Grandma Gu and her group went up the mountain, but even the wild vegetables on the outskirts were all gone.
She didn’t dare lead the children deep into the mountains, so they could only wander around the outer edges.
As Gu Yihan searched earnestly for wild vegetables, she was silently complaining in her heart.
What about the female lead who encounters a wild boar on the mountain and gets rescued by the heroic male lead? What about falling into a cave full of gold, or finding clusters upon clusters of ginseng just waiting for the female lead to pick?
She was so lost in thought that she didn’t watch her step and trod right on a pile of cow dung.
The moment Gu Yihan felt it, she didn’t even need to look to know she was fated to be a side character.
She could only rely on herself to find a way to work in the city. She just wasn’t destined to meet a benefactor. Sob, sob, sob, she was only destined to step in crap.
“Grandma, I stepped in cow dung,” Gu Yihan said, standing frozen in place.
Hearing this, Grandma Gu walked over to her little granddaughter and took a look. “Well now, Yihan, your luck is really good. What a huge pile.”
“The little cowherd must not have cleaned up the dung properly, letting you get the leftovers.” Gu Yihan felt her whole world crumbling.
She quickly took off her shoe.
Stiffly, she said to Grandma Gu, “Grandma, this shoe is still covered in good luck. I won’t wear it for now. I’ll take it home and rub it in our private plot to let our vegetables share in the good fortune.”
Gu Meng looked at Gu Yihan’s expression and burst out laughing. “Pfft! So you plan to walk back barefoot?”
Gu Yihan glanced at her, smiled, and said, “I’ll wear straw sandals back. I know how to weave them myself.”
Grandma Gu looked at her little granddaughter in surprise. “When did you learn to weave straw sandals?”
Gu Yihan tugged on Grandma Gu’s sleeve and said coaxingly, “Don’t you know whose granddaughter I am? I watched Grandpa weave them a few times and just picked it up.”
Grandma Gu didn’t dwell on it. She picked up the cow dung and went back to looking for wild vegetables.
Gu Yihan shot a triumphant look at Gu Meng. She shouldn’t be underestimated. After all, she had grown up in an orphanage. Cooking, mending, and weaving straw sandals were all skills she possessed.
She found some cattail grass nearby suitable for weaving sandals and began to work, her fingers moving nimbly. However, she didn’t have much strength in her hands, so the sandals were just barely wearable, but she didn’t mind.
Gu Yihan slipped on the straw sandals. “Grandma, I’m going over there to look for wild vegetables.”
Grandma Gu, who was digging for vegetables, heard her and looked up in the direction her granddaughter was pointing. “Alright, be careful. Don’t go too far.”
Gu Yihan headed toward a less crowded area. It was a huge mistake to search for things in a big group; she had no intention of sticking with them.
She walked and searched for wild vegetables. Ever since Gu Yihan had arrived in this era, although her family had never let her go hungry, it was still a world away from her previous life. Fortunately, she had been secretly supplementing her meals and hadn’t lacked for food. She had always kept her Dimension tightly under wraps, trusting no one.
Therefore, she couldn’t relate to their feeling of needing to snatch up every little sprout of wild vegetable they saw.
She was picky, only digging up the ones that looked the best.
Gu Yihan spotted a hole next to a small mound. Could it be a rabbit hole? Circling the area, she found several more holes.
Gu Yihan cautiously looked around and saw that no one was there.
She took a small shovel out of her Dimension, left two holes open, and blocked up all the rest.
She gathered some dry grass and wood, lit a fire, and funneled the smoke into one of the holes. She then used her basket to block the other opening.
After smoking it for half an hour, Gu Yihan heard a commotion. Finally, she saw four gray rabbits and six little bunnies run into her basket.
She was overjoyed to see the rabbits. She found some grass rope to tie them up, placed them at the bottom of her basket, covered them with wild vegetables, and dashed straight toward Grandma Gu.
Hearing the noise, Grandma Gu saw her little granddaughter running so fast her hair was flying. “Slow down, don’t fall!”
Gu Yihan said with a mysterious look, “Grandma, want to see a treasure?”
Puzzled, Grandma Gu peered into the basket her granddaughter had set down. Good heavens, rabbits!
She immediately stopped digging for vegetables. “Did you catch these?”
“I smoked them out,” Gu Yihan said proudly. “I blocked up the rabbit holes.”
“Clever girl,” Grandma Gu said happily. “That schooling wasn’t for nothing. Let’s go home.”
“Mengmeng, Daya, time to go home!” Grandma Gu called out.
“Okay, Grandma,” Gu Meng and Gu Daya replied in unison.
As Grandma Gu’s group was about to head down, Sister-in-law Zhang, the wife of the village secretary Gu Guodong, saw them. “Aunty, heading down so early?”
Grandma Gu chuckled. “I’m getting old, I have to admit it. My legs are already aching after just a short while. I’d better head back.”
After saying goodbye to the others, the group of women and children went down the mountain together.
Gu Yihan didn’t see the venomous look in the eyes of Liu Zhaodi’s eldest daughter, Laidi, or hear her low murmur, “Why are you so lucky? You should be just like me.”