"Mother!" While Emma was talking to Leon, little Ellie was very sensible and did not come to disturb them, but occasionally glanced longingly in their direction. After Emma finished the conversation and entered the garden, she couldn't wait anymore and finally couldn't help running over. She gently pulled the corner of Emma's skirt and handed over the things in her hand like a treasure. "Look, look!" These are...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 hat and said: "That's great. I thought all the holly berries in the garden had been eaten by small animals... Where did you find them?" "over there!" Pointing to a small piece of bush that had been opened, little Ellie showed a lot of sweat on her forehead and a few grains of dirt on her nose. She said with joy in her eyes: "Sister Melanie took me in to take a look, and there happened to be these little red fruits inside, and there were also many puppy-like footprints!"
Puppy-like footprints? Emma was slightly startled when she heard this, and said with some confusion: "Are there any dogs 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 have looked at every place in the garden many times, but this is the first time I know there are puppies! William and the others are so awesome! Just by looking at them, I found footprints behind the bushes, and also found the secret passage!" Secret passages? Are there any secret passages in the garden? "Really! There really is a secret passage!" Seeing Emma's look of disbelief, little Ellie couldn't help but said anxiously: "I'm not lying to you. After discovering the secret passage, Melanie wanted to get in and take a look, but Aunt Anna wouldn't let her, so William went around to the other end and climbed a tree to deceive Aunt Anna...ah! no! That... is not a lie! That's it...that's it..." "..." I understand, it’s the man who built the plank road openly and secretly visited Chencang, and made Anna leave the mountain, right? These two troublemakers started fighting and cooperating! Looking at little Ellie who accidentally spilled the beans and covered her mouth in panic, Leon couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then quickly walked into the garden and walked around to the front of the bushes. Sure enough, Melanie, whose swaying little buttocks were half stuck in the bushes, and whose upper body had entered the so-called secret passage, was twisting her buttocks desperately while shouting muffledly: "It stinks! It stinks! Pull me out!" "Wow! It stinks! Ellie! Ellie, help!" "..."
I knew you two were going to make some trouble for me! After forcefully tearing open the bushes on both sides and pulling out Melanie who was stuck in the secret passage, Leon couldn't help but said with a dark face when looking at his sister who looked like a mud monkey: "Why did you promise me yesterday? Did you forget?" "Ah? Big brother?" After seeing Leon's darkened face, Melanie, who had been caught in a naughty act, couldn't help but feel guilty. She broke away from the surprise of discovering the secret passage, pointed behind her with a smile and said: "That... there is a secret passage! And there seems to be something in it. I even grabbed a handful! Maybe it's some kind of treasure!" Treasure? Looking at Melanie's little hand as if offering a treasure, Leon stretched out his palm doubtfully, but after looking at her excited expression, he still let Melanie put the so-called treasure in the palm of his hand. Hmm... dark brown, relatively hard, slightly flat cylindrical shape, about one centimeter in diameter, and smells a bit stinky... "It looks like badger tracks." After identifying the "treasure" in Leon's hand, Emma, who followed with her daughter in her arms, pointed to the footprints on the ground and said with some laughter: "The footprints on the ground don't look like dog's paws. Instead, they have five toes, and the front paws look much larger than the back paws. They have the same characteristics as badger's footprints, so what they found should not be a secret passage, but a white stripe." Badger's burrow. As for the treasure in your hands...well...do you want to wipe your hands? " "..." The treasure dug up in the badger's cave... isn't that just dried shit? ! After hearing Senior Emma's judgment, Leon's hand couldn't help but trembled violently, and he hurriedly shook off the dried shit balls in his hand, and his face suddenly turned several shades darker. After little Ellie discovered the berries, she hurriedly gave them to senior Emma, while Melanie, after drilling the dog hole, gave her big brother a handful of badger shit. This contrast is really strong enough... When Leon glared at Melanie, who was cheating on him, and rubbed his hands hard with a handkerchief, Anna, who had been "transferred" away, also pulled William and walked around from the opposite side, panting slightly. "I knew there must be something wrong with you two!" After seeing the dirt-covered Melanie, Anna, who had been battling wits with her younger siblings for many years, instantly understood that she had been fooled. She picked up William's ear and then gritted her teeth and said to the sarcastic Melanie. Ni said: "The gift I promised you two is gone! Next week's pocket money 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 "host the show." "Justice", it's a pity... "It's useless for you to look at me!" After recalling the feeling of those dried dung eggs, Leon hardened his heart and said: "Pocket money must be deducted, and not only that, but you have to wash the dirty clothes today yourself! Don't ask Anna for help!" "Woohoo!"
... After the little turmoil caused by the "secret passage treasure", the Lyon family entered the small wooden house built on the side of the garden at the invitation of Senior Emma. After shaking off the dust on the three children, Senior Emma took out two slightly wet towels and handed one to Anna, then held little Ellie in her arms and gently wiped her face. Anna pinched the naughty sister's face with her left hand, and took the wet towel in her right hand, rubbing it vigorously like a bath. "Lighter...lighter! It hurts!" "Bear it even if it hurts! It can't be lighter!" "Then...um...just do it like sister Ellie!" "No!" After rubbing Melanie's forehead with a towel and rubbing her little head red, Anna said unhappily: "Ellie's face is just a little dusty, and the sweat on your face has mixed with the dirt and turned into mud. How can it be wiped off without some force?" "But...it hurts!" Melanie, whose face was stuck, resisted her sister's "violence" while holding the last hope and applying: "Or, you help William wipe his face first? I can wait until Aunt Emma finishes wiping, and then give me..." "Bear it!" "Oh..." 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 was uncomfortable to have mud on your face, since Sister Anna was angry, the first person to be wiped would definitely suffer, so I deliberately stepped back half a step and let you wipe your face first. Wait until Sister Anna is almost done with her anger, and then... "William, come!" Looking at his sister and senior Emma who were taking care of the child, Leon, who was empty-handed, felt a little awkward, so he took out a handkerchief from the mirror world and waved to William. "Don't wait for Anna, I'll help you wipe your face!" Big brother? After hearing Leon's call, William thought for a moment and felt that it didn't seem impossible to let his big brother do it, so he nodded, walked over with a cool look, and raised his little face to Leon. "Ugh!" "Big brother, your handkerchief seems a little smelly..."