"There's nothing I can do. My family has to make a living!"
Hu Lin became melancholy.
“Our family didn’t live here originally, we were kicked out.
My grandparents didn't give us much food.
They only gave us rice according to my father’s work points, and we were not allowed to take even a grain of extra rice.
But how could the work points he earned alone be enough to feed three mouths?
The family has not been divided, and I have no money, and my grandparents don't give me any living expenses.
In order to survive, I can only think of some unconventional tricks.
Also, the house I lived in before was not like this. No one had lived in it for more than 20 years.
Fortunately, I got some money when the family was divided.
Otherwise, we won’t be able to build a brick house and won’t be able to accommodate your family. ”
Hu Lin simply said a few things and played the victim.
After hearing this, Zhou Huaijing didn't know what to say for a moment and fell silent.
The sharpness between his brows has diminished somewhat.
When people are in similar situations, they can empathize with each other.
Especially since the Zhou family had just experienced such a thing, they could better understand the difficulties faced by the Hu Lin family.
"Thank you." After a long time, Zhou Huaijing thanked him again.
Hu Lin smiled and didn't answer.
The two of them went back to the Hu family one after the other.
The meal was almost ready at home, and the Zhou family helped to serve the dishes and get the bowls and chopsticks.
When they saw the two men coming back and the wolf on Zhou Huaijing's shoulder, their faces were filled with surprise at first, but then turned into joy.
Xu Mingzhu stepped forward and looked at Zhou Huaijing. Looking at the few drops of blood on his face, she asked with concern, "Are you not injured?"
"No." Zhou Huaijing's voice softened.
Hu Lin raised his eyebrows when he heard Zhou Huaijing speaking to him in a completely different tone.
"Come, put the prey in the yard." Zhou Honggan said.
Zhou Huaijing carried the prey to the yard as instructed.
Li Aihua and Hu Xiaoyi came out with food and saw it, both with surprised expressions.
Li Aihua was surprised and glanced at Hu Lin.
She was still wondering, could she hide the fact that there was game at home from the Zhou family?
Hu Lin didn't say much and went to the kitchen to wash his hands. Zhou Huaijing followed him.
The two washed their hands one after the other and went to the table to eat.
After lunch, the two families boiled water to deal with the wolf, which looked to weigh about 70 or 80 kilograms.
Neither family had ever dealt with this kind of thing, and Li Aihua didn't know where to start with a knife.
I always feel that the kitchen knife doesn't work well on this wolf.
When both families were in a dilemma, Zhou Huaijing took out his saber and started skinning the animals.
Li Aihua and Hu Xiaoyi helped with kitchen knives.
Soon, a complete wolf skin was peeled off.
After peeling, it is much easier to handle.
The saber cut through iron like mud. Zhou Huaijing took the opportunity to cut open his stomach and left the rest to them.
The two families gathered around the prey.
Zhou Huaijing scooped water to wash the saber and wiped it with a rag.
While wiping, Zhou Huaijing noticed Hu Lin's gaze looking at him again, and raised his eyes to meet his.
Hu Lin did not show any embarrassment at being caught. After taking a look at the silver-gray saber in his hand, he calmly looked away.
Zhou Huaijing looked at him, and the hostility between his brows became heavier.
When he took out the saber, he felt Hu Lin staring at the saber in his hand, and his gaze was burning.
She seemed to like the saber in her hand very much.
Hu Lin really liked it, because under the current conditions, she couldn't get herself such a handy weapon.
Until now, she can only use wooden spikes as weapons.
That's why she was particularly coveting Zhou Huaijing's saber.
But he was too perceptive.
He is worthy of being the one who can kill a grown wolf in the throat with one blow.
The wolf was very big, and the two families worked for an entire afternoon to finish it off.
In the evening, we stewed bone soup with radish. Both families felt warm in their hearts while drinking the bone soup.
The weather had been sunny for several days in a row, and Zhou's father and son went up the mountain to chop firewood every day.
Hu Xiaoyi had nothing to do at home, so he went along too.
Every day, the three of them went up the mountain to chop firewood, and Zhou Honggan and Hu Xiaoyi always came back first.
Zhou Huaijing went to the mountains to hunt every day.
Sometimes I hunt snow hares, sometimes I hunt roe deer, and sometimes I hunt lynx.
One day, he even hunted a sika deer.
But Li Aihua and Hu Xiaoyi were shocked.
They have never seen this big guy before.
In the past few days, Zhou Huaijing hunted as much prey as Hu Lin had hunted in the past few months.
Li Aihua and Hu Lin had discussed it earlier, and all the prey Zhou Huaijing had hunted were sorted into pieces and hung in the warehouse to dry.
In the evening, it started snowing again.
After dinner, the two families sat around the brazier in the living room and talked.
Only then did Hu Lin and his family learn that Zhou Huaijing would be leaving in two days to return to the army.
"Then I'll make some dried meat for Huai Jing tomorrow so he can take it with him on the road."
Li Aihua thought about the prey Zhou Huaijing had hunted, and how he was about to leave before he could eat anything.
"I'll help you." Xu Mingzhu responded.
After living here for more than ten days, the family has long been impressed by Li Aihua's cooking skills.
"Don't bother, just make him some dry food for the journey." Zhou Hong was polite.
The old couple, with their child, stood by and smiled in silence.
Zhou Huaijing, the person involved, did not say anything and had no objection to their arrangements.
Amid the crackling sound of firewood, Hu Lin and Zhou Huaijing's eyes inadvertently met in the air.
In the middle there were rising flames and sparks.
She didn't expect that Zhou Huaijing was not in the same group as the Zhou family.
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