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Ge Yue: [I no longer ask to find a lover like Brother Shi, I just ask to find someone.]

Lin Chengqian: [Sigh. JPG, finding a partner at an older age is a long-standing tradition in our sect.]

Ge Yue: [@Gong Jiang, please let the senior brother speak.]

Gong Jiang: [...]

Today's meal was simple, and Yan Kexing didn't ask anyone else to help.

Shi Wen would voluntarily go into the kitchen, mainly to Yan Kexing.

Shi Wen the dried wood ear mushrooms I brought back were all naturally grown and air-dried on the mountain, so they were full of umami. After soaking, they were plump and big, which looked very appealing.

Yan Kexing took the cured meat he had prepared earlier, added some millet peppers grown on the ranch, and stir-fried it over high heat.

The stir-fried wood ear mushrooms were both fresh and spicy, making them a perfect accompaniment to rice.

Ge Yue's lips turned red from eating, and he kept hissing as he exclaimed, "This stir-fried wood ear mushroom is so satisfying, so delicious!"

Shi Wen, "Eat more if you like. There are still many wood ear mushrooms on the mountain. I wasn't sure if they were edible, so I didn't pick any. I'll pick them all tomorrow."

Yan Kexing said from the side, "I'll go up the mountain with you tomorrow."

Shi Wen nodded repeatedly. "Great! If you come up the mountain with us, we can pick and identify them as we go, instead of having to bring them back and sort them out later."

Ge Yue his hand. "I want to go up the mountain too."

Yan Kexing: "Have you finished your thesis?"

Ge Yue shrank back, not daring to utter a sound, and just stared longingly at Shi Wen.

Shi Wen receiving the distress signal, Shi Wen awkwardly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Sharpening your axe won't delay your woodcutting; taking a day or two off on the weekend isn't a big deal."

Lin Chengqian chimed in quietly, "That's right, I can make up for it by staying up a little late tonight."

Yan Kexing nodded and said to Ge Yue, "You decide for yourself. If you can manage, then come out."

Ge Yue immediately replied, "I can. I already have an idea for this paper; it won't be difficult to write."

Yan Kexing no longer objected.

Everyone agreed to go up the mountain to pick wood ear mushrooms the next day.

Shi Wen got up early in the morning and went to the livestock shed to check on the situation.

The livestock are all fine, except the sheep and pigs are no longer in the pigpen.

Although their livestock shed opens automatically at six o'clock in the morning to make it easy for the little guys to go out.

However, they still get a meal of hay in the morning, and since it's almost winter and it gets dark late, the livestock usually don't go out until seven or eight o'clock.

It was quite surprising that the sheep and pigs went out so early.

Shi Wen to check outside the pigpen and found that the hay I had put in the trough that morning had been eaten up.

They probably finished their breakfast at home and then wandered out.

Shi Wen open the app to check on the sheep and pigs.

The sheep and pigs are grazing in the pasture... wait, no, it seems the sheep and pigs aren't in the pasture.

He zoomed in on the map on the app and quickly discovered that the sheep and pigs had somehow already gone up the mountain.

Yesterday, he seemed to be in a hurry to come back and share with Yan Kexing about picking wood ear mushrooms, so he didn't close the gate leading from the pasture to the mountain?

So, the sheep and pigs seized the opportunity and sneaked up into the mountains.

Wait, where are the dogs?

Shi Wen checked the dogs' location through the app and quickly discovered that they were playing in the pasture and hadn't noticed that the sheep and pigs had gone out to graze.

The dogs weren't supposed to go out to graze that early in the morning.

It was truly an unexpected turn of events that the sheep and pigs would go out at this time and then run up the mountain.

After all, neither of them noticed the sheep-pig had escaped, so how could they possibly place the entire responsibility for guarding the sheep-pig on the dogs?

Shi Wen quickly mentally sketched out a list of responsibilities.

He bears the primary responsibility for this; the dogs are not to be blamed.

He had previously driven sheep and pigs up the mountain to test their adaptation to the mountain forest environment.

Perhaps the sheep and pig knew they could go up the mountain, so they went up.

The mountain is surrounded by barbed wire; the sheep and pigs shouldn't be able to escape.

There doesn't seem to be any need to rush.

That's what Shi Wen thought, but he still went back inside and told Yan Kexing, "The sheep and pigs have gone up the mountain, I'm going to go check on them."

Yan Kexing equally puzzled. "Why did the sheep and pigs go up the mountain so early in the morning?"

Shi Wen, "I've probably been busy with things on the mountain lately and haven't adjusted the amount of feed for them in time. I gave them less feed, so they wanted to go outside to find food because they weren't full."

Sheep and pigs are still pigs, and pigs have a large appetite, especially growing pigs.

Shi Wen about this, Shi Wen felt even more that today's events were all his fault.

He said, "I'll go check first; it shouldn't be anything serious."

Yan Kexing stopped him. "Then there's no rush. Let's finish breakfast first before going up. I've already made breakfast."

Shi Wen, "Okay, I'll eat faster."

Yan Kexing: "I'll eat faster too, and we'll go upstairs together."

Upon Shi Wen Yan Kexing's words, Shi sat down again. "Then let's eat slowly. Anyway, what's done is done, there's no rush."

Today I had roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) and soy milk.

Shi Wen quickly finished the roujiamo (Chinese hamburger), then drank a few sips of soy milk, and that was breakfast.

Yan Kexing ate breakfast very quickly, but his movements were very elegant.

In less than five minutes, the two finished clearing the table, told the dogs, and went out to look for Sheep Pig.

The dogs barked a few times and then went off to herd the cattle and sheep.

They need to ride horses to go up the mountain today.

The mountain environment is too complicated, and the paths are all dirt roads, so it's impossible to ride a motorcycle. Riding a horse is much more convenient.

As long as it's not carrying fertilizer, Shi Suo has absolutely no problem with carrying two people.

Shi Suo carried them on his back and hurried up the mountain.

The sun had risen, and its rays fell upon them, causing the white mist to slowly dissipate.

Both of them had excellent eyesight. Now that most of the vegetation on the mountain had withered, the brown sheep and pigs were still quite noticeable on the mountain.