Chapter 2317 - 1924: The Battle for Chestnuts

Chapter 2317: Chapter 1924: The Battle for Chestnuts

All those furry animals in July and August, anyone who’s raised them knows. Just a little scratch on the side of the head can send the fur flying like a wrongful conviction.

Doesn’t matter how sleek and shiny those squirrels and ginger cats are, watching them on the screen now, you can see yellow, gray, white fur flying everywhere.

Ah, this.

Fans who just entered the livestream were bewildered, it’s rare to see so few comments when Qiaoqiao is streaming.

Seventh Grandma was stunned.

She looked at the round chestnut that rolled out, then looked at the ones in the basket in front of her, quickly taking out two more and throwing them on the ground:

"Don’t fight, don’t fight, there’s more here!"

Lady Tang was puzzled: "Do these cats eat chestnuts too?" Such peculiar tastes.

Qiaoqiao also shook her head in confusion: "The Daju family doesn’t like eating them, they only love meat."

But...

But something that can roll like that should naturally be a cat’s toy, right?

But clearly, chestnuts aren’t as fun as squirrels.

Unbeknownst to them, a ginger cat had already been hugging the chubby squirrel tightly. Despite the difference in size, it didn’t even need to extend its claws to pluck tufts of gray fur from the big tail.

But the chubby squirrel wasn’t backing down either!

It’s now the overlord of the wall at Lao Song’s house, with plenty of combat experience. It took a lot of effort to grab Datian’s beans and grains back then...

Big Mimi couldn’t win, and they were forced to acknowledge it as the boss, but Middle Mimi couldn’t win either?

In short, new grudges, old grievances, chestnut battle! The viewer count in the livestream spiked to over 20,000, and the fight wasn’t over yet.

But, while they were fighting, two more gray squirrels quickly scurried down from the wall, spotting three plump chestnuts rolling on the ground. After cautiously observing everyone...

Since no one chased them away all this time on the wall, it should be safe to sneak down and grab a chestnut now, right?

The two chubby squirrels swiftly dashed down, and despite the fierce fighting, they each picked up a chestnut and disappeared like lightning.

Song Tan couldn’t help but chuckle, letting out a "Hey!": "Little Song Xu, your chestnuts are gone!"

It’s unclear if it understood or was startled by the sudden voice. The chubby squirrel paused its fighting moves and immediately leaped out from the ginger cat’s embrace.

Then looked around frantically, not seeing even a shadow of a chestnut!

"Squeak!"

It suddenly got anxious, looked longingly at the basket, and then at the wall, empty of any squirrels...

Its little brain had clearly been thinking hard, then it let out another squeak, especially angrily, and dashed up the wall.

Teacher Tang clicked his tongue in amazement: "It’s become a spirit."

Song Tan was already quite calm now: "This is nothing, all our animals are smart!"

Only Qiaoqiao silently turned her head: "Sister, Datian... is not very smart."

It hasn’t even found its own role yet, buried in a shoebox building a nest, eating, drinking, and sleeping every day, getting tricked by squirrels, and dragged out to play by the gingers...

And getting fatter.

Saying this, Lao Song’s family did fall silent.

Sometimes Qiaoqiao would take Datian out to bask in the sun.

But the fellow, ever since being swindled by the mice and cats, ended up kind of slacking. Lying on its back in the shoebox, letting a few cats nudge it around, without moving an inch.

Even Wu Lan, who gets a bit queasy at the sight of rats, couldn’t stop looking at Datian’s silly appearance again and again, and now, even when she sees it downstairs, she would throw a few grains of rice at it.

Her only admonition was: "Don’t let it store rice or beans or anything like that, it’ll be a pain to clean up if they get infested."

Qiaoqiao thought blankly for a moment: "It can’t even store things."

Its mouth can’t hide much, and any savings in the shoebox would be whisked away by squirrels, right?

In conclusion, considering Datian’s intellect, even with Song Tan racking her brains, she couldn’t think of a suitable position for it, so now she just lets it slack off.

Lao Song’s family was silent for Datian, but in the livestream, fans who had blissfully watched a fluffy battle finally came back to their senses, and now another wave of comments flooded in.

Apart from greetings, what everyone said most importantly was—

[Sell some more, please]

[Please, sell some more]

[Just a little is fine! I won’t buy any more once my money runs out...]

Overwhelming requests, pleas filling the screen, if the online police saw it, they’d be quite startled.

But, it hasn’t stopped raining yet.

There’s really nothing to sell at the moment––including those still green chestnut husks.

But currently, the chestnuts are between fully ripe and tender, difficult to peel, and their taste is between mature and tender, truly not worth it!

Thinking back and forth, Song Tan pretended not to see the comments.

But Qiaoqiao genuinely didn’t see, he sincerely and responsibly greeted the kids:

"Kids, we’ve been studying for over a year without a break. Next, I’m going to start a business, so let’s take a holiday!"

Comments: [???]

[No, what are you going to do?]

[Start a business? Those are the words, right? Did I hear it wrong?]

[Teacher Qiaoqiao, what nonsense are you saying! Do we still need to start a business now?]

New confusion arose, but Qiaoqiao was full of yearning: "I’ve been a student, had jobs, but I’ve never started a business!"

"I asked online, many people want to start a business, so do I."

"But I’ve never started one before, so I don’t have experience to teach the kids, so don’t learn from me!"

The words were sincere, and his attitude remained as earnest as ever.

But...

[Isn’t the broadcaster noticing the constantly increasing viewership?]

Comments were almost frantic!

[Teacher Qiaoqiao, you have over a million followers! With such strong fan loyalty, and now you say you want to start a business?]

Isn’t this self-sabotage?

What they want to see is Qiaoqiao, the idyllic lifestyle, her straightforward mindset, waiting for good things.

Not to see entrepreneurship!

Not only them, but even the livestream platform’s management, who were monitoring from behind the scenes, were shocked, now frantically poking Song Tan:

"Why did Qiaoqiao suddenly want to start a business? Isn’t the streaming going well? Don’t randomly choose a path! Many promising broadcasters lost fans because they took the wrong path!"

And stray comments were also making their presence known:

[If the entrepreneurship project is developing an APP, letting us regularly snap up items, farm in the clouds, or pre-book a pig, adopt a tree, etc...]

[Teacher Qiaoqiao! Did you see this guaranteed winning business direction!]

[Qiao Bao! I have a company at home, I have experience, listen to me, just do what’s being mentioned!]

But Qiaoqiao didn’t see any of this, he was just happily and expectantly saying: "I’m going to draw for the game Xiaoyang’s making!"

"Kids, I’m really amazing now!"