The Lucky Farmgirl

Zhou Silang pointed at several circles on the map, saying, "We’ve searched all these places already. The closest one to us now is here. I know this place; it’s just over a mountain ridge, but it’s tough terrain, lots of trees, so we can only get around it from the other side."

Manbao and the others didn’t understand, so they naturally followed Zhou Silang’s lead.

Thus, the group packed up the map and headed deeper into the territory.

It was only now that Bai Erlang found the opportunity to ask, "What are those circles on the map for?"

Manbao glanced at him and said, "Places my Third Uncle has been to."

"Why are we going to places your Third Uncle has been to?"

Manbao didn’t answer him but instead turned to ask Zhou Silang, "That’s so far away; why would he go to such a distant place?"

"For hunting, of course. The easy-to-reach places have fewer game. When Third Uncle Zhou was still around, he often took Brother Dahu and Third Uncle into the mountains to hunt. Sometimes they would be gone for three or four days before coming back." Zhou Silang said, "I’ve only been to that place once, and it was Third Uncle and Brother Dahu who secretly took us there. But we only stayed one night before getting a beating when we returned home. My mother doted on Third Uncle so much that year, she actually broke the stick she used to stoke the fires."

Manbao was astounded; she hadn’t expected her father to have been so tough as a child.

Bai Shan looked at Manbao and thought she truly had inherited the family trait.

"The further places I haven’t been to, but Brother Dahu said the other three remote places are just around the mountain ridge. We can just turn over a few stones and look around. I feel we’re so pressed for time, Third Uncle might not have had the chance to search the familiar places thoroughly."