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After Being Sold to a Lame Hunter, I Ate Meat Every Meal During the Famine

share time: 2026-02-12 06:01:00

When Lin Wan was sold to the lame hunter Gu Chuan by her stepmother for five dou of rice, the whole village shook their heads — in the famine even grass roots were dug up, how could a cripple keep her alive? But after marriage, she found Gu Chuan, though lame, was an excellent hunter. He could catch hares and pheasants in the mountains and put every bite of hot meat into her bowl. Neighbors gossiped he had “immortal grain” out of envy, and someone even sneaked over the wall at night, only to catch Gu Chuan secretly stuffing animal hides into the cellar — it turned out he spent all his hunting money on grain, eating tree bark himself while letting her have meat every meal. When the landlord’s thugs came to seize the hunting ground, Lin Wan picked up a kitchen knife and stood in front of Gu Chuan: “If you touch him, kill me first!” The famine made people shiver, but Gu Chuan’s arms were as warm as a hot coal — it turned out the most precious thing was never meat, but someone willing to give you all their warmth when they had so little.

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