Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

Jiang Sen's basket was very heavy, so he handed his raincoat and sleeping bag to Fu Chunsheng to carry.

Fu Chunsheng asked curiously, "What are you carrying on your back? They're all so old!"

"It's a secret!" Jiang Sen said with a smile. "Don't ask, let's hurry up and watch our step!"

It takes a whole day to get to the pool.

They first went to the cave, picked a lot of ferns, rested for a night, and arrived at the stream before noon the next day.

The hunter's cabin on the mountain remained unchanged. After everyone settled in, they chatted and laughed with the new educated youth, recounting what had happened before.

The young educated youth was quite surprised by what he heard.

Jiang Sen glanced at the sky and said, "Put the things down and let's go to the pool."

Fu Chunsheng immediately stood up. "Let's go, let's go take a shower!"

Only the newly arrived educated youth hadn't experienced what happened last time; the other two were still a bit shaken.

The one who narrowly escaped death secretly asked Jiang Sen, "Little Jiang, is it safe over there?"

"Don't worry! After what happened last time, those Russians won't dare come again! If they come again... see?" Jiang Sen raised his gun, "One if they come, we'll shoot them; two if they come, we'll shoot them both!"

However, after everyone set off, they discovered that Jiang Sen was still carrying his basket on his back.

Fu Chunsheng leaned closer and said, "What are you carrying on your back? It's like it's grown onto your body."

Jiang Sen said with a smile, "It's a gift to thank my savior."

"Yeah! I heard from the class monitor last time that you were rescued by someone. Who was it?"

"Who is it?" Jiang Sen looked at the mountains not far away. "A fairy!"

"Hey!" Fu Chunsheng said, "Stop joking, seriously, who exactly is this person?"

"You don't believe me even if I tell you the truth, so I'm leaving!"

When I arrived at the pool, the events of the past few days seemed to flash before my eyes.

The educated youth who had narrowly escaped death was particularly downcast.

The educated youth who died had a good relationship with him, but sadly, he's no longer here.

Jiang Sen was also somewhat downcast, and said, "Everyone must turn grief into strength, and if we encounter those Russians again, we'll take them down!"

"Yes! Take him down!"

"I will avenge him! I will never forget the hatred between my country and my family!"

"Hey Russians, where are you? Show yourselves, or I'll shoot you dead!" Fu Chunsheng shouted at the mountains.

The low spirits gradually dissipated, and the group returned to the edge of the pool.

Everyone who saw the small, azure pool of water cheered excitedly, stripped off their clothes, and jumped in.

Jiang Sen also jumped in, and even swam to the rock behind Yingzi to see if she had come.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a single person in sight.

He was somewhat disappointed. He swam back, picked up the basket, placed it where Yingzi had stood, looked around, and went back.

What he didn't know was that Yingzi was in the woods, and she only appeared after they left.

She looked at the basket on her back, a slight smile playing on her lips and a hint of amusement in her eyes.

She removed the weeds covering the basket, and her eyes widened when she saw what was underneath.

Canned goods, milk candy, salt, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, biscuits, as well as soap, towels, toothpaste, and toothbrushes—almost all the daily necessities that are most lacking in their mountain village.

There are two more pieces of cloth, one red with white flowers and the other navy blue.

It's obvious at a glance that it's for her and her grandfather.

She listened intently, picked up her basket, slung it over her shoulder, and gradually disappeared into the woods.

After Jiang Sen and the others finished showering, they built a fire by the pool and started cooking.

Fu Chunsheng, unable to stay idle, took two people into the woods to look for mountain produce.

Suddenly, Jiang Sen heard a "plop" sound from the pool.

Turning my head, I saw ripples on the water; someone was throwing stones into it.

He was overjoyed, instinctively knowing that Yingzi had arrived. He quickly told the people who stayed behind and ran over there.

After climbing over the rocks above the pool, I didn't see anyone in any direction.

He was somewhat disappointed and was about to leave when he seemed to see something moving out of the corner of his eye.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an injured roe deer.

He jumped down, broke the roe deer's neck, and looked back and forth, but still couldn't see anyone.

He called out loudly, "Yingzi, are you there? Come out! I'm all alone!"

There was no sound, and no answer.

Jiang Sen knew that Yingzi wouldn't come out.

Fine!

He dragged the roe deer back to the edge of the pool.

Patrols should not last too long, lest the camp think there has been an accident on their side.

So they only stayed there for two days before heading back.

They patrolled the mountains as if it were a game, and even brought back a lot of local produce.

Especially in the area where we found wood ear mushrooms last time, they've all grown into large patches.

This thing is valuable too.

They ate some, saved some, and dried the rest, then put them all into burlap sacks.

After the wood ear mushrooms shrink, their volume becomes very small.

Five people, five baskets on their backs; after drying, it only fills the bottom of a sack.

"This isn't enough!" Fu Chunsheng said. "How long will it take to gather enough for a whole sack?"

"No rush!" Jiang Sen said. "Normally, people don't lack vegetables, but they're worth more in winter."

"That's true! Next time we'll bring a few burlap sacks, they'll dry over there, we can't carry that many in baskets anyway!"

Jiang Sen patted him on the shoulder, "Smart!"

On their second patrol, each of them carried an empty burlap sack.

After the wood ear mushrooms were harvested, they were dried directly on the rocks by the stream.

The group was laughing and joking, and they were working with great enthusiasm.

The newly arrived educated youth was very curious and asked Jiang Sen, "Jiang Sen, aren't we supposed to be patrolling the mountains to protect the safety of the forest farm? Why do we have to collect mountain products both times we come out?"

Jiang Sen laughed and asked in return, "Look at what you're wearing and the dry rations you're carrying. If we don't gather mountain products, where will you get the money to buy them?"

"But weren't these all issued by the farm headquarters?"

"Hehe..." Several people around laughed.

Fu Chunsheng came over and said to him, "You're not stupid, you're actually quite smart. Where did the farm get the money? We bought all of these things with money from the farm! This is called hard work and self-reliance, understand?"

"Huh? You bought it with money!" The new educated youth was shocked. "How much did it cost?"

"So you can go ahead and collect the mountain produce without worry, there will be good stuff coming your way!"

The new educated youth stopped asking questions and enthusiastically went with everyone to find mountain products.

Jiang Sen hadn't been to the field headquarters before, so he had nothing to give Yingzi.

He picked out a red sweater and a new military overcoat from his and Wang Haiyang's belongings and placed them by the pond.

Just as he was about to go back, he heard a rustling sound in the woods behind him, and Yingzi came out.

"Yingzi!" Jiang Sen was overjoyed and quickly ran over. "You didn't come out last time."

He spoke with such a pitiful tone that Yingzi couldn't help but smile.

Her smile was so radiant that all the flowers paled in comparison.

Jiang Sen was stunned.

"Look again? I'll gouge your eyes out!" Yingzi deliberately put on a stern face, then smiled again. "Never mind, thank you, those things are too precious to us. My grandfather told me to give this to you."

She handed Jiang Sen something wrapped in birch bark.

Jiang Sen took it and saw that it was another ginseng, and not only that, there was also a lingzhi mushroom.

This Ganoderma lucidum is not the woody Ganoderma lucidum found in the mountains, but rather a Ganoderma lucidum that grows on cliffs.

“Tell Grandpa not to risk picking these,” Jiang Sen said. “If there’s anything else missing, I’ll bring it next time.”

"I lack nothing!"

Just now they said that the things Jiang Sen sent were too valuable, indicating that they were things that the mountains lacked, but now they say that they don't lack anything at all.

Jiang Sen knew she was just being polite.

"Then I'll just buy it myself."

"No..." Yingzi hesitated for a moment before speaking, "If you have any medicine, could you bring me some? How much do you want? I'll trade you some mountain produce and game for it!"