Looking at Lu Zheng's crazy expression, Xie Xuan shook his head helplessly.

"Don't go too far. Although no one else has caught you these past few days, I have seen you secretly hugging her many times!"

"What if someone saw this and sent you straight to the police station? This hooliganism crime is a life-threatening one!"

"Xiao Ru can't speak. Even if she wants to defend you, she can't..."

Lu Zheng hesitated for a moment, but he didn't regret what he had done. He was just a little annoyed that he didn't pay attention to whether anyone around saw it.

Even now, when he sees the little girl every day, he still finds life difficult.

If he didn't give himself some comfort, he felt like he was going crazy.

Lu Zheng has actually been quite busy recently. Since there is a kang at home, of course he needs to prepare enough firewood.

So the next day, Lu Zheng took Xie Xuan with him, each of them holding an axe and a rope to tie the firewood, and went straight up the mountain.

People in several nearby villages survive on the dead branches in this mountain.

There are no dead branches on the outer base of the mountain.

You should know that even if someone passes by on the road and sees a dead branch, someone will pick it up and burn it as firewood.

In order to find firewood faster, the two went straight into the mountains.

Xie Xuan touched the goose bumps on his body.

"Lu Zheng, I heard from the villagers that there are wolves and wild boars in these deep mountains!"

Lu Zheng glanced at him directly.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen here! The forest rangers who patrol the mountains every day will pass by here!"

"How do you know?"

Xie Xuan was surprised. He and Lu Zheng had always walked together. How come he didn't know when Lu Zheng started asking about this kind of thing?

"Most of the people who came up to collect firewood before were women from the village. They were timid, so naturally they could only collect firewood at the foot of the mountain!"

"They went to pay their grain yesterday, so all the men in the village should be heading up the mountain soon. This area we're in will definitely be packed with people in a couple of days... This isn't a deep mountain, it's only halfway up the mountain!"

"If it doesn't work, we can just run down the mountain!"

Lu Zheng was not afraid. He had other purposes for coming to the mountain.

The little girl enjoyed the meat yesterday.

It is also impossible for him to go to the city to buy meat every day.

If he could get some meat in the mountains, the little girl would definitely look at him with shining eyes.

Xie Xuan followed Lu Zheng closely.

This kid is ambitious and capable, and it won't be too bad to follow him.

When we reached the halfway point of the mountain, the land here was no longer as bare as at the foot of the mountain.

The ground was littered with dry branches.

You can find a lot of them just by picking them up.

Lu Zheng quickly got two bundles of firewood and tied them tightly with ropes.

A pheasant's caw came from the bushes nearby.

The hatchet in Lu Zheng's hand flew out directly.

Xie Xuan had just picked up a piece of firewood and straightened up when he saw Lu Zheng go to the bushes and take out a colorful pheasant from it.

It looks like it weighs about three or four pounds.

Xie Xuan was happy.

His family is well off, but he can't go to the city to eat every day.

So I only eat meat two or three times a month.

I didn’t expect there would be such a pleasant surprise today.