"Tingyun, it seems that we really can't go to the mountain over here. Everyone knows that we have to get up early." Xu Erhua felt a little worried when she saw this scene.

"Let's go quickly, or we'll be in trouble if we're targeted." Li Tingyun pulled Xu Erhua and walked quickly forward.

The villagers behind them thought they were going to the town, so they didn't take it seriously and hurried up the mountain.

Li Tingyun and the others quickened their pace and walked to the place where the road was dug, looking for a place to hide.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Xiaozhuang's father and others came over, and Li Tingyun led everyone up the mountain.

Before going up the mountain, she earnestly warned: "There is a section of the road that is very steep. We need to walk slowly and don't rush."

Everyone listened carefully and nodded.

After climbing up the mountain for a while and reaching the destination, she and He Fei divided the work: "Brother He Fei, you go up first, then let the rope down, I'll watch from below."

"Okay!" He Fei is good at martial arts, so climbing such a place is not difficult for him.

He Fei climbed up, tied the rope to a big tree, pulled the rope hard, and made sure there was no problem before throwing the other end down.

Li Tingyun took the rope and asked everyone to climb up by pulling the rope.

Xiao Zhuang's father and Xiao Ni had never walked on such a mountain road before, so they went up very slowly.

No one rushed them, but encouraged them to take their time.

After waiting for everyone else to go up, Li Tingyun pulled the rope and climbed up very quickly.

When they got to the top, she untied the hemp rope and threw it into the backpack, then led everyone to continue forward.

The road is much easier to walk on here, but in order to ensure that everyone can walk steadily, we picked up a lot of sticks to pull away the grass.

As soon as she entered the woods, Xu Erhua saw a rabbit. She didn't dare to say anything and patted Brother He Fei next to her.

He Fei shot an arrow and hit the rabbit.

"What a big rabbit!" Xiao Ni was so happy when she saw how big the rabbit was.

"This is a good start, good. Let's take the rabbit and go." Uncle He was also very happy.

Li Tingyun said, "We are all unfamiliar with this forest. Let's split into two teams today."

"Yes, we are not familiar with this place. Let's split into two teams." Uncle He felt that Li Tingyun's consideration was correct.

Li Tingyun thought for a moment and said, "How about this, Erhua, you'll be in a group with Uncle He and Big Brother He Fei, and the others will be in a group with me."

Uncle He thought about it carefully. Li Tingyun was quite skilled. Erniu and Xiaozhuang's father were men after all. It was just Xiaoni who was a little weak. Plus, with Bai Ju protecting her, there shouldn't be any big problems.

"Okay, that's it," he nodded in agreement.

Everyone split up here and went in two directions.

This place has indeed never been harvested before, and you can dig up some medicinal herbs after just a few steps.

I left in a hurry yesterday, and Li Tingyun hadn't discovered several medicinal herbs before. Now that he saw them, there was no reason not to dig them up.

"Tingyun, can these be dug?" Xiaozhuang's father knew relatively few medicinal herbs.

"Dig, just dig what you see me digging. I didn't expect there are so many herbs here. We will be in this forest for the next two days. After a few days of digging, we will probably have to go back to work." Li Tingyun calculated the time. This forest was quite large and it would take several days to dig all the herbs.

"Okay!" Everyone agreed happily.

Then everyone started to get busy.

On the other hand, Xu Erhua has recently learned more and more medicinal herbs. She will tell He Fei and his son some of the ones they don’t know.

Similarly, Uncle He knew a lot of medicinal herbs, and he would tell Xu Erhua if she didn't know any.

When it was noon, Li Tingyun asked Bai Ju to find He Fei and the others to come for lunch.

For lunch, we had meat buns and some kimchi. The kimchi was pickled by Xu Erhua and tasted very good. Li Tingyun thought it could be used as a snack, so he pickled a lot of it at home.

After lunch, Li Tingyun quickly checked everyone's backpacks and threw out the weeds. In the afternoon, they searched for medicine together.

The afternoon time is relatively short because they have to go down the mountain at five o'clock to avoid any dangers that they cannot deal with.

After walking for a while, they met another rabbit.

After the rabbit is shot, the time is almost up.

The group walked out of the forest together. When they reached the steep place, they pulled a rope again. This time, Li Tingyun went down first.

The others followed down. Before He Fei came down, he untied the rope above and threw it down. He climbed down nimbly.

After going down the mountain, Li Tingyun looked around and saw that there was no one around. He said to everyone, "Don't take the rabbit back with you. Take it to the place where we washed the vegetables before and clean it. Don't leave any rabbit hair behind. Take it back and burn it."

"Okay!" Everyone agreed.

There's no other way. I don't know where to buy rabbit fur these days, so I can only take it back and burn it.

If discovered by nearby villagers, they would definitely search all over the mountain for it.

It’s not easy to eat meat these days, let alone rabbit meat.

After cleaning up, Li Tingyun and Xu Erhua returned home first.

After entering the yard, Xu Erhua waited at the door, waiting for everyone to show up so that she could open the door.

Li Tingyun went to the kitchen and chopped the rabbit into several pieces. After they came in, he divided the rabbit and let everyone go back to rest.

"Today is the Lantern Festival. Why don't you come back with us for dinner?" Xiao Zhuang's father invited Li Tingyun and Xu Erhua.

Li Tingyun thought about it and shook his head: "Where you live is too conspicuous. We are in the stage of keeping distance now, so we should not go."

"Then let's go to our house. Our house is not conspicuous." He Fei said.

"No one will go. There will be a Lantern Festival next year. Our task this year is to make money. By then, we will move to a bigger house and won't have to worry about these things." Li Tingyun smiled at everyone.

Everyone smiled at the thought of buying a house in the city, and Xiao Zhuang's father said with envy: "I will also work hard to be your neighbor."

"Of course." Li Tingyun likes to be neighbors with such an honest person.

After selling the prey this time, He Fei and Erniu also settled their accounts with Li Tingyun.

Erniu asked, "Brother, just tell us how much money you can come up with. If it's not enough, I'll lend it to you first."

"That won't do. You don't have much money and the date is coming soon. You will be laughed at if you can't come up with the betrothal gift." Erniu was worried that he would treat Xiaoni badly. Xiaoni was a good girl.

"Then I'll lend it to you, okay?" Li Tingyun said.

Because of the care Xiaozhuang's mother and her family gave them, she felt she had to help.

"Brother, please tell me quickly! I'm so anxious." Xiao Ni also urged anxiously.

"Not much. Including that day's money, it's only a little over four hundred." Xiao Zhuang's father replied embarrassedly.

Four hundred or so is a small amount. The cheapest one costs eight hundred, which is half less. Besides, the family needs to eat, so it is impossible to spend it all.

"It's okay, I have it here. Use it first and pay you back later." Li Tingyun agreed readily.

However, Xiaozhuang's father still felt that the matter was too serious and wanted to go back and discuss it with his wife.