Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies

It seemed like, in just a night, pandemonium had fallen on the mansion. Mutated goats, chickens and pigs were running amok in the open ground, with soldiers and guards running around to capture them.

Mother Bai was sitting on the couch sobbing lightly as she complained, "They knocked all the rice off the counter and there is so much chicken poop in the fallen rice, what am I going to cook?"

"It's not your fault; no one would have expected that such a thing would happen. It's our fault; we should have kept these mutated animals away from one another, but in our hurry to run, we just threw them together. Who would have thought that they would multiply in just a few hours? If we had known that the reproduction ability of these animals was also high, then we would have taken proper care of them."

Though Old Master Bai was trying his best to comfort Mother Bai, he too was helpless, as he knew that the pot of rice that was wasted was quite precious at this time. Thus, Mother Bai's grief was not unreasonable.

"But that was an entire pot of rice!" Mother Bai cried with her hands covering her face.

"Catch them; don't let them escape. How dare they cause trouble?" Bai Jixuan shouted angrily when he heard the cries of his mother. Clutching an axe in his hands, he charged after the chickens, goats and pigs. It didn't matter if these mutated animals could be eaten or not; he was going to kill them all for making his mother cry.

Bai Meiyue looked at her second brother, who was chasing after the chickens with the axe, after letting out the battle cry, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She turned to look at Lei Qian, who was crouching beside Lei Yan and looking at the rice that had been scattered on the floor and muttering among themselves. Though she didn't hear a thing that they said, she could make out what they were talking about.

"I am not going to use my powers to separate rice from chicken poop!" Lei Yan exclaimed. She should have known that her brother had nothing good to say to her when he woke her up and asked her to come out with him. Every time her brother called her out, it was nothing good. Either he wanted to take her hunting, or he wanted to use her as bait or something.

And yet, like a fool, she would follow him out every time he called for her.

Now look at this: he even wanted to use her powers to separate chicken poop from rice.

"What do you mean? Are you looking down on this bit of rice? Don't forget that we can cook porridge with it for more than three days. Are you going to hunt for rice if you don't use your powers to separate the chicken poop from rice? If you are, then I have nothing to say. If you want to act like a fool, then you are free to do so," said Lei Qian.

"What's going on?" Bai Meiyue walked over and looked at the two siblings who were quibbling fiercely over the rice and chicken poop.

Lei Qian raised his head, and their gazes met. "I just told her to lighten the weight of the rice and make it float in the air so that we can separate the dirt and chicken poop. Even if there is a ton of chicken poop in the rice, with Yan'er's skills, she can easily lighten the weight of the rice and make it float. Isn't it a simple matter? Yet she keeps making a fuss."

Upon hearing his words, Lei Yan turned and looked at Bai Meiyue. She said to her, "Sister Yue, I am not saying that I don't want to do it, but it's really too much. I am an ability user; why do I need to clean the chicken poop? And that too without reward."

"I told you that I would give you a bowl of chicken porridge."

Lei Yan pouted. "There is no chicken."

"Who says that?" Lei Yan pointed behind them where Bai Jixuan was still chasing after the chicken. "As long as your Brother Jixuan catches a chicken, you can have one to eat."

No sooner did he finish speaking than Lei Yan turned around and threw herself into the arms of Bai Meiyue. She whined, "Look at this, Sister Yue."

"Aye, aye, what are you not happy with? Didn't I say that I would cook for you and step away from Yueyue? She is already carrying enough weight as it is; she doesn't need you to add more to it." Lei Qian pulled his sister away from Bai Meiyue.

Though Lei Yan was not willing, she also knew that she couldn't cling to Bai Meiyue. She allowed herself to be pulled away and then glared at her brother before saying to him, "You are always like this. You take advantage of me, but when it's time for you to do something for me, you try to shoo me off with just a little thing."

"You promised me that you would get me a braised sweet and sour fish bowl of rice, but you didn't, even though we have already returned from the hunt." She then turned to look at Bai Meiyue and said to her, "The last time we went to hunt for supplies, he promised that he would reward me, but he has yet to give me that reward; instead, he is dragging me around to do this and that for him. It's too much."

Bai Meiyue turned and looked at Lei Qian, who touched his nose guiltily and then said, "Where am I supposed to get a fresh fish? She is the one who is acting picky. I told her that I would make one from the frozen meat, and she said that she wanted the fresh one. Where will I get a fresh one?"

"But you are the one who promised me!"