"Ooh~"
In the middle of the night, Lin Xue was awakened by the sound of wolves howling.
Looking around, I saw that Lao Liu's family members had all gotten up, and other villagers not far away were also getting up one after another to check the situation outside.
"Dad, why are there so many wolf howls? Could there be a pack of wolves nearby?"
Liu Qing couldn't wait to find his father, Old Man Liu, to ask about the situation.
"Why does that wolf howl sound a little strange to me?"
If we were to ask who had the most contact with the wolf pack, it would undoubtedly be Lin Xue.
She has traveled through so many mission worlds and seen all kinds of wolf packs.
She had contact with all kinds of wolves, including forest wolves, mountain wolves, and grassland wolves.
Different types of wolves produce different calls.
The wolf howl we're hearing now sounds somewhat like a human deliberately imitating it.
"Honey, I didn't realize it until you mentioned it, but now I also feel that the wolf's howl is a bit strange."
"At least it's not like the howling wolves in the mountains behind us!"
Liu Qing's family lived at the foot of the mountain, and they had been hunters for generations.
Aside from the initial panic, they quickly came to their senses.
"I'm going to find the village chief. This probably isn't a pack of wolves coming down from the mountain, but rather wolves coming!"
These guys are more terrifying than real wolves.
That was a bandit gang organized by refugees from various places.
After noticing the anomaly, Old Liu hurriedly went to talk to the village chief.
Lin Xue and the others quickly packed their belongings, fed the old ox some more soybeans, and prepared to leave at any time.
"Don't panic, everyone. The sound is still far away from us. It's likely that those people are targeting other teams!"
"Now everyone pack up your belongings, let's set off immediately and get away from here."
The old village chief was also panicked at first, after all, once you get involved with a pack of wolves, it's hard to shake them off.
Unless we find a way to wipe them out in one fell swoop, they will follow us like glue.
Even more terrifying than the wolf packs were the bandits along the way.
Upon hearing the village chief's words, the villagers of Qingshan Village became extremely nervous. They quickly packed their belongings and headed in the opposite direction from where the sound came from.
They were gone for most of the night.
It wasn't until dawn that the village chief told people to find a place to rest.
Liu Qing had been helping the eldest son's family pull the cart all night, and he looked completely listless.
Lin Xue told him to sleep on the flatbed cart, then took his own food rations and went to find Grandma Sun.
"Mother, my husband was exhausted last night and can't cook right now. This is our family's food ration, so please help cook it!"
Everyone else had worked hard all night, but Lin Xue and Grandma Sun slept half the night on the flatbed with the little one.
Grandma Sun had originally planned to cook for the couple, but unexpectedly, her third son's wife offered to contribute grain, so Grandma Sun accepted the grain without hesitation.
He didn't expect his third daughter-in-law to help with the cooking; he simply called on his eldest daughter-in-law, and the two of them cooked the meal.
After calling over his exhausted sons to eat, everyone went to rest.
Old Liu carried a bundle of leaves and stems to feed the old yellow ox, then leaned against a big tree to guard his belongings.
After resting for about two hours, the old village chief called everyone to set off again.
"Guys, young and old, hang in there a little longer."
"Those wolf cubs could catch up with us at any time. We have to keep going and can't give those bandits a chance."
The old village chief gave a detailed explanation from beginning to end, urging everyone to start packing and getting on their way.
Lin Xue gets hungry quickly because she is pregnant.
She specially asked Grandma Sun to cook some glutinous rice and taro for her, so she could eat when she was hungry on the road and sleep when she was tired.
If you really can't sleep, just go down for a walk and stretch your muscles.
While others might have come to escape famine, she seemed to be sightseeing as if she were a tourist.
Grandma Sun wanted to say something about Lin Xue's condition, but Grandpa Liu stopped her.
That noon.
The village chief felt that they should have left those bandits far behind, so he let everyone have a good rest for lunch.
They landed in a mountain forest. They were currently in the mountains, surrounded by tall trees. Although many trees outside had died, the trees here were growing very vigorously.
After the villagers stopped.
The laborers took the opportunity to rest, while the women and children went out to find wild vegetables.
Lin Xue also went to the vicinity with her eldest and second sisters-in-law to look for wild vegetables.
Wang and Zhou were looking for something to eat, while Lin Xue simply wanted to experience the joy of digging for wild vegetables.
It's difficult for others to find even a single wild vegetable, but the two sisters-in-law at Old Liu's house don't trust her, so they can only follow Lin Xue around.
"Sister-in-law, there's a plump shepherd's purse under that rock!"
"Second sister-in-law, hurry up! Can't you see that dandelion up ahead? If you're too late, someone else will have dug it up."
"Look at this ant greens, they're so plump and tender! If you put some eggs in them and made them into buns or dumplings, they'd smell absolutely amazing!"
The three sisters-in-law could only hear Lin Xue giving various instructions along the way.
The two sisters-in-law's baskets were quickly filled.
While the others searched for a long time and only found a few thin wild vegetables, these people each dug up a whole basketful.
The wild vegetables in Lin Xue's basket were all stuffed in by her two sisters-in-law.
She spends most of her time just looking.
"Third sister-in-law, don't even mention it. I'm craving dumplings too. I do have some flour left, but where am I going to get eggs now?"
They have been away from the village for more than 10 days, and the chickens and ducks that the villagers brought out have been almost eaten up, so there are no laying hens left.
Without laying hens, there are naturally no eggs.
Lin Xue and the others could only think about it.
"We're quite far from the camp now, let's hurry back!"
Wang looked around and realized that the three of them had unknowingly strayed from the crowd, and there was no one else in sight.
"Cluck cluck..."
Just as the three of them turned to leave, they heard the clucking of a hen laying an egg coming from the bushes not far behind them.
The three people who had just turned around exchanged glances, put their baskets on the ground, and then moved in three directions to surround the bushes.
They exchanged glances and soon spotted the old hen standing in the grass.
"Cluck cluck, cluck cluck!"
The old hen was completely unaware of the danger approaching, and was using its sharp beak to pry open the eggs under its body.
Lin Xue spotted more than a dozen eggs at a glance; it seemed this hen wanted to brood.
However, hatching chicks is impossible now; she wants both chickens and eggs.
Wang was quick-witted and grabbed the chicken wing in an instant.
Zhou put the eggs in a basket and covered them with wild vegetables.
"Why does this old hen not look like a wild pheasant?"
Having been married into the Liu family for so many years, Wang naturally knew how to distinguish between wild chickens and domestic chickens.
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