Chapter 140: Becoming a Wild Mandarin Duck

"Xiaoxi, when I went up the mountain, I found some chestnut trees in the forest. Do you want to go and take a look?" Ye Lixuan knew that his family was in the sugar-roasted chestnut business, so he told them about it.

Gu Xiaoxi immediately perked up after hearing this and asked, "Where is it? Take me there?"

"Let's go!" Seeing that she was indeed interested, Ye Lixuan jumped onto the tree with a smile and took the prey down.

Gu Xiaoxi put the prey back into the backpack and held the little thing in his arms.

Ye Lixuan grabbed Gu Xiaoxi's other hand, put the backpack on his back and ran.

The other forest he mentioned was a little further down the mountain, and the trees there were also very lush.

Relatively speaking, ordinary villagers would not dare to go up to such high places unless they are hunters.

Gu Xiaoxi was overjoyed when she saw the huge chestnut tree in front of her.

Although they were going to do the dried tofu business, she was still happy to carry the thorny balls down the mountain for free.

When the time comes, selling it together with dried tofu can also achieve initial traffic generation.

"I'll send them back first and bring up two more backpacks. Then you shake these trees for me to shake the thorn balls down." Gu Xiaoxi ordered.

"Okay, go ahead!" Ye Lixuan was happy to work for Gu Xiaoxi.

Gu Xiaoxi carried the little one in a backpack and went down the mountain. When she was about to get home, she turned around and entered the space.

The little one was too small and would definitely not survive if left outside, so she asked at the cashier’s window if they had goat milk powder.

"Yes, one tael of silver for a large bag weighing five pounds, or a can weighing three pounds." The window replied.

"Then I need a big bag weighing five kilograms." Gu Xiaoxi felt a little painful as he gave one or two taels of silver.

There are many sealed bags in the warehouse. If you open the milk powder and put it in the sealed bags, it will not go bad.

This little guy is so small, he can definitely finish five kilograms.

The little one was too small to be fed with a spoon, so she bought a bottle here.

She made a bottle of goat's milk and gave the little guy a few sips. The little guy hugged the bottle. She put the little guy and the bottle on a stall, turned around and left the space with the backpack on her back.

When she got home, she threw the prey on the ground, called her eldest brother, third brother, and sister-in-law, and went up the mountain with the backpack on her back.

Ye Lixuan originally thought that the two of them could spend more time alone together. After finally waiting for Gu Xiaoxi to go up the mountain again, he saw a group of people following behind.

Gu Dongming and Gu Nanming have both seen Ye Lixuan, but they just don’t know what his name is?

It was the first time that Xue saw Ye Lixuan, and she looked him up and down.

"Sister-in-law, this is my friend, you can just call him Xiaoye." Gu Xiaoxi knew that the name Ye Lixuan might be a sensitive one, so she simply asked everyone to call him Xiaoye.

hehe……

This name sounds so familiar.

Ye Lixuan nodded with a silly smile, agreeing with the title.

"Thank you, Xiaoye, for helping our Xiaoxi." Xue said politely.

Gu Dongming and Gu Nanming were both very curious about the man's identity.

Last time, he brought a lot of people with his sister to rescue them from the evil guys. How did his sister know such a powerful person?

"Xiaoxi, how do you know Xiaoye?" Gu Dongming asked the question in his mind directly.

This was also what Gu Nanming wanted to ask, and he looked at his sister with anticipation.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at Ye Lixuan with some embarrassment, really not knowing how to make up for this lie?

No wonder my master once said that if you tell a lie, you may need countless lies to cover it up later.

Ye Lixuan reacted quickly enough and replied, "We are fellow disciples, but we have different masters."

This is a good answer!

Gu Xiaoxi nodded repeatedly.

"So are you the senior brother or the junior brother?" Gu Nanming asked.

Are you trying to get to the bottom of this?

"Ah, that's right. We joined on the same day and usually call each other by our first names." Ye Lixuan was almost stumped by this question.

"Yes, we started learning on the same day. Her master is my master's junior fellow apprentice, and we have a very good relationship." Gu Xiaoxi explained from the side.

After listening to this, the three nodded, and they understood the relationship between the two.

"Let's go pick up the thorn balls. Carry back as many as you can and sell them together with the dried tofu." Gu Xiaoxi urged them to move faster, otherwise they would have to ask a hundred thousand whys.

The three of them started to act, and Gu Xiaoxi and Ye Lixuan wiped their cold sweats at the same time.

After a while, the three of them came down the mountain carrying three baskets of thorny balls, while Gu Xiaoxi carried a basket in front and behind.

Before going down the mountain, she went to shoot a pheasant, cleaned and marinated the pheasant and put it aside, then started a fire. When they went down the mountain, Ye Lixuan could be responsible for roasting the chicken, and it would not waste any time at all.

As they were going down the mountain, Gu Xiaoxi stared at her eldest brother and the others: "Brother, sister-in-law, and third brother, don't tell anyone else what you saw of him, and don't say hello if you see him on the road."

"Why is this?" Xue didn't understand.

However, Gu Dongming and Gu Nanming understood what their sister meant.

Gu Xiaoxi stopped and explained, "Because that guy's identity is quite special, he may have enemies coming to visit him at any time. So, unless he greets you on the street, you should pretend not to know him."

ah……

Xue opened his mouth in surprise when he heard the answer.

"Okay, let's do whatever Xiaoxi tells us to do." Gu Dongming asked his wife not to ask any more questions. Xiaoxi had her reasons for doing so.

"Okay, I'll remember that." Xue nodded.

The three of them went down the mountain, and Gu Xiaoxi asked them to rest for a while and have lunch before going up again.

Gu Nanming wanted to eat the roast chicken, but was pulled back by Xue.

"Don't you see that they are in love? Why are you going there? Isn't there a chicken there for you to eat?" Xue muttered.

"Sister-in-law is right. I am short-sighted." Gu Nanming said and slapped his head.

Chai, who was busy in the kitchen, asked, "What do you mean by being in love? Third brother, are you interested in someone?

Tell me, which girl will I show you?"

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Gu Nanming was really impressed by his mother. Why did she always want to arrange a marriage for him?

Xue found an excuse and replied, "Mom, we said that when we were coming down the mountain just now, we saw a couple chopping wood on the mountain. They seemed to be in love, so don't disturb them."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Gu Nanming echoed.

"They are in love with each other in the mountains, they are called wild mandarin ducks." Chai said.

The three of them were speechless and automatically identified Gu Xiaoxi and Ye Lixuan as the two people in the same situation.

Wild mandarin ducks!

That won’t do. If Xiaoye really likes Xiaoxi, he must marry her in a formal way. He absolutely cannot let his sister get married and be bullied.

The three of them looked at each other, understanding each other tacitly without saying anything.

"Okay, let's go eat!" Chai prepared the meal, called them, turned around and found that her daughter was missing.

"Where's the creek?" she asked.

Become a wild mandarin duck!

Gu Nanming almost blurted out these words.