After returning to the mountain, Mo Qianshang continued their quiet life, and nothing major happened for the time being.
Five days later, Chen Jin came up the mountain and said that the building materials had been transported to the vicinity and that they could start marking out the land and making preparations that day.
"Alright, then I'll trouble you brothers to carry it up the mountain. At this hour, you probably haven't eaten yet, right? Once all the materials are brought up, I'll cook something and we can all eat together!"
Her words brought smiles to everyone's faces. Although in their hearts, even if Mo Qianshang built a nice house, no matter who the family was, they would be grateful if they could at least get a bowl of water from them, the people who built the house.
At most, all I can think about is wild vegetable soup.
These people started working. Mo Qianshang had asked them, and it would probably take almost two hours for them to finish moving everything together.
Mo Qianshang took down the tent early in the morning to avoid being seen by outsiders. The rest of the people went about their business as usual. The children were not allowed to cause trouble for the workers. Little Yao was still sewing clothes. Mo Qianshang checked the materials they had brought to make sure that they had not cut corners, and then went to explore some places nearby that they had never been before.
These days, she has explored many places in the mountains. The more places she knows, the more confident she feels. Mo Qianshang is very familiar with the wild. Wild animals are different from humans. The larger the wild animal, the harder it is for it to hide its tracks.
What's remarkable is that even in this fine season, Mo Qianshang hasn't found any traces of large wild animals. On the contrary, the little creatures have found quite a few. This shows that, at least, large wild animals don't often appear near their residence.
That day, Mo Qianshang walked to a relatively high place and pushed aside the cover of the place that few people came to. She thought to herself, no wonder wild animals don't dare to come here.
The temperature is low and the water is relatively scarce at the top of the mountain, so the vegetation is short. However, the foot of the mountain receives less sunlight than the top, so the area with sufficient vegetation height and density is actually the mountainside.
Mo Qianshang and the others were closer to the foot of the mountain. Because there were no villages nearby, the vegetation on Qingping Mountain was rarely cut down. Even if someone came to the mountain, they would only leave some footprints, and there were more footprints at the foot of the mountain.
Now that Mo Qianshang has reached the mountainside, her visibility is already very poor. If she is not careful, she might get lost and end up delivering herself to the wild animals before she even gets near them.
She felt it was about time, so she circled around and planned to go in another direction. She had noticed before that one side of the mountain was a cliff, which was very steep with sparse vegetation but lots of rocks. Although Mo Qianshang didn't think she would go there often, she still wanted to take a look.
Um?
Mo Qianshang vaguely heard a sound, a "fluttering" sound. The sound was low and loud, so it was unlikely to be a bird. She guessed it might be a pheasant.
Mo Qianshang held her breath and walked lightly towards the location where she heard the sound. In places where it is not easy to discern directions, if it is just a sound, it is actually very difficult to distinguish the sound.
But that's exactly what Mo Qianshang does. She was completely focused and gradually approached, while the pheasant was busy foraging for food and didn't notice her at all.
She thought it would be nice to have a light knife in her hand. Although throwing knives were not her forte, it would still be a waste of her talents to kill a chicken.
She quickly found a small iron knife in the system. Although it was heavy, it was cheap. The pheasant had been starving for a long time and just circled around that clump of low trees. It really wasn't scared away.
Mo Qianshang gently gripped the hilt of the knife, and in the instant the pheasant lowered its head, she used her shoulder to lead her elbow, and then her elbow to lead her wrist, sending the throwing knife flying out of her hand!
"Gurgle!"
Not far away, the pheasant almost instantly fell to the ground. Her flying sling pierced its neck, and after a few twitches, it was completely dead.
She had seen chickens for sale on the street before, but not chicken meat. She never expected to catch a wild pheasant today, which she can use to make a meal when she gets home.
She made another cut on the chicken's neck, then held it upside down and looked at it for a moment. The chicken hadn't bled all of its blood yet, and throwing it directly into the basket would dirty the other things she had picked earlier.
She turned her head and looked at the cliff edge she had originally intended to reach, but now she couldn't go there either. These wild mountains without paths often required climbing with both hands and feet, and with a chicken in her hand, it wasn't very convenient for her to cross.
Never mind, I'll come back another day.
Mo Qianshang carried the chicken and went straight to the place where they usually fetched water.
The water flow wasn't much, but it was flowing water. The chicken blood couldn't be left on the ground carelessly, as it could easily attract wild animals. She drained all the blood and let it flow away, plucked the chicken feathers, and processed the chicken before carrying it back home.
When Xiao Yao saw that she had returned, it was almost time, so she started cooking.
Now, there are a few things that can be done, and Mo Qianshang no longer needs to do them herself. Xiao Yaoshi does them, and she just watches from the side.
After a quarter of an hour, the people who were working smelled a fragrance, and some of them even started to rumble in their stomachs.
"Hey, what is this? It smells so good!"
"Wild vegetable soup?"
"The wild vegetable soup still tastes good?"
When she was almost done, Mo Qianshang called out to everyone, "Everyone, take a break. I made some wild vegetable porridge. It's not anything special, but please make do with it."
Upon hearing that it was wild vegetable porridge, those who had just thought it smelled delicious couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
In their minds, wild vegetable porridge is basically just a mouthful of rice at the bottom of the bowl, with the rest being wild vegetables and broth.
Those who had bowls brought them over, and Mo Qianshang gave one to each of them who didn't. Even though they thought wild vegetable porridge was common, eating a hot bowl was better than chewing on coarse rice cakes.
When Xiao Yao reached out and removed the lid from the pot, a fragrant aroma immediately filled the air, drawing everyone's attention to the iron pot.
To their surprise, the contents of the pot were completely different from the wild vegetable porridge they had imagined!
This pot is so big that you can see the rice grains on top, and it's mixed with wild vegetables and mushrooms. This can hardly be called porridge; some people's rice isn't even this thick!
A young man asked incredulously, "Is this really for us to eat?"
Hearing him talking to himself, Xiao Yao looked up with a smile, holding a spoon: "This big pot is naturally for everyone to eat. But we only have one pot at home. If everyone is not full, I can cook another pot. When it's done, everyone can have a bowl while they rest."
Chen Jin held the porridge in his right hand, then looked at the coarse grain pancake in his left hand, and suddenly it didn't taste so good anymore.
Some people wanted to break their packed rations into pieces and put them into the porridge, but the porridge was so well-made that putting them together like that would ruin the delicious taste.
If it's a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of dry food, then it's truly a mouthful of heaven and a mouthful of earth.
For a moment, everyone was at a loss as to what to eat.
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