Seeing that she just raised her eyebrows, she still had no intention of agreeing.

Zili gritted his teeth and decided to go for it.

He threw the backpack aside, hugged her arms with a shameless face, and stretched out his voice at the top of his lungs.

"Just trust me one more time~"

This melodious and graceful coquettish voice gave Shu Miao goosebumps all over her body. She pushed him away with extreme disgust.

“Eh~”

"Speak properly!"

Seeing that she finally responded, Zili didn't care about her dislike, mainly because he also disliked it.

"Hehe... So you agree?" He was so happy that his big teeth were showing. He came closer to her eagerly, smiling brightly.

"Who said I agreed?" Shu Miao looked at his smug little expression and suddenly wanted to tease him.

As expected, as soon as these words came out, the smile on his face froze instantly.

But in a moment, a flattering smile appeared on his face again, and he was about to lean over and repeat the same trick.

Shu Miao was so shocked that he jumped up from his chair and quickly stood three feet away from him, watching his movements with an extremely vigilant look.

"Stop, stop, stop. I'll go. Is it not okay for me to go?" She was worried that he would come again, so she couldn't be tough at all at the moment.

As he said, the right way is to combine work and rest, so just treat it as relaxation.

After comforting herself, she quickly picked up the book and went back to her room.

Seeing how swift and agile she moved, Shu Zili's extremely flattering smile suddenly became arrogant.

"If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?" He put his hands on his hips arrogantly and curled his lips in disdain, but the expression on his face was full of pride.

"You're not a girl waiting to get married, why do you want to keep your skin so white?"

But when these arrogant words came out of his mouth, they turned into a whisper.

Fortunately, Shu Miao didn't hear what he said. If he had heard it, he might have rewarded him with some snacks.

Because Zili's guess was correct, Shu Miao was deliberately taking care of her skin.

It was said that after she had enough food and salt, her height quickly caught up with Zili's height within half a year.

With this successful case, she is confident that as long as she follows the steps in the future, even if her adult height is not particularly outstanding, it should not be too short.

After all, looking at the height of the Zili brothers, we can tell that the Shu family’s genes should be good.

The basic hardware problem was solved, and then another problem arose - skin color.

Among all the other children, the facial features and skin color of the Shu Zili brothers are above average.

Logically speaking, as a member of the Shu family, she shouldn't look like Little Black Charcoal.

But the reality is that when she stood with the two brothers, it was impossible to imagine that she and the two were cousins.

She even began to doubt her own life experience, but then she thought, if she really wasn't a member of the Shu family, who would raise a child like her who was destined to be "lonely"?

After much deliberation, she finally concluded that such mysterious questions as skin color and increased strength could be attributed to the same problem.

There must be something missing in my body!

But she couldn't get any good food to replenish her body, so she could only try the dumbest method, which was "covering"!

It’s not that you stay in the house all day and don’t go out, but if possible, try to avoid direct sunlight. If you really can’t avoid it, wear a hat.

Of course, the final effect was minimal.

It was not until the twelfth lunar month when it snowed for more than twenty days in a row that her skin color began to change because her cotton-padded jacket was not warm enough and she stayed in the house for more than twenty days.

It has been three months now, and her skin color is already showing a tendency to become whiter than her own.

Although her skin cannot be called fair, at least no one will think she is dark among the children.

***

After Shu Miao packed up and left the house, Zili changed his complacent look and attentively handed her a backpack, sickle and other tools, and whispered to her,

"Let's go to the bamboo forest first today. I'll tell you..."

"Didn't Auntie tell you to wait for the May bamboo shoots? Why do you have to argue with the March bamboo shoots?" Shu Miao was really confused.

He didn't care about being interrupted, he just glanced at her with an indescribable look.

"Are you stupid? Everyone's going to be ready to grab the May bamboo shoots. How many do you think we can get?"

Thinking of the tough and chewy texture of the dried bamboo shoots, Shu Miao stopped eating decisively.

I didn't mention that he said the same thing when we went looking for bamboo shoots last week.

After all, it was Zili who had the successful experience, not her, but since she had already agreed to go up the mountain with him, there was naturally no need to say anything to spoil the fun at this time.

The two of them went out together, still sneaking around like they did last week, and went to the bamboo forests that everyone knew about.

"Here! This..."

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the bamboo forest, and the next moment, the cry stopped abruptly.

When Shu Miao heard the noise, he hurried to find the source of the sound.

He fell silent for a moment until he saw the small bamboo shoots emerging from the soil in front of him.

Looking at Zili, whose mouth was grinning from ear to ear with joy, I didn't know what to say for a moment.

After a long while, he managed a smile and said, "It's March bamboo shoots."

Zili acted as if he hadn't noticed anything, still holding his head high with pride, and instantly smiled, "I told you there was one, and you didn't believe it."

"Let's go, let's go to the next place. I guarantee you'll have fresh bamboo shoots today. If you're lucky, we'll have dried bamboo shoots for the whole year!"

Having said that, without waiting for her to answer, he ran out of the bamboo forest.

Don’t think that he didn’t see the disgusted look in his sister’s eyes just now. He just wanted to save her face and didn’t expose her!

I just hope that the bamboo forest below can give him a surprise and teach her a lesson, so that she knows what it means to truly listen to others and "have a full meal"!

The two of them walked one after the other to a bamboo forest with yellow leaves. Shu Miao was just about to say that they wanted to go to another bamboo forest when he saw Zi Li rush in without saying a word.

Now she is completely helpless.

If she remembered correctly, when she passed by here last week, she didn't even look at the bamboo forest and just passed by it?

Why is he rushing in without caring about anything now, as if he has been injected with chicken blood?

Although full of doubts, Shu Miao still followed his footsteps obediently.

But this bamboo forest may be a bit old, and each bamboo grows close to each other, so the space for walking is narrow.

Shu Miao was carrying a large backpack at the moment, but in just a few breaths, he lost sight of Zi Li.

She had no choice but to retreat from the bamboo forest and walk along the edge of the forest.

Just as I passed the large withered bamboo forest in front of me, I was surprised to find that the bamboo forest in front of me was actually green.

Seeing this, she couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope in her heart.

He didn't even bother to look for Zili's figure and ran towards that direction.

As soon as I arrived, I noticed a few purple bamboo shoots growing on the edge of the bamboo forest.

Seeing this, she was overjoyed and hurriedly broke off one of the bamboo shoots, which was as tall as her palm and as thick as her wrist.

"Bo~"

The crisp and pleasant sound of breaking made Shu Miao instantly fall in love with the joy of harvest.