Chapter 160: Hurry up, don't dawdle

Outside the tent, Gu Xiaoxi drank a bowl of hot porridge, ate a boiled egg, and then sat aside and talked to Qi Shuangshuang who was frying pine nuts over the fire.

"Are you going to fry all the pine nuts?"

Qi Shuangshuang raised her eyebrows slightly and said suggestively, "No, I just want to burn all the firewood we picked up."

Gu Xiaoxi couldn't help but laugh, "That's the reason! Then I'll help you too."

As she spoke, she built another fire and washed a clay pot.

Qi Shuangshuang asked curiously, "What are you going to do? We have three half-dried hares left. Do you want to cook them?"

"No need. I'll make fried rice with eggs, so you don't have to cook lunch."

Qi Shuangshuang's eyes lit up, "Yes, you can also make egg fried rice. I boiled 20 eggs this morning and prepared to eat them on the road."

They still have dozens of pheasant eggs left!

"Okay. I'll do it, you continue frying the pine nuts."

When Gu Xiaoxi was about to get up to get some rice, Lu Jiansen came over and said, "I'll do it. You go and take a rest."

Since his job was taken away from him, Gu Xiaoxi simply found something to do for himself.

Because Zhong Jue and Fu Jiani were still in the tent, Lu Jiansen and Si Nanyu were embarrassed to dismantle the tent, but she could!

She walked to the edge, whistled a few times, raised her hand, and the tent opened perfectly.

Fu Jiani, still wrapped in a quilt, stared blankly at the tent roof that suddenly disappeared. It took her a while to react and Gu Xiaoxi took down the tent.

"You...can't you wait for us to come out? You scared me to death." Fu Jiani said with a face full of complaints.

Zhong Jue's expression was not very good either. Although he was not scared nor hit by the tent, he was angry.

Gu Xiaoxi blinked his eyes. "I have calculated the distance. What are you afraid of? If I dare to dismantle it, I will definitely make sure that you will not be hurt. Besides, it is going to rain again today. We are ready to go down the mountain quickly. We can't waste any more time."

Zhang Bingyi, who was still in a daze, came to his senses and asked, "Is it going to rain again?"

Gu Xiaoxi nodded and pointed to a gray cloud in the sky on the left. "Your grandfather taught me how to identify the weather. I feel that it will probably rain again. If you want to go down the mountain, hurry up and don't dawdle."

"Anyway, whether you leave or not, we have to go down the mountain."

Zhang Bingyi did not delay this time and immediately packed his things.

Zhong Jue and Fu Jiani had slept here before, and he felt embarrassed to come over to pack up and disturb them.

Now that the tents have been taken down, he doesn't care anymore.

Zhong Jue was also afraid of rain, so he started packing his things.

Si Nanyu glanced at Lu Jiansen, then raised his eyebrows, silently saying, "Your wife is amazing!"

Lu Jiansen is quite calm. His wife is a principled person and very lovely!

When Gu Xiaoxi was tidying up and disassembling the tent, Si Nanyu immediately went over to help.

By the time they had packed up everything, Lu Jiansen's pot of egg fried rice was also ready.

Gu Xiaoxi took the lunch box over, divided the fried rice into four portions, and gave the rest to Zhang Bingyi.

Afterwards, everyone packed up the pots and pans and went down the mountain together.

Although they went down the mountain faster than up, because they dug some herbs along the way, it was already 1pm when they reached the bottom of the mountain.

After finding a place to stop and rest, Gu Xiaoxi and his friends ate the fried rice they had prepared in the morning, and then walked along the road towards Daji City.

After walking for an hour, Fu Jiani held Zhong Jue's hand uncomfortably, "Brother Zhong Jue, we had a car to take when we came here, but don't we have a car to take when we go back? How long will it take us to get there?"

Zhong Jue also had a headache, "I don't know."

Who wants to walk when there is a car to ride?

But Lu Jiansen and Gu Xiaoxi were both in a hurry, so they couldn't stop moving.

Fu Jiani felt uncomfortable both mentally and physically, so she looked at Zhang Bingyi.

"Brother Zhang, are we going to Daji City?"

Zhang Bingyi nodded, "Probably!"

In fact, if Lu Jiansen and the others hadn’t come here to collect herbs, they would have to walk back to the city.

Unable to get a definite answer, Fu Jiani could not help but run a short distance and came to Gu Xiaoxi's side.

"Sister Gu, are we going to go all the way to Daji City?"

Gu Xiaoxi sighed, "I don't know either. If there is a car, I will take it. If I am unlucky, I will leave."

"Didn't you arrange someone to pick us up?" Fu Jiani felt that since Lu Jiansen was the deputy head of the group, he should have some authority!

"This is not Qingbei, I don't know anyone here. Do you think I want to walk?" Gu Xiaoxi asked back in confusion.

Everybody was walking, not just her.

Fu Jiani said aggrievedly: "I'm just asking."

"I'm just answering you truthfully." Gu Xiaoxi's tone was even more aggrieved than hers.

Fu Jiani suddenly stopped talking.

When Fu Jiani was walking with Zhong Jue and the others again, Qi Shuangshuang suddenly asked Si Nanyu beside her.

"Did you walk this way when you came here?"

Si Nanyu raised his lips slightly, "No, I called a car and someone to take me to the mountain. I also told them to pick me up near here in ten days. But we didn't stay in the mountain for ten days, so we had to walk."

Qi Shuangshuang suddenly realized, "So that's how it is!"

Zhong Jue and Fu Jiani also heard this, and they didn't know whether to be depressed or not.

At this time, Lu Jiansen said gently to his little girl: "Hold on a little longer. There is a road leading to the nearby village a little further ahead. There is a bus passing through here into the city every two days. If we are lucky, we can get on it."

"Yeah." Gu Xiaoxi nodded.

If they couldn't find a car, they would just camp for another night.

In fact, their luck was not bad. Although they did not encounter a car, they encountered a horse-drawn carriage.

The uncle who was riding a horse was pulling a few bags of food and running very fast, but when he saw Lu Jiansen and the others, he stopped on his own initiative.

"Do you want to take a ride? It's ten cents a head to town. Thirty cents a head to the city."

"Let's go to the city." Lu Jiansen made the decision immediately and then carried his little girl into the car first.

Others also got on the car one after another.

With seven people in the carriage, it was actually a bit crowded, and with their belongings added in, the carriage was really packed.

The uncle felt a little sorry for his own horse.

Gu Xiaoxi saw the uncle's expression and immediately said, "We'll give you an extra fifty cents for our luggage."

The uncle burst into laughter when he saw a little girl being so open-minded.

"Okay, I will definitely take you to the city. It's just that the journey is long and some roads are not very good, so it might be a little shaky."

"It's okay. Uncle, what are you doing in the city so late?" Gu Xiaoxi chatted with the uncle.

"Oh, my daughter is in the city, and I am going to bring her some food."

"You are such a good father! My dad is the same. Whenever he has something delicious, he always thinks of me..."

The uncle laughed, "That's right, there's no father who doesn't love his daughter..."

Just like this, Gu Xiaoxi chatted happily with the uncle all the way.

Fu Jiani, who was feeling unwell, couldn't help but roll her eyes several times.

She felt that she had misjudged Gu Xiaoxi, who turned out to be a flatterer.