After the guards and villagers returned triumphantly, everyone cheered. Jiang Zhengmao was also happy, so happy that he couldn't stop grinning. But now was not the time to be happy.
He interrupted the villagers' heated chatter and said, "Alright, alright, let's stop talking so much now. I want to talk about the journey. We haven't even covered half of our journey today. It's almost noon. Let's get on the road quickly. We have to get to Chongming Prefecture before the snow starts, right?"
The villagers listened to the advice and prepared to ask questions as they walked.
Listening to people bragging is a rare fun thing during this boring journey, not to mention that some people want to participate but can't, so it's really interesting.
As they walked, Jiang Huaixu suddenly discovered that Jiang Erlang and Doctor Kang were whispering to each other and sometimes glanced at her.
She deliberately slowed down her pace, intending to eavesdrop, but saw the two men turn around and walk back. Jiang Huaixu was curious and asked Fu Tuan what happened. She then learned that Zheng Yuan, who had insisted on going to fight the bandits, was stabbed in the butt by an arrow and refused to let her help him deal with it.
Helpless, Zheng Yuan's mother had to find Jiang Erlang, and Jiang Erlang went to see Doctor Kang.
After satisfying her curiosity, Jiang Huaixu put the matter behind her. Zheng Yuan, her younger brother, was not very obedient, and she didn't like him, so she let him do whatever he wanted.
As she walked, Jiang Huaixu suddenly felt that the forest seemed too big. The terrain gradually became flat, and the towering trees were still everywhere she looked. During this time, Fu Tuan reminded her several times that there were new medicinal herbs to collect.
Could this be a forest? she wondered.
I found Yun Qi and asked him, and then I learned that it would take two or three days to ride out of the woods.
Jiang Huaixu immediately became excited. This is a good place to earn points!
After the sun set, the carriage stopped in a relatively open area. The villagers rested for a while before getting busy again.
It was cold at night, so Jiang Lao Da asked his three sons to take down all the things in the car to make more space for the elderly people in the village who were not in good health to sleep. Knowing his idea, the elderly people's children came to help, and kept expressing their gratitude.
Jiang Huaixu helped set up the tent, said something to Qian Xiuzhu, and then took Fu Tuan into the woods.
Autumn is the season of harvest.
Not long after he walked out, Jiang Huaixu came across a pear tree. The autumn pears were slightly yellow, but not very big.
She quickly climbed up and picked one that was not infested by insects, took a bite of it, and threw it to Futuan.
Futuan sat on the tree like a human, holding the autumn pear in his paws, took a bite, chewed it twice, and spit it out with a "wow" sound. The autumn pear also fell from the tree.
Only then did Jiang Huaixu show the sour feeling that he had tried hard to endure - grinning.
"Hahahaha, you've been fooled!"
[Childish Ghost Host!!] Fu Tuan slapped Jiang Huaixu with one claw, but Jiang Huaixu easily dodged it.
Let's go collect herbs.
Fu Tuan was forced to start working mode. After collecting some medicinal herbs, he and his cat came to a tall chestnut tree.
She picked up a hairy chestnut from the ground and looked at it, then bent down and used her feet to tear open the thorns on the outside, revealing the yellowish-brown chestnut inside.
[Futuan, you'd better collect all these chestnuts. Sugar-roasted chestnuts are delicious. There are also chestnut stewed chicken, chestnut-braised spareribs, chestnut rice...]
Futuan looked at the chestnuts all over the ground, the braised chicken over there, the roasted spare ribs over there, the braised rice over here... his saliva started to flow at the right time.
Jiang Huaixu had already taken out a pair of gloves and a sack from the space and started picking up things. After she had picked up a sack, she would ask the villagers to come and pick up some more so that she could stock up some for herself.
She was startled when she accidentally glanced at Futuan.
Fu Tuan turned into a golden monkey and jumped towards her sack with chestnuts that had been deburred in his hand.
[It's convenient.] Fu Tuan explained in a noble and cool manner, lowering his head to continue picking chestnuts.
Jiang Huaixu tried hard not to laugh out loud.
The man and the monkey quickly filled the sack.
After putting the sacks into the space, Jiang Huaixu returned the same way to call the villagers. The adults were busy, and only children came.
Jiang Huaixu gave a few instructions and asked Liu Ye'er to keep an eye on them. He continued to collect things in the surrounding area with Futuan, who had turned back into a cat.
As she walked, she came to a pond. The water was so clear that you could see the bottom. The fish lying motionless at the bottom gave people a sense of tranquility.
It is truly like 'everyone is wandering in the air with nowhere to rely on'.
Jiang Huaixu broke off a nearby branch, took out a dagger and sharpened it, then walked to the edge of the pond again, tilted it slightly, and stabbed it hard at the fish in the water. When he picked it up again, a fish on the stick was still wagging its tail in its last struggle.
After catching a fairly large fish, she caught a few more amid the encouragement of the Futuan group, and finally returned to the chestnut tree to give it to Jiang Wei, holding the vines that had held the fish.
Liu Ye'er was so surprised that she was speechless. She had always felt that her little cousin could not help much with the previous bandit incident, so she was very puzzled to see the villagers listen to her little cousin so much. Now she felt a little ashamed.
Just because she couldn't do it didn't mean other girls couldn't do it, just like she had never thought before that she could protect herself and her mother and stay in a brothel for many days.
Jiang Wei took the fish from the vine and was overjoyed. "Great! Let's make fish soup tonight!"
The other children looked at him with envy, "Sister Xu, please teach us how to fish!"
Jiang Huaixu looked at the chestnuts on the ground. They had almost all been picked up. She pointed to the tree and asked, "You don't want the chestnuts on the tree anymore?"
“No!”
“The fish soup is delicious...”
Seeing this, Jiang Huaixu raised the stick in his hand and said, "Go make a pointed stick like this first, and I'll teach you."
"good!"
"Haha, there's fish soup to drink!"
Imagination is rich, but reality is cruel.
Jiang Huaixu's sharing of his fishing skills didn't help much. Both the older and younger children stood by the pond and dived into the water, but only a few caught any fish.
A young child was playing and fell into the water, making the water muddy and murky, and he was still giggling.
The older child who was practicing seriously refused and started arguing.
Jiang Huaixu was annoyed by the noise and was also worried that something might happen to the children, so he kicked a lot of people on the buttocks and finally drove them all away.
After everything calmed down, before Jiang Huaixu could breathe a sigh of relief, a cry for help suddenly came from afar.
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