Gu Zhou did not agree with her accepting the invitation from the regular customer. Although he went with her to see the place, he was still a little worried.

Shen Wu wanted to know what this person wanted to do. He had already checked their information behind the scenes, so why did he insist on having them go there?

Because of their disagreement, Gu Zhou ignored her on the way back and sat alone in the car thinking.

Shen Wu's decision was very risky, but she was afraid that things would get out of control if she let it go. Since this guest didn't speak or act like a particularly paranoid or bad person, she boldly agreed to his request.

In fact, Shen Wu wanted to make some money before winter. Since her background had been investigated, there was nothing to be afraid of. The worst that could happen was that she would die and Gu Zhou and the others would have to hide.

Not thinking about it anymore, Shen Wu followed Gu Zhou carrying a basket full of flour. The family's land had been seriously dry recently. The location of the fields was a bit remote, so they basically relied on the weather for their food. If they only relied on the food from the fields, the family would probably starve to death.

She thought that if that didn't work, she would carry water to irrigate the fields. She couldn't let the seeds in the fields die, otherwise all her work would be in vain.

Gu Zhou returned home angrily, took off his backpack, and went to the big pit outside the yard with a hoe. That was where she said she would dig a septic tank. There was still a little left from yesterday's digging, and it would be completed after a while today.

He really couldn't understand why she agreed to this. There was obviously something wrong. Did she consider that Xiao Wei had a younger brother? If this person had a problem, wouldn't it be...

Gu Zhou didn't dare to think further.

Shen Wu also knew that she was being reckless and felt a little uneasy. She was used to a happy life in the modern times and had only been in the ancient times for a short time, so she had not yet adjusted to some of her modern ways of thinking.

She didn't want to implicate Gu Zhou's family because of this matter. She touched the backpack and wondered whether she should leave. Gu Zhou could also make buns anyway. If that person was targeting her... wouldn't it be fine for her to go alone?

She couldn't figure out the result, so she simply unloaded the things she bought.

Yesterday's meat had not gone bad due to being marinated, and the smokehouse had been dried out by the fire that had been lit overnight. All we had to do was put some oily branches in and light the fire to start smoking.

Shen Wu first washed the salt off the meat, then found the thin bamboo sticks she had brought back earlier and passed them through the holes in the smoker. Because there was nothing to fix it and the small bamboo pieces to place the meat strips on were not woven well, she planned to use a hemp rope soaked in water to tie the meat strips and hang them up.

A piece of meat was passed through one end of the hemp rope, which was just right for placing on a bamboo branch that was as thick as a thumb. Because there was a lot of meat, she was afraid that the bamboo branch would break due to unsafe conditions, so she passed another piece of meat through and placed two parallel pieces of meat.

Ten pounds of meat were hung every five or six centimeters. Ten pounds of meat might seem like a lot, but in fact, there were only five pieces.

The weight and cutting habits in ancient times were different from those of modern times, so the meat strips were shorter. Shen Wu found some dry firewood and put it underneath, then he carried the basket on his back and quickly went from the other side of the yard into the back mountain.

When she was looking for plants and fuel before, she saw some branches. She forgot their specific names, but she still remembered the appearance of the leaves and the appearance of the branches after being broken.

After coming here so many times, Shen Wu no longer used the stick to beat the grass to prevent snakes. After all, the place was familiar and the grass had formed a path after walking on it many times, so he was not afraid of snakes appearing.

She followed the path she remembered and soon arrived at the back mountain. She broke off a branch and sniffed it. It was the branch that the old man and woman had broken off and explained to her when they were traveling.

Fortunately, the tree was not tall, and Shen Wu could just reach out and break off some branches.

She was in such a hurry to get out that she forgot to take the machete. Fresh branches were not easy to break off, and she twisted them for a long time before she finally got one off.

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