A stunning mermaid dressed in the 1980s, the whole family lined up to pamper her endlessly.

Chapter 274 Crossing the Mountain

Yun Jiao squatted in her basket, looking around. With her sharp eyesight, she immediately spotted a patch of pig feed that she could gather.

"Over there, Auntie, I see mushrooms too!"

The environment here, especially in the mountains and forests, is very suitable for the growth of fungi.

Wang Mei followed the direction she pointed, and sure enough, there it was.

So they put the person down and started gathering pig feed.

Yun Xiaowu and a few other older children were together.

Wang Mei didn't allow the two children, Yun Jiao and Yun Xiao Jiu, to take the knife; they could only watch from the sidelines.

"Sister, come here."

Yun Xiaojiu called over Yun Jiao, picked some very thin grass vines, and made a wreath around Yun Jiao's head.

While he was making a flower wreath, Yun Jiao ran off to pick her favorite wildflowers.

Yellow, white, purple, and red.

The whole wreath is filled with flowers, it looks beautiful.

Yun Jiao nodded in satisfaction, lowered her head and asked Ninth Brother to put the hairpiece on her head. She then proudly held her chubby little face and asked if it looked good.

Yun Xiaojiu nodded in approval of the emotional value and gave it a thumbs up.

"So beautiful, so beautiful, no one is as beautiful as Jiaojiao."

"Ninth Brother is also the most handsome boy Jiaojiao has ever seen."

Her praise was so sincere.

After all, his ninth brother was quite tall, having inherited the best features of his parents, and was only slightly less handsome than him.

"Make a flower wreath hat for my brother too."

So the two little ones got busy again.

Before long, Yun Xiaojiu also had a small flower wreath hat on her head.

Then the two little ones made beautiful flower wreaths and hats for their older brothers and even their aunt. The whole family should be together.

With nothing to do, Yun Jiao rested her chin on her hands and spaced out for a while.

"Brother, let's go find mushrooms."

It's so boring just watching my aunt and brothers build pigsty.

Yun Xiaojiu readily agreed.

Then the brother and sister held hands, greeted Wang Mei, and went to find mushrooms.

"Here, here, there's such a big one."

Yun Jiao poked at the soil with a small twig, her eyes sparkling.

"Is Ninth Brother's chicken roe?"

The poles are white and the umbrellas are grayish-white, and most importantly, they have a pleasant fragrance.

"Mmm, this is delicious."

Although the chicken vine doesn't sprout very high, a large section of it is still buried in the soil.

“So deep.”

Yun Jiao dug down the white pole, her little face getting all wrinkled from digging.

After it was done, I compared it to my forearm.

Wow...it's as long as my hand!

Yun Xiaojiu's eyes also lit up: "Let's look again."

Yun Jiao has a keen sense of smell. Chicken has a unique aroma, and after remembering this scent, she quickly found other varieties.

And they were extremely lucky, finding a cluster of them growing side by side on a riverbank.

Some of the umbrellas had already cracked open, while others had only just begun to emerge.

The two of them didn't spare anyone, big or small.

Picking mushrooms is an addictive activity. When Wang Mei and the other children came looking for them, they found that the termite mushrooms they had dug were piled up in a considerable quantity.

"They dug up so much?!"

She was extremely surprised; there must be almost half a basket full, enough for three or four meals.

“There are more over there.”

Yun Jiao twitched her nose slightly, then pointed in a direction.

We've already reached the cornfield. Termitomyces are delicious, but they don't fetch a cheap price when sold.

“Come on, your aunt will go dig with you.”

After setting aside the overflowing pig feed in her basket, Wang Mei rolled up her sleeves and enthusiastically went to dig for termite mushrooms with several children.

With Yun Jiao's cheat-like nose, they quickly found quite a few more.

"Ugh...it smells awful."

Suddenly, a putrid stench wafted over, almost knocking Yun Jiao, who was smelling the odor in the air, unconscious.

"What is it?"

Yun Jiao pinched her nose, her curiosity piqued. After hesitating for a few seconds, she couldn't resist walking over.

Then they found a large, dead snake.

The snake's body was already rotten and infested with maggots.

"How did such a big snake die?"

Wang Mei and Yun Xiaowu also came over; the snake's body was as thick as a child's arm.

It's unlikely that a person killed it. After all, if a person found such a large snake and was capable of killing it, they would immediately take it home to eat it, rather than let it rot.

"Let's go, let's go, this smell is too pungent."

Yun Jiao pinched her nose with one hand and pointed to a tree not far away with the other.

"Auntie, what a huge snakeskin!"

Wang Mei looked over and found that it really was; such a large snakeskin must have been shed from the dead snake.

"I gonna go see."

Yun Xiaowu eagerly raised his hand: "I'll go, I'll go! I'm good at climbing trees."

Snake skin is also a medicinal ingredient. The snake skin looked large and intact, and Yun Jiao wanted to take it back to her master.

What a pity about that big snake; its gall bladder would have been even better.

Yun Jiao was watching her fifth brother climb the tree when she suddenly heard a rustling sound, as if something was crawling on the ground.

Wang Mei and her brothers didn't hear a thing.

She turned her head to look in the direction of the sound.

From the tree came Yun Xiaowu's terrified voice.

"Jiaojiao has a giant snake; run fast over the mountain peak!"

Almost the instant Yun Xiaowu finished speaking, a black mountain peak, taller than a person and as thick as a person's arm, appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Wang Mei's eyes filled with terror, and her first thought was to grab Yun Jiao and call the others to run away.

Yun Jiao darted away like an eel, escaping her aunt's grasp. The moment she crouched down, she picked up a stone and threw it at the snake.

The king cobra, also known as the mountain king cobra, is the largest venomous snake. It will relentlessly pursue its prey at great speed and holds grudges.

It dodged Yun Jiao's stone, but in doing so, it remembered Yun Jiao.

With its fangs bared and body erect, it lunged at Yun Jiao.

"Beautiful!"

Several worried voices came from behind. Yun Jiao grabbed the king cobra by the neck and slammed it to the ground.

The king cobra was stunned, and it reacted quickly by coiling its body around Yun Jiao's body.

Snakes are quite strong, especially when they coil around their prey. Even a small child like Yun Jiao can have their bones crushed by a snake of this size.

However, having angered Yun Jiao, this king cobra has really bitten off more than it can chew.

As Yun Jiao grew older, her skills and strength also increased.

After grabbing the king cobra by the neck and slamming it to the ground two or three times, Yun Jiao took advantage of its dazed state before it could react, and then used one hand to press down its head while using the other hand to pry open the snake's body, which was still coiling around her and contracting.

The snake was too big; it took some time to pry it open.

Wang Mei rushed over with a knife in her hand, intending to stab the snake on the head.

"Auntie, move aside."

Wang Mei's limbs went weak, and upon hearing this, she obediently ran away. It seemed that the snake was no match for Jiao Jiao, so she shouldn't go and cause trouble.

Yun Jiao quickly grabbed the king cobra's tail and then unleashed an invincible whirlwind attack.

The king cobra spun rapidly above Yun Jiao's head, its afterimage too blurry to see clearly.

On the other side, Wang Mei and Yun Xiaowu, who were originally nervous, were now staring wide-eyed, perfectly displaying their astonishment.

(End of this chapter)