Reborn in 1963: I Hunted and Stockpiled Meat During a Famine

After saying that, Min slammed the door to the courtyard shut.

Liu Dacui nearly bumped her nose, took a step back, and started cursing.

"I will definitely make Qiming divorce you, you vicious slut!"

Min took a deep, angry breath.

Is she a vicious gossip?

Liu Dacui was still cursing outside: "You vicious slut, you don't love Qin Qiming at all. You're a woman from the county town, with a slender waist and fair skin, but you couldn't marry into the county town. Isn't it because you couldn't find a man in the county town who could support your family that you chose Qin Qiming, this honest man?"

Min stood in the courtyard, her eyes red.

Liu Dacui is indeed a hateful woman.

Min initially valued Qin Qiming because he was honest, reliable, and capable of supporting his family.

But after spending this time together, she had developed deep feelings for Qin Qiming.

What right does Liu Dacui have to belittle her feelings like that?

Suddenly, the door slammed open, and a basin of water was splashed out, directly hitting Liu Dacui's face.

"You vicious woman! How could you throw foot bath water at me?" Liu Dacui's face turned ashen with anger.

The foot bath water smelled awful; it must have been from the night before.

"Ouch!"

Liu Dacui gagged several times.

Min had already learned how to deal with Liu Dacui from Ma Lianhe.

Liu Dacui was just a country girl born and raised there, completely illiterate.

If you try to reason with her gently, she'll argue and make a scene. But if you take a hard line, like you did today, she'll be completely dumbfounded.

"How about it? Want to do it again?"

Liu Dacui's eyebrows were covered in ice crystals.

"Just wait and see!"

Liu Dacui was so angry she gritted her teeth, but now she had to hurry back to warm herself by the fire, as she was shivering from the cold.

Liu Dacui walked back with a displeased look on her face. Her home was near Zaxinggou.

Trot all the way home.

"Mom, quickly bring me a basin of charcoal fire, I'm freezing!"

When Da Cui's mother came out of the house, she exclaimed, "Oh my god, you silly girl, you're covered in ice crystals!"

"Don't even mention it, that bitch poured a bucket of stinking foot bath water on me!"

Da Cui's mother immediately became furious upon hearing this: "How can this person be so unreasonable?"

“I asked her to divorce Qiming, but she refused.”

"What? Qin Qiming just got back from the county town yesterday and went to the village chief to submit his marriage application."

"They just got married yesterday?"

"Yes, that's what I heard."

"I heard there are still bandits in the mountains. The village chief has been preventing people from entering or leaving the village for the past two days. I need to go and talk to Brother Qiming tomorrow to withdraw that marriage application!"

Da Cui's mother muttered from the side, "These days, the policy doesn't allow polygamy anymore. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a big deal for a good man like Qiming to marry Huimin as well."

"Hmph, she can forget about it!" Liu Dacui's chest heaved with anger upon hearing this.

Liu Dacui's face was full of resentment.

"Mom, I'm really not convinced!"

"Silly Big Cui, what can you do if you're not convinced?"

"I've liked Qiming for so many years, but in the end, another woman stole him away!"

"Hey, now they've both gone to the village chief to file for marriage. You really shouldn't have gone to your grandma's to see your cousin!"

"Don't even mention it. My cousin's family is dirt poor. Although he still treats me as well as before, I just went to see Qiming's house, and it's so impressive..."

"That's right. Qiming's house is comparable to the village chief's. I heard it even has a flush toilet, so you can relieve yourself at home with just a flush."

"Oh, I really shouldn't have gone to my cousin's place, I regret it so much!"

Liu Lanxiang urged, "Quickly, take off your clothes first, I'll dry them for you, and then you can put them back on later."

Liu Dacui obediently took off her clothes; the inner garments weren't very wet, and she took them to the charcoal brazier to dry them.

Qin Qiming, completely unaware that Min was angry, was currently at the village chief's house.

"Brother Kang, now that you're back, you're not planning on leaving again, are you?"

"Oh, right, stop going out and stay home to rest. You should also go out less these days."

Upon hearing this, Qin Qiming immediately understood that the village chief had probably already told him everything.

“I was thinking of sending you a wild boar leg, but I’ve been too busy these past few days. Now that you’re back, you can just eat it at home.”

Qin Kang laughed heartily: "It's a good thing I came back, otherwise I wouldn't have known you guys were eating so well at home. I've caught you red-handed this time!"

"Tonight, I'll also taste what it's like to hunt a wild boar like you!"

Afterwards, Qin Qiming mentioned to the village chief what Zhao Meng had told him.

"Is the village going to establish a militia?"

The village chief was taken aback.

"That means we'll have to work together from several villages to deal with that blue-faced demon, leaving him nowhere to hide."

"Yes, the troops in the county are not enough for the time being. They will arrive in the next few days for training before spring."

"We haven't even found the Green-Faced Demon's lair yet, and they're already making their move? Zhao Meng is really getting anxious this time."

"It's not that Brother Meng is anxious, it's that the situation is pressing. Those wicked bandits, Qingmian Gui, have already started causing trouble in the county town, and they even killed someone the day before yesterday."

Of the group that came to the city this time, I only recognized one person I had seen in town; the rest were all unfamiliar faces.

The village chief nodded: "We really need to think of a solution quickly. With those Green-Faced Ghosts hanging around here, we can forget about going into the mountains. We have to come down in groups. They even dare to cause trouble in the town and city. They're a real menace!"

“Are there any hidden places around Baijia Village where these people might be hiding right under our noses, yet no one seems to be able to find them?”

"A hidden place? I know everything about the area around this village, but there's really no place where people can hide for so long, unless they've gone underground."

Leaving aside how to hide underground, how will they solve the problem of food and water? There are so many of them.

"What about Baijia Village? Where did Uncle Bai have his accident?"

The village chief took a sip of his drink: "It looks like he was dragged there. He said he was going to collect herbs, but nobody knows where he actually went."

Qin Qiming felt something was off: "What about those places that nobody dares to go?"

"Places no one dares to go? They're either incredibly steep, terrifyingly precipitous, or just piles of rocks; no one could possibly survive there."

"What if, as you think, these people really do live underground?"

Qin Qiming recalled past events, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Is it possible that they built something underground?"

"Underground? How is that possible?"

Seeing the village chief shaking his head, Qin Qiming continued, "I heard that the Japanese built many fortresses back then to defend against people from the north..."