They would starve to death if they only ate one meal a day.
However, An Jiuyue did not care about them anymore and left the cave immediately. She did not return to the treehouse first. After washing the bamboo tubes and the earthen jar in the spring, she went into the deep mountains to take a look.
The animals on the mountain would not come out at night.
However, things were different today. The foot of the mountain was flooded, and many wild beasts were running around in search of a safe place to hide. After entering the deep mountains, she soon encountered some pheasants and wild rabbits.
They were drenched in the rain and could not escape from her quickly, so she caught them easily.
She chose a few that were of better condition and placed them in her space to raise them. As for the others, she would bring them back home to cook.
An Jiuyue stopped when she passed by a tree hole.
“What is this?”
There was a gray rock covering the tree hole, leaving only the top half of the tree hole visible.
These tree holes were homes dug out by wild rabbits. There were many tree holes scattered everywhere.
They were usually difficult to notice because they were covered by leaves and weeds. However, it had been raining and there was a rock over it, so it was easy to catch sight of.
“You’re lucky to have met me.”
She had noticed it because she heard the sound of a rabbit grinding its teeth in discomfort. Otherwise, she would not have noticed a motionless rock in this dark night.
She reached out to remove the rock to free the wild rabbit inside.
She wanted to take the rabbit nest out of the tree hole and raise the rabbits in her space. The more rabbits, the merrier.
To her surprise, the rock moved!
“Huh?!”
An Jiuyue was almost scared to death.
However, she still picked up the ‘rock’ and took a look. It was a long-haired rabbit. The rabbit had been drenched in the rain, and its fur was very long, thus resembling a gray rock.
An Jiuyue did not think much of it. She immediately placed the wild rabbit in her space, then reached into the tree hole. Digging around, she took out a large long-haired rabbit.
However, it was smaller than the previous one. She guessed that this one was female while the previous one was male.
She found 11 more little bunnies and placed everything in her space.
“Master, these are long-haired rabbits! We’ve hit the jackpot!” Wei Na was excited when it saw the nest of long-haired rabbits.
There were so many long-haired rabbits. They could earn quite a lot of points every month. Besides, rabbits gave birth very quickly and have many litters!
“We got quite lucky.”
An Jiuyue raised her eyebrows and muttered to herself.
A long-haired rabbit’s fur was the best. It would be great if she could spin the rabbit fur and make clothes out of it. She could make two sets of clothes, gloves, and hats for her two little ones. Then, she would not have to be too worried when winter comes.
She was determined to take good care of these long-haired rabbits.
After the floodwaters receded, she wanted to grow some cotton in the mountains to spin into cloth. There were not many pests around, so the environment was good for growing cotton. There would not be many insects pests feeding off the cotton.