Chapter 4 Moving

Dabao was also full and his expression was relaxed.

He ate with great pleasure and couldn't help but look at Jiang Lianzhu with more favor.

At this time, the little girl smelled the aroma of meat and woke up in a daze. She ran to the kitchen and saw the meat. Her eyes turned red and she pounced on it, tearing it into pieces and eating it...

Like a little animal that has been hungry for a long time.

Jiang Lianzhu wanted to go forward and tear some meat for her so that she could eat slowly, but the little girl was too protective of her food and hid the bowl of meat in her arms. She couldn't speak, but just kept howling at her in a fierce and aggressive manner.

When Jiang Lianzhu saw this, she couldn't help but shed tears.

Jiang raised a good child into this state. She must have been deeply hurt to become like this.

At this time, the neighbors on both sides also smelled the fragrance. They came to watch out of curiosity and found that Jiang mother and son were eating meat in the house. Upon inquiry, they found out that they had killed a wolf!

Some people didn't believe it, thinking how could a woman fight a wolf, so Dabao came out to explain.

It was said that the wolf itself was struck by thunder in the mountains, and the mother and son were lucky enough to escape.

Now, everyone envied Jiang for her good luck!

There were people with bad intentions who wanted to do something bad, but when they thought about how Jiang Lianzhu was so strong when she fought against Mrs. Zhao before, they didn't dare to act rashly, but just had red eyes of envy.

Seeing the little girl eating wolf meat, it was so delicious that the children next door cried with envy. If it were in the past, they would have rushed over to snatch it away. Since the little girl was an orphan and her widowed mother was a vicious stepmother who didn't care about the affairs, they would have just snatched it away. But now, they could only watch and drool.

After little Nanbao had eaten her fill of meat, Jiang Lianzhu asked Erbao to take care of Xiaonan at home and keep an eye on the wolf meat. She and Dabao took the wolf skin to the village to collect the reward.

Wangjia Village is at the foot of the mountain and is often attacked by wild beasts. Therefore, the village has a rule that anyone who can kill a wild beast that injures people will be rewarded by the village. He will be regarded as a meritorious citizen of the village. The amount of the reward depends on the ferocity of the prey, etc.

The mother and son came to the village headman's house, and the headman happened to be at home.

The village head was an old man in his fifties, with a pipe in his mouth and a weathered face.

Dabao said, "Grandpa Lizheng, my mother and I killed a lone wolf in the mountains. I'm here to report this to you."

"A wolf! This is incredible! Very good, very good, bring it to grandpa to see..." The old uncle who was in the village was surprised.

Jiang Lianzhu took out the wolf skin from the backpack and unfolded it. "Uncle, look. It's a full-grown wolf. We were lucky to have killed it..."

The old uncle, the head of the village, knocked on his pipe and was very happy. One less wild beast meant a little more safety for the villagers.

"Good, good! Well done! Dabao! What kind of reward do you want to receive from grandpa?" The person who asked this was Dabao, not Jiang Lianzhu, and his attitude towards Jiang Lianzhu was not very friendly.

It may be that the original owner, Jiang, did something that displeased the village head.

Jiang Lianzhu didn't mind either.

Dabao replied, "Grandpa, it's up to you."

Wangjia Village is small, and the rewards are all within their means. In the past, those who killed wild animals were rewarded with eggs, copper coins, rice, flour, grain, oil, coarse cloth clothes, etc.

All I can say is that something is better than nothing.

The leather would just pass through the village head's eyes and would not be taken away. They would take it back and sell it themselves.

The village head pondered for a long moment, then suddenly said, "Jiang, I heard you eloped with some scoundrel from outside the village today?"

Jiang Lianzhu quickly said seriously, "Nothing happened. I just accidentally fell into the water and drowned. Then people misunderstood me. My three children are still young. I am their mother forever. There is no way I would abandon them."

All three cubs are adorable!

Since she had the fate to become their mother, she had the obligation to raise them.

Anyway, this is a life that I have found for free. It is different from the bloody life in the previous life. It is also good to farm and raise children here.

The village head stared at her intently, as if trying to tell the truth from falsehood in her words.

"Okay, Jiang, remember what you said today. Your three cubs are all smart and good kids. Be good to them, and they will repay you when they grow up. Don't overthink it. Also, Wang Laowu is just missing, he's not necessarily dead. I believe that as long as he's alive, he will come back in the future. Even if he has no feelings for you, he won't let go of his cubs."

Jiang nodded, "Thank you for your advice, uncle. I know."

Then, the village head uncle said, "How about this? There's an unused adobe house at the end of the village. I'll lend it to you two for a few years. Consider it your reward this time."

Jiang Lianzhu was overjoyed, "Thank you, uncle."

This was a great thing. She was worried that the straw hut was not usable. It was so dilapidated that she was afraid it would leak everywhere if it rained, or collapse if there was a strong wind.

There wasn't even a kang or bed in the shed. When it rained, not only did the roof leak, but the ground was also wet. There was no place to even stand, let alone sleep.

No matter how dilapidated a mud house is, it is still a house and better than a straw hut.

A smile also appeared on Dabao's face. "Thank you, Grandpa Lizheng."

This reward was completely beyond the expectations of both mother and son.

The mother and son happily carried the wolfskin back home. The first thing they did after returning was to move.

There's nothing to move.

The house was bare and Jiang Lianzhu had never seen such a poor home in her previous life.

In the original owner's memory, not long after Wang Laowu disappeared, the Wang family expelled Jiang Lianzhu and her two children from the family home under the pretext of dividing the family, claiming that Jiang Lianzhu was a bad luck charm and forbidding her from remaining in the extended family. As for Dabao and the other three children, the Wang family also didn't want to raise them, claiming that Jiang Lianzhu was their mother once she entered the family, and that she would be their mother for life. They then asked Jiang Lianzhu to be taken away and raised.

When they were driven out, they were given a straw hut and two bags of coarse grains. Over the past year or so, the mother and her children have been able to survive only by relying on Dabao and Erbao to find food in the mountains, or on kind-hearted villagers giving them food.

Now that we are moving, all our belongings can be put into a broken basket.

The clothes they had were just the ones they wore, and they didn't have any extra clothes to change into. The pots, pans, and other items were all broken, and they weren't many. The most valuable thing in the family was a small bag of salt, which Erbao had bought with the money from selling pheasant eggs he had picked up in the mountains a few days ago.

The wolf meat and wolf skin that Jiang Lianzhu brought back today are the most valuable things.

In this way, Jiang Lianzhu carried the wolf meat and wolf skin, Dabao carried the basket of the family's rags, and Erbao held his sister's hand, and they moved the whole house in one trip.

When the villagers learned that Jiang Lianzhu and her sons had moved to a new home at the suggestion of the village head, they all came to watch the fun.

Mrs. Zhao said sourly, "Oh, what a slutty, unlucky woman! The village head must be getting old and confused, yet he lets them live in such a nice house!"