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Chapter 1611 I want them all! (The new sausages are super unpalatable)
Although Mai Sakurajima is considered to be well-informed, she was still confused when she saw the bear being dragged back to the cabin by Duanmu Huai.

“Can bears be eaten?”

"Sure, can you clean the fish?"

"I've learned some before."

"Then you take care of these fish. I'll go take care of this bear."

Duanmu Huai waved a machete in his hand. There were also machetes and knives for chopping firewood in the cottage. Although they were not very clean, they could be used after being boiled in snow water, washed and disinfected.

Besides, it’s already this bad, why do you still need a bicycle?

Fortunately, after killing the bear, Duanmu Huai directly cut its throat and drained all the blood. It was winter now, the temperature was very low, and the bear did not have a strong smell of blood. Therefore, it was not difficult to deal with. Duanmu Huai dragged the bear to the door, cleaned it up and started to skin it. He ate wild game every day in the Journey to the West, and he was very familiar with this skill.

Winter bears eat their fill and then hibernate, but this bear is a bit stupid, and it seems that it didn't have enough time to eat before winter, so it is still looking for food after winter comes. However, judging from its size, it should have stored a lot, and it may have met Duanmu Huai and Sakurajima Mai on the way home to hibernate, so it decided to have a meal.

Well, now it's become a snack.

Duanmu Huai did a very good job of gutting the animal, removing the internal organs, skinning it, and then removing its limbs. Mai Sakurajima, who was standing next to him, looked at him sideways. After all, the meat that Japanese people usually buy in supermarkets is processed. Maybe processing fish is no problem for ordinary Japanese people, but killing chickens and sheep is another matter for them.

Especially for star idols like Sakurajima Mai, she has probably never seen a chicken being slaughtered since she was born, let alone a bear being slaughtered.

"Xiao Ai'ai is really skilled."

"You'll get used to it. I used to really like eating game."

Duanmu Huai peeled off the bear skin, wiped it clean in the snow, and then placed it next to the fire. After it was dried, it could be used as a bear skin mat. This thing was quite warm.

"It's a pity there is no wild boar. It would be better if there was a wild boar delivered to our door."

"But there are so many, we can't finish them all."

"If you can't finish it, just freeze it. The weather outside is no different from a refrigerator. If you hang it under the eaves, you won't have to worry about it being stolen by other wild animals... Hey, this guy is quite fat from eating so much. We can't waste so much fat."

Looking at the white fat, Duanmu Huai snorted softly, then cut it off, rinsed it, and then put it in a pot and put it on the fire to boil. Duanmu Huai had never boiled bear fat, but he had seen the method of boiling lard. Although bear and pig are a little different, the fat should be similar.

For a moment, the cabin was silent, with only the sounds of firewood, frying and knife. While processing the fish in front of her, Mai Sakurajima felt a little dazed. In this cabin, at this moment, she suddenly had an illusion. It was as if they were not artists living in modern society, but living in the home of hunters in ancient times. The wife was cooking at home, waiting for her husband to return, while the husband walked into the cabin with the prey, smiling, and began to deal with his work.

How should I put it, it feels very...family-like.

Is this why Yoshiko secretly develops feelings for the protagonist?

Thinking of this, Mai Sakurajima suddenly felt a little confused. As an actor, she also had to figure out the role. Although from the plot point of view, Yoshiko was rescued by the protagonist and then developed a liking for him, it seems to be in line with the usual routine in love comics. But when playing Yoshiko, Mai Sakurajima actually had some doubts. Because in Mai Sakurajima's view, Yoshiko is a good girl, and as a rich lady, she is also good at distinguishing feelings, so even if she was rescued by the protagonist, Mai Sakurajima believes that Yoshiko should be grateful for the protagonist's affection, not like him.

But now, she suddenly understood something.

Perhaps, this is the simple sense of family that Yoshiko longs for.

As a rich girl, Yoshiko had a good life, but her parents were always not at home. In order to pass the time, Yoshiko read a lot of books and became very knowledgeable.

But deep down, she must still be lonely.

Just like myself.

Her father abandoned her mother and married another woman. In order to avenge her father, her mother let Mai Sakurajima enter the entertainment industry. Perhaps she hoped to use Mai Sakurajima's outstanding performance to avenge the fickle man and make him regret abandoning her.

From this point of view, Mai Sakurajima felt that her mother was very pitiful. She did not want to be a tool for her mother to make money, nor did she want to be a tool for revenge.

Mai Sakurajima herself had not felt the warmth of family for a long time. From this point of view, she felt that she could really understand Yoshiko's feelings.

In the closed cabin, she and her husband formed a small, sweet and warm family. Living a calm life every day, it may not be so comfortable and hard, but she can experience the warmth between people... Is it because of this that she likes the protagonist?

What Yoshiko fell in love with was not the protagonist as a person, but the "family".

"How's the fish?"

Duanmu Huai's voice suddenly came from behind, bringing Sakurajima Mai back to her senses.

“Almost…”

"What? Are you daydreaming?"

"I was just thinking about something."

Sakurajima Mai shook her head.

"for example?"

"For example... why did Ryoko fall in love with the protagonist?"

"You're still thinking about the script now. You really are a role model for actors."

Duanmuhuai complained silently.

"I think that Yoshiko didn't fall in love with the protagonist because he saved her, but because she longed for the warmth of a family... a beautiful, warm family, this may be what Yoshiko wanted."

"Family... Speaking of this, I just... forget it, it's nothing."

"???"

Although Sakurajima Mai cast a puzzled look at Duanmu Huai, Duanmu Huai did not answer. To be honest, after entering the entertainment industry, Duanmu Huai discovered that the artists in this circle all had family problems to a certain extent.

This is true for both idols and actors. Mai Sakurajima's parents are divorced, Kana Arima's parents are divorced, Akane Kurokawa also comes from a single-parent family, and myself and Ruby—well, it's better for them to be divorced.

At least those who are divorced have been married before.

I remember that the top star of the theater troupe LALALAI, Himekawa Daiki, who won the Best Actor Award, was also very miserable. His parents committed suicide when he was a child. Even MEM also came from a single-parent family...

In this line of work, there seem to be a lot of single-parent families or families with both parents dead. From a psychological point of view, perhaps it is precisely because they cannot get the love and care of a healthy family that they hope to get attention from the outside world to fill the inner emptiness. Of course, this is also Duanmu Huai's nonsense, after all, he does not understand psychology.

So when complaining about Duanmu Huai, he was thinking about it in his heart and decided not to say it out loud to avoid offending others.

By the time the two had finished preparing the food, it was already afternoon and their stomachs were growling with hunger. If Mai hadn't taken a piece of candy to hold her balance, she would have probably fainted.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and the two of them managed to cook their meals in the howling snowstorm.

Sakurajima Mai made fish soup, while Duanmu Huai used processed fried bear steaks. After using tree branches as chopsticks, the two began to enjoy this belated meal.

"Hmm... Mai, you are quite good at cooking."

While drinking the delicious fish soup, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but praise it. In the cold winter, drinking a bowl of steaming fish soup really made him feel a lot more comfortable.

"Xiao Ai's steak is also very good. This is my first time eating bear meat."

Because there was no knife and fork at hand, she could only cut it into small pieces and pick it up with chopsticks. Sakurajima Mai showed a surprised expression while eating the bear meat in her mouth.

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“Although it’s a little hard, it tastes pretty good and has plenty of gravy…”

"I was wondering if this bear oil would work, and now it seems to be quite good."

Duanmu Huai chuckled and then started to eat.

The two had been hungry for almost a day. Not to mention Duanmu Huai, Sakurajima Mai was already starving. Although she didn't eat much normally, she let down her appetite and ate a big meal this time.

"call……………"

After Duanmu Huai finished eating, he sat aside contentedly and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's so comfortable. Bear paws are really delicious."

"I still have a problem with eating that stuff."

Unlike Duanmu Huai, Mai stayed away from bear paws, as if she simply didn't want to eat something that looked like a human hand.

"So you're still not hungry enough. If you were hungry enough, you would eat anything raw, not to mention cooked food."

"Luckily I'm not that hungry yet."

Having said this, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

"By the way, Mai, have you ever heard the saying 'You can't have your cake and eat it too'?"

"I have heard of it. It means that when faced with two important choices, it is difficult to take them into account at the same time, so you have to make a choice."

"But now, we eat the fish and we eat the bear's paws as well."

Duanmu Huai patted his belly.

“So this statement is not true.”

"Is that right?"

"That's right. If you have the ability to kill both the fish and the bear, then you can have them all. In the final analysis, the reason you can't do both is simply because you don't have the ability."

“But most people in this world don’t have the ability.”

"Perhaps that is true."

Duanmu Huai curled his lips.

"So this sentence is more of an excuse for them, because they can't have both, so they have to give up one of them. In the final analysis, it's just that they realize it's not that they don't want it, but they simply can't do it."

"Yeah, I just can't do it."

Mai Sakurajima held the fish soup and sighed silently.

“It would be great if this world really had the best of both worlds.”

"There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds in this world."

"You just said that as long as you have enough ability, you can have the best of both worlds."

"But I'm talking about fish and bears."

Duanmu Huai shrugged, and Sakurajima Mai rolled his eyes at him.

"I don't want this kind of brain teaser."

“Hoohoooo ...

At the same time, there was a whistling sound outside the window again, making the window creak. Duanmu Huai stood up and fixed the window again to make sure it would not be blown open suddenly.

"It seems like the snow won't stop anytime soon... Why did the director choose this time to shoot?"

Duanmu Huai complained speechlessly that his and Sakurajima Mai's mobile phones were broken when they fell off the cliff, leaving only a pile of plastic fragments, which were completely unusable. In other words, with the telecommunications environment in Japan, even if the mobile phone is intact, it is impossible to receive a signal in the mountains.

"Next time when we shoot, we must ask the director to check the local weather conditions in advance."

This is something to put on the memo.