Although finding their own food is absurd, they feel it's more acceptable than cleaning the pigsty.

Some of the tasks were too bizarre, so I chose not to do them, but this did not include Shen Hua and the others.

After learning that they could exchange some food with the production crew for seasonings, pots, pans, and other utensils, they set off.

Fifty small insects were quite easy to catch; in her opinion, it was much better than digging two baskets of bamboo shoots.

After realizing they were on the same route, the four of them went up the mountain together. Actually, Xie Sichen walked at the back, while the other three walked ahead together.

They were describing where they lived and what they had faced the day before. Soon, they came across a large bamboo forest.

There were still many bamboo shoots growing inside. Although they weren't very big, these were the most tender and delicious bamboo shoots at this time of year.

That's right! We forgot to borrow a sickle from the villagers when we came up, so we had to dig the soil with our hands.

If you choose not to dig, you can only give up what's inside the soil.

They don't specify what kind of insects the painting should have; any small insect will do. However, if you want to catch the insects, you have to use a bottle or jar to put them in, otherwise they will crawl out.

They didn't have any bottles or jars, but they should have been able to find some along the way. However, the road was very clean. Perhaps they needed to wrap them in leaves?

This was the only option at the moment. They found a few large leaves, folded them up, and started looking for small insects in the bamboo forest. They put whatever they could find inside, as long as it was an insect.

I'm not sure if anyone will double-check the count after I take the bugs home, since I'm just putting them in one by one and counting fifty in the end. I'd really like to see that scene again.

After all, people who come up with such terrible ideas want to see others make fools of themselves, and they also want to see that person make a fool of themselves.

There are quite a few insects in the bamboo forest. If you turn over the soil with firewood, you might be able to find some small insects.

Compared to their speed in catching insects, Xia Xue and Zhang Lele were having a hard time digging bamboo shoots, having only managed to dig up five so far.

However, Shen Hua's goal was not just these small insects, so after finding nearly twenty small insects here, she said goodbye to Xia Xue and Zhang Lele, and then walked into the woods.

She found eleven, and Xie Sichen found eight, so there were quite a few of them crawling around in their leaves, which scared the viewers of the live stream so much that they didn't dare to look.

[This is terrifying! This is terrifying! I'm terrified of these soft, squishy little bugs, and I never imagined I'd see so many up close today.]

[This is giving me trypophobia.]

[Their movements are so practiced; I'd be lucky to find even one of those.]

[Waaah, the production team is inhuman! They actually made our Xie brother do this kind of thing! I feel like my eyes are going to go bad. I'm going to send the production team razor blades.]

[Why do you think the production team wanted so many bugs?]

[Of course, it's for feeding the poultry.]

[I also felt like I asked a lot of unnecessary questions, but it was really terrifying. Thankfully, they didn't use their hands, but rather something to apply it, otherwise I would have felt even worse.]

As Shen Hua walked, she observed the surroundings, looking for any wild game she could catch to add to the two siblings' meal.

Fortunately, their efforts paid off, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally spotted the pheasant.

The pheasant was still quite far away from them, unaware that it was being watched, and was still making its calls.

Its head was still bobbing up and down when it saw Chen Hua and the others. Just as it was about to flap its wings and fly away, it was knocked unconscious by a small stone.

The small stone was thrown by Chen Hua; how could he let the wild game he had his eye on escape?

After confirming that the pheasant had been stunned, she ran over and picked it up. It was quite heavy, probably weighing two or three pounds.

Slurp~

I couldn't resist the urge to try the taste of pheasant soup.

She thought that if she swapped steamed buns with the production team, the four of them could eat together if they ordered some dishes.

The two siblings are a bit reserved, so it's not easy to invite them to eat together. If there's no good reason, they might refuse to eat.

This shows a lack of flexibility; how can you think about this and that when it comes to food?

If it were her, she would still be influenced by the food; it seems her willpower is not strong enough.

One pheasant doesn't seem enough to eat, so she'll have to look around for other ones. Last night, she secretly got up to eat.

She thought that Xie Sichen would be woken up by her eating, given his sensitivity, but luckily she ate quietly enough that she didn't disturb him.

This reassured her that she wouldn't wake anyone up when she got up to eat, and if she did, she wouldn't be afraid; she could just share some food with them.

Eating alone is awkward, but eating with someone else is not.

After walking for a while, they had caught a lot of small insects, but had not found any wild game. Looking up at the sky, they realized it was getting late and they had to go back.

On her way back, she found that she had stepped into a small pit, and then looked down.

Isn't this a rabbit's burrow?

Chen Hua became interested, so she squatted down outside the hole, took off her coat and blocked the entrance. No one saw what she did, and the little rabbits inside the hole ran out one by one, only to be covered up by her coat.

Because the camera approached her after she crouched down, she could see the rabbits that ran out—two big ones and four small ones—it was truly a bumper harvest.

Shen Hua was so happy she couldn't stop smiling.

She didn't intend to trade the pheasants and rabbits for anything else with the production team.

The siblings have pots and pans, though they are a bit old and worn, but still usable. They can exchange some salt with the production crew using extra small insects. As for other seasonings, they don't need them.

Or maybe we could try negotiating with the villagers to get some other vegetables. She didn't know how to prepare them, so she could only rely on Xie Sichen.

He probably won't back down this time, since she was the one who caught the wild game.

Today we'll eat a pheasant and a large rabbit, tomorrow we'll eat another large rabbit, and the remaining four baby rabbits will be raised by the two siblings. In the future, the rabbits will reproduce and there will be more and more rabbits.

Along the way, I was so busy looking for wild game that I didn't pay attention to my surroundings. Now that I'm back, I've noticed something unusual.

These trees were rather withered, their leaves were yellow and dry, the crops inside were particularly short, and the soil was cracked.

There's no shortage of water here, so how could this happen? Could it be that they're just too lazy? Haven't they watered the fields and trees?