An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

The situation was like this. Heihei sensed in advance that someone was coming this way, and he growled twice.

Xia Qingyue, who understood what was happening, took Heihei and hid behind a large rock nearby.

Not long after, someone came over and talked as he walked.

As she listened, she felt that the voice was familiar. Heihei beside her was calm and composed, without any sense of vigilance or tension at all.

As those people got closer and their voices became clearer, she realized that they were actually members of the Li family.

Xia Qingyue emerged from the darkness and saw that all the members of the Li family had come out.

"Qingyue!"

"Sister Qingyue!"

Both parties were surprised and happy to meet each other.

She asked, "I was just thinking of looking for you guys, where are you going?"

"By the way, how is Brother Weikang's injury?" She glanced at Li Weikang's abdomen.

Li Weikang raised his hand and touched the wound on his abdomen, smiling, "The wound has scabbed over and is much better now, Sister Qingyue, it's all thanks to you last time!"

"That's good."

Chen Yuzhen said: "Qingyue, we are going to the forest where Kang'er and his friends went last time to find food for the winter.

While Kang'er was recovering, my brother and Sheng'er wanted to go again, but we didn't agree. As autumn was approaching, there was nothing to eat where we lived, so we had no choice but to come out as a family. At least it would be better if there were more people. "

Xia Qingyue nodded in understanding, "I'll go with you and see if I can find anything good.

I've been there a few times, and Heihei has some impression of it, and it can help you avoid some dangerous places."

"This... is too dangerous, Qingyue, you'd better not go. We'll find some food and bring some back for you later, so you don't have to take the risk of running around with us."

What Li Benfu said was unanimously recognized by the Li family.

Although she knew that it was their good intentions, she didn't want to accept other people's kindness for no reason. Those were the food that people had worked hard and risked their lives to get back.

No reward without merit. You can feel most at ease using what you have earned through your own efforts.

Under the gaze of many eyes, Xia Qingyue shook her head gently, "I want to go together."

"Okay, then let's go together!" Chen Yuzhen said with a smile.

On the way, Xia Qingyue took out the can of fresh matsutake mushrooms and handed it to Chen Yuzhen, "Aunt, this is the seasoning I made myself. It's delicious when you add a little bit to cooking."

Chen Yuzhen opened the lid and smelled it, her eyes lit up with surprise, "It smells so good, what is this made of?"

“Made from dried mushrooms.”

The few of them walked and talked, time passed quietly, and soon they came to the outskirts of the dense forest.

Li Weisheng pointed to the left side of the forest and said, "That's where we went last time."

Xia Qingyue thought to herself, this is so unlucky, that place is exactly where ferocious beasts often appear.

Entering the dense forest, Heihei led the way and automatically circled around places where he smelled danger.

After walking for about twenty minutes, they began to see wild vegetables and a few mushrooms along the way, and they picked all they could.

We walked to an area with a large number of pine trees. The rotten leaves on the ground were damp and felt soft when we stepped on them.

There are a lot of mushrooms growing here, and there are many of them wherever you look.

"Oh my God, there are so many mushrooms. Let me see which ones are edible!" Chen Yuzhen was so excited that when she looked at the mushrooms, she automatically ignored the brightly colored ones.

"Aunt, this orange mushroom is edible." Xia Qingyue picked a handful of pine mushrooms.

Not far away there are milk mushrooms and porcini.

"Ah? These can be eaten? Be careful of poisoning!" Chen Yuzhen said fearfully.

"I've eaten it, it's not poisonous. You can pick the ones I found." She picked pine mushrooms and porcini, and also found pine mushrooms and chanterelles.

Li Weikang came over and said, "Mom, Sister Qingyue, you guys pick mushrooms here first, don't go away, let's set some traps."

He and Li Benfu and Li Weisheng went to set traps, while Chen Dawei and his son stayed behind to pick mushrooms.

The people dispersed as they picked the fruits, but they were still close enough to see each other.

It has been a long time since I had such a pleasant experience of picking mushrooms. Xia Qingyue was so excited about picking them. There were mushrooms on the ground every few steps, and some grew in clusters. She couldn't stop picking them.

Find some more mushrooms, enough for her to eat this winter, and new ones will grow next spring.

It is best to find more wild fruits, and it would be even better if you can find nuts such as walnuts and chestnuts.

Thinking of this, she picked the mushrooms much faster, hoping to finish them quickly so that she could look for mountain products elsewhere.

She accidentally raised her eyes and saw Heihei walking away silently, with his head raised and his eyes looking in a certain direction.

“Heihei!”

Hearing his master's voice, Heihei turned his head to look at her with a flattering smile on his face, with a hint of panic on his face as if he had been caught in the act.

"Don't run around."

"Mmmm!" Heihei barked in the direction it had just looked at, and stomped its front paws repeatedly on the spot.

Xia Qingyue frowned and walked over. "What's going on? Do you want to catch prey again?"

Just as he finished speaking, a strange squeaking sound came from the direction that Heihei had looked at.

Heihei leaped over the bushes and ran over.

"Heihei!" Xia Qingyue chased after him without thinking.

Chen Yuzhen and the other two behind were startled.

"Hurry, hurry and catch up with Qingyue!" Chen Yuzhen thought of the danger in the forest, so she immediately stood up, left a few baskets of mushrooms on the ground, and ran after her.

Chen Dawei and Chen Youmao followed closely behind.

On the other side, Xia Qingyue saw that Heihei was chasing an animal with golden hair. The animal was agile and quickly dived into the haystack. When it came out, it climbed up a tree using its hands and feet and then jumped to another tree in a flash.

It's a monkey!

"Heihei!" she shouted.

Heihei stopped and looked back at her. It seemed like it realized that it had done something wrong. It quickly ran back to her, wagging its tail and meowing.

"There are so many ferocious beasts here, why are you running!" She slapped his dark head with a light force, which touched the smooth hair and she stroked it with a little force.

Heihei is an energetic adult dog. When he comes to the wild, he has a natural urge to hunt. What's more, he usually stays in the sinkhole and rarely comes out to release his energy.

So she was angry but also understanding.

"Let's go back and don't run around!" She turned around and walked in front, explaining to Chen Yuzhen and others who had rushed over.

Heihei followed obediently and took two steps. Then, its ears moved and it turned its head to look at a tree not far away.

On the tree, a little monkey stepped on the trunk with its feet, tilted its head, opened its bright black eyes, and looked down curiously.

They returned to the pine forest to pick the mushrooms, and Li Benfu and his two companions just happened to return after setting the trap.

The group continued to explore the dense forest elsewhere.

Heihei led them to a woodland near a big river, where the view was wider and the vegetation was lush.

Here, they found large patches of wild onions and vegetables.

The wild onions were quite big. When Xia Qingyue saw them, she loved them very much. Fortunately, there were few wild onions in the sinkhole.

But what she loved more were the lush wild kiwi trees, whose branches were weighed down by fruits of all sizes.