After transmigrating, he supported his family by working at a garbage dump.

Without revealing her origins or whereabouts, the girl braved the wind and snow to leave.

However, this little incident did not have much impact on the Xu family; there was no pursuit or official intervention.

Perhaps out of compassion, Zhang He remained depressed for a long time because of this.

Xu Zhuzhu tried every means to make her mother happy. With the persistent efforts of Xu Zhuzhu and Xu An, Zhang He finally stopped worrying about the matter and her mood improved.

That day, the sky was overcast and the snow had just subsided. Xu Zhuzhu was squatting in the outhouse, clutching her stomach, knowing that her feces always smelled rather pungent.

Xu Zhuzhu told her mother to go to the front yard and do her own thing, and that she could just squat there by herself.

Zhang He was initially worried, but considering there were no people nearby and it was Xu Zhuzhu's strong request, she agreed and said she would wait for Xu Zhuzhu in the front yard.

However, it occasionally barks a few times towards the backyard.

Perhaps because she hadn't been eating enough vegetables lately, Xu Zhuzhu was constipated. She held it in for a long time but couldn't poop. The cold wind was like a knife, cutting everywhere.

Xu Zhuzhu's bottom felt a little cold from the wind, which further affected her already constipated bowel movements.

As she sighed in exasperation, she pulled down her cotton coat, muttering to herself, "I must build an indoor toilet someday!"

As she was lost in thought, she suddenly heard a soft rustling sound outside the outhouse, like the sound of footsteps in snow. Xu Zhuzhu didn't think much of it and assumed that her mother had come over.

Then she called out in a clear voice, "Mother, I haven't pooped yet."

As soon as she finished speaking, the footsteps outside stopped abruptly, and she was met with a silent reply.

An unusual atmosphere filled the air, and Xu Zhuzhu suddenly sensed it keenly; it seemed as if a gaze was fixed intently on her.

Just then, Zhang He's voice called out to her from the front yard.

If it's not her mother, then who is it?

Xu Zhuzhu was taken aback. "Who?"

Her father and brother are studying diligently inside; they probably don't have time to wander around the backyard.

Suddenly, she remembered that her father had made sure to shovel the snow in the front and back yards clean every day to prevent the family from slipping and falling when they went to the outhouse.

There was no snow in front of the outhouse, so there was no question of stepping on snow. This suggests that the sound came from the side or the vegetable garden behind.

Holy crap, there's a pervert!

Xu Zhuzhu quickly pulled up her pants.

She held tightly to the outhouse door, peering warily through the cracks in the wall, carefully examining the area.

However, to her surprise, apart from the vegetable garden built by his parents, she didn't see a single ghost outside.

Her mother's voice came from the front yard again.

She didn't answer Zhang He, nor did she dare to leave the outhouse rashly. Instead, she used the garbage station as a cover to sneak back to the front yard.

Zhang He, who was standing by the stove, was adding firewood with his head down. Because he hadn't heard Xu Zhuzhu's response for a long time, he frowned slightly and muttered to himself.

Just as she was about to get up and go to the backyard, she looked up and suddenly saw a little dwarf appear out of nowhere in front of her. She was completely unprepared.

"Oh my god!"

Zhang He was so startled that she almost fainted.

Fortunately, Xu Zhuzhu grabbed her mother in time and whispered, "Mother! It's me."

Upon seeing that it was Xu Zhuzhu, Zhang He kept patting her chest, grabbed Xu Zhuzhu, and scolded, "Why did you rush over here? Didn't I tell you not to use it indiscriminately?"

Are Father and Brother in the house?

Xu Zhuzhu struggled to escape from Zhang He's grasp. Instead of answering her mother's question, she eagerly asked Zhang He a question in return.

Zhang He looked bewildered. "Of course it is."

Xu Zhuzhu then told Zhang Heyi about what she had done while squatting in the outhouse and discovering someone peeping at her, and asked if the person who had walked next to the outhouse was Xu Wenjie or Xu An.

Zhang He was shocked. "Your father and brother were inside the house, and I was sitting in the yard. How could I not see what they were doing? How could it be them?"

However, when Zhang He heard that someone was peeping at her daughter while she was in the outhouse, she became furious and started cursing.

In the heavy snow, there were few people around. If anyone wanted to go out, they would go to the main road. There was wasteland behind their house, so why would anyone come here?

"Who's the shameless one who peeks into the outhouse?!"

After saying that, Zhang He angrily followed Xu Zhuzhu's directions and headed towards the outhouse.

When the mother and daughter looked towards the vegetable garden, they indeed found a line of footprints next to the garden, but the footprints did not look like human footprints.

Xu Zhuzhu took a closer look and thought it resembled some kind of animal.

Could it be a wolf?

Their home is close to the mountains, and it's snowing. There's nothing to eat in the mountains, so it's normal for wild animals to come down to forage. But they've been here for so long.

She had never heard wolves howling in the mountains.

As the mother and daughter were speculating, a pair of green eyes slowly peeked out from behind the outhouse.

Xu Zhuzhu gasped sharply, her heart skipping a beat.

Really!

Before the two could react, the wolf's eyes flashed green, revealing ferocity and greed. It crouched low, seemingly gathering its strength, ready to pounce and tear the mother and daughter to shreds in an instant.

Xu Zhuzhu looked at Zhang He.

She could clearly feel her mother's body stiffen. Even so, her mother reacted quickly and, without waiting for Xu Zhuzhu to speak, picked her up and ran to the front yard.

"Come on!"

In an instant, the sound of roaring pursuit came from behind!

A strong sense of oppression pressed down on Xu Zhuzhu's back. Her mind raced, and she immediately muttered in her heart, "Get her and her mother to the garbage dump."

Zhang He stared blankly at the sudden change in the scene before her for a moment, then quickly came to her senses and told Xu Zhuzhu to go back and remind the father and son at home.

……

Meanwhile, on the wall next to the bed in the room, a small cloth bag was emitting a blinding red light in all directions.

Xu Zhuzhu has been staying at home recently, so instead of wearing the bag containing the beads around her neck, she hung the bag directly on the wall.

Inside the house, Xu Wenjie was teaching Xu An to write when he was suddenly attracted by a red light. He looked up and saw Xu Zhuzhu's bag of beads.

He immediately put down what he was doing and took the bag down.

He remembered what Xu Zhuzhu had told him before: if this bead was glowing, it couldn't be anything good.

Then he remembered that the mother and daughter were still in the backyard, so he quickly ran towards the outside of the yard, only to bump into the mother and daughter who had just slipped to the door.

Upon entering the room, Zhang He closed the door tightly without saying a word.

He even gave Xu Wenjie a whispering gesture.

Xu Wenjie's lips twitched, but he didn't say anything.

Seeing the mother and daughter looking flustered, his heart jumped into his throat, and he hurriedly asked quietly what had happened.

Xu An, who was studying, also came over and asked, "Mother, what's wrong?"

Zhang He took several deep breaths before telling Xu Wenjie what had just happened, "...I've never encountered this before, how did it suddenly appear?"

Xu Wenjie's calm gaze suddenly turned sharp.

"I'm not seeing things, am I? How many are there?"

Xu Wenjie's doubts filled the room with an uneasy atmosphere.

"You didn't see wrong! Zhuzhu and I both saw it. There was only one, and its eyes were fixed on us. Luckily, Zhuzhu was there. If we had been any slower, it might have really pounced on us! It was really scary!"

Xu Zhuzhu frowned and nodded, "It's true."

On their escape route, they often ate in the open and often heard wolves howling in the deep mountains at night, but they never actually encountered them, let alone at such close range, face to face.

Zhang He's heart pounded with fear. She touched the back of her cotton coat and found a tear in it. She said with lingering fear, "Husband, look!"

Xu Wenjie took a closer look and saw that the gash was extremely sharp, clearly torn by claws. Luckily it was winter and Zhang He was wearing a thick cotton coat. If she had been any slower or had been wearing a thinner coat, the claws would have dug directly into her flesh.

Xu Wenjie's usually calm expression suddenly turned cold, his face becoming solemn and stern.

"Wolves don't hunt alone; there are probably other wolves nearby..."