Something happened. This is not going to be bloody.

Zhou Leng slowed down her pace and walked slowly towards the transformation site. She finally saw a fairly sturdy tree along the way. She faked some messy footprints under the tree, then climbed up the tree, sat on the trunk and waited.

About 20 minutes later, she saw six or seven people coming in a group to look for someone. Liu Wuqing and the two children were at the back.

After Zhou Leng and others approached, she shouted in a trembling voice from the tree branch: "I'm here, my family, come and catch me, I'm scared to death, my legs are weak. You guys are here, woooo."

"Mom, mom, are you okay?"

Two children ran out from behind the crowd. They were worried and scared. At this moment, looking at Zhou Leng sitting on the tree trunk, they actually felt a strange sense of pride. It was as if they were saying, "Look, my mother can climb such a high tree. She is so great."

Cadre Wang coughed and said, "Old Liu's wild boar ran away?"

Zhou Leng replied weakly: "He ran far away. He might have been scared away by the gunfire in the village. How about you follow the tracks on the snow to look for him?"

Officer Wang thought that this woman was really lucky and could climb trees very quickly. When he heard her say that she was going to look for it, he thought that several people in the village were injured this time and some people's walls were damaged. This showed how ferocious this wild boar was. If the hunters in the village did not have guns and their shooting skills were not steady, accurate and ruthless, someone might have been disemboweled. Do you think everyone can climb trees like you?

While the two were talking, Liu Wuqing had already walked from the back of the crowd to the tree. He opened his arms anxiously in front of the tree. Although the cold wind was raging, cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead.

Officer Wang glanced at the two men and said, "Okay, everyone go back. No one was killed. Today we are all thanks to Hunter Chen. Your shooting skills are really accurate. This is also a good year. These three wild boars can also make the village lively."

The man holding the hunting rifle glanced at the family of four. He seemed to have some regrets and said, "It's a pity that this one got away. But now the wild animals in the mountains are starving. It's dangerous to go into the mountains."

Officer Wang replied, "That's right. Let's go back then. If it weren't for the bad luck of people dying at the end of the year, I wouldn't have asked you to go with me."

"What's the big deal? Come to my house for a drink tonight?"

The voices of the two people were getting farther and farther away. No one turned back to pay attention to this family, only the hunter Chen seemed to turn around to look again.

Zhou Leng didn't plan to jump down. She slid down while holding onto the tree trunk, trembling. Then, she fell to the ground as if she had no strength left. Liu Wuqing walked forward, hugged her, and patted her shoulders comfortingly.

Liu Wuqing tilted his head and said, "Officer Wang, I'm going to take my wife back first."

The only thing that answered him was the backs of a group of people turning back. He was so nervous that he didn't hear clearly what Officer Wang and the others said.

Liu Wuqing helped Zhou Leng to stand up by leaning against a tree, then he carried his wife on his back and hurried home.

The two children followed behind him, holding Zhou Leng's calves with concern.

Zhou Leng whispered, "Don't worry, you two kids. Mom is fine. She's just tired from running. She's exhausted."

"Waaaaaaaaa..." Liu Tingfang finally reacted and started crying loudly.

Liu Tingyan wiped her sister's tears and said, "Sister, stop crying. Your face will become chapped."

The final result was that Liu Wuqing carried his wife on his back, Liu Tingyan carried his sister on his back, and the family slowly walked back to the courtyard.

The family of four returned home and looked at the wall of the house that was cracked and dented, and then looked at the fence of the yard that had been completely captured by the mud. These messy scenes made them sigh unconsciously.

Zhou Leng said with a smile: "There is work to do this year."

Liu Wuqing supported her and whispered, "You should rest more. I can do these things by myself."

Zhou Leng hummed softly.

As it was getting dark, Zhou Leng saw Officer Wang coming back carrying dozens of kilograms of meat from the window. He looked happy and hummed a little tune, without looking at them at all. Seeing this, she knew that she was right to hide the wild boar meat. If she didn't hide it, they would not even be able to smell the meat.

into the night.

The whole family was fast asleep. Zhou Leng was thinking about the wild boar meat she had hidden. She had never thought that one day she would have to scheme just to satisfy her appetite.

There is a real shortage of food here, and the family will run out of energy if they don't have oily food.

Because the New Year is approaching, although there is not much work in the village, Liu Wuqing will go to the mountains with everyone to look for woods in the morning. In the afternoon, he will carry a shoulder pole to the village to clean up the animal feces and then deliver them to the place where the team agrees to put the feces, which is the "treasure" of the village.

When Zhou Leng saw that there was always someone living opposite her, she could only suppress the urge to cheat.

three days later.

Zhou Leng finally went into the mountain carrying a cloth bag. She told the people next door that she wanted to go into the mountain to see if she could find any bargains so that her children could have some snacks. Even though those people laughed at her in secret, they still said on the surface that they would help look after the two children at home.

Zhou Leng was walking alone in the white world, and all he could see were the straight green pines guarding the cold land.

She found the wild boar's hiding place according to the location she remembered.

The cold winter froze the dead wild boar into an ice sculpture. Zhou Leng used a sharpened kitchen knife to cut the wild boar into eight pieces bit by bit, and then took one of the pieces and put it into the metal basin in her backpack. She covered everything here and started to walk deeper into the forest until there were few people. She found a place that was sheltered from the wind, built a basin, found clean snow and put it in the basin. After the water boiled, she put the pieces of meat in. As for what seasoning to use, that was wishful thinking.

Zhou Leng cooked the wild boar meat, put it into a basin and placed it on the snow, then put out the fire to destroy all traces. In just about ten minutes, the wild boar meat became cold.

Zhou Leng put the pork into her backpack and returned with the kitchen knife. Fortunately, she reached the edge of the forest safely. She picked up many dead branches, tied them together and put them on her back. There seemed to be nothing unusual.

There was no conversation along the way. Zhou Leng put the firewood in the simple shed on the west side to dry in the shade, and then was about to go into the house. At this moment, a man and a dog came in from outside the repaired yard.

“Woof woof woof…”

The hound barked at Zhou Leng. If it hadn't been tied with a rope, it would have rushed over.

The dog's owner also turned his attention to the woman in the yard.

Zhou Leng frowned slightly, then took a step back and stumbled to the ground as if frightened. Being a head shorter, she just avoided the dog owner's sight. She slightly tilted her head and stared at the barking hound with sharp and murderous eyes.

"Wang..."

The hunting dog barked once and then lay down on the ground obediently and stopped barking.

Zhou Leng ran back into the house screaming as if he was frightened.

"Hahaha, this woman was so scared that she rolled on the ground, but she looks really good. The men of the Liu family are very lucky." The man's teasing voice and arrogant smile came into the room through the doors and windows. After he finished speaking, he seemed to turn his head to glance outside the yard.

There was murderous intent in Zhou Leng's lowered eyes.