“Dongdong——”

Two knocks on the door, neither loud nor soft, suddenly sounded.

Hua Shi's thoughts were suddenly interrupted. After a knock on the door, a child's tender voice was heard.

"elder sister…,"

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

Hua Shi turned her head towards the door and blinked.

This sound...

"Xiaoying?"

Through the wooden door, Hua Shi's hesitant voice came from the room.

Huaying, who was wearing thin clothes and squatting on the ground, vaguely heard the response from inside. She tilted her head back, tightened her round face, and nodded seriously.

Then the emotion in his big eyes seemed to pause. Remembering that she couldn't see him through the wall and door, he spoke softly, "Yes, it's me."

“Snap—”

The small wooden door in front of her was suddenly pushed open from the inside. The little man squatting on the ground stood up subconsciously, raised his head, and stared at her with his big blinking eyes.

Hua Shi paused as he held onto the wooden door and asked, "Xiaoying, what are you doing squatting here?"

The little carrot-head looked at her without blinking, "I'm hungry."

There was no sense of anything wrong in his small tone, and the words came out of his mouth as if it was a matter of course.

Hold your forehead when you spend time.

"Wait a moment."

As she spoke, she turned and walked back into the house. After a while, she came back with something wrapped in a piece of cloth.

"Eat it, it's the last piece."

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

Huaying took it without hesitation, turned over the cloth, took out the dry noodles inside, and started to eat it.

Hua Shi looked at him.

The little guy was extremely hungry. He swallowed the biscuits ravenously, eating them bit by bit into his stomach. The crumbs made a sound like a little hamster eating.

After a while, he finished eating the dry bread, raised his head, stared at her with blinking eyes, covered his stomach, and whispered, "Still hungry..."

Hua Shi spread his hands and said, "No more."

When the little guy heard this, his eyes suddenly dimmed and he looked at her disappointedly. After confirming that there was indeed no food left, he stuffed the cloth back into her hand, turned around, and left without hesitation.

Hua Shi looked at the piece of cloth that was stuffed back into her hand, then looked at the little figure running away, and sighed helplessly.

Really...

Ever since the last time Xiao Huaying ate meat at her place, she would run to her from time to time, look at her eagerly, and then shout that she was hungry.

Every time he came over, she would give him whatever food she had.

After so many times, she has become accustomed to it...

After all, he is her biological brother, well-behaved and obedient. He never argues with her and is not picky. He will eat anything she gives him.

In addition, the children of the Hua family are really thin. When they lift up their sleeves, their hands and feet are exposed, and they are almost skin and bones.

Seeing that he was just shouting that he was hungry, he kept looking at her with his big eyes. The innocent and eager look in the cub's eyes made her feel soft-hearted, so she gave him everything she had.

But right now, she really has nothing left. If she doesn't go out to find food, she's probably going to starve...

Hua Shi looked back at the cold and dull room.

Starving, freezing, not having enough food to eat, not having enough clothes to wear...

"Xiao Hei, I'm going into the mountains. Come 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 sleepy big cat was suddenly touched on the belly by a pair of hands as cold as ice. It shivered from the cold, jumped up, and meowed in a shrill voice.

"Haha... sorry."

Hua Shi hugged the cat-shaped automatic heater in her arms and covered it with her palms.

The warm touch made her sigh in comfort.

"Meow!!"

The big cat, who was abruptly woken up, growled at her in dissatisfaction, pressed its paws against her chin, and made a sound of disgust.

"Are you disgusted now? Humph, it's too late!"

Hua Shi immediately understood what it meant, and held it tightly in her arms, covering her hands with her hands, ignoring its reluctant struggle.

"Meow……"

…

Coming out of the Hua family courtyard, I walked all the way to the foot of the mountain without any obstructions and didn't meet many people along the way.

Hua Shi kept her head down and her neck buried. The thin clothes she was wearing could not keep out the cold at all in the light snow outside.

If she hadn't been holding the self-heating heater in her arms, she would have frozen to death.

Even so, her lower body and legs were frozen stiff, especially her shoes, which melted into snow water after getting into the snow and soaked the uppers, causing the soles of her feet to feel a little painful from the cold.

Just over half a month ago, the sun was still shining brightly, sometimes so hot that I was sweating profusely. Who would have thought that it would suddenly snow not long after that...

This was her first time spending winter in another world. Before this, she was just a simple southerner. It had never snowed where she lived, and the temperature didn't change much between the four seasons.

This sudden snowfall caught her off guard...

She thought that during this period of time, she would have enough money to buy winter clothes and prepare a charcoal grill. However, her money was all gone and she could only scrape together some money. However, it would be difficult for her to survive this winter with two or three months of continuous snow.

In addition, the mountain spirits she encountered in the mountains not long ago made her afraid to enter the mountains easily again. As a result, she was delayed.

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

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