know if the child can be well taken care of."
Though the words were put delicately, what they really meant was: the child was born at such a time when there is nothing to go around; can it even survive?
"I didn't expect the Qius to be so good to their daughter-in-law."
"Indeed."
"So you're saying Luo Gang also wants to go into the mountains to catch some wild hens that can lay eggs?"
"It's quite possible that's what he's thinking."
