My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

What happens down below the mountain doesn't change life up in the mountains.

Everyone should still eat meat.

"Fenglan, how much longer do we have to stay on this mountain?" Xu Yingying asked in a muffled voice at night. "We've been here for more than half a year now, and it's so boring."

Recently, Xu Yingying has been staying on the cliff every day. She can't cook or sew, so she just teaches the children to recognize characters. At first, she was very enthusiastic, but after a while, she felt bored.

"I'm getting a little bored too," Yang Fenglan sighed.

Long Aotian also chimed in, ["Do you think I'm not bored? There's nothing to watch on this mountain. My treasure-hunting system is practically useless in your hands!"]

Yang Fenglan and Xu Yingying exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh.

"Then we'll put you to use tomorrow."

"I can see it."

……

The next day, Yang Fenglan steamed some cold buns, ate a few bites with Xu Yingying, said goodbye to Lin Cuiniang, and then took her tools and went down the cliff.

This time, we're exploring even further afield.

Long Aotian excitedly flew around in the forest.

There were no wild vegetables, so in the end, we went to the bamboo forest and dug up a few winter bamboo shoots.

Xu Yingying had never dug bamboo shoots before, but she excitedly picked up a hoe.

It took several digs to find a bamboo shoot, and then another hoe broke it.

Yang Fenglan shook her head helplessly, "I'll do it."

Xu Yingying had no choice but to shrink to the side in a huff.

There's been no sun for the past few days, so the bamboo shoots haven't dried properly and Yang Fenglan hasn't dug up many.

Having cleared their minds after this trip, the two left the bamboo forest and prepared to go home.

"There are bunnies! There are bunnies!" Long Aotian suddenly shouted.

Xu Yingying also spotted the rabbit hopping around in the bushes and immediately took off after it.

Making a noise, the rabbit darted into another clump of bushes.

"Fenglan, you take this. I'm not good at digging with a hoe, so I might not be so good at catching rabbits." Xu Yingying handed the hoe to Yang Fenglan and crouched down to catch a rabbit.

They were about to catch him.

The rabbit hopped away, and then it hopped even further away.

"I refuse to believe it, I'm going to catch you no matter what!" Xu Yingying decided to stop joking around, took a sickle from Yang Fenglan's basket, and started chopping at the bushes.

The rabbit was startled and darted out of the bushes and ran away.

Xu Yingying dropped her sickle and went to chase after him.

Yang Fenglan had to admire her physical strength; after all, she was young and her stamina was much better than hers.

However, as they chased each other, the other person got too far away, so Yang Fenglan quickly picked up her sickle and followed.

"Yingying, if we can't catch her, then so be it."

It took a long time to catch up with Xu Yingying. She hid behind a large banyan tree and kept shushing Yang Fenglan.

Yang Fenglan thought they were lying in ambush with rabbits, so she quickly tiptoed and came up behind Xu Yingying.

"Where's the rabbit?"

Shh, there's a sound.

Yang Fenglan then heard intermittent voices coming from down the mountain.

She dared not be careless, holding her breath and focusing intently on the movements in the woods.

"I'll go and see for myself." Long Aotian flew out.

Beyond fifty meters, it could not go any further, and no one was detected within a fifty-meter radius of it.

Long Aotian returned dejectedly, wishing he could wear the bracelet himself so he could be free from its constraints.

Unfortunately, it can't do that.

After a while, the talking from down the mountain stopped.

Yang Fenglan didn't know whether the people down the mountain had left or would continue to come up, so she didn't dare leave and planned to keep an eye on things for a while longer.

After waiting for another ten minutes or so without seeing anyone, Yang Fenglan breathed a sigh of relief. "They've probably gone down the mountain. Let's go back."

"Hmm." Xu Yingying also felt that since there hadn't been any movement for so long, they might have gone down the mountain.

Just as he picked up his basket to leave, he heard Long Aotian shout, "They're here! They've got two people!"