vrcanaries Chapter 122 Looking East
Chapter 122 Looking East
"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle~~~" Zhou Guo's stomach started to sing the empty city plan again. The food she had last eaten was the rations she took from the bandits, but a lot of it was spoiled and stained with blood. There was only a little left, and she had to share it with so many people. She had a big appetite, so it was as if she hadn't eaten anything.
This means she hasn't eaten for two days and one night, and she had a fierce battle yesterday.
Looking at the roasted rabbit in front of me and smelling its aroma, my stomach became hungrier and hungrier. My hands and feet started to become weak from hunger, and sweat broke out all over my body.
She really couldn't bear it any longer, and looked at the two rabbits eagerly and asked: "Master, how long will it take before we can eat them? I see the skin is burnt and it smells so good, it must be ready to eat." As she said that, she was about to start eating.
"Hey, wait a minute, oh, kid, why are you so impatient? Didn't you want to eat it at the beginning? Wait, I haven't sprinkled salt yet." He took out the salt bottle in his arms and sprinkled it slowly from beginning to end, inside and out.
Zhou Guo couldn't wait any longer. Now, she could eat it even if it wasn't roasted, not to mention without salt.
He took out a dagger, cut off a piece of rabbit leg, then handed the knife to the old man beside him. He held the rabbit leg and started eating it. He was so hungry that he couldn't even feel the heat.
She finished the whole rabbit leg in just a few bites, not even leaving the bones. She chewed them up and swallowed them. She looked even more miserable than a starving ghost.
The old man shook his head repeatedly, feeling distressed, and handed over the rabbit leg he had cut off. "There's meat here, why are you still eating the bones? Can you chew it?"
Zhou Guo grinned, revealing a mouthful of meat, took the rabbit leg and took a big bite, mumbling: "Oh my god, this kid is not good enough."
After saying that, he buried his head in eating again, biting the rabbit leg and tearing off a piece of meat from it.
After she finished eating one, the old man cut another one for her.
He ate all eight legs of the two rabbits in one breath, and then gulped down a few mouthfuls of water before he felt something in his stomach. His hunger, sweating, and trembling hands and feet finally improved.
"Tsk, they say that young boys can eat their fathers out of money. You are not even old enough, but you can eat so much. Luckily I killed two, otherwise it wouldn't be enough for you alone." The old man cut the meat for her with disdain, "Here, it's hot, eat slowly, are you choking?"
Zhou Guo shook her head. She felt full and slowed down her eating. While she was eating, she saw that the old man was busy cutting for her and she didn't eat a single bite. "Master, why don't you eat? Eat quickly. This meat is delicious. It's not easy to eat game. Why don't you eat more?"
The old man said, "I've eaten. These are roasted for you. Eat slowly so you can get going after you finish eating." After saying that, he turned the rabbit over.
"Then you should eat a few bites, it's really delicious."
"How could I not know that what I baked was delicious? I've tried it, and now I can't eat any more."
Zhou Guo stopped talking and ate in big mouthfuls, chewing each mouthful for many times before swallowing it. This way, it looked like he was eating both fast and slow, yet very harmoniously.
She ate up both rabbits by herself, and the old man didn't eat a single bite.
Even after eating, I still felt empty in my stomach and uneasy, so I gulped down half a bamboo tube of water before I felt full.
"Two rabbits weigh at least six or seven kilograms. Don't let them go hungry for so long next time. If you eat so much meat and drink so much water at once, you will get sick sooner or later." The old man shook his head in disapproval.
Zhou Guo said: "I understand, but there is no other way. You say that in such a critical situation, where can I get food... Burp~~~" Before he could finish his words, he burped loudly, and the breath he exhaled smelled like roasted rabbit.
"I have to chase you because I'm afraid you'll get into trouble." He dug some soil and poured it on the fire to make sure it wouldn't catch fire again, then led the horse over and climbed on top. "Master, where did you get lost yesterday?"
The old man pointed ahead and said, "It's about 20 miles ahead. There's a crossroad. When the crowd rushed out, it was very chaotic. Everyone was moving in different directions. You went east and I went north. We each went our own way. Later, I rode back and forth carefully for more than an hour, but I didn't see anyone."
Zhou Guo's heart sank. With such complicated road conditions, could she find her little brother?
……
"Drive! Drive!"
"drive!"
In the starry wilderness, two horses were galloping one after the other on a government road sandwiched between two dense forests.
"Xu~~"
"Here it is!" The old man raised his chin and pointed to the intersection in front of him.
Zhou Guo was riding on a horse. The horse under him suddenly stopped, stamped its hooves, and turned a few circles on the spot.
She dismounted, lit a torch, walked to the crossroads, observed for a while, stood in the direction she came from, and pointed forward, "We came from the south, we have to go up, and no one goes on this road behind us, so there are only two roads left."
The old man added: "They came from the left. The two groups met here and followed us all the way north, all the way east along this road on the right. I just don't know if anyone went back."
She squatted down and looked carefully at the traces on the road. There were no footprints going west or south, only north and east.
Since no one goes to the southwest, I must have been taken east by someone!
She stood up and looked intently at the road heading east.
The two men mounted their horses again and rode away at full speed.
"Zhou Su~~Zhou Su~~"
"Zhou Su, where are you?"
Zhou Guo kept shouting as he walked.
There was no one in the wilderness and it was completely silent. Her shouts echoed far away but were swallowed up by the darkness. The only answers she got were the occasional sound of the wind blowing through the treetops and the chirping of insects.
The two walked from darkness to dawn. Zhou Guo's voice became hoarse, and they gained nothing. However, they met many refugees who had escaped on the road. She dismounted and followed her master to ask along the way, but everyone said they had seen nothing and they gained nothing.
From the dawn to the sun at its highest point in the sky, Zhou Su seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, with no trace of him at all.
The old man was afraid that she couldn't bear it, so he went into the woods and shot a pheasant and two rabbits. "You've been traveling all night. Come, eat something before you go."
Zhou Guo couldn't eat much and wanted to leave, but when she accidentally caught a glimpse of the master's graying beard and hair, her nose felt sore again. She let it go, but how could she drag the master to follow him to look for someone day and night? The old man hadn't eaten last night, and it was already noon. If he didn't eat, he wouldn't be able to hold on.
So he said nothing and went to deal with the prey obediently.
It's easy to deal with rabbits, but how do you get rid of the hair on pheasants? If you don't get it clean, you'll end up with a mouthful of hair.
She thought about it and decided to mix some yellow mud. She didn't even pluck the chicken's feathers, but covered its entire body with a thick layer of mud. Then she could bury it directly in the fire.