Chapter 688

The big eel was weighed after being taken back, 2 jin 1 liang.

A proper giant.

This kind of eel is the most nourishing. When Li Heng killed it, he specially used a vegetable bowl to hold the blood, not willing to waste it.

It was made into spicy stir-fried eel slices, with a little sour chili, and finally eaten without a drop left.

Sun Manning kept praising: "Big Rich Man Li, if you were an ordinary person, whoever marries you would be blessed with your cooking skills. It's too delicious, a hundred times better than my parents."

Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe both understood the meaning in this girl's words. If he were an ordinary person, it would definitely be one husband and one wife, and it would definitely be happy.

But Li Heng thought beautifully in his heart, I was a proper ordinary person in my previous life, and I also had three wives.

Ho, those were all lies.

After breakfast, the group dressed up tightly, then walked toward the depths of the mountains to look for wild fruits and catch mountain crabs.

This time there were many women, and fearing accidents, fearing that Li Heng, a boy, couldn't take care of them, Mai Dong and Liu Ting's couple also followed into the mountains.

Seeing his daughter and Li Heng walking together all the time, Mai Dong simply chose to ignore it and led the way in front.

Sun Manning was very conscious and didn't act as a light bulb, happily following Mai Dong toward the deep mountains and old forests. This girl also dragged Liu Ting along, chatting non-stop, leaving the blue sky to those three dog men and women.

Just three dog men and women, Sun Manning thought fiercely in her heart.

Mai Sui's body had always been relatively good. Although she was climbing slopes in the mountains, she didn't even pant throughout the whole process.

But Zhou Shihe was different. The first half of the road was okay, and she could barely keep up with the team, but in the second half, her speed slowed down significantly.

Especially when they came to the small mountain stream, she seemed a bit powerless, and had to rest for a while after climbing every slope.

Unknowingly, the three fell behind the team.

Listening to Sun Manning's joyful shouts from a hundred meters away, saying she encountered a pheasant, saying she caught seven or eight crabs, and later shouting loudly: Li Heng, Mai Sui, Shihe, Auntie and I picked up a huge soft-shelled turtle, hahaha!

Li Heng looked up toward the valley above, "How big?"

Sun Manning jumped onto a big rock, holding the soft-shelled turtle to show off to the three people below, "Uncle said, at least 4 jin, haha, Li Heng, you cook tonight."

Li Heng made an OK gesture.

Zhou Shihe blocked the sunlight with her right hand and also looked at the soft-shelled turtle, then asked gently as water: "That looks a bit like a turtle, is a soft-shelled turtle a turtle?"

Mai Sui replied: "A soft-shelled turtle is a turtle, it's just that we are used to calling it a soft-shelled turtle here."

Resting on a rock for a while, Mai Sui suddenly said to Li Heng: "Li Heng, you take care of Shihe, I'll go send the net to Dad."

Originally, this net was prepared for wild fruits, but now that there was a soft-shelled turtle, it was used to hold the soft-shelled turtle for the first time.

Of course, this was an excuse of hers. After all, her parents both had bamboo baskets or urea bags.

The reason was also simple. Seeing Li Heng and Shihe in a cold war and not communicating for a long time, the kind-hearted Mai Sui decided to create opportunities for the two.

Without waiting for Li Heng and Shihe to reply, Mai Sui climbed up along the small river and soon disappeared behind a big rock.

Once people left, the resting place gradually became quiet. Li Heng and Zhou Shihe didn't speak for a while, only various birds flapping around in the treetops, attracting the attention of the two.

After sitting for a while, Li Heng finally broke the silence and asked: "Can you still walk? Do you want me to carry you up?"

Zhou Shihe didn't answer, stood up slowly, and continued to walk toward the valley above.

The road was full of big rocks, and they had to grab vines and branches from time to time to pass. Fearing something would happen to her, Li Heng followed silently.

After climbing three rocks as high as a floor in a row, Zhou Shihe felt her feet a bit sore. Just when the 4th rock was about to reach the top, because the rock was covered with moss and it was by the stream, it was very damp. She slipped accidentally, her left and right feet slipped backward, and she fell backward.

Seeing this, Li Heng was startled, hurriedly threw away the long stick used for opening the mountain, and caught her from behind with quick eyes and hands.

Instantly held her in his arms.

Scanning the rock once, he asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

At this time, there was fine sweat on Zhou Shihe's forehead, obviously overly frightened. The whole person was soft in his arms, and it took half a day before she said a sentence with a pale face: "Snake, there is a snake on the rock."

Li Heng was stunned and reacted, asking: "Are you afraid of snakes, which caused you to slip?"

Zhou Shihe gave a light "um".

Li Heng looked around, helped her to sit on a small rock, and picked up the discarded mountain-opening stick again, "I'll go check."

Zhou Shihe watched him quietly.

Li Heng was also afraid of snakes and didn't dare to go up rashly, but went around from the side. As a result, there was really a snake on the big rock.

The snake's head was white and triangular, and its body was black. It wasn't very big, visually about 7 or 8 liang. He identified at a glance that this was a white-headed viper, highly venomous.

Li Heng was terrified. If Miss Zhou had been bitten by it just now, he wouldn't dare to imagine the consequences. At this moment, without thinking, he picked up a rock and smashed it hard.

Disturbed, the snake slid away in a flash.

Li Heng watched it disappear into a bush on the left side of the stream before returning to Zhou Shihe's side with peace of mind, "The snake has been driven away. I'll walk in front later, you follow me, I have more experience than you in entering the mountains."

Zhou Shihe still had lingering fears, "Was Suisui also from here just now?"

Li Heng shook his head, "No, she pulled the vines and went up from the mountain ridge on the right."

Zhou Shihe stared at him quietly.

Li Heng seemed to know what she was thinking and said frankly: "I originally wanted to remind you to take a few more steps around to the right, but seeing you looking indifferent and not wanting to pay attention to me, I could only follow you like a shadow."

After the words fell, the two had no sound, looking at each other.

This was the first time the two had been alone at close range since the Dragon Boat Festival.

It was also the first time they looked directly into each other's eyes.

After confronting for more than a minute, Zhou Shihe moved her gaze away calmly, her onion-white soft hands tucked the hair behind her ears, and she asked gently: "This snake is so strange, what kind of snake is it, do you recognize it?"

Li Heng said: "White-headed viper."

Zhou Shihe looked at the big rock again, with lingering fears: "I seem to have seen an introduction to this kind of snake in a book, is there no antidote?"

Li Heng shook his head: "I don't know if there is an antidote in this era, but it's too far from the road here. If it's not handled in time, it's indeed a big trouble. And this kind of snake is not common in our Xiangnan, but the neighboring Guizhou and Jiangxi are the habitats of this kind of snake."

Zhou Shihe was slightly curious: "It's common in the provinces on the left and right, why is it not common in your Xiangnan alone?"

Li Heng spread his hands: "Don't know, I also read it in a book. Maybe it's a pirated book."

The real situation was that he read it from the mobile encyclopedia in his later life, but of course he couldn't say that.

After resting for a few more minutes, until her mood returned to calm, Zhou Shihe stood up, ready to continue on her way.

This time Li Heng didn't dare to let her lead the way, directly reached out his left hand, grabbed her right hand, and then strode forward without even saying hello.

Zhou Shihe was stunned for a moment, her feet followed passively, her gaze stayed on his back for a long time, and finally she didn't say anything, her hand didn't struggle, she looked down at the road, following him step by step.

In order to take care of her physical strength, Li Heng walked and stopped, knocking on the grass in front with a stick from time to time, the purpose was to drive away insects and snakes in advance.

After walking for a while, there was a flowing mountain stream across the front. Li Heng squatted down and said: "This place is muddy, the mossy ground is slippery, I'll carry you over."

Zhou Shihe stopped in place, standing still.

After waiting for a while, Li Heng, who didn't wait for anyone, turned around suddenly. In her astonished eyes, he lowered his body and gave a princess hug, holding her weak body horizontally in his arms with both hands, and crossed the mountain stream in a few strides.

Zhou Shihe looked up slightly in his arms, saying nothing.

After crossing the mountain stream, Li Heng said: "We'll be at the valley in a while, and we'll be able to meet up with them. Let me save you some strength."

The implication was to carry her over.

Zhou Shihe's nimble little mouth pouted, and then her eyelids drooped.

Li Heng said: "Make a sound."

Zhou Shihe remained unmoved.

Li Heng said: "Then I'll take it as your default."

Seeing that he was really bold enough to hold her and not let go, walking forward, Zhou Shihe said abruptly: "If you just hold me over like this, it will be difficult for you and Suisui."

Li Heng stopped, pondered for a while and asked: "Did Uncle and Aunt discover the clues between me and Mai Sui?"

Zhou Shihe said expressionlessly: "Does it need to be discovered? You harm women wherever you go. Do you really think people who do business so big are just messing around?"

Li Heng felt something was wrong and looked down at her.

Zhou Shihe turned her head, avoiding his gaze, "Put me down."

Li Heng held her tightly and didn't let go.

Zhou Shihe didn't make a sound again, confronting him on the spot.

After a while, Li Heng leaned into her ear and said leisurely: "Shihe, you are truly beautiful."

A short 5 words, sure enough, effective.

Feeling the warmth by her ear, Zhou Shihe knew that if she didn't speak again, he would definitely have the guts to kiss her earlobe.

At a loss, she had to say: "Last night, Uncle Mai brought two bowls of hangover soup up, but took them away intact."

Li Heng was sluggish for two seconds and asked: "When did this happen?"

Zhou Shihe said: "When Manning was singing while drunk, Suisui was in your room at that time."

Li Heng asked: "How did you discover it?"

Zhou Shihe said: "After wiping the corners of Manning's mouth, I planned to go out of the bedroom to wash the towel, and just happened to see Uncle Mai going downstairs with two bowls of hangover soup."

Li Heng asked tentatively: "Did he notice you?"

Zhou Shihe said: "I stopped at the door and didn't disturb him."

Li Heng felt relieved upon hearing this. Fortunately, fortunately, he didn't let the person in his arms see the kiss between himself and Mai Sui with her own eyes.

However.

However, as for Uncle Mai, his little heart had already jumped to his throat, and he didn't dare to have any fluke. It was estimated that nine times out of ten, he had seen it.