In the next few days, Gu Xinran lived a home life, doing morning exercises, farming in the evening, helping her mother make clothes and quilts during the day, teaching Xuanxuan to read, occasionally going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and using spring water to lure a few rabbits and pheasants to improve her life.

With the nourishment of the spiritual spring and enough food to eat, the Gu family's complexion improved day by day. Little Tingting had become visibly rounder. Gu Xinran's skin had become a little fairer, and he could run for two quarters of an hour at a stretch and could lift rocks weighing over a hundred pounds with ease.

Brother Gu's martial arts progress was improving rapidly, which made Master Qiu very happy. He never thought that after teaching for decades, he finally met a talented person.

Gu Yuxuan is very smart and has almost a photographic memory. He finished learning the Three Character Classic in just a few days. Now he is memorizing the Thousand Character Classic, but he still needs to practice the characters.

Gu Xinran, who had recovered a little, couldn't stay at home anymore and wanted to find an excuse to go to the mountains.

Many mountain products are ripe in this season, and there is an endless stream of people going up the mountain to find food.

The night before, Gu Xinran told her mother that she was going to a chestnut forest the next day. It was a bit far away, and if there were a lot of chestnuts, she would not be back at noon, so she asked them not to worry.

The next day, at dawn, Gu Xinran set out, rushing all the way to the mountains. When he was hungry, he ate steamed buns, when he was tired, he drank spiritual spring water, and he made marks along the way.

Two hours later, the surrounding ancient trees were towering, vines were entwined, the shadows of the trees were heavy, and the ground was covered with moss. It was quiet and mysterious, making people feel as if they were in an ancient world.

Gu Xinran wandered aimlessly around until she came to a slightly empty area and spotted a bunch of emerald green plants with long, thin leaves. "Isn't this Polygonatum?" She'd dug it up with her grandmother when she was little. It was a valuable asset, worth a fortune.

It is regarded as the immortal herb and the holy tonic of all.

After the experience, the poet described it as: sweeping away the white hair, Huang Jing is here, and when you look at him, his face is as white as ice and snow.

I dug, worked hard for half an hour, and dug about 200 kilograms of plants that were more than three years old. These can be sold directly, and there are also many smaller ones that can be transplanted into the space. I left some smaller ones to let them continue to grow, so as not to pull them all out.

After digging, we continued to move forward. We heard the sound of flowing water in the distance. We walked in that direction and suddenly a group of sika deer came into view. They must be looking for water.

The spatial bow and arrow instantly came into his hand. He aimed at the neck of the largest deer and fired an arrow, sending it crashing down. "Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" he released three more arrows, killing two and letting one escape wounded. Gu Xinran stored the three deer in the spatial space and stabbed the one that wasn't dead yet. There was no other way, the spatial space currently didn't allow living things to enter.

He ran forward, following the bloodstains on the ground. A quarter of an hour later, he could vaguely hear the cry of an animal. Gu Xinran slowed down, put the machete back on his waist, picked up the bow and arrow again, and moved forward gently.

The sound grew louder and louder, like the howl of a wild boar, mixed with the roar of a tiger. No way, no way, is there really a tiger in this deep forest?

With great curiosity, he got closer and closer, found a big tree and climbed up quietly. The scene in his sight was too bloody.

Two wild boars and a tiger were fighting each other, and lying next to them was a sika deer with only half of its body left. The arrow shot by Gu Xinran was still stuck in the deer's butt.

The tiger finally managed to knock down a wild boar, but just as it bit its neck, it was hit hard by another wild boar, and both sides were injured.

The wild boar had thick skin and was agile; the tiger had sharp fangs and great strength, the king of beasts brimming with dominance. They fought for who knows how long, but in the end, both perished, and Gu Xinran had snatched up a huge bargain.

Even half a sika deer cannot be wasted. The antlers are cut off and put into storage, and the velvet antlers can be sold to pharmacies at a very good price.

It was not a good place to stay for long; the smell of blood was too strong. Seeing that the sun had passed midday, we decided to return to the river to rest for a while.

After searching all the way back to the river, the ginseng she had been longing for still hadn't appeared. Finding ginseng almost became her obsession.

However, we found a large area of ​​yam not far from the river. When we are extremely short of food in the future, we can bring them here to dig.

She sat on a rock by the stream and ate the egg pancake that her mother Gu had baked for her. Why did the black mass in the stream look so much like a person?

Curiosity took over again, and with the desire to expand the space by saving people, he cut a long branch and poked the thing in the water.

With a thud, the mass fell into the water. It turned out to be a person, a man in black stuck on a piece of wood.

Gu Xinran grunted as he dragged the man ashore. A closer look revealed a familiar look, perhaps a subordinate of the sickly beauty. He reached out to check for breath, and found it was still breathing. Considering the large purse, he pulled out some bandages from his space and bandaged the visible wound. He had given these to Doctor Guo, considering that Brother Gu often got injured while practicing martial arts. He then poured two drops of spiritual spring water mixed with the river water into the man in black's mouth.

Two minutes later, the man in black slowly woke up. Gu Xinran glanced at the space with his mind, but there was no change.

It was a waste of time to save him. Does this space select people?

The moment the man in black woke up, he tensed up and assumed an attacking posture, looking obviously well-trained.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. I was the one who pulled you out of the stream. I saved you." Gu Xinran is not the kind of person who does good deeds without leaving a name.

The man in black saw that the external injuries had been bandaged, the bleeding had stopped, and the internal injuries had also improved a lot. He was extremely grateful and said, "Thank you, young lady!"

"No need to thank me, we are destined to be together. I usually don't treat people without money. The medicine is too expensive."

The man in black was a little confused. "I have nothing now. Miss, could you please leave your address so I can come and thank you someday?"

"It's inconvenient." These people are always fighting and killing each other, and there will be no good things if you get involved with them.

"Then if you have any problems in the future, you can go to the Duan residence in the county town to find Xiao Ba. I will be staying there temporarily.

"Okay." Gu Xinran said and left, waving his sleeves, without taking away a cloud.

After Gu Xinran left, the man in black realized belatedly that this person looked so much like the person his master was looking for, meeting every standard.

Oh, hurry up and chase him, but it’s too difficult to find someone in the jungle.

Gu Xinran was not found, so the person who was looking for him came and asked, "Xiao Ba, how are you?"

"It's okay. I fell off a cliff and landed in a pool of water. I fainted and then drifted down the stream to the small river ahead. Someone rescued me."

"You can fall down while picking herbs. You have to go back to the furnace to be remade."

"Yes, Boss. But that giant snake was too powerful. One swipe of its tail gave me serious internal injuries. Did you pick the Resurrection Herb?"

"Of course, pack up and return to the city!"

"Wait, Boss, I was just rescued by a little girl. She looks very similar to the master's savior."

The boss's face darkened: "Send the signal quickly. Such an important matter must be reported immediately."

A moment later, a group of people appeared, hugging the sick beauty. "What's going on?"

After learning the details, the sick beauty asked everyone to scatter and search.

Gu Xinran didn't know all this. It was getting late and she had to hurry to the chestnut forest, otherwise how could she cover up her lie.

We sped all the way and were out of the mountains in an hour. We came to the chestnut forest that I remembered from last year and found that the chestnuts were small and shriveled, probably due to the lack of water this year.

Oh, forget it, it would be nice to carry a basket of Polygonatum back, this is more valuable.

There has been no income at home recently, and Gu's mother has started to budget carefully again. It's time to bring back another big wild animal.