Si Jiuyue had just finished a bowl of hot soup when Han Dazhu and his group, along with Si Beishu and the others, returned. They had brought back some game—six or seven wild rabbits and five or six pheasants—but they had not encountered any larger prey.
Madam Zhang and the other women had spent the time digging up moss from beneath the snow; it would serve both as fuel for the fire and as material to build lean-tos.
When Si Boyan, Li Dashan, and the others saw the silly roe deer Si Jiuyue had brought back earlier, they were overjoyed. They hadn't expected to find deer in these parts, and upon asking, they learned she had traveled nearly an hour's distance to find them.
Chapter 202