To avoid worrying her second brother, she wanted to give him a heads up, but there were many villagers coming to the yard to buy wild game.
Her second brother was busy selling wild rabbits and wild pheasants, as well as roe deer meat. She didn't have an opportunity to talk to him.
Maybe by the time she came back, her second brother would have finished his job too.
So, she simply went to the riverbank alone.
There were quite a few onlookers, but there were only about twenty people actually buying meat. Some people bought just a few taels, many bought one or two jin, and the most anyone bought was four jin.
After skinning and removing the internal organs, head, and feet of the eighty-jin roe deer, there were only fifty-two jin of meat left. They sold a total of forty-five jin, with seven jin left over.
When the last buyer paid, Xiao Yishan looked under the eaves and saw that Su Qingyue had disappeared. He quickly asked, "Where's my wife?"