Li Xian carried the snake to one side, with Xu Nuo following on the other, leading her back.
Xu Nuo had just been frightened by the snake and was afraid of encountering something again, so she walked very carefully with every step. In the end, she simply let Li Xian walk a little ahead of her so that she could step on his footprints.
Bending down and stepping in his footprints, Xu Nuo asked without turning her head, "Do you really remember where that chestnut tree is?"
Although Li Xian was walking ahead, he didn't miss any of the commotion behind him. He said in a low voice, "Hmm."
"Great! I'll ask Luo Chen to pick all the chestnuts from that tree so Xu Yan can make chestnut cakes and chestnut chicken." Xu Nuo was so happy that she lost focus while walking and stumbled on the hard stone.
Her forehead bumped into his back, and Li Xian reached behind her to support her, saying with a hint of helplessness, "Watch where you're going."
Xu Nuo hummed in agreement and took the opportunity to promote the female lead: "Li Xian, do you know? My sister's cooking is absolutely amazing."
Li Xian glanced at her and said, "Mm."
"She can turn anything into something different in her hands. I love the things she makes the most."
While carefully observing the ground and choosing easy-to-walk areas, Li Xian asked her, "Do you know how to process mountain produce?"
"Yes, she can do anything, and her cooking skills are superb." Xu Nuo looked up at him, her eyes sparkling, her tone very proud.
She looks as if she's the one with superb culinary skills.
When the two returned, Xu Yan and Luo Chen had already picked all the honeysuckle from the mountainside and put it into bamboo baskets.
After picking the honeysuckle, they discovered a few wild apple trees not far away and started picking apples without saying a word. When they saw the two of them returning, Xu Yan called out to Xu Nuo, "Nuonuo, where did you go?"
"I'm going to wash the fruit. Look, there are strawberries!" She proudly showed Xu Yan her small bamboo basket. When Xu Yan saw the basket full of wild chestnuts, wild apples, and wild strawberries, he asked her in surprise, "You found a chestnut tree?"
Xu Nuo nodded and pointed at Li Xian, saying, "Li Xian found it and even marked the address. We can go pick chestnuts next time."
Xu Yan said happily, "That's great!"
Chestnut trees can be used to make pies, and they can also be sold separately. She turned to Li Xian and asked, "Comrade Li Xian, could you please take us there next time?"
Li Xian stood behind Xu Nuo and nodded silently.
As he handed over the cloth bag, Xu Yan was taken aback: "What's this?"
"Snake meat."
As soon as the package was revealed, Xu Nuo was so frightened that she ran away and went to pick apples with Luo Chen under the apple tree.
Snake meat? Xu Yan was taken aback, not understanding why Li Xian would give her snake meat. She pushed it back to him, but Li Xian didn't take it. He took a step back, his expression indifferent: "I don't know how to cook it."
I see.
Snake meat is indeed difficult to process. She said, "You can blanch it in water, then stew it with ginger for a while."
Li Xian shook his head impatiently, his lips pressed tightly together. He glanced at the little figure jumping and frolicking under the tree and said, "Keep it."
After saying that, he turned around and walked to the other side, chopping the hardwood with his sickle, and in a short time he had chopped a bundle of firewood.
Xu Yan wanted to return it to her, but Xu Nuo, holding a bag full of fruit, called out to her, "Sister, get a basket, quick, quick, quick!"
Xu Yan had no choice but to put down the snake meat and get a basket for Xu Nuo first.
They had picked most of the fruit from the lower branches, leaving only the large, red fruit on the higher branches, which they couldn't reach. Xu Nuo looked at the fruit on the higher branches, jumped up and down a few times, and groaned dejectedly, "Ugh, why can't I reach it?"
After thinking for a moment, she picked up some stones from the ground, intending to smash the fruit down. She threw a handful, but instead of picking the fruit, she almost hit herself.
The man who had been silently chopping wood put down his sickle, walked over, and climbed to the top without saying a word.
His feet were on a thin twig, yet he walked as steadily as if on flat ground.
Xu Nuo, watching from below, was terrified. She looked up and shouted at him, "Be careful!"
Li Xian lowered his head, his brows slightly furrowed: "Don't stand down there."
Xu Nuo didn't hear him clearly, so she looked up and asked, "What?"
Just then, a fruit fell down, and Li Xian caught it with lightning speed. His expression wasn't good: "Go stand somewhere else."
Xu Nuo was also afraid of being hit, so she hopped outside and looked up at him picking the fruit. Seeing that she was waiting, Li Xian sped up and quickly filled a basket with fruit. He then climbed down the tree trunk.
He carried the basket to Xu Nuo and tried to hand it to her. She reached out to take it, but he suddenly pulled his hand back. His forehead was covered in fine sweat, and his eyes were dark: "It's heavy. You can't carry it."
Then she placed the basket next to her small bamboo basket.
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