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Li Zheng was furious at Widow Jia's words. He could understand that Li Qingxiu was still young and prone to mischief. But the elder Widow Jia also followed Li Qingxiu in mischief.

"No, you two just stay with us." Li Zheng's tone was very firm. He couldn't let Li Qingxiu and Widow Jia wander around in such a dark night.

Li Qingxiu understood that Li was worried about their safety, but it was midnight now, and she didn't know what time it was after being out for so long.

The task deadline given by the system is today, and the wild vegetables are so hard to find, so she can't waste time.

She has searched this area, and if she stays here, she has to wait for everyone to finish picking the fungus before she can move to another place.

It would be better for her and Widow Jia to go to another mountain to search. Maybe they could quickly find the remaining wild vegetables in another mountain.

"Uncle Li Zheng, we will pay attention to safety. Besides, this is not the first time we have gone up the mountain. If we are really in danger, I will run back to Lihua Valley with my aunt."

Li Zheng looked at Li Qingxiu's firm eyes and knew in his heart that if he didn't agree, Li Qingxiu would leave.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Zheng's attitude relaxed. He nodded and said: "Okay, anyway, if I don't agree, you will leave. You must be careful. If anything happens, just shout loudly and we will come immediately. Looking for you."

Li Qingxiu and Widow Jia agreed repeatedly, and then walked in the other direction.

The cold winter mountain forest at the extreme night seemed particularly depressing, but because she had a mission, Li Qingxiu only thought about wild vegetables, so she automatically ignored the surrounding environment.

The same goes for Widow Jia. Her eyes at this time were simply looking at the ground, not missing any greenery in her eyes.

When they walked up a hillside, Li Qingxiu spotted a few brackens with her sharp eyes.

She pointed in the direction of the bracken and shouted excitedly to Widow Jia: "Auntie, look, there are bracken there!"

After hearing this, Widow Jia immediately turned around and saw several bracken trees growing tenaciously on the hillside.

"Oh, it's really bracken. Children have good eyesight." After Widow Jia said this, she pulled Li Qingxiu and ran over to pick those few bracken plants.

The two searched the hillside again and found only some shepherd's purses, but Li Qingxiu had picked the shepherd's purses before, so they couldn't make a lot of them.

When Widow Jia, who was holding a handful of shepherd's purses in her hand, heard Li Qingxiu say that the shepherd's purses did not count, the joyful light in her eyes dimmed instantly.

Widow Jia forced a smile and comforted her: "It's okay. Anyway, you can eat it and don't waste it."

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While walking through a thicket, they discovered a frozen stream.

Li Qingxiu and Widow Jia looked at each other fiercely. Why didn't they think of looking for it by the stream? There were water celery by the stream.

Li Qingxiu saw the look in Widow Jia's eyes and knew that Widow Jia's thoughts were the same as his own.

She said: "Auntie, let's go separate ways. You look over there, and I look over here. This will make it faster."

Although Widow Jia was a little scared, she still nodded in agreement. So the two of them took the branches and walked separately, using the branches to pull away the snow on the bank of the stream.

Li Qingxiu just dug for a while and found a few frozen water celery plants. She immediately shouted in surprise: "Auntie, I found water celery here."

Widow Jia, who was already a little scared, almost fell to the ground when Li Qingxiu howled. "Oh, my ancestor, your voice almost scared me to death."

Li Qingxiu said with an apologetic look: "I'm sorry, Auntie, I'm so excited."

Widow Jia calmed down and said: "It's okay. You should be happy to find water celery. But please keep your voice down and don't attract wild beasts."

Li Qingxiu nodded and continued to carefully use branches to pull away the snow. After a while, she picked a lot of water celery.

Although water celery is a little wilted due to the snow, it might as well become one of the ten kinds of wild vegetables.

Widow Jia also found a piece of water celery and several purslane plants that were almost frozen to death. She dug out the rotten leaves of purslane and gave them to Li Qingxiu.

"The leaves are rotten and only the roots are left, is that okay?"

Li Qingxiu took the purslane root and threw it into the bamboo basket. "Of course it's okay. No matter how bad it is, you can't deny that it's a wild vegetable."

Widow Jia looked at Li Qingxiu's cool movements and said uneasily: "This purslane is so bad, will the mountain god be angry?"

Li Qingxiu saw the fear in Widow Jia's eyes, and comforted her: "Don't worry, it's okay. There is snow everywhere, isn't it normal for the wild vegetables to be frozen to death? Besides, it is indeed a wild vegetable, isn't it still covered with snow? There is a leaf."

Li Qingxiu said so, and Widow Jia could only suppress her uneasiness and continue looking for wild vegetables.

At this time, Li Qingxiu was not so anxious, because he only needed to find another wild vegetable to complete the task.

Li Qingxiu felt her neck was sore from keeping her head down looking for wild vegetables. She raised her head and twisted her neck to make it more comfortable, but she saw the bamboo forest on the other side of the stream.

Li Qingxiu thought that there should be winter bamboo shoots this season. She quickly called Widow Jia: "Auntie, stop looking. Let's go to the bamboo forest opposite."

When Widow Jia heard this, she stopped what she was doing. "There should be fewer wild vegetables in the bamboo forest."

Li Qingxiu smiled slightly and said: "No, I believe there will be more. Auntie, there should be winter bamboo shoots this season."

When Widow Jia heard what Li Qingxiu said, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "Winter bamboo shoots? Let's go quickly. That stuff is very delicious and not bitter at all."

Fortunately, the frozen stream was not wide, and two people could cross it with only one foot using the strength of the ice.

After the two of them crossed the stream, they soon came to the bamboo forest on the opposite side. There was silence in the bamboo forest, except for the rustling sound of the cold wind blowing through the bamboo leaves.

The torches in their hands were also blown by the cold wind. Even so, the two of them only had delicious winter bamboo shoots in their hearts at this time.

Li Qingxiu and Widow Jia both held branches in their hands, and they began to dig through the snow in the bamboo forest in search of winter bamboo shoots.

The first person to find the winter bamboo shoots was Li Qingxiu. She carefully looked at the cracks in the ground and the bulging earth bags.

As soon as she discovered a crack, she squatted down happily and dug through the snow and soil with a hatchet, and a fresh brown winter bamboo shoot appeared in front of her eyes.

"Auntie, I found it!" Li Qingxiu shouted excitedly.

After hearing this, Widow Jia hurried over and saw the winter bamboo shoots in Li Qingxiu's hand. She was so happy that she couldn't help but smile: "Oh, there are really winter bamboo shoots. Not bad. These winter bamboo shoots are quite big."

As soon as Li Qingxiu threw the freshly unearthed winter bamboo shoots into the bamboo basket, she received a message from the system.