After those who came and went hurriedly finally left, Zhuang Yan followed them out for a while. When he went back, he saw the young man called Wan Tianning, squat down by the wooden door which was already in disrepair. It looked like he was trying to hold the door up, Zhuang Yan quickly rushed over to help.

“Tianning, this is your name, right?” Zhuang Yan squatted down beside the boy and called out his name. He was apologetic, for if it hadn’t been for him, the door to the boy’s house wouldn’t have been broken.

Seeing that his attention was on the door, Zhuang Yan rushed to comfort him, “Tianning, it’s okay, I’ll fix it for you.” When Zhuang Yan said he would fix the door, he immediately got to work.

Zhuang Yan sneaked a glance at Wan Tianning. He had come to this strange world all of a sudden without any preparation, but since he had come, he had to find a way to survive. Last night, after he found out that Wan Tianning was an orphan, he wanted to take him home with him. But now he himself couldn’t even go back, so he hoped that this young man would take him in.

“Tianning, can you take me in?” Although this place was dilapidated, it was a place to stay, a shelter for him, moreover Tianning had saved his life, so he was counted as his benefactor.

From now on, they would depend on each other for survival and he would work hard to improve their lives.

Zhuang Yan looked at Wan Tianning with expectation. Without surprise, Wan Tianning nodded his head and after that, Zhuang Yan burst into laughter. The whole person was relieved since the anxiety he felt at being transported to a different world had dissipated, at least he now had a home and a direction to work towards.

Zhuang Yan smiled at the wooden door in his hand. Last time, he was helping to fix the wooden door. But now he was doing his own work, and this would be his home from now on.

“By the way, Tianning, what did that man mean by saying that? What does he mean by ‘a ger’ picking up a man and taking him home ‘indiscreetly’? Isn’t ger also a man?” Just now, that man had said a lot of unpleasant things, and Zhuang Yan remembered a few things that he did not understand.

He didn’t know how a child who saved him by taking him home could be inappropriate? But those people left in a hurry without waiting for him to understand, as if they were afraid to stay with him for even a little longer, so he could only ask the person in front of him.

As if he had been stumped by Zhuang Yan’s words, Wan Tianning froze for a while, then came back to his senses, nodding and shaking his head at the same time. At this point, Zhuang Yan did not know what he was going to say, so he could only say something more important, that he wanted to go to the town. 

He wanted to go to the nearest town to the village, he knew nothing about this world and he was penniless, he couldn’t let Wan Tianning raise him, ba, he had to earn money as soon as possible. 

When Zhuang Yan said he wanted to go to the city, Wan Tianning reacted immediately. Zhuang Yan thought they were going to the city, but Wan Tianning had a rather shabby backpack basket ready to go, with a curved blade to cut grain in his hand, so he was obviously going to work on the field.

When Wan Tianning wanted to work in the fields, Zhuang Yan naturally had to follow him. It was unreasonable to let the boy go to the fields while he was idle.

As he went out with the others, Zhuang Yan casually took the opportunity to observe this small village.

The village was quite large, and from a distance there must have been a hundred or so families, some gathered together, some scattered around the village, but the center of the village was probably the most popular place, with dozens of families.

Looking at the landscape, the village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a large river in front of it and endless mountains behind it. The undulating mountains stretch out for an unknown distance, their peaks rising one above the other as if there was no end in sight. There are still a few wisps of white smoke on the top of the mountains, probably the fog that has not yet cleared.

It was only after the two of them had walked for a while that Zhuang Yan realized that they were going up the mountain and not down to the field. They didn’t meet many people and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Zhuang Yan took initiative to take the blade from Wan Tianning’s hand and went off to chop wood himself.

While Zhuang Yan was chopping wood, Wan Tianning didn’t stay idle either, he went to collect dry firewood sticks. Zhuang Yan was busy with his own work, chopping and bundling firewood in one go, and in a short while he had cut four bundles of firewood.

There was almost enough firewood to burn for a few days. The scythe was too difficult to cut the firewood, but the machete and axe were better.

Zhuang Yan was done with his work here yet he couldn’t find the little black-faced boy. He thought that a child couldn’t have gotten very far. After raising his voice a little and calling out to him, because he found no response, he shouted some more.

After a few more shouts and no response, Zhuang Yan went in the direction he had left.

In late autumn, the mountains are very dry and dry. It was a good thing that Zhuang Yan had grown up in the mountains and did not find the paths difficult to walk on, as long as he paid attention to his feet and stepped on the bumps or dips, or the roots of the stumps and trees, so that he would not fall down.

Moreover, the forest is full of trees. It is even more secure to climb with both hands.

Zhuang Yan called out for a while,yet Wan Tianning was still nowhere to be seen. He then became anxious, but he dared not go too far, fearing that he might miss Wan Tianning when he had returned. However, while he was anxious, he heard a response.

It was still early when Zhuang Yan came out, but now the sun was creeping up the mountain slopes through the village, and the whole mountain forest was now bathed in sunlight.

Following the sound of the sun, Zhuang Yan finally saw the man he was anxiously searching for. He was standing about ten meters away from him. The young man was holding a large tree root in his hand, and the sun was shining on his face as he was smiling brightly. Because of his dark face, his neat little white teeth became even whiter.

“Tianning, let’s go back.” With a sigh of relief, Zhuang Yan waved at the person, but that person standing over there instead waved at him, obviously calling him over.

Zhuang Yan looked back at his firewood and then looked around to confirm his position before hurrying over.

Wan Tianning must have found something, Zhuang Yan thought so, therefore he followed behind him until they had gone about a hundred meters. Wan Tianning pointed to a place not far from them and stopped.

Wan Tianning pointed to the grass in the distance and laughed, and Zhuang Yen was happy too. He knew there was a lot of good stuff in the mountains like this, “Want to show me inside?”

“Ah!”

“There’s something inside?”

“Hn hn.”

“Okay, I’ll go and take a look. Put down the stuff in your hand first, it should be quite heavy.” Looking in the direction Wan Tianning was pointing, Zhuang Yan found that there was a bush with a lot of dead grass at the roots, and over the years the withered grass had reached the center of the trunk.

As he slowly peeled away the dry grass, Zhuang Yan actually felt something in his heart, but when the five or six wild eggs caught his eyes, Zhuang Yan smiled as he narrowed his eyes, as expected ah! 

He hurriedly and carefully picked up the wild chicken’s eggs, Zhuang Yan even especially leaving two of it behind, causing the young man next to him to point at the hen nest with two more eggs in it as he looked puzzled. Zhuang Yan hurriedly explained to the others, “We have to leave two eggs for the hen, otherwise she will find that her babies are gone and she will move her nest. Then we won’t be able to find it next time.”

Hearing Zhuang Yan’s explanation, Wan Tianning’s face was still frozen, but he soon smiled, still nodding heavily at Zhuang Yan.

When they returned home, Zhuang Yan went on to repair the wooden door, while Wan Tianning started cooking. It was then that Zhuang Yan realized why they had to go to the mountains to cut firewood, as there was no firewood at all in home.