My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Chapter 179 Wasted a Piece of Enthusiasm

Yang Fenglan shook her head helplessly, "Don't listen to her nonsense. We just didn't want to eat dried vegetables anymore, so we came out for a walk to see if we could find some wild vegetables."

"There are traps everywhere around here. You dare to run around like this? Aren't you afraid of falling into a trap?" Zhou Jingyi complained, but since they were already out, what else could he say?

He walked ahead of the two of them, saying, "Follow me, don't wander off."

“Okay.” Yang Fenglan didn’t trust Long Aotian, fearing that he would deliberately mess with her and lead her into a trap.

After all, according to my best friend, this rebellious son loves watching plays, and since there are no plays to watch in the mountains, he's afraid he'll cause trouble.

Zhou Jingyi led the two men through a series of turns, exiting the trap area, while still staying close to them.

Holding a bow and arrow, he remained vigilant for any movement from the jungle.

"Quickly, look where there are wild vegetables," Yang Fenglan said to Long Aotian.

"Oh." Zhou Jingyi thought they were talking to him, so he immediately started looking for them.

Yang Fenglan and Xu Yingying stood and waited for Long Aotian to fly out and search. Once they found the item, they would head straight for their destination.

The best wild vegetable to eat in July is amaranth, but amaranth mostly grows in fields and along roadsides, not in forests.

After searching for a long time, I finally found some purslane in the sparse grass of the woods.

There are also wild sweet potatoes.

Dark green sweet potato vines climbed all over the grass, their small, banana-fan-like leaves huddled together, and some red berries lay prostrate on the ground.

Parting the leaves reveals even more red berries.

"Great! Finally, we can eat fruit." Yang Fenglan happily picked up a branch to dig up sweet potatoes.

Zhou Jingyi also dug, drooling as he did so.

Xu Yingying looked puzzled. "What is this?"

“Wild sweet potatoes. When we were kids, we couldn’t afford snacks, so in June or July, we would go up the mountain to dig up these sweet potatoes to eat.” Yang Fenglan handed one to Xu Yingying.

"Is it good?" Xu Yingying took the sweet potato, wiped off the dirt, and was about to put it in her mouth.

"Wait! This is meant to be peeled before eating, just like a fig."

"Oh."

Zhou Jingyi glanced over casually, "You've never even tried this before."

Yang Fenglan: "It's normal that the young lady has never eaten this before."

Zhou Jingyi: "..."

It's him who talks too much.

Xu Yingying peeled open the sweet potato, then immediately threw it away, exclaiming, "There are maggots in it!"

Yang Fenglan laughed and said, "What's wrong with maggots? They're high-quality protein."

"You should save the high-quality protein for nourishing your body."

"I don't want it. Look how thin you are, you're the one who needs it the most."

Zhou Jingyi looked at the two of them, puzzled. He suddenly seemed unable to understand what they were saying.

Yang Fenglan dug up a lot of sweet potatoes, but only got a few good ones.

It's just enough to fill a tooth gap.

"What a waste of all my enthusiasm!" Yang Fenglan angrily threw the branch away.

Zhou Jingyi said, "Mother, everyone says that sweet potatoes rot around the 15th of July. It's already the end of July, so it's not bad that we got these few."

After searching all afternoon, I only found some purslane and dandelion.

In the evening, Yang Fenglan made a cold purslane salad and ate it all.

……

In the first few days after they went up the mountain, Zhou Jingyi and Xiao Yuanshan were able to hunt some small animals from time to time.

I don't know if the animals have become smarter or if the weather is just too dry, but it's getting harder and harder to hunt.

Fortunately, there was salted fish pickled by Xiao Yuanshan and dried meat that Yang Fenglan had stocked up in advance, so the food wasn't too bland.

Eating the same things every day gets boring for both adults and children. Luckily, Lin Cuiniang knows how to make a variety of dishes, such as steamed buns, mantou, and flatbreads, so they can eat different kinds of food.

It was fairly comfortable.