I became the Counterpart of the Winner in a Period Novel-Chapter 149 - 146: Returning to Wuyun Mountain

Whether or not the white ball gets drunk is unknown, Jiang Mingyue only collected six hundred catties of bitter buckwheat, it’s fortunate to brew two hundred catties, but it needs to ferment first, the white ball still has to wait to drink it, in the end, he was given a pine-roasted chicken and was satisfied.

In return for her, after finishing the meal, the white ball wiped his mouth and pulled her by the clothes into the mountains.

To be honest, she never ventured into the forest, at most to the chicken and rabbit farms, beyond that, she only knew it was a pine forest.

And now, Lightning brought her here, its large front paws deftly picked up the dry pine needles on the ground, revealing two wild mushrooms, which were very nutritious and delicious matsutake, so precious in later generations!

Looking around, she found that almost every pine tree had matsutake growing underneath. Her spiritual power scanned over a dozen acres of forest, it was a pity that only about an acre had them, but this was already very exciting. In the future, matsutake chicken soup can be more delicious and nutritious.

Jiang Mingyue used spiritual power to pick almost all she could. The special large baskets their family used, more accurately should be called large hampers, were twice the size of ordinary ones, and she filled up four full baskets with a huff.

For some unknown reason, Jiang Mingyue thought of Yan Jinzhi, who loved home-cooked mushroom chicken stew, just ordinary mushrooms, sometimes even dried. Usually, they were just common types like beifeng mushrooms, this season was richer, with gusu mushrooms, qingtou mushrooms, naijiang mushrooms, false qingtou mushrooms, false jicong mushrooms. The better ones, of course, were ganba mushrooms, niugan mushrooms, but those were hard to come by, usually more of the common kinds, all very tasty when stewed with chicken, but surely incomparable to matsutake.

Jiang Mingyue was eager to give him some, thinking maybe she should try, since she heard he was busy earlier?

"Xiao Yanzi..."

Then in the next second, an alluring voice came to her ear.

"Hmm"

Even a single sound made one’s heart flutter uncontrollably.

She wondered if the girls and young wives in the village felt the same. Over the past few months, he had lent Qingshan Village a lot of help; probably everyone in Qingshan Village knew him now. Was there any girl interested in him?

The more Jiang Mingyue thought about it, the more her mind wandered until a figure appeared in front of her.

"Thinking of going to Shangwu Yun Mountain?"

...

"Yan Jinzhi, I just discovered you can come to visit me on your own, you don’t even need me to pull you. Let me think, this seems to have been the case for quite a while now, why?"

Yan Jinzhi was reluctant to let her struggle to think.

"Because for both of us, Wuyun Mountain holds special significance." In her past life, she was shattered, and he also lost an arm at Wuyun Mountain.

Jiang Mingyue still did not quite understand.

"This space is mine, it should hold special significance for me, why can you come down to my side, while I must have property?"

So this is what she’s fixated on!

"Why not try now?" Yan Jinzhi smiled and pointed a direction for her.

Why not try indeed, Jiang Mingyue really activated her spiritual power, and in the next second, she was standing behind a hidden rock peak at the summit of Wuyun Mountain, with the space naturally following her, Yan Jinzhi stepped out and saw that round moon-like face looking at the birds in the sky in disbelief.

"Yan Jinzhi, clearly last time I needed you to pull me up Wuyun Mountain, why can I come up by myself now? There’s no property of mine here."

Yan Jinzhi: "..." Because I am here. He wanted to tell her she had unlocked another ability layer. As long as he was there, she could come; as for Wuyun Mountain, she could freely come and go, as he just said, this place is special for both of them.

"Because you have helped the villagers, the people of Qingshan Village no longer go hungry. By the end of the month, families who have members working in the village can earn money, and every villager will receive some as well. With money, they can live well, shop at the cooperative without scrimping."

Scrimp?

Could you imagine that the gentleman, once deemed a bane at first sight, would use words so unrelated to him?

"You have assimilated with the villagers!"

Yan Jinzhi paused for a moment and didn’t deny it, but his smile became more down-to-earth.

According to their agreement, she also needed to share information with him.

"My spiritual power can invade the conscious sea of ill-intentioned people within fifty meters."

Yan Jinzhi was long prepared for this outcome, but until her memory fully returned, he would cooperate with her.

"Congratulations! Keep it up!"

"Thank you! I will."

This formulaic dialog feels awkward!

Yet some enjoy it, while others are big-hearted.

"By the way, Yan Jinzhi, don’t you like mushroom chicken stew? A lot of matsutake has grown in my space’s forest, I picked four baskets. Do you want some?"

Of course, he wanted them. Yan Jinzhi insanely wanted to take them all, but when it came to speaking, he made a turn and only asked for three baskets.

Later on, the commissary hall recorded the account for these ingredients; the night at Wuyun Mountain Base’s cafeteria was bustling, primarily because of a matutake chicken stew, so delicious they scrubbed the pot clean and still wanted more, and everyone was inquiring where these matsutake came from.

The cafeteria chef remained tight-lipped, and Dr. Lu’s gaze was inscrutable. When alone with Yan Jinzhi, Dr. Lu sat next to him with his big green teapot.

"Jinzhi! These matsutake, along with that strawberry jam pine-roasted chicken and plum wine, come from the same place, right!" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Yan Jinzhi had already seen through his intentions and did not reply.

Helplessly, Dr. Lu, the national treasure, had his skin thickened.

"Jinzhi! Look, I’m at this ripe age, pulling all-nighters every day for research. You think—will I end up dying before the first phase results come out?"

Yan Jinzhi rewarded him with a look, acknowledging his good acting skills.

Dr. Lu felt hopeful, fueled his motivation: "Jinzhi! How about that plum wine, can you get some more? I’ll give you my salary for this month."

Yan Jinzhi finally spoke: "Allow me to remind you, you’ve already given me the rest of your salary for this year. If you don’t remember, I have it in writing. Do you want to see?"

Dr. Lu swallowed, telling himself to hold on—the wine must be secured first!

"Ahem, Jinzhi! That wine, that wine really helps improve my health. You don’t want me to die early on my post, do you?"

"Alright, but next year’s salary will also be under my control, one jar per month, lasting you a year, but this time there’s no plum wine, only corn wine."

Dr. Lu was just getting excited about his cleverness, when the very next second he was disappointed again.

"Corn wine? We have plenty of corn wine in Wuyun Mountain’s warehouse."

"Is it the same?"

Dr. Lu thought about it, true, other people’s corn bread was just corn bread, but this one’s corn bread was pure gourmet.

With a determined heart, he offered up next year’s salary agreement.

With the new agreement, Yan Jinzhi quickly gave Dr. Lu a jar of corn wine, along with a previously agreed pine-roasted chicken, a pine-roasted rabbit, and a bottle of apple jam.

Dr. Lu hugged the wine jar, almost moved to tears: Was it easy for him?