By the time everyone packed up and started on the road, it was already half an hour later.

They walked and walked in the pine forest, and when they reached the depths of the forest, they also found a pine cone!

Little Sable and Pangpang immediately started to pick up the pine cones, especially Little Sable, who climbed trees very neatly. He climbed directly to the high branches, picked off the pine cones and threw them down.

Pangpang picked them up from below, and put them in his arms after catching them. Jiayin saw two of them falling out after picking them up, so he simply took out a bamboo basket for them.

Then it turned into a fat paw with two fat paws, holding a bamboo basket, and kept picking it up left and right. The little sable kept throwing down the pine cone.

They were not in a hurry anyway, so they started looking for them nearby. The pine nuts were delicious, and the pine cones could also be used as charcoal. They burned less smoke than tree branches and had a faint pine scent.

Several more trees with pine cones were found, and Fang Zhigang also joined the ranks of picking pine cones.

He even childishly competed with the little sable, asking Fang Zhiyuan to pick up the pine cone with a basket below, while he threw it down from the tree to see who could fill the basket first.

Of course, the result was that he couldn't defeat the little sable. After all, the little sable was much more flexible than him, and with its small size, it could climb up even the thinnest branches.

But Fang Zhigang could only pick some pine cones within reach on the thick tree trunks.

After picking two full baskets, everyone simply stopped, knocked out the pine nuts, and then put them and the pine cones directly into the storage bag.

After that, I picked two more baskets and stopped. Although I was not in a hurry, it was best to leave the pine forest before dark, otherwise I would have to spend another night in the pine forest.

Put away the pine nuts and pine cones, and everyone continued to move forward.

As they walked forward, Liu Yu'er and Yang Huiyun said regretfully: "There is no rain in the Four Seasons Valley. If there is rain, mushrooms will definitely grow in the pine trees. Then we can pick up some mushrooms and eat some fresh ones."

Although there are many mushrooms in the storage bag, they are all dried and not as delicious as fresh ones.

And they didn't pick it up themselves, they bought it on the road.

Jiayin thought about the fun experience of picking mushrooms on Panshe Mountain before. Every time the children went up the mountain, they could pick up a basket of mushrooms and come back with a sense of accomplishment.

Fang Zhigang listened and sighed: "This Four Seasons Valley is beautiful, but it's really not very fun.

For food, there are only wild animals in the spring scene, and then there are the fruit trees and other places in the autumn.

There are no fish in the water, not even wild vegetables, so these pine nuts are already an unexpected harvest."

When they first entered the pine forest, they didn't see any pine nuts until they reached the place where they set up camp. They only discovered it after they got deeper.

Otherwise, if I saw it while camping, I wouldn't have let it go. I would have just fried the pine nuts and eaten them now.

Because they were delayed for some time by picking pine cones and knocking pine nuts, by the time they walked out of the pine forest, it was already four hours later.

It was completely dark, so they came out directly with torches.

Fang Zhiqiang and Fang Zhiwu each held a torch and illuminated the barren rocky beach.

I found that it was smoother than the previous barren rock beach. There were not so many gravels on the ground, and the stones were a little bigger. The smallest ones were one foot square, and the big ones were even more than one foot long.

Since they had never found any dangerous beasts, they did not have to set up their tent against the stone wall. Instead, they directly found a flat place and pitched their tent there.

Then I picked up a few smaller stones, built them into two fire pits, and lit the pine cones directly.

Then insert the torch into a crack in the stone so that it can be illuminated at night and burn until it goes out naturally.

Although I know there are no wild beasts, some firelight still makes me feel more at ease.

Put the iron pot on the already burning fire pit, take out the pheasants and rabbits that have been cooked by the stream at noon, and don't care about the braised and stir-fried ones, just stew them in one pot.

Then another fire pit is used to steam rice.

Fang Zhigang watched them set up tents and cook the food. When he had nothing to do, he wandered over to Qingzhu and Pangpang and asked Qingzhu to put the pine nuts in the storage bag and an iron pot.

He was going to build a fire pit and fry the pine nuts.

Although Fang Zhigang's cooking skills are not very good, he can still cook fried pine nuts.

Qingzhu directly took out a bag of pine nuts from the storage bag. Yes, several large baskets of pine cones were knocked out, just a bag of pine nuts. After all, this thing does not take up space.

In fact, it was more than that. After Jiayin left, he took all the pine cones that they had not seen into the space.

Use your spiritual consciousness to directly knock out all the pine nuts and put them into the storage bag.

However, if too much is taken out, it will be too obvious. Although it can be said that it is green bamboo, collected with spiritual consciousness.

But it’s not necessary. What if they want to rely on Qingzhu for everything in the future?

They still have to rely on themselves for many things, and this bag of pine nuts is enough to eat, which is a bit laborious.

Fang Zhigang took the pine nuts and picked up some relatively broken stones. Then he smashed the broken stones into smaller pieces with large stones, washed them with water and put them in an iron pot to fry them dry.

After the stones were heated, I poured the pine nuts in and fried them together with the stones.

The pine nuts fried in this way are heated evenly, which is better than frying the pine nuts directly in an iron pan.

They learned this from a hawker when they passed through a small county town.

That vendor specializes in selling fried seeds, melon seeds, peanuts, and chestnuts, all fried in this way.

So Fang Zhigang thought that pine nuts could be fried like this. When the pine nuts came out of the pot, a few people who had set up the tent came over and picked up a pine nut and looked at it.

Fang Zhiqiang said: "This method is good. Not only does it not smell burnt, but the colors do not darken much."

I blew it into my mouth, and when it was cool, I opened one and put it in my mouth. It was fragrant and crispy, and the taste was very good.

Fang Zhiwen also tasted a few, and joked with a smile: "Zhigang, you will be able to make a living from now on. If it doesn't work, you can go to the county to open a roasted seed shop and buy these roasted seeds and nuts. The business should be good."

Fang Zhigang smiled and scratched his head, feeling that it was really good. Although he was also admitted as a child student, he knew his own weight.

I'm not very good at academics. I guess it would be great if I could be admitted as a scholar. As for being a scholar, I don't even have to think about it.

Even in the scholar examination, Fang Zhigang couldn't guarantee that he could succeed in the first attempt, so if it really didn't work, this would really be a living.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhigang also pinched a pine nut and put it in his mouth, smashing it, his skills were really good!

Jiayin ate the pine nuts on his hand, and his spiritual consciousness reached Jiangcheng again.

I searched in several larger inns, but couldn't find anyone from Tianzun, so I guess they must have left.

After all, the Tianzun audience had to go to an appointment, and it was impossible to stay in Jiangcheng for more than a day or two. It was also due to heavy rain that there was no other way.

However, we were on our way just after heavy rain. The road might not be easy to walk on, and we probably wouldn't be able to walk very far in one day.

Jiayin's spiritual consciousness continued to explore forward, and sure enough, he found Tianzun's audience in an inn in a county dozens of miles away from Jiangcheng.

There is only one inn in the county, which is very easy to find, and it seems that they and their group are living in the inn.

Everyone watching Tianzun has already taken a rest, so they no longer pay attention to Good News, and are planning to watch it again tomorrow.

Just as he was about to take back his consciousness, he suddenly stopped there again, and his consciousness moved towards a small courtyard.

Just now, when Jiayin was about to take back his consciousness, he accidentally discovered that two people sneaked into the small courtyard carrying a sack.

If there were just two sneaky and suspicious people, they wouldn't attract Jiayin's attention, but because of that sack, it could move!

Judging from the shape, there should be a person inside. His spiritual consciousness penetrated into the sack and found that it was a young man wearing rich clothes.

Is this... a kidnapping scene?

The man in fine clothes was tied tightly, and his mouth was gagged with a rag. The outside of the rag was tied with a strip of cloth, so that he could only make whining sounds.

It was so late at night that this kind of sound didn't attract anyone's attention at all.

I saw the two men walking inside carrying the struggling sack. Neither of them spoke.

After entering the yard, the two did not enter the house, but walked around the house to the backyard.

The two men carried the sacks to the backyard. Jiayin was still thinking, did they want to throw the sacks in the backyard?

I saw that they did not stop and headed straight towards a well in the corner.

Jiayin frowned. Could it be that he took so much trouble to carry the person back just to throw him into the well and drown him?

Just when I thought of this, I saw the person in front put down the sack and turned around, then picked up the sack and walked backwards into the well.

That's right, we entered the well.

Jiayin's spiritual sense went over and took a look. It turned out that there were steps under the wellhead, and the wellhead was larger than an ordinary wellhead.

It's just that half of the stone slab has just been erected so that no one can tell that there are steps inside.

At this time, the man stretched out his foot, kicked open some stone slabs, and then drilled into the well to reveal it.

He walked backwards and slowly down the well, and the people behind him followed him with the sacks, stood them up, and went down the well.

Jiayin's spiritual consciousness went straight down the well mouth and found that there was a tunnel inside. The tunnel was quite spacious and there was no problem for two or three people to walk side by side. It looked like it was not dug freshly.

Go forward along the tunnel, and there is a door not far away. The door is made of wood, not locked, but only ajar.

Jiayin's spiritual sense went in and found that it was a quite large dark room with two beds, a table and a few chairs.

There was an oil lamp burning on the table, and two people were sitting next to it.

The attire of the two of them looked very familiar to Jiayin. Isn't this the attire of those pirates? They were dressed in bunts and had a cloth tied to their heads.

And there were two large knives on the table in front of them, which should be the weapons they used.

When the two men carrying the sacks carried the man into the dark room, one of them, a man with slender eyes and a hooked nose, said, "Has he been caught?"

After getting off the tunnel, the person in front who was walking in the opposite direction had already turned around and put his hands behind his back to carry the sack, so he was now facing the speaker.

The man replied respectfully: "The man who returned to the third master's house has been captured."
To be continued...