Crossing the famine: The hunter's wife has good farmland

Chapter 13: Leaves to Feed Your Belly

Mo Xiaonian really didn't want to go out in the rain, and Fu Cang was repairing someone else's roof, so she couldn't go and ask him to go. So she could only go into the house, roll up the animal skin bedding on the bed and tie it up with a rope to prevent it from getting wet by the rain falling from the roof.

Seeing that water was beginning to seep from the cabinet above the bed, Mo Xiaonian simply opened the cabinet, took out all of Fu Cang's clothes, rolled them up, and tied them up with a rope to prevent the clothes and bedding from spreading out and getting wet in the rain.

After doing all this, Mo Xiaonian felt a little relieved. Just as she was about to go out to see if she could find something to eat, she heard cheers coming from outside.

Mo Xiaonian opened the door curiously, and ended up seeing the dazzling sunlight.

It turned out that during the time she was working, the rain stopped, the sun broke through the clouds and shone through, making the women outside cheer.

The rain stopped, which meant that the men in the tribe could go out hunting.

You have to know that it has been raining heavily for three days and three nights. They have been boiling the leaves and bark of the magic tree to satisfy their hunger these days. If it goes on for a long time, they really can't stand it.

Fu Cang had already come down from the roof of Shitou's house. He turned around and saw Mo Xiaonian looking curiously in his direction. He told Shitou to prepare things for hunting in the mountains, and then he walked in front of Mo Xiaonian.

"Are you hungry? Do you see those short trees with big leaves? That kind is called the fairy tree. The leaves can be cooked and eaten. I gave you that tree yesterday. If you are hungry, pick some and cook it for yourself. I am going into the mountains with the hunters to hunt now. I think we will be back in the evening."

Mo Xiaonian didn't expect that what she ate yesterday was actually leaves. She asked Fu Cang in a somewhat strange tone, "Do you never grow crops or vegetables in your tribe? You rely entirely on hunting for a living? When it rains and you can't hunt, do you have nothing to eat?"

"We usually store some live animals. The wild boar I exchanged for you yesterday was one of my animals. Other families also store some. But this heavy rain lasted for three days and three nights. Even if there were any prey left, they have all been eaten up. We can only eat the leaves and bark of the fairy tree.

As for the matter of growing food and vegetables, our tribe has never tried it. Previously, the great elder brought back a bag of seeds, saying that they would grow edible food, but for some reason, nothing came out after we planted them. We all felt that the great elder was deceived by others, and since then we have given up the idea of farming. Anyway, our tribe has been living by hunting for generations. As long as we can go into the mountains, we will naturally hunt and exchange for everything we need."

Mo Xiaonian nodded and gained some understanding of the backwardness of this tribe.

Fu Cang led his men into the mountains. Mo Xiaonian was not idle either. He returned to the room and entered the space again.

She suddenly had an idea.

She was now in a state of having nowhere to go. The memory of the previous Mo Xiaonian was still sporadic. From those limited memories, Mo Xiaonian deduced that her original body was the daughter of a doctor. She had a good life before, but later her father was killed while treating someone. All of them were implicated and basically had no way to survive. So if she wanted to survive now, she should stay in the Yueluo tribe.