Chapter 142 I am the boss behind the scenes

After searching along the stream for nearly half an hour, I finally saw a small ditch.

The water here seems to be formed by rainwater and melted snow. The ditch is not big, but the water looks very clear.

Lu Jiansen quickly realized that the little girl was not looking for herbs, but for water.

He took the shovel he carried with him and shoveled away the weeds around.

Gu Xiaoxi squatted down, washed his hands in the water, and quietly used the water purification technique.

"The water is quite clean. I think we can fill it with some water." Gu Xiaoxi raised his eyes and looked at Lu Jiansen.

"Okay. Bring a bucket over later." Lu Jiansen nodded slightly.

Although they brought a lot of water to Jiling, due to the large number of people, they could not use the water freely.

With this water source, they can worry less.

As there was a water source nearby, Lu Jiansen called Li Kun and Zhuangzi over and found a suitable place to set up the tent nearby.

When setting up the tent, everyone gathered together to help, and Gu Xiaoxi carried a bucket to fetch water.

The ditch was too small, and other people would easily get mud and sand in their buckets when they tried to fetch water. But she was different. Using the cleaning technique, she could easily control the water flow, so she could easily fill a bucket with pure, clear water.

When Lu Jiansen came over, he just happened to help carry the water back.

After the tent was set up, everyone divided the work and some picked up branches while others arranged the tent.

Gu Xiaoxi took on a job of his own, washing ingredients and scraping yam.

Anyway, after using the separation technique, she soon got a pot of clean yam.

Qi Shuangshuang originally wanted to come and help, but when she found that Xiaoxi had finished scraping the yam by herself, she couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.

"Xiaoxi, your hand speed is too fast!"

She thought it would take a long time to scrape these yams.

"Would you like to help me make a fire so we can boil the yam first?" Gu Xiaoxi casually assigned a task to Qi Shuangshuang.

"Okay." Qi Shuangshuang immediately went to make a fire.

"I know how to make yam cakes, Sister Gu, let me do it!" Fu Jiani didn't like shaving yams, but now that the yams are shaved, she feels like she can cook.

After hearing what she said, Gu Xiaoxi handed the matter over to her.

Of course, she was not idle either, but went around to pick up some branches and dried the piles of wet branches.

After gathering enough firewood, Gu Xiaoxi looked around and dug up some common Chinese herbal medicines.

In half a day, she collected the most Chinese herbs by herself.

At noon, everyone ate yam cakes, but the taste was really hard to describe. The flour mixed with the yam was not cooked enough. Gu Xiaoxi didn't want to eat it after taking one bite.

She felt that Fu Jiani still overestimated her cooking skills!

Lu Jiansen calmly took the yam cake from the little girl's hand and handed her a rice dumpling that had just been boiled in water.

“Eat this!”

Gu Xiaoxi blinked and asked, "Did you buy some rice dumplings?"

Lu Jiansen gently rubbed her head and said, "I only bought two yesterday."

There wasn’t enough for everyone, so he left some for his little girl.

Gu Xiaoxi felt embarrassed that his taste was different from others, so he took out the bag of crab roe that Aunt Su had given him and shared it with others.

Qi Shuangshuang also brought a lot of food, so after eating half a yam cake, she took out a bag of rice cakes to share with everyone.

Si Nanyu quietly took out a small bag of rice and cooked porridge for everyone again.

Since there was porridge, Gu Xiaoxi also provided two dishes to go with the porridge.

In this way, everyone can be considered to have enough food and drink.

In the afternoon, Zhang Bingyi found Gu Xiaoxi and told her about the map route drawn by his grandfather.

"I've been observing for the whole morning and I feel like we might be heading in the wrong direction. The place where my grandfather said he found the ginseng should be deep in the northeast. What do you think?"

Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "Yes, there is some deviation. We are now looking in the northeast direction."

"Should we evacuate the tents together?" Zhang Bingyi was in a dilemma.

Putting up a tent is not easy.

"Let's not evacuate today! We can move later when we find a better place."

Gu Xiaoxi prefers to come back here to rest at night.

After discussing, the group of people headed east.

This time, their speed was much faster than in the morning and their goal was clearer.

But even so, they didn't even see any ginseng.

In the rush to get there, everyone barely found any herbs in the entire afternoon.

Of course, Gu Xiaoxi was an exception. Although she was also on the road, she did not miss any herbs within her sight.

With Lu Jiansen helping her carry things, she didn't realize how many herbs she had dug.

It was not until after dark when everyone returned to the tent and Gu Xiaoxi piled all the herbs together that she realized that she had harvested quite a lot today.

"Xiaoxi, your eyesight is so good! I didn't even find a few herbs in the afternoon." Qi Shuangshuang couldn't help but sigh.

She was so jealous of Xiaoxi's good eyesight!

Gu Xiaoxi smiled and said, "I don't need these herbs. I'll bring them back to you when the time comes."

Qi Shuangshuang was immediately amused, "So I am the boss behind the scenes!"

Fu Jiani looked at them with envy, then turned her head to glance at the pile of herbs by Zhang Bingyi and Zhong Jue.

This number is not even one-tenth of that in Gu Creek!

Gu Xiaoxi simply processed the herbs and went to watch Si Nanyu and Li Kun cook.

Everyone came to Jiling with food such as rice and noodles, so they planned to have a big meal in the evening. They cooked rice, steamed sausages, and made egg drop soup.

Lu Jiansen lit a small stove nearby and while he was boiling medicine for the little girl, he was also steaming a small bowl of egg custard.

Gu Xiaoxi felt that he was the one who was favored.

After thinking for a while, she took out a large earthenware jar from her bag and built a fire next to it.

In the clay pot was the chestnut roasted chicken that she had cooked early in the morning, which could be eaten after being heated up slightly.

When the aroma of chicken wafted out, Fu Jiani couldn't help but come over.

"Sister Gu, you brought chicken with you?"

"Yeah. I brought one." Gu Xiaoxi replied casually.

Fu Jiani had nothing to do, so she helped to light the fire.

Qi Shuangshuang took a look and went to help Si Nanyu.

After Lu Jiansen had boiled the Chinese medicine, he scooped it out of a bowl and stirred it with a spoon to cool it down as quickly as possible.

Gu Xiaoxi took a deep breath and said tentatively, "I feel like I don't need to take this medicine."

After purifying her body once again, she felt that the effect was countless times better than taking medicine.

Lu Jiansen didn't want the little girl to take medicine frequently, but it was still necessary to regulate her body, so he coaxed her softly.

"Mr. Qi said we should eat it once a week, and it's already been half a month. Be good, eat it today, and we'll wait until next month to eat it again."

Hearing him say this, Gu Xiaoxi had no choice but to suppress his repulsion and drank the Chinese medicine at the right temperature in one gulp.

When Lu Jiansen saw that she had finished eating, he casually fed her a piece of fruit candy.

Seeing the interaction between the two, Fu Jiani couldn't help but ask, "Sister Gu, are you sick? I really can't tell!"