Gan San Niang screamed in fright. Just as the snake bit her finger, the protective jade amulet in her bosom lit up.

The jade talisman emitted a halo that protected her body. The snake, startled by the light barrier, quickly ran away.

Gan San Niang lost her balance and fell down the hillside. She grabbed at something haphazardly but couldn't find anything to hold onto.

His body rolled down the slope and finally fell into the steep valley.

The moment the protective jade talisman shattered, Xiaoli sensed something: Was the female lead about to arrive?

Gan San Niang slowly opened her eyes. What was wrong with her?

Oh right, I fell off the hillside.

It's a pity she didn't manage to harvest any Ganoderma lucidum. She got up and checked herself; apart from a few scratches, she was fine.

She picked up the basket not far away and prepared to go up the path next to it to see if she could find a way to pick the Ganoderma lucidum.

Suddenly, she saw the Ganoderma lucidum lying on the hillside.

She grabbed at the lingzhi mushroom haphazardly a few times, and as she rolled down the hillside, the lingzhi mushroom also fell down.

Gan San Niang happily picked up the Ganoderma lucidum, planning to go to town soon to exchange it for silver at the pharmacy and then buy grain.

By the time Gan San Niang returned home from town, it was already noon. She had been running around non-stop all morning and hadn't even had a sip of hot water.

As soon as she got home, she handed the rice to Gan Si Niang and asked her to cook millet porridge to feed Xiao Wu.

Gan Si Niang was overjoyed. With so much rice, Xiao Wu could eat for a long time. When he got a little older, he could eat wild vegetable porridge, and then she wouldn't have to worry about him going hungry.

"Sister, where did you get the money to buy rice?"

While drinking water, Gan San Niang explained to her younger sister.

"You have no idea how dangerous it was. That snake almost bit me, but luckily I managed to dodge it."

Gan San Niang patted her chest, looking as if she had just survived a disaster.

Gan Si Niang was a year younger than Gan San Niang. She watched her older sister exhale.

"Sis, please don't go there again, it's too scary."

"Yeah, I definitely won't go."

As the two sisters chatted, the rice porridge was ready. Gan San Niang scraped off the layer of rice oil on top and carefully took it to feed Xiao Wu.

Looking at the new hair tie in her hand, Gan Si Niang smiled happily, her lips pursed.

This was just a gift from my sister. Her hair tie was so old that you couldn't tell the original color anymore. Last time, she stared at Er Ya's new hair tie, and today my sister gave me this one.

I will definitely give my sister the best gift in the future.

In the afternoon, Gan Si Niang tied a new hair tie and went to cut grass to feed the chickens, as they had just bought a brood of chicks.

My sister said that once the chicks grow up, they will lay eggs, and then Xiao Wu will have eggs to eat.

Gan Si Niang smiled, tossed her braid, and bent down to work.

By the river, Er Ya and a group of friends were catching fish. The water was not deep and there were plenty of fish and shrimp, but they were difficult to catch.

They were just playing in the water; they didn't actually catch many fish.

As soon as Er Ya turned her head, she saw Gan Si Niang's new hair tie.

"Fourth Sister, where did you get this hair tie? Did you steal it?"

Gan Si Niang's face turned red with anger. "You're talking nonsense. This was a gift from my sister. Don't spout such nonsense."

Er Ya became even more smug, "I'm not lying. Your family is so poor that they can't afford to eat, where would you get the money to buy hair ties?"

Gan Si Niang wanted to say that she had dug up Ganoderma lucidum on the mountain, but remembering her sister's words that she shouldn't be too ostentatious, she swallowed her words.

"What's it to you where I got my money?" She ignored Er Ya.

Er Ya jumped into the water and ripped off the hair tie at the end of her hair.

"I won't return it to you unless you tell me. How will I know where it came from?"

Gan Si Niang got angry and tried to snatch the hair tie.

Er Ya threw it into the river, saying, "Go get it, it's over there."

After she finished speaking, she walked away arrogantly with her followers.

As the hair tie drifted further and further away, Gan Si Niang kept shedding tears.

She picked up a stick to reach it, and seeing that it was about to float away, she followed it downstream.

Unbeknownst to her, Gan Si Niang had walked to the middle of the river. The water in the middle was very deep, and by the time Si Niang realized something was wrong, she could no longer get back.

Gan Si Niang felt her body floating, her head heavy and her feet light. She desperately wanted to grab onto something to balance herself, but she couldn't.

"thump."

Gan Si Niang fell into the water, and she frantically struggled, splashing water everywhere, drowning out her cries.

Soon, Gan Si Niang sank into the water and disappeared, the current carrying her body downstream.

Suddenly, the person who had been motionless in the water opened her eyes. She choked on water and then swam ashore using a doggy paddle.

"Cough cough... Ptooey!"