Xiao Yu leaped up and landed above the woods.
On one side of the forest was the Lotus Lake, as he had expected. On the other three sides, one was a vast forest, a mountain, and the remaining two were covered in white mist. It seemed like it still needed to be unlocked.
Xiao Yu flew towards the side of the woods for a while, but he didn't see the exit he expected, let alone the village he remembered. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt like he was floating above the woods, just like in a dream, without needing to expend much spiritual energy.
The ringing of a cell phone woke Xiao Yu from his reverie. He pulled out his phone and checked it. It was already past midnight. But the person calling wasn't Zhou Yanzhi, but his mother.
He hesitated and picked up the phone.
"mom?"
"Still asleep?"
"No."
"Will you come tomorrow?"
Xiao Yu paused. In the past, whenever Xiao Ma asked, no matter if it was something important or not, he would always put her first. But now—
"Probably not. Jiangcheng's annual meeting ends tonight, and we need to prepare to go to the next city. We won't know the specific arrangements until tomorrow morning."
"Oh! Never mind."
"Is there something wrong?" Xiao Yu couldn't help himself.
"Nothing. It's just your dad. We were all full outside, and he came back to drink with your uncle and the others. He told me that the snails you brought today were really delicious. They still sell snails in the middle of winter? Are they very expensive? Where did you buy them? We should go buy some tomorrow."
"Oh, yes, I got it through the company. They say it's better than the ones on the market. I still have some here and will send it to you tomorrow."
"No. We can buy them at the market ourselves. Even if they are different, they won't be much different."
"Well, I'll take a look tomorrow morning to see what our plans are. If things aren't busy, I'll go out this afternoon and call you then. Should anyone be home?"
"Tomorrow we plan to go to the nearby vegetable market and supermarket. Your cousin Xiao Rong said that we should familiarize ourselves with the map first so that it will be convenient for shopping later. I guess he should be home in the afternoon."
"Okay, we'll talk about it later."
"Actually, there's no need to send me there. The fare there and back isn't even worth it."
"Yeah." Xiao Yu responded. The mother and son had nothing else to say, so they hung up the phone.
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Since he was going to give away snails, the little he had brought from catching lobsters earlier wouldn't be enough. Xiao Yu stood high in the sky, thinking about how to get back to Lianhu.
As soon as I had that thought, I appeared in the lotus lake, and the lotus stems around me, which were as thick as tree trunks, were densely packed with quail eggs and snails the size of red dates.
Xiao Yu stretched out his hand and took out a plastic basin. Then he pulled his sleeves high, took out a pair of chopsticks, and started to pick up the snails in the basin.
It was easy to pick snails when there were so many of them. It didn't take long for him to finish half a basin. After two half basins, Xiao Yu stopped.
As for the others, he took some with him but didn't plan to give them away.
His mother was a "generous" person. Unless these good things were eaten behind closed doors, otherwise, even if he gave her a sack, she might not eat many.
As for the rest of the Xiao family, Xiao Yu wasn't that generous.
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When Xiao Yu emerged from the space, the time jumped to one in the morning. Seeing this number, he was so embarrassed that he didn't even want to go to the bedroom.
How come time goes by so fast?
Xiao Yu quickly took a shower and ran to the bedroom, where Zhou Yanzhi was leaning against the headboard reading a book.
Xiao Yu: Fortunately I didn’t dawdle just now.
"Brother, hey, you haven't slept yet?"
Zhou Yanzhi looked up and saw the child's guilty expression. He said calmly: "Have you had enough fun?"
"How could that be... uh, cough, hehe, almost." Xiao Yu wanted to slap himself, then quickly got into bed and lay down. After hesitating for a while, he said hesitantly, "I just unlocked something else."
"oh?"
"Yes. It's the forest shrouded in mist that I saw earlier. I also picked a lot of wild fruits in the forest. Oh, and there are also hundreds of acres of ripe rice in the forest."
"Rice?" Zhou Yanzhi raised his eyebrows. This was interesting.
"Yeah!" Xiao Yu hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping himself. After a while, he couldn't help but say, "I feel a little strange..."
"Tell me." Zhou Yanzhi put down the book in his hand and threw the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose onto the bedside table.
Xiao Yu was a man who had few secrets from those close to him. Moreover, in his opinion, Zhou Yanzhi was also one of the insiders of the Lianhu Space.
"I felt like I had been to that forest when I was a child, and I found that the rice fields and the springs beside them were just like the ones I had seen when I was a child."
"Have you seen it as a child?"
"Well, when I was about seven or eight years old, one autumn, we ran out of firewood. My mother, two other women from our village, and two children about my age went to the mountains a little far from home. At that time, the country had already started closing off mountains for reforestation. Many forests were closed for firewood collection, and our family couldn't even get a chance to work in the forests there because there were so many people in the village."
Zhou Yanzhi was silent for a moment: "Take me in to have a look."
Xiao Yu's eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to get out of bed.
If Zhou Yanzhi hadn't pulled him to change his shoes, he would have wanted to run away in his slippers.
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Perhaps Xiao Yu had something in mind, as the two of them entered right next to the rice paddies. The golden, heavy rice ears, even before they were harvested, were already emitting their own fragrant aroma. Zhou Yanzhi pulled Xiao Yu along and leaped up to inspect the entire paddy field from above.
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