My 1995 Small Farm.

Wang Susu also suffered terribly during her postpartum period.

Although women who have given birth vaginally can take a bath a week later, according to traditional customs in our country, they are not allowed to take a full-body bath during the postpartum period.

I just wipe it with a hot towel often.

This way you can avoid getting your face and hands dirty, otherwise sweating will make you feel uncomfortable.

However, simply wiping is not as refreshing as taking a bath.

Seeing that Chen Ling and Rui Rui had finished showering, Wang Susu was also tempted.

But when Chen Ling moved the bathtub upstairs to the bedroom and adjusted the water temperature, she felt embarrassed.

She had just untied her hair tie and let her hair hang down when she became shy and refused to take off her clothes again.

"You... why don't I wash it myself? You can continue with your work and finish catching up on the letters."

"what?"

Chen Ling laughed and said, "We're an old married couple, why are you still shy?"

Wang Susu pursed her lips, wanting to say something, but then felt a little embarrassed. "I'm not shy, you can turn around first."

She's really not shy at all; we're an old married couple, there's nothing to be shy about.

The main problem is that my recovery after giving birth to my second child was slower than when I had Rui Rui, and my belly also looked worse...

It's not really being pretentious.

It's not that she recovers slowly, but rather that she often feels ugly herself.

He was a little reluctant to take off his clothes in front of Chen Ling.

"Okay, okay, I'll turn around. Hurry up and take off your clothes and come in, the water will get cold soon."

Chen Ling still felt sorry for his wife, so he turned away.

They slept in the same bed, so he knew what his wife was thinking.

He figured out what was going on when they told him not to wipe his body during his postpartum confinement and instead had his mother-in-law do it.

However, this was purely Wang Susu's overthinking.

Once he uses the fruits and vegetables from the cave to complement it and raises it more, it will recover quickly.

With a rustling sound, Wang Susu finally entered the bathtub, letting out a soft gasp, "Hiss~"

"What's wrong? Is it hot?"

Chen Ling quickly turned around.

Wang Susu nodded and said, "It is a little hot, but it's okay. You'll get used to it and it will be just right. It's better to be a little hot than cold."

"Okay, I'll rub your back."

Chen Ling stretched out his hand and began to scrub his wife's back.

Wiping during postpartum confinement is not as thorough as scrubbing in the body.

Moreover, during the postpartum period, she was always covered up and kept stuffy, sweating profusely every day, and even wiping her body with a hot towel couldn't completely clean her body.

Now, if you rub your body, you inevitably end up with dirt.

Wang Susu initially thought her postpartum belly looked particularly unsightly, but now, seeing all this mud floating up after Chen Ling rubbed it out...

I closed my eyes and thought, "Forget it, I don't care anymore."

After Chen Ling washed her clean and changed the water again,

A fragrant and delicious new bride is ready.

Chen Ling even subconsciously sniffed. It smelled good, really.

The little beauties nurtured by the fine things in the cave truly have a natural fragrance.

A faint, elusive fragrance.

She has a curvaceous figure and has given birth twice, yet she doesn't seem to have lost her youthful vitality.

Truly, she is more beautiful than the flowers.

After washing her hair once, Chen Ling picked up a ladle and used it to scoop hot water to wash his wife's hair.

Warm hot water slowly poured down over my head.

In an instant, my scalp felt warm and comfortable.

"It feels so good," Wang Susu said, her eyes closed, almost letting out a cry.

"Feeling good? Let me massage your scalp again. Kang Kang and Le Le are such a handful. This past month has exhausted their mother."

Chen Ling chuckled and reached out to massage his wife's head.

"Comfortable."

Wang Susu responded softly, then added, "Don't even mention Kang Kang and Le Le, you're never giving me a moment's peace either."

"How have I ever caused you any trouble?"

Chen Ling was indignant upon hearing this, and his two paws began to wriggle a bit.

Starting from the head and moving downwards.

"You... don't do anything reckless. Your parents are still awake. Your father is still steaming medicinal herbs in the backyard."

She knew that Chen Ling had been holding back for so long and it was indeed a bit tough, but her parents were still staying there and hadn't gone to sleep yet.

They were steaming medicinal herbs over a fire in the kitchen.

It is said that some snakes also need to be dealt with.

I guess they'll go to sleep very late.

Both of them had been holding back for too long, so they dared not do anything reckless.

Besides, there are two little kids around...

If you get carried away and forget everything, you'll probably make a complete mess of things.

"Oh, trust me, I really won't do anything wrong, I'll just give you a simple massage."

Chen Ling's mouth and hands each had their own ideas.

……

The next morning, Chen Ling ate a quick breakfast and then went into the mountains feeling refreshed.

In short, according to him, it felt like a short separation was better than a new marriage.

My heart was pounding.

The same lineup we had yesterday is going into the mountains again.

There were two children, Heiwa and Xiaojin, a family of weasels, and Ertuzi.

However, I also came here today on a mission from my father-in-law.

The old man told him to catch some snakes along the way, depending on the situation.

If it exists, it exists; if it doesn't, then so be it.

This is nothing to Chen Ling; he has an enhanced version of snake-attracting medicine, and he can definitely find it if he wants to.

Let's try sprinkling it into the sinkhole then.

That place is low-lying and should be suitable for snakes to live in.

Yesterday, Heiwa and Ertuzi had a strong reaction.

Chen Ling chased after them relentlessly.

They also didn't notice the scenery along the way.

I felt more relaxed today.

Furthermore, we also ascertained the basic situation there yesterday.

He even brought a camera.

Since we set off very early today, we took our time walking.

In this way, he discovered many differences between the present and the past.

The biggest difference lies in the vegetation.

Various herbs are everywhere.

For example, the Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum sibiricum) plants are the kind you can spot at a glance when you walk down the street; they're all still very small, having just started growing this year.

Chen Ling saw them but didn't dig them up.

Various kinds of wild mushrooms are also thriving, with an ever-increasing variety.

What impressed Chen Ling the most was that he came from the mountain behind his own home.

This is what the village often refers to as Beishan...

Beishan has always been known for its many poisonous insects and is quite eerie.

Looking back on this year, wow, the trees are laden with wild fruit just as much as those on the western hills.

The branches were laden with bright yellow wild pears and persimmons.

Magpies, tits, and light-vented bulbuls hopped around, not even running away when people came, leaving the ground under the trees covered with pitted and bruised fruit, splattered with juice and unrecognizable.

There were also many insects crawling around, emitting a pungent smell, which made Chen Ling unwilling to stay any longer.

"There are way too many wild pears. If canned pears don't sell well, pear syrup would be a good alternative."

Chen Ling looked around.

I thought to myself, "I should make some pear syrup for the children when I get back, so that Zhenzhen can take it with her to school."

"Good heavens, such a large piece of Sanghuang, and it has grown so much."

Chen Ling stopped again and found clusters of Sanghuang (a type of medicinal herb) on a mulberry tree. Sanghuang looks like a mushroom, but it's not actually a mushroom; it's a medicinal herb.

It grows on the mulberry tree and looks like a yellow mushroom.

But like wood, it's very hard.

"Hey, Susu will be so happy to bring back so much."

Phellinus linteus is not easy to find. Sometimes, even people in the mountains don't know what it's used for. It feels hard to the touch and can't be eaten like a mushroom, so they just cut it down.

We continued walking until we reached a damp, shady spot in the middle of a mountain pass.

In a narrow mountain crevice, just wide enough for two people to pass through.

After passing through the mountain pass, in the open area, there were several mound-shaped places covered with dense moss, and on the moss were brightly colored mushrooms.

It looks fake at first glance.

The main problem was that the mushrooms were too brightly colored.

It feels like stepping into a dreamlike mushroom castle, so unreal.

Moreover, the moss under the mushrooms can be described as 'lush'.

Lush moss.

Chen Ling was immediately interested in that thing. He could skip picking the mushrooms, but he absolutely had to get some of this moss.

I'll take good care of it then. Whether I try keeping it in a fish tank or creating a small landscape, it will be beautiful.

Besides moss, what attracted Chen Ling the most were the various wild vines.

Of course, it's not the kind of wild vine that's laden with kiwis and other fruits.

It includes medicinal herbs, and many of them are unidentifiable.

So many branches and leaves hang down from one side of the cliff, thick and long, with lush foliage, they are very beautiful.

Chen Ling even tried swinging on the swing a couple of times, and it could withstand all his fussing.

"Things are steadily improving; I should release something more."

As Chen Ling pondered, he released birds out of the cave again, knowing that many birds liked to nest on vines.

They even released several kinds of parrots.

These parrots were the ones he bought from the city.

Back then, it was bought for Rui Rui.

But after buying it, I didn't take it out.

Rui Rui has everything he needs. He can play with toy chickens and quails until he gets tired of them, then put them aside. His favorite toys are his little white elephant and his little turtle.

So Chen Ling got too lazy to keep them outside anymore.

There are already few parrots in the Qinling Mountains, and the native parrot species are not very diverse.

Bringing them out now is to enhance their appearance.

And so they traveled and played along the way.

Finally, as the sun rose higher and higher, Chen Ling entered the Qinling Mountains.

The mountain near the large pond is getting closer and closer.

Chen Ling slowed his pace, allowing the two dogs to approach quietly as well.

He saw a herd of sika deer and a herd of wild boars. The two groups were not large, about seven or eight meters apart, like country folk going to a market. They walked slowly through the mountains towards the pond.

"Go every day?"

Chen Ling muttered to himself.

Then he waved to the two dogs and said, "Come on, let's follow them. We won't cause any trouble today, we'll just wander around with them."

After saying that, he released Er Tuzi into the sky to keep watch.

……

This went on for another two and a half days.

Chen Ling understood the basic situation.

It's in this place called Dashuitang.

Every day during the day, wild animals from within a radius of four or five kilometers come here to drink water and lick salt.

Wild sheep have come, wild deer have come, mountain donkeys have come, even sheep and deer have come...

The roe deer is a type of roe deer and is related to the Siberian roe deer.

In the past, the locals called it "Yangluzi".

It is very rare in the mountains.

This is the first time it has appeared this year.

In short, almost all wild animals, except for the timid muntjacs and roe deer that prefer to stay alone on a mountain, will come to visit the area near the large pond.

With more grass-like animals, carnivorous animals that feed on them will naturally be attracted.

Large animals like wolves, jackals, and leopards, and smaller animals like clouded leopards, foxes, golden cats, and even mountain leopards, all came to join the fun.

Thus, one predator-prey battle after another unfolded day after day by the pond.

Of course, aside from the things that happen between wild animals in the mountains.

...Even sinkholes will not be forgotten to be explored.

Along this section of the Qinling Mountains, there are pot-shaped pits of varying sizes and depths on the mountaintops.

These sinkholes, even the smaller ones, can be up to 100 meters in diameter.

As for something even larger, Chen Ling, being alone, didn't have a specific concept of what that meant, but he figured the diameter must have exceeded one thousand meters.

The depth isn't that outrageous.

Mostly between fifty and one hundred meters.

The sinkhole near the large pond is only of medium size.

He even suspected that the lake in the mountains, which was previously known as Yeren Gully, was also formed and evolved from a sinkhole.

Sinkholes are nothing special; they're just formed when meteorites fall from the sky.

It can be found in many places.

I wonder how many years ago these things from their area were made.

"There are so many sinkholes here. I've been exploring for so long and I still haven't seen them all. There must be dozens..."

Chen Ling calculated in his mind that the number sounded outrageous.

But in the Qinling Mountains, this is not even the most abundant; it doesn't even rank among the top.

"There are many treasures in the sinkhole. I won't tell anyone yet. These things are so big and deep that even if I told outsiders, they wouldn't dare to climb them... I'll keep it as a secret base for now..."

Chen Ling did mention it to his family, but he didn't say anything else.

His father-in-law asked him to catch snakes, and he brought back more than two hundred snakes of all sizes in one day, many of which were venomous.

The old man was naturally puzzled.

Even snake-attracting drugs are hard to come by.

This is even more outrageous than stirring up a snake pit.

Then he said it was caused by a sinkhole, that the place was deep and damp, and many places were dark, inhabited by many snakes.

This is the truth.

He thoroughly explored the sinkhole near the large pond.

The environment inside is truly exceptional.

When Chen Ling first used the snake-attracting medicine, he was immediately thrown into a panic because there were too many snakes crawling over.

If it weren't for the cave within my body, and the help of dogs, eagles, and weasels, I probably would have been bitten by these snakes.

This is not an exaggeration.

Some snakes crawl incredibly fast, which is extremely frightening.

Besides these, Chen Ling also made a discovery: other sinkholes also have springs, and the water flowing, streams, and pools formed there are clearer than this one, but there are no wild animals gathering there.

That's really strange.

"roar~"

A roar came from the mountains on the opposite bank of the pond, startling a group of wild animals.

Chen Ling was in a tree, sitting on a thick tree trunk, looking down.

Then we saw a black bear burst out of the forest and charge toward the pond.

They didn't look like they were there to drink water, nor did they look like they were there to hunt.

It didn't even glance at the deer and wild sheep leaping away beside it, heading straight for the pond.

This black bear was very large and robust, with a crescent-shaped patch of white fur on its chest. Although it was called white fur, it was actually dirty and yellowish. The crescent shape no longer looked like a crescent but rather like a herringbone pattern.

With a "plop," the black bear leaped up and jumped directly into the pond.

Jumping in wasn't enough; they clumsily waded through the water, swimming deeper into the depths.

Chen Ling looked on in confusion.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound was heard, and a large swarm of bees flew over.

Chen Ling suddenly realized: "So this is a bear that steals honey."