Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11730

Behind the village, there is a hillside at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by shade from trees. The soil beneath your feet is covered with all kinds of grass and wild flowers.

There are also wild plants as high as the knees, full of various small wild fruits.

The red ones are wild strawberries, sour and sweet, and the white ones that grow in clusters are a kind of wild fruit called rice grains.

"We call this wild rice, and we eat it in bundles. Look, just like me."

Luo Wuyou squatted down, picked a bunch of wild rice in his hand and threw it into his mouth.

"It's so sweet, very sweet, Jinling, try it."

"Okay, I'll try it too."

The two squatted together. Luo Wuyou showed his enthusiasm as a host and took the initiative to pass the wild rice he picked to Zuo Jinling's mouth, "Open your mouth, I'll feed you."

Zuo Jinling blushed, but still opened his mouth obediently. When he ate the wild rice that Luo Wuyou fed to his mouth, his lips accidentally touched her hand.

Suddenly, as if by a branding iron, both of them were burned at the same time, and they were separated almost instantly.

Both of them blushed, and for a few breaths, they didn't look at each other.

Finally, it was Zuo Jinling who broke the awkward silence. "It's really delicious. Green... what's green?"

"Haha, it sounds so green," Luo Wuyou turned around and said with a smile, "This is the dialect in our area."

“I see.” Zuo Jinling nodded and learned another sentence of the Mianniu Mountain dialect.

"Jinling, do you have any dialect over there? Speak a few words for me to hear!"

It's no wonder that Luo Wuyou asked this, because she had been to Huguang County several times, and Old Madam Zuo, Uncle Jun Mo, and Jinling all spoke Mandarin. They also spoke Mandarin at home, which made communication more convenient.

Zuo Jinling thought for a moment and said, "I really don't know where to start if you suddenly ask me to talk about this. How about you give me a question?"

"Okay, let me think about it." Luo Wuyou frowned slightly, biting a piece of grass in his mouth, "Are you comfortable? How do you say it?"

"Are you happy?"

"Haha," Luo Wuyou clapped his hands, "Interesting. Let me think about it... What should I say? Hmm..."

"I don't like you."

"What?" Luo Wuyou, who was thinking hard, opened his eyes wide, "Jinling, what did you say just now?"

"No, nothing." Zuo Jinling shook his head gently, his eyes evasive with a guilty look.

"Oh," Fortunately, Luo Wuyou did not ask any further questions. She stood up, stomped the ground with her feet, and said to Zuo Jinling: "Jinling, we have eaten. Come, I will teach you how to catch cicada monkeys."

Zuo Jinling also stood up: "Okay, you teach me."

Luo Wuyou took Zuo Jinling and crouched down to search in this area, teaching him the tricks of searching as they went.

Then, she squatted down in front of a small hole, holding a piece of grass root in her hand, and slowly put it into the thumb-sized hole.

"Just watch, there will be a reaction in a moment."

Zuo Jinling nodded, and the two of them squatted together, their heads unconsciously put together.

They all held their breath, and all four of them stared at the cave entrance.

After a dozen breaths, a trembling thing that looked like a pair of pliers or a tentacle stretched out.

Luo Wuyou gently stirred the grass roots in his hand a few times, and then more pliers came out and firmly grasped the grass roots.

"Ha, you've taken the bait."

Luo Wuyou suppressed his excitement and slowly moved the grass roots out inch by inch.

Zuo Jinling also stared at the movement of the grass roots in her hand without blinking, and the handsome face of the young man flushed with excitement.

"It's done!"

Luo Wuyou's clear voice rang out, and she gently picked the cicada monkeys off the grass roots and put them into a long bamboo tube with a lid that she brought from home.

This bamboo tube is as thick as an adult's arm and has a lid, which allows air to flow all around. When the lid is closed, the cicada monkey cannot escape from inside.

"Sister Wuyou, you are so awesome!" Zuo Jinling looked at the cicada monkey jumping around in the bamboo tube and praised Luo Wuyou sincerely.

"Hey, I've been learning from the children in the village since I was a child. If you had learned it since elementary school, you would definitely be able to do it too." "It's not too late for me to learn now. How about I give it a try?"

"Okay, come on."

Next, under the hands-on instruction of his master Luo Wuyou, Zuo Jinling quickly got the hang of it. He fished out cicada monkeys from the holes one by one and put them into bamboo tubes.

By the time the sun was setting and hanging over the western hillside, and finally disappeared into the hillside bit by bit, the bamboo tubes the two men had brought were already filled with cicada monkeys, and were heavy.

"It can't fit. It weighs at least three kilograms." Luo Wuyou said.

Zuo Jinling looked around at the sky and suggested, "It's getting late, shall we go back to the village?"

"Okay, I'll lead the way..."

Because the two were busy catching cicada monkeys in the woods, they walked a little too deep without realizing it and ended up deep in the forest.

However, Luo Wuyou walked for a while, stopped, stood there and looked around.

"What's wrong, Sister Wuyou?" Zuo Jinling followed behind her and asked.

Seeing her confused look, Zuo Jinling thought to himself, could she be lost?
But when I thought about it again, I thought it was impossible.

Because Sister Wuyou's camp is in the mountains. She often goes in and out of the mountains alone, so she won't get lost in the woods at the foot of the mountain...

However, the next moment, Luo Wuyou's answer broke Zuo Jinling's guess.

"Jinling, let me say something, and you have to promise not to laugh at me."

"No matter what you say, I won't laugh at you."

"I, I seem to be lost..."

what?
Zuo Jinling was speechless.

Luo Wuyou pulled the ends of her high ponytail awkwardly and her face turned red.

How did I get lost? This is my territory!
But where is the exit of this forest? How come after going around in a big circle, I still end up back here?
"Don't worry, I'll help you find a way out."

Zuo Jinling said that when he was walking behind her, his attention was not on the exit of the forest at all...

"But you didn't grow up in this area. How can we find you?"

"I have my own way."

As Zuo Jinling spoke, he took out a compass-like object from his body and held it in his palm.

"Wow, this thing looks like it has some tricks!"

Luo Wuyou also came closer to him and saw a lot of words she recognized written on the compass, but when the words were put together, she couldn't understand what they meant.

There is also a red needle swinging gently on the compass, with the amplitude of the swing sometimes large and sometimes small.

"This way, follow me." Zuo Jinling said, walking forward.

Luo Wuyou followed behind.

"It's you, Jinling, who came up with such a great treasure at the critical moment!"

"This thing is a compass, an heirloom from my family. If you like it, I can give it to you."

"Really?" Luo Wuyou was very happy, but then waved his hand: "Forget it, even if you give it to me, I can't use it. I can't even understand it!"

"I can teach you..."

"No, this is something passed down from your family. It's not nice to give it to me."

Zuo Jinling looked at her deeply and said nothing.

This thing will be hers sooner or later, because what is his is hers.

But now is not the time to talk about those things, especially right now, we have to get her out of here before dark.

He always felt that this forest was a little strange, but he couldn't tell exactly what was wrong...

When the sun was still hanging in the sky, everything was normal. It seemed that after the sun gradually sank behind the mountainside, a mist seemed to float through the forest, and then, something started to go wrong...