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

Li Weisheng and Chen Dawei were worried about whether Han Zhibai was a reliable and kind person, and advised everyone not to jump to conclusions.

Chen Youmao, who has always been taciturn, followed Chen Dawei closely without expressing his opinion.

Chen Yuzhen: "Listen to Qingyue, I believe her!"

"Yes, just believe in Qingyue!" said Li Benfu.

Li Weikang said: "I think so too."

Xia Qingyue was moved by their unconditional trust. She knew that Li Weisheng and his men had been betrayed before, which left a trauma in their hearts.

She was just thinking about telling him about the transaction she had with the man before. After thinking about it, Li Weisheng changed his words and said:

"Sister Qingyue, let's go. It's a fox, and its tail can't be hidden. It's not enough to just see with your eyes, you have to feel it with your heart, and you will know after a while."

This sentence made everyone look at Li Weisheng with new eyes.

Xia Qingyue and others walked over to Han Zhibai.

"Han Zhibai, we've run out of mushrooms here. Do you know where we can get some?"

"Yes." Han Zhibai said, walking in front and leading the way silently.

After walking for about twenty minutes, they came to a relatively damp and dimly lit area.

There are a lot of broken rotten wood here, and the rotten leaves on the ground are thicker than elsewhere. With every breath, a strong and damp smell of rotten wood hits your nose and goes straight to the top of your head.

The smell is a bit unpleasant, but there are really a lot of mushrooms.

Xia Qingyue looked around and saw clumps of golden enoki mushrooms growing under the broken wood, dry mushrooms that looked like blooming flowers and white fungus, and broom mushrooms that looked green when you saw your hand...

"There are so many mushrooms here, but they all look weird and like poisonous mushrooms." Chen Yuzhen lamented.

"Some are non-toxic." Xia Qingyue picked a few and taught everyone how to identify them.

She didn't pick the green onion nor teach how to eat it. In her previous life, she learned from a video that it was edible, but if it was not handled properly, it would cause harm to the villain, so she didn't dare to take the risk and decided it was safer to eat the common ones.

While she was teaching, Han Zhibai listened carefully.

After that, Xia Qingyue asked them to disperse and look for the mushrooms. She would then check to see if the mushrooms they found were mixed with any poisonous ones, after all, some mushrooms looked quite similar.

After finding them, Xia Qingyue checked them one by one and picked out some poisonous ones. When they came to Han Zhibai, they were all good and did not contain any poisonous bacteria.

She looked at him sideways, thinking he had a pretty good memory.

After finding almost all the mushrooms, Xia Qingyue asked Han Zhibai, "Do you know where there are wild fruit trees, or other places where you can find mountain products?"

He said, “We have to walk a distance.”

That's what it means!

"Then let's go now!"

Everyone followed Han Zhibai through the forest. Xia Qingyue and the Li family secretly memorized the routes. The further they went, the brighter the light and the wider the view.

The surrounding trees are not that dense, mostly overgrown with weeds.

As she walked, a big tree in front caught Xia Qingyue's attention.

The big tree is full of white fruits. The white and green look quite refreshing.

She pointed to the tree and said to everyone with joy: "Go to that tree and take a look!"

That’s great! The beeswax is about to run out, and I finally found a substitute for the Chinese tallow tree to make candles!

When they reached the foot of the tree, they looked up at it.

Han Zhibai said calmly: "This fruit cannot be eaten."

"I know, but its fruit has another use. It can be used to make candles for lighting at night. This is the Chinese tallow tree!"

Xia Qingyue raised her head and stared at the branches hanging above. She wanted to grab one and bring it down, but she didn't know if she could reach it.

She was eager to try, so she jumped twice to test her strength, took a deep breath, gathered all her strength, jumped on the ground, and stretched her hands high.

She held the hard branch in her palm and landed it safely on the ground. She let out a soft "yeah" and realized she had really caught it.

Holding the branch with one hand, he used the other hand to pull out the fruits from the calyx. Each calyx contained two or three small white fruits.

She held up the fruit and said, “This is it.”

"That's good stuff, let's get some down."

After Chen Yuzhen finished speaking, several men from the Li family found long sticks and stood in different directions to hit the tung oil trees.

A lot of them were knocked down at once.

Chen Yuzhen, Xia Qingyue and Han Zhibai squatted on the ground to pick up the trash and threw it into the backpack.

With strength in numbers, we soon filled two backpacks.

There are still many fruits on the tree. Xia Qingyue said, "That's enough for now. Let's keep going forward and see what's ahead."

After walking a distance, Han Zhibai led them up a slope and went up to a flat area with flowers, plants and some big trees.

There were several big trees with fruits on them, and Xia Qingyue's eyes were wide open as she stared at them.

When they saw the wild fruits, they all ran over happily to check them out.

Xia Qingyue looked up at a nearby fruit tree and found that it was a wild apple tree with fist-sized apples. Some were red, some were red with green, and a few were green.

The men with long hands stood on tiptoe to pick some apples. Suddenly, there were several more hands in front of Xia Qingyue, all holding bright red apples and handing them to her.

"Everyone eats."

Li Benfu had two apples in his hand and she took one of them.

The wild apples are small and have some brown lines on the skin.

She rubbed the apple with her sleeve and found it was not clean, but she would not get sick from eating it. When she took a bite, it was not as crispy and sweet as she had imagined. It was soft, sour and sweet, and not very juicy.

Overall, it was good, but she would have preferred a crunchier apple.

In her previous life, apples were the only food she would keep for the longest time. She would only think of eating them when there was nothing else to eat at home.

Everyone in the Li family said the food was delicious and they were very happy.

There are two apple trees not far away, both of which are full of fruits. Maybe because there has been drought for several months this year, there are not so many fruits.

They were happily busy picking apples, some picking, some packing, and after dividing the work, they worked efficiently and quickly.

After picking apples from the two trees, it was noon and everyone was hungry. The Li family suggested that they just eat some apples to fill their stomachs.

Han Zhibai said to Xia Qingyue: "I'll take Xiaobai to drink some water."

"Is there water nearby?" she was a little surprised.

He pointed ahead, "There's a stream straight ahead."

"Then let's go have a picnic!"

After she finished saying this, several eyes fell on her.

Oops, forgot they didn't know what a cookout meant.

"A picnic is cooking food outdoors. We can go to the stream to see if we can catch any fish. We can grill the fish and cook some mushrooms."

She mainly wanted to cook the mushrooms to prove that they were really not poisonous and were edible.

"Go then."

"Let's go."

"Han Zhibai, thank you for leading the way."

More than ten minutes later, everyone followed Han Zhibai to the stream.

This stream is slightly smaller than the stream where Xia Qingyue lives, and the water volume is also smaller. The surrounding environment is quiet and the scenery is pleasant.

Brother Li Weikang went to the stream to see if they could catch any fish, while Chen Yuzhen and her friends went to find stones to build a fire rack and some dry firewood.

Han Zhibai took Xiaobai and Heihei to the stream to drink water.

Xia Qingyue went alone to a place a little higher up, where there were piles of sand and rocks on the shore. She lowered her head and looked for something.