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 knew, they didn't say anything. They could not block others' mouths and not let them say anything.
Even if you don’t say anything in person, mutter something privately, or talk in your heart, who can stop it?
"Why don't we put the fragrant fruit in the mountains in a while?" Chen Xiayue followed Zhang Chengchuan and said while walking.
Considering that Chen Xiayue is in poor health and her heart cannot bear too strong exercise, so Zhang Chengchuan walked slowly so that Chen Xiayue could keep up without being too tired and would not be unable to bear the heart.
Chen Xiayue is also very helpful. She used to be simply attracted to Zhang Chengchuan's appearance and figure. Now Zhang Chengchuan's considerate personality also makes Chen Xiayue feel warm.
They had already walked to the foot of the mountain, away from the village and away from the crowd, so Zhang Chengchuan stretched out his hand and held Chen Xiayue's hand.
"Let's take you up the mountain later. You know what your body is like. What if I put the fragrant fruits out and I pick them too much and I can't take care of you on the way home?" Zhang Chengchuan said naturally.
Chen Xiayue was stunned when she heard this and then laughed.
"Okay, let's see the situation first." Chen Xiayue is not the kind of person who is ungrateful. Zhang Chengchuan is considering her health, so she certainly would not refuse.
The couple followed the small road up the mountain. The forests in the Yunnan-Guizhou area are still far from the north. There are many vines, various weeds and shrubs here, and there are even mountain leeches on the mountain.
Chen Xiayue just went up the mountain and saw some humid places with leeches almost returning, but she didn't want to continue going up the mountain.
"Don't worry, I'll give you some medicine, don't worry about the mountain leeches biting you." When Zhang Chengchuan came out, he brought some medicine to prevent mountain leeches biting. Now that he saw that his wife was afraid, he quickly wiped it for her.
Chen Xiayue frowned. She was not unavailable by leeches. She grew up in the countryside when she was a child in her previous life. At that time, she often followed her parents up the mountain.
But later, the village was not very good at cows, and there were not as many leeches on the mountain as there were as many times as they were raising cattle. Chen Xiayue was not sure whether it was not raising cattle or because the vegetation on the mountain was not as lush as when she was a child, so there were fewer leeches on the mountain or what was going on.
Later, she followed her mother into the city, and since then she has never been exposed to these things. Now, when she suddenly sees the mountain leeches, Chen Xiayue’s memory of this kind of thing is a little uncomfortable.
She is not afraid of leeches, but she just doesn't feel good.
"You, since you hate it so much, I won't take you up the mountain in the future, there are a lot of leeches." Zhang Chengchuan didn't think so much when he suggested taking her up the mountain. Now he remembered that his wife is from the city, so how could she have seen something like leeches?
Zhang Chengchuan has seen his sister-in-law before, and when he visited his elder brother's army, he also saw other girls in the city. The other party was so scared that he screamed when he saw rats and cockroaches.
It was already good for her daughter-in-law to see the mountain leeches but just frown without screaming, but Zhang Chengchuan still regretted taking her up. It also looks quite disgusting if there are too many mountain leeches.
"Yeah." Chen Xiayue didn't want to come up. When will there be no mountain leeches on the mountain? Or can she have a way to make these mountain leeches not get close to her and then think about going up the mountain.
Zhang Chengchuan applied medicine to Chen Xiayue, and then tied her trouser legs tightly, so that the mountain leeches would have the opportunity to climb up from the trouser legs to bite her.
Zhang Chengchuan took Chen Xiayue's hand and took her along the mountain road. He saw some wild fruits that were only available in autumn on the mountain and picked a few for her to taste. Then he took her to the place where there were mushrooms he had discovered before to see if there were mushrooms now.
Zhang Chengchuan took Chen Xiayue for a long time before picking some mushrooms, and just filled it with the small backpack that Chen Xiayue carried.
"There are no mushrooms at this time, let's talk about it when 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 is not afraid of mice, cockroaches, or even snakes, but she doesn't want to see leeches. She is not afraid of them, either, she doesn't like this kind of soft stuff.
Especially, leeches suck blood.
Especially when I was a child, I heard a lot of old people saying that leeches or some soft slugs accidentally entered the body, and a lot of eggs or larvae breeding in my stomach. Chen Xiayue had a psychological shadow.
Zhang Chengchuan also knew that his wife was quite repulsive of leeches, so he stopped taking her to play with her. He cut down some dead branches and thicker trunks and tied them up to help with firewood.
Chen Xiayue followed Zhang Chengchuan. Although the couple had no gains except a basket of mushrooms for the first time, Chen Xiayue didn't think it was bad either.
When the couple returned 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 around the mountain. It was normal to get home in the afternoon.
After Chen Xiayue put her back basket in the yard, she quickly checked whether her body had been climbed up by leeches. After checking several times, she asked Zhang Chengchuan to see if she was behind her. She actually caught one or two very small mountain leeches.
Chen Xiayue frowned and threw the mountain leeches into the stove. Although there was no fire anymore, throwing it in the ashes can kill the mountain leeches.
Chen Xiayue told Zhang Chengchuan, "I don't want to go up the mountain if I don't prevent leeches from approaching in the future."
"If you don't go, don't go. If you are in poor health, you don't need to go to the mountain often." Zhang Chengchuan said, "There are not so many leeches in the private areas in the mountains, so don't worry."
Chen Xiayue nodded, "I cut firewood today. Do you still have to go up the mountain tomorrow?"
"I don't have to go tomorrow, I'll go later." Zhang Chengchuan thought for a while and said, "I've taken leave today and didn't go to work. It's not good if I don't go tomorrow. And I'm about to harvest rice. I have to get things done earlier."
Chen Xiayue thought for a while and nodded, "Then you go there later. I will put the fragrant fruit in the direction you told me that I couldn't go when we went up the mountain today. It's a bit of a cliff, right?"
"Yes." Zhang Chengchuan nodded.
The reason why the sweet fruit is placed on the edge of the cliff is that this is how it can explain why the sweet fruit grows so well, no one has noticed it before.
After all, growing on the edge of a cliff is more dangerous, and people rarely go there, so it is very reasonable not to find such good fruit growing on the edge of a cliff.
Chapter completed!