On a spring morning, the school was filled with the sound of children reading aloud, full of hope and vitality, a pleasure to hear.
Lin Wanwan stood by the sheep pen, watching as Lin Mengjin, Lin Mengbo, and Lin Mengxing, her three first cousins, caught sheep.
Today, the few who moonlighted as "butchers" in the clan had free time, so Lin Wanwan immediately called for them to slaughter sheep for the children to eat.
The sheep had been raised since last year, and now they were wasting feed every day, as they had reached full size and would not grow any more meat.
There was nothing pleasant to watch about slaughtering sheep, and after the three brothers led the sheep out, they took them away.
The smell of blood from slaughtering sheep was too strong to be done in the school, for fear of disturbing the children, so they had to be taken to the clan's designated slaughtering place, where a large pot was already burning.
