He looked at her deeply and smiled in response.

  "It was discovered when these wooden houses were first built, and since it's close by, I didn't prepare a water tank,"

  "Auntie, just put it here, I'll go myself!"

  Li Hua can't let a child run back and forth, insisting on following them. Li Xiang wants to see the two of them being proactive, and he doesn't want to get involved himself.

  Sitting here at the entrance, gazing at the misty mountains in the water vapor, suddenly a feeling that has traversed ancient times arises.

  There is spring water, shelled barley, millet and sweet potatoes.

  Li Hua was also generous and cooked a large pot of fragrant mixed grain sweet potato porridge.

  Three people have been busy since last night until the second day's noon, they were so hungry that even Little Li had drunk two bowls.

  Li Hua and Mu Yan drank three bowls of rice wine each and ate their fill.

  The only regret is that there are no vegetables.

  Thinking of the vegetables he had planted in his yard, Li Hua immediately decided to go back to the village again tomorrow and bring another bag of vegetables from the yard.

  Li Xiang wanted to tell her so much that there were vegetables in his space, but unfortunately he couldn't explain where they came from.

  In the end, Muyan stopped her.

  "Auntie, later in the day I'll go dig some wild vegetables nearby. There's nothing much on the mountain except for a lot of wild vegetables. You'd better not go back!"

  If everything goes as planned, there will be some movement tonight.

  He couldn't say it out loud, so he could only let her feel that it wasn't necessary to make this trip.

  "Yes, mother (she still calls her mother in front of outsiders), it's still raining outside and the road is not easy to walk on. Even if you carry back a bag, we can't eat for many days, don't go."

  Li Hua calculated the time and could only reluctantly give up, but as she looked around, her heart still skipped a beat.

  "Yan'er, this is a deep mountain and old forest, we've walked so far in, there's danger everywhere, it's not even safe for you to dig wild vegetables!"

  "It's okay, Auntie. I have experience with these things. That's why I came this far in the first place."

  "I was thinking that if a big flood occurs, all the people in Qingcheng County will move here, and by then this place won't be considered remote anymore."

  Although he said so, Li Hua still had some apprehension in his heart, after all, when they came, there was no one following behind.

  "It's been a tiring day, there are beds next door, Auntie and the girls can go rest for a while first, the other things can be discussed later when they wake up."

  Li Xiang was already tired and didn't mince words, pulling Li Hua towards the next room.

  Muran watched the mother and daughter leave, then tidied up his room a bit before lying down on the wooden board in the corner, closing his eyes to sleep.

  They slept all day and didn't wake up until it was almost dark.

  Due to the continuous rain, although it was a scorching summer, I felt a few degrees of coolness in the deep mountains and old forests.

  Luckily, Mu Yan had prepared a thin blanket in the wooden house. Li Hua rubbed the goose bumps on her arm and was about to get up when she didn't expect Li Xiang to also sit up, rubbing his eyes.

  "Why don't you sleep for a while longer?"

  Li Xiang rubbed his sleepy eyes and shook his head, if he slept again at night, he wouldn't be able to fall asleep.

  The mother and daughter walked out of the wooden house together.

  The wall Mu Yan had woken up at some point and brought back a sack of wild vegetables, the most surprising of which was the lush, dripping-wet wild amaranth.

  This vegetable grows very large. After blanching and squeezing out the water, it can be used to wrap dumplings or buns, and can also be eaten cold with a dressing, its flavor is extremely good.

  It was thanks to her having had a chance to spend summer vacation at a classmate's home that she got to know these wild vegetables.

  Classmate lives in Sichuan Province, where there are more mountains and forests, and wild vegetables are very rich. With a fresh feeling, she enjoyed the whole summer vacation with a wild taste.