Du Lai used a long tree branch as a walking stick to explore, sweeping aside the grass and leaves as he went.
He had walked this path several times before, and the trampled trail was gradually forming the beginnings of a "road."
The closer he got to the bamboo forest, the more cautiously he moved, continually using the branch in his hand to beat the surrounding grass.
Fu Miaoxue followed his example, picking up a branch and sweeping it back and forth as she trailed behind him.
Du Lai glanced back at her and asked, "Do you know what I'm doing?"
Fu Miaoxue thought for a moment and asked, "Looking for food?"
"All you think about is food," Du Lai said. "This is called 'beating the grass to scare the snake,' driving the snakes away first to make it safer for us to walk."
Fu Miaoxue couldn't help but ask, "Can snakes be eaten?"
Du Lai paused in his steps, wondering if Fu Miaoxue was so hungry that she had a psychological shadow, linking everything to food.
