Taking Liu Yifei back to Northeast China for the Chinese New Year has sent the entire internet into

The group walked and stopped intermittently for about half an hour.

The sun finally rose fully over the Greater Khingan Mountains.

The sunlight crossed the eastern mountain ridge and slanted into the dense pine forest.

Light seeped in, little by little, inch by inch.

The ice crystals, which were originally invisible floating in the air, became bright when the sunlight shone on them.

At that moment, the light took shape.

Bundle after bundle.

Straight and still.

It looked as if someone had lowered countless transparent threads from the sky.

Passing through branches, passing through rime ice.

It plunged all the way down onto the snow.

The procession came to a silent stop.

No one shouted for them to stop, but everyone stopped at the same time.

Fang Yu happened to be standing next to a pillar of light.

Golden dust settled on the snow and frost on his hat brim and shoulders, sparkling brightly.

This man, whose mouth never stops moving, even slowed his breathing at this moment.

I was afraid that if I took a deep breath, I would blow the painting in front of me away.

Liu Yifei stood half a step behind him.

She tilted her little face up and reached out her gloved hand to touch the light.

Of course you won't run into them.

He made a finger gesture in mid-air, then withdrew it.

Fang Yu didn't turn around, but simply stretched his hand behind him.

Liu Yifei saw it, smiled slightly, and put her hand over.

Two hands, just like that, clasped together in the light.

In the live stream, the barrage of comments that were originally filled with "Superstar Transformation" and "Hahahaha" suddenly experienced a brief pause.

Everyone forgot to type.

Immediately afterwards—

Holy crap... I'm practically kneeling down to look at my phone!

[The lighting and shadows! The texture! Even movies wouldn't dare shoot like this! Special effects can't capture this quality!]

[It's so beautiful! The winter scenery of the Greater Khingan Mountains is absolutely breathtaking!! How come I never knew that before!]

[Absolutely stunning Tyndall effect! I was just laughing at their unfashionable clothes, but now I only regret not being standing in that snowy field!]

[I took a screenshot of Fang Yu and the Celestial Fairy standing in the pillar of light... I'm going to set it as my wallpaper, nobody can stop me!]

The other members of the group were celebrities who were used to big events.

They were all stunned at that moment.

Hua Yu even forgot how sore her legs were.

He stared blankly up at the beams of light piercing through the forest.

Hua Yu's usual aesthetic preferences have always been very modern.

Cool color scheme.

Industrial feel.

Geometric lines.

But the unadorned, magnificent beauty of nature still shattered all his aesthetic barriers.

He even subconsciously wanted to take out his phone to take a picture.

He reached out halfway, then abruptly pulled his hand back.

—No, keep it up.

Zhang Manyu gently pulled down her heavy mask, letting the cold, fresh air fill her lungs.

A girlish light shone in her eyes, which were full of stories.

Chen Daoming leaned on his wooden cane, gazing quietly into the depths of the forest.

After a long silence, he finally let out a long sigh.

"The universe is truly wondrous..."

He paused, then added.

"Having lived to this age, I thought I had seen all kinds of scenery."

"I only realized today that I was like a frog in a well, with a limited view of the sky."

Just as everyone was completely immersed in this divine scenery and couldn't tear themselves away...

Fang Daqiang, who was at the very front, suddenly pointed to the right front, breaking the silence.

"Cheer up, everyone!"

"We've got some work to do!"

Everyone perked up and immediately looked in the direction his stick was pointing.

It was less than five meters away from them.

A huge, withered tree lay across the snowdrift.

It's estimated to be about half a meter in diameter; I wonder when it fell down.

The bark had rotted away and most of it had fallen off, revealing a grayish-white, decaying trunk.

It lay quietly in the snowdrift, half its body buried under the snow and half exposed.

The exposed tree trunks were covered with dense patches of dark brown bumps.

At first glance, it looks no different from a pile of burnt charcoal.

It was dry, wrinkled, and dark.

It looked inconspicuous, even a bit ugly, in this icy and snowy landscape.

If Fang Daqiang hadn't pointed it out, everyone would probably have stepped over it without even bothering to look down.

Ju Jingyi was the first to react, excitedly raising the snakeskin sack in her hand.

"Mountain products!"

"It's a mountain product, isn't it?!"

"Uncle Daqiang, what kind of expensive mushroom is this? Is it a black truffle from Northeast China?!"

This girl clearly did a lot of homework last night.

The direction was wrong.

Fang Daqiang stepped forward, patted the piece of dead wood with his gloved hand, and grinned.

"Girl, what are you dreaming about? This isn't a mushroom, and it's definitely not a truffle."

"This is genuine wild black fungus from the old forests of Northeast China!"

"Frozen wood ear mushrooms are those that freeze on trees in winter."

Hua Yu took a closer look at the dry, dark thing, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.

"Is...is this edible?"

It's no wonder Hua Yu was disgusted.

This frozen wood ear mushroom is no exaggeration.

The presentation was appalling.

The black, scar-like patches were stuck to the old tree trunk; let alone eating them.

If you put it on a supermarket shelf, it probably wouldn't even make it into the promotional area.

Fang Yu had already wandered over there without anyone noticing.

He casually broke off a piece of frozen wood ear fungus from the tree trunk, squeezed it in his hand, and found it to be rock hard.

Seeing Hua Yu's disgusted expression, Fang Yu chuckled.

"Teacher Hua, don't let its current appearance fool you, it's a good thing."

"The wood ear mushrooms that grow thinner after being nourished by summer rains are very juicy."

"But the frozen wood ear mushrooms that grow in the dead of winter are dried on the tree at minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius."

He pinched the black lump and shook it.

"Take it home, soak it in warm water, and it'll immediately become thicker and meatier, with a really chewy texture!"

Chen Daoming, who hadn't said much until now, also became interested and nodded repeatedly.

"Xiao Fang is right."

The old man leaned closer to examine the piece of dead wood and said with a smile:

I'd heard about it before.

"The naturally freeze-dried autumn and winter fungus in this old forest are thick and crisp, much better than those grown in greenhouses. It is a unique gift from this black soil."

He looked at Fang Daqiang, pulled his thick sleeves tighter, and his eyes gleamed with eager anticipation.

"Brother Daqiang, how do we harvest this stuff?"

"Simple."

Fang Daqiang pulled a short wooden stick from his lower back and gestured next to the frozen wood ear mushrooms.

"Don't pull it off directly with your hands."

"The weather is too cold, the wood ear mushrooms are frozen solid, frozen to the tree bark."

"If you try to pull it off forcefully, you'll tear off a piece of rotten bark from underneath, ruining its appearance."

"Take a small stick and gently tap along the base—"

Fang Daqiang flicked his wrist.

The movements were minimal, clean, and efficient.

"Thud!"

A perfectly intact, dark brown frozen wood ear mushroom fell off and gently landed on the snow.

It is clean and tidy, with not a single piece of bark or debris on the bottom.

Fang Daqiang bent down, picked up the frozen wood ear mushroom, flicked off the snowflakes with his thumb, and smiled at everyone.

"Did you learn it?"

"Got it!"

Ju Jingyi broke off a sturdy dry branch nearby and squatted down in front of the dead tree.

Without any concern for her image, she bent over with her thick cotton pants sticking out and started banging on the tree trunk.

My first two strikes were clumsy, and I hit too hard, tearing off a large chunk of bark along with the tree trunk.

"Hey, be gentle, be gentle!" Fang Daqiang quickly shouted.

Ju Jingyi stuck out her tongue and adjusted her strength.

On the third strike, there was finally a "thud".

A whole, clean piece of frozen wood ear mushroom fell off.

"I found it!!"

She picked up the frozen wood ear mushroom and examined it closely for two seconds.

His face was practically overflowing with satisfaction.