Chapter 157 He seems to be looked down upon!

After returning to the camp, Gu Xiaoxi asked Lu Jiansen and Si Nanyu to bring back the firewood she had picked earlier, while she fetched water and washed the matsutake mushrooms she had just picked.

Qi Shuangshuang was scraping yam on the side. Because she was in a good mood, she was humming a song softly.

Not far away, Zhong Jue was peeling mink skins, while Zhang Bingyi and Fu Jiani were collecting firewood.

Gu Xiaoxi took this opportunity to wash the two ginsengs that Qi Shuangshuang had dug. After letting them dry briefly, she packed them in a box and handed it to Qi Shuangshuang.

After Lu Jiansen and Si Nanyu brought back the firewood, Gu Xiaoxi quickly made a fire, boiled water, and then went to skin the rabbit.

When she had finished skinning the five rabbits, Zhong Jue was still there slowly skinning the mink.

Fu Jiani suddenly glanced at the pile of rabbit skins next to Gu Xiaoxi and felt envious again.

Just when she was about to ask Gu Xiaoxi to give her a piece of rabbit skin, she suddenly closed her mouth.

What if she asked, and Gu Xiaoxi asked for her mink fur?

Mink fur is much more expensive than rabbit fur!

While she was thinking about this, Gu Xiaoxi had already put away the rabbit skin and went to watch Lu Jiansen cook.

As there were plenty of ingredients, they made a chicken stewed with matsutake mushrooms and a spicy rabbit dish, served with white rice.

While eating, Gu Xiaoxi was so happy that her eyes were almost squinting.

This chicken soup stewed with matsutake mushrooms is particularly delicious, and the meat is also very tender.

And next door, Fu Jiani burned her rice!

Then, the mink meat they cooked began to emit an indescribable smell.

Qi Shuangshuang glanced sideways slightly, then buried her head in eating.

It was just a chicken and a rabbit. The four of them could finish it.

Even if they couldn't finish it, they had to eat it, otherwise Fu Jiani would definitely come and ask them for more.

Gu Xiaoxi's appetite was the same as before. After eating a bowl of rice and drinking a bowl of chicken soup, he couldn't eat anymore.

Looking up and seeing Zhang Bingyi's gloomy face, she felt a little sympathetic.

At this time, Fu Jiani suddenly said, "Sister Gu, can you give us some of your rabbit meat? Our meat is burnt."

Gu Xiaoxi was speechless, but after hesitating for a few seconds, she handed a skinned rabbit to Zhang Bingyi.

"This is for you. You can cook it again. We will be back in the next two days."

Zhang Bingyi was slightly startled, "Are you going back?"

Gu Xiaoxi nodded. "He can stay one more day tomorrow at most, and he will leave the day after tomorrow. My Lu Jiansen is a soldier, so he can't be out for too long."

She didn't say that she had found what she wanted and didn't plan to stay in the mountains any longer.

Compared to the mountains, the bed at home smells so much better!

"I see. Thank you!"

Zhang Bingyi accepted the rabbit meat and planned to discuss with Zhong Jue whether to go back with them or a few days later.

When Gu Xiaoxi said he wanted to go back, Qi Shuangshuang and Si Nanyu had no objection.

After all, the mission has been over-fulfilled, so it would be good to go back early.

By the time Zhang Bingyi and his friends had finished cooking the rabbit meat, Gu Xiaoxi had already crawled into her sleeping bag and gone to sleep.

She needs to take time to rest and get up early tomorrow.

Qi Shuangshuang and Si Nanyu lit a fire and prepared to dry the remaining three rabbits so that they would be easier to carry.

Lu Jiansen braised the remaining pheasant and went to rest.

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early morning.

It was only five o'clock when Gu Xiaoxi got up.

Seeing Qi Shuangshuang turned over and seemed to wake up, he whispered, "Shuangshuang, you and Si Nanyu will stay in the camp to look after things today. Lu Jiansen and I will go out for a walk. We will go down the mountain tomorrow morning."

Qi Shuangshuang immediately sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Are you two going alone? How about we go together?"

"Look at something!" Gu Xiaoxi blinked.

Qi Shuangshuang reacted immediately. They had a hundred-year-old ginseng, so someone had to watch over it.

She nodded immediately, "I understand. I'll stay here. You three can go out!"

Gu Xiaoxi pursed her lips and smiled, "Si Nanyu can't find ginseng anyway, so let him stay here too, and you'll have company."

Si Nanyu, who was sitting next door, twitched his mouth when he heard this. He seemed like he was being looked down upon!

But why was he a little happy that he could stay?

Lu Jiansen was also very happy because he could be alone with his little girl.

Twenty minutes later, Gu Xiaoxi returned home, took his equipment, and called Zhang Bingyi who had just woken up.

"We are going out now, are you guys going?"

Zhang Bingyi nodded immediately, "Go!"

"We won't be back at noon, so bring some food with you." Gu Xiaoxi reminded.

"Okay." Zhang Bingyi didn't waste any time. He called Zhong Jue and took his things.

Zhong Jue looked at the sky outside, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You guys go first! I can't find herbs, so I'll go out hunting later!"

If he could kill one more wild boar, his trip to Jiling would not be in vain.

"Okay." Zhang Bingyi did not force it and immediately followed Lu Jiansen and the others.

On the way, Gu Xiaoxi ate a boiled egg and drank a cup of milk powder that Lu Jiansen had prepared for her.

Zhang Bingyi, who witnessed the whole process, suddenly understood why the petite and frail Gu Xiaoxi was willing to follow the army to such a harsh place as Qingbei.

He thought he was a considerate person, but he couldn't be so attentive and considerate to a woman.

The simplest thing was that he didn't have the physical strength to carry a woman from the mountain back to the camp, a journey that would take several hours.

Perhaps the early bird catches the worm, for Gu Xiaoxi, who chose to walk west this time, dug up two Ganoderma lucidums, one large and one small, after only walking for half an hour.

With her good start, Lu Jiansen and Zhang Bingyi also found Ganoderma lucidum soon.

At around eight o'clock, Gu Xiaoxi was lucky enough to discover a red pine forest, and there were many ripe red pine cones on the ground.

She looked at Lu Jiansen beside her with joy and said, "I want to pick pine cones here."

Lu Jiansen nodded lovingly, "Then pick some up."

Zhang Bingyi suddenly felt a little regretful that he did not insist on letting Zhong Jue come over. It would be a good idea to take these pine cones back.

However, if he were to pick pine cones here by himself, it would be a waste of too much time.

Besides, this thing is heavy and hard to hold!

Gu Xiaoxi didn't care what he thought, he just squatted down and started picking pine cones.

After piling them into a pile, she picked up a thick branch and slapped the pine cones, then quietly used the separation technique, and a pile of pine nuts fell out of the tower-shaped pine cones.

She then took out a woven bag from her bag and put the pine nuts into it one by one, her movements being quite efficient.

Seeing that she found it effortless to crack the pine nuts, Lu Jiansen helped her pick up the pine cones from a distance.

The two of them divided the work and worked together, and in a short while, they picked a bag full of pine nuts.

Gu Xiaoxi picked up the bag and said softly, "This is so heavy!"

"It's okay, we can take it back, it's not heavy." Lu Jiansen didn't think a bag of pine nuts was heavy.

Gu Xiaoxi saw that there were still a lot of pine cones around, and thought it was a rare opportunity, so he picked up some more.

This time, she quietly replaced the fallen pine nuts and put a lot of them back in the new product showroom.