"Little girl, what's your name?"
Just as the sun reached the 4 o'clock position, Lin Xue and her group finally found a small ravine.
Although this place wasn't exactly a cave, its inner walls protruded just enough to accommodate the three of them!
Only after finding a place to stay did Lin Xue have time to ask about the woman's identity.
"Grandma, my name is Ge Xiaoyu. I am from Gejiazhuang in Tongcheng. On the way to escape famine, my family sold me to those three men for two cornbread buns."
"Grandma, please don't send me away!"
"I said I would serve whoever saved me, and I meant it from the bottom of my heart!"
After introducing herself, Ge Xiaoyu looked at Lin Xue with some worry, afraid that Lin Xue would kick her out.
"I have no interest in your past. You just need to remember that from now on you belong to me, Old Lady Su, and no one can bully you!"
"I have no children and live alone. The person in my arms was entrusted to me by a friend on his deathbed. He asked me to take him home!"
"From now on, you'll be responsible for carrying me, cooking, and taking care of my daily needs!"
"But let me make this clear first: I despise treacherous people the most. If you dare to betray me, you can think about what will happen to those three men!"
From the moment she rescued the woman, Lin Xue maintained a cold expression. Ge Xiaoyu assumed she was just an elderly woman living alone, and that this was her natural temperament, so she didn't take Lin Xue's coldness to heart.
In her mind, this was just a stubborn old lady with a soft heart.
When elderly people spend a lot of time alone, it's inevitable that they'll develop some strange tempers.
Even her own family could heartlessly abandon her for two steamed buns. Yet this cold-faced old woman shed blood to save her.
Ge Xiaoyu will remember this kindness for the rest of her life.
"It's getting late. I have some dried biscuits in my basket. Take some out, boil some water in the earthenware pot, and cook some porridge!"
"There's a bamboo tube next to the back of the building. It contains Xiao Enze's medicine. After you finish eating, remember to heat it up and give it to him!"
Lin Xue tidied up the place, which could barely be called a cave, and put Liu Enze inside.
She felt a bit stuffy and hot after being carried all the way.
Now that we've arrived at a place to rest, we definitely want to make sure the child can relax and unwind.
After putting the child down, Lin Xue instructed Ge Xiaoyu to prepare some food, while she went to the vicinity to block the path the three of them had come from with thorns.
This little cave is already cramped enough for the three of them; we can't let outsiders take advantage of it.
This place is quite secluded. If Lin Xue hadn't used her divine sense to explore, it would have been difficult to discover that there was such a good place to spend the night below this hill.
After blocking the entrance, Lin Xue walked to the other side.
They say you live off the land, but she didn't think a little bit of porridge could fill her stomach.
From the moment she transmigrated into this body, it was repeatedly nourished by the spiritual power she brought with her.
The original owner's physical condition was definitely different from hers, not to mention her appetite.
After all, this body is really old, and her little bit of spiritual energy is not enough to nourish it. She needs to eat more good food.
However, she also knew in her heart that apart from those difficult ferocious beasts, weak animals like pheasants and rabbits had long been caught by passing refugees.
She's now counting on this mountain to have some success. It's not easy to find an ancient world, and she can hunt freely again.
Resting on past achievements defeats the purpose of quick transmigration.
After searching for a long time in the grass, they finally only caught a rat snake that was about the thickness of a wrist.
"Never mind, even a worm is meat!"
Lin Xue took out a small knife as thin as a cicada's wing from her bosom, peeled off the snake's skin, and returned to the cave with the skinned snake in her hand.
"Wow, Grandma, you actually caught such a thick snake! This thing is very nutritious!"
Seeing the thing in Lin Xue's hand, Ge Xiaoyu was not afraid at all, and even subconsciously swallowed.
"Is the pancake batter ready?"
Lin Xue didn't reply to her. It seemed that this girl was quite bold, which suited her taste. In the future, she wouldn't have to worry about the people around her being alarmed when she hunted any more prey.
"It's already cooking, it'll be ready soon!"
Although the snake meat was right in front of us, the pancake batter had already been cooked and couldn't be wasted, so it seemed we wouldn't be able to eat the snake meat tonight.
Ge Xiaoyu reluctantly looked away from Lin Xue's hand and stirred the batter in the earthenware pot with a spoon.
"Little Enze, get up and eat!"
Lin Xue went into the cave and woke up Liu Enze, who was still asleep.
Perhaps because he had taken the medicine and slept for a long time, Liu Enze looked better than he had in the morning.
"Grandma Su, I still feel a little dizzy!"
Liu Enze originally intended to get up and eat by himself, but as soon as he moved, he felt his vision blurring.
"You're not fully recovered yet, so lie down first. Let your sister Xiaoyu feed you!"
Lin Xue called over Ge Xiaoyu, who was serving porridge, and asked her to feed Liu Enze.
Seeing that there wasn't much batter left in the pot, it seemed that Ge Xiaoyu didn't dare to make too much.
Indeed, with so many refugees fleeing famine, which family would be willing to put in the effort to eat?
It's already good enough if you can eat a little bit of porridge a day. You can't blame Ge Xiaoyu for cooking small portions; that's just how things are, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
But if this little bit of porridge is divided among three people, each person will probably only get half a bowl.
"Xiaoyu, remember to cook more next time. Your grandma has a big appetite, and this little bit isn't enough for me!"
"After you finish feeding Enze, eat all the remaining porridge in the pot. Then stew this snake for me. When the snake meat is almost done, tear off some flatbread and soak it in the stew to eat!"
Xiaoyu cooked too little food, so Lin Xue lost her appetite.
She found a clean spot to sit down, and put all the money in the basket into her spatial storage. All that was left were a few changes of clothes and some daily necessities.
The original owner was just a 60-year-old woman who couldn't carry much. She originally planned to exchange all the things in her house for money so that she could buy food if she had trouble on the road.
But who knew that they couldn't buy any food along the way? When they were so hungry they couldn't stand it, they took out their silver earrings to pawn.
A pair of silver earrings was exchanged for only half a steamed bun.
How could things be easy in this world of famine refugees?
Besides the things left behind by the original owner, the basket also contained some food collected from the three men's bundles.
That's all they have, enough to feed them for a few days. But that's enough; she'll figure out how to hunt some more later.
A living person can't die from holding their pee, especially with a fake old woman like her around.
Lin Xue had many thoughts in her mind, but in Ge Xiaoyu's eyes, it was just that the old woman was worrying about their livelihood again.
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