bookbashuk Chapter 117 Little Rabbit
Chapter 117 Little Rabbit
Tonight, I'll have this small half-pound of meat.
I took out half of it and made a minced meat sauce, which I preserved by soaking it in oil. Later, when Xu Sui ate, I would put a little bit in her bowl so that she could have some meat and a meaty aroma.
The other half was used to make a pot of pork stew with vermicelli, and a lot of green vegetables were added to it.
There weren't many slices of meat, but it was still meat.
In addition, meat is a rare commodity.
That evening, the entire Qin family sat together, eating with great excitement and joy.
Qin Youtian couldn't help but look at Qin Yunzhou several times, his gaze filled with satisfaction and pride.
Xu Sui was pregnant, and the meat was provided by Qin Yunzhou.
During the meal, Tianhua specially picked up a lot of meat from the pot for Xu Sui.
When the rest of the Qin family saw it, no one said anything. After all, they were only able to get the meat because of Xu Sui's pregnancy; otherwise, Qin Yunzhou wouldn't have gone to such lengths to pull strings and get it.
At the dinner table, Du Mei saw the meat at first and couldn't help but swallow her saliva. She didn't dare to reach for it like the Qin family members, but instead silently lowered her head and ate her vegetables.
Since arriving at the Qin family.
She no longer has to wake up hungry in the middle of the night, no longer has to worry about not having clothes to wear, and no longer has to fear that her father might sell her off at any time to exchange for a few bites of food.
These days are so blissful, it's like living in a paradise. This is a life she never imagined before.
For her, it was already a blessing that the Qin family could provide her with food; she didn't need to eat meat at all.
Xu Sui was the first to notice that Du Mei hadn't eaten a single piece of meat from beginning to end. She glanced at the girl sitting next to her, who was eating silently with her head down, and immediately guessed what the other girl was thinking.
Without saying a word, he took a piece of meat from his own bowl and put it into Du Mei's bowl.
Du Mei was stunned when she saw a piece of meat suddenly appear in her bowl. She subconsciously looked up and saw Xu Sui's beautiful and fair profile.
Her eyes suddenly reddened slightly, and she felt a mix of emotions. She was about to say thank you.
The next second, Xu Sui noticed her movement, put her finger to her lips, silently shushed her, shook her head, and then started eating her own meal.
Du Mei quickly understood what Xu Sui meant. She hurriedly lowered her head and ate the piece of meat, feeling warmer and warmer as she ate.
In the countryside, she hadn't tasted meat for many years.
This meat was so delicious that she seemed to remember its taste forever, never to be forgotten.
After finishing her meal, Xu Sui quickly put the matter out of her mind.
Go back inside.
Close the door.
Qin Yunzhou opened the burlap sack, took out the contents little by little, and divided them into three portions.
The pile consisted of white flour and rice, not much, about the same as what I brought back last month, totaling only about ten kilograms.
Contrary to what outsiders might think, most of the bag was filled with grain.
The rest are gifts to give away, such as malted milk powder, peach shortbread, candy, etc.
These are things prepared for Xu Sui's grandmother and Hong Tao's family; you can't go empty-handed.
This burlap sack isn't actually that big.
Finally, there was a pair of rabbits that were still lively and energetic, with no problems except for being a little thin.
Xu Sui was stunned, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but stare at the two fluffy rabbits.
It's so tiny, I feel like it's smaller than her palm, but it's still quite cute.
"Where did you get this?"
There aren't any mountains around here, and even if there were, you can't just go in and hunt.
Qin Yunzhou saw that she liked carrying two little white rabbits and put them in Xu Sui's arms. "I bought them from someone. I specially picked out a pair. You can find a place at home to raise them. Rabbits reproduce quickly and grow fast. Just feed them some hay or rotten vegetable leaves."
"I don't know when this famine will end. If we raise a few rabbits and they turn out well, we can have an extra meat dish at home and help our family get some nutrition."
He was out for so long today not only to prepare meat, but also to find rabbits.
Xu Sui felt something was off. She held the two fluffy white rabbits and stared into Qin Yunzhou's eyes for a long time.
"Did you really buy it?"
She believed that the chicken she bought last time was bought, since old hens that can no longer lay eggs usually only have two fates: being sold or being eaten.
If there's an emergency at home and money is needed, selling the chickens might be a viable option.
But that's impossible, especially since they're a pair of baby rabbits. If you're going to sell one, you should sell the bigger one.
Qin Yunzhou felt a little uncomfortable. He avoided Xu Sui's bright and clear eyes, and after a long while, he finally spoke:
"...I was lucky to run into him."
Xu Sui suddenly became anxious and, disregarding the rabbit, squatted down and lifted up Qin Yunzhou's right trouser leg.
"Nonsense, did you go up the mountain? You must have gone deep into the mountains."
"Your leg isn't healed yet. What will happen to me and the children if something happens to you?"
No wonder he went out so early and came back so late; he must have gone up the mountain.
Xu Sui thought about it more and more and felt that this person was really too bold. Fortunately, after checking, the man's leg was fine.
Seeing Xu Sui so agitated, Qin Yunzhou panicked a bit. He quickly pulled her aside and gently patted her back to comfort her, saying, "I'm fine. I just wandered around the outer edge of the mountain and didn't go any further in."
"Nothing will happen," he added.
Xu Sui couldn't help but glare at the man. "It's fine now, but if you go again in the future, who knows if anything will happen."
"I don't think you ever considered the possibility of something going wrong before you went up the mountain."
Those deep mountains are full of large wild beasts. Especially in the last year or two, there has been a famine, which has also affected the wild beasts in the deep mountains. They are also hungry, and there are fewer and fewer things in the deep mountains. Sometimes, the wild beasts are so hungry that they run down the mountain to eat people.
It's not that people in the countryside are so hungry that they go to the deep mountains.
But without real skills and expertise, if you go deep into the mountains, you'll most likely end up as someone else's food source.
If his leg hadn't been injured, going up that mountain would have been fine.
But his leg isn't fully healed yet, and he dares to go to those places. He's clearly incredibly reckless and hasn't considered her and the child at all.
Qin Yunzhou watched as Xu Sui unconsciously clenched the hem of his shirt. Although her eyes were glaring at him, her words were full of concern and worry for him.
Those beautiful, clear eyes were almost entirely filled with his image; when she glared at him, it was as if he was the only person in her eyes.
At this moment, they were just like a real couple, arguing, bickering, and worrying.
He didn't feel any aversion at all; on the contrary, he felt a faint sense of warmth and happiness.
It makes you want to get closer and closer.
Qin Yunzhou unconsciously reached out and grasped Xu Sui's hand, the warmth of their palms passing between them. He looked earnestly into the woman's beautiful eyes and said, "Don't be angry, be careful not to hurt yourself."
"I will absolutely not go up the mountain again until my leg is fully healed."
Just as Xu Sui was about to say something, she realized that she had been pinching the corner of the man's white shirt the whole time. The once clean and neat corner of the shirt was now wrinkled from her pinching, looking exactly like a tattered rag.
She suddenly felt a little embarrassed, silently withdrew her hand, and pretended that nothing had happened.
"Okay, you said it yourself."