Yan Xi touched his empty stomach and smiled awkwardly, "Um...there's no food at home, I'm hungry."
Everyone: “…”
Yan Xi's mother wiped her tears, walked over to him, and touched his head. "Be patient, good boy. After these two days, I will take you out to eat grass. It's not safe outside now. You are so young and you can easily be eaten."
"Xixi, come here. I have some hay here to fill your stomach." Brother Rabbit took out a small bundle of hay and handed it to him.
Yan Xi wanted to take it but hesitated, "Brother, you eat it first. I'll see if the grass at the entrance of the cave has grown. If it has, I'll just take a couple of bites."
The big rabbit took his hand and stuffed hay into his mouth. "Just eat it. You are the youngest in the family and you are in the growth stage. You can't go hungry."
"Well... okay, thank you, big brother." Yan Xi looked at the hay in his hand with a slightly complicated mood.
The days of paying tribute were carnival days for the Gray Wolf Tribe and the Golden Tiger Tribe. They could freely enter and leave the vicinity of the Rabbit Tribe. However, there were always some unruly wolves and tigers who would take advantage of the situation to rob and eat the rabbits, so no one dared to go out easily.
It's not that they didn't think about storing more grass before this day, but the Gray Wolf Tribe and the Golden Tiger Tribe were too demanding, requiring each rabbit household to contribute fifty large bundles of grass every year to be used as firewood.
In order to meet the target, the rabbits can only work together desperately, so every time this time comes, the nearby grass will be harvested by them and become bare. Not to mention the grass, even the grass roots will be in trouble.
If it weren't for those big bad wolves and tigers who broke the rules and stole the rabbits at this time, they would have sent people to a farther place to cut grass to save the day.
In the past, some rabbits could not bear the hunger and sneaked out, but never came back. When they were found again, only bones were left. After a long time, no one dared to take this risk anymore.
Looking at the hay in Yan Xi's hand, the other brothers and sisters swallowed their saliva at the same time.
With so many people staring at him, Yan Xi couldn't eat any more.
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