"You called me? I didn't hear it." Su Ziling held his breath.

"Xiao Qing!"

"Big niece!"

Su Ziling: "..."

"Uncle Yonghe, did you find anything?"

"Yes!" He spoke loudly. Even from such a distance, one could feel the excitement in his tone. "I found one here. It's very similar to what you described. The new leaves are also brown. I wonder if it's the same."

Su Ziling and Twenty exchanged a glance, and there was finally some light in their eyes. "Hey, I'll be right there. Just stand there and don't move. We'll be right there."

After shouting, the two began to look for the way to get over there. They walked inwards and found a stream below with rocks on both sides. The ditch was a bit wide and they couldn't get through at all. The two walked upwards and found it was even more dangerous with thorns growing on both sides.

"What should we do?" Su Ziling frowned and looked back at the way they came. "How about we go down? Go from where he went?"

This stream is flat only where Su Yonghe waded across it. The rocks on both sides become higher as you go higher.

Twenty shook his head, "How about I go over there and you wait here?"

"Can you get through?"

Before Su Ziling could utter the word "Ma", he saw Twenty flying over on tiptoe.

On the other side, Su Yonghe found the slope too steep and he couldn't stand steadily. He could only hold on to a tree tightly and stare at the other side.

When he saw this, his jaw dropped.

He watched as Twenty flew over from the opposite side and then stopped beside him.

He pointed across and then to the ground, "You...you...you,"

You kept talking for a long time but didn't say a word.

Twenty-four looked around and immediately saw the reed vine he was talking about, "But this?"

Su Yonghe looked in the direction where his finger was pointing, then nodded. Twenty directly cut a vine and flew over with a "whoosh".

Only Su Yonghe was left standing there, shouting, "Oh my goodness, he actually knows martial arts."

This guy hid so well that I thought he was just a worker hired by Su Ziling.

"Girl, is this it?"

Su Ziling looked at the vine in Twenty's hand, grinned, and said in a worthless smile, "It is it, it is it, is it too much?"

Twenty nodded, "A lot, I climbed a lot."

"Let's go, let's go, let's go over there and chop it down quickly." Su Ziling was so excited. She had been searching for the whole morning and it was almost noon. If she couldn't find it, she would go back. Unexpectedly, she actually found it.

Twenty was stunned for a moment, then said "I'm sorry" and grabbed Su Ziling by the collar,

Carried it over.

That's right, holding her collar.

As soon as she landed, Su Ziling kept coughing. She covered her neck and said, "Twenty, do you want to murder me?"

Twenty was stunned for a moment, and waved his hands repeatedly, "Girl, I have absolutely no such intention, but..." He didn't dare to put his arm around her waist.

Before he could finish his words, he saw Su Ziling walking quickly towards the reed vines not far away with sparkling eyes.

"It's indeed reed vine," that's what they call it, and there are two types of reed vine, one is hairy fish vine and the other is Malay fish vine.

The hairy fish vine is the one they found, which is a creeping plant, while the Malayan fish vine is an orthophytic plant.

"Did you find the right one?" Su Yonghe stood beside her.

"Yes, this is it!" Su Ziling took out the sickle, "Come on, start digging!"

She cut off the tender vines and left only the thick main vine.

Su Yonghe and Twenty took out hoes to dig, one with a small medicine hoe and the other with a big hoe.

Su Ziling was in charge of cutting the vines in the front. There were quite a lot of them, so he pulled them off one by one, trimmed the small branches, and chopped the thick main vines into sections.

In the end, they put it directly into sacks. When the sacks were full, they tied them up with straw. Now that they knew where they were, they were no longer in a hurry.

Each of them carried a bundle and walked down the way they came. The return journey was much faster, probably because they had found the reed vines. The steps of several people became lighter and they talked and laughed all the way.

When the three of them arrived home, Su's mother and the others had already returned. There were several sacks of peach leaves in the yard, and the backpack next to them was also not idle, it was also filled to the brim.

"Are you back? I was thinking that if you didn't come back, I would go catch bugs." Seeing them, Su's mother came up to them directly.

"Is this the reed vine you mentioned?" She touched it. "I can't tell it's any different. It's almost the same as any other vine."

"Where's my father?"

With a "pa" sound, Su Ziling threw the reed vine on the ground.

"He went to catch insects and asked me to wait for you at home. The peach leaves have been picked. What should we do with this?" Su's mother was also very anxious.

"Mother, wait for me to drink some water. Is there any lime at home? I need to find some. It will be useful later."

Mother Su thought for a moment and said, "It seems that there is no more at home. I remember that they were all used up. I will go to your third uncle's house to ask."

As soon as she finished speaking, she had already walked out the door.

Su Yonghe sat under the eaves, sweating profusely, "How do we deal with this Fujiko? You decide, let's do it."

Su Ziling poured a glass of water for each of them. "I'll find a big basin. The roots that we dug out need to be washed of dirt. The main vines can be pounded directly, but they still need to be chopped up a bit with a knife."

She found two knives and said, "Be careful, this thing is a little poisonous."

Just in case, to prevent the juice from flying onto her face or mouth, Su Ziling went straight into the house and cut two pieces of cloth. There was no time to sew the ropes, so she simply poked four holes with scissors and tied a few ropes.

Looking at the decent (but extremely ugly) mask, she nodded with satisfaction and said, "Here, put it on, just in case."

Looking at the piece of cloth in his hand, Su Yonghe and Twenty looked at each other with resistance in their eyes, "Can I not wear it?"

"No." Su Ziling stretched out a finger and waved it left and right.

Su Yonghe struggled for a moment, "We can't do any work with this thing on. I think as long as we are careful, we can do without it."

"Don't want to wear it?" Su Ziling smiled brightly.

Su Yonghe nodded, but he didn't want to wear it. The weather was so hot, and he would have difficulty breathing if he put on this thing.

"If you don't want to wear it, then don't wear it," Su Yonghe breathed a sigh of relief after hearing her words. Unexpectedly, she continued to add: "Although the toxicity is not high, if ingested by mistake, it will cause nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea..."

Before she could finish her words, the mask in her hand was gone. When she looked up again, the two men had already put them on.

The corners of Su Ziling's mouth twitched.

Su Yonghe said seriously, "Although the toxicity is low, we still have to be careful, right? Now is a critical period, we have to protect ourselves."

Su Ziling: "..."

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