Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 280: Mushroom picking

While they talked, Ah Jian seemed a little absent minded, answering without a word.

When he noticed it, Sun Zhang Xing fell silent.

Ah Jian was indeed a little nervous and uncomfortable in his heart and couldn’t help his thoughts from going wild.

Fang Zhou, do you like me? Do you really treat me differently than others? Just thinking about it, Ah Jian couldn’t help his heart beating faster and his face becoming warm, filled with joy.

Before the smile could reach the corners of his lips and eyes, he sighed inwardly.
How could he have any thoughts about her? He was someone who couldn’t even remember who he was!

Before he knows his own past, he couldn’t dare to have any thoughts about her, it was too unfair.

And what if there was something wrong with his identity? How would she deal with it at that time?

However, thinking about it this way, he couldn’t help but think that one day Lian Fang Zhou would meet a man she liked.
She would fall in love and enter the bridal chamber, growing old with that man.
Thinking about this made him very uncomfortable.
There was also a hint of frustration.

He was just thinking about it, why was he so angry and annoyed? What position did he have to be upset?

When Sun Zhang Xing casually turned his head, what he saw was Ah Jian’s tangled look.
He couldn’t help but say: “Brother Ah Jian, what’s wrong? Are you uncomfortable?”

“Uncomfortable?” Ah Jian thought about it and felt that yes, he was indeed very uncomfortable in his heart.

“It’s nothing!” He shook his head as if to shake away the nasty emotion.

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Lian Fang Zhou and the others walked to six or seven places and picked many mushrooms, placing them all in the sacks they had brought into the forest.

“I didn’t expect to find so many mushrooms in this mountain! Hey, they are everywhere!” Madam Sun couldn’t help but sigh.

Madam Li smiled at her and said: “There is no one here, of course there will be many! We should come again in the future when we are free! It’s good to bring some back to cook for ourselves.”

Madam Sun turned and looked at the endless green mountain and shivered.
Hurriedly, she said: “Unless there are many people like there are today, I would never dare to come! This place can be very dangerous!”

Madam Li was stunned and couldn’t help imagine being alone in this boundless forest, surrounded by silence until even the sun was silent and lonely, unable to know when something would emerge from the dense, deep forest.
If something came out or if you accidently fell and injured yourself, only the sky and earth would know…

She also shivered, smiling reluctantly: “No wonder, no wonder no one dares come here normally…”

“No,” Madam Sun sighed, “at the beginning my family relied on hunting to maintain our livelihood.
Alas, every day my husband went out, I would hang my heart.
Fortunately, Miss Lian gave us a new path.
It’s a good job, otherwise, I don’t know when those days would have ended! Miss Lian is our family’s benefactor; I can’t thank her enough!”

“Don’t say that, Auntie! Isn’t it because I’m short of manpower?” Lian Fang Zhou smiled.
“You mustn’t say this too much, I can’t stand it when I’m younger!”

Several people chuckled slightly.

“Sister! Sister!” I don’t know when Lian Fang Qing appeared, but she popped out with her eyes sparkling, calling for her sister and holding a rabbit’s long ear tightly in one hand.

The rabbit being held like this was kicking it’s two short front legs and two long back legs repeatedly without stopping.
It seemed extremely ridiculous.

“Slow down, be careful of falling!” Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t help but cry, looking at her sister running without looking at her feet.

Both Madam Li and Madam Sun were surprised: “Oh, what a big rabbit! Where did Fourth Miss get it?”

While they were talking, Lian Fang Qing ran up to them proudly and held the rabbit up like she was offering a treasure.
“Sister, Xiao Hui caught this! Xiao Hui is so amazing! Look, the rabbit has no injuries at all! Sister, let’s take it home and raise it, okay?”

“Oh, that’s true! Look, there isn’t even a tooth mark!” Madam Li and Madam Sun exclaimed as they and Xiu’er couldn’t help but take a few more looks.

Lian Fang Zhou smiled: “If you want to raise it, then you can raise it! Go back and make a cage to keep it in, don’t let it dirty the yard.
Also, don’t forget to feed the chickens!”

“No, no! I won’t forget!” Lian Fang Qing laughed happily.

Lian Ze and Zhang Liang also came up, Xiao Hui leaping between them with boundless vitality.

Greeting his sister and the others, Lian Ze’s eyes were full of excitement: “Sister, Xiao Hui is really amazing! He suddenly rushed into the grass, shocking us! I didn’t expect him to catch a rabbit! Sister, when we go hunting in the future, we should bring Xiao Hui!”

Lian Ze thought with regret: Just now, when the three of them were walking in the mountains and forest, having fun, who knew how many prey animals had been hiding in the dark and were scared away! If Xiao Hui was specifically brought for hunting next time, they would definitely be more successful…

Lian Fang Zhou smiled at him: “I don’t know much about this.
You should talk to Ah Juan when he comes back.”

Madam Li noticed that her son was holding a bird’s nest with both hands, about the size of a chicken’s nest.

“What’s this?” She asked, glancing twice at it.

Zhang Liang said: “It’s a pheasant nest! There are several little pheasant chicks in it! Well, there are mose than a dozen wild eggs.
Fourth Miss said she wanted to take them home to raise.”

Hearing Zhang Liang say he was following Lian Fang Qing’s orders, Madam Li stopped asking, saying ‘oh’.

Lian Fang Zhou turned to look at Lian Fang Qing.

Done showing off the rabbit, she gave the kicking and struggling animal to Lian Ze.
Then she smiled and rushed to Lian Fang Zhou’s side, saying coquettishly: “Eldest sister, let me raise them, okay? I can take care of them!”

Lian Fang Zhou’s heart moved.
If they could get more pheasants in the future, it would be good to set up a pheasant farm.
Since this little girl had the interest, they might as well try.

Lian Fang Qing knew her expressions the best.
Seeing that her sister had relaxed, she stopped trying to beg her like a baby and said: “Sister, I will take these pheasant chicks and raise them with our chickens, okay? Hehe, when they grow up, they will love me like Xiao Hui and even if they grow wings, they won’t fly away!”

Madam Li laughed.

Lian Fang Zhou was stuck between laughing and being mad.
She closed her eyes and said: “If you want to raise them, then raise them.
It’s nothing! As long as they grow up, I don’t care if they love you or fly away, but you can’t raise them with the chickens.
Let’s raise them in our backyard.
Qing’er, you have to remember that the hygiene of the chicken coop is extremely important, nothing else can be raised there, understand?”

TN: LFQ is a true animal lover, though I cringed when the author had her carrying the rabbit by its ears.