Because the herbs needed for the detoxification must be new, all the herbs must be collected within three days.

The group decided to split up, with Old Man Xue and Bai Yuchen each heading up the mountain.

Yin Mo knew nothing about medicinal herbs, nor did he possess any martial arts skills, so he did not travel with Bai Yuchen.

Of course, he wasn't idle either; he successfully integrated into the village's gossip group under the big locust tree these past few days.

Whose chickens have wandered into whose field to eat their grain? Whose young husband has run off to meet someone else while the man is away...

Yin Mo was extremely interested in things like this.

Before leaving, Old Man Xue tossed Le Haochuan a medical book and told him to pick the herbs listed in it.

According to him, since he was just idling at home anyway, he might as well do some work.

Upon hearing that they were going up the mountain to collect herbs, Lin Nian immediately packed Pearl's things, preparing to go up the mountain with the man.

Let's just treat it as a family trip for the three of us.

Pearl carried a small flower-shaped backpack made by her little daddy, which contained two pieces of sesame brittle, a small shirt, a small water pouch, and her cloth tiger.

Lin Nian prepared some spices and salt, so that if they encountered pheasants or rabbits, they could hunt them for Pearl to try.

He's never tasted meat cooked by his dad before.

Lin Nian took out a jade whistle from her pocket, and after blowing it, Si Dianbai came running over in no time.

Le Haochuan thought the horse looked familiar and was lost in thought when Lin Nian had already lifted Pearl onto the horse.

Pearl obediently gripped the saddle, muttering something under her breath, looking very happy.

Lin Nian mounted her horse, then suddenly seemed to remember something. "Ah Cheng, do you still remember how to ride a horse?"

Le Haochuan truthfully replied, "...I forgot."

Lin Nian reached out her hand to him, "I'll pull you up."

Four-point White has foreign ancestry and is larger than ordinary foals, so carrying two adults is no problem at all.

Le Haochuan used his wife's strength to mount the horse, hugged her waist, and rested his head on her shoulder.

"Niannian, I'm afraid of heights."

Lin Nian: "..."

Back when I was jumping around a lot, wasn't I afraid of heights?

Lin Nian ignored him, tightened her grip on the reins, and shouted, "Giddy up!"

"Niannian is so amazing!" Le Haochuan praised mindlessly. "Whose wife is this amazing?"

Pearl chimed in, "Niannian is amazing!"

Lin Nian said, "Shut up."

The two, one big and one small, immediately adopted the same pitiful expression, but unfortunately, Lin Nian was focused on riding the horse and didn't notice the father and son's act of feigning helplessness.

Once you get up the mountain, the path becomes rugged.

The speed of the four white dots also slowed down.

Lin Nian handed the reins to Le Haochuan, who then took out the medical book from the satchel hanging beside his horse and began to read it carefully.

Old Xue had already marked the required medicinal herbs in advance, and Lin Nian carefully observed the roadside plants.

"Huh?" Le Haochuan was shocked. "You're leaving it to me?"

"It's alright, Four-Point White is very intelligent and won't throw you off your horse," Lin Nian said. "It's strange, you even remember martial arts, how come you forgot how to ride a horse?"

"Actually, I forgot, but I got beaten up by Old Man Xue a few times. I was so angry that I wanted to wait until he was asleep in the middle of the night to beat him up. But I found a secret manual in his room."

Le Haochuan paused for a moment, then said, "I was a little curious, so I flipped through it. I learned it in no time, and I thought I was a genius."

Lin Nian felt sorry for him. "Then why did he hit you? What did you do to upset him?"

"How could that be?" Le Haochuan said. "He saw the Flowing Shadow Blade on my wrist and asked if I was from Tianji Manor."

"At that time, I thought I had just traveled through time. I didn't know if it was true or not, so I said no."

Lin Nian asked, "And then?"

Le Haochuan said, "Then he said that since I wasn't from Tianji Manor, I must have stolen the Flowing Shadow Blade, and then he beat me up."

Lin Nian got angry. "That's just too unreasonable!"

"Then I said, 'Actually, I was lying to you just now. I'm actually from Tianji Manor.' I thought that would stop me from getting beaten up again," Le Haochuan said. "But he beat me up again."

Lin Nian angrily asked, "Then why is that?"

Le Haochuan said, "Since I'm from Tianji Manor, how could I let someone beat me so badly that I fell into the river and almost drowned? I'm really useless."

Lin Nian closed her medical book, still furious, when she suddenly realized the crux of the matter: "Are you from Tianji Manor? What is your relationship with him?"

"have no idea."

Lin Nian pondered: Could it be that Old Man Xue is also from Tianji Manor?

The mountain path was getting narrower and narrower, and it would be too late to go any further than Si Dian Bai.

After the family of three dismounted, Si Dianbai jumped around a few times on the spot.

Lin Nian took the items out of her satchel and put them into her small bag. She stroked the four-white mane and said, "Go have fun. Remember to go home by yourself tonight."

Four o'clock Whitey let out a neigh and took off into the woods.

"This thing can understand human speech?" Le Haochuan exclaimed in surprise. "It's that intelligent?"

"Four-Point White is your horse." Lin Nian glared at him. "It can still understand your whistle, but you've probably forgotten how to whistle by now."

Pearl hugged Le Haochuan's leg, "Daddy, hug me."

Lin Nian said, "Go by yourself."

Pearl pouted, looking like she was about to cry.

"Hug me, hug me, hug me." Le Haochuan couldn't bear to see Pearl being wronged. "Good boy, come here and Daddy will hug you."

Pearl, who was still pretending to cry, immediately snuggled into her father's arms with a beaming smile, pouting and giving him a kiss, "Daddy's the hottest!"

Lin Nian felt a pang of sympathy. "You just keep spoiling him."

"Our little one is only three years old. With such small arms and legs, how can he climb such a steep mountain path?"

Lin Nian poked her son's soft flesh, "Don't you think our Pearl is a little chubby?"

Le Haochuan was shocked. "Is this considered fat? This isn't..." He glanced at Pearl's small body from head to toe. "Our Pearl just has a round face. Besides, kids should be chubby to look good."

Lin Nian was somewhat speechless and said, "Do you raise pigs?"

"Yes," Le Haochuan said matter-of-factly, "our pearls are pearls too."

Lin Nian now understands why Hua Yue has always been chubby since she was a child.

Pearl absolutely cannot be raised to be a chubby little boy by his father.

"Pearl," Lin Nian said seriously, "get down and walk yourself, or you won't be eating meat for a month."

"Won't she become malnourished?" Le Haochuan was very worried. He couldn't understand why these ladies from noble families in ancient times pursued a slender, delicate figure.

Lin Nian said, "No, he drinks milk every day." He paused, then continued, "And I only threatened him; I didn't really intend to starve him for a month."

Upon hearing that he couldn't eat meat for the next month, Pearl quickly got out of his father's arms, "Pearl, let's go."

"My brother-in-law also said that it's good for his health to stretch his muscles and bones properly," Lin Nian said. "If he gets tired, you can tell, and then you can carry him."

Hearing his wife say this, Le Haochuan had no choice but to agree.

Seeing the pained look on his face, Lin Nian patted the man's shoulder and said, "I went through the same thing before. You'll get used to it."

The two adults started chatting, and Pearl got a little bored. She tugged at her little daddy's skirt, stuck her bottom out, and squatted on the grass picking flowers.

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