Chapter 286: A Piece (Additional chapter for 500 monthly tickets)
Zhou Silang turned his back to her and cut off the thorny branches, then carefully pulled them out and threw them aside, and then he went to dig the roots of the thorns.
He didn't even clear up the thorns, he just cut them off and pulled them aside to make it easier for people to enter and exit.
Manbao took the opportunity to stuff the plant in his hand to Koko, then yawned and looked around.
There were many small animals in the mountains. She also saw a relatively beautiful pheasant flapping its wings and landing not far away. After noticing her gaze, it cooed, flapped its wings and flew up to a tree, and soon disappeared.
Zhou Silang looked back and took a look at the vanishing pheasant. He said, "Don't even think about it. No one in our village can hunt pheasants except Brother Zhou Hu."
"Didn't Third Brother beat him?"
"That was a blind cat catching a dead mouse," Zhou Silang said as he worked diligently. "My eldest brother was trying to catch a pheasant, and he pounced on it. The pheasant flew right over our heads, and my second brother hit it with his stick, sweeping its wings. It fluttered down in front of my third brother, who stepped on it and killed it."
Manbao: ...
"Look, apart from that time, when else have we been able to hunt pheasants?"
Manbao sighed, "It seems our family has no affinity with pheasants."
That’s not the case. When he was younger, they were still very predestined, but the one with the predestined relationship was my uncle.
But Zhou Silang also had a bit of pride. He smiled and said, "But our family has a special connection with bird eggs."
Zhou Silang is very good at climbing trees and robbing bird nests, and he is well-known as the bird king in the village.
Zhou Silang cleared a path, clapped his hands, and said with satisfaction, "Okay, let's see where Fuling is."
The three pine trees were quite large, so there was a relatively spacious open space around them, with a pine tree every ten or so steps.
Manbao was small, and he quickly got up from the ground and rushed in.
Zhou Silang followed her closely. As for where the weeds and vines in her hands went, there was no need to say. They must have been thrown away.
Manbao walked in and started picking up fallen leaves at the roots of the pine tree to look for Poria cocos.
The fallen leaves here are thicker than those in other places, perhaps because there are thorns blocking the way, or perhaps because they are mixed with the fallen leaves of the thorns.
Because of Keke's scan, Manbao was almost always able to find the right answer.
This time the exposed Poria cocos was quite large. Zhou Silang was very happy to see it. He squatted down and started to dig up the fallen leaves. He pushed them to the side and found that they had circled half of the pine tree.
Zhou Silang was extremely happy. He laughed and said, "If the Jia family knew that we found so many Poria cocos from the mountains, they would be so angry that their intestines would turn green. Maybe they would even die of anger. Hahahahaha..."
Manbao looked around nervously and whispered, "Fourth brother, please keep your voice down, or you'll attract attention."
"Everyone is having dinner at home now, who's coming?"
"No, at this time everyone has already finished their dinner. Everyone should be out working again, right?"
Zhou Silang then looked up at the sky. He came to his senses with a start and said, "It's over. It's getting dark. Let's hurry."
Zhou Silang reached out to grab the hoe not far behind him, but his hand seemed to press on something. He felt the touch was a little familiar. He pulled it aside and took a look, and couldn't help but be silent for a moment.
Manbao also saw it, but was too lazy to stand up, so he just crawled over. The two of them pushed aside the fallen leaves and came to another pine tree. Sure enough, they found another piece of Poria cocos there.
Zhou Silang turned to look at the last pine tree and climbed over to find it.
After a while, he pushed aside a fallen leaf and showed Manbao his results.
Manbao's eyes sparkled, "Koko, you didn't say there were so many."
Koko: "The host will eventually find out."
Koko paused for a moment and then said, "Host, collect more soil from this area."
Manbao said it was no problem, then looked at Zhou Silang.
Zhou Silang was covering his mouth with his dirty hands, laughing silently, with tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.
Manbao was silent for a moment, then she climbed up and wiped his tears with her dirty little hands, comforting him: "Fourth brother, don't be too happy, we are taking revenge."
Zhou Silang shook his shoulders, laughed enough, and then he let out a long breath. He wiped away the tears of laughter and said, "It's because I'm getting revenge that I'm so happy."
Looking at the patch of Poria cocos, Zhou Silang rolled up his sleeves ambitiously and said, "I'm going to dig them all up. Manbao, go out and wait for Fourth Brother."
Manbao said it was no problem and climbed out, but he didn't go far away, just next to a pine tree.
Zhou Silang felt that his buttocks and waist were no longer painful. He spat twice, swung the hoe and was about to dig down. Halfway through, he realized something was wrong, so he reduced his strength slightly and started digging down.
Sure enough, this piece of Poria cocos was different from the ones they had dug before. It grew very shallow. He only had to dig down a little bit before he dug out a piece. About three feet down, he saw its bottom entangled with the pine tree roots.
Zhou Silang was very happy and started digging with a hoe.
Manbao watched and felt that this was too much effort, so he just gave the orders from outside.
Zhou Silang also listened to her and dug as she asked him to. Soon he dug out a piece of soil.
Manbao crawled in and carefully pulled out the loosened Poria cocos with his hands, collecting some soil at the same time.
By the time they had dug out everything and put it into the backpack, it was almost dark.
Zhou Silang was a bit careless when filling the soil back. He buried all the soil back without putting dead leaves on top to cover it up.
He looked at the sky and knew that his family would probably be worried. He didn't care about being tired, and hurriedly put on his backpack, picked up the hoe, and took Manbao's hand and went down the mountain.
Fortunately, they did not walk deep into the mountain, but walked sideways, and soon reached the foot of the mountain.
Just as they returned to the intersection where they entered the mountain along the foot of the mountain, they saw Zhou Dalang leading his three younger brothers and carrying hoes, coming over aggressively. Seeing the dirty Zhou Silang holding the dirty Manbao, the four brothers were startled.
Zhou Dalang frowned and asked, "Didn't you run into the Jia brothers?"
This outfit looks like it was made by playing with mud, not by fighting.
Zhou Silang immediately said, "No, I'm not stupid. I'm carrying Manbao with me. We're on this side, not going over there."
Zhou Dalang's expression finally brightened up, and he asked, "Why are you bringing Manbao with you so late? What if you scare the child?"
Generally, once it gets dark, villagers are reluctant to let children run outside. What if they get scared or attacked by some ghost?
So children usually go home before dark.
Zhou Silang gestured for them to look at the backpack and said with a chuckle, "Brother, you will never believe how many good things we found."
Zhou Erlang had already gone up to take a look. He lifted the top layer of leaves and looked inside, his eyes flashing slightly.
He glanced at Zhou Silang approvingly and said, "Well done."
(End of this chapter)
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