Chapter 12 The prey has been caught!
With the space, the brother and sister felt much more at ease. They studied in the space for another quarter of an hour. Afraid that Zheng would worry if they stayed out for too long, they had to go back first.
Before returning, Zhou Jin used his Swiss Army knife to cut two branches, and then used the nylon rope he took out from the space to make a few traps for pheasants and rabbits. He placed them in the woods not far away. Next to the traps were a few handfuls of compressed biscuits that Zhou Jin had crushed. After finishing, Zhou Jin looked at his work and was very satisfied. He patted the crumbs on his hands and said:
"Let's go! Come back tomorrow morning and see if we can find anything..."
Zhou Yu thought that she might have pheasants and rabbits to eat tomorrow. Including her previous life, she hadn't eaten fresh meat for nearly four years. She looked at her brother with a rare starry eye and said admiringly:
"Brother, how come you know everything?"
"Of course, who's your brother?" Zhou Jin was very pleased with his sister's rare praise and couldn't help but say complacently, "I learned this from a classmate's father when I was in college and went to play at his home in Inner Mongolia during the summer vacation. His father was a local hare trapper, but it was a pity that the world ended and there were almost no pheasants or hares left, even the people were almost gone, so I didn't use it..."
When the zombie virus raged, his classmate was not spared...
Seeing his brother suddenly fall silent, Zhou Yu knew that he was thinking about his past life again, so he hurriedly advised:
"Brother, don't think about those unhappy things. Have you forgotten what our grandfather always told us? We must look forward..."
Their grandfather lost his father in childhood, his wife in middle age, and his son in old age. He relied on this sentence to support himself throughout his life, and this is also what he often said.
"Yeah, that's right! We have to look forward!" Zhou Jin was not a sentimental person, so he didn't need Zhou Yu to persuade him. He shook his head to get rid of the sentimentality in his head, and felt that it was more important to feed his family.
"Okay, let's go back quickly, otherwise mom will be worried!"
"Um."
The brother and sister hurried back to the exile team. Zheng knew that food was hard to find nowadays. Seeing that they had been out for so long and came back empty-handed, she didn't say anything. She just smiled and told them to eat quickly. The pancakes and porridge she left for them were almost cold. Then she took the only clay pot in the house to fetch water.
Zhou Jin and Zhou Yu found it difficult to eat the pancakes and porridge they were holding. Firstly, they had just eaten, and secondly, because they were full, they felt even more guilty seeing their family members starving.
The two looked at each other, whispered a few words and decided to take out some of the compressed biscuits that had been crushed in advance to feed to the younger brother and sister-in-law.
Zhou Yu took out the biscuit crumbs from his pocket, mixed them into the two children's bowls of porridge, stirred them evenly with chopsticks, and then the brother and sister each took a bowl to feed the two little ones.
The two little ones had already eaten and fallen asleep. They were woken up in a daze by their older brother and sister, and then each of them was fed a mouthful of compressed biscuit porridge. The rare sweet taste filled the taste buds of the two little guys, and they instinctively swallowed it in big gulps before they were fully awake.
"Delicious and sweet!" Little Zhou Ying smiled contentedly while eating porridge, and smiled sweetly in Zhou Jin's arms.
"Yes, it's delicious, Aying, just eat more. My sister found some sweetgrass roots and added them to the porridge, so it's sweet!" Zhou Yu explained while feeding Zhou Li porridge.
She had to explain. After Zhou Li in her arms regained consciousness, she asked her why the taste of the pancake and wild vegetable porridge was different from before.
"Sister, this porridge is left by mother for you and brother. What will you eat after we eat it?" Zhou Li asked again after drinking a few mouthfuls of porridge.
Zhou Yu...
Why do you have so many questions? Isn't it better to just be like little Zhou Ying and eat whatever you're given?
"Ali, hurry up and eat. Big brother just did something for the official. The official gave you two pancakes. Big brother and big sister have already eaten them. However, the fact that Big brother did something for the official must be kept secret. Ali, don't tell anyone!"
While Zhou Yu was feeding Zhou Li, he was trying to figure out how to trick the kid. He was afraid that the kid would continue to ask about things like what big brother did for the official and whether he could tell his mother.
Luckily, Zhou Li was still young and trusted her older brothers and sisters very much. After hearing Zhou Yu say he had eaten, she felt relieved and stopped asking questions, then ate her porridge peacefully...
Zhou Jin and Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.
The two little ones were woken up from their sleep and were still drowsy. After eating, they were patted by Zhou Jin and his sister and fell asleep again. Perhaps because they were satisfied with the food, little Zhou Ying was still smacking her lips in her sleep, and little Zhou Li was also sleeping with her eyebrows and eyes curved...
"It seems that I can't mix compressed biscuits into porridge anymore. This kid is too cunning..." Zhou Yu said with lingering fear as he looked at Zhou Li's sleeping face.
"I told you no way, look how close it almost got! Even this kid could tell something was wrong, let alone our mother..." Zhou Jin criticized his sister again, earning a roll of his eyes from her. He didn't care and continued, "It seems we can only follow my way. We'll figure out a solution when Song Yayi and the others go to buy supplies!"
"That's all we can do," Zhou Yu sighed. "I wonder when they'll leave? I hope we can find a chance to follow them then..."
“Who says it’s not?”
Both of them looked forward to it...
The brother and sister didn't know at this time that what they expected would come soon...
After Zheng had boiled the water for the next day, they packed up and went to bed. There was no conversation that night...
The next morning, while it was still dark, Zhou Jin opened his eyes and woke up Zhou Yu beside him. They had to go check on the trap they had made last night before the team set off...
The brother and sister walked past the sleeping crowd and quietly headed towards the wild forest where they had set the trap last night. When they were still about ten meters away from the nearest trap, they heard a fluttering sound.
"It seems like I've caught something!" Zhou Jin shouted in surprise, and hurriedly ran towards the place where the flapping sound came from, and Zhou Yu followed closely behind.
As I got closer, I saw a plump pheasant firmly trapped in the rope loop, struggling in vain. It looked like it had been trapped not long ago...
Zhou Jin hurried forward and pinned the pheasant down. Instead of killing it, he tied its feet tightly with a straw rope and picked it up in his hand.
The brother and sister were very excited to have a harvest right after they arrived. They hurried to check other traps, and gradually harvested a dead rabbit and another half-grown pheasant in the next seven or eight traps.
There was one trap with obvious signs of struggle, which seemed to have caught a big creature, but unfortunately, the creature broke free from the noose and ran away!
The brother and sister felt very sorry when they saw it.
However, it was already great to be able to harvest a wild rabbit and two pheasants. The brother and sister were very satisfied with the results and excitedly carried the prey back!
The people in the exile group had all gotten up by now and were packing up their things. Seeing the brother and sister returning with their prey, the crowd was immediately excited... The most excited among them were undoubtedly the two little ones...
"Brother! Are these the rabbits and chickens you caught? Do we have meat to eat?!" Zhou Li ran over with Zhou Ying in his arms, looking at the chickens and rabbits in the hands of the brother and sister, and shouted excitedly.
"Well, let mom cook meat for us during the lunch break!" Zhou Jin touched his younger brother's head, which looked bigger because of his thinness, and said with a smile. It was rare to see this kid so excited.
"Oh, oh, we can have meat for lunch!" Little Zhou Ying yelled, provoking hatred. The other children in the exile team started drooling and started crying and asking the adults around them for chicken and rabbit meat...
When little Zhou Li saw this, he quickly covered his sister's mouth and made a sigh gesture to her.
In fact, it wasn't just the children in the team who were drooling. Even the adults in the camp felt their mouths salivating when they saw the pheasants and rabbits caught by Zhou Jin and his sister. They were all very greedy, but they didn't cry like the children...
It's no wonder everyone was envious. Ever since their homes were raided, they'd rarely had access to meat. They'd only occasionally get a little when friends and family came to visit, but since the exile, even that had vanished. Seeing the plump pheasants and rabbits, imagining how delicious they'd be when stewed, how could they not be greedy?! Their legs wouldn't obey their will and they all scrambled to get to them...
Zhou Jin couldn't care less about whether others were greedy or not. He wasn't a saint. Would he rather his own family starve than help others?! As the saying goes, help in times of need, not in poverty. Everyone has hands and feet. Since he could catch prey, others could too. He looked down on people who didn't try to catch their own prey but only relied on others for charity! So, naturally, he carried the prey and led his brother and sister-in-law back to their own territory under the envious gazes of everyone...
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