I'm a web novelist, and you want me to work in the entertainment industry?

"Super Mario? Where is it? Where is it?!" Xia Ziyi suddenly appeared out of nowhere, looking excited.

Although she had never played the game, who hasn't heard of Super Mario?

She followed Cheng Che and Tian Xiwei's gaze and was immediately filled with surprise:

"Really?! Can we eat this?"

"I can eat it," Cheng Che said.

A bright light shone in Xia Ziyi's eyes.

Angel Mushroom!

"It's just that eating it could kill you."

The light in Xia Ziyi's eyes went out.

Evil mushroom!

Tian Xiwei asked curiously, "Do you recognize this mushroom?"

"I don't know it," Cheng Che shook his head, "but I have a rhyme in my head."

"What rhyme?"

"Red umbrella, white pole, let's lie down together after eating."

"Lie down on the plank, bury the mountain, and all our relatives and friends will come to eat."

He then added, "So Mario's ability to grow bigger and smaller by eating mushrooms is likely a hallucination caused by poisoning."

Tian Xiwei scratched her head, and Xia Ziyi also scratched her head.

[A catchy rhyme that's easy to understand, but isn't it a little too simplistic? (scratching head)]

How can this not be considered a contribution to raising awareness of safety in the local area?

So friends, don't let your plumber eat poisonous mushrooms!

[Safety education has been done well, but what about my childhood fantasies?]

Nobody cares about your childhood fantasies.

After playing around for a while, Xia Ziyi ran off excitedly with the newly learned rhyme in her hand, and went to continue collecting various poisonous mushrooms.

Liu Xianhua silently stood up from under the old pine tree and followed behind her, trying to continue implementing his singing teaching plan.

Unfortunately, Xia Jie's current interest in "Red Umbrella White Pole" far outweighs her interest in learning to sing from him.

As a result, the core members of the mushroom-collecting team were reduced to only three: Cheng Che, Tian Xiwei, and Xu Anan.

Over the next period of time, the three of them found three more types of mushrooms that they needed.

However, the chanterelle mushrooms that Tian Xiwei needed to find and the porcini mushrooms that Teacher Yan needed to find were nowhere to be found.

"Since things have come to this, let's go down the mountain first," Cheng Che suggested.

As the sun rose higher, most of the good mushrooms on the mountain had already been picked by the locals who had arrived earlier.

If we get down the mountain early, we can try our luck at the market.

If we wait any longer, even the mushrooms at the market might be sold out.

And so, the group of five prepared to head back home.

As they reached the foot of the mountain, they encountered a girl who looked to be only about ten years old.

The girl had a mushroom haircut and wore a pair of mud-covered rain boots, giving her an inexplicably sophisticated look.

"Hey, little one, could you help me see which mushrooms in the basket are edible?" Xia Ziyi asked softly, a rare occurrence for her.

Hearing the sound, the little girl looked up, blew a stray hair from her forehead, and walked aloofly to Xia Ziyi's basket.

"This, this, this, this..." She held up her fingers and pointed to seven or eight in a row.

"Are they all edible?" Xia Ziyi asked, both surprised and delighted.

The girl looked at her with the eyes of someone looking at a complete idiot: "Eating these will bring bad luck to your family."

"oh……"

The little girl rummaged through the basket again and picked out two more flowers: "This one and this one, and these two."

"Can we eat these two?" Xia Ziyi's eyes rekindled with hope.

The little girl shook her head: "Eating these two might kill you."

"Oh..."

"What about the rest of what's in her basket?" Cheng Che asked. "Does that mean she can eat it all?"

The little girl glanced sideways at the remaining mushrooms in the basket and said indifferently, "These are the rest."

"None of them can be eaten."

"Oh, oh, oh..."

"Why did you pick a basket of poisonous mushrooms?" The little girl's eyes were full of confusion.

Her expression seemed to say, "Oh my God, you bunch of stupid outsiders, if you don't want to live, wouldn't it be better to just jump off a building?"

"Oh oh oh oh..."

Xia Ziyi wilted like a mushroom that had been exposed to the scorching sun.

The little girl didn't care how sad Xia Ziyi was.

Without saying a word, she dumped all the poisonous mushrooms from the basket onto the ground, then hopped and skipped over them until all the mushrooms were crushed.

[A sad background music should be played for Sister Xia here.]

[Why is this little girl talking so breathlessly...? You could have just said it's inedible!]

In a sense, Xia Jie's ability to precisely avoid all non-toxic mushrooms among all kinds of fungi is a kind of talent, isn't it?

[Fun fact: Poisonous mushrooms also contain toxins on their surface. Those who want to try and recycle Xia Jie's gloves might want to consider recycling them; the toxins on them could poison a cow.]

[666 Xia Jie tried to bluff her way into Breaking Bad through a stupid method, but fortunately, she was stopped by Xiaohai Jie.]

"Grandma said that it's a good habit to crush poisonous mushrooms when you encounter them. I'm leaving now."

After the little girl finished stepping on the mushrooms, she waved her sleeves and turned away gracefully, without taking a single mushroom with her.

Xia Ziyi remained listless.

"Don't be sad, Sister Xia," Cheng Che comforted her. "Actually, there's good news too."

"What good news?" Sister Xia asked.

"Even though you've been busy all morning, picking a whole basket of poisonous mushrooms."

"But thankfully, these poisonous mushrooms didn't harm anyone, and you even killed them with your own hands."

Xia Ziyi looked up at the sky, trying not to let the tears slide down her cheeks.

……

……

The group descended the mountain.

"What do we do now?" Tian Xiwei asked worriedly.

She still hasn't found a place to grow chanterelles...

"Teacher Yan just messaged me saying that he had a little accident and will be able to meet up with us a little later." Cheng Che glanced down at his phone.

"What accident?" Xia Ziyi was now fully recovered.

"have no idea."

[I know! Teacher Yan went to the market early this morning, hoping to earn some money to buy mushrooms, but after wandering around half the market, not a single person wanted to buy his mushrooms.]

[Then, to save face, Teacher Yan secretly went back to the courtyard, put on her gear, and went alone to another mountain, preparing to turn the tide.]

[Report! Teacher Yan is still on the mountain, giving a science lesson on a white mushroom.]

[He's just concerned about saving face, what's wrong with that?]

"What should we do then?" Tian Xiwei mimicked Cheng Che's old manner, spreading her hands like a bear.

"It's okay, let's go to the market first," Cheng Che said.

"Okay, Xiaotian and I will go to the market and think of a solution. The three of you go home first, submit the mushrooms you've already collected, and also let Teacher Yan know what's going on."

"Okay," Xu Anan was the first to agree.

Xia Ziyi and Liu Xianhua didn't have any objections.

"Should we take your baskets back with us?" Xu Anan asked softly.

Carrying a basket on your back... won't that affect your date?

All X factors that could potentially affect the two of them need to be eliminated!

"No need, there's no need to put anything in it," Cheng Che said.

"Oh well."

Ultimately, the five split into two groups.

Cheng Che and Tian Xiwei went to the market, while the other three took the mushrooms they had already picked home.