Seeing Shen Zhiyi approaching, the child quickly took two steps back. "Sister, I'm dirty, please don't come near me."
Children know that adults don't like dirty children.
If a dirty child gets close, the adults will avoid them with disgust, and even... they might even beat or scold them excessively.
He used to be unaware that adults disliked him, and he would even try to pull on other people's clothes with his dirty little hands. The next second, he would be met with a vicious kick from an adult.
At that moment, the child finally understood why all the other children had told him not to touch the adults.
The child learned his lesson and only dared to watch the adults from afar, no longer daring to approach them.
He learned to read people's expressions and knew who was a good person and who was a bad person.
This is why the child asked Shen Zhiyi for food.
The child stared at the rabbit leg in Shen Zhiyi's hand, but he forced himself to look away. He said, "Sister, just give me some, I can't take your meat."
Shen Zhiyi noticed the child's throat as he swallowed, and could tell that the child had been hungry for a long time.
After a long silence, she sighed, "Take it. There's nothing else besides rabbit meat."
After saying that, he handed over the rabbit leg he was holding.
The child was somewhat flattered and dared not reach out to take it.
He knew the woman in front of him was a good person, but he was still worried. What if she changed her mind after he took the rabbit leg?
Years of homelessness have made the child very sensitive.
"Just take it, stop dawdling." Shen Zhiyi walked over and shoved the rabbit leg into the child's hand.
The child seemed a little lost, holding the rabbit leg, unsure of what to say.
"It's yours now, so eat with confidence." Shen Zhiyi sat back in her previous spot and carefully dissected the remaining rabbit meat.
The child tightened his grip on the rabbit leg and said, "Thank you, sister! Thank you, sister!"
Then he turned around, grabbed the rabbit leg, and ran away.
Just then, Fox Moon, who had gone out to hunt rabbits, returned carrying two or three rabbits.
"Yiyi, what was that kid doing just now? Was that my rabbit leg he was holding?!"
Black Wolf and Dried Fish returned, having eaten and drunk their fill.
The black wolf lay lazily to one side, its tail swaying slightly.
"That child looked like he hadn't eaten in a long time, so I gave him a rabbit leg. Fox Moon, you wouldn't be so stingy, would you?" Shen Zhiyi looked up at Fox Moon with a grin.
Fox Moon snorted, but didn't blame Shen Zhiyi. "Luckily I caught one more, otherwise I wouldn't have had enough to eat."
The rabbits that Hu Yue brought back were already processed, and Shen Zhiyi roasted them directly over the fire.
The dried fish were still running around everywhere.
After spending so much time in the pet space, the dried fish were practically bored to death.
"Little dried fish, stop running around. If you're so free, go hunting. You can eat them when we get back to Nebula."
The dried fish kept running around, making Shen Zhiyi almost dizzy.
Little Fish thought about it and agreed, so it ran out to hunt.
Fox Moon curled her lips in disdain, "Why is Dried Fish still so noisy, like a little cub that hasn't grown up yet?"
Shen Zhiyi's lips twitched, and she thought of the wolf cub she brought back from Sang Yu's place later, comparing the two of them.
The dried fish are even smaller than baby fish.
Fox Moon then turned the topic to Black Wolf, "Ah Jin, when you were a cub, were you like Little Fish?"
Black Wolf turned its head away, refusing to answer Fox Moon's question.
"Tch, boring." Fox Moon scoffed when she saw this.
The rabbit was quickly roasted, and Little Fish returned with two prey, running to Shen Zhiyi's side and acting coquettishly.
"Awooo!" Zookeeper, quickly put the beast away! When we get back to Nebula, the beast wants to treat you to a whole meat feast!
Shen Zhiyi chuckled and patted the little dried fish on the head, helping it collect its prey.
He then took a picture of one of the rabbits and sent it to Nalan Zhao.
Shen Zhiyi estimated that the food she had left for Nalan Zhao should be almost gone, so she should find some time to cook some more rice.
The food sent from Xianyun Island has almost filled her backpack; she needs to use it up quickly.
Shen Zhiyi and Hu Yue were gnawing on rabbit meat when the child who had just left with the rabbit leg ran back.
Fox Moon was a little displeased. Yi Yi had already given her a rabbit leg, so why was this child so ungrateful and came over to ask for more?
The child was still standing in the same spot when he saw other people appear beside the older sister, including a wolf and a leopard.
He was a little scared.
But she still took two steps forward and said, "Sister, I've come to give you something."
After saying that, he lowered his head.
Fox Moon suddenly wilted; she had misunderstood. She deserved to die.
Shen Zhiyi glanced at Hu Yue with amusement, then got up, walked to the child's side, squatted down, and looked into the child's eyes.
The child was startled by Shen Zhiyi's actions and quickly took a few steps back. He lost his footing and almost fell to the ground.
Shen Zhiyi tried to help him up, but the child nimbly dodged her.
The child lowered his head, not daring to look at Shen Zhiyi's face, and said cautiously, "Sister, I'm dirty."
"What do you want to give me?" Shen Zhiyi didn't continue the previous topic, but asked the child what she wanted to give her.
The child, who was carrying a bag, said excitedly, "Sister, these are seashells I found on the beach. They're really pretty."
As he spoke, he took out a clean piece of cloth from his bag, inside which were wrapped seashells he had collected from the beach.
The seashells were cleaned very thoroughly and carefully preserved.
"Sister, I'm a beggar, I don't have anything good. This is the best thing I can give you." The child looked up at Shen Zhiyi hesitantly.
He was a little afraid that Shen Zhiyi wouldn't like it, after all, seashells were something that could be found everywhere on their island.
Only he would give something like this as a gift, right?
As he was thinking this, the idea of taking the seashell back into his mind was already forming when, in the next second, the object in his hand was taken away.
"Thank you, I really like the seashell." Shen Zhiyi took the seashell from the child's hand and asked, "Did you finish eating? Would you like to eat some more?"
The child was stunned after Shen Zhiyi took the seashell away.
Hearing Shen Zhiyi's words, she snapped out of her daze and quickly shook her head, "No, sister, I'm already full."
Immediately afterwards, the child's stomach growled.
The child quickly covered his stomach, not daring to look at Shen Zhiyi's face.
"Yes, I haven't eaten enough, so why don't you eat some more with me?" Shen Zhiyi reached out and pulled the child over, leading him to their campfire.
The child struggled for a moment, but found that he couldn't break free from Shen Zhiyi's hand, so he had to give up the idea.
But when his eyes fell on the black wolf to the side, he felt a little scared.
"Don't be afraid, it's a pet, it won't bite."
Shen Zhiyi offered a few words of comfort.
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