"Siying, you don't have to go to work today. Do you want to go into the field to pick mushrooms?" Nangong Ruochen received a task yesterday. It was suspected that there were enemy spies on the rear of the team, but the enemy's base had not been found, so the three of them were asked to try their best to explore deeper during the slack season. He planned to accompany Siying to school today to fulfill his previous promise, and he would have no time to accompany her after that.

"Yes, I just want to tell you something. Now that the autumn harvest is over, my stove can be used. I won't eat with you guys anymore." Yun Siying still felt that it would be more convenient for her to be alone.

After hearing this, Nangong Ruochen was disappointed for a moment. But thinking that they would be out most of the time later and she would have no time to cook for her, she immediately agreed: "Okay!"

"Don't you have any other plans today?" Yun Siying asked. She didn't want to delay his work. She knew that he was not only an educated youth in name only, but he must have other tasks.

"I'm free today. I haven't fulfilled my promise to take you to pick mushrooms before. I just happened to make some time today. I may be busy in the future and won't be able to take care of you. You take care of yourself." Nangong Ruochen explained and reminded with concern.

"I will definitely take good care of myself. Let's go now. It will be very hot when the sun rises." Yun Siying and Nangong Ruochen put down their bowls and chopsticks, leaving them to Han Yuecheng and the others to clean up.

Yun Siying and Nangong Ruochen walked into the village one after the other, carrying baskets on their backs. They met many villagers around the forest, all of whom were selling goods. Some families even go shopping together. They are very familiar with the surrounding areas in the market and know basically where to buy chestnuts, fungus, mushrooms, walnuts, Chinese medicinal herbs, pine nuts and other local products.

Around the village, every place where goods were sold had people occupying positions, catching the harvest for their families. Yun Siying really felt that people in the seventies were really hardworking and frugal.

Not knowing whether the mushrooms that Nangong Ruochen knew about were still there, the two of them walked in the forest, smelling the fragrance of the grass and trees and listening to the chirping of birds. The sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves onto the two of them. The sense of ease on their bodies is like a painting of a trip in the wild.

They came to a valley with a large open space with rare small mushrooms and fresh footprints on the ground. Nangong Ruochen said somewhat embarrassedly: "It seems that the mushrooms here have been picked by someone first."

"The villagers came really early. It seems that the early bird catches the worm. Let's walk a little further. Maybe we can find some mushrooms." Yun Siying didn't hesitate. Of course, whoever picked the wild mushrooms on the tree owned them.

"If we go further, we will reach the depths of the forest. We might encounter large wild beasts." Nangong Ruochen looked towards the depths of the forest. He had been there several times and really encountered large wild beasts. Fortunately, he hid in time and was not discovered by them.

"Are you scared? I'm quite skilled. I've never been to the depths of the forest. Would you like to go for a walk together?" Yun Siying raised her eyebrows and looked at Nangong Ruochen.

"If you want to go, I'll go with you. No need to provoke me." Nangong Ruochen was a little helpless, with a doting and tenderness in his eyes that Yun Siying didn't notice.

There was no road in the forest behind, and it was overgrown with weeds. Nangong Ruochen picked up a wooden stick and walked in front. The stick was used to scare away snakes. Yun Siying followed behind 놇, and the two of them continued to walk forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. From time to time, birds fluttered overhead and flew away. It seemed that 놇 was frightened by them.

"Nangong Ruochen, look, there is a bird's nest on this tree. I wonder if there are any bird eggs in it?" Yun Siying pointed at the bird's nest on the tree excitedly, her eyes constantly scanning the surroundings. This one look was amazing, she saw five bird's nests.

"I'll go up and take a look." Nangong Ruochen put down the basket on his back and quickly climbed up the tree: "Siying, there really are bird eggs. We can have roasted bird eggs for lunch."

"Then you better be careful not to break the eggs. Ahem, ahem, don't break the bird's eggs. I haven't eaten roasted bird's eggs yet. I don't know how they taste?" Yun Siying was so embarrassed that she could barely move her feet. To be honest, what she said was too damaging to her worldview.

Nangong Ruochen, who had no bad thoughts at all, almost fell off the tree after hearing what she said after she coughed. What this girl said was really... He couldn't help but his ears turned red, and he could only pretend that he didn't think of that and didn't have any bad thoughts.

"Don't worry, I'm good at taking out eggs. No, I'm good at taking out bird eggs..." Nangong Ruochen couldn't continue speaking for a moment, and his hand that was taking out the bird eggs paused in mid-air. He didn't want to take them out anymore, his earlobes were burning. How could he say such indecent words in front of Siying?

Oh my god, why is this so awkward? The atmosphere suddenly became strangely silent.

"Nangong Ruochen, let's go. I don't want to eat this stuff anymore." Yun Siying? No, this person wouldn't be affected by her words, would he? She wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. She never wanted to hear the word "egg" again.

Nangong Ruochen breathed a sigh of relief, got down from the tree, and continued walking forward with Yun Siying. Both of them seemed to have forgotten the embarrassing scene that had just happened. After walking for half an hour, Yun Siying looked at the small red flowers blooming on the plants not far away and said excitedly, "It seems that the treasures are all deep inside."

Nangong Ruochen followed her gaze and saw what it was. He said happily, "You are so lucky. There are more than ten ginseng plants here. It seems that you will not be hungry in the future."

"Well, it seems that I'm lucky today. The leaves are relatively large, palmately compound, and dark green. It looks like it should be quite old." Yun Siying said happily, and walked quickly towards the location of the small red flower. Unexpectedly, her foot slipped and her body fell backwards involuntarily.

Nangong Ruochen took a strong step, put his strong arms around her waist, and held her in his arms. Yun Siying thought that what was waiting for her was a close contact with the earth, but she didn't expect to fall into a warm embrace.

It was the first time for her to have such close contact with a man. She felt his strong chest and his rapidly beating heart, and her face felt hot. After she stood firm, she struggled to get out of his arms, but he immediately let go and spoke in a hoarse voice beside her ears: "Siying, did you sprain your ankle?"

"No, no, thank you for what I did just now, otherwise I would have fallen down." Yun Siying's heart was beating a little fast, and she felt a little embarrassed.

"No need to thank me. I'm glad you didn't sprain your ankle." Nangong Ruochen felt relieved when he saw that she was indeed fine. Thinking about the hug just now, Yun Siying was so small, so soft, and so fragrant. He wanted to hug her again, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Yun Siying became even darker.

Yun Siying looked down and found that she had not stepped on the diameter of the ginseng. She patted her chest thankfully and said, "Fortunately, I didn't damage the diameter of the ginseng." Then she squatted down, trying to break the embarrassing situation by working.

Nangong Ruochen followed closely behind and said, "Let me dig it!"

"It will take a long time to dig up all the ginseng. Let's dig together." Yun Siying said as she took out a small hoe from her backpack and started digging with great concentration.