Chen Xuhui directly buckled the backpack, carried it behind his back, and hung the snake in the cloth bag outside the backpack. After doing all this, he raised his head and said to Mu Xiu: "Okay, let's go."

Chen Xuhui took Mu Xiu and turned left and right. After walking for about ten minutes, he finally arrived at a low-lying place with a collapsed tree next to it, with rotten branches and leaves, and the trunks covered with brown mushrooms.

Mu Xiu's eyes lit up, but she didn't expect that there were so many mushrooms.

"Pick it quickly, it will get dark in a while." Chen Xuhui took out another cloth bag from his body and threw all the picked mushrooms in.

Mu Xiu also put down the basket and started to fill the mushrooms inside. Soon, she picked most of the baskets. She took advantage of Chen Xuhui's inattention and put the mushrooms inside into the space and continued the next round of picking.

In this way, Mu Xiu loaded it back and forth several times, and Chen Xuhui's cloth bag was already full.

"Mu Xiu, don't press the mushrooms too tightly. Let's pick them next time." Chen Xuhui looked at Mu Xiu's backpack. He didn't expect that this backpack didn't look big and could hold so many mushrooms.

He was surprised that it was normal. On weekdays, he could just pick some of it and fill a basket with it. Today, he saw at least one-third of the mushrooms on the trunks empty, but the two of them didn't pick much.

"Yeah, okay." Mu Xiu forgot about the remaining mushrooms in lingeringly. She really wanted to pick them all...

The two of them sorted out, carried things on their backs and walked down the mountain. It was obvious that Chen Xuhui was very familiar with the road on the mountain. In some places, there was no road left. He casually opened the grass and a crooked path appeared. However, it was a path, but it was actually just a path that someone had stepped on for a long time.

"Brother Chen, do you often go into the mountains?" Mu Xiu asked curiously.

"Yes, fortunately, with this mountain, I can't be hungry." Chen Xuhui's eyes dimmed and he replied faintly.

Mu Xiu thought of the original owner's memory of Chen Xuhui, and she was speechless for a moment.

Chen Xuhui is also a pitiful person. He is the one who doesn’t know the situation in Yingbu Village. His father is a typical type of stepmother who has a stepmother.

After the stepmother entered the door, she had two younger brothers in three years, and Chen Xuhui was only seven years old at that time.

In this era when I often had no food to eat, Chen Xuhui was disliked by his stepmother. When Chen Xuhui was ten years old, his father and stepmother went to work. He fed chickens and ducks at home and looked at his two younger brothers. Unexpectedly, his younger brother was naughty and lit straw piles in the kitchen. In order to save his younger brother, Chen Xuhui rushed into the kitchen and suffered burns on his face. Fortunately, he discovered it in time and the villagers put out the fire, but the kitchen and the side rooms were burned clean.

The two younger brothers were just frightened, but Chen Xuhui's stepmother took this opportunity to urge Chen Xuhui's father to drive his ten-year-old son out of the house.

Chen Xuhui, who was kicked out of the house, could only find a broken house to live in. His life was not as good as that of Mushui's family. Every family in the village was worried about their livelihood. Even if they had sympathy for him, they could only sigh one or two.

At that time, Chen Xuhui was only ten years old and half an old boy. He could only count five labor points on weekdays. The food he assigned could not fill his stomach. Chen Xuhui could only dig wild vegetables by himself and went to the mountains to hunt. In this way, he did not starve to death and survived for five years.

"Mu Xiu, your home is ahead." Chen Xuhui's voice interrupted Mu Xiu's memories. Mu Xiu looked up and saw that he had indeed arrived at Lao Sun's house. But how did he know that her home was here?

Chen Xuhui seemed to see Mu Xiu’s question, and Chen Xuhui continued: “The responsibility field I divided is next to your house. I saw you in and out a few days ago.”

So that's it. Mu Xiu didn't expect that all this was really a coincidence.

"Why did you ask for the responsibility field?" Mu Xiu asked curiously.

"I earn less work, so I just want to grow it myself. Anyway, I am alone, so I don't have to pay too much public food. I can also spare time to go to the mountain to find some food." Chen Xuhui's words made Mu Xiu look at him with some admiration, but he didn't expect that he was quite smart.

"If you want to enter the mountain in the future, go find me and I will take you in. On weekdays, it is safer to be on the periphery of the mountain." Chen Xuhui continued.

"Thank you, Brother Chen. Look, it's dark, so go to my house for dinner tonight." Mu Xiu was really grateful to Chen Xuhui.

Chen Xuhui was stunned. Over the years, no one invited him to have dinner at home.

"I won't go. I'll go into the mountain for a day today, and the ground has not been watered yet." Although Chen Xuhui was alone on weekdays, he still longed to feel the warmth in his heart. Looking at Mu Xiu's earnest eyes, he habitually rejected her kindness.

"Brother Chen, no matter how busy you are, you can't delay your meal. Let's go, go to my house, I will make delicious food for you, and after the meal, I will help you water. Brother Chen, you helped me take care of my sister last time, but later we went to see a doctor and left in a hurry, and we didn't thank you well. Later, when we came home, we encountered all kinds of messy things, so we forgot about this matter. And if you weren't there today, I might have to..." Mu Xiu invited each other enthusiastically.

Chen Xuhui felt a warm heart. He could feel Mu Xiu's sincerity, so he nodded involuntarily and walked towards Mu Xiu's house together.

"Xiu, you're back, why are you going out for such a long time?" Zhou Shuilian hurriedly walked out of the main hall when she saw Mu Xiu and complained, then she saw another figure behind Mu Xiu.

"Huh, Xiaohui?"

"Mom, today I went to the mountain and encountered a snake. I was almost bitten by a snake. Thanks to Brother Chen who killed the snake, Brother Chen also took me to pick so many mushrooms..." Mu Xiu put down the basket behind him and lifted it to Zhou Shuilian to see.

"Mom, look, there are so many mushrooms. In order to thank Brother Chen, I invite him to come to his house for a meal."

"What? Have you encountered a snake? Is it okay?" Zhou Shuilian pulled Mu Xiu to her side with a nervous look on her face and looked at it from head to toe.

"Mom, it's okay, I'm not doing well."

Seeing that Mu Xiu was fine, Zhou Shuilian breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at Chen Xuhui and said with gratitude: "Xiaohui, thank you very much."

"I just met it along the way." Chen Xuhui said honestly.

Zhou Shuilian turned her head and said to Mu Xiu, "Take Xiaohui into the house and sit first. I'll go out to make some meat. We must thank Xiaohui, the child."

"Aunt Lian, I have rabbits here, eat rabbit meat." Chen Xuhui put his backpack on the ground and pointed at the backpack and said.
Chapter completed!