He took a pine nut with some surprise, looked at it and then looked at Jian Yuelan.
"sure."
She peeled a pine nut and fed it to his mouth. "The taste of raw pine nuts is slightly green, and the uncooked ones taste better, but the nutritional value is higher than the cooked ones."
"I quite like eating raw food."
Ye Linxing tasted it carefully and nodded, "It really tastes good."
Then, he took all the pine nuts picked out by Jian Yuelan and was busy peeling them. Suddenly, there was a sound of cracking in the air above his head, and with a thud, something hit his head and fell to the ground.
He looked down at the pine cone that had fallen by his feet, then looked up again, and saw a little squirrel standing on a high pine branch. The moment their eyes met, the little squirrel started cooing.
Ye Linxing was silent for two seconds and decisively complained to Jian Yuelan, "Daughter-in-law, the squirrel bullied me."
"It's normal for it to get angry when we eat its food."
The implication: Don't get angry with the little squirrel.
Without waiting for his reply, she raised the pole and said, "You stand aside, I'm going to start knocking on the pine cone."
This is business, and Ye Linxing has no reason not to agree.
He stepped back decisively and watched Jian Yuelan raise a pole and knock on the pine cones hanging on the branches. With a thumping sound, one by one the pine cones fell to the ground.
The commotion was so loud that it shocked the squirrels who were busy storing food for the winter.
The little guys stood on the branches holding pine cones one by one, looking down at the two-legged beasts below and fighting for food with them. After being stunned for a long time, they almost exploded with anger.
Then, the whole forest was filled with sounds such as 'cuckoo' and 'hissing', which represented anger, dissatisfaction, and warning.
While Ye Linxing picked up the pine cones that Jian Yuelan knocked down and put them in a bag, he looked at the squirrels in the frying pan and said with some schadenfreude, "You can't beat us, so hold on to your anger."
The squirrels didn't understand, but they understood Ye Linxing's actions of putting pine cones into the bag, and they became even more angry.
People tend to do stupid things when they are angry, and the same goes for squirrels.
The little squirrel with the pine cone in his hand hit him with the pine cone, and the squirrel without the pine cone picked the pine cone and smashed it again.
Most of the squirrels were not very accurate, and all the pine cones they smashed down fell near him. Only a few of the pine cones hit him, and they didn't cause much pain.
Looking at the pine cones falling down like rain, he happily said to Jian Yuelan, "Daughter-in-law, I think you should stop knocking. You might as well make the little guys angry and let them pick the pine cones and smash them down."
"You get something for nothing, just reach out and pick it up, it smells so good!"
"Be a human being."
Little squirrels are not easy either, and I really don’t want to bully others.
"I am a human being, I don't need to be a human being."
Even so, he was no longer trying to catch squirrels, but was seriously picking up pine cones.
The little squirrels smashed them one after another, and found that their hard work could not drive away the two-legged beasts that were competing for food, and that they had become enemies. They immediately dispersed in anger and stopped smashing.
Seeing this, Ye Linxing muttered, "Why don't you smash it? It's a pity that you picked up the pine nuts that you didn't get in vain."
Jian Yuelan, who heard him muttering, had black lines hanging all over her forehead. She was addicted to picking them up.
She held up the pole and poked at each pine cone, one by one falling to the ground.
After more than two hours, the three cloth bags brought were all filled.
"Daughter-in-law, I have no place to pretend."
Seeing that she was still knocking, Ye Linxing quickly shouted to stop.
"Is this full?"
Jian Yuelan, who hadn't even finished knocking out a third of the bag, turned around and looked at the bag when she heard the sound. She saw that it was really full, so she didn't feel disappointed. Instead, she gathered the remaining pine cones together and leaned against them.
Sitting next to the old pine tree, he took a dagger and started picking pine nuts.
"Single these out?"
Ye Linxing came over and helped pass the pine cone.
"We've knocked it all down, we can't waste it."
Take it out and throw away the tower. The pine nuts don't take up any space and can be stuffed into any bag.
"I'll help too."
Ye Linxing took a pine cone, drew out the dagger, and started working.
However, picking pine nuts is a technical job, and Jian Yuelan is fast because she is skilled at it.
It was Ye Linxing's first time doing this job. Not to mention his slow hands, he was not very good at picking things up.
"You have to follow the lines of the pine scales to remove the scales first, and then pick them out."
Jian Yuelan imparted his experience, and he said, "Oh," and followed the teaching method seriously. At first, he was still a beginner and his speed was very slow.
Once I became familiar with it, my efficiency gradually increased, and I began to pick more pine nuts.
As he was picking at the pine nuts, Ye Linxing suddenly felt his head sinking, and the skin on his neck that was exposed outside his clothes was brushed by something. He paused in picking up the pine nuts, and then reached out to grab it on his head, but he missed it.
.
Then the shoulders sank, followed by a grunt.
There was also a slight itching on my cheek.
He turned his head and saw that a squirrel with its ears standing upright and a tuft of hair was squatting on his shoulder and staring at him.
The moment their eyes met, the squirrel stretched out its little paw towards him without fear of danger.
Ye Linxing was confused, "Begging for food?"
"almost."
Jian Yuelan grabbed two pine nuts and handed them to it. The little guy immediately took them and knocked the pine nuts to eat.
Then, it felt that free food was delicious and refused to leave.
Just rest on Ye Linxing's shoulder and wait for feeding.
This is also cheeky. It will stretch out its paws after eating. If you don't give it, it will coo at you to express its dissatisfaction.
I have no idea what to do with such an elf on the stall. I can only feed it.
So, when Jian's father came to find him, he found that the young couple were busy prying pine nuts and feeding the little squirrels.
The atmosphere is very warm.
This is the scene——
“What’s going on with this squirrel?”
When he made a sound, the squirrel, which was stretching out its little paws to catch the pine nuts, heard the strange figure and stopped asking for the pine nuts. With a hiss, it climbed up the tree and ran away as fast as flying.
Jian Yuelan, "???"
Ye Linxing, "!!!"
"Dad, you scared the squirrel away."
The couple looked at Dad Jian and said in unison.
After working on these two terrible things for a long time, he didn't even think about a squirrel.
Jian's father was so angry, "Why, I see you guys are ready to beat me up?!"
"That can't be done."
Compared with the squirrel and the father, the father is naturally more important.
"Dad, come quickly and crack pine nuts for you."
Jian Yuelan greeted warmly, grabbed a handful of pine nuts and handed them over. Jian's father reached out to take them. He didn't rush to eat them, but stared at the pine nut skins knocked out of the ground for a long time, and asked, "How much did you two eat?"
"I didn't eat much, it was all eaten by the little squirrels."
It is true that the nutritional value of raw pine nuts is higher than that of cooked pine nuts, but they are also oily, so it doesn't matter if you eat less. Eating more will cause a burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Jian Yuelan understood this, so even though there were a lot of crusts on the ground, there really wasn't much for them to eat.
Jian's father was relieved when he heard the sound. He sat down and chewed pine nuts to watch them busy.
"Dad, how much have you picked?"
"It still lacks angelica, eucommia and licorice."
Jian Yuelan, "······"
"If I remember correctly, these three medicinal materials are located to the west and halfway up the mountain respectively."
Dad Jian nodded, "That's right, so do you two go with me, or continue knocking on the pine cone here?"
"Go with you."
Forget about other places, but halfway up the mountain. She couldn't let her father go there alone. What would happen if he encountered a wolf?