Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

Enraged by this, Xiao Jin sprang to his feet and violently swatted away the wild boars surrounding him. He rushed over, grabbed the leg of the boar that had attacked Xiao Hua, and tore off a piece of flesh, which he then ate.

Ever since Xiao Hua was bumped, Xiao Jin has become increasingly fierce in battle. With Xiao Hua's cooperation, the two tigers did not lose ground even when surrounded by a group of wild boars.

After a stalemate, with neither side suffering significant casualties, they decided to back down and stop fighting to avoid giving other wild animals an opportunity to attack.

After Xiao Jin and Xiao Hua went down the mountain, Zhang Xixi had just finished hanging up the clothes when she saw their dejected look. She didn't say anything, but simply bought two buckets of spiritual spring water and placed them in front of them.

The two tigers immediately rushed forward and began to wolf down the food.

Zhang Xixi chuckled to herself. "Looking so disheveled, he must have been in a fight and didn't win. But brats always need to learn a lesson before they grow up."

When it was time to cook dinner, every household in the village cooked meat, and the aroma of meat filled the desolate village.

Over here in the tattered thatched hut, a few thuggish-looking men were gossiping about Zhang Xixi and her friends. The aroma of meat made them even more envious.

Liu Gou Dan sniffed the meat. "Brother, this meat smells amazing!"

Liu Ergou, standing nearby, chuckled slyly, "Big brother, we haven't had any meat in ages, have we...?"

Liu Dagou glanced at where Zhang Xixi and the others were cooking, thought for a moment, and said, "There are a lot of them. If we want to succeed, we'll have to use some tricks."

Liu Sandan said with a smile, "I still have some good stuff left over from last time, enough for them to have a good time!"

"Go back to sleep now, we'll move at midnight!" Liu Dadan decided.

The group laughed and walked into the dilapidated hut, imagining the scene of eating meat to their hearts' content that night. How delicious!

Accompanied by the "lullaby" of the spring insects, the villagers all drifted off to sleep, and the night gradually deepened!

The couple, Xiao Jin and his wife, were exhausted from fighting all day and slowly drifted off to sleep.

The brothers on the hillside woke up precisely at midnight, as if they had an alarm clock. But there were no timekeeping devices in ancient times, so this was probably the skill of a professional scoundrel!

When the brothers reached the encampment, they started by blowing sleeping smoke into the tents of the first house on the side using bamboo tubes.

After the other families had finished blowing out their sleeping powder, Liu Ergou lifted a corner of the tent and saw that everyone was fast asleep. He then quietly went in and took a small portion of the visible meat and grain from inside the tent, but left the rest behind.

Liu Ergou wanted to take all the meat, but Liu Dagou stopped him.

After leaving Zhang Xixi's camp, Liu Ergou was still a little unhappy and asked, "Big brother, why didn't you let me take all the meat? It's meat! So much meat would have been enough for us to eat for several months."

"What I always tell you is that you should be careful before doing anything. I told your family to only take a piece of meat and a few sweet potatoes because it was all for everyone's good."

Seeing that his younger brothers still looked completely bewildered, Liu Dagou sighed. "How can they be so stupid!"

“Those people look like they have a good family background. They wouldn’t make a big fuss about losing a small thing. They would only suspect that a family member secretly ate it or that they misremembered. They wouldn’t suspect that it was stolen. But if everything is lost, they will definitely suspect us.”

Liu Ergou was still unconvinced. "They didn't see us, so why are they so sure we took it? I was very careful and didn't leave any evidence."

Liu Sandan also spoke up, "Second Brother, we're the outsiders here. Who else would we suspect if not you? Besides, with what Big Brother did, as long as we're careful in the future and don't get caught, we won't have to worry about not having meat to eat. This is what they call 'the thinnest things grow taller'!"

"A steady, gradual process!" Liu Dagou said, rubbing his forehead.

"Yes, that's the word, hehe!" Liu Sandan scratched his head and chuckled foolishly.

"Alright, let's go back and stew some meat!"

Liu Dagou ended the topic. He figured that Ergou, that pig-headed guy, would suddenly understand and become a pig that could fly; it was better to just shut him up with food.

The next day, the families whose belongings were stolen did not make a fuss, but there was more noise and cursing at each of them. It seemed that Liu Dagou was right, and they all thought it was their own family members who did it.

The villagers didn't pay much attention to their noise, because when a family lives together for a long time, it's inevitable that there will be some disagreements, and arguing might make them feel better.

Xiao Jin and his group didn't go up the mountain today either. After drinking the spiritual spring water, they lay on the ground basking in the sun. They should be taking a good rest before unleashing their ultimate move next time.

Because Zhang Wenbo plans to continue teaching students only after the school is completed, the children have recently been helping with chores at home.

The two treasures continued to lead the mule and horse to the wasteland, while the two of them, together with Zhang Xixi, picked up the large stones on the wasteland and piled them on the boundary line of the wasteland as field ridges.

"Dabao, don't keep holding Dazui like that! You need to teach it how to find food in the wild."

Da Bao argued, "Mom, but Da Zui doesn't like to eat vegetables, it just wants to eat sweet potatoes."

"Put it on the ground and see if it eats it. It's a chicken, how could it not like vegetables? If it really doesn't like vegetables, it can eat insects."

Da Bao put his big beak on the ground, and the sharp-beaked chicken flapped its wings once and then stopped moving. It's so lazy!

Look at all that fat on it, it'll probably die of obesity someday!

Zhang Xixi told Da Bao and Er Bao to come and pick up stones, while Da Zui let it flap around as it pleased, not wanting to spoil it.

While they slept that night, the women in charge of the households whose meat and grain had been stolen had already hidden them away, making sure that only they knew about them.

At midnight, Liu Ergou and Liu Gou Dan came again, because Liu Dagou and Liu San Dan had gone to town and no one was watching them.

They couldn't resist eating all the meat at dinner that night, mainly because the meat was so delicious, so they decided to do it again tonight.

They were discovered by Xiao Jin as soon as they sneaked in today. Xiao Jin didn't make a sound, but just watched them repeat the same actions as last night in several different tents, blowing sleeping powder.

Xiao Hua glanced at Xiao Jin and pointed at Liu Er Gou and the others. Xiao Jin signaled it to keep quiet, because catching a thief with stolen goods would be more convincing.

After they entered the tent and took out their things with smiles, Xiao Jin let out a roar and rushed over with Xiao Hua to stop Liu Ergou and the others.

Oh no, we've been found out!

Liu Ergou and Liu Gou Dan took off running, but Xiao Jin and the others scared them so much that their legs trembled uncontrollably. "There's a tiger! Don't eat me!"

When Zhang Xixi and the others rushed over after hearing the shouts, they saw the two of them trembling with their heads buried in the ground, terrified by Xiao Jin and the others, while still tightly clutching the meat and sweet potato in their arms.

Zhou Dashan quickly ordered his eldest and second eldest sons to tie up Liu Ergou and the others, and put the sweet potatoes and meat aside.