Chapter 24: A Harvest in the Mountains
Perhaps it was because of the abundant rain the day before that Ye Zhen casually walked around the woods to harvest a basket of fungus and mushrooms, both of which are plants that are easy to grow on rainy days.
However, there are many more fungus than mushrooms, and two-thirds of a full bamboo basket is fungus, and mushrooms account for only a small part.
The woods are very dense, so there are many kinds of mushrooms that grow, but she only picks the white mushrooms she has eaten.
For other species, even Ye Hao couldn't tell if it was poisonous or not, so she simply didn't risk it.
After all, the fungus and white mushrooms in this big bamboo basket are estimated to be enough for their family to eat for several days.
Seeing that the bamboo basket was full, Ye Hao had to stop picking mushrooms and continue to look for traps.
Now she is not too demanding about whether the trap has caught the prey, after all, she has already had such a rich harvest.
On her heavy steps, the second and third traps were found, but they were all full of water, and the shadow of the prey was nowhere to be seen.
As she prepares to give up and go home, the last trap brings her a surprise.
Perhaps because the final trap was located relatively high and was not flooded by rain, there was only a shallow layer of water at the bottom of the pit.
In the middle of the rain, there was a white-haired rabbit lying on his stomach, but it was a little dirty now, and it no longer had such pure fur.
The rabbit is almost half the size of the pit, and it stands to reason that with the rabbit's jumping ability, it should not be trapped in this trap.
But when Ye Hao found it, the other party had no movement, and his eyes were closed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
"Such a big rabbit?"
She first put aside the bamboo basket behind her back, and then with two hands she laboriously lifted the rabbit out of the hole, and she could clearly feel that there was still temperature in her hands.
Is this dead or not?
Ye Hao also had doubts in her heart, and when she completely put the rabbit on the ground, she knew why the rabbit, which was knee-high, fell into the trap so well-behaved.
One of its right legs was bloody, and the fur on its entire right foot was dyed pink because it had been soaked in the rain, and it didn't look very bloody.
I guess I was scratched by some wild beast and accidentally fell into a trap, so I can't jump out.
After guessing the cause and effect, Ye Hao was a little difficult.
The size of this wild rabbit can be said to be four or five times larger than that of modern domestic rabbits, and the weight alone is estimated to be twenty or thirty catties.
And the back basket that Ye Hao originally planned to use to hold the prey was already full of fungus and mushrooms, and an empty bamboo basket was reluctant to put this rabbit, let alone fill it with other things.
Rabbit or fungus?
This choice was placed in front of Ye Hao, but she didn't want to give up either in her heart.
"Try it!"
Gritting her teeth, after Ye Hao cheered herself up, she first carried the bamboo basket, and then squatted down to pick up the rabbit with great difficulty.
At this time, she didn't care that the hem of her skirt was rubbed by the blood of the rabbit, and she struggled to go down the mountain.
Due to the rabbit's size, she couldn't see the road under her feet at all, and could only look into the distance.
The woods that have just rained are undoubtedly very wet, and the soft soil and plants under your feet make people feel very unwarned.
Just when Ye Hao had just walked halfway down the mountain, she suddenly had a pain in her ankle, and she directly squatted down with her buttocks.
"What?! It hurts! ”
After laying down the rabbit, she was horrified to find that a green snake was being trampled under her feet, and the snake's head was already wrapped around her ankle.
The pain was precisely because the snake bit her.
"it!"
No matter how strong Ye Hao's psychology is, when facing a poisonous snake that is about the thickness of a fist and poisonous at a glance, the whole person is numb.
Fortunately, she reacted quite quickly, and before the other party had time to take a second bite, she quickly pulled out the sickle behind her back and slashed the other party in half and shook it off.
The green snake, which had been cut in half, was still writhing, but it was clearly mortally wounded, and it was only making a final struggle.
Ye Hao, who was sitting on the ground, was still a little frightened, she had seen such a big snake in the zoo, where would she have thought that she would have a day of intimate contact.
But the wound on her ankle was still aching, and reason told her that she had to deal with it quickly, and if the snake was poisonous, then she was in danger.
But she is not an encyclopedia, and she doesn't know what kind of snake the snake in front of her is, whether it is poisonous or not.
"System, how much merit does it take to treat snake venom?"
Regardless of whether it was poisonous or not, Ye Hao didn't gamble with her life, and simply considered exchanging the serum directly.
After a short while, a mechanical voice sounded in her head:
"It was detected that the bite was a green tree python, which is not toxic. If you need to redeem it, one Universal Snake Venom Serum costs 500 merit points. ”
Five hundred? Shhhh
Considering that the system should not deceive herself, she still decided not to spend this unjust money, and now she only has a little more than 2,000 merit points, and she needs 500 for anything, which is completely insufficient.
Ye Hao, who was appeased by the system's words, stood up from the ground and did not forget to continue to hug the huge rabbit.
As for the corpse of the python, although this thing may also be worth a little money, after all, there are many people who eat snake meat in modern times, and they all say that snake gall is very replenishing.
But Ye Hao really didn't have the courage to have intimate contact with the other party again, and directly avoided walking down the mountain quickly.
Fortunately, except for some pain in the ankle, there were no other accidents on the descent.
As soon as she came out of the mountain forest, Ye Hao, who was facing the sun, instantly felt that the temperature had risen a lot, and she couldn't help but start sweating.
She was holding a fluffy giant rabbit of twenty or thirty pounds in front of her, and carrying the same dozens of pounds of fungus and mushrooms in the back, which was really tiring.
If it weren't for the fact that the original owner's previous life was not bad, and this body was not malnourished like other ancient women, she probably wouldn't have been able to carry these things down the mountain.
But even so, Ye Hao still stopped and stopped, stopping from time to time to catch her breath.
When she was about to arrive at the bamboo house, a figure appeared behind her, and she shouted in surprise:
"Thanks, Mrs. Xie?!"
Ye Hao, who heard the voice, stopped, turned around with difficulty, and looked at the comer.
The other party looked a little familiar, and it seemed that he was a villager who had seen it. But there are a large number of villagers, except for Aunt Huang's family, who has a close relationship with her, it is really difficult for her to tell who is who.
The people who come to their house every morning to deliver yellow eel snails are basically women, and there are few men, so Ye Hao will have a slightly deeper impression of the women in the village.
At this time, the voice was obviously made by a man, who was still carrying tools on his shoulder, and looked like he had just come out of the field.
"What's the matter with you?"
The villager walked quickly to Ye Hao and hurriedly put down the tools on his shoulders, intending to help the latter bear some of the weight.
But Ye Hao shook her head, although she was very tired, she still squeezed out a smile in response to the other party.
"It's okay, I just went to the back mountain to pick some mushrooms, and by the way, I caught a rabbit."
When she turned around, the villagers saw the giant rabbit she was holding in her arms, and their eyes were wide open.
Among the villagers who were exiled here, there were also some skilled military attachés, and they also had the idea of hunting in the back mountains.
Not to mention the long distance, it takes a lot of time to come and go. Even then, there were indeed many wild beasts in the mountains, and some people lost their lives because of this.
As a result, no one has had the idea again in all these years.
Now that he saw that Ye Hao, a female streamer, could hit the prey alone, the villagers' faces showed admiration.
Facing the other party's shocked eyes, Ye Hao was afraid that the other party would misunderstand what kind of peerless master he was, so he hurriedly spoke:
"It was my husband and I who set up some traps a few days ago, and they were all caught by traps."
At the mention of Xie Yunshu's name, the villagers nodded knowingly.
At the beginning, the other party's name moved the capital, not only because of his appearance and Lianzhong Sanyuan's glorious record, but also because of his ability to write and martial arts.
Xie Yunshu's martial arts are also among the best among the young people in the capital, and he studied under the former No. 1 master in the Ouchi, but this master is too upright, and he left angrily after being designed by a traitor in the palace a few years ago.
Even Xie Yunshu, a disciple, didn't know where the other party was now.
"Need I help you?"
The villager reached out and tried to take the rabbit from Ye Hao's hand.
With so many heavy objects pressing on a lady, anyone will be unbearable, right?
What's more, Ye Hao also gave them advice and opened a financial way to sell yellow eels and snails, so that all the villagers in the village got an extra income.
Although they are to breed yellow eels and snails, when the villagers sell most of the adult crops, the juvenile stage in the fields does not cause much damage to the crops.
This is equivalent to every family picking up a lot of silver for nothing, and the villagers are especially grateful to Ye Hao in their hearts!
Seeing that the other party had a piece of sincerity and kindness, Ye Hao stretched out her hand and prepared to hand the giant rabbit to the other party.
However, at this moment, a hand reached out from behind her back and took down two rabbit ears directly.
Ye Hao, who instantly felt that her hands were light, couldn't help but look back, it turned out to be Xie Yunshu who came over at some point.
At this time, Xie Yunshu frowned, and after looking her up and down, his words carried some nervous meaning:
"You're hurt?!"
It's really not that he misunderstood, after taking the giant rabbit away, Ye Hao looked disheveled, and even the lower half of her skirt was stained with pink blood, which didn't look very good.
Hearing this, she hurriedly waved her hand, pointed to the rabbit that the other party was carrying, and said:
"No, no, it's all the blood of the rabbit, and the rabbit doesn't know if it's bitten by some beast, and I don't know if it's still alive."
As for the snake bite wound on her ankle, she selectively ignored it.
Anyway, the other party can't see it, and the green tree python is not poisonous, so she doesn't need to say it to worry the other party.
Hearing her say this, Xie Yunshu's unconsciously raised heart was put down, and he glanced at the rabbit in his hand and said:
"There's still a little bit of breath."
"That's good, if I die, I won't dare to eat it."
patted her chest with some joy, Ye Hao was completely relieved, fortunately, her hard work along the way was not in vain.
It's not that she's too cautious, it's really a prey that dies in the wild, and she doesn't know what kind of germs are growing on her body, and some of them can't be killed even if they are in high temperatures.
Isn't it because some people eat wild meat indiscriminately for the sake of appetite?
However, Xie Yunshu's hearing is good enough!
Ye Hao glanced at the other party with some suspicion, her position was more than a hundred meters away from the bamboo house!
When I went back before, I didn't see any figures, so the other party rushed over with just two sentences, could it be that I heard my own voice?
She didn't ask this question, because with Xie Yunshu's sullen personality, even if it was true, she wouldn't admit it.
"Hehe, the relationship between Gongzi Xie and his wife is so good!"