Chapter 147 Second Preparations for Climbing the Mountain

The portions were very generous. When Yunxi took a bite, she felt that this dining experience was quite good, and the chef's skills were indeed much better than her own!

Yunxi quickly put her previous thoughts aside and started eating rapidly. Even though she tried her best to eat, there was still a lot of food left after she finished eating.

I could only sneakily take a lunchbox from my spatial storage and put it into my backpack when no one was looking. Then, I pretended to take the lunchbox out of my backpack and put the leftover food into it!

After packing the food, I quickly paid for it. The meal was so generous, and it only cost a little over two yuan in total, which felt like a great deal.

After leaving the restaurant, Yunxi figured she had nothing else to do, so she might as well go home!

I'm not planning to harvest the corn I planted in my private plot until it gets old; I'm picking it now while it's still tender.

Yunxi felt that breaking everything off would be a very difficult thing, and the villagers would definitely think she was a spendthrift if they saw it.

This behavior does seem a bit wasteful of food; only a small portion can be stored in the space, with the rest left for cover.

After returning home, Yunxi carried a basket on her back and headed towards her private plot. The corn in the field was planted relatively early, and normally it wouldn't be ready to eat yet; it would take another month or two to harvest.

Yunxi went into the cornfield and picked some of the plump, juicy fresh corn, leaving only the top few rows to at least cover them up.

The private plot was small, with only five-tenths of an acre planted. The rest was planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and some vegetables were planted in the corners.

I didn't originally intend to plant vegetables, since the backyard was already full of them, but thinking that I would have more vegetables to eat in the winter, I decided to plant a little more.

When I first arrived last summer, there wasn't a wide variety of vegetables available, and even if I wanted to store more, it wouldn't be enough.

Just as Yunxi started planting in her private plot this year, she planted all the vegetables she wanted to eat and stored them in her space while they were still fresh.

I put about a third of the corn into my space, and left the rest to age naturally, so I could grind them into cornmeal later.

He also picked some fresh sweet potato vines and put them in his space, not only for himself to eat, but also to pick more vines to plant next time.

If we start new seedlings, it will waste a lot of time. It's better to pinch off the vines now and plant them directly on the barren mountain next year. Anyway, we don't have to worry about others finding them.

If it weren't for the villagers working in their private plots in the distance, Yunxi really wouldn't want to do the work herself; it was just too tiring.

Working with my back bent over for so long has left me with aches and pains all over my body. I really shouldn't have stayed in the village; I should have taken the exam and gone out to work.

I could find a job in any factory and it would feel much easier than farm work.

Then I thought about working in a factory, where the salary was only twenty or thirty yuan. If I spent that time harvesting herbs in the mountains, I could earn more than two or three hundred yuan a month. I felt that working in a factory was not a very good deal.

We can only take it one step at a time and deal with the future later.

Yunxi didn't leave her private plot until it was almost dark.

Seeing that he was covered in dirt, he walked straight to the river.

Fortunately, the riverbank is very close to my private plot; it only takes two or three minutes to get there.

After washing my hands in the river, I saw that the water looked very clean, so I simply squatted down, put my hands in the river, and slowly absorbed the water.

Anyway, there aren't many people around right now. We can stop if someone happens to come.

As for whether the river will dry up?

Yunxi felt that she wasn't that powerful; at most, the flow would stop on her side, but the other side would definitely continue to flow.

The width of the river had already exceeded three meters, and it looked like it was about to reach four meters. I could only collect water within a radius of two meters; it was impossible to collect any more.

With one ear listening to the sounds outside, worried that villagers might come, its other eyes were fixed on the space inside. It wasn't just water that was being drawn in; there were also quite a few small shrimps, fish, and other creatures.

Yunxi had been squatting by the river for about 40 minutes when she heard footsteps coming from afar.

Yunxi guessed that the workers were finally getting ready to go home, so they came here to clean up.

Yunxi quickly climbed out of the river, pretending that she had finished washing and was ready to go back. The villagers were really hardworking; they didn't stop working until it was already dark.

They were all familiar people from the village, and they would greet each other when they met. After Yunxi called out to them a few times, she headed towards home.

When I got home, I immediately moved a stool and sat down under the eaves. I felt like my back was no longer my own; it had run away from home. It was so sore that I felt like I couldn't control myself.

Not only did they work in the fields all afternoon, but they also squatted by the river collecting water for so long. No wonder their backs ached!

Anyway, she doesn't want to move now.

Sitting on the stool, lost in thought, looking at the huge, empty front yard, I suddenly felt annoyed.

There are also a lot of mushrooms in the space, all kinds of mushrooms. Although we've already dried enough, we still want to take out the mushrooms in the space to dry.

As for medicinal herbs, we haven't dug much lately. In a couple of days, Yunxi will go up the mountain to make some more money. Anyway, we only have these two months to make money. After we go to high school, we won't have that time anymore.

Now, the village elders don't let Yunxi go to work anymore. They let her spend all her time reading. When there's no more rations, she can just buy work points with money. Once she buys enough work points, she can get rations. If she doesn't have enough, she can buy more.

Of course, this is only a privilege that Yunxi enjoys; others who are supported by their parents are a different story.

This was especially favorable for Yunxi, who had a lot of savings, already exceeding 20,000 yuan, so buying a year's worth of work points wouldn't cost her much.

In the future, I won't even need to go to work, and I can spend my time doing what I want.

The other villagers were particularly envious of Yunxi, but of course, they were only envious. Most people were still friendly and didn't feel too jealous.

Yunxi plans to set off for the mountain tomorrow. She will travel directly to the plain she visited last time and then explore it slowly. She has already explored all the previous places and there are no major surprises, unless she encounters a lot of herbs, in which case she might stop to pick some.

Because she remembered that she was going up the mountain tomorrow, and thinking about how inconvenient it was to sleep at night after the last time she went up the mountain, Yunxi took a lot of leather and sewed a small tent out with needle and thread.

It's about the size of two people sleeping in. Yunxi deliberately sewed it a little bigger so that she could sleep in the middle with a little space on the side, so that she wouldn't have no chance to escape if something attacked her.

Fortunately, it wasn't difficult. Once it was sewn up, you could just use a stick to support it when you needed to use it.

Yunxi finished getting ready in a little over an hour. After checking everything she needed to bring, including all the food, drinks, and other necessities in her space, she went to bed early.

The next morning, after having breakfast, Yunxi set off carrying a basket and a kitchen knife.

In order to avoid being discovered by the villagers, he got up very early and took a back path. He was not discovered by anyone until he reached the top of the mountain.

After arriving at the mountain, Yunxi first went to check on the reclaimed land. She used her spatial abilities to create a light rain on the land, and only left after confirming that the land was moist.

Yunxi originally wanted to follow the original path up the mountain again, which would be faster. However, after only half a year, all the paths had disappeared.

Spring is truly a wonderful season; the plants grow exceptionally lush, completely covering the paths that were once accessible.

In addition, it's summer now, and the trees are already growing so well that it's even harder to see the roads.

With no other option, Yunxi could only pick up her machete and slowly clear a path.