Turning around, I was surprised to find Chunhua also huffing and puffing as she followed behind.
"What are you doing following me here? Didn't you just say there are tigers in these mountains?"
To everyone's surprise, Chunhua said in a clear voice, "That's right, it's precisely because there's a tiger that I have to come up here. Grandma told me before she left that I should keep an eye on my aunt, and if we encounter a tiger, I can help my aunt fight it!"
Su Hua's lips twitched. A three-year-old girl was declaring she wanted to fight a tiger!
Did she think tigers were just giant cats?
"Even if I can't fight it, I can still help my aunt fend off the tiger." Seeing the girl's expression, Chunhua scratched her head and quickly patted the small basket on her back. "Besides, there are plenty of wild vegetables in the mountains, so I can take the opportunity to dig some up and take them back."
That's all there is to it.
Su Hua couldn't bring herself to send the person back.
Besides, with that stubborn temper, you can't get him to come back even if you want to.
He had no choice but to let the little girl stay close to him, and the two of them slowly made their way into Fuhu Mountain from the hillside.
Upon entering the mountains, the temperature dropped noticeably, and the vegetation became much more lush.
Unfortunately, Su Hua searched all the way but didn't find any ginseng or lingzhi, or even a single edible wild animal.
On the contrary, Chunhua's little basket was completely full.
The basket was full of bracken.
Even the large basket on Su Hua's back was filled with a lot.
Although the vegetables in the one-acre plot in front of the Su family's house yielded almost no harvest, the whole family was hardworking and would go to the mountains every day. Even their three-year-old daughter recognized quite a few wild vegetables.
March is the season when bracken fern grows wildly.
Su Hua was an abandoned child in her previous life. According to the villagers, when she was still in her mother's womb, her father had an affair and forcibly divorced her mother.
Two months after giving birth to her, her mother went south to work and never returned.
She grew up in an abandoned cowshed in the village, eating food from many families.
But no one had any surplus grain.
When she gets very hungry, she goes up the mountain to find food.
This bracken was one of the rare delicacies she enjoyed as a child.
At first, she grabbed them and stuffed them into her mouth. Although they were bitter and numbing, they were enough to fill her stomach. But unexpectedly, she fainted and died in the cowshed.
If it weren't for a passing village woman helping him induce vomiting, he probably would have died in the cattle pen at that time.
Later, she learned that bracken fern cannot be eaten raw, otherwise it can easily cause poisoning.
Moreover, simply blanching it in hot water and then stir-frying it makes for a delicious dish.
Leftover bracken can be dried into bracken fern, which is a good and filling food during the lean season.
Later, she got a job and saved some money. She still loved bracken fern and would occasionally go to a restaurant to order a bowl of stir-fried bracken fern.
Su Hua reached out to pluck a bracken fern, her thoughts swirling, when she caught a glimpse of the blue stone bracelet on her wrist.
The patch of skin on my wrist that was previously scraped has long since healed completely, and there is no trace of injury at all.
She stared at the stone bracelet for a long time, and a bold idea popped into her head.
There were too many people and too much gossip at the dilapidated temple, and she was busy with the annulment of the engagement, so she hadn't had a chance to verify it. Now, Chunhua was completely submerged in a sea of ferns except for the hillside. There wasn't a single ghost in this vast, deep mountain, so it was the perfect time.
Su Hua glanced at the dense thicket of ferns that blocked out the sky.
He quickly crouched down and crawled inside.
He pressed his hand tightly against the stone bracelet and whispered, "Go in!"
She instinctively closed her eyes, even curling her hands to protect her chest and abdomen, imagining the changes in airflow from reality to space.
After a few breaths, she cautiously opened one eye.
But he found himself still among the ferns.
A hint of doubt flashed through Su Hua's mind. Could it be that the slogan for entering the space was wrong?
"Om Mani Padme Hum!"
"Open Sesame!"
"Little bunny, open the door!"
"Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron; carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neo
"One times one equals one, one times two equals two, one times three equals three..."
After racking her brains, even after Su Hua recited the multiplication tables word for word, the stone bracelet remained completely still.
Su Hua frowned slightly as she rubbed the trace of blood left on her wrist.
Perhaps, unlocking the bracelet requires her blood?
She picked up a small, sharp stone and then lightly slashed it across her wrist.
Tick-tock!
Blood dripped onto the stone bracelet.
A faint white light flashed before my eyes.
A crystal-clear water droplet slid off the stone bracelet.
Su Hua felt a scent that resembled both flowers and the fragrance of grass lingering around her nose.
Water droplets fell onto the wound on my wrist.
The next moment, the wound seemed to be turned on a rewind button, healing little by little until it was completely restored.
Su Hua touched the wound on her wrist, but couldn't find even a trace of a cut.
She unconsciously gripped the stone bracelet, as if she could feel a drop of water remaining in a small, pigeon-egg-sized depression in the blue stone.
Su Hua's silence was deafening for a moment.
Others who transmigrate become princesses or noble ladies, but she transmigrated into a poor peasant girl. To make matters worse, her space is only the size of a pigeon egg.
No wonder I couldn't get in.
She's not the Girl with the Pea.
It would be a miracle if anyone could even get into that space.
After a moment of internal grumbling, Su Hua pursed her lips and murmured, "I want water."
As soon as he finished speaking, a crystal-clear drop of water fell from the stone bracelet and landed in his palm.
The pleasant aroma made Su Hua swallow hard.
However, at least he's someone who's died once.
Even if I'm really craving something, I don't dare to eat it indiscriminately.
She picked a large leaf, placed the water droplets on it, put it on the ground, and then turned and walked away.
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