"Wait..." Cheng Zhenzhu touched the three little ones clinging to her thighs, picked up the basket, took out some wild vegetables from it, and went to the kitchen to get busy.
Now that she and her three children were alone at home, Cheng Zhenzhu planned to simply cook one dish and one soup. Then, she would wait until the four children came home from school in the afternoon before making the other dishes.
After a moment's thought, Cheng Zhenzhu ordered two dishes: scrambled eggs with mushrooms and a seaweed and shrimp soup. The rice she took from her space was...
Cheng Zhenzhu's movements were quite quick, but seeing the three little ones playing in the living room for a while and then running to the stove with eager eyes, she could only speed up even more.
"Mom, food, I'm hungry~" Jiu Tiao looked at the spatula stirring in the pot, his big black eyes blinking with a layer of hazy light.
"Okay, right away. Get ready to wash your hands and get your bowls to eat." Cheng Zhenzhu poured the fried eggs with mushrooms into a bowl and brought the rice in a bowl to the table.
She was a little hungry too.
"Eat, eat, eat, eat..." Upon hearing this, Yajo immediately became happy. While taking the bowl, he followed his mother and muttered to himself.
"Jiu Tiao, sit down~" Nana Tiao saw his mother bringing the food to the table, helped Jiu Tiao wash his hands, and carried him to the table to wait for the meal.
"Eat, eat~" Jiujo had been hungry for a long time. Seeing that his bowl on the table was half filled with white rice, he put the spoon aside and couldn't help but hold the bowl in his arms to sip a few grains. After he finished siping, his eyes sparkled like a cat that had tasted fish.
Jiujo still can't use chopsticks, but he's almost mastered using a spoon. Every time I help him prepare food, he fiddles with it and stuffs it into his mouth, making his little mouth bulge and his face dirty...
"Mom, come and have dinner." Bajiao looked at the bowls of rice and a bowl of fragrant, hot fried eggs with mushrooms on the table, and shouted loudly to his mother towards the kitchen.
"I'm here." Cheng Zhenzhu, hearing the almost eager call, brought out the seaweed and shrimp soup and led the children to eat lunch. This seaweed and shrimp soup was truly a daily soup at home. Usually, if you're too lazy to make it, you just grab a handful of seaweed and a few shrimps and throw them in the pot. It's easy and delicious...
"Great, great~" Jiu Tiao saw that his mother had also arrived, and he happily stretched out his little spoon to scoop a spoonful of delicious eggs. He likes mushrooms, and he likes eggs too, and he likes them even more when they are put together~
Eight also said it was delicious, and laughed non-stop while eating. Seven also had a happy look on his face, because he was hungry, and the food was delicious, so he quickly finished a bowl and a half of rice.
After eating, the two little brothers, Qi Tiao and Ba Tiao, cleaned up the bowls very actively, and then took Jiu Tiao to play at the door.
It was nothing, their mother was going to the mountains again and left them alone.
But their mother gave them two and a half sesame cakes as a reward for their cleaning work that morning. He and his brother each got one sesame cake, and the remaining half was a nine-piece cake.
Ba Tiao looked at the whole sesame cake and remembered the time when he and his brother Liu Tiao picked up sesame cake crumbs. He immediately said that he would wait for his brother Liu Tiao to come back before eating it.
Seven decided to keep some for Three, One and Two as well, and as for Six, Eight already had a large share, so his share could be ignored.
Jiu Tiao held the half sesame cake in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and felt that he should share it with his brother, so he put it in his trouser pocket.
Soon after, I sat down and everything was broken into pieces...
******It was around half past twelve when Cheng Zhenzhu arrived at the mountain.
At this time, few people had come up the mountain. Cheng Zhenzhu casually dug up a couple of wild vegetables, then found a gap to cross the path she had cut, took out the small-clawed otter map, and continued to climb. She had already walked a little way this morning, so she decided to explore further up.
As for the sneaky tail behind her, she shook it off in a few seconds. She only drove a short distance, and the rest of the way was left to find the way on her own...
Hmm! Where's she?! Yu Xiaoyue followed carefully and saw Cheng Zhenzhu suddenly disappear. She panicked and looked around. There wasn't a single mushroom in sight, like a locust disappearing through a mirror. She stamped her feet in anger.
Because she was in a bad mood and didn't pick any mushrooms in the morning, she didn't go back at noon. When she saw Cheng Zhenzhu carrying a big basket up the mountain again, she thought of the half basket of mushrooms, wild vegetables, etc. she carried back when she came down the mountain. She couldn't help but feel jealous, so she followed without thinking.
But...where's the Cheng Zhenzhu? Yu Xiaoyue felt strange noises around her and couldn't help but tremble. It must be the ghost again...
......As they explored upwards, Cheng Zhenzhu's steps became less relaxed and she was a little out of breath. After looking around, she found a place to rest with her three-jin axe.
This mountain is quite difficult to climb. She had climbed halfway this morning, but she should be able to make a little more progress this afternoon.
Cheng Zhenzhu patted her clothes and shook them out. Before coming here, she'd smeared herself with seaweed water to repel insects, just in case. Now, on the way up, she wasn't so afraid of snakes, insects, birds, or animals. The higher she went, the thinner the trees became, and the rustling sounds seemed to recede...
After shaking off the grass leaves on her body, Cheng Zhenzhu continued to move forward according to the instructions on the map. After walking for about twenty minutes, the higher she went, the more open the mountain became.
As she walked along, the vegetation on the mountain below was still relatively lush, but at her location, there were not many flowers and plants. Even if there were some trees, they were mostly short, and many of them were bare rocks, which looked desolate.
Cheng Zhenzhu surveyed the desolate, vast mountaintop and pursed her lips. This mountain was truly peculiar, divided into several distinct layers. Vegetables planted at the foot of the mountain struggled to survive, while vegetation flourished along the mountainside. Yet, further up, it was completely bare. It was truly puzzling...
The map showed she hadn't arrived yet. After panting and stopping for a while, she saw the map indicate she was a short distance away. Cheng Zhenzhu heard the prompt and noticed that the surrounding mountain walls were mostly steep and uneven, with many large and small holes left on the walls.
Maybe it’s a crystal cave left over from years of mining?
Cheng Zhenzhu pondered and speculated. After walking a little further and climbing a steep slope, she saw a huge, deep pit, at least the size of a football field.
That should be the big pit?
However, the road from the slope to the big deep pit was broken, like two mountains.
Cheng Zhenzhu looked around and saw cliffs everywhere, with no way to go. She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. Then she glanced at the map, which showed that the destination was within sight...
This was strange. Cheng Zhenzhu looked at the map, then glanced at the desolate and bare mountaintop. She wandered left and right for a while, but could not find the way to the deep pit over there. She couldn't even tell which way she came.
Could it be that the blueprints hadn't been updated yet? The blueprints clearly showed that there was a path... Just as Cheng Zhenzhu was lost in thought, she heard a whimpering sound.
"Ohhhh~" Then, the humming sound became clearer, intermittent and somewhat disorganized.
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