Chapter 156 Preparing a Return Gift

"Cousin, there's nothing much to do now, how about we take a stroll around the back mountain?"

Yang Junhao is young and can't stay still, so the fact that he can restrain himself and stay here is already quite patient.

Li Xingtang glanced at the other two people, both of whom looked expectant, and knew that everyone wanted to go.

He asked Yunxi, who was standing next to him, "Yunxi, do you want to come with us?"

Seeing so many vegetables here, and wanting to pack some things for them to take back, Yunxi simply didn't have time to go to the back mountain.

Moreover, she had already thoroughly explored the back mountain. Not only had she dug up most of the medicinal herbs, but the prey had also escaped. Even if she went back to the back mountain again, she would most likely not find anything.

"I won't go. You can go if you want, but come back early in the evening and take some of these vegetables back with you. I can't finish them if they stay here all the time."

After hearing Yunxi's words, the four of them felt that they should hunt pheasants and rabbits more often later, otherwise they would feel embarrassed to take so many vegetables from her.

"Okay, then you stay home and wait, and see how our luck is today."

Yunxi felt that Li Xingtang was getting a little arrogant. He had caught some game and made some money recently, so did he think hunting was easy?

"Okay, good luck to you guys!"

We encourage you spiritually and provide you with practical support, such as machetes and baskets, hoping you will return with a bountiful harvest.

After they left, Yunxi locked the courtyard gate and stayed in the house alone, which was quite quiet.

The mental energy dissected a bison in the space, breaking it into pieces, and placing some of the trash separately in a corner.

Take out several large pieces of lean beef, cut them into strips, marinate them first, and then put them in a pot to steam later.

After steaming, dry it.

It's a great little snack; you can chew on it when you have nothing to do, or even give some to Li Xingtang and the others.

While they were steaming in the pot, I took out four burlap sacks and put a little of each kind of vegetable in them, which filled about half a sack.

After taking the vegetables, I also took a lot of yam powder from my spatial storage.

Yunxi washed them bit by bit, and packed them in separate clean cloth bags. There were four bags, each weighing about ten pounds.

They then packed another two pounds of meat into four bags using an oilcloth and stuffed them into a burlap sack.

There are quite a lot of things in the space, but it's not appropriate to take out so many at once.

Add the dried beef jerky that will be ready later, and give them some more; the sack will be almost full.

I'll bring them some more next time I have the chance.

After Yunxi finished packing everything, she looked at the large pile of vegetables left. She put half of them into her space, and washed, dried, and chopped the remaining half.

After smelling the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen, I went to check if it was cooked.

They found it wasn't steamed properly, so they continued working on it.

While her hands were busy with her work, she was also thinking about the people who had gone up the mountain.

Thinking about how many times he had run up the back mountain, he had never encountered any fierce prey, and even if he had, he had taken care of it himself.

They shouldn't be in any danger, right?

Li Xingtang and his group of four did not encounter any danger.

Knowing that there is no danger without gain, they never even encountered pheasants or rabbits, let alone large prey like wild boars.

"Xing Tang, shall we go further inside?"

"That's right! We've been wandering around outside for so long without making a sound. If we don't go in a little further, we won't be able to get anything today."

We've come all this way to the mountains, so it wouldn't do to leave empty-handed. We ate so much meat with Yunxi at noon, so I'd feel a little bad if I didn't hunt some game for her.

Li Xingtang thought for a moment and agreed with their suggestion, "Okay, then let's walk for another hour or so, but if we still don't find any prey, then we'll stop. We can't come back too late, so Yunxi won't worry. We still need to rush back to town."

"No problem, I'll do whatever you say."

Less than half an hour after walking inside, we spotted pheasants and rabbits.

They found the rabbit's burrow right away. "Come quick, there's a rabbit's burrow here! Quickly look around and see if there are any other exits. Once you find them, block up the other exits and leave only this one."

One person stayed behind to guard this exit, while the others began looking for other exits. They weren't far away, and soon they found the remaining three exits.

They blocked all the other exits and lit fireworks at the one that remained open.

Soon, there was a commotion inside. A basket was used to block the exit, and four people surrounded it, but none of them went into the basket or ran out.

As one rabbit rushed out, it crashed directly into the basket, and several more followed suit.

Two big ones and four small ones, that should be a family of six.

Indeed, a family should always be together.

"After climbing the mountain for so long, I've finally made some progress. I thought today would be a wasted effort."

"There are already rabbits here, and there must be more over there. Let's all go around and look around to see if we can find any more rabbit burrows. Even if we don't find any other big prey, it would be good to catch a few rabbits and pheasants to take back."

I didn't dare to have too high hopes. I was worried that I would come back empty-handed today, but it's already pretty good that I've made a gain.

"Okay, it's still early anyway, it's good to search a little longer, we might just find something."

There were only six rabbits, four of which were quite small, probably weighing only a pound or two, not enough for everyone to share.

Since we've come all this way, we should bring back some extra so it'll be easier for us to come out again next time.

Li Xingtang and his three companions were diligently searching for prey on the mountain, while Yunxi was busy at home preparing the vegetables they had picked.

They were all bundled into small bunches and hung on the drying rope.

After the beef jerky was steamed, Yunxi tasted it and found it to be quite good.

First, I put them all into my space, then used my mental power to extract about half of the moisture from the jerky, and then took them out to dry.

You can't tell at all that it was just steamed.

Looking at the sun in the sky, it seems like it can dry for another two hours.

When they come back, give them some to take home and dry themselves.

After a busy afternoon, I felt a bit bored and had nothing to do. I thought that I would be going to high school soon, so I decided to make myself a few more beautiful outfits!

Once she gets to high school, she plans to eat the peaches with magical properties and make herself more beautiful.

So you can't be without pretty clothes; you can't have a beautiful face but wear terrible clothes.