Chapter 123: Plenty of food and clothing

What worries Eva doesn't happen, and from the third meal onwards, Mark's appetite drops significantly.

Think about it, no matter how good things are, they can't stand eating every day, no one can stand it, every day it's either fish soup or wild boar, if there is no other food, Eva doesn't want to eat it.

Five days later, Jeff returned.

He had good luck in the past few days, and caught a tuna weighing more than 60 catties, and the rich man was so happy that he rewarded him with a small bag of white flour and a small piece of cured meat for the first time.

Jeff didn't want to take a bite to eat, and brought it back to share with Eva and Mark, ready to surprise them.

Jeff could even imagine that Eva would have said, "Jeff, you're awesome, you're finally able to eat a full meal, haha, there's still meat!"

But what Jeff never expected was that it was Eva who gave him an even bigger surprise.

When Eva saw the bag of white noodles, she was very happy, as Jeff expected.

Then, when Eva pulled him to the back of the house, Jeff was completely stunned by the same expression as Eva, who had seen the boar for the first time a few days earlier.

Nearly 100 pieces of cured meat, large and small, are neatly hung in three rows, and this noodle is too shocking.

Jeff will never forget this day for the rest of his life, this is the biggest surprise of his 15-year-old year, even if he eats a million-dollar meal in the future, drinks a bottle of red wine that can be exchanged for a sports car, and even becomes a guest of the British royal family, it is not as violent as the surprise at this moment.

For a teenager who had been semi-starved for a long time, what could be more nerve-stimulating than hearty food, and he longed to cut off a piece of meat and put it in his mouth right now.

While Eva was cooking, Jeff didn't leave the fire for a moment, he crouched beside the fire, his nose breathing hard into the smell of meat coming from the clay pot, as if it would be a great waste to do otherwise.

This meal, the three of them ate very deliciously, and Jeff ate 5 catties of meat almost alone, although it was far from being comparable to Mark, but it also supported him to lie on Eva's bed made of palm leaves, unable to get up.

Eva and Mark finally changed their tastes and ate the baked pastry, and the final result was that the bag of white noodles was swept away.

The wheat aroma of the baked dough made Mark linger for a long time.

"Our lives will get better and better in the future, Jeff fishes, he can bring back food, Mark fights wild boars, we have meat to eat, I continue to weave fishing nets, exchange some salt, so that we can eat every meal. ”

Eva lies in bed, her heart full of longing for a better life in the future, and her mouth is still weaving hope for Jeff and Mark.

"Eva, can we trade wild boar for food?"

Jeff didn't eat the baked bread, and he regretted it a little, who made his mouth so greedy?

At this moment, he had already gone to the hut several times, and he ate too much greasy meat at once, and his stomach was a little unbearable.

"Ah,.........h , and sell it for money, Mark, and we can eat all kinds of food in the future, and I can make pies for you, and I can save my saliva when I think about it, and I can buy Jeff a houseboat, and I won't have to work for that demanding old man Della again. ”

Eva jumped up in the room in excitement and almost didn't step through the floor.

Seeing Eva's happy appearance, Mark was also very happy, he had already regarded Eva and Jeff as a family, and the word home was taught to him by Eva.

Eva said that home is a place and a person that needs to be guarded with life.

Jeff returned to the houseboat the next day, after all, the houseboat had always been his and Eva's main survival support, and they couldn't be given up easily.

Of course, he took a large bag of cured meat with him, and when he left, his waist was almost straight.

There are still 7 days left before the market, Eva no longer asks Mark to do anything, she no longer weaves fishing nets, and every day except for eating and sleeping, she hunts wild boars and picks meat.

Eva was exhausted, she had never been so crazy about one thing.

On the first day, 7 heads.

The next day, 9 heads.

Day 3, Day 4 .............

During this period, Eva actually took wild boar meat and asked the nearby fisherman Lao Bam to exchange it for salt, because the last time she exchanged enough salt for a year at the market, she used it all up.

A large piece of pork weighing almost 10 pounds made the old Bam family very happy, while Eva was distressed.

But they also had a bumper harvest, in 7 days, Mark caught a total of 42 wild boars, a few mountains close to them, wild boars are almost extinct, the last day, Mark walked around the mountains all day, only one was caught.

Every morning when Mark goes out, Eva will tell her to be careful, she would rather not have enough to eat afterwards than have an accident with Mark, she has long regarded Mark as her own family.

Actually, Eva likes Mark.

She once heard her grandfather say that her great-grandmother married her great-grandfather at the age of 16, gave birth to her grandfather at the age of 17, and she will be 16 years old in a few months, and she feels that it is the greatest happiness to be able to live with Mark and Jeff for the rest of her life.

The girl is precocious, even if it is a malnourished and poorly developed Eva, she does not want to marry those dark, thin, smelly Nicobians, perhaps, Mark's arrival is a gift from God.

"Mark, are you sleepy? I can't sleep, tomorrow is the market, do you think our wild boar can be sold? How much can it be sold? What do you want to buy with money?"

Eva was so excited that she couldn't sleep, she was surprised that Mark could actually sleep.

Before it was fully dawn, Eva urged Mark to load the cured meat onto the cart, which was two meters long and was stacked to the brim, and even then it was only a fifth of it.

The cart was negotiated between Eva and old Bam, a 15-year-old girl who was very shrewd most of the time, and her excessively poor life made her far more mature than her peers.

"Mark, I'll wipe your sweat for you!"

"But I didn't sweat!"

"Mark, why do you have so much strength, I can't catch up with you empty-handed, why are you walking so fast? Wait for me. ”

Eva was barefoot, trotting all the way, panting.

"Didn't you say that if you get to the market early, you can find a better spot?"

The 10-kilometer journey took almost an hour and a half, and if it weren't for the fear that Eva wouldn't be able to catch up with him, Mark felt that he would only need a quarter of the time at most, and this was still considering that the old Bam's cart was too old, and no matter how fast it was, it would definitely fall apart.

Mark didn't understand why Eva and Jeff's bodies were so different from his own.

Eva said that she was not allowed to show her strength in front of others, although she didn't understand why, but what Eva said, she just did it, and Eva wouldn't harm herself anyway.