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Chapter 106 An eerie silence? Where are the birds? Are they suffering?

Nan Punian hurriedly put down his teacup and followed, with Nan Shu close behind.

"Oh, please sit down. Please have a seat at home. I'll be right back."

When Grandpa Liu saw the two chasing after him, he didn't stop and walked briskly up the mountain, waving to them as he went.

The two dared not actually go back; the old man was almost eighty years old, and what if something happened to him in the mountains…

Twenty minutes later.

Nan Shu, panting heavily, leaned against a bamboo tree to rest, her heart pounding like a drum.

"Young lady, you should exercise more often."

Grandpa Liu stood a few meters away, smiling broadly, without even breaking a sweat. In comparison, it seemed as if Nan Shu was the one who was almost eighty years old.

Nan Shu: ...

Nan Punian stood beside her, supporting her arm. Once they were fully inside the mountains, the mountain path became less clear. In addition, the forest was humid and the ground was slippery. He was afraid that Nan Shu might slip and fall.

Nan Shu couldn't speak, and even the words of Nan Punian and Grandpa Liu seemed to pass through a thin film to her.

In my ears, I could hear my heart pounding wildly.

Nan Shu took several deep breaths and finally calmed down.

then.

Nan Shu suddenly noticed something unusual that she had sensed but couldn't quite put into words since entering the mountain—an unusual silence.

Aside from the three people talking, the sound of their feet crunching on fallen leaves, and the rustling of the wind through the leaves, Nan Shu didn't seem to hear a single bird call from beginning to end.

This is very abnormal!
Seeing that Nan Shu's complexion was not good, Nan Punian asked with concern, "What's wrong, Xiao Shu? Are you still feeling unwell?"

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Liu took a few steps down.

"Little girl, if you can't climb the mountain, let's go back. Don't tire yourself out."

"No."

Nan Shu shook her head and looked at Nan Punian, "Captain Nan, have you noticed anything wrong?"

Nan Punian was taken aback, then immediately realized what he had heard. "Xiao Nan, did you hear something?"

"No, quite the opposite, I didn't hear anything."

Nan Punian reacted quickly.

A thoughtful look flashed across his eyes. "This is definitely not right." Logically speaking, a forest like this, with its fertile soil and lush trees, should have birds living there. They had been walking for half an hour, but hadn't heard a single bird call.

"Grandpa, we've been walking for so long, and we haven't seen a single bird. We haven't heard a single bird chirp. If there are no birds in this forest, are there lots of insects?"

Nanpu asked Grandpa Liu.

Old man: "Huh?"

Nan Punian: ...Why weren't you hard of hearing when you were talking to Xiaoshu just now? So being hard of hearing depends on the person, right?
Nan Punian's lips twitched as he repeated what he had said. The old man suddenly realized, "Oh, you mean birds? There are birds, but a few years ago, when there were many children in the village and they weren't in school, they liked to steal bird eggs and shoot birds with slingshots. It was so noisy, so now the birds are afraid of people and they all hide away."

"No wonder."

Nan Punian responded and turned to look at Nan Shu, "How is it? Can we still go forward?"

"can."

Nan Shu nodded.

Nan Shu didn't disbelieve what Grandpa Liu said, but she still had a question and wanted to go deeper to see if she could find one or two birds to ask.

Nan Punian broke off a relatively thick branch from the side and handed it to Nan Shu, asking her to use it as a hiking stick. He took a step back and followed behind Nan Shu, so that even if Nan Shu accidentally slipped, he could react in time.

soon.

The three finally arrived at the bamboo shoot digging spot. With one stroke of his hoe, Grandpa Liu unearthed several sharp, slender bamboo shoots. Although his hands trembled, Grandpa Liu worked very efficiently, giving Nan Punian no chance to do anything. Nan Shu looked around.

The bamboo in this area is very tall and lush, rustling in the wind, and suddenly, the sound of several wings flapping can be heard.

A faint, chirping sound came from somewhere, fragmented and indistinct.

"Hey! A person! It's a person!"

"Run! Run! You bad guy, you bad guy!"

"We need to hurry and tell Sparrow to hide."

"Queque, I've got your back! Understand?"

"Bad guy, bad guy!"

"Ha! Te!"

Nan Shu: ...

Nan Shu felt as if she had listened to a crosstalk performance that lasted less than a minute.

As the sound of flapping wings faded away, so did the chirping sounds.

"Look, now there are birds."

Grandpa Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled at Nan Shu.

Nan Punian: ...No, sir, you can hear such a soft voice now?
Is Schrödinger really hard of hearing?
Nan Shu withdrew her gaze, hummed in agreement, but a thoughtful look flashed in her eyes.

Who is Queque?
If a child is shooting birds, shouldn't they all hide? Why is it important to tell the birds to hide?
Fearing there wouldn't be enough for the two of them, Grandpa Liu dug up a whole basketful of bamboo shoots.

In the end, he was carried down the mountain by Nan Punian.

The fresh bamboo shoots are thin and tender. Peel off the outer skin, slice them, and stir-fry them with cooked cured pork. The fragrance of the bamboo shoots and the crystal-clear cured pork blend perfectly, and soon a rich aroma of oil fills the kitchen.

Nan Shu sat on a small stool and added firewood to the stove.

Nan Punian squatted to the side and watched.

He had never used this kind of stove before, or rather, he had hardly ever been in a kitchen since he was a child. Now that he is busy with work, it is even less likely that he will cook for himself. He eats in the canteen almost every day. When he is on fieldwork, he just finds a small restaurant nearby to grab a bite or two.

Faced with this kind of stove, he stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do at all. In the end, he was disliked and pushed aside by Grandpa Liu, who told him not to get in the way and just wait to eat.

So Nan Punian moved another small stool and watched as Nan Shu skillfully started a fire and could control the size of the fire according to the old man's requirements.

See this.

Nan Punian frowned slightly. "Xiao Shu... have you suffered so much in the Nan family?"

Nan Shu paused in her work of pounding the firewood.

As for enduring hardship, the Nan family never lacked material comforts for the original owner. The reason she knows these things now is entirely because she learned them in her previous life when she was in an orphanage, in order to get a little more food by pleasing the kitchen aunt.

Although she was always the last one or two to eat, and the food was almost cold by then, at least she was able to get her fill.

Nan Shu gave a soft "hmm" and told a little lie. Anyway, the things the Nan family did later were not respectable. The original owner's parents died to save Nan Wan, and the Nan family even kicked the original owner out. It wouldn't matter if she took on another small burden.

Upon hearing this, Nan Punian pursed his thin lips, raised his hand, and rubbed Nan Shu's head.

Nan Shu: ?
Hey, Nan, did you wash your hands? You were just peeling bamboo shoots, didn't you?

soon.

Grandpa Liu prepared three dishes and a soup. The soup was made from pea shoots picked from the field, and it was very fresh and tender.

After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Nan Punian took the initiative to wash the dishes, said goodbye to Grandpa Liu, and the two went to Liu Delong's house.

(End of this chapter)