Transmigrated into a seven-year-old child, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

"Auntie, why don't you come up the mountain with us?" Zhao Lian asked Sun Shangxiang to come with her up the mountain, and to bring the pot with her.

She had made up her mind: instead of cooking it when she got back, she should cook it now to avoid wasting the water from the water hyacinth.

“Yes, Zhao Lian’s idea is good.” Liu Laogen agreed with her idea.

Finally, Sun Shangxiang took the pot and followed them up the mountain.

Soon, everyone arrived at the spot where they had fetched water the day before. After one night, the waterhole was full of water.

Before coming down the mountain last night, they made sure to widen the pool a bit more, and now they have enough water for their needs.

When Clock and Pendulum saw the crystal-clear water, they were overjoyed. They were so glad they had gone up the mountain with them today; they had finally found water!

Everyone filled all the water hyacinths they had brought with water, and there was still some water left in the pool at the end, so everyone drank to their hearts' content.

They couldn't remember the last time they had drunk water so freely, and they were so moved that tears streamed down their faces.

After drinking their fill of water, everyone started looking for wild vegetables, and Sun Shangxiang began to start a fire to prepare food.

The flour had all been used up, leaving only some rice. Sun Shangxiang started a fire to cook porridge.

The valley was damp, and soon everyone found many wild vegetables.

"Ah!!! A snake~ There's a snake here!!"

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Suddenly someone shouted in panic. Zhao Lian looked up and realized it was Shi Dian.

Zhong Dian was terrified, his face turning deathly pale. He stood frozen in place, repeatedly shouting, "Ah! Don't come any closer! Help! Someone come quick! Brother, come save me! There's a snake here!"

Don't let Zhong Dian's appearance fool you; he's been terrified of snakes since he was a child.

Upon hearing this, the pendulum quickly ran over from the other side of the valley.

"Snake! Big brother, there's a snake!" As the snake got closer and closer, Zhong Dian turned pale and stammered incoherently, trembling with fear.

He clearly wanted to run away, but his legs felt like they were made of lead, and he couldn't move them.

Soon, the pendulum came over and saw the snake as thick as an arm, and immediately gasped.

He had killed snakes before, but those snakes were never this big.

The rat snake, startled by the presence of humans, became aggressive, shaking its head and flicking its tongue repeatedly.

This snake has yellow spots on its body, is about 1.2 to 1.3 meters long, and looks to weigh about 2 to 3 kilograms.

Seeing that the snake was less than two meters away from the clock, he was still standing there dumbfounded. The clock suddenly shouted, "Are you stupid? What are you standing there for? Run!"

With a mournful face, Zhongdian cried out, "Brother, I want to run too, but my legs won't obey me! Please come and save me!"

"I'm scared too, this snake is so big!" Zhongbai didn't dare to go forward.

Upon hearing that there was a snake, everyone immediately became extremely cautious.

Only Zhao Lian looked excited; she hadn't caught a snake in a long time.

"Where is the snake?" Zhao Lian asked loudly.

“There it is! That worm is as thick as an arm and as long as that!” The pendulum pointed forward, gesturing with his hand.

Zhao Lian quickly walked over and found a rat snake with yellow spots not far from the clock, which she estimated to weigh about two or three pounds.

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" Zhongdian trembled with fear and quickly closed her eyes.

Zhao Lian found it amusing that a grown man could be so afraid of snakes.

Liu Jinzhu and his brothers, along with Li Gang, gathered around. Seeing a wooden stick on the ground, Liu Jinzhu picked it up.

"Uncle, leave this snake to me, you all get out of here!"

Hearing that Zhao Lian had a solution, Zhong Bai breathed a sigh of relief: "Miss Zhao Lian, please think of a way quickly!"

"What are you afraid of? Look how scared you are. This snake isn't poisonous at all." Zhao Lian couldn't help but laugh.

After saying that, he quickly took three steps forward and blocked the snake's path.

A strange thing happened: the snake smelled Zhao Lian's scent and immediately trembled with fear.

As Zhao Lian silently chanted the incantation, the snake automatically coiled into a ball in a short while, leaving everyone dumbfounded.

"Great, now we can have snake porridge."

Zhao Lian was overjoyed. She picked up the snake, pinched it at its seven-inch mark with one hand, and squeezed hard, killing the snake instantly.

Zhao Lian took out a knife, placed the snake on a rock, peeled off its skin, and then took it to a pool of water to wash it.

Unexpectedly, Miss Lian was not afraid of snakes and killed them in less than a quarter of an hour.

Liu Yinzhu gave Zhao Lian a thumbs up: "Zhao Lian, you're amazing!"

Zhao Lian's lips curled up: "It's nothing, this snake isn't poisonous at all. I'm not afraid of poisonous snakes, why would I be afraid of this one!"

This snake is great for making porridge; it tastes delicious and sweet, perfect for providing everyone with extra nutrition.

Zhao Lian chopped the snake into several pieces on the stone and threw them into a pot to cook porridge. Before long, the aroma of meat filled the air.

When the porridge was ready, everyone had picked a lot of wild vegetables, and Sun Shangxiang chopped a small handful of wild vegetables and put them into the porridge.

This pot of porridge, with its vegetables and meat, is so delicious it makes your mouth water.

Liu Jinzhu and the others each drank a bowl of porridge. The snake porridge was delicious and sweet, and they wanted to eat more after they finished it.

Zhongdian watched them eat their porridge with a pitiful look, swallowing hard. "Miss Zhaolian, I should say I deserve some credit for this snake too~"

Although the exact time wasn't explicitly stated, the implication was that she wanted to eat porridge.

Zhao Lian laughed: "Zhongdian, if I hadn't caught the snake, you probably would have been bitten. Even if the snake wasn't poisonous, you would have been terrified. I saved you, and you haven't even said thank you yet. You still have the nerve to ask me for porridge."

"Besides, you came with us to fetch water, so we're even. And there wasn't much porridge to begin with, so of course we can't share it with you."

They thought Chaolian was a little girl who would be easy to talk to, but they didn't expect her to be so shrewd. The two brothers were speechless.

The sun began to rise slowly, and Zhaolian called everyone to come down the mountain.

Liu Jinzhu carefully followed behind, carrying the pot of porridge.

After eating and drinking their fill, everyone felt energetic and quickly descended the mountain. Once at the foot of the mountain, Sun Shangxiang served everyone porridge and also specially served a bowl for Chen Min.

Chen Min said her baby was six months along, but it looked only four months along, clearly indicating insufficient nutrition.

"Thank you so much, sister-in-law." Chen Min was moved to tears.

Sun Shangxiang waved her hand and said, "Hey, no need to thank me! You're a pitiful person too, having to flee famine while heavily pregnant. It's fate that we met."

After everyone finished eating, they started packing up and preparing to continue their journey.

The Zhong family was still cooking and eating, but Zhao Lian wasn't going to wait for them, since they weren't on the same page to begin with.

Seeing that Zhao Lian and the others were about to continue their journey, the old woman Huang was not in a hurry. Now that they had obtained the water, there was no need for them to continue following Zhao Lian and the others.