At the end of the day, what did a
three-year-old child know? Of course he learned that from some adult. Gu Ming
was so angry he was about to snatch the bun back. Outside the room, the clan
leader and the elders all heard it clearly and they shook their head nonstop.
Gu Xiao took a look at the short and stubby child and his snicker grew colder.
The next day, the reconstruction of Gu
Xiao’s house commenced. This is the down time for farming so every free labor
in the village came to help out.
As for the structures on the inside, the
base that was dug in the past was still there. With stones as the base, then
with a rectangle shaped wooden mold, clay and straws were poured inside of it
before hammering compact with a wooden baton. Lastly, it was the beams and
layering straws on top of the roof.
Gu Xiao was generous in person and well
rounded, and the food was delicious. Main food was mixed flour steamed buns and
the side dish was always stewed vegetables with some sort of meat, either fatty
meat or pheasants or wild rabbit. Never mind anything else, there were no
shortages of volunteers to help out with that kind of meals.
Picture: mixed flour steamed buns
Source: meishichina.com
The weather was nice for a few days in a
row, the crude form of the three main rooms were done quickly. In addition to
the three main rooms, they’d also need a kitchen and a storage unit for
miscellaneous items and firewood. In the backyard there needed to be a stable
for the horse to stay warm. Under the persistent request of Gu Ming, some space
was segmented out for a pigpen; he said he wanted to trap a piglet in the
spring time to keep.
In the last couple of weeks, everybody
was way busy with the building of the house; even Gu Ming and his few buddies
would join in and help from time to time. Finally there were nobody watching
over Gu Ye like a hawk and she felt like a little birdie that was finally
released and happily into the woods she went.
The woods around the village were
relatively safe, but also well-travelled by all the villagers. It was almost
impossible to find anything of value. Excitedly, Gu Ye looked at the farther
and deeper parts of the mountain.
This one day, she carried the back basket
with her and took off without even telling anyone. Her destination was the big
mountain behind their new house. After crossing two hill tops, the windy little
path disappeared altogether. Waving the hatchet, she travelled along the path
of thick bushes, occasionally startling a baby pheasant who’d fly out of the
bushes.
Before she went into the mountain, she
sprinkled some beast-repelling powder onto herself. She had invented these
powder at the very beginning of the beginning of the apocalypse. It worked
wonders at hiding from and keeping away the low level beasts.
Thinking about her previous live when the
mutation had first started, all the once docile house pets turned into fatal
enemies of humans. Docile cats turned into beasts more vicious than ferocious
tigers; the once loyal canines turned abruptly into vicious beasts that hunted
their masters…. Never mind about all the animals in zoos or circuses! Humans
had fallen from the top of the food chain into preys in no time.
And she was just a stupid at a medical
school when they discovered her amazing talent in alchemy. In order to stay
alive, the first drug she developed was exactly this beast-repelling powder.
The smell from these powder was enough to drive away the vicious beasts. It was
exactly because she has these powder that she was able to avoid the mutated pets,
the farm animals in the countryside, and finally being picked up by Icy Face…
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Love the story so far...Pls update more
ReplyDeleteThank you for translating! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔノ♡
ReplyDeleteAh, humans are so hypocrital.. there is nothing wrong with being hunted by animals..
ReplyDeleteRofl you want to get in a cage with a tiger or have swim with a shark?
DeleteIt's all wrong when you are the huntee... er, prey. ;)
ReplyDeleteHere I thought he would build a blue brick blue brick house, lol
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