“We’ve packed our own bags, Auntie, you don’t need to worry about us,” Zhu Changge quickly replied.
"That's good. Wait a moment while I go get another basket." Zhao Guihua turned around and went back into the house to get a basket. This basket was different from the others. Inside this basket was a small bamboo chair that a child could sit on.
"Erfu and Sifu, you two are strong. If Xingxing gets tired, you two should take turns carrying her," Zhao Guihua instructed her two strongest sons.
He looked up at the sky, then turned around and grabbed two oil-paper umbrellas and a few straw hats. "Although the sun is shining brightly now, the weather is unpredictable. Who knows what the weather will be like in a few days? I need to bring these rainproof ones."
“Mother, the mountain road is already difficult to walk on. Will we be exhausted if we carry so much stuff?” Zhou Erfu said bluntly, frowning.
Zhao Guihua felt a pang of anger and said, "If it rains, you'll get soaked to death. It's not for you. What are you yelling about? This rainproof material is for the masters and Xingxing. Get out of my way."
"...Hey, Mother, don't be angry. Your son knows he was wrong. I'll take all these straw hats and paper umbrellas. I won't use them later; I'll give them to the masters and my sister, okay?" Zhou Erfu wasn't completely hopeless; he quickly tried to appease his mother after realizing what had happened.
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Zhao Guihua's worries were not unfounded. Sure enough, on the fourth day of their journey into the mountains, it started to rain heavily. However, with Zhu Chumo by their side, they did not get wet. He had consulted a fortune teller the night before and knew that it would rain today. After traveling all morning, they found a cave that could accommodate more than a dozen of them to take shelter in and wait for the rain to stop before continuing their journey.
The rain might last for two days, so the group was well-prepared when they set off in the morning, having hunted more than a dozen wild rabbits, six pheasants, and a small wild boar.
Along the way, we also picked a lot of wild vegetables, which we stewed together with the rice we brought from home. In short, we didn't have to worry about food.
The rain was so heavy that when dealing with wild animals or washing wild vegetables, we could only collect rainwater in bamboo tubes used for drinking water at the entrance of the cave and then pour it out to wash them.
"I should have brought a wooden bucket. It would have been so much easier to fetch water. The bamboo tube and water bag really can't hold that much." Zhou Erfu stroked his chin, feeling that he lacked experience. He would definitely bring a wooden bucket next time.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss," Xingxing puffed out her cheeks and let out a few low, strange cries. The echoes were heavy in the cave, and her little voice reached everyone's ears, "Did you hear that? It sounds like there's a snake. But we already set a fire to smoke it out when we went into the cave. Logically, all the living things in the cave should have been driven out. Why are there still strange cries?"
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