During famine years, I had a divination slip in hand, and my whole family ate chicken, duck, fish, a

Before leaving, she took the family's flint and steel, a pinch of coarse salt, her elder brother's wood-chopping knife, and a large basket for collecting manure, and headed straight up the mountain.

"Second sister, wait for me... I'll carry the basket for you!"

Ye Cuicui chased after her, took the basket from her back, and said matter-of-factly, "It was...it was Father who sent me!"

Actually, it was her own idea to go. Ever since her second sister jumped into the river and was rescued, she seemed like a different person, and people felt much closer to her.

She's almost not afraid of her second sister anymore!

Ye Qingqing laughed, "Okay, then come with me up the mountain, let's go catch rabbits!"

"Catching rabbits?"

Ye Cuicui blinked curiously, "Second Sister, weren't you going to set a trap for the roe deer? Why are you catching rabbits again? Where are you going to catch them? Can you just catch those things like that?"

Uh... I rambled on!

Ye Qingqing revealed a mysterious smile, "They're not easy to catch, but I'm just lucky! You just wait to eat rabbit meat!"

As soon as I entered the mountains, the divination sticks conjured up a giant arrow in my mind, indicating the direction.

Ye Qingqing followed the arrow all the way to the south slope.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

The arrow flashed a few times and disappeared, revealing a large patch of withered bushes, exactly like the scene conjured by the divination slip.

Ye Qingqing quickly parted the withered grass and bushes, and a hole slightly larger than a fist was revealed.

Scattered around the entrance to the burrow were some black "pills," which were rabbit droppings.

"There's rabbit poop, Second Sister! That must be a rabbit hole!"

Ye Cuicui's eyes lit up instantly, and she said incredulously, "Mom, how did you find it when it was hidden so deep?"

"I already told you I was lucky, I saw several rabbit droppings along the way...didn't you see them?"

Ye Qingqing chuckled and said, "A cunning rabbit has three burrows. To avoid predators, rabbits usually dig two or three exits... Cui Cui, go and see if there are any other rabbit burrows around."

Ye Cuicui quickly parted the bushes and searched around. Sure enough, she found two more cave entrances.

The two sisters quickly moved some stones, stuffed the dry grass and bushes inside, struck the flint and steel a few times to create sparks, lit a fire, and then sealed it tightly with stones.

Ye Qingqing cleared away the bushes above the only cave entrance. When thick smoke billowed from the entrance, she quickly blocked the entrance with the large basket used for collecting manure. She gripped the machete tightly in one hand and, together with Cuicui, held the basket up.

A short while later, rustling sounds came from inside the cave.

The rabbit, choked by the smoke, scurried about wildly. Unable to escape through the burrow, it blindly fled towards the unburnt entrance.

"Thump!"

Ye Qingqing felt a sudden weight in her hand, and through the gap in the basket, she saw a large, gray rabbit crash heavily into the manure basket.

"Second sister, a rabbit...a rabbit has wandered in!"

Ye Cuicui held the basket tightly, her thin face unable to hide her excitement.

"Thump!"

Before the words were finished, a gray and white mixed-breed rabbit bumped in.

"Um, Cui Cui, hold the basket tight... cough cough cough..."

Ye Qingqing coughed repeatedly from the smoke, waved her hand, and secretly counted that there were still two left.

"Thump, thump..."

Two more rabbits, one white and one mixed-breed, crashed in and huddled together with the two rabbits in the manure basket. Startled, they scratched and bit around the basket without any rhyme or reason.

Ye Cuicui was so excited that she stammered, "Second Sister... four, four rabbits! We caught, caught a whole family of rabbits!"

"A family should be together all the time!"

Ye Qingqing joked, then quickly said, "Cuicui, I'll count to three, and we'll lift the basket together! One, two, three..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she and Cuicui lifted the manure basket at the same time.

A litter of rabbits landed safely in the manure basket, huddling together in a fluffy ball.

"Wow! Second Sister, we caught four! Four!"

Ye Cuicui grabbed the largest gray rabbit ear and laboriously lifted it in front of Ye Qingqing, her whole little face glowing.

"Second Sister, look! This rabbit is so fat! It weighs at least eight or nine pounds, it's so heavy!"

Ye Qingqing raised an eyebrow. "Not bad."

She glanced at it briefly and saw that the fat, large gray rabbit was male, with shiny, thick fur; it should fetch a good price.

The slightly smaller white one is female; its fur is pure and without any other colors, and it might be more expensive than the gray one.

The other two, which are about half-grown, are probably their two babies. Their fur is gray and white, and they are probably not as valuable as the two adults.

However, if you peel and eat the meat, it should be enough for one meal.

Cui Cui gathered some dry grass to cover the manure basket, then carried it on her back without a word.

"Second sister, let's go home!"

Cui Cui gathered some dry grass to cover the manure basket, then slung it over her back without a word. "If Dad saw how many rabbits we caught, he'd be overjoyed!"

Just thinking about it made her mouth water, and she became so excited that she couldn't speak coherently.

"Second sister, you're so lucky! You found a pheasant yesterday, and today you caught four big, fat rabbits..."

My goodness, if the villagers knew, wouldn't they be green with envy?

What kind of year is this?

Every household is struggling to make ends meet. Her family ate chicken yesterday, and today they're having rabbit meat!

"Keep it down, keep it down, this is nothing!"

Ye Qingqing waved her hand, her upturned lips harder to suppress than an AK47. "Cui Cui, you carry the rabbit back first. I'll go for a walk up the mountain, release the snare for the roe deer, and then come back."

"Once we catch that silly roe deer, your second sister will buy you and Huanhuan new clothes!"

Ye Cuicui blinked.

She would be content with selling the rabbits to buy enough food for a month or two; she wouldn't even dare to dream of new clothes.

She lived to be thirteen, and all her clothes were hand-me-downs from her second sister, patched up by her mother before she wore them. She never remembered seeing what new clothes looked like!

Cui Cui skipped away with her basket on her back, and only then did Ye Qingqing use her mind to take out the fortune sticks and reach out to pick out the medium-good fortune stick.

The divination slip vanished in my hand as a beam of light, and the image appeared before my eyes.

A roe deer with a dull look was in the bushes, occasionally pawing at the ground with its hooves and nibbling at the dry grass.

Its size is similar to that of an adult sika deer, but its fur is grayish and not as attractive as that of a sika deer, and it is probably not as valuable as a deer.

Even a fly is meat, let alone such a big fly!

Ye Qingqing was even more excited than when she was catching a rabbit. Following the huge arrow that appeared in front of her, she went up the mountain.

The mountain is covered with dense forests, and the ground is covered with thick layers of dead leaves that crunch underfoot.

In a withered thicket, a lone roe deer is munching on dry grass, just like the scene depicted in the fortune stick.

"Rustle and rustle..."

Ye Qingqing tried to slow her pace, but her footsteps still made a soft, rustling sound.

The roe deer has keen hearing; upon hearing the sound, it immediately raised its head and looked around in surprise.

Ye Qingqing hid behind a big tree, holding her breath to suppress her excited heartbeat.

If only she knew how to draw a bow and shoot arrows!

Even if you don't know how, having someone who knows how to hunt around will help.

It's a pity that my eldest brother, despite being tall and strong, never learned how to hunt after studying with our father for several years.

Otherwise, she could find the prey and the older brother could hunt it; they would definitely be able to get their hands on this silly roe deer!