The family stopped surrounding Chang Kun and all ran to the bicycle.

Chang Dashan patted the wild donkey's belly vigorously, his face beaming with joy: "Little Kun, this donkey meat is really fatty!"

Liu Meifen reached out and touched the little wild donkey's nape, her eyes wide with surprise: "Son, you not only caught a big donkey, but you also caught a live little one?"

She had never heard of anyone catching a live donkey from the mountain. Besides, this little donkey was quiet and didn't run away when it saw people. It was so well-behaved that it was like a domesticated donkey.

"Mother, I don't know what's wrong with this little donkey, it just wants to follow me, that's why I'm late."

"Ah! Is that so!" The parents didn't bother to ask anything else, and happily stroked the little donkey.

If the family is still working in the countryside, once this donkey is fully grown, it can earn the same amount of work points as ten strong laborers in a day!

The other girls stood three or four steps away from the little donkey, watching timidly, not daring to touch it.

Chang Mu, in particular, developed a psychological trauma from being pecked by her family's goose, and now avoids any larger animals.

Little Xiuer was the clever one. She ran to Chang Kun's side on her short legs, grabbed his big hand with her little hand, and pulled him towards the little donkey, shouting, "Big pot, fish, fish!"

Chang Kun chuckled, picked her up, and pinched her nose: "Learn from your big brother, donkey, donkey! Little donkey."

"Big pot, quick, quick!" Xiu'er, in her older brother's arms, strained desperately toward the little donkey.

The three little girls, Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Xiao Shui, also gathered around their eldest brother and followed him as he approached the little donkey.

"Hey, just touch it, it's okay." Chang Kun took Xiu'er's little hand and touched the little donkey's ear.

"(*^__^*) Hehe..." Xiu'er was overjoyed as she pinched the little donkey's ears. The fluffy feel of it was so comfortable.

"Big brother, good big brother, I want some too!" The other three little girls started clamoring when they saw Xiuer enjoying herself.

"Stay away, or the donkey will kick you, and you'll cry!" Liu Meifen glared at them. She had been kicked by a donkey when she was a child, and it hurt so much that she cried for a long time.

Chang Dashan nodded: "Go back and get a donkey bridle, train it, and it won't kick people anymore."

"Huh? How long will that take!" Chang Qing was the least patient and just wanted to play with the little donkey right away.

"Want to get it done quickly? There's a way. Starting tomorrow, you guys will go cut grass and feed the little donkey. That way, it won't take more than a few days for it to get used to you." Chang Dashan chuckled. A little donkey has quite an appetite, so it's good to give the girls some work to do.

Chang Qing wasn't stupid either, and turned to look at Chang Kun: "Brother, is that really true?"

Chang Kun nodded without hesitation. Raising a donkey requires a lot of fodder, and with both parents working, they don't have much time. Letting the girls do this is like giving them a labor lesson.

Even those born in the 70s and 80s had labor classes in school, where they had to help teachers harvest wheat and corn...

"Father, Mother, let's go back first." Seeing his parents stroking the little donkey back and forth, showing no sign of wanting to go home, Chang Kun urged them, knowing that his eldest sister at home must be worried too.

Dad pushed the bicycle, and Mom drove the little donkey.

Several young girls, like guards, surrounded the old woman and the little donkey, wanting to touch the little donkey but not daring to.

Little Xiu'er sat on Chang Kun's shoulders, her little feet swinging back and forth, singing the song Chang Kun had just taught her: "I have a chicken, a cat, and a fish in my nest..."

Chang Mei, holding her baby, was looking around at the gate of the courtyard. Chang Kun hadn't come home so late, and the whole family had no appetite for food. She had also persuaded the villagers who had come to listen to the radio to go home.

"Big sister, I'm back!" Chang Kun shouted as he saw his older sister's figure in the distance.

Chang Mei rushed out and looked Chang Kun up and down. Seeing that he was alright and Xiu'er was sitting on her shoulder, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you? There are steamed buns that Mom brought back and a pig's heart warming up in the pot." She hurriedly went into the main room, put Xiao Bao on the east kang (heated brick bed), and prepared food for Chang Kun.

"Big sister, don't rush, let's eat something good."

At this moment, her parents and the little maids all came into the yard. Changmei peeked out and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, is Xiao Kun a big donkey?"

Chang Kun chuckled and replied, "Big sister is a donkey!" No one else understood what he meant, but he chuckled to himself a few times.

"Oh my, there's a little donkey!" Chang Mei leaned closer and reached out to pat the donkey's back. "Xiao Kun, where did this little donkey come from?"

Chang Qing and Chang Mu, standing nearby, watched their older sister pet the little donkey with envy, shouting, "Big sister, be careful, don't let it kick you!"

"Mom, I'll cut some donkey meat. Let's have hot donkey meat for dinner tonight." Chang Kun was starving after walking all the way. Since there was donkey meat on hand, he was sure to have a good meal.

"Hey, you and your dad take care of this big donkey, I'll wash the little donkey." Liu Meifen went to the main room and took out some rags and a water ladle.

Although they were called scraps of cloth, they were actually some substandard cloth that the supply and marketing cooperative couldn't sell and could only be used for patching. Liu Meifen had taken some of it and kept it at home.

After putting the wild donkey down, Chang Dashan wiped his sweat and said, "Xiao Kun, this donkey must weigh over 300 jin (150 kg), it's a real big guy!"

"That's right, I even cut off a thigh for Grandpa Cheng." Chang Kun thought to himself, if the male donkey hadn't been so tired from working on the female donkey, it might have weighed four or five hundred pounds.

"I was wondering why one of the big shots was missing."

"On the way back, I took the wrong turn and ended up in the city, so I just went to his house."

The father and son tidied up the wild donkey, chatting idly as Changmei washed its intestines and internal organs.

On the other side, Liu Meifen was wiping the little donkey's body when she suddenly exclaimed, "Xiao Kun, this little donkey is a mother and her baby!"

Chang Kun responded, saying he had already checked it on the mountain.

If it's a male donkey, it should be castrated early, lest it grow a little bigger and stick out, scaring its females.

Several little girls surrounded the little donkey, sprinkling water on it, and they liked it more and more as they looked at it.

My mother told me that when she was a child, her family had a donkey that they could ride. All of them were eager to ride on the little donkey right away.

"Xiao Mu, Xiao Shui, let's name the little donkey," Chang Qing suddenly suggested, just like Chang Mu named the family goose Xiao Bai.

Chang Mu clapped his hands repeatedly: "Great! Great! Let's call him Big Black!"

This little donkey is all black, so calling it Big Black would be most fitting.

Chang Qing shook his head; this was far too casual.

She frowned: "Let's call it..." After a long pause, still unable to come up with a good name, she turned to Liu Meifen: "Mother, you name it."

Liu Meifen didn't even turn her head, casually saying, "Let's call this little donkey 'Stubborn Donkey.' Donkeys are stubborn; they won't move even if you lead them, and they'll back away even if you beat them!"

The little girls all exclaimed, "Ugh, that sounds awful!"

"Big brother, big brother, you come up with one!"

Upon hearing this, Chang Kun chuckled and turned to look at the little donkey: "If you want me to name it, I'll call it Little Fire Bun."

"Little Firebread? That's a strange name!"

Little donkey: ……

This name is not only strange, it scares me!

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