Chapter 13 - Mountain leech
Chen Xiayue and the others didn’t know that the group of young girls were talking about them. Even if they did, they would have nothing to say.
Even if you don’t say anything in person, whisper something in private, or talk about it in your heart, who can stop it?
“Why don’t we put the fragrant fruit in the mountains in a while?” Chen Xiayue said while walking with Zhang Chengchuan.
Taking into account Chen Xiayue’s poor health, the heart can’t bear too intense exercise, so Zhang Chengchuan walks slower so that Chen Xiayue can keep up without being too tired and the heart can’t be overwhelmed.
Chen Xiayue is also very useful. Before, she simply took a fancy to Zhang Chengchuan’s appearance and figure, but now Zhang Chengchuan’s considerate temperament also warms Chen Xiayue’s heart.
The two of them had already walked to the foot of the mountain, away from the village and away from the crowd, and Zhang Chengchuan reached out and held Chen Xiayue’s hand.
“I’ll take a look at the mountain later. I’ll take you up the mountain, and you know what’s going on with your body. What if I put out a handful of fragrant fruits and I pick too many and I can’t take care of you on the way home?” Zhang Chengchuan said of course.
Chen Xiayue was stunned when she heard this, and then laughed.
“Okay, let’s take a look at the situation first.” Chen Xiayue is not the kind of person who doesn’t know what is good or bad. Zhang Chengchuan is thinking of her body, and of course she will not refuse.
The couple followed the path to the mountains. The forests in the Yunnan-Guangxi area are still far from the north. There are many vines and various weeds and shrubs, and there are even mountain leeches on the mountains.
As soon as Chen Xiayue went up the mountain, she almost wanted to return when she saw a mountain leech in some humid places, and she didn’t want to continue going up the mountain.
“Don’t worry, I’ll rub some medicine for you, don’t worry about a mountain leech biting you.” When Zhang Chengchuan came out, he brought some potion to prevent the mountain leech from biting. Now that his daughter-in-law is afraid, he will give it quickly. She rubs.
Chen Xiayue frowned. It is not that she has not been bitten by leech. In her previous life, she grew up in the countryside when she was a child. At that time, she often followed her parents up the mountain.
It’s just that there were not many cattle in the village. There were not as many mountain leech on the mountain as when cattle were raised. Chen Xiayue didn’t know whether it was because he stopped raising cattle or because the vegetation on the mountain was not as lush as when he was a child, so there were fewer mountain leech. Still what happened.
Later, she followed her mother into the city, and she hasn’t touched these things since then. Now suddenly seeing the mountain leech, Chen Xiayue’s memory of this kind of thing came up a little uncomfortable.
She wasn’t afraid of leech bites, but it just didn’t feel good.
“You, if you are so annoying, I won’t take you up the mountain in the future. There are quite a lot of mountain leeches.” Zhang Chengchuan didn’t think so much when he proposed to take her up the mountain just now. Have you ever seen something like a mountain leech?
It’s not that Zhang Chengchuan hasn’t seen his sister-in-law, and when he went to visit relatives in his eldest brother’s army, he also saw other girls in the city.
It’s good for his daughter-in-law to see that the mountain leech is only frowning without screaming, but Zhang Chengchuan still regrets bringing her up. It looks disgusting when there are too many mountain leeches.
“Well.” Chen Xiayue didn’t want to come up either. When will there be no mountain leeches on the mountain, or she has a way to keep these mountain leeches away from her and then think about going up the mountain.
Zhang Chengchuan wiped Chen Xiayue’s potion, and then tied her trouser legs tightly, so that the mountain leech had no chance to climb up his daughter-in-law’s leg from the trouser leg and bite her.
Zhang Chengchuan took Chen Xiayue’s hand and led her along the mountain road. He saw some wild fruits on the mountain that were only available in autumn and picked a few for her to taste. Then he took her to the place with mushrooms that he had discovered before. Now there are no mushrooms.
Zhang Chengchuan took Chen Xiayue around for a long time before picking a little mushrooms, which happened to be filled with the small basket that Chen Xiayue was carrying.
“There are no mushrooms at this time, let’s wait until it rains.” Zhang Chengchuan said.
“It’s raining?” Chen Xiayue’s face changed instantly when she heard this. After the rain, there were more leeches in the mountains, so she didn’t want to go up the mountain.
She may not be afraid of mice, cockroaches, or even snakes, but she doesn’t want to see leech. It’s not that she’s afraid, it’s just that she doesn’t like this kind of soft stuff.
In particular, leeches **** blood.
Especially when I was a child, I heard a lot of old people say that leech or some soft slugs accidentally entered the body, multiplying a lot of eggs or larvae in the stomach, Chen Xiayue has a psychological shadow.
Zhang Chengchuan also knew that his daughter-in-law was very repulsive of leeches, so he stopped playing with her, cut down some withered branches and thicker trunks and bundled them up to prevent them from walking away as firewood.
Chen Xiayue followed Zhang Chengchuan. Although the couple went up the mountain for the first time, there was nothing to gain except a basket of mushrooms, but Chen Xiayue didn’t feel bad.
When the couple got home, it was already two o’clock in the afternoon. It took time to go up and down the mountain. It took an hour or two to stroll on the mountain, and it was normal to return home in the afternoon.
After Chen Xiayue put the back basket in the yard, she quickly checked her body to see if the leech had climbed up on her body. After checking several times, she asked Zhang Chengchuan to see if there was anything behind her. She really caught one or two small mountain leech. .
Chen Xiayue frowned and threw the mountain leech on the stove. Although there was no fire now, it could kill the mountain leech by throwing it into the grass and ash.
Chen Xiayue said to Zhang Chengchuan, “I don’t want to go up the mountain without something to prevent the leech from approaching in the future.”
“If you don’t go, don’t go. You don’t need to go to the mountains often if you are not in good health.” Zhang Chengchuan said, “There are not so many leeches in the private plots in the mountains, so don’t worry.”
Chen Xiayue nodded, “I cut firewood today, are you going to go up the mountain tomorrow?”
“There’s no need to go tomorrow, I’ll go later.” Zhang Chengchuan thought for a while and said, “I’ve asked for leave today and won’t go to work, and it won’t be good if I don’t go tomorrow, and the rice is about to be harvested, so I have to get things done early. Done.”
Chen Xiayue thought for a while and nodded, “Then you can go in a while. I put the fragrant fruit in the direction you told me that I couldn’t go when we were going up the mountain today. It’s a bit of a cliff, right?”
“Well.” Zhang Chengchuan nodded.
The reason why the fragrant fruit is put on the edge of the cliff is because it can explain why the fragrant fruit grows so well, no one has discovered it before.
After all, it is more dangerous to grow on the edge of the cliff, and people rarely go there, so it is very reasonable to not find such good fruit growing on the edge of the cliff.
Of course, Zhang Chengchuan still needs to eat some lunch. Chen Xiayue didn’t let him eat bread. After letting him eat a bread cushion, he cooked noodles for him.