Chapter 236 (2/2)

“Ka Cha Ka Cha”, Yuan Zhou walked unhurriedly on the small path covered with pebbles all along and was occasionally greeted by some people.

“Are you here to buy the honey? When will you start?” The curious middle-aged women asked him one after another.

“I won’t buy much. So don’t wait for me,” Yuan Zhou straightforwardly said.

“You must be here to pick the Golden Mushroom. Don’t linger here too late. The mountain paths are bad.” When they heard Yuan Zhou did not intend to buy much, they didn’t get annoyed. Instead, they reminded him kindly.

“Humm, thank you.” Yuan Zhou thanked them while walking forward.

“You are welcome. Go back early.” While the villagers’ words were still lingering in his ears, Yuan Zhou had walked far.

The needle peak was virtually not too far from the village. But as soon as Yuan Zhou arrived at the place, Yuan Zhou understood what the aged man meant.

This needle peak was covered with pointed stones everywhere. Shadows of the plants would be very conspicuous. However, people would get hurt on the feet due to slightest carelessness if they walked on the pointed stones. Yuan Zhou’s hands and eyes were flexible, sensitive, and well cooperated with each other, but the cooperation of his feet and eyes were not so good.

“Si”, Yuan Zhou gasped. In just a little while, he had gotten hurt several times. As for the Golden Mushroom, he hadn’t seen even one of them.

There was nobody else on the needle peak at that time. Therefore, Yuan Zhou had to look for the mushroom carefully alone.

“It’s truly like a mermaid that walks with pain for every step. It’s just that there’s no princess ahead waiting for me to marry,” when Yuan Zhou hurt his feet again, he said with a sense of mockery.

It was gradually getting dark. Not to mention the Golden Mushroom, even a green plant wasn’t seen by him. Around the small needle peak, Yuan Zhou had only likewise searched at this place by half.

At that time, he intended to return on the same route. Of course, he had also thought of going back along other routes, but he found his learning abilities had been greatly improved. For the short distance, he didn’t get hurt anymore.

It took Yuan Zhou only forty minutes to walk from Yanfeng Village to the needle peak, but 1 hour to go back as the bloody blisters on his feet made him ache. Therefore, he walked not so quickly as before.

While hurting on the way back, Yuan Zhou turned on the mode of self-mockery, “It seems I have become delicate now. Such a short distance surprisingly gives my feet bloody blisters.”

Yuan Zhou felt rather speechless when he saw the three bloody blisters on the sole of his feet. He put on the shoes and headed directly for the village without piercing the bloody blisters.

When he barely arrived at the house he rented, Yuan Zhou found a boy standing at the door.

“You are back, uncle.” He appeared to be only 5 or 6 years old. Standing in the dim light, Yuan Zhou found there seemed to be some red spots on the boy’s face.

However, Yuan Zhou cared more about how the boy called him.

“You should call me elder brother,” said Yuan Zhou with an expressionless face.

“But you are much older than me. I should call you uncle,” said the boy naturally. He wasn’t shy of strangers at all.

“I’m not older than you that much. Just call me elder brother.” Yuan Zhou insisted.

“Uncle, you are obviously much elder than me,” the boy reached out his hand and measured his height with Yuan Zhou’s and then said firmly.

“I’m just taller than you. Call me elder brother,” said Yuan Zhou persistently.

“I’m here to ask if you want to eat?” Only by then did the boy recall his own purpose of coming here. He paid no attention to Yuan Zhou’s request and still called him uncle.

“Yes, of course. Show me the way, please. Call me elder brother.” Yuan Zhou continued talking to him.

“Well, you are so wordy, uncle.” The boy took an impatient look at Yuan Zhou, meaning approximately, “You are so naive.”

Then, Yuan Zhou became depressed…