It's been a month since that day.

The green mountains are still the same, but it is snowing today.

In the cold winter, the weather is getting colder, the whole mountain forest is like wrapped in a touch of silver, the birds and beasts are silent, only the forest hut on the mountainside, there are still bursts of cooking smoke.

There is nothing to do today, smoking old and eating millet.

Hua Ying knocked a few pieces of ice from the mountain pool in the back mountain and came back, frozen for three days, the stream was broken, and the two of them fried ice and water every day, made tea and light rice, and lived in peace.

It's been three months since the two masters went out, and the Chinese New Year is approaching, and they don't know when they will return.

Hua Ying put the bucket of ice under the eaves, brought a wooden basin, and spent a short time hammering the ice lump into small pieces with an axe and putting it in the basin, picked it up, and walked to the stove room.

The room was very warm, and there was a busy figure in front of the stove, and when she walked in, he immediately said:

"It's back, hurry up and melt the ice, and when the porridge is cooked, you can start eating."

Qin Xiangzhi is still the head chef today, and in recent times, she has become more and more skilled in cooking.

In the past, when there were only her and the master, the daily tea and dinner were very bland, but since the little sister went up the mountain, the food has improved a lot, although it is not so fishy as a meal, but it is much better than before.

After being busy, the meal was finally prepared, and the two sat at the table as usual.

"Senior sister, today's food is relatively shabby, you will eat it first, and I will go up the mountain to find something to eat another day."

The meal was not very abundant, most of the greens in the vegetable garden were frosted, and the wild animals in the mountains were extremely difficult to hunt since the cold weather, so the food source was greatly reduced.

Qin Xiangzhi couldn't help but worry about this every day, sighing.

Fortunately, there is still a small half tank of aged rice left in the rice tank, and the two of them also reserved some bacon for the New Year in advance two months ago, so they don't have to worry about food.

It's just that if you don't save some use, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive until the beginning of spring.

Hua Ying has gained a lot of weight in the past three months, and her face has become much rounder than before she went up the mountain, if it weren't for the fact that practicing martial arts consumed too much physical strength, I'm afraid she would have gained weight by this time.

This matter is indispensable to Qin Xiangweaving's credit, little by little watching her junior sister being raised white and fat by herself, she couldn't mention how happy she was.

When the master returns, a compliment will definitely be inevitable.

Hua Ying swallowed the hot porridge while eating the salty fried bacon, gobbling up the appearance of a starving ghost reincarnated, after a meal, she ate her mouth full of oil, and praised her practice.

"My sister's cooking is so delicious, I like to eat my sister's food."

After all, she is at an age when she grows up, and the amount of food will inevitably increase, and she eats this meal enough to eat the amount of an adult.

Holding her full stomach, Hua Ying wiped her mouth, looked at her senior sister who was both happy and sad, suddenly her eyes lit up, and she excitedly proposed:

"Senior sister, I'll take care of going up the mountain to find food in the future, just rest at home. Anyway, I have nothing to do every day when I am full, except for practicing or practicing, it is better to go to the mountains for a walk, and maybe I can bump into some wild things that come out to forage for food. ”

"But aren't you afraid of those two blind bears?"

Of course Qin Xiangzhi was happy about this, but seeing that Hua Ying was young, she couldn't help but be a little worried.

"It's okay, the blind bear must be hiding in the hole now, and it must be safe to go up the mountain at this time!" Hua Ying has been getting more and more bold recently, and before she was released, she didn't dare to run into the mountains alone.

"That's right."

Qin Xiangzhi nodded, and then smiled, "In this way, it will be hard for you." ”

After the meal, the two of them simply cleaned up, and Hua Ying immediately put on a thick winter coat and rushed in the direction of the mountain, plunging into the snow-covered mountains.

This trip is said to be foraging, but in fact there is another purpose.

Hua Ying stepped on the snow and left, at this time the mountain was quiet, there were no wild beasts, no birds, all the sounds were silent, the whole mountain forest seemed to fall into a deep sleep, except for the creaking sound of stepping on the snow, there was no second sound.

When she found the valley that day, she was surprised to find that there was not much snow in the valley, and there was still some green life.

"It's much warmer in this valley than outside, and if you live here, you're not afraid of growing vegetables when it's cold." Hua Ying muttered to herself, but she didn't pay much attention to it.

Then she found a more suitable place, sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes, and said silently in her heart.

Shout.

I saw Hua Ying's figure disappear all of a sudden, and instead, a quaint jade pendant appeared out of thin air, fell heavily, and fell to the ground under her.

At the same time, the vanished Hua Ying opened her eyes in another unknown space.

With the brilliant starry sky overhead, the white mist around her, and the thick earth under her feet, she once again came to this mysterious place.

It's just that, unlike before, the empty land that was originally half an acre square is now overgrown with trees with red fruits.

One, two, three...... There are more than a dozen red fruit trees here.

The fruity aroma was tangy, and Hua Ying took a deep breath, the rich taste almost filled her chest, and a sense of intoxication immediately rose.

In just a few months, she worked tirelessly, cultivating fruit trees one by one, and now it is finally harvest season. There are more than a dozen red fruit trees, each of which is full of red fruits, and it is impossible to count. That's enough for her to eat for years.

Hua Ying climbed up the tree and picked out a dozen fruits from them, ready to take them back to her senior sister to eat.

After picking, I came to a small green vegetable field next to the fruit tree, squatted down, and gently stroked the crisp and watery vegetable leaves, and my heart was even more surprised.

This vegetable patch was planted by her a few days ago, and she didn't expect it to grow so quickly, which was somewhat unexpected by her.

"It seems that in addition to fruit trees, other crops can be successfully planted on this land, which is the same as I thought."

Hua Ying thought that the greens in this vegetable field would not mature so quickly, because from the planting experience in the previous months, she observed that at the beginning, the seedlings of the first few red fruit trees grew very fast, basically growing to bear fruit in two or three days, but the second and third batches of planted seedlings did not achieve the effect she expected.

It took five days for the second batch of seedlings to bear fruit, and the third batch took seven days, and by the end it became more and more slow, and by the time the last batch was planted, it had reached the point where it took fifteen days to bear fruit.

To this end, she took great pains to think of various ways to increase the growth rate of the saplings. Watering, loosening the soil, fertilizing, unfortunately, no matter what the method, seems to work at all.

The poured water is not absorbed at all and does not even seep into it. It is useless to loosen the soil, let alone fertilize, Hua Ying thought that the slow growth of the seedlings was caused by the gradual lack of soil fertility, so she also specially borrowed a little fertilizer for farming from Lijia Village and familiar friends.

But what I never expected was that the fertilization did not work, and it was inconvenient for the seedlings to maintain the original growth momentum, and it did not have any effect until the fertilizer was completely dried up.

Because of this incident, Hua Ying's hair turned a lot whiter, and seeing that this field was developing in the direction of abandoned fields, she had to stop planting fruit trees and start researching planting other crops.

The small vegetable patch in front of her is the result of her time.