An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Hearing this, Old Lady Zhu fell into deep thought, with a gleam in her eyes.

"That's really possible!" Zhu Sanbao's eyes lit up with a dark light of ill intention, and he laughed happily, "Second sister and her family live in a very safe place, I don't think it will be that bad."

"Mom, let's look for it carefully. Once we find it, it will be of great benefit to us!" Wu Chungui suggested.

Zhu Sanbao and his daughter Zhu Manzhen also said they would continue looking.

Zhu Manfu, sweating profusely, sat on the ground and complained about the heat.

Old Mrs. Zhu, who was squatting and fanning her grandson, narrowed her eyes slightly with a gloomy expression, "Keep looking!"

Middle stream.

Xia Qingyue found the rabbit holes according to her memory. She thought that these holes were connected. So, if she blocked these entrances and only left two, she would burn a big fire in one hole to let thick smoke go into the hole, and she would guard the other hole with a sack in her hand.

In this way, the rabbits that can't stand the smoke will find a way out, run out of the hole, and dive into the sack.

Isn't it just waiting for something to happen?

I think so, but I don’t know if it will work.

In order to find out whether there were other holes, Xia Qingyue searched around in each hole and finally collected some rabbit hair.

Rabbits often dig holes, so it is inevitable that some hair will be left behind.

She gave the rabbit hair to Heihei to smell.

Heihei's sense of smell and search ability is not to be underestimated. It smelled the rabbit's fur and ran out in a flash. It ran for dozens of meters, walking and stopping as if it smelled something.

Xia Qingyue followed behind Heihei's butt without disturbing it.

After searching for more than ten minutes, Heihei found a new cave entrance, and Xia Qingyue marked it on a nearby tree trunk.

In the next half hour, Heihei found three more cave entrances. Perhaps he had found all the cave entrances, so he lay down beside Xia Qingyue to catch his breath and rest.

Xia Qingyue brought stones to block each hole, leaving only two holes with similar positions.

She found some dry grass and firewood and burned it at one of the cave entrances. When the wind blew, the thick smoke choked her eyes, causing her eyes to ache and she cried.

When the fire was almost finished, she waited at the other entrance of the cave with a sack in her hand.

The rabbit is alert by nature and did not use the sack to directly block the entrance of the hole. If it ran out of the underground passage and saw the dark sack outside, it probably would not come out.

After waiting for a while, Heihei, who was lying beside Xia Qingyue, pricked up his ears and stared straight at the cave entrance.

She knew there was movement in the cave, so she supported the sack with both hands and focused all her attention.

rustling—

A strange sound came from the cave entrance from far away, and the sound became louder as it got closer.

After a while, several small pieces of soil flew out. Xia Qingyue's heart was in her throat. She guessed that they were the soil brought out by the rabbit in the hole when it ran too fast.

The next second, a gray figure jumped out of the cave.

Xia Qingyue was quick-witted and quick-handed. She threw a sack over it, made sure it had caught the rabbit, and immediately tightened the opening. She was afraid that another rabbit would run out soon, so she made the opening so loose that only one hand could fit in. She grabbed the fluffy rabbit from the bag and put it into the backpack.

A vegetable basket filled with heavy stones was placed above the backpack to prevent the rabbits from pushing it open and running out.

Sure enough, just as she put the rabbit away, Heihei made two serious noises at her, as if to remind her that another rabbit was about to come out.

She quickly held the sack and waited at the entrance of the cave. After about twenty seconds, two rabbits ran out, one after the other. They were dizzy from the smoke and fell into the sack in a daze.

After catching three rabbits in a row, Xia Qingyue was in a very good mood and smiled widely.

On the hillside a few dozen meters away from Xia Qingyue, a man and a dog appeared silently.

The dog was none other than the injured white dog. When it saw Xia Qingyue and Heihei not far away, the frequency of its tail wagging increased significantly, and there was a bright light in its eyes.

The tall man carrying a bow and arrow looked down at the white dog, then raised his eyes to look towards Xia Qingyue. From his angle he just happened to see Xia Qingyue with her face tilted to the side. She was smiling happily because she had caught a rabbit.

"It turned out that she was the one who saved Xiaobai."

The murmur was very light and dissipated with the wind.

The black ears of the cat, which had been following Xia Qingyue hunting, suddenly stood up. It stood up alertly, looking towards the hillside with its bright eyes.

There was no one or dog on the slope.

Heihei ran forward a few steps, tilted his head, and a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes.

"Heihei, we caught two more rabbits!"

Xia Qingyue was so happy. She turned around and saw Heihei standing aside. She was puzzled and her smile faded. "What's wrong, Heihei?"

Heihei stared at the other side of the hill and listened carefully. When he found nothing unusual, he returned to Xia Qingyue and rubbed her leg with his head.

Seeing that Heihei didn't seem to be reacting like a ferocious beast discovering a stranger, Xia Qingyue didn't think much about it.

The hay and firewood at the entrance of the cave had burned out. She was not sure if there were any rabbits in the cave, so she held the sack and waited for a few more minutes.

No more rabbits came out afterwards, and all those that escaped were caught by her.

She was busy catching rabbits and had no time to look carefully. She saw through the gap that the basket was more than half full. She counted them and there should be ten rabbits.

"Wow, what an amazing harvest, Heihei. We will have rabbit meat to eat in the future." She touched Heihei's head and imagined the many ways to eat rabbit meat.

Before leaving, she moved the stone blocking the entrance of the cave and restored it to its original state. If any rabbits came to live here later, she could catch them later.

"Let's go to the reed marsh to catch chickens and ducks and pick up eggs!"

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By the stream, a sika deer lowered its head to drink water, its two ears erected high, always paying attention to the movements around it.

With a light whooshing sound, two sharp arrows were fired one after another, shooting at the sika deer.

The moment the sika deer heard the sound, it ran away.

Then, it ran two steps, and the arrow shot in front hit one of its front legs, and the second arrow that followed hit one of its hind legs.

The sika deer with injured legs lost its balance, howled in pain, and fell to the ground.

Several figures walked out from the bushes by the stream, led by Zhu Sanbao. "Mom, I really saw a sika deer. It ran to the stream. Let's not alarm it later. Find a way to catch it!"

They emerged from the bushes.

"The sika deer is over there, lying on the ground. God is helping me!" Zhu Sanbao pointed forward with a smile on his face.

The Zhu family was very excited when they saw a real sika deer lying on the ground. To them, this was meat delivered to their doorstep.

They ran towards the sika deer happily.

Just when they were a few meters away from the sika deer, there were a few whooshing sounds, and several sharp arrows shot at the place where their feet were about to step next.

The sharp arrow pierced into the ground at an angle, and the tail of the arrow made a buzzing sound.

The incident happened suddenly, and the Zhu family was frightened out of their wits and screamed out together.

Amidst the screams of ghosts, a tall man holding a bow and arrow appeared from the bushes on the opposite side of the stream, followed by a white-haired dog.

Under the astonished gaze of the Zhu family, the man stretched out his long legs, stepped on the stones in the stream, and reached the other side in a few breaths.

The white dog followed closely, also stepping on the stones as it passed.