I was divorced because I got pregnant during the lean years, so I went back to my parents’ home and

Fugui and Tieliang thanked Ji Xiaobei happily and ran to the mountain to get branches.

Shitou complained as he ran after them: "Big sister is really something, acting on your own. You don't know how much Tieliang eats. His father often beats him because he eats too much."

Ji Xiaobei heard it clearly, and she thought to herself: How could a skinny and dark boy eat more than you?

She went into the house and told Xiaoju to cook.

"Ju, stop cleaning up and go cook. Fugui and Tieliang will have lunch at our house. Steam some more rice and soak some dried radishes. I'm going to go for a walk in the mountains."

Xiaoju gritted her teeth and scooped a gourd of white rice, added another gourd of brown rice, put in some beans, and then added some dried sweet potatoes when steaming the rice.

When Lin saw the huge pot of rice, her heart ached so much that it bled. But since she had left the rice, she couldn't eat it in such a shabby way.

"Ju, add more water later to make the rice softer and more filling," Lin instructed.

Xiaoju: That’s what I thought too.

Ji Xiaobei wanted to go to the mountain to see if there was anything delicious to eat. He had to save the meat in the refrigerator. Although his mother provided him with food, he couldn't always get it for free. If he kept asking for things, sooner or later there would be resentment.

This was her first time going up the mountain. When the villagers saw her, they asked, "Xiaobei, what are you doing up the mountain at noon?"

"My brother is in the mountains cutting branches. I'm going to go and see him."

A few children in front, who were not even as tall as a donkey's legs, surrounded Ji Decai and walked towards the village.

Xiaohua was holding a long willow branch in her hand, and she was driving the donkey while swaying and panting, and several children followed her and shouted in a rhythmic manner.

Ji Decai walked with his tail wagging and his little hooves kicking the ground, looking very proud.

Seeing Ji Xiaobei, Xiaohua shouted happily.

Ji Decai then let out a few "ah, ah, ah" sounds, stuck up his tail and pooped a few donkey droppings.

Ji Xiaobei: This greeting is quite flirtatious...

Ji Decai's shameless behavior was cheered by the children: Decai is pooping, Decai must have eaten too much!

In their concept, you can only poop after eating. If you don’t eat enough, you can’t even poop.

"Sister, can I let them come to our house to play?"

"Go, go!" Ji Xiaobei had more important things to do and didn't want to pay attention to them.

She wanted to take her friends home to ride on a donkey cart.

San Ya was walking at the back. In order to play with Xiao Hua and please Ji Decai, she pulled a lot of tender grass for it and secretly picked a handful of sweet potato vines from her own field for it.

Ji Decai was very happy eating, but Xiaohua still ignored him.

The other little friends happily touched Ji Decai's belly and patted his head.

San Ya bit her lips and was about to cry.

Tiedan whispered something in Xiaohua's ear. She turned around and looked at Sanya and said, "Since it helped Decai pull weeds today, I will forgive you and reluctantly let you ride in the donkey cart."

With tears in her eyes, San Ya jumped three feet high and went excitedly to her eldest brother's field, and pulled out a bunch of peanut vines and gave them to Ji Decai.

Ji Xiaobei went to the woods and looked around but didn't see Shitou and the others.

She also wanted them to cut down some small trees for the fence.

In spring, we should eat bamboo shoots, but she never saw anyone in the village eating this.

She finally looked at the bamboo forest in front of her. Oh my god, the bamboo forest had been dug into pits and holes, and there was not even a single bamboo shoot left.

The TV said there are bamboo rats in the bamboo forest. It would be nice if I could catch a few and stew them.

She took a small wooden stick and searched carefully in the bamboo forest, and finally found several connected small holes on a slope.

Fortunately, she had a sickle, so she cut the weeds and started digging a hole. Her strong arms dug deeper and deeper, and finally she saw a black thing. She also heard the sound of "click, click..." teeth grinding, and there seemed to be a "whoosh" sound.

Ji Xiaobei picked up a stone and knocked it unconscious.

She took out the plump little thing, which looked like a big rabbit, and must have weighed about four or five pounds. She was so happy because she would have meat to eat at noon.

Bamboo rats have delicious meat and are a national protected animal in modern times. They can be artificially bred, but she had only heard of them but had never eaten them.

Wild bamboo rats are probably tastier than farmed ones.

Braised bamboo rat, stewed bamboo rat, bamboo rat stewed with potatoes...

My saliva started to flow unconsciously. Isn’t bamboo rat stewed with bamboo shoots delicious?

She started looking for bamboo shoots again. She climbed up the slope and leaned down over the bamboo forest below. Sure enough, she found some bamboo shoots just emerging not far away. She ran over excitedly and started digging again.

I dug up five thick bamboo shoots, put them in the backpack, put the bamboo rat on the top, covered it with some weeds, and then went down the mountain.

When I walked to the dense woods, I suddenly felt something flying past my eyes.

"Pheasant?" She looked at the gray thing. It could fly but could not be caught.

But she still put down her backpack and followed quietly without giving up.

The pheasant perched on a branch spread its wings and prepared to take off again, but suddenly fell headfirst.

With a bang, all the birds in the surrounding trees were scared away.

Ji Xiaobei rolled up her sleeves and said, "Oh my god, I'm so lucky today. I just dug up a fat bamboo rat and now I got a pheasant from heaven." Her eyes lit up with excitement.

She rushed over, bent down to pick up the pheasant, and saw a pair of big fat feet stepping firmly on the pheasant's wings.

"Hey, the pheasant is mine, what do you want to do!" Without thinking, she reached out and moved the fat big foot, huh?

Not moving at all! Damn it, you want to steal the pheasant from me, you don’t want to live anymore!

She channeled her energy into her Dantian, concentrating all her strength on her legs. She lifted her leg neatly and stepped down hard. It felt like she was stepping on a meat bun. She twisted it hard out of frustration.

The man howled like a pig being slaughtered, and fell to the ground with a thud, with dust rising all around him...

Ji Xiaobei picked up the pheasant and held it in his arms.

She covered her mouth and nose with her other hand and looked down at the ground.

She saw a charcoal-like big guy holding his feet and looking at her with a distorted expression.

Ji Xiaobei knew how heavy his kick was. A normal foot would be half-crippled if not broken, but this man had a strong ability to withstand it.

"I saw this pheasant first!" Ji Xiaobei picked up the pheasant and was about to put it into the backpack.

"I shot down the pheasant. How can a pheasant fall from the sky?" The man stood up painfully, his eyes wide open on his big face as black as the bottom of a pot, and argued.

"I'm lucky today. God gave me a pheasant." Ji Xiaobei raised the corner of his mouth and glanced at the stupid and rough man without any fear.

Heita also stared at Ji Xiaobei. Humph! This stupid and rough woman is not afraid of me!

"It's not a gift from God, I took it down!" Black Tower went up to grab it.

Ji Xiaobei turned around smartly.

Heita's sturdy body missed the target and almost hit the tree.

He was grimacing with anger, and one of his feet was burning with pain, as if someone had cut a piece of flesh out of it.

He was actually a little timid and didn't dare to get close to the woman.

"Bah, you are God, why don't you let it rain for me, or let there be thunder to strike me...or don't let there be thunder to strike me!" Ji Xiaobei held the pheasant in his arms and said viciously.

"Is there anyone as unreasonable as you?" Heita said aggrievedly.

Ji Xiaobei didn't care about him. He quickly stuffed the pheasant into the backpack, picked up the backpack and ran away...