Yan Zhenshen did not go hunting today. Instead, he took Chu Xiao and the hunting dog for a walk. There was a bamboo forest upstream of the river with many bamboo shoots. Chu Xiao picked out the big ones and cut some.

Not long after walking out of the bamboo forest, I found a lot of mushrooms. The yellowish caps and white handles looked very lovely, but they were not very big. Fortunately, they were in patches.

Chu Xiao picked the flowers one by one and placed them on a flat piece of grass. By the time he finished picking all the flowers, there would be at least thirty or forty kilograms.

Yan Zhenshen then pointed out several other types of mushrooms to him, telling him which ones were edible and which ones were poisonous.

"How do you know so many mushrooms?" Chu Xiao asked while carefully identifying them.

"Every year I pick some dried mushrooms and carry them back to sell for money. I have also accidentally picked poisonous mushrooms before and fed them to pheasants I caught. They all died of the poison. It was a day of wasted work."

Chu Xiao smiled and said, "What do you do with the pheasant?"

"I threw it near the trap, but it was pushed by a wild boar. Unfortunately, the boar didn't fall into the trap, so my efforts were in vain." Yan Zhenshen felt helpless when he talked about the past. He was too young at that time, and he couldn't help laughing when he thought about the things he did now.

Chu Xiao was so amused that he couldn't stop laughing, "Brother Shen, you were so funny before."

Yan Zhenshen touched his nose and didn't care about being laughed at by his young husband.

"Brother Shen, what good things are there on this mountain? Let's pick more. We want the ones that can be sold for money." Chu Xiao was still thinking about his previous goals, which was to make money to build a big house, buy beautiful clothes and jewelry for his mother and third sister, and send Xiaobei to school. Oh, and it seems that his second brother should get married too.

He is now full of motivation and just wants to show his talents and work hard to make money.

"There are a lot of things on the mountain, in addition to bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, mushrooms, fungus, there are also wolfberries, wild dates, peppers, wild tea, herbs, soap beads, and crystal fruits. If you like sweet food, I'll pick some wild fruits for you and bring you some honey."

After hearing so many things, Chu Xiao felt that the whole mountain was full of money. He had such a large space, so he decided to fill it with the good things in the mountain.

Yan Zhenshen pointed out whatever he saw. He got to know a lot of wild vegetables that day, and also saw pepper trees, camellia trees, and wolfberry trees that were not yet fully mature.

By the way, I also told him about the markings of traps in the mountains, asking him to be careful and not step on them accidentally.

When the two returned to the thatched hut, Chu Xiao's space was filled with a lot of messy things.

Yan Zhenshen took out the large winnowing basket that had been placed in the east room. It had been used for many years and looked very worn out. He washed the dirt on the roots of the mushrooms picked by the two people with clean water, and then evenly placed them on the winnowing basket to dry.

Yan Zhenshen asked Chu Xiao to prepare the wild vegetables, and he went into the kitchen to boil water. Then he peeled off the skin of the bamboo shoots he brought back, blanched them in hot water, and then put them into a winnowing basket.

Chu Xiao also sorted the wild vegetables and put them in order. In order to keep them fresh, he put them into the space. After all, his third sister said that dried wild vegetables are not as delicious as fresh ones.

When Yan Zhenshen was done, Chu Xiao walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner and said to Yan Zhenshen, "Brother Shen, I'll cook, you go and have a rest."

Yan Zhenshen just touched his head but did not leave. He sat in front of the stove and helped to light the fire.

Chu Xiao didn't know how to cook too many fancy things. He just cooked porridge, stir-fried wild vegetables, beat five eggs and made a plate of scrambled eggs, and then grabbed some kimchi.

It was not completely dark yet, but the two of them had eaten neither too early nor too late last time, so they were very hungry now.

After taking a walk outside, he sweated a lot. Now there were no outsiders on the mountain, so Yan Zhenshen allowed Chu Xiao to take a bath in the river.

After washing, Chu Xiao took out shorts and short-sleeved shirt from his space, leaned on a bamboo chair in the yard, and felt the slight cool breeze at night.

Yan Zhenshen took the hunting dog for a patrol as usual, and came back to see a person sitting in the yard with his arms and legs exposed. Unlike the dark and yellow skin on his face, his skin was very white, so white that it was a little dazzling.

It reminded him of the white and translucent skin that turned pink after being bullied by him last night, and his mouth became dry again.

"Brother Shen, you're back."

Yan Zhenshen smiled and nodded. With such a person in this empty mountain courtyard, it was no longer a temporary stay, but a place for the two of them to live. He even felt that this place could be considered a home.

"Go inside once your hair is dry. There are lots of mosquitoes outside."

Yan Zhenshen went over and touched his hair, making sure it was completely dry, and urged him to go back to the house.

"After fumigating with mugwort, there are no mosquitoes now." Chu Xiao didn't want to move.

Yan Zhenshen spent a lot of time in the mountains, and sometimes went hunting at night. His eyesight was so sharp that he noticed the bag on his calf at a glance and picked him up without saying a word.

"Ah, Brother Shen."

Chu Xiao was originally looking quite comfortable with his eyes half closed, but he was startled when his legs suddenly hung in the air, and all his sleepiness was scared away.

Yan Zhenshen carried the person into the room and put him on the kang. Chu Xiao looked at him in confusion: "Didn't we just do it last night? You can't be so indulgent even after entering the mountains."

Yan Zhenshen: “…”

He didn't think about all that. He just felt that there were mosquitoes outside, and his husband's arms and legs were exposed in the clothes he was wearing, so he would definitely get bitten a lot.

"Okay, okay, I'm going to go hunting with you tomorrow. Take it easy tonight and don't act like you want to eat me every time."

Chu Xiao felt that since it was still early and he was not sleepy at all, he could do some exercise. After a few times of trying it out, he also found it interesting. He didn't reject it and even felt a little eager to do it when he saw Yan Zhenshen.

But he never expected that his brother Shen stood by the kang for a long time without moving. He wondered what was going on and whether he was shy again. Was he planning to let him take the initiative?

Chu Xiao felt that this was most likely the case. His brother Shen was the type of person who could think very badly in his mind but looked very serious on the face. He was completely different when he was on and off the kang.

"Brother Shen?"

"Yeah." Yan Zhenshen responded.

"Why are you standing on the ground? Don't you want tonight?"

She wanted to, very much, but she knew that her husband was different from a girl, and it would be easy to damage her foundation if he indulged her every night. Moreover, he was very aggressive every time he wanted it, and she didn't want her husband to think that he only wanted to do beastly things.

"Wait a couple of days. You can hunt with me tomorrow. Don't get tired."

Chu Xiao couldn't believe what he heard. This was still Brother Shen who was like a wolf seeing meat when he saw him one day. He had agreed to it, but he actually left him here and didn't eat him. How strange!

But Chu Xiao could tolerate others' rejection. He half-knelt on the kang and put his arms around the man's neck. "Husband, I can't sleep in this long night. Come to the kang and tell me a story."

Yan Zhenshen responded hoarsely: "What story are you telling?"

"Let's talk about a tadpole looking for its mother."

Yan Zhenshen was confused, but he still got on the kang. After a lot of tossing and turning, he belatedly asked, "What's the story of the tadpole looking for its mother?"

Chu Xiao was drowsy, "Brother Shen spoke very well, I'm going to sleep."

Yan Zhenshen was even more confused. Did he tell a story?

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