Chapter 90 Jungle 2
Jiang Xinbai took a quick glance and replied, "It's probably something that can't be eaten! Let's go a little further and see."
"Ouch, it hurts so much." Suddenly, Yang Xiufen cried out while covering her sore butt, and then threw away the green fruit that caused her to fall.
Jiang Xinbai quickly squatted down to help her up, "Sister, are you okay? I'll help you up."
Yang Jinsheng, who was standing by, stared at the half-cracked fruit on the ground. He reached out and picked it up to touch it. "Xiaobai, why does this look a bit like a walnut? It's the walnut that Third Brother brought you before. Take a look and see if it's true?"
"How is it possible? The walnuts were brought by my third brother from a border province. Where can they be found here..." Jiang Xinbai said as she looked at the walnuts in her husband's hand. The more she looked at them, the more familiar they looked to her. It seemed to be him.
So she reached out to take it, and rubbed the inside hard. The texture and the feel seemed to be the same, but is there a layer of green shell on the outside of the walnut?
"It looks similar inside, but is it shelled outside? I'm not sure." Jiang Xinbai lowered his head and looked around again. He picked up a completely shelled wild walnut and looked at it carefully before nodding affirmatively, "It should be. It's a walnut, but it's smaller than the one my third brother brought."
Yang Xiufen was a little worried, "Don't do anything rash, it might kill someone if they eat it."
"Why don't we ask our third brother? He is knowledgeable and should know the answer." Yang Jinsheng reminded.
"Please, we are in the mountains now, how can we show it to Third Brother? Can we take one back and show it to Third Brother, and then come back? We may not know if it will still be there by then."
Jiang Xinbai looked at the green fruit that fell on the ground, thought for a while, and then picked up a stone to smash the walnut out. He looked carefully at the flesh inside, then smelled it, and said uncertainly: "It looks like a walnut, and it smells like one, but it's not as fragrant."
"How about we pick up five or six kilograms and have a look first? Or, third brother, you can take a few and ask your third uncle?" Yang Xiufen came up with an idea.
Jiang Xinbai shook her head after hearing this and said, "Sister, even though it's daytime, it's still not safe for just two women like us in the mountains." Don't say Jiang Xinbai is timid. She and her second sister used to go up the mountain often because they were familiar with the mountain and knew there wouldn't be any danger. But for this mountain, forget it. She was still a little worried.
Yang Jinsheng scratched his hair and said, "Forget it, why not just take them all back? It will only take some effort at best."
"Then, shall we start picking up the walnuts?" Yang Xiufen looked up at the two walnut trees again, "How do we shake the walnuts off the trees?"
"It's hard to shake it without tools. Forget it, let's just pick up the ones on the ground. Whether it works or not is another matter." After saying that, Yang Jinsheng squatted down and started picking up walnuts.
"Jinsheng, you can take off the outer green shell of the walnut by stepping on it a few times. This way it won't be too heavy to take back." Jiang Xinbai demonstrated it to her husband.
Just like that, the three of them squatted on the ground and started picking up walnuts. It took them about an hour to put all the walnuts that fell on the ground into the bag. Jiang Xinbai looked at his black and yellow hands with some worry, "These hands are stained like this, they should be able to be washed clean, right?"
"It should be possible, right?" Yang Xiufen was also a little worried.
"Of course you can, don't worry, shall we go further in?" Yang Jinsheng pointed to the front. So far, they had harvested rattan pears and a pile of walnuts, some of which were unknown whether real or fake.
"Let's go. It's too heavy to carry the stuff. How about we find a place to hide the stuff first? It seems that not many people come to this mountain, so it shouldn't be lost." Jiang Xinbai pointed to the fertilizer bag on the ground. It was too tiring to carry it, even though she wasn't the one carrying it.
"Well, let me see. How about hiding it there? I'll find some dead leaves to cover it." Yang Jinsheng quickly found a suitable place and hid the things in no time.
Then the three of them continued to walk inside, and Yang Jinsheng was knocking around in front with a sickle, pushing aside the troublesome thorns.
"Wait, do you hear the sound of water?" Yang Jinsheng suddenly stopped and listened carefully.
Jiang Xinbai looked around and replied, "Isn't it normal to have water on the mountain?"
"Go this way." Yang Jinsheng followed the sound of water to the path on the right. After walking a short distance, he saw a clear stream below.
"Hey, I said there was the sound of water. Let's go wash our faces." Yang Jinsheng took the lead and walked to the stream. He scooped up a handful of water with both hands and splashed it on his face. "It's really comfortable, but a little cold."
Jiang Xinbai and the other man also followed and washed their hands. Then they looked down and were delighted. "There are snails!"
"There's not much meat on that thing, it's boring." Yang Jinsheng shook his head with some disgust.
Yang Xiufen suddenly stared at the stream and said, "It looks like there are fish."
"Fish, where are the fish?" Yang Jinsheng became excited when he heard the word fish. He quickly stood up and walked to Yang Xiufen, sticking his head to look into the water.
"Look, that's it." Yang Xiufen pointed to the small fish swimming in the water.
"That's it? It's as big as my thumb, not even big enough to fill the gaps between my teeth." Yang Jinsheng was a little disappointed. He thought it was a big fish!
"Tsk, you expect to catch big fish in such a small stream? You're dreaming." Yang Xiufen laughed at her brother.
"There are big fish, really big fish." Jiang Xinbai suddenly shouted at them in a low voice.
"What, what, there, there, let me take a look." Yang Jinsheng rushed to Jiang Xinbai again and looked hard into the water.
"Over there, I just saw a fish swimming over." Jiang Xinbai pointed his finger at a puddle, which was against the mountain and looked quite deep, but the water was relatively clear and the bottom could be seen clearly. At this moment, a fish happened to swim out slowly from the gaps between the rocks on the mountain.
"Fish, fish, real fish." Yang Jinsheng was very excited. He said he wanted to go fishing a few days ago, and today he was allowed to see the fish.
Yang Xiufen rolled her eyes at him and said, "What are you making a fuss about? Have you never seen fish or eaten fish before?"
"Hehe, I've never fished before. Oops, I forgot to borrow a fishing rod. What a waste." Yang Jinsheng slapped his thigh in regret.
Jiang Xinbai also felt it was a pity, "Forget it, we don't have any tools, we can't catch it."
Yang Jinsheng was still unwilling to give up. He looked at the fish swimming in the puddle, then looked at his feet, and said hesitantly, "How about I go into the water to chase them? Sister, don't you have a fertilizer bag? Use that as a bamboo basket and I'll chase them in."
"Goodbye, what if there is a snake in there?" Jiang Xinbai still felt a little scared when she talked about this. When she was in the village before, she once went into the water to catch fish. She didn't know how she touched the crack in the rock, and suddenly a water snake jumped out from it. She was so scared that her hands and feet instantly became cold. She still feels uncomfortable when she thinks about it now.
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