That evening, Chen Xiaomi talked to Lu Lin and asked him if he wanted to continue resting at home or go into the mountains with him.
Lu Lin felt that Chen Xiaomi treated him not like a husband who had married into the family, but more like a helper in the household.
After careful consideration, Lu Lin decided to go into the mountains with Chen Xiaomi.
As the only adult man in the family, Lu Lin felt it was necessary to change Chen Xiaocai's impression of him as a coward and establish his authority.
The next morning, Lu Lin followed Chen Xiaomi into the mountains.
Lu Lin grew up in the countryside in his previous life, where there were no mountains, so he was still somewhat curious about mountains.
"Stay close to me once we're in the mountains, don't hold me back," Chen Xiaomi said, turning her head with a somewhat fierce expression.
Lu Lin nodded and said, "Okay."
Chen Xiaomi walked in front with a bow and arrow, while Lu Lin followed behind, holding a bamboo stick with one end sharpened.
Lu Lin looked at the bow and arrow in Chen Xiaomi's hand, then at his own bamboo spear, and silently shed two tears. This bamboo spear was too poor. Even if he didn't have a bow and arrow, he should at least have prepared a machete for himself!
Lu Lin roughly understood that Chen Xiaomi's bow and arrows were bought at a high price, and the machete was also very expensive.
Chen Xiaomi is very strong, but his superb hunting skills are related to his amazing strength as well as his hunting tools.
"Oh, yam."
Because the tools weren't very handy, it took Lu Lin a long time to dig out a large yam plant.
Chen Xiaomi glanced at Lu Lin, somewhat suspiciously, and asked, "Yam, is this a soil stick? What are you digging this up for?"
Without hesitation, Lu Lin replied, "Yes, it's edible!"
Yam is a wonderful food! It's highly nutritious. Both he and the three Chen brothers are somewhat deficient in health, so yam can help replenish their bodies.
Chen Xiaomi frowned and said with dissatisfaction, "This doesn't taste good, and it makes me itchy when I touch it, which is very troublesome."
Chen Xiaomi had gone into the mountains to look for food a long time ago. She had also set her sights on the twig before, but after touching its skin, she felt itchy all over and thought it might be poisonous, so she gave up.
Lu Lin smiled and said, "This tastes great in porridge, but the skin can cause itching if you touch it, so just be careful when peeling it."
Lu Lin didn't touch the yam directly. Instead, he found a large leaf, wrapped the yam in it, and put it in his basket, planning to deal with it when he got back.
Chen Xiaomi said nonchalantly, "There are plenty of these things on the mountain. Dig up whatever you like."
Lu Lin smiled and said, "Okay."
Lu Lin's shop had plenty of snacks, but he was still short of ingredients. In this world, it wasn't good to just sit around and wait for things to run out.
Seeing that Lu Lin wouldn't finish digging in a short time, Chen Xiaomi figured that since this place was still at the foot of the mountain and there weren't any ferocious wild animals around, she left Lu Lin to dig for yams while she went a little deeper to check out the traps she had set up.
Chen Xiaomi found two chickens among several traps and brought them back.
Chen Xiaomi had collected two chickens, while Lu Lin had already dug up three sticks. Chen Xiaomi didn't believe Lu Lin's claim that the sticks were delicious; secretly, she thought Lu Lin was probably afraid of dying and didn't want to go any deeper...
Chen Xiaomi was somewhat disdainful of Lu Lin's cowardly behavior, but since this was Lu Lin's first time going into the mountains with him, Chen Xiaomi did not insist.
Lu Lin vaguely felt that Chen Xiaomi's expression was a bit strange, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
...
Chen Xiaomi took a chicken home, told Lu Lin to stay home and cook, and then left with the chicken.
Chen Xiaomi was not popular in the village, but she wasn't completely unpopular either.
There was a lonely old hunter in the village who had a good relationship with Chen Xiaomi. Several years ago, Chen Xiaomi had secretly gone into the mountains to hunt without telling his family. The old hunter took pity on Chen Xiaomi and taught him some hunting and trapping skills. Chen Xiaomi was able to hunt tigers back then because the old hunter lent him his bow and arrows.
More than a year ago, the old hunter broke his leg and could no longer hunt, leading a very difficult life.
Chen Xiaomi is a grateful person. If she has extra food, she will give some to the old hunter. However, Chen Xiaomi also has two younger brothers to support, so there is only so much she can do.
Chen Xiaocai frowned as she looked at the twig Lu Lin had brought back and said, "Why did you bring this back? You'll get a rash on your hands later."
Lu Lin glanced at Chen Xiaocai and thought to himself: These two brothers have exactly the same attitude towards yams.
"This stuff tastes pretty good," Lu Lin explained.
Chen Xiaocai snorted and said, "Idiot."
Lu Lin ignored Chen Xiaocai, waved his hand, and said, "Don't bother me here. I'll call you when it's time to eat."
Chen Xiaocai blushed with anger and said, "You can keep this for yourself, I'm not eating it."
Lu Lin secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Xiaocai leave. His family was so poor that they didn't even have a decent knife. They used a tile to peel vegetables and a bone knife to cut them. The bone knife was really dull. If Chen Xiaocai hadn't left, Lu Lin wouldn't have been able to take out one of those two-yuan knives sold at the corner store.
If you were to use a tile to peel the yam, who knows how long it would take.
Lu Lin took out the knife and thought to himself: This kind of knife was everywhere in the two-yuan stores in my previous life, but here it should be considered a divine weapon.
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