Chu River shrugged: "Forget it, we’re family, I can’t be too stingy. How about this, five pounds of at for one al, if you want to show so respect to my big brother, just pay for the five pounds of at."
"Forget the at tickets, we’re family, no need to be so tetchy."
Chu River’s mind was calculating furiously—at tickets? Old Mrs. Chu exchanges those for food tickets as soon as she gets them, asking for them won’t work, better to ask for cash, Big Brother’s family surely has it!
After all, they’ve secretly saved ten yuan each from selling blood four tis.
Five pounds of at?!
The sister-in-law felt dizzy but looking at the man at ho could only turn her head to plow through the mud...
She looked at the old lady, who was sitting down on the ground, suddenly crying over her own milk powder.
Helpless, the sister-in-law could only hurriedly run back to her own room.
...
Fine.
Chu River was quite pleased.
A day has passed, though she missed at twice, the eggs in the morning, bacon at noon, and milk powder in the afternoon... it’s not bad.
Besides, she earned quite a lot of money, adding noon’s, a total of six and a half yuan, which is quite a fortune these days.
With her around, at night the whole family gets a bowl of porridge each and that’s it; the niece, due to her dayti mistake, doesn’t get porridge at night, she stares at a green ointnt across half her face, chopping wood by the faint light of her bloodied face.
How old is she?
She can’t even lift the axe, after struggling for a long ti, she hasn’t managed to chop many. Chu River withdrew her gaze—[she] used to do the sa.
But the niece is smart, you see, Chu River lying in her soft new bedding, could still faintly hear the sounds from outside.
After a while, when the moon was high up, the chopping sound stopped.
A little figure ca up stealthily, shaking her shoulder gently, whispering: "Auntie, do you want an egg?"
The room was dark, the niece could only sense soone moved, so she quickly felt around, shoved sothing into Chu River’s mouth.
Chu River opened her mouth—goodness, a fingernail-sized chunk of egg white.
Nothing else.
She didn’t complain—anyway, she is full today, instead, she smiled at the little girl’s sneaky figure crawling out.
The niece earned three eggs working during the day, ate one, hid two, and has just eaten another.
The other, seems like she won’t have breakfast tomorrow...
Not bad, quite worth it.
Usually, the girl’s al is just a bowl of watery porridge.
...
This family is dirt poor, Chu River can’t stand staying here.
Once the little girl outside fell asleep in the wood stack, she left as well.
—The couple of big fish spotted in the river yesterday—can’t miss the chance!
Returning to the old spot, she once again took off her shoes, and quietly went down into the water.
While knocking out two big grass carps, Chu River thought—forgot where Shi Suifeng lived, today’s fish seems to be her own to grill!
Just when she erged from the water, she saw soone familiar squatting on the riverbank!
Shi Suifeng laughed there, the shimring reflections mirrored in his eyes, accentuated by moonlight, more gentle:
"I guessed you’d co to catch fish."
He stretched out a hand, slightly lending a hand to pull her up.
Chu River was equally surprised, checking the man, then the two fish, said especially reluctantly: "Since you’re here, let’s grill the fish together! The tails are all yours!"
The fingers incidentally outlined the fish’s body.
Saying fish tail, truly only the tail, drawing not a single bit of at.
Shi Suifeng looked at the two big grass carps—fish tails all for him?
This girl...
He chuckled helplessly: "Thank you so much for your generosity!"
...
The cave was a good base, when grilling fish, Chu River skillfully pulled out two pieces of Shi Suifeng’s clothes from a nearby bundle to change into, then asked: "Where do you live? I managed a chunk of bacon at noon, just couldn’t find anyone so I let my sister-in-law cook... such a waste!"
Shi Suifeng laughed: "Your family lives at the east end, mine is at the west—still having bacon? Seems your family treats you quite well."
Chu River was imnsely proud—in the past life a hero, but didn’t even eat a black and white flower!
Present life’s leisure is to beat scumbags, not necessarily eating amazingly well, but it’s fine.
"It’s alright, it’s alright, if no at, you get hit, my family all fear pain."
Upon hearing that, Shi Suifeng couldn’t help but burst out laughing with a "pfft."
He mimicked: "My family treats well too, so you know, killed a six-pound old hen tonight, I ate three bowls alone!"
Ate till the family’s hearts bled, couldn’t snatch it off him.
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