After a simple rebirth

In the past, I thought it was too far away, so even though I lived at my aunt’s house, I had never been into the mountains.

But this is very conflicting. I want to go into the mountains to take a look, but I feel it is too tiring and too dangerous and I don't want to move.

Fu Ying was still silently looking at the other side and thinking, but Fu Zhe was already excited, "Really? In addition to wild fruits, is there anything else in the mountains? Are there any snakes, leopards, etc.?"

Fu Ying… There are definitely snakes, but definitely no leopards. Not every animal lives in the mountains, it depends on the region. But I don’t know if there are any golden monkeys. This place is not too far from the golden monkey protection area, maybe they have crossed the border to breed. But Fu Ying thought about it, this place is close to the mountains, and it’s not too deep in the mountains, so there shouldn’t be any.

"No, I haven't seen any. But I have seen big animals like leopards and bears, and small squirrels." Xiaoye answered honestly.

It’s not surprising to see little squirrels. There are so many pine forests and wild chestnut forests here, which are the food that squirrels like to eat, so there must be squirrels there.

Fu Zhe couldn't hide his excitement and said he wanted to go, then looked at Fu Ying.

Fu Ying had made up her mind, but she still asked, "To get to the other side of the mountain, do we have to go down the mountain from here and then climb up, or can we go along the side of the mountain?"

Xiaoye pointed to the right and said, "No need to go down, just go around the field here and you can get to the other side. There is a road here."

Fu Ying nodded, and she felt relieved and relaxed.

Then I asked Xiaoye if he needed to bring anything with him when going up the mountain, and he actually said nothing.

Fu Ying...If you want to accomplish something, you must first sharpen your tools. How can you do it without anything?

"Don't you need to bring a backpack to carry your things? Then what are you going to carry back?"

"Oh, that's right, Second Aunt, you are thoughtful. It's enough for us to carry a backpack, right?" Xiao Ye scratched his head. He didn't find this.

"Don't you need to bring a small knife or something, in case you need to cut something?" Fu Ying thought that if something happened, the small knife might not be of much use, but it would give her some psychological comfort.

"No need for that. It's troublesome to carry a knife."

Fu Ying wanted to say something but shut up again. Thinking back to when she was a kid, she was so naive and brave that she went up the mountain without bringing anything with her. She never considered whether to bring water, mosquito repellent, tools, etc.

It's just a casual mountain climbing. If you're thirsty, there's a spring on the mountain. If you're tired, you can sit and rest. If you're hungry, there's fruit on the mountain. It's just for fun. Don't make a bunch of bad assumptions before you start, and don't feel heavy on your shoulders and stagger before you pick anything.

In the end, Fu Ying and Xiao Ye each took a small backpack and didn't bring anything else. If Fu Ying really picked something, she would feel embarrassed to let Xiao Ye carry it alone, so she would carry one too, and the three of them would take turns.

After saying goodbye to the adults at home, the three of them set off.

Walking along the road in front of Aunt Fu's house, you can clearly see that someone has walked along this road. Just walk along it. It is not a straight road. There are high and low parts.

Some people's corn has been harvested, while others' is still in the fields, so you cannot step on other people's fields casually, especially if there are other things planted on the field. You will be scolded if you step on it.

In fact, these two mountains are not too high. The wisdom of the working people is to open up all the arable land and plant crops. So they have become terraces, and crops are planted layer by layer.

However, the terraces here are not planted with rice, so they are not arranged in a regular pattern, and naturally there is no golden rice field in autumn. The autumn harvest here is only yellow and green corn leaves, which is also the guarantee of farmers' survival.

Going in a circle is like walking on a flat road, so we reached the opposite mountain without feeling particularly tired. Looking back at Aunt Fu's house, there are several obvious families in a cornfield. Some houses face the main road, some face east and west, and some houses don't care which direction they face, as long as they can be repaired. This is the real countryside, the real mountain.

Then, following Xiaoye, they began to climb the slope. Just now, it was all planted with corn, but after climbing a little further, it suddenly seemed as if there was a dividing line, and there was no farmland anymore, and it was all natural grassland.

Xiaoye said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, this area is full of puer, and you can pick a large area. Fu Ying nodded. She knew that puer is a five-leaf strawberry. The leaves are very similar to strawberries, but the ripening season is around the Dragon Boat Festival. The green ones are inedible, but the white ones are edible, and the ones with a little red are also edible. Ordinary strawberries are bright red with small black spots, while the five-leaf strawberries are bright white with small red spots.

You can eat them raw after picking them, and there is no such thing as washing them before eating. If you wash them, they will not taste as good. You can also pick them and put them in a basket and take them home. The elders at home will make them into paoerbaba, which is similar to steamed corn bread. It will be harder, but also delicious.

This wild fruit is rarely cultivated artificially because there is no need to do so. It has strong vitality and once it grows, it will grow in large patches. When the fruit is ready, you can't eat them all.

Going further ahead, it was obvious that they had entered the mountains. There were many tall trees. Fu Ying thought that the mountains were the deep mountains and old forests in the short videos, such as the Ailao Mountains, a place that is rarely visited by people and extremely dangerous.

In fact, it is mountain climbing. The villagers climbed a lot and walked out a path. The villagers also pay attention to safety, so the paths they often walk are on the ridges where the view is wide and the route is clear.

So Fu Ying, who was a little worried at first, felt relieved and tired after climbing a long way.

After telling Xiaoye to take a rest, he said they would reach the destination in ten minutes. Fu Ying had no choice but to continue climbing with him.

After climbing another hill, Xiaoye pointed to a small path and said that the chestnut forest was right inside.

The road here is more natural, because it is a slope. As we climbed, we saw many chestnut shells, some green with thorns, and some ripe chestnuts with shells left. The wild chestnut trees are quite tall, and Xiaoye said he could climb up and shake off the chestnuts for Fu Ying and the others to pick up.

Fu Ying looked at the tree that was three or four meters tall. It should be an old tree with very thick branches.

Xiaoye put down his backpack and started to climb the tree. Fu Ying and Fu Zhe stepped back a little and watched him really climb up using his hands and feet. Then he found a slightly thinner branch and started kicking it, kicking the wild chestnuts down.

Fu Ying and Fu Zhe waited for him to rest and then hurried to pick them up. Actually, Fu Ying didn't know how to pick them, but she knew that ripe chestnuts would be lighter, so it would be better to open them slightly to see what was inside, so she put them directly into the backpack.

Then Xiaoye continued to change a branch, and Fu Ying and Fu Zhe continued to pick up.

After picking a few trees and picking almost a basket of chestnuts, Xiaoye said he was going to look for kiwis.

But first he took them to pick something red, which looked like a loofah, but also like a banana. Xiaoye said it was a wax gourd.

Fu Ying tried it and found it tasted weird and sticky, and she couldn't get used to it. Fu Zhe also couldn't get used to it, and he shouted that it tasted bad, so he stopped eating it.

But Fu Ying remembered that Fu Ma liked to eat it, so she packed some and brought it back for Fu Ma to eat.