Chapter 15 15. Son of Destiny
The idea was very beautiful, but Huaiyu woke up on the second day and stared at his empty palms in a daze.
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
And now, she doesn’t even have a knife.
Sighing, her young face was full of the melancholy of life.
But it doesn’t matter. Just look at the house in front of you and you will know how powerful you are. Whatever you want will come sooner or later!
Huaiyu is back on its feet!
At this moment, listening to the announcement that started at 8:00 every morning, she put on the clothes that were baked by the fire until midnight yesterday and were now dry and hard, and dragged her vine net bag , hanging a big red bucket on his arm, once again headed towards the Rose Corridor [8] area.
Qiangqiang, Qiangwei, you should try your best and don't make any more noise - at worst, I'll knock you again!
Now that it is the third time to travel through the Rose Corridor, Huaiyu is already somewhat familiar with it.
She carefully carried her fragmentary belongings through the dense branches and leaves, stood at the foot of the mountain, breathed in the thick atmosphere unique to Sanqing Mountain, and strode forward at this moment.
After using the tree net bag for a few days, it became dry and brittle, and now it was very small and could not be folded. Huaiyu dragged it through the woods, and it took a while before he reached the depths of the mountain.
Only faint light pours into the forest. Because heavy rain was coming, it was groggy for several days and I couldn't see the sun.
Unfortunately, because it was so early, not even the tree buds had sprouted, and there were bare tree trunks everywhere...
No!
There is something to eat!
I saw a tree in front of me, densely growing delicate leaves no more than one centimeter in size, and crowded pearl flowers in the middle like rice grains of pearls!
This is edible!
But it’s still early and picking too early may cause it to become stale. Huaiyu hesitated for a while and decided to come back later.
Because she was thinking about this pearl flower in her heart, she was afraid of getting lost, so she did not dare to go far and only wandered nearby.
Unfortunately, there are all tall trees and red pines here, but not a single pine cone was found on the ground, so even after a long time of searching, there was still no result.
During the period, he also saw a thick dry tree falling to the ground. Huaiyu stared at it for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt regretful:
What a tree!
If you can drag it back to your house, the bark can be broken off to make a fire, the trunk can be sawed off and used as a stool or table, or even split into dry firewood!
It’s so perfect!
She couldn't even imagine how lively and cheerful she would be with this big tree trunk.
It’s a pity that the reality is so cruel.
This tree trunk is so big that Huaiyu can’t drag it.
And it’s not raining now. No matter how many signs of decay there are on the surface of the tree trunk, not a single bit of mushroom has grown.
Alas.
She sighed and patted the tree trunk gently: "What a beautiful piece of trash."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard only a slight "click" sound.
Huaiyu stood up straight and saw a pine cone falling from the middle of the tree trunk.
Her eyes lit up, and she walked over quickly.
I found that they were still pine cones of Huashan pine, but compared with the super large ones I asked for last time, these pine cones were obviously half smaller. But when you break open the seed scales, there are still pine nuts inside - although they are small, they are quite plump!
She held the pine cone and stared expectantly at the center of the tree trunk. Then she looked for a branch and poked it, and unexpectedly poked a hole under the rotten bark!
Put the stick in and flip it twice. You can clearly feel that there is something inside. Then carefully reach out and touch it...
Hey!
Another pine cone!
What's this?
This is the squirrel’s treasure trove that she searched all over the mountain but could not find!
As expected of me, the son of luck!
Huaiyu suddenly surged with infinite strength. At this moment, he took the tree stick and knocked and pried all the way along the rotten bark, and soon pried out a gap on the side of the trunk.
The rotten bark fell off, and she discovered that there was a passage in the middle of the big tree, like a hole made by something...
This poor big tree might have died because the middle of it was empty. Then it fell down, and finally became the squirrel's treasure trove...
Now, it's all hers!
She kept pulling at the thin branches, pushing everything inside to the pried hole as much as possible.
With the continuous sound, small hills were quickly piled up in the tree hole.
Acorns, chestnuts, pits, walnuts, hazelnuts... and peanuts!
In addition, there are more and more small pine towers.
This stuff takes up more space than dried fruits, and the tree holes are full of them, so much so that when they are pushed out now, there is a small pile of them!
Huaiyu squatted on the ground, with an unstoppable smile on his face!
She held all kinds of nuts in both hands and put them into the red bucket. In the big red bucket, which was enough to hold 40 liters of water, half of the bucket was filled with small nuts!
Then there is a pile of pine cones that are about to rise to the top...
She simply took off her coat and piled the rest of the pine cones into the wide windbreaker. Then she pulled off the heavy elastic cord on her head, twisted it back and forth a few times, and got another big package!
Until the last handful of hazelnuts were put into the red bucket and slid hard from the gap in the pine cone, the big tree could no longer take out anything.
Huaiyu took back his hand with satisfaction: "Big tree, big tree...a big tree with holes is a big tree..."
I don't know how long it has passed after all this tossing. She looked at the sky and decided to start her return journey now.
Unexpectedly, we took a detour on the way back, and among the dead branches and leaves in front of us, there were actually slender wild vegetables sticking out, with the ends curled up into cute little circles...
It's bracken!
Huaiyu was stunned there, looking at the full and heavy bucket, then touching the windbreaker package that he was carrying with difficulty, and finally looking at the tree and vine net bag in his hand that had too big holes and was useless...
Damn it! Why are there so many good things today? Could she really be the child of destiny? !
She struggled to put down the package, carefully looked at the fern barren slope, and found green shepherd's purse at the foot of the mountain...
Huaiyu:...
She looked at herself - there was really no container to put anything in!
After thinking about it, I simply took off all the thin rattan sticks on my back, started tying knots on the nearby trees to mark them, and then extended them all the way to the Pearl Flower.
Go back today and go to the trading market in the afternoon.
Tomorrow, I must come to pick wild vegetables tomorrow!
From today on, Sanqingshan is her home!
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These heavy things combined are several times heavier than a waterproof tarpaulin, and they also need to be carefully traversed on the mountain. Huaiyu was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and then he finally successfully brought the things back.
She can even proudly say: not a single pine cone fell!
But now, she looked at the sky. She didn’t even have time to sort, she only had time to put down the things she didn’t need, so she just carried the bucket and pine cone on her back, and set off to the bus station!
Update is coming! Tomorrow is the Hongsheng Pedestrian Street Market!
(End of this chapter)