Chapter 48 49. Dividing the Meat
Gu Wenheng looked at the wolf surrounded by the family with some disgust, especially when he saw the blood on its fangs. He pulled Jin Qianqian and secretly retreated behind them.
"Seventh Brother, how do you plan to divide it?" Gu Yuanjin was just about to discuss how the two families should divide it, but when he looked up, he saw no one.
Gu Wenheng really had no interest in these things, but he couldn't just say that he looked down on them. He was about to say that he didn't want them, but was stopped by Jin Qianqian.
"Brother, you can arrange all this. How can we not trust you?"
Gu Yuanjin, "Old Seven contributed more this time, and he also beat the wolf down, so I'll give you most of it."
"No need, just give us a small half, we are few in number." Jin Qianqian happened to see Xie Ruyi about to speak, so she stepped forward to express her opinion.
"Gone? How come it's all gone?" He Tuliang suddenly screamed, "The gift from God is gone."
He Tuliang was breathing heavily. Those noble people had just given him new hope, but he didn't expect it to be shattered so quickly.
I had thought that by offering these gifts from heaven when I collected water tomorrow, I might be able to secure a better future, but now I have nothing.
Seeing people gathering around him, he quickly ran to the next few ox carts and lifted the thatch covering them. Apart from some luggage, there was nothing inside.
"How come they are missing?" Gu Sanbu hurriedly took his sons to open his ox cart. All of their belongings were there, but the containers that everyone had carefully preserved were missing.
"Did you notice anyone coming here just now?"
“…”
Everyone was trying hard to recall what happened, but at the time they were only concerned with saving their lives, and then they started to watch the excitement, so no one paid attention to this.
"Maybe God has taken it back?" someone muttered.
"Impossible. I think it's the thieves from before. They are a gang, just like the previous gang."
Jin Qianqian, "..."
This incident did not cause much trouble, and soon everyone was attracted by the hyena carcasses that had been casually discarded there by the nobles.
These wild dogs are not presentable to the nobles, but it is different for the refugees. They are living meat in front of them. How can they resist the temptation?
With so many people, there simply weren't enough hyenas to go around, and the leaders of the last few teams had to be divided based on number of people.
There were too many people and too little food, and in the end, the entire Baini'ao was only allocated two fish.
No one was in the mood to care about the water container that had disappeared; all the discussion was focused on how to distribute it.
Gu Wenheng and Jin Qianqian stared at the wolf meat and the half-palm-sized piece of dog meat in front of them with bitter faces.
"What should we do?" Jin Qianqian's mind kept popping up the scene she had seen before, "Are we just going to carry them on our backs for the rest of the journey?"
Eat? Jin Qianqian shook her head quickly, "How about we give it to someone else?"
Gu Wenheng couldn't think of a solution to this hot potato. "What do you mean? Are you saying that we despise this beast because it has eaten st? Or do we despise this thing?"
Jin Qianqian: “…” Then you will definitely get scolded.
Nowadays, many people are smoking and roasting the meat in their hands over the fire. The fact that they don't move at all has already attracted many curious looks.
"Seventh Brother, please deal with it quickly, otherwise it will be a shame if it breaks." Li Cuicui saw that the couple were still standing there in a daze, and she was even more anxious than they were.
Jin Qianqian's eyes lit up, she grabbed the machete from Gu Wenheng's hand and quickly cut off a large part of the hind leg, "Mom, Dad is injured. Didn't the doctor say that before? He needs to be taken care of. You take care of these and give Dad nutritional supplements every now and then."
If she wasn't afraid of scaring Li Cuicui, she would have pushed all the meat over.
Gu Wenheng cooperated by picking up the hind leg bone with one hand and quickly sent it over. When he left, he did not forget to send away the palm-sized piece of red meat as well.
"But is this too much?" Li Cuicui was about to speak to postpone the conversation, but Gu Yuanlei, who was grilling meat nearby, took the offer away.
"Thank you so much, Seventh Brother and Seventh Sister-in-law. I knew that you, Seventh Brother, are the most filial. You always think of our parents when something happens."
Gu Wenheng, "So you should learn from us and stop leaning on others all day long. Be careful that you may end up with nothing in the end."
Gu Yuanlei paused for a moment, "You are my brother, can't you just hope for my best?
I've told you all before, everything that happened before was just a misunderstanding, Yingying's family isn't that kind of people."
Gu Wenheng didn't want to waste any more words with the idiot. If he wasn't afraid that Li Cuicui would be sad again, he really wanted to kick him back to the Lan family.
"..."Gu Yuanjin looked at the pieces of cut meat in his hands. How should he express his feelings?
Xie Ruyi, "We have a big family, and the number of people including Old Seven and my parents is the same as ours, so don't act like a big shot here.
Look at your sons, they are all old enough to start their own families, you should also think about them."
Gu Yuanjin glanced at the children who were working silently in front of him and said, "What do you think now? They haven't settled down yet, so what can we give them to start a family?
Besides, they are my parents. The seventh son knows to give Dad some nourishment. Even if we don’t give that much, we should at least show some appreciation. I am the eldest son after all. If I don’t set a good example, how can my sons learn from me?”
Xie Ruyi glared at him, "We don't know when things will settle down.
But there are a few families who have told me privately that they can use anything, such as water or food, to take their daughters away."
"You didn't agree to it carelessly, did you?" Gu Yuanjin stared at her. "How can our family afford to support another person right now? Don't take advantage of it now, or you might end up suffering a bigger loss."
"How can this be a disadvantage?" Xie Ruyi looked at Gu Yuanlei who was not far away with contempt, "I am not like your younger brother. If the girl is really good, we must put it in black and white and ask the head of the village to be a witness.
I tell you, this is a great opportunity. If we can really settle down, I don’t know what kind of requests these girls will make.”
“…”
With the beginning, Jin Qianqian and Gu Wenheng could always find excuses to give a little to this one and a piece to that one. They did it secretly and no one else knew how much they had given away or how much was left.
Even for the remaining scraps, Gu Wenheng just roasted them over the fire for a while, then put them in a bag, and had Jin Qianqian throw them into the corner of the space.
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"Those nobles really delivered water." This news was undoubtedly welcome, and soon a long queue formed at the city gate.
Gu Wenheng was not so optimistic. For a team of more than 10,000 people, it would be a huge amount if everyone got a bowl of water.
(End of this chapter)
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