Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Several maids rushed into the courtyard, the aroma of venison filling their faces.

Xiuer was the first to run to the stove, tiptoeing to peek inside: "It smells so good, Mom, is it ready yet?"

Liu Meifen picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks, blew on it, and stuffed it into her mouth.

Xiuer hissed as the food burned, chewed a couple of times, her eyes lighting up, and mumbled, "Delicious! Zixia, come quick! The deer is cute, and the meat is even tastier!"

Zixia also leaned over, opening her mouth to wait to be fed.

Xiao Qing, Xiao Mu, and Xiao Shui threw their schoolbags onto the stool and gathered around.

Liu Meifen fed each of them a piece of meat, and the girls chewed on the meat with smiles on their faces.

Cheng Xin was moving tables and chairs around the courtyard. Several little girls were lingering around the stove, their eyes fixed on the meat in the pot, their mouths practically watering.

Chang Kun prepared half a bowl of minced garlic and soy sauce as a dipping sauce, while Liu Meifen ladled out a large bowl of meat and placed it in the middle of the table, along with half a plate of stir-fried bean worms and grasshoppers.

"Eat up! You don't need to wait for your dad today; he said he'll be back late."

Xiuer saw the bean worms and exclaimed, "I caught those!"

Zixia chimed in, "I caught the grasshopper!"

Xiao Qing glanced at the two of them, grabbed a bean worm, popped it into her mouth, chewed it a couple of times, and said, "Hmm, it's alright!"

Xiuer snapped, "You ate my bean worms!"

"I'll eat it, what are you going to do about it!" Xiao Qing said on purpose, just to annoy Xiu'er.

Xiuer pouted, but before she could speak, Chang Kun quickly stuffed a piece of meat dipped in soy sauce into her mouth.

Cheng Xin sat beside him, holding a bowl full of food, eating one piece after another without stopping.

Liu Meifen put a few more chopsticks on his plate, muttering, "Eat more, look how thin you've gotten."

As they were eating, the courtyard gate was pushed open, and Cheng Min walked in.

"Xiao Xin, why don't you come home? Your parents are waiting for you to eat."

Cheng Xin, still chewing on meat, mumbled a reply, holding half a piece of meat in his hand.

Seeing his expression, Cheng Min wanted to say something to him, but she didn't say it.

Liu Meifen stood up, wrapped a piece of deer leg meat in oil paper, and then took out a sawn-off deer antler from the house, tied it with a rope, and handed it over.

"This is a yellow deer leg. Take it back for your in-laws to try. Your father can keep the deer antlers to make medicinal wine; it's quite effective for backaches and leg pains."

Cheng Min declined a few times, but couldn't persuade Liu Meifen otherwise, so she had to take the things.

Cheng Xin stood up and nodded to Liu Meifen and Chang Kun: "Auntie, I'm leaving. Brother-in-law, I'm leaving."

Xiuer called out from behind, "Brother Xin, come play again tomorrow!"

Chang Kun saw the two of them to the door, gently took Cheng Min's hand, scratched her palm, and whispered in her ear, "Did you miss me? Will you sleep with me tonight?"

Cheng Min's ears turned red, and she angrily twisted Chang Kun's arm before running away.

The young couple had just gotten married and were deeply in love. After not sleeping together for a day or two, they were starting to miss each other.

However, no matter how much I think about it, I'm too embarrassed to say it out loud!

Back at the dinner table, Chang Kun was gnawing on a deer bone when he suddenly remembered what Zhang Quhun had told him and asked a question.

"Mother, how's Ququ's marriage going? Have you asked him about it?"

Liu Meifen paused for a moment, her mouth full of meat, and mumbled an "ah".

Chang Kun understood what was going on from her expression.

"You didn't ask?"

Liu Meifen swallowed the meat and gave an awkward laugh: "While you were away on this trip, I was so worried about you all, wondering if you were eating well and sleeping well..."

Chang Kun glanced helplessly at his mother: "The cricket is eagerly awaiting news every day, and you, the matchmaker, have completely forgotten about their marriage."

"Tomorrow, I'll definitely go tomorrow!" Liu Meifen quickly declared. "I'll go to Xiao Cui's house first thing tomorrow morning to inquire and see what their attitude is."

Chang Kun was too lazy to say anything more. He knew his mother's personality all too well; when she had too many things to worry about, she would become forgetful.

Xiao Qing, munching on her exposed leg beside her, opened her greasy little mouth and asked, "Mommy, who is Xiao Cui?"

"Eat your meat! Stop asking questions!" Liu Meifen glared at her.

Xiao Qing pouted and buried her head in gnawing on the bone again.

Just then, the courtyard gate was pushed open, and Chang Dashan came in carrying a bundle of neatly cut tree branches.

"Where did this branch come from?" Liu Meifen stepped forward to take it.

"This isn't Tiezhu. I brought him some rice from my village, and he insisted that I bring this bundle of branches back with me, saying he wanted to keep it for firewood..."

As Chang Dashan spoke, he took a deep breath: "I haven't worked for several months, and carrying this little bit of stuff is quite tiring."

"Dad, have some soup..." Xiu'er ran over with her little bowl in her hands. "Big brother hunted a deer today, the meat was delicious, and the soup was great too!"

Chang Dashan grinned. Of all the girls in the family, the youngest, Xiu'er, was the most considerate.

He patted Xiu'er's head: "Go eat your meat, Dad will go pour a glass of wine."

Chang Kun poured his father a glass of wine. Chang Dashan chuckled, took a sip, picked up a piece of venison, and put it in his mouth, but his brows remained furrowed.

"Dad, did you go to Uncle Tiezhu's house just now? What happened to his family?"

Chang Dashan sighed and put down his chopsticks: "Alas! It's tough! His son secretly went into the mountains to hunt, saying he was going to bring back a wild boar, but he didn't even see a single hair on it, and then he fell into a ravine and broke his arm!"

"I heard about it, so I went to check it out..."

Upon hearing this, Chang Kun sighed inwardly. He remembered that Uncle Tiezhu's son, Liu Chuqiang, was only ten years old. Going into the mountains to hunt was practically suicide!

I guess he hadn't eaten meat in a long time, and the boy was so craving meat that he ran into the mountains.

"Dad, how are the villagers doing these days?"

Chang Dashan shook his head: "It's not as good as when we were in the village. Back then, at least we could fill our stomachs with wild vegetables. Now... some people are starting to grind tree bark into powder and eat it."

Everyone at the table fell silent; no one spoke.

Even the naive Xiu'er and Zixia, seeing the serious faces of everyone else, dared not laugh or joke.

Chang Kun looked at the venison in his hand and suddenly felt he had no appetite at all.

In my past life, around this time, all the grain in my family was stolen, and I ran away to Northeast China. My parents and younger sister probably ate tree bark powder and died from bloating.

He felt a lump in his throat whenever he thought of the tragedy that happened back then.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" Xiu'er moved closer to Chang Kun, grabbed a bean worm and shoved it into his mouth. "Try this bean worm, Mom stir-fries it so well."

Chang Kun rubbed his face. The past was long gone. Now Xiu'er was doing well, her parents were doing well, and the whole family was doing well.

The food in the space is enough to feed a family for decades, and the tragedy of the previous life will never happen again.

We should help those older relatives in the village if we can, because we won't feel good if we hear that they starved to death later.

Having figured this out, Chang Kun felt much better.

He held Xiu'er on his lap, pinched her chubby cheeks, and tugged at her little pigtails. The two siblings played around and made a ruckus.