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Jiang Yuwei thought that she should try her luck in the mountains. Maybe she would find wild ginseng today. Ning Huaizhi's leg would become more and more difficult to cure. She was busy building a house a few days ago and couldn't spare the time. Now that she had free time, she had to hurry to look for wild ginseng.

Jiang Yuwei took the backpack and put some dry food and pickles in it and prepared to go out. Ning Huaizhi saw Jiang Yuwei was about to go out and shouted:

"Yuwei, where are you going?"

Jiang Yuwei was originally afraid that Ning Huaizhi would know and not let her go up the mountain, so she thought about sneaking out and returning home early. Now that she was caught in the act, she turned around and smiled awkwardly:

"Huaizhi, I, I'm going out for a while and will be back in the afternoon. I have prepared lunch, you can just heat it up at noon."

Ning Huaizhi said in a deep voice:

"Yuwei, I've told you before that my leg can't be cured. I don't want you to take risks on the mountain. If something really happens to you, a weak woman, on the mountain, how will you deal with it?"

Seeing that she couldn't hide it, Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:

"How about this, I won't go deep into the mountains, I'll just try my luck on the side. Today I'll bring Xiaojiu up the mountain with me, so that I can take care of you if there's any danger."

Ning Huaizhi nodded when he heard Jiang Yuwei say this:

"Then go and come back soon, don't let me worry about you at home."

Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei hurried to the backyard to call out the wild raccoon, smiled at Ning Huaizhi, and the man and the cat went up the mountain.

Jiang Yuwei had just climbed halfway up the mountain when she saw Xiaojiu squatting beside a bush, refusing to move forward. Jiang Yuwei took out some dry food to tempt Xiaojiu but he didn't move. Jiang Yuwei had no choice but to approach him, touch his head and say:

"Why don't you leave? We have to get up the mountain quickly, or we won't be able to get down in time."

Xiaojiu lowered his head and sniffed the grass in front of him. Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei also hurriedly looked into the grass, only to see something vaguely visible in the grass. Jiang Yuwei walked forward and pulled aside the grass to look inside.

There were many eggs in the grass. Jiang Yuwei was overjoyed. She thought they must be pheasant eggs. She put down her backpack and picked up all the eggs in the grass. She picked them up as she walked. Unexpectedly, she picked up half a basket of eggs. It was the first time she saw so many eggs since she came to this world. She kept muttering:

"It turns out there are good things in the deep mountains. Xiaojiu, you have done a great deed today. I will give you an egg later!"

Xiaojiu seemed to understand Jiang Yuwei's compliment and instantly raised his round head high, with a smug look on his face that made Jiang Yuwei couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that there were no more eggs around, Jiang Yuwei picked up the backpack and continued to climb the mountain with Xiaojiu. Not long after walking, Jiang Yuwei saw a wild pepper plant and said in surprise:

"So there are Sichuan peppercorns here too. People here don't know how to eat them, so they're not sold in town?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei dug up the wild pepper plant by its roots and planted it in her own space.

Xiaojiu, who was standing by, saw Jiang Yuwei appearing and disappearing. Although he was confused, he squatted beside her and waited obediently.

After Jiang Yuwei planted the wild pepper, she took Xiaojiu into the mountains. She lied to Ning Huaizhi because she knew that the old wild ginseng must be hidden in the mountains. If it was grown nearby, it would have been dug up long ago.

After walking for a while, Jiang Yuwei felt a little hungry, so she took out some dry food from her backpack, took out one for herself and gave one to Xiaojiu. Seeing this, Xiaojiu squatted beside Jiang Yuwei and ate the biscuit obediently.

Jiang Yuwei was eating while observing the surrounding terrain. From a distance, she saw a place that seemed to have many tall trees. Jiang Yuwei ate a few bites and then took Xiaojiu to check it out.

But when she got closer, she realized that this was a fruit forest with citrus fruits, star fruits, pineapples, green papayas, green mangoes... Jiang Yuwei was overjoyed. Aren't these things perfect for making sour fruit? Jiang Yuwei couldn't stop drooling at the thought of sour fruit.

Jiang Yuwei thought that there was still a lot of space in her thatched house to store these fruits, so she began to shake the tree trunks to pick some to make sour food. However, these trees were too old and very strong, and she couldn't shake the trunks at all. Seeing this, Xiaojiu climbed up the branches in a few steps and slapped the fruits down with his claws. Jiang Yuwei shouted happily:

"Xiaojiu, take more pictures. I want this tree and that tree too."

Jiang Yuwei was talking while her hands were constantly moving. She quickly picked up the fallen fruits on the ground, filled the backpack with fruits and sent it into the space. Unexpectedly, the man and the cat kept shuttling back and forth in the fruit forest.

Jiang Yuwei also forgot about the time. She just looked at the fruits in front of her and couldn't move her legs. She just lowered her head to pick the fruits. After a long time, Jiang Yuwei finally felt a little tired, so she held her waist and shouted:

"Xiaojiu, come down quickly, don't pick them anymore, I can't pick them up anymore, there are enough of them."

Xiaojiu ran down the tree and walked to Jiang Yuwei after hearing Jiang Yuwei's shouting. At this time, Xiaojiu was also tired and his breathing was a little rapid.

Jiang Yuwei touched its head and smiled:

"Xiaojiu is awesome, come and have an egg to replenish your energy."

As he said that, he took out a raw egg from his arms, opened it and handed it to Xiaojiu, who licked it and started eating it.

Jiang Yuwei also felt a little hungry at this time, so she ate some fruits and a piece of cake to replenish her energy. When she came to her senses, she found that she seemed to be lost in the fruit forest.

Looking at the sun in the sky again, I saw that it was hanging on the horizon and about to set. Jiang Yuwei exclaimed:

"Oh no, I was so busy picking fruits that I forgot the time to go down the mountain. I'm afraid I won't be able to go down the mountain tonight. Huaizhi must be worried."

Jiang Yuwei thought that the only thing she could do now was to find a way down the mountain, then find a suitable place to make a fire and stay there for the night, and then go down the mountain after daybreak.

Jiang Yuwei looked at the direction of the sun and roughly found the east, south, west and north. She then began to walk down the mountain along the footprints she had just walked. However, the more she walked, the more confused she became. Seeing that the sun was about to set, Jiang Yuwei did not dare to delay any longer. She had to find a big rock as a shelter, picked up a lot of dry firewood, and took out the flint to make a fire.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Xiaojiu's eyes became more alert. He kept sniffing around Jiang Yuwei and listening to the sounds around him with his ears perked up. Jiang Yuwei was also very nervous about Xiaojiu's appearance and could not help but clench the dagger in her hand.

Jiang Yuwei first cleared out a place for herself and Xiaojiu to sleep, and then carefully observed the surrounding terrain so that she could escape in time if any danger occurred at night.

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