Chapter 10: Homecoming
Looking not far away, it was the familiar mountain road she had walked.
Xia Qiqi almost cried, she tried to move her hand, but found that her hand was already stiff, and when she moved, it was like being cut with a knife, and it hurt badly.
But the things on your back are reluctant to put down!
Hungry and cold, when she was nervous before, she didn't feel it, but as soon as she relaxed, she felt a little unbearable.
Xia Qiqi looked around, and finally she found a fairly hidden place.
Carefully hiding the things, Xia Qiqi found some dry firewood nearby, lit a fire, untied the tiger skin, and cut half a palm-sized piece of meat with a kitchen knife.
The meat is threaded with a wooden stick and grilled over a fire.
Xia Qiqi looked around vigilantly the whole time, a small piece of meat was roasted, and her eyes barely blinked.
When the meat was just roasted and fragrant, Xia Qiqi couldn't help it, her saliva couldn't stop bubbling out, and she kept swallowing.
Several times, she almost reached out and swallowed the half-cooked lump of meat.
In the end, I held back!
After the meat was roasted, she sprinkled a little salt on it, and didn't care about the heat, Xia Qiqi reached out and stuffed the cooked meat into her mouth.
Naturally, she almost screamed out when she was hot, but it was not as uncomfortable as when she was hungry.
When she was really hungry, even if it was mud on the ground, she wanted to stuff it in her mouth, as long as she could fill her stomach, she could do anything!
Half a piece of meat in the stomach, although Xia Qiqi was not full, but in the stomach, after all, because of the stomach pad, even consciousness is slowly recovering.
Xia Qiqi raised her head, and at that moment, she looked at the east and the rising sun, and for the first time, she felt that the future was full of hope......
She squinted her eyes and looked at the mountain not far away, where there were her relatives, and those were worthy of her life!
Wait, one day, she Xia Qiqi will no longer be hungry because she can't eat!
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Xia Qiqi had rested enough, and she was not in a hurry to go down the mountain, at this time, it was broad daylight, and when she went down, she would definitely meet the villagers who had no farm work to do.
With the fierceness of those people, if they knew that she had come back with a tiger skin on her back, and had made four pig's trotters, and other things, they would definitely have snatched them all.
Maybe she'll be given a bad reputation for stealing!
Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and the people in Dayu Village are not good stubble!
Xia Qiqi hid the meat tightly and covered it with grass.
She herself wandered around the neighborhood to see if she could find some wild vegetables.
Here, not far from the place where she found mustard before, Xia Qiqi felt that maybe she could find another nest of mustard greens.
It's just that, disappointingly, I searched all the neighborhood, but I didn't find mustard greens.
Xia Qiqi didn't dare to go far, first, for fear of running into that werewolf, and secondly, for fear of encountering a fierce beast.
Just when Xia Qiqi was about to go back, suddenly, she saw a tree not far away, with a lot of apples.
The apple looks red and tender, but the head is only a little bigger than the egg.
I don't know if it's good or not!
However, Xia Qiqi did not hesitate and ran towards the apple tree.
After picking a bag full of apples, she wrote down the location of the apple trees.
This is her property, and when she can't eat, even if it's a tree root, she has to keep some at home, not to mention such a tempting fruit.
Xia Qiqi picked up an apple, wiped it on his clothes, and put it directly to his mouth.
With a click, Xia Qiqi almost didn't sore himself to death.
She narrowed her eyes, her body shaking because of the sourness.
But in the end, he was still reluctant, and forced himself to swallow the apple.
This is probably the most astringent apple she has ever eaten in her life, but even if it is astringent like this, she can't throw it!
Holding the apple, Xia Qiqi wandered around the neighborhood again, and she didn't know if it was God's mercy or if she really had shit luck.
A nest of mushrooms, high and low.
In Xia Qiqi's mind, he suddenly flashed what to eat for his two sisters and his father and mother at night.
It's just that she doesn't have anything in her hands that can hold mushrooms, unless there is rattan grass, so let her weave a bamboo basket nearby.
Xia Qiqi looked around, and really let her find it.
When it was dark, Xia Qiqi was weaving bamboo baskets near the apple tree, and when she finished weaving two, it was already dusk.
The sun was about to set, and the weather was starting to get cold, Xia Qiqi rubbed his numb arms that were frozen, as well as his feet that had long been chapped.
With a few sighs, she put the mushrooms and apples she had picked in two simple bamboo baskets.
Xia Qiqi waited for it to be completely dark before going down the mountain.
The cold wind was whistling, and she was carrying something that was not light, and several times, she wanted to give up and die on the road.
But she was unwilling, why did she work so hard to go up the mountain and get these things to eat?
Isn't it just to survive?
No matter how cheap your life is, only if you survive, can you have hope!
Carrying everything outside the fourth room of Lao Xia's house, Xia Qiqi felt that his arm was about to break.
Standing at the door of the only room in the house, Xia Qiqi wanted to knock on the door, but found that his hands were trembling, like pumping sheep's horns, and he couldn't use half of his strength, even if he knocked lightly.
That was the sequelae of detachment, Xia Qiqi knew it.
Unable to move her hands, she gently kicked the door with her foot.
The door creaked open, and the room was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers.
Yu Guixiang also watched it for a long time before she dared to confirm that the person in front of her was her daughter Xia Qiqi!
"Qiqi ......" Yu Guixiang opened her mouth to call Xia Qiqi's name.
But it was hoarse and abnormal, and even Xia Qiqi could hear the emotions in her words, intertwined with fear and surprise.
"Mother, I can't do it manually, you let my father, carry things in!" Xia Qiqi said.
But it was too dark, and Yu Guixiang couldn't see anything.
After hesitating for a while, Yu Guixiang turned around and went back to the house, lighting the oil lamp that she had never been willing to use at home except for the New Year's holiday.
As soon as the oil lamp was lit, the darkness was dispelled in an instant, and Yu Guixiang walked towards the door with the oil lamp.
She finally saw what Xia Qiqi had placed at her feet.
"These are ......," Yu Guixiang was dumbfounded.
"Wild apples, mushrooms, and ...... Meat, the meat of wild boar! ”
After Xia Qiqi finished speaking, there was a sound of something falling to the ground in the room, and Xia Duofu rolled off the bed in fright.
Then he crawled to the door, and he stared at the pile of things at the door in a daze, and forgot how to speak.
Xia Qiqi rested for a while and had strength, and she lifted the things wrapped in tiger skin into the house.
Yu Guixiang helped take two bamboo baskets, and the three of them entered the house one after the other.
When Xia Qiqi opened the tiger skin, revealing a piece of complete meat and four fat pig's trotters, she clearly heard the sound of swallowing saliva......