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

She hadn't eaten fruit for a long time and missed it very much. She also wanted to find some wild fruits to bring back to feed her rabbits.

Since there are people living near the waterfall, there shouldn't be any good mountain products around here.

Having said that, there are not many wild vegetables and fruits in this area. There are some medicinal herbs, including licorice, anemarrhena, broomrape, plantain, and some scattered wild buckwheat that are blooming.

Buckwheat is one of the coarse grains and can be made into pasta, which is equivalent to rice flour.

She was pleasantly surprised, but quickly calmed down after being happy.

It was still some time before buckwheat matured, and the Kingdom of Dayuan was unaware of this species and did not know that it could be eaten or grown.

"I will come back when you are ripe. If you are still here by then, I will be lucky. Otherwise, forget it."

After digging the medicinal herbs, she looked back every few steps, as she couldn't bear to part with the wild buckwheat.

After walking a long way into the woods, I was surprised to see a few wild grape plants between a rock crevice. The vines were climbing up the rocks, and some were crawling on the ground, with bunches of green grapes hanging on them.

When she saw the green grapes, she subconsciously felt the sour taste and swallowed twice.

The grapes are not ripe yet and we have to wait at least another two months.

She secretly took note of this place and decided to come back later to see if there were any ripe grapes to pick.

The further you go in, the taller the trees are, the thicker and straighter the trunks are, the more lush the branches and leaves are, and the light flickers. The terrain here is relatively undulating.

As they walked, Heihei suddenly sped up and ran ahead.

Xia Qingyue was a little confused and hurried to catch up. After walking a few steps, she smelled a pungent stench.

Heihei was standing on the dry grass, with his head down, sniffing something. She walked over and saw the scene below clearly. Her pupils trembled violently and she took a breath of cold air.

There were two bodies lying on the grass, one big and one small, with dried blood still on them. They were a man and a woman, judging from their appearance. There were obvious signs of being bitten by sharp teeth on their bodies, and some of their skeletons were broken.

At this time, the two corpses were covered with dense, black flies, and a group of flying insects were hovering in the sky around them.

"Heihei, move away, don't get so close, there are germs!"

She dragged Heihei back a few meters away.

Judging from the appearance of the corpse, he must have died in the past two days. He may have starved to death or been attacked by a ferocious beast and died in the wild.

The stench was so strong that Xia Qingyue pinched her nose with one hand and tried to leave. As she shifted her sight, she caught a glimpse of wild fruits in the bushes on the right.

It is a black bubble similar to the prickly bubble.

She ran closer to take a closer look and confirmed that it was black bubbles, which were growing all over the area. A little further away, some white and white-red fruits similar to strawberries grew on the half-dead green plants, which looked like snakeberries.

Unsure if it was edible, she went over to take a closer look and realized it was not snakeberry, but wild strawberry.

The plants of black strawberries and wild strawberries were dried up by the sun and had few fruits, so she picked them all and only got half a basket.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xia Qingyue prepared to go back.

She went to the stream to see if there were any clams, mussels, or the like, to bring back for the chickens and ducks.

When she got there, she searched for a long time but didn't see any clams. They had all been eaten by others. She sighed in disappointment.

There are quite a few stone snails. This kind of snail is different from the field snail. It is smaller in size and can only be found in streams and rivers. Under the flow of running water, its shell is harder.

Perhaps it's because the snails are too dirty and people don't know how to clean them, so no one picks them up to eat.

Compared with fish and shrimp, stone snails are slightly inferior, but they can be fed.

She scooped up a full vegetable basket and took it back.

Unable to find any good mountain products, she simply went into the woods to pick up some dry firewood and carried it back, not wanting to return empty-handed.

The weather was dry, and the broken wood in the forest had dried up, making it much easier to find firewood than before. She became more and more excited and immersed in picking firewood, and even forgot how far she had walked or where she had gone.

"what--"

Suddenly a shrill scream came from the woods, startling Xia Qingyue and Heihei.

"Huahua", a group of flying birds gradually flew away from the sky above the forest, and finally turned into rows of black shadows.

The sound was quite close, so Xia Qingyue looked in the direction of the sound.

A few dozen meters away, two men were hanging on the trunk of a tree. They had multiple wounds on their bodies and their clothes were covered in bright red blood. Blood was dripping from their heads to the ground.

There was a large pool of blood on the ground, and the blood had already flowed into the ground.

The two people hanging on the tree were about three or four meters above the ground, and there was a thick and dense net above them.

There seems to be nothing on the ground below, but if you look closely, you will find something strange: there is a bulge in the ground.

If she hadn't guessed, there must be a mechanism underneath, and once it was touched, the big net above would fall down, or there might be nothing underneath, and there must be sharp weapons underneath.

What kind of pervert could do such a thing, using a living person as bait!

Just as she thought of this, Heihei beside her suddenly opened his mouth, grabbed her trouser leg and pulled it back with force.

The force was quite strong.

She lowered her eyes and saw fear, vigilance, and a bit of nervousness in his dark eyes.

She was not stupid, she understood immediately, and without even bothering to take the dry firewood on the ground, she ran, "Heihei, hurry up!"

There was blood on the two people hanging on the tree. It must be the bloody smell that attracted the ferocious beast.

The man and the dog ran more than ten meters away, and a "wow" sound came from behind, like thunder.

Xia Qingyue was afraid that their footsteps would alarm the wild wolves behind them, so she turned a corner and hid behind a nearby big tree. She held her breath and slowly poked her head out to look in the direction of the trap.

Four wild wolves came near the trap, standing separately, their eyes fixed on the live bait above.

"Ouch!"

One wolf couldn't bear it any longer, so it raised its foot and leaped forward, biting off the scalp of one of the men, and blood gushed out.

"what--"

The man screamed in pain.

The wolf, having tasted the flesh and blood, opened its mouth and licked the blood on the corner of its mouth with its tongue. Its eyes became dim and it jumped up again.

Its companions couldn't wait any longer and jumped up to bite the food above.

Waves of inhumane screams were heard.

The wild wolf was enjoying its success, so Xia Qingyue gently patted its black head and gave it a look.

The man and the dog moved away from this place quietly and quietly, completely ignoring everything behind them.

After running a very long way, Xia Qingyue dared to open her mouth and breathe in and out.

The two black ears stand upright, always paying attention to the surrounding movements.

Returning to the vicinity of the tiankeng, Xia Qingyue, as usual, erased all traces along the way as she retreated.

After entering the tiankeng and holding the cave door tightly, her heart slowly fell back.

In the salted egg yellow afterglow of the setting sun, Xia Qingyue's hair was disheveled and stuck to her sweaty face. She sat on the stone and sat quietly for more than ten minutes.

The scenes just now brought her an extremely strong and shocking visual impact, which struck her heart directly.

She didn't dare to think too deeply about who were the people behind using living people as bait.

She didn't dare to think about what she and Heihei would do if they encountered those wild wolves.