My Lord, my wife said she doesn't have time to talk to you.

The peach blossoms in the peach forest have withered, and the breeze blows on the delicate face of the girl walking on the path.

Fu Shiyan was standing at the door and could see her from afar. Huaying was slightly stunned when she saw the person at the door, and then her smile faded away. She quickly walked towards the person who was waiting for her to return home.

Looking at the woman whose eyes were pure without a trace of impurities and whose smile was as bright as peach blossoms, Fu Shiyan could clearly hear his own heartbeat.

"Why aren't you using a crutch? Doesn't your leg hurt?" This was the first time he was seen without a crutch since his bone-setting surgery.

"Not that weak." Fu Shiyan touched her head with an elusive look of doting in his eyes.

Huaying found that Fu Shiyan had become a little gentler recently and was not as cold as before.

She returned to her room, ate the meal he had cooked, and put the silver bills she had earned on the table.

"Sold the recipe?" Fu Shiyan looked up at Huaying and asked.

"You are so awesome. You guessed it right away. Haha, you make a lot of money with the recipe." Huaying took a bite of the sticky rice dumpling left over from lunch.

After dinner, he sorted out the bad mung beans, washed them several times, soaked them in water, and then carried a small bamboo basket into the mountains.

Huaying still picked wild vegetables, collected firewood, and looked for some flowers and plants suitable for planting at home like other women in the village.

She came to the path where she fell into the pit last time. She looked around unwillingly and found that no one was paying attention to her, so she quickly walked into the dense forest again.

With the experience from last time, Huaying was more careful this time. He found a long wooden stick and used it to push away the weeds that had grown to a height of one person. He walked forward slowly, taking one deep step and one shallow step.

After bypassing the trap she fell into last time, Huaying carefully stuck her head in to take a look to see if there were any small animals that had fallen in.

In the end, there was nothing, and Huaying, satisfied with her curiosity, continued to move forward.

Suddenly I heard a strange sound, which sounded like the quack of a duck and the croak of a chicken.

Her nervous heart was lifted up again and Huaying slowly walked towards the place where the sound came from.

Using a long stick to push aside the grass, Huaying saw a few chicks that looked like egg yolks nesting on the ground. Looking closely, she was surprised to find that they were quails.

A few quails nesting in the grass were frightened by the sudden stick. They cried out in fear, flapping their little wings and quickly dived into the grass nearby.

There were a large number of quail eggs left on the grass. Huaying quickly knelt down and put these eggs in a small backpack. There were about a hundred of them. Quail eggs have higher nutritional value than chicken eggs. So many quail eggs are enough to eat for a while.

He picked up the long stick again and continued to walk forward. After a while, he heard the sound of water splashing. Sure enough, a stream appeared in front of him. Seeing the clear water, Huaying scooped up some water and drank a few sips.

There are a few peach trees among the weeds by the stream, which grow more lush than the trees in the peach forest behind the house.

I stood up and continued walking forward. The weeds became more and more dense as I went deeper, and the figure of Huaying was gradually submerged in the grass.

For fear of getting lost, she kept walking in a straight line. Looking at the increasingly tall grass, she turned around and prepared to go back, always feeling that there were unknown dangers in the dark green grass.

I hadn't taken a few steps when I heard voices coming from afar. Is there anyone else here?

Treasure hunters? Herb collectors? Huaying guessed as she quickly squatted down to listen carefully. The voices were a little far away so she couldn't make out what they were saying.

I didn't know whether to keep walking or not, so I moved a few steps to find a more comfortable position before making a decision.

At this moment, a man's big hand quickly and quietly covered Huaying's mouth and nose from behind. Huaying was so scared that she quickly turned around, only to see a masked man in black put his finger on his lips to indicate that she should not make a sound, and whispered, "If you make a sound, I will kill you immediately."

Huaying looked at his ferocious eyes and nodded, wondering what kind of luck this was. Last time she fell into a trap, this time she met a masked brother who wanted to kill her.

Looking at the masked man, who was also squatting, he was much taller than Huaying. Well, he was too tall and she couldn't beat him. The man had sharp eyes and his hair was tied up with a hairpin. Huaying found that the hairpin was made of gold.

After a while, the distant voices gradually faded away, and the man also released his hands that were covering Huaying.

He wiped it on his clothes in disgust.

Jacaranda......

"Who are you and why are you here?" the man in black asked in a low voice.

"I am a villager of this village. You can tell I am here for food by looking at what is in my bamboo basket." Huaying slowly relaxed when she saw that he had no intention of killing her.