Don't panic in a famine, I live in the mountains with my golden finger

On a whim that day, Xu Yuan and Xu Qing drove a few ducks from Uncle Liu's family to help weed Xu Qing's paddy field. For some reason, two ducks started fighting in the paddy field and destroyed several rice seedlings. Xu Yuan couldn't bear to see this and said, "I will make you into roast ducks sooner or later."

After hearing this, Gu Qingming was still asking whether the roast duck tasted good.

Xuyuan didn’t know whether it was good or not, as she had never eaten it, but she had eaten roast chicken, so it should taste good.

Compared to chickens, plucking ducks is much more complicated. After doing it once, Xu Yuan didn't want to touch it anymore. Unexpectedly, Xu Qing actually came over with a slaughtered duck. Although it was not very clean, it only needed a little processing.

"It takes a little longer to roast a duck, so let's just make one and get something else for the other."

Xu Yuan looked at the time and it was almost time for dinner, so he naturally would not let Village Chief Gu and his party make a wasted trip.

After cleaning all the hair off the duck, chopping off the duck's feet and wings, Xu Yuan began to prepare the marinade. The duck had to be marinated well. As for the other duck, he asked Village Chief Gu to cut it into eight pieces to make ginger duck. Eating ginger in this weather was just right.

The integration of Village Chief Gu’s family did not make Xu Yuan and his family feel uncomfortable. Instead, they felt like one family.

When night fell, the rain had stopped and the frogs in the paddy fields began their night performances.

An oil lamp was lit in the kitchen, the aroma of food wafted from the dining table, and Xuanyu and Gu Qingming ate with relish.

"Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you." Xu Qing looked at Gu Qingming, who looked like he hadn't eaten for a hundred or eighty years, and said unhappily.

"Hehe." Gu Qingming just laughed foolishly, his hands remained unchanged, and he picked up a piece for his mother.

As expected, the food cooked by Sister Xuyuan was delicious. His brother was really unlucky and didn’t get to eat it.

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Late at night, in a forest somewhere, the air was filled with fog and a chilling atmosphere. The sound of horse hooves could be heard and a few flames could be seen faintly.

A group of tightly covered black-clad men were running forward non-stop. Each of them looked more or less dishevelled. After running for a while, they were gradually unable to see the direction due to the fog in the forest, so they had to choose a suitable place to stop.

"Where are those little bastards? Why are they running so fast?" Li Junyong, who was sitting on the horse, shouted loudly. The wind blew into his mouth and choked him.

"This is really strange. It only took a short while. How could they get rid of us so quickly? They are just a few little creatures. How could they be so intelligent?"

Gu Qinghan jumped off his horse and looked around.

"Hey, are we missing a few people?" someone in the team suddenly said, and raised his hands to count the number of people in disbelief, and it turned out that there were indeed fewer people.

"Who's missing?"

"The people from Xiang Jun's gang are not here." someone replied.

"Captain, should we go back the same way and look for it?" someone in the team asked Gu Qinghan.

The leader of this team, Gu Qinghan, the team leader, looked around and said in a serious tone: "No, you all stay here and don't move. I'll go."

"Qinghan, I'll go with you." Li Junyong said hurriedly.

"I'll go too." Luo Xile said.

"You just stay here and don't leave until the fog clears." Gu Qinghan didn't take anyone with him and turned his horse around to return in the direction he came from.

This forest already belongs to the territory of Ansi State. A few days ago, they were divided into several small teams according to their skills, and then capable people were selected as team leaders to sneak into the weakest place of Ansi State. The large force then attacked the city gate step by step along the clear road. As they got closer and closer, the situation became clearer and clearer. This place seemed to be the weakest and not taken seriously, but in fact it was not.

In addition to the fog that lingers all year round, there are also strange creatures that eat people and drink blood. They are not humans, but domesticated wild beasts. Even small animals are not spared. As long as they sense someone, they will pounce and bite. They don’t know how many they have dealt with along the way. From being forced to meet the enemy to actively attacking now, the smell of blood from the same kind seems to have alerted them, and they have been hiding since then. It’s hard for them to find them.

Gu Qinghan lit the vine in his hand and walked forward. As the flames gradually grew, the mist spread to both sides as if it had life.

At first, Gu Qinghan didn't notice anything until he heard a roar and a fighting sound, even accompanied by the sound of chewing. Gu Qinghan had to slow down, frowned, and slowly reached forward.

The further you go, the stronger the smell of blood drifts into your nose along with the cool night breeze.

"Help, help...help me." A voice as soft as a mosquito sounded, and it could be heard that the person was breathing out more than breathing in.

Next to them lay the corpses of several small animals that were dead beyond death. The heads of pheasants and rabbits were separated from their bodies. There were also several wolves with their stomachs ripped open. There were even human corpses with their necks bitten off, with their eyes open. Some of the wolves gathered in front of one corpse, gnawing on it.

The scene was bloody for a while, but Gu Qinghan watched it all without changing his expression. He jumped off his horse, took out a packet of medicine powder from his arms, and sprinkled it over there. He first checked the man who was calling for help, stuffed a pill into him, put him on the horse's back and tied him up, then drew the sword from his waist and went towards the wolves...

After another fierce fight, Gu Qinghan killed the last wolf. All the people who fell behind were here, and almost all of them were in trouble. As for the person on the horse, whether he could save him depended on his will.

Gu Qinghan didn't stay here for too long. He got back on the horse and left quickly.

After a few close calls, we returned safely to the resting point.

When Li Junyong and others saw Gu Qinghan coming back, they finally felt relieved. They looked behind Gu Qinghan and saw that no one had followed him back, only an unconscious person on horseback. Needless to say, they were probably in great danger.

Seeing Gu Qinghan gradually approaching, everyone gathered around and carefully carried the unconscious person down.

"Wang Rui entered him..."

Luo Xile looked at the wounds on his body and didn't know what to say. The wounds were too serious and it was uncertain whether he could wake up.

"It's all my fault. If I had paid more attention to the back, how could this happen?" A young man slapped his thigh in regret.

Even though I know that every time I go out, I may not be able to see tomorrow, and I should take life and death lightly, but every time this happens, I feel extremely uncomfortable. These are brothers who I spend every day with.

"Don't blame you. There's no need to blame yourself. It's all because of that damn ghost." Li Junyong comforted.