The cloth shoes on his feet were also covered with patches, and his whole body was filled with a cold aura, which made people feel afraid at first sight.
When Hu Zi saw Huo Chen running towards him, he was so scared that he ran directly behind Xu Ying. His body was stiff and tears welled up in his eyes.
She tugged at the corner of Xu Ying's clothes with both hands: "Aunt, aunt, let's go back quickly!"
Xu Ying was puzzled. She touched Hu Zi's head and looked at Huo Chen and asked, "The items were sold? So quickly?"
Huo Chen was no longer surprised by Hu Zi's appearance. The children in their village would run away when they saw him. Only the captain's daughter dared to talk to him for some reason.
He nodded, and seeing that there was no one around, he immediately took out a wad of money and tickets from his pocket and gave them to Xu Ying: "Wolf meat is sold at 70 cents per pound, and there are other tickets as well.
Those wolves weighed more than 200 kilograms in total and were sold for 168 yuan. I used the remaining money to thank you for saving me and Lao Hui."
Xu Ying's eyes sparkled, and she looked like a money-grubber. She took the money and quickly stuffed it into her clothes: "Thank you, Comrade Huo."
Huo Chen was slightly stunned by Xu Ying's greedy look, then waved his hand. After raising his foot, he said, "You can find me if you have any problems in the future."
Before Xu Ying could figure out what was going on, his figure disappeared into the woods.
Hu Zi had been hiding behind Xu Ying. When he saw Huo Chen leave, he slowly poked his head out and said, "Aunt, why are you talking to the wolf cub? What are you selling?"
When Xu Ying heard the name "wolf cub", she frowned and scolded Hu Zi, "What wolf cub? He has a name, Huo Chen, you can call him Uncle Huo from now on.
Let's talk about selling things when we get home, you hear me? "
Hu Zi was completely confused, but he still had to listen to his aunt.
But when looking at Xu Ying, Hu Zi's eyes sparkled. Wolf cub was such a scary person, yet her aunt dared to talk to him.
"Let's collect firewood first, and then we'll go back home. When we get home, I'll ask your grandma to boil eggs for us."
When Hu Zi heard about Dan Dan, he was immediately happy. His mouth was almost crooked with smile, and his little body moved nimbly through the mountains.
After Shitou finished collecting pig grass, he started collecting firewood. The three of them continued collecting until after four o'clock.
There were already three bundles of firewood tied beside her. Xu Ying put one bundle in the basket on her back and held the other bundle in her hands.
Shitou went back with pig feed on his back and a bundle of firewood in his arms.
When Xu's mother saw her daughter coming back with the firewood, she was so distressed that she immediately took the firewood from her daughter and said, "Oh, my dear, how could you carry it back? Why didn't you let Shitou carry it?
Look at the wound on your body. It's all red. It hurts me so much!"
Xu Ying looked at Shitou's small body and thought, "Let's not do it!" Xu's mother frowned and was about to die of anger.
Xu Ying put all the firewood on the ground, fumbled in his pocket for a long time, and took out a wad of money.
Mother Xu stood there in shock, unable to utter a word.
After a long time, she pulled her daughter into the house and asked stutteringly, "Where did you get so much money?"
Xu Ying smiled, pulled Xu's mother to sit on the edge of the bed, and gave the two hundred yuan directly to her.
Huo Chen gave her a total of three hundred yuan, of which more than one hundred was from the money from selling meat, and the remaining more than one hundred was a reward from Huo Chen.
She deserved the money. If she hadn't saved Huo Chen and Lao Hui, the man and the beast would probably have died.
Mother Xu looked at the money and was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth: "Daughter, where have you been? Did you go to rob?"
"How do you earn that money?" Xu's mother asked anxiously, wondering if her daughter would do anything illegal.
Xu Ying then told him about how she had saved Huo Chen in the mountains and helped him hunt: "Mom, half of this money is from my hunting and the money I earned from hunting with Huo Chen, and the other half is from him in gratitude for my life-saving grace."
When Xu's mother heard this, tears started to flow down her cheeks. She reached out and gently hit Xu Ying on the back, "You stupid girl, I told you not to go to the mountains, why did you go to that kind of place?
If anything goes wrong with you, what will happen to your dad and I? Are you going to piss me off to death?"
The wolf cub almost lost his life, which shows how dangerous the scene was. This damn girl still dared to go forward. Thinking that her daughter almost lost her life, Xu's mother felt very upset.
"Mom, I only went to the mountains once. Don't worry, I will never go there again." Xu Ying felt a tightness in her heart when she saw her mother was so upset, and she comforted her.
Mother Xu then wiped her tears and stuffed all the money in her hand to Xu Ying: "My daughter, you take this money yourself. Mom doesn't want it. You can save it and use it as a dowry in the future.
Mom and your dad are still able to work, your eldest brother, his wife, and your second brother are also working, and your third brother's salary is still being sent home, so our family doesn't lack for anything."
Xu Ying refused: "Mom, you have to take this money. They have to work, so how can I sit at home and do nothing? Besides, this money is for me to honor you and Dad, so you have to take it."
Xu's mother was originally unhappy about her daughter saying that she didn't work, but when she heard her say that she was filial to her and the old man, she was very happy.
Mother Xu's heart was about to melt. She glanced at her daughter and smiled, "Just give me and your father fifty as a token of your filial piety. I will save the rest for you and give it to you as a dowry when you get married."
"Mom, I don't want to get married. I want to stay with you and Dad forever."
Xu's mother refused with a stern face: "No, you can't not get married when you grow up. How long can your father and I accompany you? You still have to find a man to accompany you in the future."
"You really don't like Dong Zhiqing anymore?"
The day before yesterday, she heard the eldest daughter-in-law of her third aunt say that her daughter no longer liked Dong Zhiqing. She didn't believe it at the time, but these few days she also heard from her husband that her daughter never looked for Dong Zhiqing again.
Now she believed it a little.
The air around them quickly became cold. Xu Ying shook her head and said, "I don't like him anymore. I feel like Dong Zhiqing is just like a gigolo. He's annoying."
Oh my god, Xu's mother was about to applaud. Her daughter's description was so accurate. Isn't Dong Zhiqing just like a gigolo in the city? "Yes, daughter, that boy is a gigolo. He is very shameless."
"Well, Mom, don't worry from now on. I won't be fooled by him again." Xu Ying's eyes were bright, and the haze in her heart dissipated instantly.
Xu's mother's face was full of smiles: "Okay, Mom believes you."
It was getting late, Xu Ying stood up from the bed, looked at her mother and said, "Mom, why don't you kill all the pheasants at home? We can't keep them alive, and they will get thinner in a few days."
When Xu's mother heard this, she immediately nodded and agreed. There was only a little meat on the pheasant, and it would not be worth it if it became any thinner.
"I'll go kill the pheasant and we'll make pheasant soup tonight. I'll dry the rest and we'll keep it for later."
Xu Ying went out of the house with her. Xu's mother went to kill a pheasant. She ran to the vegetable garden and pulled out two big radishes to make chicken soup.
There were four pheasants in the house, and Xu's mother killed them all.
"Mom, let's stew two pheasants. One is too little. It's not enough to eat. You and Dad are too thin. You need to nourish your bodies. So do my eldest brother and the others.
(End of this chapter)