"Knock-"

Two small knocks on the door sounded suddenly.

Huashi's thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and after the knock on the door, there was a child's immature voice,

"Sister...、"

The voice was low, just enough for her to hear clearly.

Hanashi turned his head to look in the direction of the doorway and blinked.

The voice......

"Little Shadow?"

Through a wooden door, the sound of hesitation came from the room.

Wearing thin clothes, the shadow of the flower squatting on the ground, vaguely heard the response from inside, tilted his head, stretched his round face, and nodded seriously.

Then the emotions in the big eyes seemed to pause, remembering that she couldn't see herself through the wall door, and answered in a low voice, "Yes, me." ”

"Smack-"

The small wooden door in front of her was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and the little man who was squatting on the ground subconsciously stood up, tilted his head, and looked at her with big eyes fluttering for a moment.

Hua Shi's hand holding the wooden door paused, and asked, "Xiaoying, what are you doing squatting here?" ”

Little Radish looked at her without blinking, "I'm hungry." ”

In his small tone, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all, and he blurted out these words as if they were taken for granted.

Hold your forehead when you spend it.

"Wait a minute."

As she spoke, she turned and walked back into the house, and in a moment she came back with something wrapped in a cloth.

"Eat, the last piece."

She handed over the last piece of dry bread with the cloth.

Huaying didn't hesitate at all, reached out and took it, turned over the cloth, took out the dry dough cake inside, and buried his head in nibbling on it.

Flower time looked at him.

The little one was very hungry, and the action of swallowing the biscuits, gobbling up, eating little by little, making a crumb sound, like a little hamster eating.

In a few moments, he finished the piece of dry bread, raised his head, stared at her with sparkling eyes, clutched his stomach, and whispered, "Still hungry......

Hua Shi spread his hands, "It's gone." ”

When the little guy heard this, his eyes dimmed all of a sudden, and he looked at her twice in disappointment, and after confirming that he was indeed not eating, he stuffed the cloth in his hand back into her hand, turned his head, and chose to leave without hesitation.

Hua Shi looked at the cloth that was stuffed back in his hand, and then looked at the little back that ran away, and sighed helplessly.

Really......

Since the last time Little Flower Shadow had eaten meat from her, he would run up to her from time to time, look at her with a blank eye, and then cry out hungry.

Every time she comes, she has something to eat, and if she can give it to him, she will give it.

After many times, she has gotten used to it......

After all, he is his own brother, obedient and obedient, he never chokes with her, nor picks his mouth, as long as it is eaten, he will eat it if he gives it to him.

In addition, several children of the Hua family are really thin, and the hands and feet that are exposed when they lift their sleeves are almost no different from skin and bones.

Seeing that he was just obediently shouting that he was hungry, he kept looking at himself with a pair of big eyes, the innocent and eager eyes of the cub, she looked at the soft-hearted, and what did she give.

But now she really has nothing, and if she doesn't go out to forage for food, I'm afraid she will really starve......

Hua Shi looked back at the cold room with no temperature.

starvation, and cold, without food and clothing......

"Xiao Hei, I'm going into the mountains, you can go with me."

Hua Shi walked to the kang bed, reached into the quilt, and dragged out the black cat that was napping inside.

"Meow...?!"

The drowsy big cat was suddenly touched by a pair of hands that were frozen like ice cubes, and it was so cold that it shivered, bounced up, and meowed with a sharp voice.

"Haha...... Excuse me. ”

When you spend it, you hold the cat-shaped automatic heater in your arms and cover your palms.

The warm touch made her sigh comfortably.

"Meow!!"

The big cat, who was dragged awake, barked at her dissatisfiedly, and a pair of cat's claws against her chin, making a disgusted cry.

"Now you know that you dislike it? Hmph, it's late! ”

It took time to know what it meant, and held it tightly in his arms and covered his hands, despite its reluctant struggles.

"Meow ......"

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Coming out of the small courtyard of the Hua family, until he walked unimpeded to the foot of the mountain, he didn't meet a few people along the way.

Hua Shi kept his head down, buried his neck, and the somewhat thin clothes on his body couldn't resist the cold when it was snowing lightly.

If it weren't for the automatic heating stove in her arms, she would have froze all over.

Even so, her lower body and both legs were frozen stiff, especially after the shoes entered the snow, they turned into snow water, wetting the uppers, and the soles of both feet were frozen to a little pain.

Half a month ago, the sun was still bright, and sometimes it was so hot that I was sweating, who would have thought that it had only been so long that it suddenly snowed......

This was her first time in a different world, and before that, she was just a simple southerner, and the place where she lived had never snowed, and the temperature did not change much in the four seasons.

This sudden snow caught her off guard......

She thought that these days would be enough for her to use the rest of the money to change her winter clothes and prepare a charcoal stove or something, but the money ran out and she barely made up some of it, but it was difficult to get through this winter of snow for two or three months in a row.

Coupled with the mountain spirits she met in the mountains not long ago, she didn't dare to enter the mountain easily, and she was delayed when she came and went.

The snow, her hungry stomach, and her shivering body made her suddenly realize......

Even if there are any poisonous snakes and beasts in this mountain, she will break through, otherwise she will either starve to death or freeze to death if she sits at home......

"Squeak..., squeak......"

The sound of stepping on a mountain road covered with fine snow, and occasionally stepping on a branch that I don't pay attention to, and breaking it in half, is crisp to my ears.

"Meow ......"

The black cat spread out on her arm let out a somewhat loveless cry.

Hua Shi changed his hand again, shook off the numb hand that was pressed by it, and whispered, "It would be nice if you were smaller......

Hang it directly around her neck as a scarf, saving her from holding it like this, which is so heavy and tiring.

"Meow...!"

The black cat understood the complaining and disgusting meaning of her words, and patted her hand with her paw dissatisfied.

In the mountains, the towering trees and the branches of the trees were almost all blocked by the fine snow......

She walked all the way, and a lot of fine snow fell on her body, although it was taken off in time, but her clothes were still wet a lot.

After walking into the mountain, the leaves blocked the fine snow and could not fall on the body, but it was much better......

After walking for a while, he came to a fairly empty place, and spent time looking left and right before stopping.

"Meow...?"

The black cat that was put on the ground, tilting the cat's head, looked at her suspiciously, and barked strangely.

When he was flowering, he put the basket he was carrying on the ground and turned over the cloth covering the top, revealing the sealed bamboo tube inside.

There are five bamboo tubes as long as half an arm, one after the other, neatly arranged in the basket.

This is the 'tool' she prepared in advance, and the bamboo tube is an empty bamboo heart, filled with spring water from the spring.

She intends to use this to attract prey in the mountains......

Because of the fear in her heart, she didn't dare to directly expose the spring in her palm in the mountain, for fear that the force would be too great and attract the fierce beasts in the deep mountains.

Her targets are hares, pheasants...... These are not combative, and for her, they are easy prey to catch.

When it was flowering, I sprinkled three cylinders of spring water from the bamboo tube into the bushes and grass on the side, folded a square bowl with large leaves, and poured a tube of spring water into it.

After placing the square leaves filled with spring water in a conspicuous and visible place, she looked around several times vigilantly before she took the black cat and hid behind a thick tree pole.

"Meow ......"

"Shhhhh

The black cat was encircled in her arms and barked uncomfortably.

Hua Shi covered its mouth and shushed it.

A man and a cat cowered in the bushes behind the thick logs, holding their breath and staring in the direction of the trap with their vigilant eyes open.

Hua Shi was a little apprehensive.

She didn't know if it would work.

For fear of attracting wild beasts, she did not dare to sprinkle too much spring water around, and only controlled it to the extent that she thought it was too little.

With such a clumsy way of hunting, I'm afraid she is the only one throughout the ages, so I don't know if it will succeed......

Minutes and seconds passed.

Flower Shi has been patient, and the surroundings are silent, and there is a lot of fine snow overhead, through the branches and leaves, falling on her shoulders.

She could hear her heart pounding clearly......

Success or failure was in this move, and she was so nervous that she couldn't care about anything else.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a sudden small movement in the dense bushes on the opposite side......

"Squeaky 、......"

The sound of footsteps clattering, clacking, stamping on snow and tree branches is clear to your ears.

Hanatoki's eyes widened.

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