Chapter 1: Buying Salt

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The morning mist has not yet dissipated, and the rays of sunlight are sprinkled among the trees through the cracks, like golden threads passing through the frame, attracting people to be intoxicated. The only thing that is out of place in the picturesque scenery is probably that there is a predator lying in the grass behind the canopy at the moment.

The tench has been lying motionless in this place for more than an hour, waiting for the final moment of the hunt.

Sure enough, as the sun slowly rose, more sunlight shone down, and the various animals in the forest also moved as if they had woken up. And as the herbivores catch food, the ethereal picturesque wonderland is broken in the next moment.

The tench touched the stick in his hand and saw the nearest pheasant that was hunting with his head down, and it was a stick - fast and steady, and successfully captured the first prey of the day.

However, with her big move, this place is only this one, and the others have long been frightened by this movement and flew away.

The tench was not discouraged, and after making sure that it was dead, he threw it in the back basket and continued to look for the next target with a stick. One morning she harvested two pheasants and a gray rabbit. Seeing that at noon, she held her mouth and covered her gurgling belly, looked at the results of the morning, and sighed.

I still have to go to the county to sell these, and I don't have time to fill her stomach, so I can only come back at night and treat the Five Organs Temple well.

In the complex and crooked alley, she is dressed like a tench named Hanako, and the people who sell things in it are inconspicuous at all, and her young age is her best protective color. Everyone who comes in here is in a hurry, and they leave as soon as they finish buying or selling their things, and they don't stay long, let alone look at others.

And she was in a hurry, and picked out those who had food on the ground, and in a short time she exchanged the two pheasants and a fat rabbit she had brought with her for some food and money.

Leaving the black market tench, he threw the food into the space, and then grabbed some money and came to the supply and marketing cooperative.

At this time, there was no one in the supply and marketing cooperative, it was empty, and the tench went straight to the non-staple food counter, holding the five corners and barely passing over the wooden cabinet to the salesman.

"Buy salt."

If you don't do this, you can't do it, and the salesperson with his eyes on the top of his head won't be able to see you.

The tench, who has no certificate from the village, can only sneak in in order not to cause trouble. As for those heroines who wear books and can't get used to the plot of killing all directions, I'm sorry, she's still too young, and her energy is too small to kill.

Since she woke up, she has set a goal for herself, she has eaten and drunk enough in this life, tasted all the food she regretted not eating in her previous life, and didn't want anything else.

The male salesman behind the counter lowered his noble eyelids, took the money for the tench, but quickly weighed it, and handed several large pieces of salt to the tench in old newspaper. There is not a word in the whole process, and the lazy to take care of you is written on the face.

The money from selling a pheasant is gone!

The tench, who didn't ask questions, breathed a sigh of relief and successfully bought the most needed salt at the moment. She doesn't have to think about the rest, everything in the supply and marketing cooperatives has to be ticketed, but fortunately, there is no ticket for salt, otherwise, she can't afford to eat salt. Thinking that she would be able to eat something delicious again soon, the tench was light, and if only she could meet meat on the way, she would not have to go to the mountain trap.

Unfortunately, she did not have good luck, and did not meet all the way back, and there was a pheasant also fluttering and calling on another hill, and it was too far away, so she listened to the sound, and could only get a gray rabbit in the trap that she had dug before entering the mountain.

Peeling, washing, taking out useless internal organs, taking it to the secret base she was looking for, taking out a casserole and cooking it whole, then tearing it into strips and then putting broken rice on it and cooking it into porridge, it was already the middle of the moon, almost eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

There is not much entertainment at this time, so the whole village is very quiet except for the occasional dog barking. The Mid-Levels Brigade is already in the mountains, and for safety, almost every household in the village has a courtyard wall. The walls of Ding's house are also more than a meter high, taller than her current height, but fortunately, they are all made of irregular small stones, and there are many gaps that allow her to plug in and carry things in.

Because the father of the original owner was more favored, the tench in the east house where they lived was climbed into the house from the east courtyard wall where they lived. After coming in, the back window was also relatively low, and the tench knocked quietly twice, making sure that it would not suddenly appear and scare the people in the house, so he pushed open the window and rolled into the house with the casserole in his arms.

"Uncle, Erni, it's time to eat, I'll bring you food back."

By the bright moonlight pouring into the house through the back window, even if it was pitch black, the tench knew that someone was waiting for him.

"Sister, you're finally back!"

Sure enough, Erni's whispered response was immediately heard.

"Why are you just yourself, uncle?"

"I'm afraid that if you come back from the front, my uncle will wait behind the gate by washing Sanni's boils!"

"Then you go and ask your uncle to come back and eat. Hey, how is Sanni? How is it fed? ”

"Our grandmother gave me some thin rice soup, and I was still hungry when it was dark, and I just fell asleep. I'm going to call my uncle. ”

The two sisters briefly exchanged information, and then went to call the uncle who was still waiting outside to answer. After a while, the unique creak of the wooden door opening and closing was followed by the uncle's inquiry.

"How's it going, is everything going well? Have you ever encountered something bad? ”

The boy's low voice was full of concern.

"No, I also bought the food, I specially touched my face very dark, ran fast, and didn't communicate with people much, don't worry, it's safe."

The tench also suppressed his voice and replied a few more words, saying something specific that would make the people waiting at home feel more at ease.

"If you buy food, then you don't go to the county, the road is so far, I heard that there are a lot of abducted children outside, if you run into it, you won't be able to see us, do you know if you don't go out in the future!"

"Ah~ It's so fragrant! Sister, are you stewed? ”

Erni interrupted the next chatter, and the rest of the boy's lesson was swallowed back into his stomach, smelling the aroma of meat porridge in the open casserole, and couldn't help but swallow saliva.

The darkness makes the taste more sensitive, not to mention the meat porridge stewed in a casserole.

"There's no one in the house over there?" Ding Yu laughed silently and took Erni's words. This Nizi is not an honest person!

"No, I won't be seen after dinner, otherwise I would dare to speak so loudly!"

Even if she didn't say it explicitly, Erni immediately realized who the eldest sister was asking.

After hearing this, the tench raised his eyebrows in the dark, and knew where the person had gone after a little thought, "Wake up the third child and drink rice oil, there is salt, let's eat meat and drink porridge." ”

So, in the next dark room, the windows and doors were tightly blocked, and the three children were meat and rice in this simple room, which was not more than the rich meal of Lao Ding's family at night.

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