On the way back from the old patriarch's house, Chen Yun and Shen Qing changed direction halfway, saying that they had something to do at the Qi family, and asked Chen Yao and Mo Lin to go home first.
Chen Yao and Mo Lin looked at each other and nodded.
After they separated, Chen Yao took Mo Lin to a different route, intending to pick some fresh wild fruits to take back.
Chen Yun had taken her along this path before, and she had discovered that there were many strange-looking wild fruits along the way, many of which she had never seen before in the modern world.
It just so happens that there is plenty of time now, so she can take Mo Lin with her to pick the fruits and pick more to take back.
They had not walked long when they saw a tree with many bright red, round, and plump fruits.
"Wow, these fruits look so beautiful, each one is bright red." Chen Yao couldn't help but admire.
Mo Lin took a look at the red fruit on the tree, and after confirming that it was the kind of fruit he knew, he said, "This one is poisonous."
Chen Yao frowned slightly: "Ah, that's a pity."
Then they continued walking forward and stopped when they came across a patch of low bushes with small black and purple fruits the size of fingers.
The small fruits growing on these low shrubs are darker in color when ripe and lighter in color when unripe. They look a bit like blueberries at a glance, but not particularly similar if you look closely.
Before picking and tasting them, Chen Yao asked the system first, just to be on the safe side: "System baby, these small fruits should be edible, right?"
System: "Yes, it is. Look carefully, there are traces of it being picked by other orcs."
Chen Yao took a look and found that it was indeed true. She then picked a few and put them in her mouth to taste. Soon, the tip of her tongue was surrounded by the sweet and sour juice.
It tasted very good. She smiled and picked a few dark ones and put them in Mo Lin's hand for him to taste.
Mo Lin raised his eyes, looked at the dark-colored wild fruit in his hand, and said, "This kind of sweet mulberry fruit is everywhere on the low hill near my home. It grows very densely and is large in size.
I remember when I was little, whenever the sweet mulberry fruits were ripe, I would go there with my mother to pick them.”
Chen Yao was surprised, and the image of mini Mo Lin flapping his little wings obediently and picking sweet yue fruit with his mother dragon appeared in her mind.
She pursed her lips and asked curiously, "Are the sweet yue fruits over there bigger than the ones here?"
Mo Lin nodded and said, "Yes, it should be bigger. If there is a chance, I can take you there to have a look."
Chen Yao smiled and said, "Okay."
Then, she pointed to several sweet jujube trees in front of her and instructed: "Mo Lin, how about this, you will be responsible for picking the ripe fruits from these trees, and I will go to the other side to pick them. It will be faster if we divide the work and cooperate." After that, she was about to walk to the other side.
But Mo Lin directly held her hand.
He was thinking about her injured hand in the morning, so he subconsciously stopped her and said, "There are a lot of sharp thorns on these small trees. I'll pick them. You wait for me."
Chen Yao looked at her hands and whispered, "It shouldn't be a problem, right? I'll be very careful."
Mo Lin raised his eyebrows and said in a tone that did not allow for rejection: "No."
Chen Yao: ...
Mo Lin casually pulled a sharp thorn from the branch, put it in his palm to show Chen Yao, and said, "Look at this thorn, it's actually very sharp."
Chen Yao blinked but said nothing.
In the end, she compromised and didn't pick them with him.
But she was not idle either. She found a few large leaves nearby and made a simple bag to hold the small fruits picked by Mo Lin.
Only after picking enough did they pack up and leave the area.
As they walked further, there were many fruits on the road, but they were either sour, astringent, or poisonous and could not be eaten, so Chen Yao did not pick any.
However, before finally leaving the path, she saw several crystal clear purple-red fruits like cherries in a hidden corner hidden by bushes, with an attractive luster.
They are vine fruits and look easy to pick.
Chen Yao asked the system: "Can these fruits be eaten? They look delicious, so they shouldn't be poisonous, right?"
After testing it, the system said, "Ahem...it's non-toxic, edible. The taste...well, it should be good."
Chen Yao didn't think much about it and picked them immediately, planning to pack them up first and wash them before eating them after returning home.
The system watched her operations and touched its nose guiltily.
Assist, isn't this coming again?
…
night.
Chen Yao and Mo Lin lay on the same bed together. The atmosphere was a little quiet and no one took the initiative to speak for a while.
Mo Lin thought of the washed purple-red fruits that Chen Yao handed to him before he washed up. He always felt that they looked familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
But he didn't think much about it at the time and ate it all.
Looking back now, he always felt that those fruits must have some other effects, but he and Shen Yao just didn't know.
Right now, he just hopes that it doesn't have any weird effects.
…
After a while, just as Mo Lin was about to close his eyes and prepare to fall asleep, Chen Yao beside him suddenly kicked off the fur blanket covering him and asked in confusion, "Why is the room suddenly so hot?"
Mo Lin looked at her and replied, "Is there?"
Chen Yao nodded, frowned slightly and said: "Hmm...I feel like I'm getting even hotter."
Mo Lin's heart sank, and he subconsciously reached out to touch her forehead, and found that it was indeed a little hot. He was about to ask her if she caught a cold or was sick, but suddenly he found that his body seemed to be getting hot too.
Chen Yao only felt that her body was getting hotter and hotter, and even slowly developed into an unusual heat.
"Mo Lin... do you feel hot?" she asked impatiently.
What she didn't know yet was that her voice had become different from her usual voice, carrying an unconcealable charm.
Mo Lin clenched his hands slightly and replied, "Hot."
Chen Yao bit her lip and said uncomfortably: "Why did it suddenly become like this..."
Mo Lin lowered his eyes, and only thought of one possibility, "Chen Yao, we might have eaten something wrong."
Chen Yao was shocked.
Could it be those wild fruits?
She quickly called out the small system and asked anxiously, "System baby, please help me check if we ate something wrong!"
The system said guiltily, "Host, uh... you must have accidentally eaten the passion fruit, those sweet purple fruits you picked later."
Chen Yao: ???
Love fruit?
Accidentally ate it?
…
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System: Cough cough cough...
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