Chapter 57

After breakfast, Huo Rui and his friends couldn't stay still and started clamoring to go out and play.

The noise gave Luo Chaoyan a headache. She glared at them angrily and said, "Can't you just be more quiet and save some energy to go back to school tomorrow?"

Huo Rui curled his lips and said, "You are talking without any hesitation. You don't have to go to school now. We finally have two days off. It would be a big loss if we don't play to our heart's content."

Yin Miaoshan thought for a moment and said, "It rained last night, so there will probably be fresh mushrooms on the mountain today. Why don't we go pick some mushrooms and stew some pheasant back home, and drink some chicken soup?"

As long as Huo Rui and the others could go out and have fun, they had no objection to it.

It rained at night, and Luo Chaoyan didn't let Huo An go with her because she was afraid that the mountain road would be difficult to travel on.

Of course Huo An was not happy. He pulled her hand coquettishly, raised his chubby little face and kept pushing it against her, looking like he would not give up until she agreed.

"An An, be good! We'll be back soon." Yin Miaoshan coaxed him.

Huo An shook his head and said, "Yes!"

Seeing that he was not willing to give in, Luo Chaoyan had no choice but to use her trump card and said, "If you promise not to go, mother will allow you to eat three candies today, how about that?"

Huo An frowned, feeling very conflicted. Yesterday his mother only allowed him to eat one candy. Thinking of the candy that was handed over last night, he felt a little greedy. But when he thought about going out to play, it seemed not enough. He argued, "Then... don't... eat vegetarian food!"

"You wish!" Luo Chaoyan refused directly.

Seeing his face fall, she touched her nose, threw out a bait, and said, "If you want your mother to hold you, you have to eat more vegetables, otherwise your mother can't hold you." A two-year-old child weighs 50 kilograms, which is obviously overnutrition. As a good mother, she is... Well, he is a strict mother and she has to help him control his diet.

Huo An snorted. His mother always disliked him for being fat.

"Okay, it's settled." Luo Chaoyan made the decision.

Asking Shu Lan to keep a good eye on him, she heartlessly led the others out of the yard, completely ignoring Huo An's resentful little fat face behind her.

On the back mountain, Su Yi, riding a horse with a few guards, was looking for a spirit fox that had just escaped from their hands.

"Sir, there are no fox spirits here!"

"Sir, there's nothing here either!"

Su Yi frowned as he listened to the guards' responses. They had been chasing this fox for several days, and when they were about to catch it, it escaped.

"Keep looking!"

"yes!"

…

In the forest behind the mountain, Luo Chaoyan, Yin Miaoshan and Huo Rui and several other children started picking mushrooms in the forest.

Luo Chaoyan felt it necessary to remind these naughty kids, and said, "First of all, let me tell you, don't pick beautiful mushrooms."

"Why?" Huo Ze asked.

Huo Shun laughed and said, "Because you can't eat it, idiot!"

"How do you know?"

"Have you ever eaten a beautiful mushroom?"

"Just because you haven't eaten it doesn't mean you can't eat it!"

Huo Yu rolled his eyes at the two of them and said, "It's poisonous!"

The two of them nodded suddenly.

Huo Rui was bored and was hitting the weeds around him with a branch. His eyes inadvertently caught two white things on a tree.

"What is that?"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.

"Ah!" Pineapple was very excited, "It looks like Hericium erinaceus!"

"Can you eat it?" Huo Rui raised his eyebrows.

Pineapple nodded vigorously and said, "It's quite delicious."

"I'll go pick them!" Huo Ze was eager to try. He discovered that as long as Sister Pineapple said something was delicious, the taste would be good.

He walked to the tree and like a sloth, quickly climbed to the position where he wanted to pick the Hericium erinaceus. He clamped his legs around the tree trunk, held it with one hand, stretched out one hand to reach the Hericium erinaceus, and picked it off.

"I picked it!" he shouted to them with a smile on his face.

Pineapple was holding the basket under the tree and said, "Put it down and I'll catch it."

"good!"

After seeing Pineapple catch the Hericium erinaceus, Huo Ze wanted to climb down. He looked down at the ground and then looked at his position on the tree. How did he climb up just now? This position seems a bit high.

Suddenly, he heard a bird's cry. He looked up and saw a bird's nest on a tree branch above him. On the nest was a black-haired bird, staring at him vigilantly.

He said excitedly, "Boss, there is a bird's nest here."

Upon hearing this, Huo Rui and the others ran over.

"Where?" Huo Shun asked excitedly, looking up.

Looking in the direction Huo Ze pointed, they saw a bird's nest made of pine leaves on the tree branch.

"Are there any eggs in the bird's nest?" Huo Shun asked.

Just as Huo Ze was about to get closer to take a look, he saw the black bird flapping its wings and flying over his head. As if it knew he was an enemy, it raised its beak and pecked at his head a few times.

"Ouch! It hurts! You damned stinky black bird!"

Huo Ze was in so much pain from being pecked that tears were about to come out. He quickly waved the bird away from his head.

This was not the end yet. As if to take revenge on him for disturbing its peace, the black bird flew back after he waved it away, hovered over his head, and dropped a pile of bird shit on him.

“Pah!”

The bird shit landed directly on his nose. He inadvertently smelled the "ecstasy" smell and immediately became like a rooster with its feathers standing on end. "Ah! You dead bird! You actually pooped on me! If I catch you, you're dead!"

Huo Ze angrily raised his hand to catch the black bird, but the black bird seemed to be on guard. After shouting at him a few times, it flapped its wings and flew away. He was left staring blankly at its flying back.

"Ha ha!"

When the people present saw this scene, they couldn't help but laugh.

"Huo Ze, you kid are a bit unlucky today!" Huo Shun said with a smile.

Huo Ze glared at him and said, "I'll take out the bird eggs later, don't eat them." As he said that, he climbed up, and when he was within reach of the bird's nest, he reached out and carefully took down the nest.

"One, two, three..." He counted and shouted to them happily, "There are six bird eggs in it." It was a pity that the stinky bird was not caught.

Huo Rui was afraid that the boy would not have the strength to fall down after staying for too long, so he said, "Okay, come down quickly."

"Boss, how do we take this bird egg down?" Huo Ze felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

The branch of the tree was so straight that he had to climb up by clamping it with his legs and holding it with his hands. If he climbed down like this, the bird eggs would definitely be crushed if he carried them on his chest.

Huo Ze looked at the vines beside the tree, thought for a moment, and said, "I have a solution!"

He asked Huo Shun to help him pull a long vine, roll up a few sections at one end to make it the size of a stone, and then asked Huo Ze to hide to the side. Then throw it hard towards the branch over there.

After the vine was hung on the branch, he kept releasing the vine in his hand until the vine at the other end hung down.

"Pineapple, tie the basket with the vines."

Pineapple nodded and tied the basket skillfully.

After seeing that the basket was tied, he and Huo Shun pulled it together. When they reached the edge of the tree branch, he asked Huo Ze to put the bird eggs into the basket.

"Boss, you're so smart!"

Huo Ze smiled and put the bird eggs in the basket. After they got the basket, he slowly climbed down.

But when he was halfway up, he felt his hands and feet starting to ache. He made a bitter face and shouted, "Hey, Boss, I don't seem to have much strength left!"