As he spoke, Lin Ye ruffled Xueqiu's hair a couple of times.
Snowball broke free from his grasp, jumped down, and whimpered a few times.
"It wouldn't have come if its owner hadn't asked it to. Those idiots didn't catch anything in two hours. Luckily it came, or they would have gone home empty-handed."
Lin Ye took it as a plea for mercy and relented, saying, "Fine, just follow behind us and don't run around."
Before he finished speaking, Snowball had already shot out like a cannonball, darted into a bush, and emerged a moment later with a wild rabbit in its mouth.
Luo Chunlei ran forward, his face full of surprise, "Snowball is really amazing, he caught a rabbit as soon as he arrived."
Luo Hao held up a finger and shook it. "This rabbit must have eaten a poisonous mushroom and can't move anymore, otherwise Snowball wouldn't have caught it."
Before he could finish speaking, a brood of rabbits scattered like birds and beasts in the bushes, running off in all directions.
Lin Ye, quick-witted and agile, chased after them and caught two. Even Luo Chunlei, who was visiting the deep mountains for the first time, caught one. Only Luo Hao, panting heavily, didn't catch a single rabbit hair.
"Second Brother, it's a nest of rabbits! They're really fast." Luo Chunlei said carelessly, holding up a rabbit.
Feeling humiliated, Luo Hao glared at him. "It's just a rabbit. I'll catch you a pheasant later."
He simply refused to believe it; he was no better than a mere greenhorn.
Next, Luo Hao kept his eyes and ears open and worked extra hard.
However, it seemed as if the prey was deliberately working against him, darting towards Lin Ye and Luo Chunlei's feet, and were particularly easy to catch. When he finally spotted the prey, it would play with him, and he would chase it for three miles but still couldn't catch it.
Exhausted, the group waited until noon, found a dry spot to sit down, and each took out the dry rations they had brought.
Luo Hao and Luo Chunlei were carrying steamed buns. Steamed buns are filling and easy to carry.
Lin Ye took out a meat pie, a can of eight-treasure porridge, and a bag of dried sweet potatoes.
The meat patties were freshly made that morning, and the broth inside was glistening with oil, making the two brothers' mouths water.
"My wife made this for me," Lin Ye said, implying that he shouldn't even think about taking the meat pie.
Seeing them looking at him expectantly, he had no choice but to hand them the dried sweet potatoes, saying, "This was a gift from someone, you can have it."
He had meat pies and canned eight-treasure porridge, and he also drank the spiritual spring water he had brought. His stomach was full, and his strength was instantly restored.
Luo Hao and Luo Chunlei were quite satisfied with the dried sweet potatoes they were eating; it was better than eating steamed buns.
"Brother Ye, what are you going to do with the three mu of sweet potatoes you planted?" Luo Hao asked, munching on dried sweet potato, thinking of the sweet potatoes in Lin Ye's field.
In the brigade, every family grows a little sweet potato to supplement their food supply. Lin Ye grows so many sweet potatoes, and they grow exceptionally well. But he can't sell them, so what can he do with them?
"You're barefoot, yet you're worrying about me who wears shoes! Just sell it. Last time I went to the crab farm, the people there don't farm, but they still have to buy food to eat. You can come and help me then, and I'll provide you with meals." Lin Ye chuckled mischievously.
He understood what Luo Hao was worried about: he was afraid that he had too much produce in his field and wouldn't be able to sell it!
"Brother Ye, I heard you raise hairy crabs in your fields. Just steam some for us!" Luo Hao grinned foolishly.
The news spread throughout the team, but he kept forgetting to ask about it.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Lin Ye calmly said, "It's 7 mao each now, but it will be 8 mao after a while. The first two are free, and if you want more, you have to pay!"
During the autumn harvest, hairy crabs are at their fattest, and the female crabs are full of roe.
He was also waiting to keep some of the female crabs to lay their eggs and make crab seedlings.
Luo Hao rolled his eyes at him, "Stingy. I'll ask my sister-in-law for it later."
Lin Ye picked up a pebble from the ground and threw it at him, saying, "You dare! From now on, when I'm not around, you're not allowed to talk to my wife."
Luo Chunlei suppressed a laugh, thinking to himself, "Brother Ye is such a fiercely protective husband."
In fact, Luo Hao's words reminded Lin Ye that this autumn's harvest was quite substantial, with sweet potatoes yielding several thousand kilograms per mu, plus several thousand hairy crabs. These things were indeed sitting in the fields, and how to sell them was a real problem.
He had dug up a sweet potato in the field and examined it. It was a red-skinned, white sweet potato, sweet and refreshing. It was delicious to eat raw, and even better when roasted.
The key is their size; each one weighs three or four pounds, more than twice the size of a normal one.
More than three acres of land, with a yield of at least six thousand catties.
After growing for so long, the hairy crabs are getting bigger every day, and they are estimated to weigh seven or eight ounces each.
Lin Ye was deep in thought when Luo Hao finished eating and stood up.
"Let's go, let's continue walking into the mountains." He refused to believe that he had gained nothing today.
Lin Ye grabbed the heavy basket full of prey beside him and followed behind Luo Hao.
This kid is trying to show off again. Let him lead the way! Anyway, his basket is almost full, crammed with five wild rabbits and six pheasants, all of which have their feet tied with straw rope and can't move.
Luo Chunlei walked at the back with a humble heart. It was his first time going into the mountains to hunt, so naturally he was the last one to follow.
Of course, his basket also contained his harvest of the day: two wild rabbits and a pheasant.
Looking up at the forest ahead, I saw that the baskets on the trees were full, and a feeling of admiration arose spontaneously.
"Shh, don't move." Luo Hao suddenly stopped and quietly took out the fishing net.
A chicken's tail was wagging wildly in the bushes ahead, unaware of the impending danger.
Just as Luo Hao was about to take the crucial step, Lin Ye let out a low, suppressed growl: "Don't move!"
At the same time, his large hand grabbed Luo Hao's arm, holding him tightly so that he couldn't move.
Hearing the noise, the pheasant flapped its wings and flew away.
Luo Hao was furious!
Lin Ye had caught so many pheasants, and it was finally his turn to show off his skills, but he sabotaged it.
Lin Ye ignored his angry expression, shoved him aside, and squatted down where Luo Hao had almost stepped, not forgetting to say:
"Get out of the way, this thing is worth much more than a pheasant."
Snowball crouched down beside her, wagging its tail curiously: "What is this little red fruit?"
Luo Hao stared intently, his eyes widening in disbelief. "This...this can't be the legendary ginseng, can it?"
"What? Second Brother, you said there's ginseng?" Luo Chunlei quickly took two steps and came over.
A few ordinary leaves, a red ball on a stem, that's ginseng!
"Put the things down quickly and take out the shovel," Lin Ye said in a deep voice.
Luo Hao and Luo Chunlei obediently did as they were told, exchanging excited glances.
Several people began sweeping away the dead leaves on the ground with their hands, and then used shovels to dig holes around the ginseng little by little.
After an hour of effort, they finally dug out a ginseng with intact roots.
Upon seeing it, Snowball whimpered, "This radish is huge!"
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