If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

In the open space of the Liu Mansion's courtyard, three slightly larger tables were temporarily put together. The eighteen children surrounded the three tables tightly. Lunch consisted of one meat dish and one vegetable dish, plus mixed noodle dumplings and cabbage soup.

Meixiang and the beautiful woman sat at the table in the north courtyard, staring in amazement at the group of wolf-like children. More than forty nests in the basket were eaten up in less than a quarter of an hour, and their food supply for almost a month was eaten up in one meal!

"This, this is too exaggerated, right?" Meixiang thought that these half-grown children could eat, but she didn't expect them to eat so much.

"Maybe they've been hungry for a long time, and now they've had a full meal, so they've opened their stomachs. Look at Xiao Qishi's little belly." The beautiful woman looked at the children eating indecently outside, feeling helpless and heavy in her heart. Haoyue's foundation is still too weak.

"At this rate of eating, the food in the house won't last for a few days." Meixiang grabbed her hair in annoyance as she looked at Xiao Shiqi, who had collapsed on the ground and refused to move.

The beautiful woman smiled as she looked at her frowning daughter, reached out to help her tidy up her frizzy hair, then turned around and told Nanny Chen to remind Meiying to let everyone digest their food before taking a nap, and to make some digestive tea in case of any emergency.

Meixiang nodded as she listened: "These kids are too greedy. The little food stored at home won't last for a few days if they continue like this. We can't let them go hungry like before if we take them in. We have to think of other ways."

At dawn the next day, Meixiang took Meiying, Xiaoer and Xiaowu out. Xiaosan and Xiaosi, who were girls, stayed at home with Chen San to help the nanny with the follow-up arrangements. Chen Er followed behind secretly.

"Miss, where are we going?" This was the first time the waiter went out since arriving in Liujia Village, and he couldn't hide his excitement on his face.

"Let's go and have a look at the mountain behind the village. As the saying goes, 'live by the mountain, eat from the mountain; live by the water, eat from the water.' The mountain range behind the village is a treasure trove. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to come across something good." Meixiang secretly planned everyone's meal plan.

"Great, great." The two of them were jumping and rushing forward, carrying backpacks that were almost as tall as them. The hardships of life had not wiped out the two children's optimistic nature.

Meixiang turned her head and looked at Meiying, who had become visibly mature and steady in the past few days. As long as there are people, there is hope. As long as everyone works together, there will be no obstacles that cannot be overcome and no difficulties that cannot be solved. Thinking of this, Meixiang's heart suddenly felt full of hope.

The group of five people followed the direction of the mountain range and came into the mountain. Meixiang looked up at the endless mountain range. Although she had been here many times over the years, she did not go too far inside. Firstly, she was too young and her physical strength could not keep up. If she encountered a larger animal, she might lose her life here. Secondly, she could basically find the more common herbs she needed on the outskirts.

"Who among you three is more familiar with this mountain range?" Meixiang asked hopefully.

Xiao Er and Xiao Wu shook their heads. Mei Ying looked at the green in front of her and recalled the first time she met Mei Xiang. She couldn't help but smile and said, "We basically made a living in Liuzhou City before. Today is my second time here."

"Okay, have you heard anything about this mountain range in the city, such as any precious herbs or small animals, or some strange things that have never been seen before?" Meixiang asked with a little disappointment.

"Two years ago, I heard that someone picked a herb below the city gate and sold it for a lot of money." The waiter thought carefully and suddenly said.

"Yes, yes. There was another time when someone caught a wild boar and sold it for a lot of money," Xiao Wu continued.

Mei Ying nodded, confirming that what they both said was true.

Meixiang immediately became excited when she heard this. It was a good thing if someone had dug it up and caught it before, which meant that these things really existed here.

"Let's go and look for it." Meixiang waved her hand and led them into the mountains in a heroic and high-spirited manner.

For three consecutive days, they walked almost all the mountains outside Liujia Village. Apart from picking some common herbs, wild fruits, wild mushrooms and wild vegetables, they did not find anything else valuable.

"Mother, I plan to go a little further inland tomorrow to see if I can find something more valuable." After dinner that day, Meixiang said to the beautiful woman who was also drinking tea, holding a tea bowl.

The beautiful woman raised her head and glanced at her daughter, then asked, "Why did you think of going inside?"

"We have explored almost all the mountains surrounding the village these days, but we didn't find anything significant. This is not normal in such a large mountain range, so I want to go inside and take a look. Don't worry, mother, we will be more careful." Meixiang shook the beautiful woman's arm coquettishly.

"You can go, but you have to bring Chen Er and Chen San with you, as well as the things you've been tinkering with these days."

Since she was destined to be an eagle, no matter how reluctant she was, she had to harden her heart and let her go on her own to make mistakes. "But don't push yourself too hard. Remember you still have your mother and your family behind you."

When Mei Xiang heard the word "family", she curled her lips in disapproval and did not respond. The beautiful woman who had been secretly observing her daughter's expression couldn't help but sigh in her heart and did not continue to test the subject, and dropped the topic.

"Daddy, elders and my husband, I have tried my best. It seems that if you want Xiang'er to truly feel a sense of belonging, you still need to think of ways to work harder." The beautiful woman said secretly in her heart.

In Wangjing, the capital of the Haoyue Dynasty, inside a ancestral hall deep inside a house that looks inconspicuous from the outside.

Four elderly men over 60 years old and four middle-aged men in their early 30s were staring intently at the compass that was constantly turning on the table. One of them, an old man with gray hair and beard, who was wearing a dark brown robe, kept calculating with his fingers as the compass turned, muttering to himself.

Zhitong saw that the compass was spinning faster and faster, and the fingers of the old patriarch of the Chu family in a brown robe were also pinching faster and faster. In the end, only a vague shadow could be seen. Suddenly, the compass stopped, and the thumb of the old man in the brown robe stopped on the index finger.

"How is it? Does the hexagram provide any clues?" The old patriarch of the Situ family, who was wearing a black robe, couldn't help but ask the question first.

The others all stood up straight, staring at Patriarch Chu's expression solemnly, afraid of missing even the slightest thing.

"Good luck." Patriarch Chu first gave everyone a reassurance.

Everyone's tense hearts suddenly settled down. After ten years of waiting, they finally heard the words "good luck".