Bai Sasa was the last to finish bathing, but when she was done, she found that only Xiao Shan was obediently squatting by the fire to keep warm, while her older sister was nowhere to be seen.
Xiao Shan’s fear of being alone was something she was aware of.
However, Xiao Shan didn’t see Bai Junjun when she came out from bathing, so she had been waiting by the stove here for her.
Bai Sasa, feeling Xiao Shan’s fear, couldn’t help but take his hand to go look for Bai Junjun together.
After walking around for quite a while, they finally noticed a small piece of clothing revealed behind a tree trunk.
Feeling puzzled, Bai Sasa walked over and was about to ask her older sister what she was doing there when she saw a large bunch of golden paddy.
Bai Sasa’s eyes widened: "This... This..."
The Mountain God had favored her older sister again, hadn’t he??
She had grown accustomed to her older sister discovering things ordinary people couldn’t, but this time, it wasn’t poisonous mushrooms her sister had found, but paddy! Paddy!!! PADDY!!!!
Bai Sasa was so excited that she was almost incoherent.
"Oh my gosh, how could there be paddy in this place?"
Bai Junjun honestly shook her head, putting on an innocent face that indicated she didn’t know.
"Oh my gosh! Sister, how did you find it? Why haven’t I ever noticed it!"
Bai Sasa also crouched down excitedly to look at the golden paddy: "It’s so magical, how can there be wild paddy here, so paddy also has a wild variety!"
"Of course, how else did the first grain of paddy come about?" Bai Junjun cheekily retorted.
Bai Sasa was instantly convinced: "We better harvest them quickly, lest they get eaten by the birds! Oh my gosh, when it gets light, I need to search the area thoroughly; there might still be paddy around."
Although Bai Sasa was their team’s cook, in truth, her real identity was that of a young miss from the Shi clans; she wouldn’t know that it made no sense for rice to grow on dry land.
Bai Sasa excitedly clamored to harvest the paddy, but wanting to eat the paddy wasn’t so easy; they had to get rid of the tough hull first.
But freshly picked paddy, still moist, couldn’t shed its husk; to de-husk it, they needed to dry it first.
However, the area often rained, and the air was too humid; there was no suitable place to dry the grains, leaving Bai Sasa feeling despondent.
Yet, Bai Junjun was very calm: "Just keep it in the bag to heat up, clothes can be dried this way, even more so the paddy; there definitely won’t be a problem."
Upon hearing this, Bai Sasa, thinking it made sense, volunteered to sleep with the bag of paddy to dry it.
Xiao Shan was from a hunter family; they were not allowed to farm, so he had no understanding whatsoever about the paddy.
Even though from the discovery of the paddy to the harvesting and then Bai Junjun proposing to sleep with the paddy to dry it, all these statements sounded strange...
Seeing his own insignificant self, Xiao Shan thought better of it and chose not to say anything.
In this way, it was past ten at night before a few of them headed back upstairs.
By that time, a row of little birds was still hanging at the entrance of the rest area, and upon seeing someone approach, they began to struggle in fright again.
It was only then that Bai Junjun remembered about the wrongfully accused ’big heads’ hanging there.
If they didn’t let them go, they would probably all be dead by morning; the thought of seeing corpses all over the wall first thing in the morning...
This scene didn’t seem conducive to the healthy growth of children’s bodies and minds, so, extraordinarily kind-hearted for once, Bai Junjun loosened the restriction.
The birds’ legs were freed, and they fluttered away one after another, eager to escape.
At that moment, Bai Sasa and Xiao Shan were following behind Bai Junjun and were unaware of what had happened in front.