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

"Great! It's tree blossom!"

Yang Fenglan was both surprised and delighted, and ran towards the big tree in front of her.

Trees of all sizes are covered with grayish-white, net-like bark, also known as tree sap.

Yang Fenglan had eaten cold-dressed tree flowers at a restaurant. They were crunchy and tasted especially good with rice when mixed with a little vinegar.

The downside is that it's difficult to wash.

You'll never forget it after just one bite.

In no time, they had harvested a lot.

It was only past noon, but both baskets had become heavy.

Yang Fenglan was somewhat annoyed, "If only we had come to Nanshan from the beginning."

Shen Yu said calmly, "Anyone who wants to live wouldn't come here."

Yang Fenglan: ...

I picked tree hairs, and my basket was almost full.

Today, apart from tree stalks and bracken, everything else is wild vegetables that can't be stored for long.

Wild celery can be blanched and added to rice water to make pickled vegetables, which can be stored in a cool place for one or two months.

Throughout Qingyang County, most of the mountains are barren, except for Nanshan Mountain, which still retains a considerable amount of greenery.

When food becomes scarce, people from the surrounding villages will surely invade this mountain range.

Considering everyone's fear of Nanshan, Yang Fenglan guessed that not many people would return in the next month or two.

With so many wild vegetables in the mountains, Yang Fenglan wasn't in a hurry to stock up on them.

Find something valuable and stockpile food; that's the most important thing.

"Xiaoyu, it's still early. Let's walk around some more and see if we can find anything we can sell."

Shen Yu was also eager to make money and save some money on her own so that she wouldn't have to rely on her family after leaving the Zhou family.

The two placed their baskets under the tree, covered them with leaves, and continued walking uphill along the mountainside.

Nanshan is steep and rocky.

Before reaching the summit, Yang Fenglan saw a cliff two or three meters high, with a large clump of Dendrobium growing in the bare rock crevices.

Her eyes lit up immediately—these were medicinal herbs that could be sold for money!

It's about the length of an arm; even someone unfamiliar with medicinal herbs can tell it's a premium Dendrobium.

Yang Fenglan instantly transformed into a monster, hopping around at the bottom of the cliff.

It's too high, even if I jump, I can't reach it.

On both sides of the cliff, there were dense shrubs and vines, making it impossible to climb up.

If you bring a basket on your back, you can even step on the basket to pull up the dendrobium.

The place to put the basket is far away.

Yang Fenglan looked at Shen Yu, "Xiao Yu, if I want you, will you lie down?"

Shen Yu: "?? What nonsense are you talking about?"

Asking her to lie on the ground as a footrest? Impossible!

Yang Fenglan was crying.

She's still an outsider after all. If her best friend were there, she could ride on her best friend's head and pick her.

Finally, Yang Fenglan moved two stones, stacked them together, and slowly stood on the stones, finally touching them!

But it broke when I applied force.

"No, it's still not enough."

Yang Fenglan added another stone to the pile, and then she was too tired to continue.

But with the money right in front of him, he couldn't let it go.

"Xiaoyu, come here and calm me down. I'm determined to get this clump of grass." Yang Fenglan rubbed her hands together, staring intently at the dendrobium orchid growing in the crack in the rock.

Shen Yu came over, and she gripped Shen Yu's shoulders tightly, carefully stepping onto the piled stones. This time, they could finally grab a large patch of dendrobium!

Throw the torn pieces on the ground first, then pick them up later.

Yang Fenglan had been having nightmares for several days, couldn't sleep well, couldn't eat well, had no energy, wanted to sleep all the time, and her eyes were so dry that she could hardly open them.

Just as she closed her eyes and gave the third tug, her hand felt cool and slippery, like...

Yang Fenglan's eyes widened suddenly. She was holding a small snake, about the thickness of a finger, in her hand. The snake was startled and twisted its body.

"Ah!!" Yang Fenglan was so frightened that she frantically shook her hands, her body swaying and she couldn't control herself falling backward.

Shen Yu hurriedly reached out to grab it.

With a "snap," all I found was an empty sleeve.

Yang Fenglan crashed heavily to the ground and rolled twice down the slope.

His left sleeve was torn off, and his arm was scratched several times by dry branches on the ground.

Yang Fenglan: ...

The unlucky mother opened the door for the unlucky.