Chapter 4

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Despite her thoughts, Li Fu’er glanced to the side first. She bent down and grabbed some soil from the mud and smeared it on her body.

She found a peaceful spot and climbed up.

She searched for food as she climbed.

She was too hungry.

However, as the rain had just stopped and there was no moonlight in the sky, visibility was extremely low.

Fortunately, she was different.

After the cleansing in the spiritual spring not long ago, her vision had become much stronger. In addition, the space had the ability to release her divine sense and spiritual power, allowing her to see ten steps ahead of her surroundings.

The range of ten steps around her was a mental projection.

In a moment, she found clusters of small wild trees in a very lush bush to her right. There were quite a few wild fruits growing on them. They were a mix of yellow and green.

She had eaten this wild fruit before.

There was one in modern times, too. It was called a raspberry, a small yellow fruit with a hairy surface that looked somewhat like a strawberry. Hence the name.

After taking it off, he removed the bottom part and ate it. It was sour and sweet.

It tasted good.

Not many people ate the wild fruits on these mountains in modern times. Those who ate them only treated them as leisure but here, they were for the hungry.

In this life, she had learned many things and techniques to survive. However, she did not eat this thing often because it was not easy to find. If she could find it, others would have already picked it.

She did not dare to go deep into the forest. She could find it here because this place was still very far from the foot of the mountain.

She ate all the raspberries she found, which only filled a corner of her stomach. Before she left, she thought about it and plucked the raspberry trees. With some force, she pulled out a few. She moved them to the yellow earth of the space.

With a thought, she wanted to plant them and water them using the spiritual spring. The space was hers. She could plant them with her mind, but her mental strength was not enough. She could only plant a few.

More power was still needed. She just needed to strengthen his mental strength in the future.

She threw in a few raspberries. She remembered that these trees looked like they had branches and seeds but they had not grown yet.

After planting the raspberries, she continued to climb.

She thought she might be the first to plant raspberries in the space, mainly because she didn’t have any other seeds right now. When they were planted and she was hungry, they could be plucked directly from the space and eaten.

Step by step, she also paid attention to whether there were snakes, insects, rats, and ants under her feet. There might be such things after the summer rain, and animals would come out at night.

Perhaps it was her luck that she did not encounter them. Instead, she found a wild grape bush. She plucked the grapes one by one. After picking it, she held it in her hand. At the same time, she cut off a section and inserted it into the space, watering it with the spiritual spring.

This way, the grapevine would probably survive.

The wild mature grapes were not big. They were very round and purplish-black. They emitted the fragrance of wild grapes that was sweet and sour, making one salivate.

Li Fu’er ate them. She knew she shouldn’t have too much acid in her empty stomach, but…

There was also a faint smell of alcohol on the ground. Perhaps it was caused by wild grapes that no one had plucked and fermented on the ground. Grapes could be used to make wine.

Wild ones were the same.

After eating the grapes in her hand, she was a little full. After that, she didn’t find anything good.

She only encountered a pheasants’ nest. She stared with her mental strength and quickly went forward to catch two pheasants. She found a few eggs and climbed to the top of the mountain. There was no need to be afraid here.

The foot of the mountain was only a short distance away. At this hour, she knew that no one would be coming. She prepared to look for some dry wood. When she did not find any, she took out two eggs and ate them raw. After she had eaten them, she found some half-wet wood. Then she went to the foot of the mountain where she usually stayed and took out the fire pistons and stone knife that she had made and hid behind the stones. She slit open a chicken with a stone. After roughly cleaning it, she dug a hole and buried it. Then she placed the wood on it and lit it.

When the smoke came out, she wasn’t afraid that anyone would notice. She continued to stare at the fire as it warmed her up. After a while, she extinguished the flames, and found the buried pheasant.

The pheasant had the fragrance of chicken, but it was not delicious without salt and seasoning. The Li family did not have much salt and seasoning, so it was not easy for her to get them. She ate some and placed the rest in her space before heading to the Li family’s house.

This time, her stomach was mostly full.

Walking by the river at the foot of the mountain, she crossed the river and followed a road back to the village.

Suddenly, a dog barked. Someone ran over from not far ahead. Li Fu’er activated her mental power and realized that it was a person carrying a child. Soon, they fell into the river in front of them. As she watched, another shadow came from behind.

The shadow also rushed into the river and saved the child from before. Another person fell into the water and stumbled up from the other side in a hurry.

After they ran away, the child that was rescued seemed to have choked on water and fainted or drowned.

Li Fu’er prepared to make a detour.

She felt that she had seen trouble. She did not know why she was in such trouble!

Before she could leave…

“Who is it?” came a wary voice of the tall dark figure holding the child.

Li Fu’er didn’t stop walking. ‘If he drowns, first clear the weeds and filth from his nose and mouth, and keep his airway open. Secondly, have him face down and press on the drowned person’s back, forcing the airway and the water in his stomach to fall out. You can also put the drowned person face up, over the rescuer’s shoulder, and shake him up and down while you press your hands against his chest.’ She calmly told him how.

With that, she walked away. No matter who the other party was, the other party was in a hurry to save the child and did not stop her.

She arrived outside the house.

The rest of the village had closed their doors to rest. She pushed open the door to her house.

The door creaked and made a sound in the night.

But it was quiet inside. Her family members had gone to sleep without her.

Within a few steps…

The door to the central room swung open and the dim oil lamp came on. Someone rushed out and it was clear that it was her father.

“Father,” she called.

Father might not have heard her and was still saying, “Mother, I’m going to look for Sister Fu. She’s not back yet. I wonder if something happened?”

“It’s not that easy to get into trouble. That unlucky girl would be despised by wild beasts if she was thrown into the mountains. That girl won’t disappear. She’ll come back.” Far away was another dissatisfied voice that was sharp and vicious. It was her biological grandma.

“Grandma, don’t do this.” Li Yan’er’s coquettish voice followed.

Li Fu’er ignored it and walked closer to her father.

“Ah, Sister Fu.” Second Li looked up when he heard the sound and saw his daughter, whom he had been worried sick about. Sister Fu was back?

He quickly ran closer in excitement. “Where have you been? Sister Yan said you came back early, but she didn’t know where you were hiding. She said you would come out, so I waited. I waited until now.” He didn’t manage to see her.

Li Fu’er’s eyes flashed. “Father.”

She knew that Li Yan’er had harmed her and felt that since she was dead, it was impossible for her to come out and say something about lying to the family!

Would anyone believe her if she told the truth now?

His father might not believe him either, but if he didn’t say anything, wouldn’t it completely benefit Li Yan’er?

“Father, I fell down the hill,” she began.

“Sister Fu, your body.” Second Li saw that she was dirty and had some injuries.

These injuries were created by Li Fu’er. “It’s just a light injury. I accidentally grazed it. Father, you said that Second Cousin said that I came back long ago but was hiding? I didn’t.” Li Fu’er said directly to her father.

“What?” Second Li opened his mouth in shock.

Li Fu’er shook her head. ‘Dad.’ She wasn’t finished.

“What do you mean you didn’t come back? Didn’t you come back? You haven’t done anything shameful for so long! It’s fine if you didn’t get hit, but how dare you spout nonsense!”

Madam Li came out with another oil lamp with her hands on her hips.

Beside her, Li Yan’er looked at her cousin in disbelief. Wasn’t she dead? Was the person in front of her a ghost?

Li Fu’er felt Li Yan’er’s gaze on her. “What are you looking at, Second Sister? You didn’t expect me to be alive?”

“I, no, I’m glad you’re back! What do you mean I didn’t expect you to come back alive? Where did Big Sister go just now?” Li Yan’er was a little frightened and quickly looked confused.

“It was you!” Li Fu’er said.

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Madam Li was furious.