Chapter 46: No Diamonds
"The villagers nearby, whether they have food at home or not, all go to his house to eat porridge," Ah Hua complained about the Chen family along the way.
But at the same time, I feel sad for their behavior. Some people cannot be fed when you have no food to offer them.
What they eat is your meat.
After the three of them entered the mountains, they did not separate. After all, all the large animals nearby had entered here.
If they meet those animals separately, there is no food at the foot of the mountain now, so what else can be found in the mountain? In the eyes of those animals, they are also food now.
The three were cautious, but eventually they were surrounded by wolves. Wolves are among the smartest animals.
Six wolves silently surrounded the three people, circling from all directions, crawling in the snow without making any sound.
"To...to the city..., what should I do..." Ah Hua's voice was trembling, and in her ears she could hear the low growls coming from the wolves' mouths.
In extreme fear, she could already hear her own heartbeat, which seemed to be about to jump out of her chest.
The wolves looked at the three men and approached step by step, saliva dripping from their mouths, and slightly arched their front bodies in a fighting stance.
The three men had nowhere to retreat and were now back to back.
Xiang Yu turned his head and looked at the big tree beside him. "I'll call you later and you can climb up the tree directly. Do you understand?"
The two men nodded and tightened their axe hands.
"Climb the tree..." Xiang Yu shouted, stretched out his hand and grabbed the hanging pine branch, using the force to jump up and grab the branch with both hands.
Then they raised their feet and hugged the branch directly. Their movements were too big and large flakes of snow accumulated on the branch fell down and hit the three of them.
Except for Xiang Yu and Xiang Cheng who were relatively calm, Ah Hua used the fastest tree-climbing speed in her life to surpass the two and climbed directly to the middle of the tree trunk.
The wolves attacked the moment the men moved. Three wolves scratched the tree trunk with their claws, again and again, looking at the three people on the tree with fierce eyes.
Xiang Yu almost fell on the branch. Several wolves used the force to leap up and opened their mouths to bite Xiang Yu. It must be said that they were really smart.
Xiang Yu quickly turned over, "Ah..." A wolf that jumped up and wanted to bite Xiang Yu was hit hard in the eye by Xiang Cheng's slingshot.
He was hit and instantly became angry. He rushed towards Xiang Cheng, but he missed and fell into a pile of snow.
Xiang Yu took off the compound bow on his back. Although he got a gun last time, he only had more than twenty bullets. He should try not to waste them.
"Sister Xiang Yu, which one should we hit first?" Xiang Cheng watched Xiang Yu's movements. "The one with black hair on the right leg."
Then the arrow in his hand flew out and pierced directly through its body.
Xiang Cheng pulled the slingshot in his hand to its full extent and shot at his eyes. The wolf howled and ran a few steps into the woods, then fell down.
Perhaps it was because they had been hungry for a long time. After seeing their companion fall down, they did not leave in a hurry. Instead, they pushed away for a distance and watched from a distance.
They were waiting, waiting for Xiang Yu and the others to run out of strength and come down from the tree on their own.
Xiang Yu shot the second arrow directly, and the wolves became alert at this time. These people could really kill them all. The leader wolf was ready to carry the body of its companion away.
But then it also fell down. When the remaining three wolves saw that their leader was dead, they tucked their tails between their legs and ran away.
Xiang Yu had been looking for the wolf but never found it. Unexpectedly, he killed it by accident.
The three of them waited on the tree for a long time before coming down. They had been squatting on the tree for too long, and after coming down, Xiang Yu began to move his numb hands and feet.
Xiang Cheng dragged all three wolves over. He and Ahua didn't contribute anything at all. They were all killed by Xiang Yu.
"You and Ahua pick one and take half each, and the rest will be mine. Do you have any objection to that?" Xiang Yu squatted down and stroked the wolf skin.
Of course, the two had no objection, and Ahua expressed her gratitude that Xiang Yu would give her a portion.
"Sister Xiang Yu, you are so nice. I find that I have fallen in love with you," Ah Hua confessed boldly, and then the two of them picked the smallest one and took half each.
After helping Xiang Yu clean the wolf meat, they went down the mountain together. How could they possibly fit two wolves in the backpack?
Xiang Yu put the wolf meat into the space where the two could not see.
Because the Chen family was giving out porridge, fewer people came to borrow food recently. But soon, after half a month, most of the Chen family's porridge had more water than porridge, which caused them to complain.
The Chen family felt disheartened by their behavior, so they stopped distributing porridge and simply told others that they had no food left at home.
But how could those people believe it? They could withstand being hungry for one day, but what about two days, three days? Finally, they rushed into Chen Jianbing's house.
They turned his house upside down and stole the little food they had left. Chen Jianbing could only shout that they were robbers, but there was nothing he could do.
So many people broke into his house, and almost everyone who had eaten his porridge let him go. Finally, he was discovered when he went to borrow food from a nearby village.
Some people who had food at home had gone to drink his porridge before, but now these people were ridiculing him with words.
"If you don't have food, you still want to follow others to give out porridge. If you don't have the diamond drill, don't take the porcelain job. You really think you are the landlord."
Chen Jianbing endured their ridicule and asked questions from family to family, watching as the people who had given him porridge in the past were now in the same situation as himself.
Those people just felt extremely happy in their hearts.
"Hello, can you lend me some food, even half a bowl of rice?" Chen Jianbing knocked hard on Xiang Yi's door.
The villagers of Xiangjia Village had already heard about Chen Jianbing's affairs.
Hearing that it was him, Xiang Yi opened the door for him at the signal of his uncle.
But when he left, he returned empty-handed.
In the middle of the night, when the village was quiet, Xiang Yu heard noises coming from next door.
"It's me, Chen Jianbing."
In front of the villagers during the day, Uncle Xiang did not give him food and asked him to come back in the middle of the night. When Chen Jianbing left, he carried a bag of rice.
When they went to town to buy rice, Uncle Xiang and his family went back several times halfway, and Xiang Yu didn't know how much rice they had bought.
Chen Jianbing took the rice back home, but after this incident, he became more cautious, even though there was food at home.
But he still begged in the village every day to confuse the villagers.
As time went by, fewer people came to borrow food.
Soon it was the fifth month. Braving the severe cold, the villagers went up the mountain to dig up tree roots and grass roots and brought them home to cook and eat.
Seeing that there were many people around, Xiang Yu symbolically went up the mountain and dug two and took a look at them in front of them.
Looking at the skinny and pale villagers and being stared at by their green eyes, Xiang Yu also felt uneasy.
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