“What are you talking about?
Zhou Qiu risked his life to kill the giant python and found so much food for our village. We should be grateful to him. Why are you blaming him?"
Zhou Dong has always been a good guy and never misses an opportunity.
As soon as he said this, many villagers echoed him.
Before Zhou Qiu could refute, Zhou Daniu and Chaoge came back after hearing the noise.
"Village chief, we found water. It's behind the huge rock in front!"
Chaoge knew the true colors of this group of people, but didn't want to waste any more time, so she walked out with Daniu, who hurriedly told Zhou Dong the good news.
"Really? That's great. Let's get some water first, then kill the python right here. Then we can use the water here to clean it and share it among us.
It’s getting late today, so we’ll come back to fetch water early tomorrow morning and then we’ll hurry on our way.
We originally planned to get down the mountain in three days, but we didn't expect it would take two days to get up the mountain.
It looks like it will take at least two or three days to get down the mountain."
After the village chief finished speaking, everyone was no longer frustrated about wasting time. After all, this trip up the mountain, in addition to harvesting the giant python, they actually found a source of water.
In this way, with one bucket of water, they can survive for at least seven or eight days.
Chaoge was fine. She was completely disappointed with Zhou Dong and his gang of villagers when the wolves appeared, so she didn't feel bad at all about their indifference today.
But when he saw a group of villagers busy cutting up the giant python, no matter how indifferent Zhou Xiaoniu had pretended to be before, especially after Zhou Dashan said those words, the resentment in his heart had actually grown deeper and deeper.
"The python meat is really thick, a whole circle of meat can't be finished by a family of just a few people in one meal, right?
I saw this python was so scary before, but I didn’t expect it to become our food.
I once had the pleasure of eating a python, and it tasted delicious.
The cooked meat doesn’t have the snakey smell of raw meat. I must eat my fill tonight!
I don't care, I've already reserved this piece of meat, don't fight with me for it."
While they were chatting and laughing, one of the villagers pointed to a circle of cut meat and spoke in a serious tone.
Zhou Xiaoniu could no longer bear it, so he went up to the man and snatched the python meat from his hand: "You are laughing happily now, but when I asked you to help save my brother just now, you were all so cowardly and afraid of death.
Now that we have finally killed the python, you don't feel the slightest bit of guilt for your previous indifference. You even have the nerve to joke and chat here and choose the meat?
Are you really human?
Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?!
We agreed to go on the road together and take care of each other, but when the danger came, you all flew away on your own.
Haha, a bunch of ungrateful wolves!
Do you know how to eat meat now?
I really regret that I went to tell you that the python was killed!"
Not to mention Zhou Xiaoniu regretted it, Chaoge also regretted it when he looked at the faces of this group of people.
She really didn't know how these people could have the nerve to talk and laugh and forget about what had just happened?
"Don't make a fuss, Maverick, this matter is over.
We are all from the same hometown, so don’t hurt the harmony.”
Everyone stopped laughing after Zhou Xiaoniu's outburst. The scene became quiet and Zhou Dong's face was burning with embarrassment.
Before the village chief could figure out how to answer to save his face, the good old man Zhou Daniu came out to lecture Zhou Xiaoniu.
“Brother, you are just used to it.
This group of people...”
"Don't talk, Xiao Niu. It's getting late and we need to fetch water later."
Zhou Xiaoniu wanted to continue to rant, but was stopped by Zhou Qiu halfway through his words.
Chaoge didn't want to get involved in their dispute. She was a trouble-seeking person and didn't like to waste time on such trivial matters unless it was directly related to her.
She just hoped that nothing unexpected would happen before they went down the mountain, otherwise she couldn't guarantee that they could part ways peacefully.
With Zhou Qiu trying to smooth things over and Zhou Dong saying a few high-sounding words, the matter was finally over.
But when everyone started to cut up the python meat, the atmosphere was no longer as relaxed and cheerful as before.
Everyone is aware of their own selfishness, and perhaps after this incident, they are already worrying whether they will end up like Zhou Daniu and his brothers during their next escape.
The men cut and cleaned the python meat, while the women were responsible for fetching water and looking for wild vegetables.
It’s a rare sight of green, and they even want to pick up some leaves!
Everyone was busy and talking at the same time. The women did not feel the slightest bit of guilt for leaving Zhou Daniu and his brother behind and running away. After all, in their opinion, it was not something they, women, should do.
So on the other side, the atmosphere was relatively relaxed and cheerful. The hopeless escape from famine in the past few days seemed to be over at this moment.
And those women who had previously blamed Chaoge behind her back, after getting such a huge advantage, not only did they not feel the slightest bit of guilt or gratitude towards Chaoge, they continued to ostracize her even more because of Chaoge's face.
Chaoge looked at the women who were deliberately alienating and cold to him, smiled slightly, and then silently took action alone.
Without these people around her, she was even more unscrupulous.
She looked for wild vegetables and medicinal herbs, pulled them up by the roots and threw them directly into the space.
Looking at the wild vegetables that he had thrown into the space, the leopard limped away excitedly and wanted to eat them directly!
Chaoge hurriedly stopped him and used his mind to plant wild vegetables in the open space.
She hoped that if she couldn't find wild vegetables after leaving the mountains, the wild vegetables in the space could give them a change of taste.
Although the space has the function of preserving freshness, if this space has the ability to accelerate the growth of plants like the spaces in the novels she had read in her previous life, then she will never lack wild vegetables to eat on the road.
Looking around, Chaoge felt that there was obviously more than one spring in this area that they had found.
Although the ground on this mountain is dry, it is not difficult to judge from the growth of the surrounding plants that there may really be an underground river.
Thinking of the leisurely appearance of the green python, Chaoge suddenly remembered a miscellaneous book he had read before.
Generally, where there are poisonous snakes, there will be some herbs that can antidote the snake venom.
This green python is extremely poisonous, and the herb that can detoxify it is even more powerful, and can detoxify many more poisons in the world.
Thinking of this, Chaoge's eyes lit up again and he decided to try his luck.
Before he knew it, Chaoge arrived at a hillside alone.
As soon as she pulled aside a bunch of weeds, she spotted a complete snake skin that had been shed not long ago.
She didn't find the detoxifying herbs, but she didn't expect to get such a gain?
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