The further they walked, the less people they could see. Guo Dajing's steps were still persistent. Just when Xiaoni hesitated, gasping and unable to walk, and wanted to hold Guo Dajing back, he stopped.
There were trees all around, and the snow didn't reach Xiaoni's knees.
Guo Dajing turned to look at Xiaoni, patted her shoulder gently, pointed to the ground, and said, "Wait."
"You asked me to wait here and don't run around." After getting along for a while, Xiaoni has been able to understand the meaning of her elder brother's words. She blinked her big eyes and asked in confusion: "Then where are you going?
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Guo Dajing pointed to a big tree not far away and repeated the instructions just now.
"Then you come back quickly." Xiaoni guessed that her elder brother might want to relieve himself, and the big tree was not far away. Although she was confused as to why he had to go to such a remote place to relieve himself, she still reluctantly agreed.
Guo Dajing nodded, smiled, turned around and walked away through the snow, and soon disappeared behind the big tree.
The snow from the trees was blown down by the wind and fell on Xiaoni's head and body. She didn't even brush it away, but looked at it eagerly.
It didn't take long, but Xiaoni seemed to have been waiting for a long time. Just when she was anxious and wanted to scream, a familiar figure flashed out from behind the tree.
A happy smile of relief broke out on Xiao Ni's face, she took two steps forward and looked at her elder brother without blinking.
Guo Dajing also smiled, came to Xiaoni, brushed the snow off her head and body again, took her little hand again, and walked out of the woods.
Behind a leeward snow slope, Guo Dajing stopped, took out a brown thing from his pocket, broke it into two, and handed it to Xiaoni.
"What is this?" Xiaoni's eyes widened. She didn't recognize this thing, so she reached out and took it and looked at it carefully.
Guo Dajing raised half a piece of chocolate in his hand and demonstrated with a smile, putting it in his mouth, biting it down and chewing it.
"Can it be eaten?!" Xiaoni swallowed, her stomach growling unsatisfactorily, she stopped asking any more questions and took a small bite like her big brother.
The rich milky aroma exploded in her mouth, with an irresistible sweetness. Xiaoni's eyes lit up and she started eating.
"It's delicious, it's really delicious." Xiaoni looked at Guo Dajing and asked curiously: "Brother, where did you find such delicious food?"
Guo Dajing smiled and said nothing, still looking naive or dull.
Xiaoni tasted the good taste and was very hungry. She swallowed half of the chocolate in a few mouthfuls and sucked her fingers without wanting to finish it.
Guo Dajing turned around slightly, and when he faced Xiaoni again, there was another strange black thing in his hand. He grabbed a large piece and handed it over again.
"It's something to eat too?!" Xiao Ni opened her eyes wide in surprise again. It didn't matter if she didn't recognize him, she smelled the aroma of noodles and wine...
Guo Dajing nodded, took off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.
Xiaoni ate with big mouthfuls, eating too fast and almost choked. She grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into her mouth.
Guo Dajing was stunned for a moment, but he also followed suit, giving him a handful of bread and a handful of snow, but he had a bitter smile on his face.
Xiaoni quickly ate most of the bread, but she blinked and suddenly stopped.
"That eldest sister gave us cake soup, I gave this to her." Xiao Ni put away the bread in her hand and hid it in her arms.
What a kind little girl! Under such circumstances, she can still maintain her simplicity and repay her kindness.
Guo Dajing also stopped, a little ashamed, and handed the small piece of bread to Xiaoni.
"For her brother?" Xiaoni raised her head and asked, seeing Guo Dajing nodding, she happily put it away.
Guo Dajing is not a saint, nor does he want to be a saint.
He knew that the food was only for emergencies, not life-saving. Even with the potatoes and rye in the warehouse, if distributed to hundreds of people, it would only be a few meals that were neither hungry nor full, and nothing would change.
Is it selfish? It must be! If you can't survive yourself, how can you save others? If you have the heart, you must also have the strength.
The most important thing now is to regain physical strength, make this body and consciousness completely fit, and master Guo Dajing's abilities. For example, martial arts that can save lives in troubled times...
Guo Dajing and Xiaoni walked towards the village, still thinking over and over again and having a psychological conflict.
Wow, wow, wow!
When an unpleasant cry rang out, Guo Dajing realized that he had returned to the snow pit where the corpse was buried. There was an ominous thing - a crow - sitting on the tree next to him, and it seemed that he smelled the smell of a delicious meal.
Disgust and hatred arise spontaneously from the bottom of my heart. There are murderous bastards and flat-haired beasts that eat people.
Guo Dajing deliberately lagged behind. When Xiaoni was not paying attention, he took out his slingshot and steel balls, pulled open the rubber band, took aim and shot.
Wow! A crow was hit and fell from the tree, frightening the other birds.
The hatred in Guo Dajing's heart subsided slightly, but to his surprise, Xiaoni was just stunned for a moment, then ran over to him screaming in joy.
Xiaoni was not afraid at all. She grabbed the injured and dying crow and raised it in her hand. She showed it to Guo Dajing and shouted with a smile: "Brother, there is meat to eat. It is delicious when roasted!"
This is the way the world is, not to mention crows, eating Guanyin soil can kill people...
Guo Dajing sighed secretly, smiled in response to Xiao Ni, and had some ideas in his mind.
There must be wild animals near the mountains and forests, but these people just don't have the tools to hunt them. Maybe someone will set a trap or something, but it's not that easy to catch the prey.
For Guo Dajing, the easiest thing seems to be flying in the sky.
Thinking like this, Guo Dajing subconsciously squeezed the slingshot that was stuffed into his arms. It was hard and a little cold, but it gave him some confidence.
Click, click, Guo Dajing relied on his height and long arms to step on a stone and break the branch. In addition to hunger, cold can also kill people.
Xiaoni was busy collecting firewood on the ground. Her elder brother was well and she was no longer hungry. She laughed happily again and didn't care about the snow falling on the trees.
"You want me to go back first?" Xiaoni held a small bundle of firewood and looked at Guo Dajing's gesture, "You still want to kill crows."
Guo Dajing nodded, touched Xiao Ni's head, pointed to the village, and said word by word: "Go back - go back - wait."
Xiao Ni hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly agreed, and then warned: "Then don't stay too long, it's very cold outside, and there are wolves that have killed people before!"
Guo Dajing smiled and raised his head, gently turned Xiaoni's body, and waved again.
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Wilderness small village, snowy mountain forest.
Even if they were to escape, where could they go? Either they would be killed by the fugitives, or they would freeze to death and starve to death on the road. The people of the Liao who were forcibly moved here thought so, and so did the Jianlu prisoners.
Therefore, the Jianlu people lived in manors more than ten miles away, and they did not strictly control the people here, leaving them to fend for themselves. Those who could survive until spring were slaves, who cultivated the land for the Jianlu people and were enslaved by them.