Su Yichen swallowed, gritted his teeth, turned his face away, stood up with difficulty, and limped towards a few short fruit trees.
It’s that high. He can’t climb trees and there’s no way he can get up there.
Only these low, unknown fruits could he obtain.
Just as he was about to reach out to pick it, he heard Yuan Liu's gloating voice from behind.
"Oh, you'd better not eat those wild fruits. Many of them are poisonous."
"Some people will fall down after eating them. They may not die immediately, but their whole body will be paralyzed and they will be unable to move. Then you can only watch the snakes and insects crawling all over your body. If you are unlucky, you may even be eaten alive by wild beasts."
All kinds of horrifying images emerged in his mind, and Su Yichen was so frightened that he immediately retracted his attack.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "I... I'll go catch the snake."
Yuan Liu held a tree fork and pointed to a small slope not far away: "There are quite a few in the grass over there. I saw two or three before. Go quickly. If you run away, you will probably continue to be hungry."
The more Yuan Liu spoke, the hungrier Su Yichen became.
He has not eaten anything or had a drop of water since yesterday noon.
If it were a normal day, it wouldn’t be a big deal. At most, you would feel a little weak due to hunger.
But last night, he was so scared that he almost lost his soul. He ran all over the mountain in the woods at night, running for his life all night. Now he was hungry, tired, dizzy and could not hold on any longer.
If he didn't eat something, he suspected he would starve to death here.
'He said it's not poisonous and a bite wouldn't kill you.'
Su Yichen imitated Yuan Liu's previous behavior, quietly squatted in the grass, and began to look for grass snakes, muttering to himself.
'A bite won't kill you... A bite is better than starving to death here...'
With a desperate and risking his life attitude, Su Yichen and Su Pu finally caught a grass snake.
"I got it, I got it!"
He held the snake's vital point tightly with both hands, turned around and rushed towards Yuan Liu excitedly.
"Look, I caught it."
Yuan Liu smiled and nodded encouragingly: "That's right, a man should be like this, don't be timid about trivial matters."
As he spoke, he pulled out a knife from his waist and threw it over: "Here's the knife. Chop off the snake's head like I did just now, throw it into the pit, and then skin it."
After hesitating for a moment, Su Yichen picked up the knife confidently: "Okay."
Half an hour later, Su Yichen finally ate the snake meat that he had caught, skinned and roasted with his own hands.
Yuan Liu looked at him with a teasing smile: "How is it? I caught it myself, isn't it especially fragrant?"
"Hmm, smells good." Although there was not much meat on a snake, Su Yichen felt particularly satisfied after eating it.
Yuan Liu took off the kettle from his waist and threw it over: "Do you still think it's difficult to catch snakes?"
"It's... It's not that difficult." Su Yichen was a little embarrassed.
Before catching the snake, he would feel scared just thinking about it.
But after actually getting caught like this, I felt that the way I scared myself before was a little ridiculous.
"That's right. It's not that difficult. Some things just look fierce, but in fact, as long as you are a little fiercer than it, it will be as obedient as a little rabbit."
"Look at your sister. She's only fourteen years old, but she dares to take a hatchet and go to the mountains alone to hunt wild boars. You're one year older than her, a man, and you've read so many books. How can you be worse than her?"
"Besides, didn't you say you encountered wolves and tigers last night? You even avoided those, so how could you be afraid of a small snake?"