Chapter 461 - 450
"I know, all the mountains nearby are small; there won’t be any fierce beasts, and I’m not going toward Mian Mountain anyway,"
Zhou Xi paused when he reached this point. Mian Mountain was the mountain in the direction of the county town, after they left the village. That area was a chain of mountains connected to each other. They weren’t particularly tall, but he remembered that when they were kids, they would often go up there to look for wild fruits, wild chickens, rabbits, and such. There were more of those there than in other mountains.
There were even wild boars, deer, and wolves.
But the young men of Qili Village were brave. They weren’t discouraged from going to Mian Mountain. With friends calling out to one another, as long as there were many of them, they dared to cross Mian Mountain all the way to another county.
However, ever since the corpses of Zhou Yin and his wife were found there, the people of Qili Village had subconsciously avoided the place. For many years now, few had gone up there to look for anything.
Zhou Xi left the house in a hurry.
Ms.Qian leaned against the wall and spaced out for a while.
All of the Zhou Family’s children had been sent to the small courtyard next door, and on this side of the large courtyard, only the four daughters-in-law were busy at work.
Ms.Feng had just wrung a chicken’s neck and was waiting for the boiling water to pluck its feathers. Ms.Fang was the one boiling the water while Ms.He went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and Junior Ms.Qian was kneading dough.
The family had long run out of rice, so naturally, they couldn’t steam rice. Lately, they had been eating noodles or griddled cakes; occasionally, Old Zhou would permit them a little luxury and let Junior Ms.Qian pull noodles for everyone...
From the small courtyard next door, the voices of the children talking could occasionally be heard, distant as if coming from the horizon. Ms.Qian, who had managed to stop her tears, suddenly found them flowing like a breached river, unstoppable...