amaotonovel Chapter 288 Encountering a Black Bear in the Mountains
Chapter 288 Encountering a Black Bear in the Mountains
The next morning, Shen Nian got up early. She hurried to the Youth League Home, woke up Ye Jiaojiao, and then hurried back to wash up.
At this time, Li Jichu rubbed his sleepy eyes and prepared to go to the toilet. Seeing Shen Nian squatting by the well to wash her face, he asked curiously: "Sister Nian Nian, why are you up so early today? Are you going somewhere?"
"I'll go up the mountain with your sister Jiaojiao later to see if we can pick some mushrooms." Shen Nian looked up and answered him while taking the water for washing his face and sprinkling it on the vegetable patch.
"Picking mushrooms?" Li Jichu's eyes lit up instantly, and he didn't even go to the toilet, but ran back to the house.
After a while, when Shen Nian was making omelets in the kitchen, Shen Nian'an and the other three ran in, their eyes flashing with anticipation and excitement.
"Sister, are you going to the mountains to pick mushrooms later? Take us with you!" Shen Nian'an's voice was full of longing, and her eyes were shining with anticipation.
Shen Nian looked up at her brothers' expectant faces, and she couldn't help but hesitate. It hadn't rained in the past few days, so there wasn't a guarantee there would be mushrooms in the mountains. Even if there were, the villagers had already picked up all the mushrooms outside, and they still had to go inside, which was too dangerous.
"Sister, just let us go! I marked several chestnut trees on the mountain last year. They should all be ripe! I want to go and see!" Shen Nianle also came over and said pleadingly.
Shen Nian thought about it and realized that indeed, the chestnuts and some other wild fruits should be ripe in this season.
She also thought that the people in the brigade were busy shelling corn and had no time to go up the mountain. After they finished these days, they would go up the mountain to sweep.
"Okay, then let's go together." Shen Nian finally nodded in the expectant eyes of several people.
"Oh yeah!" Shen Nianle cheered, and then several people ran out to wash up.
After they finished breakfast, Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan also came over. Shen Nian asked Shen Nian'an and the others to bring their own water, and then the group set off towards the back mountain.
In the mountains and forests, sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves, casting mottled shadows, and the air is filled with the fresh scent of soil and leaves.
Shen Nian and Ye Jiaojiao walked in front. Shen Nian originally thought that since it hadn't rained recently, there shouldn't be any mushrooms in the mountains. However, as soon as she entered the mountain, she saw mushrooms, but they were relatively few. It was obvious that someone had picked them up.
"Sister, I heard Chunyang say that after work every day, his grandmother would ask his grandfather and father to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms." Shen Nianle said as he ran forward excitedly, "Sister! There's a chestnut tree not far ahead! I'll go take a look!"
Shen Nian'an and the other two followed Shen Nianle and ran forward, while Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan had their eyes wide open, searching everywhere for mushrooms.
Shen Nianle ran to the chestnut tree he marked last year, looked up with anticipation, but was stunned.
The branches should have been full of chestnuts, but now only a few are left hanging alone on the branches. There are chestnut thorns on the ground, which shows that they have obviously been picked in advance.
"How could this happen..." Shen Nianle's voice was filled with disappointment. He turned to look at Shen Nian'an and the other two who had followed him, "Brother, all the chestnuts on this tree have been picked!"
Shen Nian and Ye Jiaojiao came over and saw the four people looking lost. They asked in confusion, "What happened to you four?"
"Sister, the chestnuts are gone!" Shen Nianle said listlessly.
Shen Nian looked up at the chestnut tree, then glanced at the four people, and said slowly, "Xiao Le, didn't you mark the chestnut trees in several places?"
Shen Nianle's eyes lit up when he heard this. He slapped his forehead and said with a smile, "That's right! I marked several places. If there's nothing here, we can always look somewhere else!"
Before he finished speaking, he couldn't wait to run towards another chestnut tree in his memory, followed closely by Shen Nian'an and the other two.
Shen Nian and Ye Jiaojiao followed slowly behind. Before they got close, they heard Shen Nianle and the others shouting, "Sister! Come here quickly! There are chestnuts here! And grapes!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Nian and Ye Jiaojiao quickened their pace and rushed over. When they arrived, they saw Shen Nianle and the other three standing in front of a tree covered with vines and a bunch of small wild grapes hanging on it.
"Wow! Sister Nian! There really are wild grapes!" Ye Jiaojiao said, and then ran excitedly to Shen Nian'an, picked a grape and put it in her mouth, eating it with relish.
Then, with a glint of surprise in her eyes, she shouted to Zhao Gaoxuan, "Zhao Gaoxuan! These little grapes are so sweet!"
Shen Nian also tasted a grape. After tasting it, she looked towards the mountains and forests, as if thinking about something.
After Shen Nianle and the others had their fill of grapes, they eagerly began to pick chestnuts. Some climbed trees, others knocked away burrs. Even Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan temporarily abandoned their plans to pick mushrooms and instead picked up chestnuts.
Seeing that Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan were no longer picking mushrooms, Shen Nian suggested that they stay here to pick chestnuts while she walked inside alone.
After a few people nodded in agreement, Shen Nian continued walking up the mountain with the bamboo basket on his back.
When she saw the wild grapes just now, she remembered some fruit trees she had noticed when she went hunting in the mountains before.
But those trees are all in the mountains, which are quite dangerous, so it is not suitable to bring Ye Jiaojiao and others up there.
The further she walked, the more mushrooms she found on the ground. She picked up every edible mushroom she knew and threw them into the space.
After picking mushrooms for a while, Shen Nian looked up and saw green oval objects hanging on a tree not far ahead.
Her eyes suddenly lit up, she stood up and walked quickly towards the tree. When she looked closely, she found that it was a wild kiwi fruit as she thought!
But because they were wild, these kiwis were not big. She reached out and picked one, squeezed it, and it was not soft. Suddenly, she was inspired and started picking kiwis.
Shen Nian was standing on the tree, picking fruits enthusiastically, when she suddenly heard a "knock knock knock" sound. She instantly had an ominous premonition.
She immediately stopped what she was doing and looked towards the source of the sound. She was shocked to see a black bear standing not far from her tree, staring at her intently.
Shen Nian's heart suddenly tightened, and the hairs on her body stood up. The next second, she quickly hid in the space.
Then, Shen Nian saw in the space that after she disappeared, the black bear climbed up to the place where she had just stood on the tree at an astonishing speed.
The tree was obviously unable to bear the weight of the black bear, and its branches made a creaking sound, as if they would break in the next second.
The black bear seemed not to care. It used its thick claws to gently scratch the kiwi fruit that Shen Nian had just touched, and its nose kept sniffing, as if looking for something.