"I finally managed to come to the back mountain without telling Granny Liang, and I don't know if my mother has woken up at this time. If I come here with so much trouble and find nothing, it would really be a waste of all my efforts."

After Lian'er asked Granny Liang to look after Mother Jiang at home for her, she avoided the gazes of other villagers in the village and stealthily walked towards the road to the back mountain.

The reason why Lian'er avoided other people was that she was afraid of meeting people and having to answer various questions repeatedly.

After all, she grew up in Guquan Village, surrounded by fellow villagers who watched her grow up. Now her mother is sick and bedridden, and everyone will naturally ask her about her mother's condition when they see her.

Lian'er herself needs to hurry. Although she has asked Granny Liang to look after her mother, she cannot justifiably ask others to help her take care of her mother all the time.

Granny Liang is so old and her health is not very good. If it weren't for the real reason, Lian'er wouldn't want to trouble her, an elderly woman in her seventies.

But if she doesn't find someone to help look after her mother and leaves her alone at home, Lian'er will really be worried.

Fortunately, Granny Liang was already at home taking care of her mother.

She had to hurry and go back quickly.

Lian'er seldom went to the back mountain. Mother Jiang had heard that there were often birds and beasts in the back mountain, so she had always strictly forbade her daughter to sneak away to the back mountain. However, she still secretly followed Li Xia to the back mountain a few times.

After Li Xia left Guquan Village, Lian'er never went to the back mountain alone again.

If she didn't want her mother to get better quickly this time, she wouldn't have wanted to go to the back mountain to try her luck.

The truth is that they are too short of material things here, and A'niang is in poor health right now. If I don't find a way to get her some nutritious food, A'niang may have difficulty recovering.

But this matter had to be done in secret. Otherwise, if her mother knew her thoughts, she would rather stay bedridden than allow her only daughter to fall into danger for her.

As Lian'er was on her way to the back mountain, she began to feel anxious little by little.

She was afraid that she would return empty-handed, and she was even more afraid that her mother's body would become worse day by day without nutritious food.

After my father and brothers were forcibly conscripted into the army, I completely lost contact with them. The swords on the battlefield were merciless, and the life and death of my father and brothers were uncertain.

They were once a happy family, but now only he and his mother are left.

No matter what, she had to find a way to make her mother get better, otherwise she would have no reason to live any longer.

After the imperial officers and soldiers recruited a large number of soldiers from the village, many tools that could be used were also taken away by them.

So Lian'er came out of the village almost empty-handed. She only had a dull and rusty small axe in her hand. It was the only tool she brought with her today.

She couldn't say for sure whether she could successfully hunt prey today.

Lian'er was making preparations along the way. She had no hunting tools, so she had to make them herself.

Fortunately, when she was a child, she often followed her father and brothers and saw some of the things they used when hunting. Although Lian'er did not have any suitable tools at this time, she could still make some based on her memory and give it a try.