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Chapter 1611 I want them all! (The newly bought sausages are super unpalatable)

Although Sakurajima Mai was well-informed, she still looked confused when she looked at the bear dragged back to the cabin by Duanmu Huai.

"Can bears... be eaten?"

"Of course, can you clean up the fish?"

"I've learned some before."

"Then I'll leave these fishes to you, and I'll clean up the bear."

Duanmuhuai waved a machete in his hand. There were also machetes and knives used for chopping firewood in this hut. Although they were not very clean, they could be used after being washed and disinfected by boiling snow water.

Besides, at this point, what else do you need a bicycle for?

Fortunately, after killing the bear, Duanmuhuai slit its throat and drained all the blood. Moreover, it is winter now, the temperature is very low, and this bear does not have a strong smell of blood. Therefore, it was not difficult to deal with. Duanmu Huai dragged the bear to the door, packed it up, and started peeling it - after eating game every day in the world of Journey to the West, he was very familiar with this skill.

Bears that spend the winter will eat enough and then hibernate. This bear is obviously a bit stupid. It seems that he didn't have time to eat before winter, so he is still looking for food after winter comes. However, judging from its size, it should have a lot of reserves. It may be that it met Duanmu Huai and Sakurajima Mai on the way home to hibernate, so it planned to have a meal on the way.

Well, now, it’s become a snack.

Duanmu Huai also did the job quite smoothly when he disemboweled the body, took out all the internal organs, skinned it, and then removed the limbs. This provoked Mai Sakurajima, who was standing next to her, to look sideways frequently. After all, what Japanese people usually buy in supermarkets is processed meat. Perhaps processing fish is no problem for ordinary Japanese people, but killing chickens and slaughtering sheep is not a problem. Yes, for them it is another matter.

Especially for a celebrity idol like Sakurajima Mai, she has probably never seen a chicken being slaughtered, let alone a bear.

"Xiao Ai, you are really skilled."

"Just get used to it. I used to really like eating wild game."

Duanmuhuai peeled off the bear skin, then wiped it clean in the snow, and then placed it by the fire. After drying, it can be used as a bear skin mat. This thing is quite warm.

"It's a pity that there are no wild boars. It would be better if a wild boar was delivered to the door."

"But there are so many, we can't finish them all."

"You can freeze it if you can't finish it. The weather outside is no different from that of a refrigerator. If you hang it under the eaves, you won't be afraid of being stolen by other beasts... Hey, this guy eats quite a lot of fat. There is so much fat. It can’t be wasted.”

Looking at the white fat, Duanmu Huai also snorted, then cut it off, cut it and put it in the water, then put it in a pot and put it on the fire to start boiling - Duanmu Huai has not survived bear oil, but he has seen pig fat. Although the cooking method of oil is a bit different between bears and pigs, the fat should be pretty much the same.

For a moment, the cabin was quiet, except for the sound of firewood, the crackling of frying and the sound of knives. While handling the fish in front of her, Sakurajima Mai felt a little dazed. In this small wooden house, at this moment, she suddenly had a hallucination. It's as if they are not entertainers living in modern society, but in the ancient home of Orion. The wife was cooking at home, waiting for her husband's return, while the husband took the prey, walked into the hut with a smile, and started to deal with his work.

How should I put it, it's very...feeling like family.

Is this also why Ryoko has a secret crush on the protagonist?

Thinking of this, Mai Sakurajima suddenly felt a little confused. As an actress, of course she also had to figure out the role. Although from the plot point of view, Liangzi is rescued by the protagonist and then develops a crush on him, which seems to be in line with the usual routine in romance comics. But when playing the role of Ryoko, Sakurajima Mai actually always had some doubts. Because in Mai Sakurajima's opinion, Ryoko is a good girl, and as a rich lady, she is also very good at distinguishing between emotions, so even if she is rescued by the protagonist, Mai Sakurajima thinks that Ryoko should be grateful for the protagonist's favor. , rather than like.

But now, she suddenly understood.

Perhaps it is this simple sense of family that Liangzi longs for.

As a rich lady, Liangzi's life is good, but her parents are always away from home. Liangzi reads a lot of books to pass the time, and is therefore very knowledgeable.

But deep down inside, she must still be lonely.

Just like myself.

His father abandoned his mother and married another woman. In order to avenge her father, her mother let Sakurajima Mai enter the entertainment industry. Perhaps she hoped to use Sakurajima Mai's outstanding performance to avenge the man who had changed his mind and make him regret abandoning her.

From this point of view, Sakurajima Mai feels that her mother is very pitiful. She does not want to be her mother's money-making tool, nor does she want to be a tool for revenge.

Mai Sakurajima herself hadn't felt the warmth of a family for a long time. From this point of view, she felt that she could indeed understand Ryoko's mood.

In a closed cabin, she and her husband formed a small, sweet and warm family. Living a calm life every day may not be so comfortable and hard, but she can feel the warmth between people... Is it because of this that she falls in love with the protagonist?

What Liangzi fell in love with was not the protagonist, but the "family".

"How's the fish going?"

Duanmu Huai's voice suddenly came from behind, making Sakurajima Mai suddenly come back to her senses.

"It's almost..."

"What? Are you in a daze?"

"I was just thinking about something."

Mai Sakurajima shook her head.

"for example?"

"For example... why does Ryoko fall in love with the protagonist."

"You are still thinking about the script now. You are indeed a good example for actors."

Duanmuhuai complained silently.

"I think so. Liangzi fell in love with the protagonist not because he saved her, but because she longed for the warmth of a family...a beautiful, warm family. Maybe this is what Liangzi wants."

"Family... Speaking of which, I just... forget it, it's nothing."

"???"

Although Sakurajima Mai cast a doubtful look at Duanmuhuai, Duanmuhuai did not answer. To be honest, after entering the entertainment industry, Duanmuhuai discovered that the artists in this circle more or less have family problems.

This is true for both idols and actors. Mai Sakurajima's parents are divorced, Arima Kana's parents are also divorced, Kurokawa Akane is also a single-parent family, and he and Ruby - well, they might as well be divorced.

At least the divorced ones were still married.

I remember that Daiki Himekawa, the top star of the theater company LALALAI, who won the Best Actor Award, was also very miserable. His parents died in love when he was a child. Even MEM is also a single-parent family...

In this industry, it seems that there are very many single-parent families or those where both parents have died. From a psychological point of view, perhaps it is precisely because they cannot receive the care of a healthy family that they expect external attention to fill the vacancy in their hearts. Of course, this was also Duanmuhuai's nonsense. After all, he didn't understand psychology.

So when I complained about Duanmu Huai, I thought about it in my heart and decided not to offend anyone by saying it out loud.

When the two of them finished processing the food, it was already afternoon time, and their stomachs were already growling with hunger. If Mai hadn't eaten a candy, she would have fainted.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and the two of them managed to make their own meals in the roaring snowstorm.

Mai Sakurajima made fish soup, and Duanmu Huai made fried bear steak. After casually using branches as chopsticks, the two began to enjoy the belated meal.

"Hmm...Mai, you are quite good at cooking."

While drinking the delicious fish soup, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but praise that in the cold winter, it was indeed a lot more comfortable to eat such a steaming bowl of fish soup.

"Xiao Ai's steak is also very good. This is my first time eating bear meat."

Since I didn't have a knife and fork on hand, I could only cut it into small pieces and use chopsticks to eat it. Mai Sakurajima also showed a surprised expression while eating the bear meat in her mouth.

"Although it's a little hard, it tastes pretty good and the meat is juicy..."

"I was still wondering if this bear oil could work, but it seems to be quite effective now."

Duanmu Huai chuckled, and then began to eat.

The two of them had been hungry for almost a day. Duanmu Huai aside, Sakurajima Mai was starving for a long time. Although she usually didn't eat much, she indulged her appetite and ate a big meal this time.

"call………"

After Duanmu Huai finished eating, he sat aside contentedly and let out a sigh of relief.

"It's really comfortable, and the bear paws are really delicious too."

"I'm still a bit uncomfortable with eating that stuff."

Unlike Duanmu Huai, Mai stayed away from bear paws, as if she simply didn't want to eat something that looked like human hands.

"So you're still not hungry enough. If you're hungry enough, don't say cooked, you can eat raw."

"Luckily I'm not that hungry yet."

Having said this, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

"By the way, Mai, have you heard the saying 'You can't have your cake and eat it too'?"

"I heard it, it means that when faced with two important choices, it is difficult to consider them at the same time, so you have to make a choice."

"But now, we have eaten the fish, and we have also eaten the bear's paws."

Duanmu Huai patted his belly.

"So this sentence is not true."

"is that so?"

"That's right. As long as you have the ability to kill the fish and the bear at the same time, then of course you can have them all. In the final analysis, you can't do both at the same time. It's just that you don't have the ability."

"But most people in this world are not capable enough."

"Maybe that's right."

Duanmu Huai curled his lips.

"So this sentence is more of an excuse for them, because they can't have both, so they have to give up one of them. In the final analysis, it's just that they realize that it's not that they don't want it, it's just that they can't do it."

"Yeah, I just can't do it."

Mai Sakurajima held the fish soup and sighed silently.

“If only the world really had the best of both worlds.”

"There's no such thing as the best of both worlds."

"You just said that as long as you have enough ability, you can have your cake and eat it too."

"But I'm talking about fish and bears."

Duanmuhuai shrugged his shoulders, while Sakurajima Mai rolled her eyes at him.

"I don't want this kind of brain teaser."

"Whoosh——!"

At the same time, the howling wind came again outside the window, rattling the windows. Duanmu Huai stood up and fixed the window again to ensure that it would not be blown open suddenly.

"It seems like the snow won't stop for a while...Why did the director have to choose this time to shoot?"

Duanmuhuai complained speechlessly that his and Sakurajima Mai's mobile phones were broken when they fell off the cliff, leaving only a pile of plastic fragments, which could not be used at all. Having said that, in Japan's telecommunications environment, even if the mobile phone is intact, it cannot receive a signal in the mountains.

"The next time we shoot, we must ask the director to check the local weather conditions in advance."

This needs to be written on the memo.