Chapter 7: Second Sister Opens Her Imagination

7. Second Sister Opens Her Imagination

The next day, Tian Laidi, who had cried the previous night saying she wanted to return to her maiden home, didn't actually dare to go. She simply kept a long face from the moment she woke up, making the atmosphere at the family breakfast very tense.

Today, Shi Ermei also had to go up the mountain to pick berries; she was afraid that if she waited a few more days until the fruit was fully ripe and fell to the ground, they wouldn't be able to use them for brewing wine.

While making breakfast, Shi Ermei made about ten scallion pancakes. She packed ten for the family members going to the fields and kept four for herself, and then the whole family headed out together.

Shi Ermei was not afraid of entering the mountains alone, because the two large yellow-haired Chow-Chow-like dogs by her side were quite intimidating! They could even catch wild rabbits and mountain chickens to honor their master!

Shi Nan's greatest harvest from this transmigration was these two big dogs! Shi Ermei had originally named the two dogs Da Huang and Er Huang, but after Shi Nan recovered her health, she changed their names to Xiong Da and Xiong Er, simply to commemorate the era she once lived in.

After two months of training by Shi Ermei, Xiong Da and Xiong Er could already execute some simple commands, and they no longer resisted when their master treated them like little donkeys by hanging two small baskets on them!

Shi Ermei had sewn two dog harnesses out of cloth strips! The straps underneath could be tied around Xiong Da and Xiong Er's bellies to secure them, while the cloth strips on both sides could hold two hand-woven small baskets. This way, when she went up the mountain, she could pick more fruit, or if she encountered fungi or wild vegetables, she could dig them up and toss them into the small baskets!

According to plan, Shi Ermei walked a bit deeper into the mountain forest today, but it was still within the range previously traveled by the villagers. She didn't dare to be reckless and charge into unexplored woods; if something happened, it would be disastrous!

"The mountain paths here bend eighteen times, the waterways here wind nine times, the mountain songs here are lined up in rows, the mountain songs here are strung together in sets! Mm-hmm..." Shi Ermei hummed a folk song she had heard in her previous life as she walked. Although she couldn't quite remember the lyrics or hit the right melody, it was hard to encounter anyone else in these mountains, so she figured she could at least indulge her urge to howl a bit, right?

"Eighteen bends! Lined up... cough, cough!" As she rounded a mound along the narrow sheep tracks trodden by villagers, Shi Ermei's singing came to an abrupt halt!

Singing this song was partly to bolster her courage and partly to alert the wild beasts, crawling insects, or other people walking in the forest! But Shi Ermei never expected to actually run into people, and two grown men at that, holding each other!

In ancient times, there were the "Longyang preference" and the "Peach-sharing affection"! In the future, there would be same-sex love and the love between "top" and "bottom"! Historical records had omitted many stories of true male-male love from the Republican era, yet today, Shi Ermei had stumbled upon a live broadcast!

If she had encountered this in her previous life, Shi Nan could have just laughed it off, said "Sorry for the interruption, please continue," and slipped away! The interrupted pair of true lovers wouldn't have cared! But now she was Shi Ermei, living in an era that was neither entirely new nor entirely old! Breaking the intimacy of these two men could very likely bring about a fatal disaster!

Shi Ermei slowly backed away, while simultaneously gripping the short knife used for digging wild vegetables tucked at her waist.

"Xiong Da, Xiong Er, come back!" Seeing her two dogs attempting to move forward to sniff the two men, Shi Ermei hurriedly called them back!

Looking closely, she discovered that between the two men, the one wearing a black long robe with gold cloud patterns embroidered on the collar and sleeves seemed to have fainted! And the man holding him was wearing a light gray Zhongshan suit and a pair of round-rimmed glasses! They were both very young, looking to be around twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and the man with glasses possessed the elegant, scholarly air characteristic of this era.