Ye Hua's face flushed red. Don't think they couldn't understand what this woman's eyes meant; there was no way she could be so insulting.
"you……!!"
Gu Zuozuo ignored the man's madness, turned around and put the firewood into the newly built woodshed next to their room door, and took the pheasant out of the firewood.
The village generally doesn't interfere with people going up the mountain to hunt, unless it's something like wild boar or wild sheep that needs to be handed over to the village. Wild pheasants and rabbits can be kept for personal consumption. However, they knew about it and were afraid that some people in the village would be envious, so she carried them back in the firewood.
Ye Hua stood in the corner, looking at the two pheasants Gu Zuozuo was carrying with a face full of jealousy. He was almost dying of craving the smell of meat coming from their house every day.
Gu Zuozuo didn't care about his mood; she killed the chicken, boiled water, and plucked the feathers with swift movements.
"Zuo Zuo, you're out so early again?"
Meng Tian yawned and groggily walked out of the house, only to be shivered by the cold morning air.
"Yeah, I'll exercise and gather firewood at the same time."
Meng Tian admired her from the bottom of her heart for her unwavering habit of going out to practice martial arts before dawn every day. She herself couldn't get up, whether it was because the bed wasn't nice or the blankets weren't warm enough. Getting up so early would practically kill her.
They had built a double stove. At this moment, water was boiling in one pot, and corn porridge had been cooked in the other pot before she left. Now, as soon as the lid was lifted, the sweet aroma of corn instantly woke her up from her daze, and her stomach, which had been empty all night, began to rumble.
"It smells so good!"
With a toothbrush in her mouth, Meng Tian smelled the aroma and kept craning her neck to look in the direction. When she saw the golden porridge in the pot, she almost swallowed the mouthful of toothpaste foam.
"Eat quickly. We're going to the mountains to collect firewood today. Uncle Captain said that the mountains will be snowed in half a month. We need to prepare enough firewood for the winter as soon as possible."
Meng Tian hurriedly washed her face, went back to her room and applied the skincare products that Gu Zuozuo had specially made for them, and then pulled up Qi Meng, who was sleeping soundly.
Wake up! Time to get to work!
Qi Meng was so sleepy she could barely keep her eyes open. She had been excitedly sorting through the packages sent from home most of the night, and hadn't slept for long.
Thinking of the package, Qi Meng suddenly came to her senses. She looked around but didn't see her sisters. Her eyes then furtively drifted outside.
"Where's Zuo Zuo? Is she alright?"
They only learned from the letter that Mr. and Mrs. Gu, who had been missing for five years without a trace, had passed away. Although the cause of death was not explained, they did not see the bodies with their own eyes.
The military seal on the credible paper is likely genuine, as is the certificate for the child of a martyr.
They were all so upset that they shed many tears, and even woke up crying twice in the middle of the night. As someone who waits at home every day for her parents to come back, I wonder how upset she must be.
Meng Tian paused in her movements, feeling saddened once again, and her eyes reddened slightly.
When there was no news, everyone held onto a sliver of hope, thinking that they must be living peacefully in some corner they didn't know about.
The news of their sacrifice brought them even more heartache and sorrow than if they had received no news at all.
"I couldn't tell what her emotions were; she was just keeping her head down and working the whole time."
Qi Meng felt even more upset. Zuo Zuo must not want them to worry about her, so she hid all her sadness and pain in her heart, and who knows how much she was crying in private.
No! She had to write to her uncle, asking him to buy more things and send them over to comfort Zuo Zuo. She also had to inform them about Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu's accident. After all, Aunt Gu was her uncle's mentor. If she didn't tell them now, she would be nagged by them again once they found out.
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