After getting up in the morning, Lin Mo washed his face and prepared to leave.
The area around the Xingan Mountains is full of trees, and autumn is the season when various wild fruits ripen.
He plans to go up the mountain today to collect some things and check the traps.
Yesterday he saw several pine trees covered with large, bulging pine cones.
So he carried a rope, a net, and a machete with him.
As for the educated youth, many of them started to look through their textbooks again after the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, picking up the knowledge they had missed back then.
You could hear the reading aloud from a great distance, with a few English words mixed in.
Lin Mo didn't care about any of that; all he wanted now was to change his family's life.
He saw Su Xiaoxiao at the village entrance when he left.
Su Xiaoxiao walked a little awkwardly, and seemed not to have fully recovered.
Since his rebirth, he has come to regard Su Xiaoxiao as his future wife.
Of course, I'll pay extra attention to it.
"Forest……"
Su Xiaoxiao greeted Lin Mo, and then noticed what he was carrying, realizing that Lin Mo was going up the mountain again.
"How's your butt? Feeling better?"
Lin Mo took the initiative to ask.
Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao's pretty face flushed red, all the way down to her neck.
"fine……."
Su Xiaoxiao's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
Lin Mo knew that what happened yesterday was still too shocking for Su Xiaoxiao right now.
So he nodded without saying anything more and left.
In the distance, Jiang Ying saw Lin Mo and Su Xiaoxiao talking, and a hint of jealousy flashed in her eyes.
What other inappropriate or lewd words did you hear?
Butt?
Did Lin Mo see Su Xiaoxiao's buttocks?
The moment Jiang Ying saw Su Xiaoxiao in the village, she thought the girl was very beautiful.
Moreover, his demeanor was no less impressive than that of someone from a capitalist family in the city.
Seeing Lin Mo's attitude towards Su Xiaoxiao and himself only fueled her anger.
So he gritted his teeth.
Since Lin Mo refuses to marry her, she will make sure Lin Mo doesn't have an easy time either.
She believed that as long as Lin Mo suffered a little, he would turn back.
So he turned and left, having already made up his mind.
...
On the mountain, Lin Mo first went to check the traps prepared for the wild boars.
The sweet potato on top only has a few more gaps, so it seems that other small animals have been here.
He hadn't expected to succeed on his first try. After disguising himself again with dry grass and branches, he arrived at a hillside with many pine trees.
Pine nuts from Northeast China are famous, but harvesting them is not easy.
The trees alone are over ten meters tall.
Not to mention that people up there also have to pick pine nuts.
Lin Mo first stretched his limbs, then made a loop with a rope and tied the other end to a tree.
It slowly climbed upwards with its limbs.
Fortunately, the rubber-soled shoes he was wearing had good grip, and he climbed to the top of the tree in just a few minutes.
He then took out his machete and, instead of risking grabbing it with his hands, used the machete to cut the branches.
Let the pine nuts and branches fall down.
I spent the whole morning picking fruit from three trees.
At this point, Lin Mo's stamina was completely depleted.
This shows how tiring it is to pick pine nuts.
Lin Mo climbed down the tree, broke off the pine cones from the ground, and threw them into the net one by one.
This thing is mostly wood, except for a small portion of pine nuts.
But you can also bring it home to use as fuel; the pine oil makes it quite effective for heating.
Then he went around in circles and found a rabbit hole.
The rabbits are eating grass like crazy this season, and they're all chubby.
Although the meat doesn't contain much fat, it tastes great when grilled.
Lin Mo used the rope he carried to make several lasso traps, then picked up some hazelnuts before returning home.
Back home, Lin Mo sat in the yard and used a machete to split the pine cones one by one. By nightfall, he had collected a large handful.
Then, under my sister's expectant gaze, I started a fire to roast pine nuts!
The aroma soon wafted out of the courtyard.
Lin Mo grabbed a handful of roasted and cooled pine nuts and handed them to his younger sister.
"It smells so good!"
Lin Xiaohua cracked it open, took a bite, and exclaimed in amazement.
Lin Mo plans to keep these pine nuts at home so that his mother and sister can have them as snacks when they have nothing to do.
After all, it takes some time to cure edema.
night.
Besides the leftovers from yesterday, we also had some pheasant stewed with mushrooms on the table, which we ate with our dry rations.
Lin Xiaohua couldn't remember the last time she had eaten such a good meal.
These past two days have felt like a dream to her.
How wonderful it would be if every day could be like this from now on.
"Lin Mo, get out here right now!"
The Lin family's gate was pounded on loudly early in the morning.
Lin Mo walked into the courtyard and looked outside. There stood Su the carpenter, his eyes red as bull's.
Early in the morning, Su the carpenter overheard the rumors about his daughter and Lin Mo.
He looked down on Lin Mo a hundred times. He thought Lin Mo was a spendthrift who stole his own family's grain in order to please the educated youth, and that something had happened between him and his daughter in the back mountain.
The key point is that when Su the carpenter asked his daughter, she stammered and couldn't answer.
This made Su the carpenter anxious.
He hoped his daughter would marry into a good family in the future, definitely not a spendthrift like Lin Mo.
"Brother Su!?"
As Lin's mother stepped out of the house, she saw Su the carpenter outside the courtyard.
Su the carpenter, Lin's mother, was still acquainted with him, since he made all the furniture in their home.
He looked completely bewildered by Su the carpenter's outburst.
"Ask your own Lin Mo! What good deeds has he done!"
When Su the carpenter gets angry, he wants to curse at Lin's mother whenever he sees her.
The villagers, who were gossiping in the village, saw him heading towards the Lin family's house and guessed that he was there to confront them.
So a dozen or so people gathered around to admire the view.
He has a strong sense of shame; he can't bear to hear those disrespectful words, let alone say them aloud.
"What? Brother Su, our son has been so well-behaved these past few days..."
"Pah!" Carpenter Su spat fiercely, interrupting Lin's mother's sophistry.
"A doting mother spoils her son! Such a commotion! And you're still protecting him!"
"You don't know the pain of having your emotional smears thrown at Lin Mo!"
Lin's mother was completely bewildered. She turned to look at her son, wondering what he had done to deserve such a large amount of money from carpenter Su, whose neck had turned swollen and purple.
Lin Mo glanced at the villagers watching the scenery around him, and his gaze quickly fell on Jiang Ying, who was hiding behind a villager and peeking out.
"Brother Lin, you really need to explain this to Uncle Su," said Miao Qingsong, a young man from the village who was Lin Mo's childhood friend and was somewhat on his side.
"Someone in the village said they saw you..." Even Miao Qingsong was too embarrassed to say it aloud:
"You said you saw me touching Xiaoxiao's butt?"
"While Uncle Su is here, let's clear up the misunderstanding with him properly."
Upon hearing this, Lin Mo immediately understood.
Nine times out of ten, it's this green tea bitch who's up to no good behind the scenes.
Jiang Ying hid behind the crowd, a barely perceptible wicked smile playing on her lips.
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