"Why didn't you pick some mushrooms? We can use them to stew rabbit for lunch!"
Li Chunhua glared at Ye Lin with displeasure, and Ye Lin helplessly shrugged.
"Oh my god, it was raining then, and I was in a hurry to bring the rabbit back, so I didn't have time to pick those mushrooms."
"Anyway, those mushrooms aren't going anywhere, so going now won't make a difference."
"That's right, Auntie! Let's go up the mountain for a bit!"
Fu Ming nodded in agreement, and Li Chunhua agreed, so they immediately urged them to leave.
"Then you should hurry up and go. The rain has stopped now, and I'm sure a lot of people will be going up the mountain."
If you go too late, you won't even find mushrooms, let alone mushroom stems!
There's not much to harvest in the fields this season, so everyone likes to go up the mountain to try their luck.
Most people don't have the skills of Ye Jianguo and Ye Lin, and they basically only operate in the front of the mountain.
Between the front mountain and the deep mountains, there are two mountain peaks. During the famine years ago, people would eat anything when they were hungry.
Even wild beasts will stumble when people are starving and united.
Therefore, large wild animals from the deep mountains generally do not come to the front of the mountain where human activity is frequent.
If it accidentally wanders into the mountain and injures someone, hunters from nearby villages will go up the mountain in groups to drive it away or hunt it down.
Upon hearing that they were going up the mountain, Ye Zhenxing was very excited. Afraid that his father wouldn't take him, he turned around and went to the room to get his tools.
Fu Wan glanced at him and thought, "Wow, he's got a bow and arrows on his back and several slingshots on his waist. This young man is quite well-equipped."
"Brother Zhenxing, I want one too!"
When the spirit saw the bow and arrow, its eyes lit up with a green light.
Qin Mingzhu was alright; she didn't particularly like these kinds of cold weapons.
Ye Xiaofeng got along well with Fu Ling, and upon hearing this, she dragged her best friend to Li Chunhua's room to find her treasure chest.
When the girls came out, each of them was holding a slingshot.
"Wow, you guys are really going hunting?"
Fu Ming couldn't help but laugh as he looked at these tiny little radishes.
Even little Lili, who was sitting in the bamboo cart, kept reaching out towards Fu Ling and the others when she saw this.
Seeing that Fu Ling and the other older children ignored her, she became anxious and grabbed Fu Wan's clothes, making incessant "uh-uh-uh" noises.
"Oh my, Lili wants to go up the mountain too!"
Fu Wan reached out her finger to tease Ye Xiaoli, and Fu Ling was very anxious, so she pulled Fu Wan away.
"Mom, let's hurry, or all the mushrooms will be picked by others!"
"Alright, alright, I think you don't really want to pick mushrooms, you just want to test your slingshot, don't you?"
Fu Wan mercilessly exposed her daughter's thoughts, and Fu Ling made a funny face. Seeing Fu Wan follow, she pulled Qin Mingzhu ahead.
Seeing that everyone was about to leave, Ye Xiaoli immediately objected, pouting as if she was about to wail.
Seeing this, Li Chunhua grabbed her and pulled her over, holding a fragrant bowl of rice porridge to distract her.
"Oh, our Lili wants to go up the mountain to play too! Let's eat and sleep first, and go when we're older, okay?"
Compared to her peers, Xiaolili is actually a very easy child to take care of; she eats and sleeps well and rarely makes a fuss.
But perhaps because Liang Cuifen had starved her a few times before, she couldn't take her eyes off food.
Seeing a bowl of fragrant rice porridge waving in front of her, she immediately forgot about going up the mountain and started eating it bite by bite.
After calming the child down, Li Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief and began to mutter to herself.
"You want to go up the mountain? I also want to pick mushrooms. At this time of year, I'm always the one running in the lead."
"If I bring you this year, I won't be able to go up the mountain!"
After saying that, she sighed again. Children are all a burden. After taking care of the older ones, she has to take care of the younger ones. If Ye Jun hadn't been so busy, and if her granddaughter hadn't been so obedient, she wouldn't have wanted to take care of them.
I thought things would get better when Lili got older, but yesterday Ye Lin mysteriously pulled her aside and said that his wife Chen Guifang was pregnant again!
Hey, after Li Chunhua was overjoyed, everything went black!
Her days when she didn't have to take care of children are gone forever!
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On the path in Qingshan Village, Fu Ling and Ye Xiaofeng skipped and hopped ahead, while Ye Zhenxing and Qin Mingzhu followed closely behind.
Ye Lin, Fu Ming, and Bai Qianzhou were all carrying baskets and tools like machetes on their backs, while Fu Wan and Qin Anning were carrying light little baskets, looking like they were going on a spring outing.
Ye Jianguo led the way. He hadn't originally planned to come, but thinking about all the people and children, he worried that Ye Lin might not know how to handle a wild boar or anything like that.
Along the way, they encountered many villagers who greeted Ye Lin while curiously observing Fu Wan, Fu Ming, and the others.
"Oh my, these are Xiao Cui's daughter and son. And the other two, are they her daughter-in-law and son-in-law?"
"Hey, they're all tall and strong, what do they do for a living?"
People's desire for gossip is endless. Fu Wan and Fu Ming were able to keep up at first, but later they simply grabbed Ye Lin and whispered to him to run ahead and tell Ye Jianguo to take the less crowded path.
There weren't many people on the path. After walking for about five minutes, Fu Wan noticed a lot of red dots in the grass by the roadside.
"Snakeberry!"
Hearing Fu Wan's shout, Qin Anning's eyes lit up. She had eaten strawberries before, and seeing such a small, strawberry-like fruit, she was immediately intrigued.
Just then, Ye Lin and his group also discovered several clumps of mushrooms under a tree not far away.
Now everyone has something to do: some are picking mushrooms, others are picking wild strawberries.
When Fu Ling and the other children saw the wild fruit, they put away their slingshots.
"Mom, are these snakeberries tasty?"
Seeing how beautiful the wild strawberries were, Fu Ling couldn't help but swallow hard.
Fu Wan picked two large, red ones and handed them to her, saying, "You'll know once you try them."
Upon hearing that it was edible and not afraid of getting dirty, Fu Ling immediately took the snakeberry and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Hmm...it's a little sour!"
Fu Wan also picked one up and popped it into her mouth. The fully ripe snakeberry was not as sweet as the wild raspberry. In addition to being a little sour, the snakeberry also had a slightly astringent taste.
As a wild fruit that can be found everywhere, Fu Wan had heard rumors when she was a child that snakeberries were inedible.
There's nothing we can do about it; this thing is just too red, and it's also called snakeberry. As word spread, somehow everyone started saying that it's poisonous and that it's a fruit that grows to feed snakes.
In fact, snakeberry people are edible.
This plant is also called Oriental strawberry, and it typically grows on hillsides, riverbanks, and in damp jungles.
Image from Snakeberry Webpage, please delete if infringing.
Contrary to rumors, wild strawberries are not only non-toxic, but their roots, stems, and leaves are also medicinal herbs that can clear heat and detoxify.
Although wild strawberries are a bit sour and astringent, for Ye Zhenxing and his friends who don't have much fruit to eat, it's better to have some than nothing.
After picking for a while, Fu Ling and the others lost interest in the snakeberries after a dark figure suddenly darted out.
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