MTL - A Cannon Fodder Female Partner To Raise a Cub In The Era Novel

Chapter 6 Catching Fish

With a "crash" sound, Li Jing used a slender branch to insert a small crucian carp.

　　It was auspicious when it opened. One after another, fish within Li Jing's standard size swam leisurely in the clear river as if they had thrown themselves into a trap, and she stuck them on small branches one by one.

As someone who was trained in the last days, she has extremely strong hands-on skills and pays attention to speed, accuracy and ruthlessness in doing things. No matter how nimble the fish she likes, they can't escape her ruthless hands.

After catching enough for dinner, Li Jing stopped and without further delay, picked up the fish and drove back.

The sky was completely dark.

In this world and in this era, the sky is dark and it is so dark that you can’t even see your fingers.

Electricity equipment is underdeveloped, and villagers are reluctant to use oil lamps.

If it is not a busy farming period, they will eat early and go to bed early. Even if it is a busy farming period, they will work until dark and the villagers will not waste oil lamps if it is dark.

Li Jing is not walking in the dark. Once her wood power is activated, the flowers, plants and trees on the road become her guiding light.

 So, she walked very fast, walking on flat ground in the dark night.

 From a distance, Li Jing saw light and fire in the thatched house.

 The small cluster made Li Jing feel nervous and speed up.

Cottages.

Jiang Xiaowen was boiling water, while Jiang Xiaoxin was holding Jiang Xiaoya and feeding her malted milk.

This malted milk was brought back by Jiang Weiguo before the Chinese New Year last year. He did not bring it back to the Jiang family. The two brothers hid it in their secret base, so no one in the Jiang family, old or young, knew about the existence of this jar of malted milk.

 They have never drank it themselves, but from time to time they will brew some and feed it to Jiang Xiaoya.

Jiang Xiaoya almost drank a whole can of malted milk by herself, but even so, she didn't gain weight.

How is it possible to gain weight?

Jiang Xiaoxin only pours a little bit every time when soaking, and adds a lot of water, in order to prevent Jiang Xiaoya from starving to death.

 Jiang Xiaoya is very good when eating, gobbling it up.

After feeding, Jiang Xiaoxin looked at the dark area in the distance, worried in his heart, and opened his mouth: "Brother, it's dark, why hasn't that woman come back yet? Should we go out to look for her?"

 Jiang Xiaowen broke off a branch and threw it into the fire, burning the water vigorously.

Hung above the fire was a small stone pot half filled with water. They didn't have an iron pot, and the stone pot had poor thermal conductivity. Jiang Xiaowen burned it for a while, but the water in the pot didn't move at all, and there was no bubbling or boiling.

The firelight shone on Jiang Xiaowen's thin face, and his dark eyes could be seen.

"No need! My mother is older than the two of us combined, so why should we worry?"

Jiang Xiaoxin's mouth bulged and he muttered: "You still call her mother? Forget it, I don't care about you!"

“I’m not worried about her, it’s just that it’s dark. If something happens to her, how can we tell dad? Before dad left, he asked us to take good care of her!”

Jiang Xiaowen raised his eyes and couldn't help but laugh: "Isn't that the opposite?"

Jiang Xiaoxin glared at him and said, "Father really told us to take good care of her."

Jiang Xiaowen then smiled and said "Hmm", looked at the red flames, and comforted his hard-mouthed and soft-hearted brother softly, "Don't worry, for someone as big as my mother, nothing will happen to her. Besides, didn't you just look at her? It’s not far to go up the mountain.”

 Seeing that Jiang Xiaoxin was still worried, Jiang Xiaowen smiled helplessly.

"Well, let's wait a little longer. If mother doesn't come back yet, you and I will go look for her together!"

"good!"

Jiang Xiaoxin agreed immediately, as if he was afraid that he would regret it.

Jiang Xiaowen laughed, shook his head, slowly added to the fire, and asked casually: "What, you don't want to drive your mother away now?"

Jiang Xiaoxin choked up, "Even if we have to drive her away, we have to let her go completely, right?"

 Jiang Xiaowen responded in a good-tempered manner again, "Yes, you are right!"

After he finished speaking, he was looking at the fire in a trance.

He didn't tell his simple brother that he came back early from work yesterday and found this stepmother yelling like crazy and even hitting the wall as if she wanted to die.

 The injury on her head was caused by herself.

Had this not been the case, he would not have let his brother stop working with him for a day.

 Stepmother, have you thought clearly?

 (End of this chapter)