Chapter 48

It rained again last night and it was a bit wet in the early morning.

Jiang Yan added some water and food to the chicks in the pen, and then looked at the little black cat sleeping soundly in the nest.

“Sister Jiang Yan?”

“Here I come.”

Hearing He Hongxiu’s shouting outside the yard, Jiang Yan picked up the bamboo basket and walked out. Several sisters-in-law were waiting outside the yard. No one brought their children today.

The mountains are different from the seaside. There are more snakes, insects, rats and ants, so the sisters-in-law let the children play by themselves at home.

Because they were going into the mountains, Jiang Yan wore an old dark blue outfit and tied up her trouser legs and cuffs with straps, just as Lu Yunsheng had taught her.

Seeing her outfit today, Feng Yingchun smiled and joked.

“Sister Jiang Yan, you look a bit like a country girl now. In the past, you were always so delicate and pretty, making people happy just by looking at you.”

Seeing the bandage on Jiang Yan’s wrist, He Hongxiu said, “We were worried that you had never been to the mountains and didn’t know what to bring. I didn’t expect you to have prepared everything.”

Yuan Sufeng also checked the strap on Jiang Yan’s wrist and said, “Not bad, it fits perfectly.”

Jiang Yan smiled and said, “Yun Sheng taught me. When we went to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo, he taught me how to tie it once and I learned it.”

“How sweet!”

The sisters-in-law chatted and laughed for a while, and then they went to the mountains far away from the village.

Because the mountains surrounding the village are basically all reclaimed land and are bare, in order to collect grass to feed the village’s livestock, the villagers have plucked out the nearby mountains.

The sisters-in-law were experienced and had been to the mountain many times. They took Jiang Yan and walked slowly along the path into the mountain, picking mushrooms along the way.

The air in the mountains is very fresh, but there are really a lot of mosquitoes, and there are also groups of small flying insects, which are similar to mosquitoes. Although they don’t bite, they are annoying.

While picking mushrooms, the sisters-in-law taught Jiang Yan how to identify various types of fungi.

Basically all the mushrooms could be picked up, such as shiitake mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, pine mushrooms, etc. There were also some that Jiang Yan didn’t recognize, but the sisters-in-law had heard from the locals that they were edible and they had picked them before.

The unpolluted mountains are truly full of treasures. In more than an hour, several people had each collected half a basket.

Rustle!

Jiang Yan picked up a palm-sized black boletus and threw it into the backpack. Suddenly, she heard the sound of branches rubbing against each other in the distance. She quickly stopped and listened carefully to the movement in the distance.

There are wild boars in the mountains now. If they accidentally encounter them, they will all be in death.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan quietly walked to Feng Yingchun, who was nearest to her, and reminded her of the movement in the distance.

Feng Yingchun was also a little nervous. He looked in the direction of Jiang Yan’s finger and saw that the branch was still shaking, and there was a rumbling sound like a wild boar.

She looked at Jiang Yan and asked silently, “What should I do?”

Jiang Yan looked at the terrain around them. They were halfway up a mountain. If they went down the mountain, it would be too steep and it would be easy to get into trouble in a hurry, but it would also be difficult to go up the mountain.

It’s best not to alarm that thing and retreat slowly.

Jiang Yan made a gesture to Feng Yingchun to keep quiet, then slowly backed away. Feng Yingchun also nodded and followed her example, slowly backing away.

The two men carefully retreated to the side of He Hongxiu and Yuan Sufeng, who were picking mushrooms. Feng Yingchun grabbed Yuan Sufeng and covered her mouth, signaling her to be quiet.

Yuan Sufeng nodded, and Jiang Yan whispered, “There may be a wild boar ahead. Let’s retreat slowly and don’t alarm it.”

He Hongxiu and Yuan Sufeng nodded repeatedly and followed Jiang Yan and Feng Yingchun to retreat.

However, things don’t always turn out as people hope.

Below the hillside.

Ye Fengjiao also quietly followed Jiang Yan and the other three to pick mushrooms. Seeing them acting sneakily, she thought they had picked up some valuable treasures again, so she quickly shouted, “What are you doing sneakily? I tell you, whoever sees it gets a share. You must give me a share of the treasure this time.”

“…”

Jiang Yan rolled her eyes helplessly. He Hongxiu and the other two were also confused, wondering where Ye Fengjiao came from.

After looking at the place where the rustling sound came from in the distance, Jiang Yan hurriedly pulled Feng Yingchun, who was closest to her, and ran forward, followed closely by He Hongxiu and Yuan Sufeng.

Seeing the four people running away, Ye Fengjiao became more and more certain that they had treasures, and hurriedly chased after them with a basket, shouting as she ran.

“Don’t even think about getting rid of me. You have to share this treasure with me.”

Jiang Yan was almost furious and quickly looked back.

A black sub-adult wild boar appeared where the branches and leaves were shaking before. Its bean-sized eyes searched around and finally locked onto Jiang Yan and the other four in front of it.

At this time, Ye Fengjiao also saw the wild boar chasing behind her, and she panicked. She quickly looked at Jiang Yan and the other three in front of her and shouted, “Wait for me, wait for me, don’t leave me behind.”

Everyone is busy escaping, no one has time to care about her.

Jiang Yan wouldn’t care about her anyway.

But the wild boar was too fast and the distance between it and the people was closing quickly.

Jiang Yan knew she couldn’t outrun him, so she quickly looked around.

Seeing a big tree in front of her that was easy to climb, she hurriedly said, “Climb the tree. Find a way to climb up the tree.”

While shouting, Jiang Yan changed direction and ran towards the big tree, followed closely by He Hongxiu and others.

After a while, Jiang Yan found that her sisters-in-law had all run ahead of her, and only Ye Fengjiao, who was farther away, was still cursing behind them.

Jiang Yan despised her own weak body in her heart and rushed forward with all her strength.

At this time, He Hongxiu and the other two had already climbed up the tree. Their movements were so agile, as if they had run the tree thousands of times.

Jiang Yan suddenly remembered that they were all from the countryside and climbing trees was their specialty!

“Girl, run faster.”

“Come on, girl.”

He Hongxiu and the other two who had already climbed up the tree were extremely anxious. They could see more clearly from their high vantage point and knew that the wild boar was very close, less than twenty meters away from Jiang Yan.

Fortunately, Jiang Yan had already run over, and He Hongxiu and Yuan Sufeng pulled Jiang Yan up from the left and right.

Bang!

The wild boar slammed into the tree trunk, and the waist-thick branches and leaves kept shaking. Jiang Yan quietly grabbed the branch at hand.

Fortunately, the tree branch was more than two meters above the ground, and the wild boar was too heavy to climb up, so it could only circle around the tree.

Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief temporarily. Across from her, Ye Fengjiao also climbed up another tree, hugging the trunk and shivering. No one knew how she managed to climb up with her physique.

Seeing Ye Fengjiao’s cowardly look, Jiang Yan was furious and cursed for the first time, “Ye Fengjiao, you are such a disaster. Why are you following us instead of staying at home?”

Ye Fengjiao looked at the wild boar under the tree fearfully. Seeing the wild boars surrounding the tree where Jiang Yan and the others were, she seemed to be gloating and retorted, “Why do you say that I follow you? So you are the only ones who can go up the mountain to pick mushrooms and no one else is allowed to?”

As he was speaking, the wild boar under the tree slammed into the trunk again, but the tree was too big and the wild boar was not strong enough to shake it.

So the wild boar turned around and looked at the tree where Ye Fengjiao was.

Seeing this, Feng Yingchun said, “Ye Fengjiao, hold on tight. I heard that wild boars also eat meat.”