Chapter 14 Leaving in half a month

Ji Hefeng ultimately did not agree to Mo He's request. He could only promise that Molly and Mo An would live in the house he bought, and that as long as he lived, half of his allowance would go to Molly, and that would be all he would receive.

"That's enough. Ji Hefeng, you're a good person." Mo He felt relieved.

Ji Hefeng was given the "friend zone" card by two people in one day. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, reminding Molly, "My sister came back in a hurry, she must not have eaten anything. Why don't you cook something for her?"

"No, no need, I'll eat at home," Mo He repeatedly refused.

Molly, however, did not believe that Mo He would have anything to eat if he went back to the Zhao family now.

"Sister, please stay for dinner. We have plenty of food at home. I'll show you how much I've stored." Mo He wouldn't feel at ease staying for dinner unless she showed Mo He how much food she had.

Molly first took Mohe to see the grain in the cupboard, and then took her to see the kudzu roots she was drying. There were eleven winnowing baskets there, a truly considerable quantity.

After reading it, Mo He felt much less worried, knowing that at least her younger sister and brother wouldn't lack food for the time being.

However, she still advised, "Don't cook too much, just eat a little bit."

Molly ignored her and cooked a pot of mixed grain rice, a pot of wild vegetable soup, and made a dozen or so wild vegetable and yam cakes.

Mo He hadn't had a proper meal in days, and her eyes lit up when she saw the mixed grain rice and yam cakes in front of her.

"Sister, eat up." Molly served her a full bowl of rice and placed a few yam cakes on top of it.

The aroma of food wafted to her nose, and Mo He swallowed hard, but in the end, she couldn't resist the urge to eat and began to eat heartily.

After the meal, Mohe had to go back to dig the irrigation ditch and declined Molly's invitation to stay overnight.

That night, Molly and Ji Hefeng lay side by side in bed.

“I’ll be going back to my unit in half a month. It’s good that your brother is staying here; he’ll have someone to keep you company.”

Is your leg better?

After waiting all day, they finally showed concern for his leg?

Ji Hefeng shook his head and smiled wryly, "Well, the cast will be removed in another half month."

"Then congratulations in advance."

"Thanks."

Ji Hefeng will be leaving in half a month. Molly kept this in mind. Now, both Mo An and Ji Hefeng are so thin that they look like skeletons. They need to eat more.

Having taken such a huge advantage from Ji Hefeng, it's time to find a chance to repay him.

Molly brought back a full tank of water and asked Moan to water the vegetable garden at home, and told Moan that she was going to chop firewood on the back mountain.

"Your sister said that?" Ji Hefeng came out but couldn't find Molly.

“Yeah, let’s go chop wood.” Mo An didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.

At this moment, Captain Zhao Weiguo led his team into the mountains with hunting rifles.

"Brother Ji, let's go hunting wild boar in the mountains!" Zhao Xiaoyong shouted to Ji Hefeng from afar.

Ji Hefeng nodded to him, "Be careful."

"Okay, Brother Ji, just wait and see how you eat wild boar meat."

On this day, the sound of hunting rifles could be heard from time to time in the mountains.

In the evening, the brigade leader led his men to carry two wild boars down the mountain.

"The commune people have arrived."

"Do those commune cadres have a dog's nose? They came right after smelling the scent."

Shh, watch your mouth, you don't want to live anymore.

"Two wild boars, I don't know if one of them will survive in the end."

"Trust our brigade leader. Everyone is waiting at the brigade headquarters with their bowls. The brigade leader won't let us down."

“If the people from the commune take both pigs, we will kneel on the ground and cry.”

"......."

Mo An listened to these words from afar without approaching.

He didn't care how much pork the brigade would have left in the end, since he wouldn't get any anyway.

As darkness fell, Mo An, worried about Molly, paced anxiously under the eaves.

Ji Hefeng didn't move, but kept his eyes fixed on the other side of the mountain, not blinking.

Suddenly, Ji Hefeng sat up straight. "Your sister is back."

"Where?"

Mo An followed Ji Hefeng's gaze and saw Molly carrying something and striding over.

"Second sister, you're back." Mo An went up to greet her.

"Yes, you're back. You're just in time. Help me carry some things." Molly tossed a string of pheasants tied with straw rope to Moan.

"This, this, this is a pheasant!"

Mo An was stunned. Wild pheasants in the mountains are cunning, fast, and can fly, making them very difficult to catch! How did Second Sister catch five of them at once?

"They're pheasants, aren't they? I ran through two mountains today to catch them."

As they talked, they approached Ji Hefeng. Molly nodded to him, "You must be starving. I'll cook you something. Tonight we'll have yam and pheasant soup and pheasant stew with potatoes, how about that?"

"You can arrange it as you see fit." Ji Hefeng's gaze fell on Molly's shoulder, and if his eyesight was not mistaken, it looked like a deer.

"Xiao An, boil some water."

"Second sister, the water has been boiled in advance."

Molly didn't know whether to put the chicken or potatoes in first when making chicken stew with potatoes, so she asked Mo An, but Mo An didn't know either.

"Let's put them all in together then, and eat whichever one cooks first." Anyway, we'll figure out the best way after cooking them a few times.

Mo An nodded. "That's a good idea. Should we put the yams and pheasants in at the same time?"

"Okay, let's put them in together." Molly said, putting a whole pheasant and chopped yams into the earthenware pot and filling it with water.

Ji Hefeng, standing to the side: "......."

He felt something was wrong, but he didn't know the correct way to do it.

Never mind, as long as it's cooked through in the end.

Perhaps he was too hungry, or perhaps he was too craving meat, Mo An kept cooking over high heat, and Molly didn't correct him. Soon, the aroma of meat filled the air.

Glug—

I don't know whose stomach rumbled first.

"The food should be ready. Go wash your hands first, and I'll bring the food to the table."

Molly killed two chickens tonight, leaving four legs. She gave one to Mo An, kept one for herself, and gave the remaining two legs to Ji Hefeng.

"You guys eat, I don't want it." Ji Hefeng tried to pick the two legs out of the bowl, but Molly stopped him. The two chopsticks pressed against each other, and for a moment they couldn't decide who would win.

It was at this moment that Ji Hefeng realized how strong Molly was.

“You’re a patient, so you should eat two,” Molly declared decisively.

"That's right, Brother Ji, you should eat more to recover from your illness." Mo An bit into a chicken leg, the aroma of the meat was so delicious that he almost cried.

"Eat slowly, there's plenty of meat tonight." Molly put a few more pieces of meat on Mo An's plate, and a few pieces of potato on her own plate. "Actually, the potatoes are good too. They've absorbed the meat flavor, and they're soft and fluffy. They're better than ever before."

Ji Hefeng remained silent, but quickly picked up the potatoes from the plate and put them into his own bowl, then ate them all.

Seeing this, Mo An seemed to understand something. Since there were no potatoes left, he went to pick out the yams and together with Ji Hefeng, they picked out all the yams as well.

Molly: "......"

Very well, she can only eat meat now.