"Plums!"
While Huangfu Yue was happily picking mushrooms and pinecones, and in contact with Xiao Hei, she suddenly spotted a wild plum tree.
It was an old tree, covered with ripe, bright red plums that made one's mouth water at the sight.
This wild plum tree bore fruit so well; these plums looked very sweet, making one want to eat them.
"Master, do you want to eat these plums?" Xiao Hei asked immediately upon hearing the hint of joy in Huangfu Yue's voice.
"Mmm. I'll come pick plums after I finish collecting morels. You keep flying, go look in other places for new wild fruits and other things," Huangfu Yue instructed.
"Yes." Xiao Hei took the order and continued to fly forward.
Huangfu Yue increased her speed in collecting morels and pinecones.
Her speed was already fast, and now that she had accelerated, she was even faster. After picking for a few more minutes, she had collected all the morels in the small pine forest and coincidentally picked up all the pinecones. She sent them all into her space.
She entered her space and looked at the morels and pinecones, which were piled up into small mountains. She was very satisfied and her face was full of smiles.
The morels looked to be over ten pounds, and the pinecones were also over ten pounds. Coming to this small pine forest had been a very fruitful trip.
Huangfu Yue did not forget that she needed to crack open the pinecones to eat the pine nuts inside. She took out her tools and quickly broke open all the pinecones, obtaining the pine nuts, which amounted to about a pound.
Huangfu Yue frowned slightly, finding it a bit lacking.
Why was there so little?
However, the pinecones were large, while the pine nuts were small, so having this much was normal.
Thinking this, Huangfu Yue relaxed her frown.
She left her space and walked towards the plum tree that Xiao Hei had previously discovered. She was going to pick plums.
Huangfu Yue, who was craving plums, walked very quickly, but when she was still some distance from the plum tree, she suddenly stopped and lightly tapped her head with her hand.
This memory! How could she forget her earth element ability?
She was now a woman who could use earth遁 (earth escape), so why did she need to walk? Using earth遁, she could get there in a minute.
Curving her lips, Huangfu Yue immediately used earth遁 and entered the ground.
She found that the underground of the mountain was no different from the underground on flat ground; there were no problems whatsoever. She moved swiftly like a flying arrow towards the plum tree, and as she had thought, she arrived at the plum tree in a minute.
Earth遁 was truly so useful!
Huangfu Yue loved earth遁 immensely. Arriving on the surface, she looked up at the plum tree with its branches laden with countless red, blood-like, crystal-clear red fruits. Her mouth began to water again.
The plum tree was somewhat tall. Standing on the ground, even stretching her hand, she couldn't reach the plums. However, Huangfu Yue wasn't anxious at all.
Huangfu Yue took out a piece of new cloth from her space, very long and wide, about four or five square meters, and spread it under the plum tree. Then, she vigorously shook the plum tree…
"Rustle… rustle…" The ripe plums immediately fell like rain, all landing on the cloth.
Huangfu Yue kept shaking the plum tree until all the red fruits on it had fallen onto the cloth, not a single one remaining, before she stopped.
Looking at the cloth, Huangfu Yue's lips curved into a deep and beautiful arc.
The plums on this cloth must have weighed at least fifty or sixty pounds. Even with so many people in the manor, each person could get over a pound to eat.
Huangfu Yue reached out, picked up a plum from the cloth, wiped it, and then took a big bite. Her beautiful eyes lit up immediately.
So sweet and juicy! It tasted so good… even better than she had imagined!
Huangfu Yue loved it so much that she took several more bites, finishing the plum in her hand immediately.
She tossed away the plum pit and grabbed two more plums from the cloth to eat. After finishing them, still wanting more, she reached for two more plums when Xiao Hei's voice suddenly sounded…
"Master, I've found traces of wild rabbits here."
Huangfu Yue had been busy "picking plums" earlier. Although she was in contact with Xiao Hei, she hadn't paid much attention to Xiao Hei's side, so she didn't know that Xiao Hei had found traces of wild rabbits.
Huangfu Yue quickly put the plums and the cloth into her space, then went to see what Xiao Hei had seen. She immediately saw several wild rabbits playing in a clump of bushes.
Huangfu Yue's eyes gleamed with excitement upon seeing the prey. She immediately said, "Xiao Hei, tell me the route to where you are. I'll come over to catch the rabbits right away."
Xiao Hei immediately told Huangfu Yue the route. Huangfu Yue then used earth遁 to rush over, and in a moment, she appeared before Xiao Hei.
Seeing Huangfu Yue suddenly pop out of the ground, Xiao Hei was startled and dazed.
But it quickly remembered that Huangfu Yue could use earth遁. Recovering from its shock, it flew towards Huangfu Yue.
"Master, those rabbits are still playing in the bushes," it reported to Huangfu Yue.
"I'll treat you to roasted rabbit later. I guarantee you'll like it," Huangfu Yue said, grabbing a plum from her space and putting it into Xiao Hei's mouth.
"These plums are so sweet and juicy, they taste amazing. Try them… wait for me here. I'm going to catch those rabbits."
"Master, I can help you catch the rabbits. Let's do a pincer movement. You go around to the front of the bushes, and I'll fly over from here to drive these rabbits towards the front of the bushes, so you can catch them like guarding a tree for a resting rabbit."
Xiao Hei proposed while eating the plum, wanting to help.
"These plums are really so sweet and juicy, they taste so good!"
Because the plums were so delicious, Xiao Hei ate them up quickly, spat out the pit, and immediately praised them. It even licked its lips with its blood-red bird tongue, still wanting more.
"No need. You know your master's abilities, don't you? Catching a few rabbits is as easy as throwing a few small stones…
We don't need to go to all the trouble of flanking them… Watch me." Huangfu Yue waved her hand with a smile.
Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?
Before Huangfu Yue even finished speaking, her gaze sharpened. She stared intently at the unsuspecting rabbits in the bushes. With a slight kick of her right foot, she sent a few small stones flying towards the rabbits. In the next second, all the rabbits fell to the ground.
Xiao Hei's bird eyes widened, and it watched, dumbfounded.
Although it had seen Huangfu Yue easily knock people down with stones before, seeing her shoot rabbits with stones again now, instantly taking down several rabbits, it was still amazed.
"Master, you're too amazing!" Xiao Hei's eyes sparkled with admiration.
"Just a small matter!" Huangfu Yue waved her hand with a smile again, walking into the bushes to collect her prey.
One, two, three, four.
Not bad! Not bad!
Huangfu Yue picked up the wild rabbits one by one and examined them closely. They were all quite plump, and she nodded in satisfaction.
"Master, are these rabbits stunned or killed by you?" Xiao Hei flew in front of her and studied the rabbits in her hands.
All the wild rabbits had their eyes closed tightly and were completely still, as if dead, but there was no blood or any wounds on them. Xiao Hei couldn't tell for a moment if they were dead or just stunned.
"Dead. If I stun them now and then have to kill them when we roast them, why not end their suffering early and let them ascend to paradise sooner."
Huangfu Yue said, and as she spoke, she sent all the wild rabbits into her space.
"Master, how did you manage to kill these rabbits without leaving any bloodstains, not even a single wound?" Xiao Hei asked curiously.
It didn't ask how the rabbits had all disappeared. It knew that Huangfu Yue must have put them into her " Qiankun bag " (cosmic bag).
"Just control the force properly… Let's go back. We've been away for a while. I wonder what achievements sister-in-law and the others have made," Huangfu Yue said after looking up at the sun in the sky.