Shitou walked to Shen Siyue's side, reached out and threw the rabbit in the basket on her back into his own basket.
"Hey? Hey? What are you doing? Your basket is already heavy enough." Shen Siyue hurriedly stopped him.
"It's okay. A few extra pounds won't be a problem. We have to work harder and climb over another mountain."
"The wild boar is covered in blood. If the wolves smell it, we will both die here."
Shitou kept talking without stopping his hands.
He didn't stop until he took out four rabbits from Shen Siyue's basket and threw them into the basket behind him.
Then he rearranged the basket on his back, and then explained to Shen Siyue: “If there is no wild boar in the basket, it’s okay.”
"But the wild boar's blood smells too strong. Unless we leave the wild boar to the wolves, we two will have to accompany the wild boar on the road to the underworld."
After saying that, Shitou supported Shen Siyue’s arm and pushed hard: “Hold on a little longer, it’s not safe here.”
The two of them had to get away from this deep mountain as soon as possible.
Otherwise, the wild boar that they had caught with great difficulty might become the death warrant for both of them.
Shen Siyue didn't want the wild boar she had finally caught to be given to other animals as a meal, so she could only walk back with one foot deep and one foot shallow, supported by the stone.
It was not until they had climbed over another hill and were about to leave the mountain that Shitou found an open space and let Shen Siyue unload the basket and rest.
He also squatted down and slowly placed the full basket on the ground.
Both of them had beads of sweat on their noses and were breathing heavily.
Although her legs were tired, sore and painful, looking at the basket full of meat, Shen Siyue couldn't suppress the smile on her face.
During the break, Shitou asked her, "Can you take your half home directly?"
Shen Siyue, who was originally happy, suddenly froze when she heard this.
If she took the meat back so carelessly and was seen by those people from the Shen family, there would definitely be trouble.
She is not afraid of a fight, but if the Shen family reports her with malicious intentions, then these things of hers might be confiscated.
Shitou also thought about these things, so he asked this question.
Shen Siyue thought for a moment, then looked up and asked Shitou a question: “Do you usually eat the prey you get when you hunt?”
Shen Siyue actually wanted to find out how Shitou dealt with his prey in the end.
She didn't believe it and ate the stones herself.
Sure enough, Shitou didn't answer her immediately after hearing that.
Instead, he was silent for a while before saying, "I exchanged most of it for food rations, and sometimes for some money."
For rural people, if coarse grains can fill their stomachs, that is the best life.
As for eating meat during festivals, that was something only wealthy families in the city could do.
When Shitou moved from his home to his current house, it was just an empty shell.
Everything we use at home now was collected bit by bit by him.
It was only in the past one or two years that he could occasionally save a little meat to satisfy his craving.
Shen Siyue raised her eyes to look at him, pursed her lips and asked cautiously: “Black market?”
She had read in previous novels that when the planned economy was implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, there were people who sold things privately at the risk of losing their heads.
However, the places are usually very secretive and not everyone can find them.
Otherwise, those patrol teams would have been wiped out long ago.
Shitou didn’t expect that Shen Siyue actually knew about the black market. He didn’t answer her question directly, but asked her: “Have you been there?”
Shen Siyue shook her head honestly.
In the memory of the original owner, Shen Siyue, she had never left Dongliang Village.
The farthest place we could go was probably to pick mushrooms on the hill near Dongliang Village.
Shitou felt relieved after hearing this.
Then he began to answer Shen Siyue’s question just now: “Going to the black market is too risky, I’ve only been there once.”
"But I know a guy in town who I just give stuff to, and it's his business what he does with it."
This man's nickname is Liu San.
He has an honest face, but he is secretly doing things that can cost him his life.
The price Liu San gives is lower than that on the black market, but fortunately it is much safer than that on the black market.
After giving the item to him and deciding what to exchange it for, Liu San would estimate a time and then Shitou could go over and get it.
The main focus of both parties is trust.
He has been working with Liu San for more than two years and there has never been any mistake.
Many things in the house were obtained through Liu San's hands.
He never told anyone about this.
After hearing this, Shen Siyue’s eyes lit up: “Then please help me change my share into money and tickets.”
Her things cannot be directly exchanged for food.
The Shen family is not safe. The new house has not been repaired yet, and only money and tickets are convenient to carry with you.
It won’t be too late to find a way to exchange it for food after the new house is repaired.
This is an easy matter. Shitou agreed immediately: "Okay, I'll give it to you when I have replaced it, but you may have to wait a few days."
After hearing this, Shen Siyue waved her hands, indicating that she didn’t care.
All the things she got today, no matter how much Shi Tou gave her, were her extra earnings.
So she didn't ask how much money or tickets she could exchange for one pound of meat.
Shen Siyue, whose pockets were cleaner than her face, was particularly happy that she would soon have some private money.
I think she has been in this world for so long, and she is finally going to see the light.
Otherwise, she would have thought that God had forgotten about her as a time traveler and left her to fend for herself here!
Shi Tou saw that Chen Siyue's eyes were full of smiles, and he was also very happy.
"I'll leave you a pheasant and some wild boar meat as well."
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and although Murakami will distribute pork, there will definitely not be any share for Shen Siyue.
I guess she will have to spend this New Year alone.
So I took this opportunity to save some meat for myself.
"Just leave me two pounds of pork, and change the rest!"
I'm greedy, but I have to move after the New Year and I don't have anything yet, and I need money everywhere.
Shi Tou didn't say yes or no, he just looked at her and smiled.
After resting for a while, the two continued on their journey.
When we finally saw Dongliang Village in the distance, the sun had already set, leaving only a hint of sunset on the side of the mountain.
At this time, the two people deliberately slowed down their pace.
Afraid of running into other people on the road, when they arrived at Shen Siyue’s house, the two of them hid inside for a while.
It wasn’t until it was completely dark that Shen Siyue followed Shi Tou and quickly flashed into his house.
This was Shen Siyue’s first time to Shitou’s new home.
Opposite the courtyard gate are two small earthen houses.
There is another wing on the right.
The yard was kept clean.
Even the wood used for burning was chopped into uniform lengths and neatly stacked against the wall.
This made Shen Siyue's perception of the stone reach another level.
For a bachelor who can keep his home so clean and tidy, one can imagine that he must be a very hardworking person.
The two men unloaded the basket into the house, and Shen Siyue was about to leave when she was stopped by a stone.
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