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

"Xiaoming, put it on quickly."

Liu Xiuqin had actually heard Qin Hongcui's sarcasm long ago, so she deliberately put on a leather jacket with her daughter and pretended not to see Qin Hongcui.

The mother and daughter helped Qin Qiming put on warm leather leg warmers, knee pads, and other protective gear.

After putting it on, Qin Qiming felt warm all over.

Qin Hongcui was green with envy and extremely jealous, feeling deeply resentful.

"Hey, what about mine? I've never treated your family badly, I bring you food every few days, and you won't even make me a leather jacket? Don't you have any conscience?"

Liu Xiuqin glanced coldly at Qin Hongcui. "These are my children. If you like their leather jackets, then send your old man up the mountain to hunt. Why are you here begging?"

In fact, the food Qin Hongcui mentioned being delivered to their family every few days was all spoiled food.

Qin Guozhu was a good-for-nothing; he was lazy, loved to eat, and was addicted to gambling, which left his family penniless.

Liu Xiuqin had no choice but to go back to her parents' home to complain, fearing that her elderly parents would worry. She could only go to Qin Hongcui's house to do some work, hoping to get some food for her child out of consideration for their kinship.

However, Qin Hongcui's family were all mean-spirited and unkind. Not only did they not understand their sister-in-law's difficulties, they also insulted her with spoiled food.

After that, Liu Xiuqin finally understood that they were all ungrateful wretches. No matter how much you did for them, they would only think that it was what you should do.

You can't feed an ungrateful person.

Therefore, Liu Xiuqin no longer had any feelings for the Qin family, and Qin Guozhu no longer allowed her to have any attachment to them.

Her only goal for the rest of her life is to raise her daughter and witness her son get married.

Qin Hongcui was originally very proud of wearing a military cotton-padded coat.

But now, compared to the bearskin coat, she immediately felt that the military overcoat paled in comparison.

The military overcoat looked passable on the surface, but in reality, the lining was full of patches and the cotton was almost completely leaking out. Qin Hongcui could only stuff rags inside to keep warm, and it was nowhere near as good as the smooth fur coats that Qin Qiming and the others wore, which shone brightly in the sunlight.

Qin Hongcui's pride vanished instantly, and she cried out, "You heartless bastards! You're bullying me! I'm going back to tell my father and I'll demand justice from my uncle!"

Qin Qiming scoffed disdainfully: "I'm warning you, don't keep coming to cause trouble. I'm the chief hunter of the brigade now. If you keep harassing me and make me unable to hunt because of my distraction, and the whole village eats less meat, I'll tell the village chief and he'll deal with your whole family."

He threatened Qin Hongcui with the village chief's name, and the bluff worked; she ran away crying.

Liu Xiuqin watched Qin Hongcui's departing figure without any pity, and simply ordered calmly, "Xiaoming, go chop some firewood, I'll stew bear meat for you."

Liu Xiuqin no longer worries about food.

The available bear meat is enough for them to eat for several days.

In addition, Qin Qiming is skilled at setting traps, which allows them to continuously obtain a food source.

They still have enough clothes to keep warm and will have no problem getting through the winter.

But Qin Qiming understood that this was far from enough.

He wanted to leave the mountains, buy a house in the city, and give his younger sister a good education...

He needs a lot of money, which can't be solved by a few rabbits falling into a trap.

……

The next day, before dawn, there was a knock on the door.

"Which one?" Qin Qiming asked, still half-asleep.

"I, your eldest uncle, have to get up."

Upon hearing the sound, Qin Qiming immediately woke up, quickly got out of bed, and groped in the dark to put on his clothes.

He carefully got out of bed, tucked the blanket around his sister to make sure she wouldn't catch a cold.

In this weather, if you catch a cold, your health will be poor and you won't get enough nutrition, which will be a real hardship.

He quickly washed up, and the grogginess from just waking up vanished instantly.

Carefully leave the house and close the door tightly to prevent cold air from entering.

"Uncle, what are you looking at?"

He went out of the house and saw Liu Qingsong holding a torch, looking down at the snow in front of the door and the wall.

Did you hear anything last night?

Liu Qingsong carefully examined the ground in the firelight without looking up.

"I vaguely heard someone knocking on the door at night, but the sound was very soft, so I didn't get up."

"Did you close the door tightly?"

"It was locked up tightly, and something was used to block it."

Liu Qingsong saw the footprints and crawl marks in the snow, picked up a piece of snow-covered ground, pinched up some soil with the marks, smelled it, and frowned, "It smells like Wong Tai Sin."

"Huang Daxian? Oh, a weasel, I guess..." Qin Qi wondered. "Why would a weasel come into the village? Nobody raises chickens."

"What 'yellow weasel'? We need to use a respectful term! Whether or not we raise chickens is not important. The key is that the Weasel God has appeared in the village. Let's go find the village chief and discuss this."

……

"What? A wild animal has entered the village?" The village chief looked astonished. "How many times has this happened this winter?"

"Five times, all around the twelfth lunar month."

“Five times already.” The village chief thought for a moment. “Let’s have breakfast first. This isn’t urgent. Tell everyone that they must lock their doors tightly tonight. As long as nothing happens at night, there won’t be any problems during the day.”

After he finished speaking, the village chief told everyone to get on the kang (a heated brick bed), and his wife brought out the food. A dim kerosene lamp illuminated the table.

The child was still sleeping on the kang (a heated brick bed), and everyone ate and spoke in hushed tones.

After finishing their meal and resting for a while, everyone carried guns, ropes, tinder, and other supplies to prepare for heading into the mountains.

Liu Qingsong: "Stay close to me when we go into the mountains, understand?"

"Uncle, did you go into the mountains this time just to hunt roe deer?"

What else do you want to hunt?

Liu Qingsong looked around. "It's the dead of winter now, and everything that can be hidden is hidden. Finding a roe deer isn't easy. You wouldn't be thinking of hunting a bear too, would you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Qingsong noticed the tracks on the snow ahead and quickened his pace to search for them.

The village chief and his son Qin Kang stopped, holding their hunting rifles, and cautiously observed their surroundings.

After carefully examining, touching, and smelling the traces on the ground, Liu Qingsong turned and called to Qin Qiming, who was not far away, "Come here."

Qin Qiming strode quickly toward them through the snow.

"What's there to see in this place?"

He crouched down, his eyes fixed on the faint traces in the snow, the tracks left by animals as they crawled along, and scattered plum blossom-shaped footprints.

"Observe carefully and recall if you have seen similar footprints in the past."

Qin Qiming stared at the footprints, examined the snow tracks on the ground, and found white fur. After picking it up and confirming it, he said, "It's a wild rabbit."

Liu Qingsong remained silent, brushed aside the snow, and picked up the black lumps covered by the snow, holding them in his hand.

“The footprints and hair have been confirmed to be a perfect match, but in addition to observation, you also need to learn to touch and smell.”

Qin Qiming nodded, knowing that Liu Qingsong was teaching him how to identify them.

Liu Qingsong threw the excrement aside and wiped his hands clean with the snow in his hand.