A CEO Grows Up

In the evening, to the surprise of Lin Chuchu and his companions, a bonfire party was held in the town.

Lin Chuchu and a few others sat around the campfire, watching Baruka roasting wolf meat while his wife assisted him in spreading the ingredients. Outside them, a group of people held hands and danced in circles around the campfire, and everyone cheered with joy.

Baruka roasted the wolf meat and cut off a piece to pass to Lin Chuchu and the others. It was the first time for Lin Chuchu to eat wolf meat, and surprisingly, it tasted amazing. Lin Chuchu was very satisfied with the meal. Seeing this, Gina immediately smiled and lifted the small table next to her together with other villagers to the vicinity of Lin Chuchu and the others, and pointed at the side dishes on the table and said, "Eat some side dishes, otherwise you will feel sick in a while." Lin Chuchu nodded when she heard it, picked up a side dish with chopsticks and started to eat it. After chewing for a few times, Lin Chuchu immediately widened her eyes slightly, gave Gina a thumbs up, and said, "Hmm~ It's delicious, Aunt Gina, did you make this? I haven't eaten it before." Gina smiled and nodded when she heard it, saying, "I made it. This is the wild vegetables your uncle Ba picked on the mountain. I dried it and then took it out to mix it." Seeing that Lin Chuchu really liked it, Gina said, "If you like it, I'll pack some for you when you leave tomorrow." Lin Chuchu immediately accepted it generously when she heard it: "Thank you, Aunt Gina."

Lin Chuchu suddenly remembered something, so she asked curiously: "Aunt Gina, has Uncle Ba also been to Xilan Mountain?" Gina smiled and said, "Of course I have been there. Most of us who live off the mountains have been there, but we didn't go into the mountains. We just wandered around the periphery." Lin Chuchu nodded disappointedly, and then said, "Everyone says that Xilan Mountain is very dangerous and no one has ever been in. Is that true, Aunt Gina?" Gina heard what she said and saw that Lin Chuchu was extremely curious. She really liked this little girl and looked at her as if she were looking at her own daughter. Like a child, so he said gently: "Yes, it is said to be very dangerous. People who have gone in have died or been injured. There are definitely wild beasts, and sometimes wolves will come out to hunt for food. It is also said that there are poisonous insects in there, which will bite you when you are not paying attention, and the people who are bitten will die before they can even get medical treatment. Therefore, very few people go in. Even your uncle Ba has not gone deep into it, but... a group of people went in twenty years ago..." At this time, Baruka interrupted their conversation: "Gina, help me distribute this meat to the villagers." Gina was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then left.

Lin Chuchu could see that Baluka didn't want Gina to tell others that someone had gone in there 20 years ago. Although Lin Chuchu was puzzled, since the other person didn't want to talk about it, she wouldn't be so shameless as to ask about it. Otherwise, it would be counterproductive and make the other person annoyed. Wouldn't she then kick them out?

After dinner, the bonfire party was coming to an end. Lin Chuchu and the others were eating delicious food. Baruka brought a few skins and said to Lin Chuchu and the others, "The biggest one is the skin of the wolf king, and this one belongs to Chuchu. There are four more, which are the most complete skins. I will equip them for you tomorrow. Don't think that these wolf skins are ugly, but they are very warm in winter. You can take them back and make them into a fur coat or a cloak, which is beautiful and comfortable." Lin Chuchu and the others immediately waved their hands to refuse. Lin Chuchu smiled and said, "Uncle Ba, we have disturbed you a lot. Why would we ask for your things? We are very grateful." Baruka smiled and said, "You got these by yourselves. Have you forgotten that you bravely killed wolves? I am also taking advantage of you to eat wolf meat. You know, we carried all the wolf carcasses back with us." Lin Chuchu then stopped and nodded and said, "Uncle Ba, I'll take the wolf king's skin, and the others can be distributed to the people in the town." Baruka knew that Lin Chuchu was speaking from the heart, but still insisted, "We make a living by hunting. It can't be said that everyone has a beast skin, but basically every household has one. You can take these." Lin Chuchu had to agree after hearing that, but...: "Uncle Ba, then you keep it for us first, and then come back to get it after we get out safely, how about it? The skin is very heavy, and we are climbing a mountain, so we don't want to carry the weight forward, hehe." Baruka looked at Lin Chuchu's playful look and smiled and agreed.

Lin Chuchu was a little curious. She had been here for a day and hadn't seen Uncle Ba's children. She thought they had gone out to develop. After all, they could only hunt here. If they wanted to develop more, they had to go out. So Lin Chuchu asked casually, "Uncle Ba, have your children gone out to develop?" Baruka was stunned for a moment, then said sadly, "We have a daughter. If she were still alive, she would be as old as you." When Baruka said this, his eyes were full of nostalgia, regret, and sadness.

Lin Chuchu was stunned when she heard this. No wonder Aunt Gina always looked at her with a gentle and tender look, as if she was her daughter. Was it because she was the same age as their deceased daughter? Then Lin Chuchu was a little overwhelmed and said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Ba, I thought she went out to develop. The dead are gone, don't be sad." Lin Chuchu really didn't mean to expose Baruka's scars, but just asked out of curiosity. Baruka knew what Lin Chuchu was thinking, and then smiled and said, "It's nothing. Everyone in the town knows it. It's been so long, and we should let it go. It's just that I feel sad every time I think about it. She went there two years ago. She was picking wild vegetables with your Aunt Gina in the mountains. When we didn't pay attention, she went deeper into the mountains and was accidentally bitten by an unknown poisonous insect. As a result... she died before she returned to the town." Baruka was already very sad when he said this. If he continued, he was afraid that he, a grown man, would cry in front of the younger generation, so he stopped the topic. He didn't take good care of his daughter. It was all his fault.

Lin Chuchu had not expected this to happen, and her heart was filled with sadness. Uncle Ba's family was so nice, but her daughter had to endure this. It was such a pity, they were such kind people.

At this time, Lin Chuchu didn't know that Baruka had a connection with her family, but she soon found out, and thus became their godparents and raised them until they grew old.