She Only Cares About Cultivation

"And what about Ahua? Are we still looking for her?"

We’ve already been looking for three days, and found nothing, not even a footprint left behind.

This won’t do, the more I think about it, the more bizarre it seems.

Experienced hunters are very sen.sitive to footprints, which is why for so many years, none of the women sold here have ever left the ridge. It’s mainly because these men have been dealing with wild animals in the grove for so many years. They not only have keen senses but also incredibly strong observational and perceptive abilities. That’s why there are many hunters among the Sichuan Army, very suitable for reconnaissance work.

This person has been gone without a trace for three days. If you say to give up, think about those fifty silver coins, and that unforgettable night, it makes Eldest Brother Zhang feel uneasy.

But what can you do if you don’t give up?

They want to find her, but it’s like she disappeared into thin air, where can they go to find her?

Eldest Brother Zhang, getting more and more frustrated thinking about it, punches the earthen wall, and with a crack, a large piece of clod falls down. The four brothers glance at Eldest’s look and can’t help but shrink their necks. It seems the Eldest is really angry!

If this matter wasn’t so strange, they would really want to report it to the official. But buying a wife isn’t exactly a legal transaction. If someone came to pick a bone, they might end up being caught. Especially now that they have no money, in the official’s place, you need money to get someone to work for you.

No money? Can you make them work for you? Dream on!

So Yishui’s move to cut off their options truly severed the Zhang family’s five brothers’ way out.

What happens next is even more extreme. The forest isn’t that big, even if Yishui changes places daily, there’s still a chance to be found. Even if she tries to move when the villagers aren’t in the mountains, there will be times she can’t prevent everything.

So, within a month, Yishui was discovered by the villagers below several times, but what can they do? By the time they come looking again, she’s already vanished.

However, from careful observation, they found some signs of her activities. Real footprints, traces of wild vegetables being picked, time and again kindled hope in the Zhang family’s five brothers, only to let them down repeatedly.

When Yishui realized she could trouble them like this, she wasn’t afraid of being discovered anymore. After all, they couldn’t catch her, and she moved every two or three days, until she’d stripped the place bare, before moving to the next. As time went on, when the hunters figured out her movement pattern and tried to catch her in a trap, she simply stayed put and didn’t come out.

Anyway, she calculated that they couldn’t watch the mountain for twenty-four hours a day. They still had farms to tend to, still had lives to live. If she wasn’t afraid of snakes at night, she wouldn’t bother moving around during the day!

Snake Ridge lives up to its name, there are indeed a lot of snakes here. But she isn’t afraid of these creatures. Having kept snakes in the Crossed World, she can even tell at a glance if a snake is venomous or not. Her only regret is not having a suitable dagger. Otherwise, she could better preserve these snakes. Now, relying on a machete, she can only crudely chop off their heads.

After chopping off the snake’s head, never touch it with your hand, and keep a close watch, avoiding a sudden bite and venom attack. Because even after a snake’s head is chopped off, its nerves can still function. So after the snake’s head is chopped off, it must be buried deeply to reduce unnecessary dangers.

During the burial process, you must also protect yourself, as teeth with venom sacs could bite you at any moment, especially the famous Cobra, which is dangerous for up to an hour. Other venomous snakes are relatively safer.

With so many snakes, and snake soup being such delicious food, Yishui caught a lot of snakes. Her technique was very skilled, with that life as a Poison Doctor’s experience, collecting herbs, making snake medicine, all became part of her routine.

There are many cicadas in the mountains, but she doesn’t come out much after dark. During the day, she relies on her eyes and ties thick anti-bite bamboo to important areas of her body. Yet still, when passing through grass, she’s often entangled by large snakes that suddenly appear. This season is when snakes are particularly active. Any carelessness could be fatal. For the sake of her life, though cicada monkeys are delicious, life is more important.

Besides catching snakes, digging up wild vegetables, gathering mushrooms, chopping suitable bamboo, and collecting firewood, she also digs herbs, catches fish in the streams, and picks wild chickens and rabbits from the hunters’ traps. On one lucky occasion, she even came upon a huge wild boar. But seeing its thick skin and tough flesh, she knew it wouldn’t taste good, very tough.

No matter how tough or hard to handle, it’s still meat, isn’t it? Half-dead from the trap and not taking it would just benefit those heartless villagers. So a more than two hundred-pound wild boar, after bleeding it out, was of course brought into the space.