Chapter 5: Marry a Chicken and Follow the Chicken

  Xiao Yi Mo gave her a "do you think I'm an idiot?" look, and calmly replied: "A wife is just for warming the bed."

  Su Xiaofan pouted, looking at him just now, thinking he would say something earth-shattering.

  Ye walked back, reached out and touched Xiao Yimeng's head, saying: "There is still some porridge left in the pot from before, tonight you will have to suffer a bit, little master, and drink porridge with Fan'er."

  "I looked earlier and there's hardly anything left in the pot, what will Grandma and Mother eat?" Su Xiaofan suddenly remembered that she seemed to have forgotten to snatch back food from those people just now.

  "I'll go pick some wild vegetables in a while and come back." Ye looked at Jia with a glance, then looked at her belly. Tomorrow, when the village head's family sends over the silver, she must first buy some nutritional supplements for Zhiyan to supplement her body, otherwise, when the time comes, she won't have the strength to give birth, and it will be a matter of life and death. She didn't want to see another case of an old person sending off a young one again.

  "Grandma, stay home and rest, I'll go," Su Xiaofan said after finishing speaking, walked into the kitchen, picked up a broken-edged basket and put the vegetable knife in it before preparing to head towards the back mountain.

  After walking a few steps, I felt that the hem of my skirt was caught by something. I turned around in confusion and met a pair of clear black eyes.

  "Little treasure, do you want to go too?" Su Xiaofan looked at Xiao Yimeng who was holding onto her skirt and then glanced up at the towering mountain behind the house, saying: "Climbing mountains is very tiring, I won't be carrying you, okay?"

  Xiao Yi Mo Bai gave her a glance: "I can walk myself."

  Su Xiaofan smiled and said: "Hehe, let's go then."

  Jia's anxious voice rang out as she urged the two of them: "Feng, you must take good care of Young Master, don't let him get hurt."

  "Don't worry, Mother." Su Xiaofan turned back and gave Jia Shi a sweet smile.

  Jia watched them leave with an uneasy feeling, following their backs as they went up the mountain until they were blocked from view by trees.

  "Ziyan, go in and rest for a while. Fan'er has been ill recently, you haven't had a good rest." Ye Shi sat down on the threshold, having stirred up her already tired body, now feeling even more exhausted.

  "Let's go rest together too." Mrs. Jia went over and helped her up, and they both entered the side room to rest.

  On the winding and narrow mountain path, Su Xiaofan held a basket in one hand and supported her waist with the other, panting heavily as she sat down on a large rock: "Ah, I'm getting old, climbing a mountain is really exhausting."

  Xiao Yi Mo, who was walking ahead, turned around and impatiently shouted at her: "Old lady, can't you walk any faster?"

  "You're the old lady, your whole family is old ladies! I'm only 15 years old!" Su Xiaofan stood up, picked up a thick branch from the mountain path, and slowly walked upwards with it. She had just recovered from a serious illness and had only eaten a bowl of porridge, so she was definitely out of energy to climb mountains.

  And why pick wild vegetables on the mountain, aren't there any in the fields? In Su Xiaofan's original memories, picking wild vegetables was indeed done on the mountain.

  After expending the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, she finally climbed to the middle of the mountain, threw down her basket, and gazed out at the distance. This valley was indeed poor, with few households scattered far apart, and only a sparse scattering of rice paddies in the fields, many of which had been abandoned.

  Looking back on memory, this rural village of about 100 miles in circumference has only a few dozen households, among which the most striking one is that relatively decent-looking courtyard far away, vaguely visible but not very clear. That's the home of the village head.

  "What's wrong with you, hurry up, it'll be dark soon." Xiao Yimiao stood behind her, looking around, he had never picked wild vegetables on the mountain before, what was that legendary wild vegetable anyway?

  Su Xiaofan came to, picked up the basket on the ground, looked around and saw a few familiar yet strange green plants. She squatted down and plucked them from the roots, putting them into the basket.

  Xiao Yi Mo curiously picked up the plant from the basket, which looked no different from a weed in his eyes. After examining it for half a day, he asked doubtfully: "Can this thing really be eaten?"

  Su Xiaofan hadn't eaten it before, but in her memory, this family had always been living on such things. She replied faintly: "You won't die from eating it, don't worry."

  "Me too?" Xiao Ye asked, staring at Su Xiaofan with a complex expression.

  "Yes, as the saying goes, a daughter-in-law follows her husband wherever he goes. Since you're my little husband now, you should naturally eat the same things as me." Su Xiao Fan didn't even glance at him, walking and stopping to busily pick wild vegetables. This mountain is too high, since we've come up here, might as well pick some more, so we don't have to run again tomorrow.

  Xiao Yi Mo pouted with her tender little mouth, a displeased expression on her face as she followed behind her, watching her frail body squat down and stand up repeatedly, walking a few steps before squatting down again.

  "Ah... finally full." After struggling for nearly half a day and walking a long way, Su Xiaofan had only managed to fill one basket with wild vegetables. Sitting on the ground, she wiped the fine sweat from her forehead with her hand. This body was indeed too malnourished; after being busy for just a short while, she already felt dizzy and lightheaded.

  "Hey, look over there, there's a rabbit."

  A rustling sound came from beside him, and Su Xiaofan looked up to see that he was already chasing after a fat rabbit that was running extremely happily in the distance with his short legs.

  "Baby, don't chase it, with your short legs, you can't catch up to that rabbit, save some energy." Su Xiaofan thoughtfully looked at the rabbit that was about to disappear from sight, scanned around a few times, then got up and walked towards a dense thicket.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, in the grass thicket there was a nest of newborn rabbits, three grey ones and one black one, at this moment staring at her with a frightened face, unable to stand up or run away.

  Su Xiaofan excitedly ran back with a full basket of wild vegetables, pulled out some tender grass to cover the surface and made a small nest shape, gently placed several little white rabbits on it, and picked a few bunches of bitter vegetables that rabbits love to eat nearby.

  "Are you going to catch them back and eat them?" Xiao Yimiao panted as she turned back, her face full of annoyance. If it were in the past, that fat rabbit would have become her dinner long ago.

  "Not at all, it's so cute, let's catch it and raise it," Su Xiaofan replied with a smile, then said: "After raising it fat, maybe it can give birth to little rabbits, after giving birth to little rabbits, we'll kill them and eat them."

  "It's almost time to eat anyway." Xiao Yimeng couldn't help but roll her eyes, and put the few wild mushrooms in her hand into her basket.

  "Did you find it? With this, we can make something delicious tonight." Su Xiaofan stretched out her hand and carefully moved the few wild mushrooms that were about to fall to the ground into the basket, but didn't dare move them too far in, afraid of squeezing the little rabbit inside.

  Xiao Yimò didn't have much hope for those wild mushrooms, and thought that even if he went to pick some wild vegetables, they wouldn't taste good.

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