Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales

Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The Tragic Woman 15

In the following days, Chen Shengjun dared not appear in front of Yuan Chun again.

That afternoon, after work, the village chief held a meeting and announced, ”Autumn harvest will begin in three days. I’m giving everyone a three-day break so you can prepare for it.”

Even with time off, the villagers didn’t idle; the men went up the mountain to chop wood, the women went to collect mushrooms and dig for wild vegetables.

Everyone tried to gather as much food as possible.

Once the autumn harvest began, no one would have time to go up the mountain. Even the young children had to go into the fields to pick up wheat stalks, so to avoid running out of food during the harvest period, every family member was up early, heading to the mountain.

Yuan Chun had been eating wild vegetable buns for several days and was craving meat.

This meat was nothing like the post-apocalypse Mutant Beast Meat, tough and tasteless, like eating old bark.

The small prey on this mountain had definitely tender and delicious meat. If she hadn’t been watched closely by Grandma Feng and the other women after Chen Shengjun acted indecently towards her, she would have gone hunting on the mountain long ago to improve the family meals.

Fortunately, an opportunity arose.

On the first day on the mountain, Yuan Chun sneaked away while Grandma Feng and others were busy digging wild vegetables. An hour later, the basket on her back had two wild rabbits, three wild chickens, and over twenty wild chicken eggs.

Perhaps because there were too many people collecting wild vegetables on the mountain, Grandma Feng and the others didn’t even notice Yuan Chun’s disappearance. By noon back home, Yuan Chun pulled out five small prey from the bottom of her basket, shocking the Feng family members.

”Yuan Chun, did... did you manage to catch all this?” Liu Qingqiu was amazed by her daughter’s luck.

Going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and gather mushrooms, who wouldn’t want to catch a wild chicken or rabbit to enjoy? But wild chickens can fly, wild rabbits run fast, how could they be so easily caught?

They had seen them but couldn’t catch them.

They could only watch helplessly as they disappeared from sight.

If lucky, they could find some wild chicken eggs.

But her daughter caught three wild chickens, two wild rabbits, and dozens of wild chicken eggs, her luck was simply incredible.

”Sister, you’re amazing, how did you catch them?”

”Sister, teach me, I want to catch wild chickens and rabbits too.”

”Meat, so much meat, sister, I want to eat meat.” A few children happily surrounded the pile of small prey, drooling and clamoring.

Grandma Feng patted her thigh and whispered, ”Oh, keep your voices down, lower your voices, don’t clamor or someone might hear, then you can forget about having the meat to yourselves.”

At this time, the government was strictly controlling, and any game hunted had to be handed over. Of course, catching a small prey didn’t need to be handed over, but Yuan Chun had caught quite a number, and if someone found out and became envious, forcing them to hand over the meat, they wouldn’t be able to keep it for themselves.

The Feng family immediately fell silent.

But the joy in their eyes remained.

Qiu Guihua was the quickest to act, hurrying to the kitchen to boil water and process the wild chickens.

Feng Dasheng efficiently handled the two wild rabbits.

In the evening, the Feng family didn’t cook the meat. First, they were reluctant to do so, wanting to save it for the autumn harvest to replenish everyone’s strength. Secondly, cooking meat would release an aroma, and the Feng family didn’t want trouble at this time.

During the autumn harvest, some better-off families would buy a bit of meat in advance, and then when the scent of meat wafted out, no one found it suspicious.

Though they didn’t cook the meat, Grandma Feng boiled seven wild chicken eggs for the children.

Yuan Chun and Ding Chunli both got one.

In the afternoon, Yuan Chun had barely gone up the mountain before trying to sneak away, but Grandma Feng called out to her, ”Yuan Chun, where are you going to dig? There’s plenty of wild vegetables here.”