It's like a feast of fried food, a carb extravaganza.

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When it was time to leave, the village chief pointed to several large carts neatly parked on the ridge of the field, piled high with baskets, and told Xu Milu that these were all her payment.

Xu Milu was dumbfounded. How could she take so many deep-fried dandelions with her?

"Lady Milu, you have brought a five-star turtle-shell black needle grass and a five-star silver-winged flying fish. These are very precious ingredients. Please accept these humble gifts."

The village chief wanted to befriend Xu Milu, a five-star gourmet hunter, but fearing it was because Xu Milu looked down on the village's two-star ingredients, he quickly apologized.

"Lord Milu..."

"Lady Milu, please accept this..."

The two brothers, Zhihe and Zhili, also looked at Xu Milu with teary eyes.

Xu Milu was both amused and exasperated. She wanted to be a good person, but people suspected her of looking down on them. She was truly wronged.

But then I thought, ordinary ingredients aren't star-quality ingredients; they're readily available throughout the village. Using them as payment shouldn't cause any trouble for the villagers.

She readily accepted it.

So the village chief did as Xu Milu asked, leaving only two carts of fried dandelions and instructing the villagers to gather more common ingredients.

The villagers were quite surprised that the five-star hunter was willing to use ordinary ingredients as payment, since in their view, it was simply impossible to exchange precious five-star ingredients for ordinary ingredients.

Therefore, less than half an hour after the village chief gave the order, the grateful villagers had prepared all the ingredients.

The village chief and the villagers escorted her all the way to the outside of the valley. Xu Milu told them that her companions would come to pick her up, and they reluctantly left.

After the villagers dispersed and Xu Milu was sure no one was around, she put the items into the storage compartment.

She can only use five storage compartments now, so she has to take out small items from the compartments and stuff them into her tent bag to free up those five compartments for other things.

Among the gifts from the villagers of Youzha Village were two truckloads of fried dandelions in various flavors, two truckloads of grape-like fruits the size of ping-pong balls that she had seen when she entered the village, all purple and juicy, and two truckloads of wind-dried cherries, bright red and the size of eggs, but without seeds.

Xu Milu quickly gathered up the grass baskets from the carts, leaving the carts in place, before riding her bicycle towards the lake.

The cart is right at the village entrance; the villagers should find it soon enough. She can't possibly take away other people's tools too, can she?

At a spot by the lake, Xu Milu picked enough wheat ears and eggs before leaving this plane.