Chapter 7 Returning Home at Midnight
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“Chirp, chirp!”
"Dili dili!"
"Coo!" I was awakened by the calling of a group of birds. After opening her eyes for a while, she was still confused and didn't know where she was. She habitually reached out to check the time on her cell phone, only to find it was cold. The cold stone suddenly cleared her mind. She sat up abruptly and saw the cold stone wall and the burnt-out fire. The memory of last night finally came back to her. She couldn't help but sigh and hold her forehead. She had traveled through time and even escaped into the mountains. Could it be that he traveled through time and space just to experience hard times?
"Master of Time Travel! You'd better not let me catch you, otherwise I will beat you up and then throw you to a remote place to experience what it's like to live a hard life." Yike started to curse the Master of Time Travel every day.
He relit the fire, took two duck eggs from yesterday and buried them in the fire for breakfast. He then filled the stone pot with water, boiled it, and cooked wild vegetable soup.
After a night's rest and regaining her energy, she finally had time to seriously think about her future path.
I couldn't go back to the village, and I didn't dare go back home. If I went back, I would either be beaten to death or sold. In this day and age, you need a letter of introduction from the production team to go out. Without a letter of introduction, you cannot go out. When you see unfamiliar faces on the street, people with armbands will be checked. You cannot find a job without a letter of introduction. Without a job, you have no money. Without money, you cannot buy food. Without food, you have no rice. Without rice, you will starve to death. This sounds like a tongue twister, but it is closely related to Yi Ke's life. What should I do? So annoying! Yi Ke grabbed his hair fiercely.
"I can't go back, and I can't leave. Am I going to be a savage in the mountains?"
"Savage?" Yi Ke muttered softly.
"Yes, savages!" Yike suddenly remembered that there were so many resources in this mountain, why would they go out and starve! There are so many people outside the mountains who are hungry and cold. Why should we go out and suffer from hunger and cold? If you take good care of your body and practice the kung fu from your previous life, you will not be afraid of the wild animals in the mountains. Then you can go hunting, dig wild vegetables, pick herbs and live freely. It will be better than living outside the mountains, so why should you go out of the mountains? Wouldn’t it be nice to stay in the mountains?
If the historical trajectory of this parallel world is similar to that of modern society in the previous life, then the world has been in great chaos in recent years. It seems that natural disasters have occurred in these years, and people all over the country have to tighten their belts to make a living. I'd rather stay in the mountains. The resources there are so rich that I won't starve to death. I'll wait until the society is stable and develops in a few years before going out. By that time, I was old enough to make my own decisions, and Yang Huaihua could no longer control me.
The more Yike thought about it, the happier he became, and the more he thought this plan was feasible. The only drawback is that I have to live in isolation for the next few years, living among trees and wild animals.
However, this is the only way out at the moment. Instead of going out of the mountains and going home to die, it is better to hide in the mountains and stay alive. Even if you encounter a wild beast and are swallowed, it is worse than going home and being sold to a fool.
Yike made up his mind and decided not to use nicknames like Xiaocaoer anymore. From now on, he would only have one name: "Yike!" This was his name from his previous life and he had to keep it!
He immediately started planning what preparations he needed to make before going into the mountains.
Due to their young age, they will find it difficult to protect themselves if they encounter wild beasts, so the first thing to prepare is weapons; it is relatively cold in the mountains both day and night, so they need to prepare clothes and blankets, which is the second thing to prepare; as for food and medicines, they can only be prepared when they go into the mountains.
You can wait until night to steal weapons and clothes when you get home. The only difficult thing is salt, because there is only a little salt at home. Even if I steal it all, it is not enough to last me for long. But people cannot live without salt. It's really worrying. Forget it, I'd better eat my fill and have a good rest first.
You can dig out the eggs from the fire and eat them. The eggs that have not been polluted are really delicious. In the previous life, the environment was severely polluted for a period of time. Although people later paid attention to protecting the natural environment and made the earth green again, most of the chickens and ducks are still raised with feed, so the eggs are not very delicious and can't be compared with these wild duck eggs. Although the wild vegetable soup did not have any oil or salt, it was still drinkable, at least not like the sore throat caused by Yang Huaihua's steamed corn bread.
Eat well and drink well, and your body will have strength. Yike wiped off the medicine residue on the wounds on his body and found that the wounds were more than half healed. The shallow wounds basically only left a trace, and the deep wounds only had a few shallow scars. Could it be that the herbs grown in an unpolluted environment are so effective? Or is there something special about this body? She couldn't figure it out at the moment, so she gave up thinking about it and left it for later study.
First, put out the fire in the cave and sweep the ashes out of the cave. Collect the ashes in large leaves and pour them into the swamp. Block the hole and make the surrounding grass the same as before entering the hole, and try not to let people know there is a hole or any signs of someone living here.
After returning home and stealing things at night, they would definitely suspect that she had hidden in the mountains and would definitely go into the mountains to look for her. We can't let them find these traces, otherwise they will ask the whole village to go into the mountains to look for them, and it will be difficult to hide.
Yi Ke made a basket with resilient vines, walked into the swamp and put the duck eggs from yesterday's duck nest into the basket. There was another duck nest not far away, and Yi Ke accepted the eggs without hesitation. However, a duck egg is left in each nest to appease the mother duck and not to move the nest. Yi Ke hid a basket of duck eggs and set off for Hanjiagou.
When we reached the back mountain of Hanjiagou, the sun slowly set down the hillside. Yi Ke hid behind a tree and saw from afar the smoke rising from every household. I wonder if Yang Huaihua asked the other members to help look for Yi Ke since he didn’t go home last night and today? With Yang Huaihua's personality, she probably won't look for it.
Yi Ke's guess was absolutely correct. Yi Ke didn't go home last night. Yang Huaihua scolded him all night long. He didn't even mention looking for someone. She also said, "If he died outside, there's no need to wrap his body with a straw mat."
The next day, Yi Ke still didn't go back. Yang Huaihua scolded him all day, telling him to stay away from her and not to dirty her place, let alone find someone.
Xiaocao'er's father Han Dajun also said nothing, as if there was no one missing at home. Perhaps he didn't consider Xiaocao'er a human being at all, because they had always treated Xiaocao'er like an animal.
Only elder sister Han Guihua was looking everywhere, and she even begged her friends to look for her together. They also looked for it in the mountains, but they were looking on the outskirts, so there was no way they would find it. She didn't know or care about these things. She was only thinking about how to avenge Yang Huaihua's beating at night.
At this time, Yi Ke climbed up a big tree and hid on the branches. The dense leaves covered Yi Ke's small body. Even if someone walked under the tree, as long as Yi Ke did not make any sound, he would not be discovered.
After it got dark for a while, all the noisy sounds in Hanjiagou seemed to have been paused and became quiet.
At that time, there was no electricity in the countryside, and every household was poor. Lamp oil was very precious at night, so no one could afford to light a lamp. So everyone went to bed early at night. After working hard in the fields during the day and not eating well, their bodies were extremely tired and they snored as soon as they lay down.
If people have no food to eat, there is no need to think about dogs, so in the entire brigade, only the brigade leader’s family has a dog. The captain's house is a bit far from Han Dajun's house. There is no need to worry about the dog's sensitive ears and hearing the barking sound.
Yike slipped down from the tree, quietly crossed the wheat field, and found his way behind his house.
She listened carefully outside Yang Huaihua's window, and only heard Han Dajun's loud snoring; Yang Huaihua was also snoring; she went to Han Jiabao's window and listened carefully. Han Jiabao might have dreamed of something delicious, and was smacking his lips; finally, she went to her sister Han Guihua's window and listened carefully, and heard her sister's long breathing.
The whole family was sleeping soundly.
Yike went around to the kitchen, moved two stones from the edge of the ground, and stacked them against the wall. Yike stepped on the stones and climbed in, pushed open the kitchen door and walked into the kitchen. She opened the kitchen window and threw all the kitchen knives and chopping knives out of the window as if she knew the place. She also threw away the hoe without the wooden handle, as these were tools she would need in the mountains. She also put a smaller iron pot on the stove out of the window, as there was no place to buy a pot in the mountains and she had no money anyway. She took most of the coarse rice and whole grains and also put a large bowl into her clothes, haha! How can a guy without food survive? All the salt has been taken. What does it have to do with Yang Huaihua if she doesn’t have salt to eat? She should be happy that she didn't steal Yang Huaihua's money. It's her fault for being so vicious.
Yike went into his sister Han Guihua's room again, quietly took two sets of his sister's clothes and a quilt, and then silently said to his sister Han Guihua who was sleeping soundly: "I'm sorry, sister, your mother has never made clothes for me since I was a child, so I had to steal your clothes. If we have the chance in the future, I will repay you." The only one he was nostalgic for in this family was this sister, and he didn't know if he would have the chance to see her again in the future.
Yike came out of the room, took a stool and placed it against the wall. He stepped on the stool to climb over the wall, tied up the things and clothes that were thrown outside with a bed sheet, put them on his back, and tiptoed into the mountain.
Outside the mountain, there was a hazy moonlight shining on the ground, so you could easily walk along the road. But once you entered the forest, the moonlight was blocked by the trees and the ground could not be seen clearly at all. Fortunately, I was very familiar with this section of mountain road before, so I could walk on it even without light. Moreover, this is the edge of the mountain. There are no poisonous insects or wild beasts, so you can go forward with confidence.
As Yike walked, he imagined whether Yang Huaihua would go crazy if she found out tomorrow that a lot of things were missing from her house. Without food, and without Yi Ke to earn work points, and without any housework to do, would Yang Huaihua be so angry that she would die? Yi Ke really wanted to make Yang Huaihua angry to death, so as to get rid of the evil in his heart. Of course, this is just a thought. Someone like Yang Huaihua, other than making others angry, how could she make herself angry?
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