"Third brother's wife, you know what? There are so many mushrooms in these mountains!"
As Grandma Gu picked the mushrooms and put them into her basket, she talked to Lin Xue.
"There must be a lot of stuff right after the rain, and with everyone in our village having to go to work, nobody's coming up to pick it up!"
Most villagers would just pick up some on the hillsides around the village; very few would venture this far into the village.
“Third brother’s wife, let’s pick more mushrooms, dry some later, and send some to your parents and brothers to try!”
When Grandma Gu thought about how many things her third daughter-in-law had brought back, she felt a little guilty.
"Okay, but we'll have to eat our own food first today!"
"I've been craving mushroom soup for the past couple of days, but there's nowhere to pick mushrooms near my parents' house, and the dried mushrooms I bought are of poor quality and taste weird!"
Lin Xue started complaining as she picked mushrooms!
"You can't buy wild mushrooms from Northeast China anywhere else. I've heard there are now artificially cultivated mushrooms, but they're said to taste just as good as the ones grown here naturally!"
Grandma Gu was quick-witted and picked up all the mushrooms she saw and put them in her basket.
"Speaking of mushrooms, stewed with chicken is the best!"
Before Lin Xue could even bring it up, Old Mrs. Gu started talking about it herself.
However, Lin Xue also understood that her family had just killed a chicken yesterday, and it would be impossible to eat chicken again in the short term.
"Fluttering~"
Just as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were savoring the delicious chicken, a small pheasant suddenly flew by from the side, and a gray figure flashed by beside it.
"pheasant!"
Before Old Mrs. Gu could finish speaking, Lin Xue leaped up and caught the little pheasant flying in mid-air.
Then, with a flick of his toes, he tossed his basket high into the air, where it landed on the ground not far away.
The mushrooms I had picked earlier were scattered all over the ground, but I could hear a rustling sound coming from the direction of the basket. It seemed that the basket that had flown out had caught something.
"Mother, hurry!"
Lin Xue didn't dare to overact, so she pretended that she was about to drop the pheasant.
She grabbed the pheasant's claws with both hands, making it flap its wings and spin around with her.
"Hang in there, third son's wife, Mom's coming!"
Upon seeing this, Grandma Gu quickly put the basket on the ground.
He took a few steps and arrived in front of Lin Xue, reaching out to grab the little pheasant by the base of its wing. The little pheasant finally behaved itself.
"Oh my, third son's wife, you're so lucky!"
"I was just saying that chicken stew with mushrooms was delicious, and now this little chicken has been delivered right to my doorstep!"
Grandma Gu deftly twisted the pheasant's wings together, then grabbed a handful of tough wild grass from the ground and tied the pheasant's claws together as well!
"I never expected to catch a pheasant. I was just listening to you talking about chicken stew with mushrooms when I saw a pheasant fly past me. I just reached out and tried to catch it, and who would have thought I'd catch it!"
Lin Xue wasn't in a hurry to look at the contents of the basket over there; she was watching how Old Mrs. Gu tied up the pheasant.
So, chicken wings can be crossed and fastened?
And while the others are quite sturdy, this little pheasant's wings are already immobile.
This way, there's no need to worry about the little pheasants flapping around everywhere. Lin Xue felt she had learned another trick.
"Oh? That's right!"
"Third brother's wife, where's your basket?"
After Grandma Gu had calmed the little pheasant down, she looked up and saw Lin Xue standing in front of her, but the basket Lin Xue had brought was nowhere to be found.
"Huh? I don't know, I think I kicked something when I was catching pheasants!"
Lin Xue pretended to be stupid and looked around.
"Hey, stop looking!"
"Isn't that basket right behind you, not far away?"
After saying that, Grandma Gu didn't expect Lin Xue to pick it up. She threw the tied-up pheasant on the ground and walked towards the basket on her back.
"Hey, there seems to be something in this basket!"
"Third brother's wife, you haven't caught another wild pheasant, have you?"
"Good heavens, how come my third son's wife is so lucky?"
Grandma Gu peeked through the mesh of the basket and discovered that it wasn't a pheasant at all, but a lively, large gray rabbit.
"It's a rabbit, and it's quite fat!"
Then, Grandma Gu lifted the basket a crack, reached in with one hand, grabbed the rabbit by the scruff of its neck, and then lifted the basket open.
"This rabbit is quite big! My daughter and I are really lucky today; we caught two meat rabbits as soon as we came up the mountain!"
Lin Xue stood to the side and watched with great pleasure. What made her happiest was that her acting skills seemed to have improved again. Didn't she see that Grandma Gu didn't suspect anything at all?
If she had quite a few flaws in the first world, then her performance today was absolutely brilliant.
"Mom, when you go back, put the pheasant and rabbit in the basket and carry it on your back. I'm afraid they'll turn around and run away again!"
Grandma Gu was happily tying wild grass to the rabbit's legs, and she wasn't surprised to hear Lin Xue's words.
Her third son's wife is such a lazybones; it's already an unprecedented event that she would rush out to the mountains to pick mushrooms today.
Not to mention the pheasant, this rabbit alone must weigh over ten pounds.
It's normal that her third daughter-in-law wasn't willing to carry it.
However, the fact that she was able to catch pheasants and rabbits today was entirely due to her third daughter-in-law's good luck, so she didn't hold it against her.
She may not have much else, but she certainly has plenty of strength.
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