Everyone got in the car and soon arrived at the destination - the foot of the mountain.
Gao Changhe stopped the car and said, "Sisters-in-law, we will be here around four o'clock in the afternoon. You wait here and I will take you back."
"Okay, we promise to wait here in advance." The military wives agreed readily.
It is certainly better to take a car than to walk.
Zhang Xing had been here several times before and knew the way. She pointed and said, "The Nuoshan Commune is just ahead. Let's go through it. There's a small path up the mountain behind it."
"Is this a commune? Why does it feel like there aren't many houses?"
Ning Xi took a look and saw that there were only about twenty or thirty rooms, not even as many as the Yuzhuang Brigade where she had been to before.
"Xiaoxi, you don't know, this is a mountainous area with little flat land. Many people live in the mountains. Wherever there is land for planting, there are people. People in the mountains, after all, live in the mountains."
The military wife who was speaking was called Lin Xiaofang. She had slightly dark skin and shiny teeth. Her eyebrows and eyes were delicate, and she had a natural and simple beauty.
Ning Xi looked up into the distance and indeed saw a few thatched houses on the hillside. She praised, "Sister Fang, you really know a lot."
Wang Ying had been with the army the longest and knew a lot, so he jokingly said:
"What do you know? Her family is from the mountains. She used to be a well-known capable girl here. Her reputation spread far and wide. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been introduced to Captain Liu."
Lin Xiaofang smiled sheepishly and said angrily, "Sister Wang, you are just making fun of me."
"How could it be cancelled? Captain Liu is a flower in our army. How many times have the nurses in the hospital asked about her? Who would have thought that you would pick her? Hahahaha——"
We talked and laughed all the way and soon arrived at the commune.
As the saying goes, the rice turns yellow in August and farmers are busy harvesting. The newly harvested rice is drying in the open space of the commune, and many half-grown children are using tools to turn the rice over.
"If it were in my hometown, the rice would have been taxed as public tax." Zhang Xing sighed as he looked at the golden millet.
Ning Xi asked curiously, "Where is Sister Xingzi from? Hai Province? Or Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"
"My home is in southern Fujian." Zhang Xing smiled, with a flash of nostalgia in her eyes. She hadn't been back for several years after joining the army.
When I am at home, I want to go out and see the world, but when I go out, I miss my hometown all the time.
Wang Ying: "I heard from my husband that when Sister Xingzi first came, no one except him could understand her accent. But after a month or so, she became the best Mandarin speaker among the military wives!"
Lin Xiaofang: "It's the same now. Every time we put on a show, the first person I think of is Sister Xingzi. She speaks clearly and has a loud voice."
Ning Xi also nodded: "Indeed, if Sister Xingzi hadn't said it herself, I wouldn't have guessed where she was from. I couldn't hear any accent at all."
Zhang Xing shook her head helplessly: "You guys, you're even trying to brag for me."
"Ladies, are you going up the mountain?" a little girl ran over and asked.
"Yes, let's go up the mountain to pick some mushrooms. It's been raining a lot recently, and now that it's sunny, there should be a lot of mushrooms."
The little girl went back and whispered a few words to her friends, then came over and said:
"The people in our team got up at around three in the morning to pick mushrooms. The secretary specifically told us that if there are outsiders picking mushrooms, we should let them go to the west mountain. I will teach them the way."
Ning Xi: “?”
How did the secretary know that they would come to pick mushrooms?
Zhang Xing patted her shoulder and said with a smile, "We come here often in June and July."
Although there are many deep mountains and old forests around, there are many ferocious beasts in them, so they will not go up the mountain to pick mushrooms casually. This commune is the closest to the family compound, so they will come back when they have the chance.
This is the case all year round.
Because it rarely snows here in winter, there is no shortage of food in the mountains even in the twelfth and winter months.
After a while, everyone here got to know them, and when they saw strange women coming from outside, they knew they were military wives.
The military and the people are like one family, and the wives of the soldiers are particularly welcome. Villagers often warmly invite them to stay for dinner.
Although you can't eat rice as much as you want, there are plenty of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
The little girl said she was showing them the way, but in fact she was just leading the way. She was always in front of them, holding a wooden stick, knocking on the grass and pulling away the leaves.
"Host, there are a lot of good things for sale here. Do you want to turn on the detection function? It only costs 5 star coins every ten minutes."
The system suddenly came online.
Ning Xi said generously: "Turn it on, let's try it for ten minutes first."
If not, don't waste star coins.
The system noticed her thoughts and silently labeled Ning Xi as stingy.
"Ding! Found 1 poisonous mushroom, for sale!"
A pure white, thin-stem mushroom appeared under a dead tree on the roadside. There was a layer of transparent cover outside the cap, which looked particularly fairy-like.
Ning Xi pretended to be looking for mushrooms carefully under the leaves, fell to the back of the team, and put the poisonous mushrooms into the system.
Everyone was busy looking for mushrooms, and the dead branches and leaves everywhere naturally concealed Ning Xi's actions, so no one noticed.
"Host, don't worry. I will help you spread the word and won't let your star coins go to waste."
The system was secretly happy in its heart. Detection was its built-in function. All these star coins would go into its pocket and be calculated as points. It must perform well and strive to help the host earn more.
The more you earn, the more you spend.
"Highly poisonous white mushroom, suggested selling price: 10 star coins."
Ning Xi: "System, next time you put it on the shelf, just mark the price at twice the suggested retail price."
"Okay, host." The system agreed immediately and explained, "Host, the suggested retail price is what comes with my program. I didn't deliberately lower the price."
After spending a few months together, Ning Xi still had a certain degree of trust in the system. She responded to it in her heart, "I know, just do what I say."
"Ding! Found 10 poisonous mushrooms, ready for sale!"
In a few minutes, the system detected another nest of poisonous mushrooms that could be sold, and Ning Xi was happily picking them up.
"Ding! Detected 3 porcini mushrooms, not for sale. I guess the host needs to collect them and make them into delicious food."
Three black-brown umbrella-capped, chubby mushrooms were hiding under the leaves, pushing out a bulge on the dead leaves. The color of the mushrooms was very similar to that of the leaves.
"Picking mushrooms is a technical job, at least it tests your eyesight." Ning Xi used a small shovel to scoop out the mushrooms and pulled the soil at the roots back to its original place.
I hope that next time delicious mushrooms will grow here and be left for the next person to harvest.
"The testing service time is up, do I need to renew it?"
"Continue! Give me another 30 star coins!" Ning Xi placed an order enthusiastically and bought another hour of testing service.
The system immediately turned into a lackey: "Got it, I'll be happy to serve you!"
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