The two exchanged a few pleasantries and parted ways. Xinyan climbed all the way up. The mountain behind the Mechanical Factory is a branch of Qianqi Mountain, with lush vegetation. Normally, when the family members have free time, they often team up in threes or fives to go up the mountain to look for wild goods.
There are also a significant number of households that go up the mountain to chop wood and burn the earth stove to save on coal. The stove outside the shed in the small courtyard where she now lives is a wood-burning stove.
Halfway up the mountain, she didn't follow the already trampled path but turned to walk to places no one usually goes. Along the way, she was lucky, finding plenty of mushrooms and collecting some mycelium under the trees in the space, ensuring self-sufficiency whenever she craved mushrooms in the future.
