The Heiress Strikes Back

Sharon and Melinda quickly found Melissa. She was carefully comparing a bracken Sharon had given her to the weeds on the ground with a serious expression. Sharon sighed in her heart. This child isn’t that annoying when she’s serious.

“How is it? How much did you pick?” Sharon smiled and walked over to ask.

When Melissa heard the question, she was like a deflated ball. She pouted and looked disappointed. “I only found a few, but I did not slack.”

Sharon looked at the few thin wild vegetables in the bag in her arms. There were a few dandelions and ferns. “I know you didn’t slack. We searched this road yesterday. It’s already very impressive that you can still find a few fish that escaped the net.”

Melissa had been on this show for so many days, and this was the first time she had been praised by someone else. Her face instantly turned red, and she turned her head away in embarrassment, not looking at Sharon and Melinda anymore, but she still muttered softly, “It’s good that you know.”

Sharon didn’t care about her little mutter. She observed her surroundings. “Let’s walk over there and see if we can find anything.”

Hence, the three of them walked very far into the depths of the forest before Sharon stopped.

Melinda looked around curiously. There were only a few short trees and a ground full of weeds. There was no food that Sharon had brought them to pick recently. “What’s wrong? Is there anything to eat?”

Sharon didn’t answer her and picked up a black fruit from the ground. The skin of the fruit was a little rotten.

“What’s this? It looks like it’s broken and inedible. We don’t have to pick up this rotten thing and bring it back right?” Melissa looked at the black lump and felt disgusted. Her face was filled with reluctance.

Melinda, who had always agreed with Sharon, also revealed a disapproving look. “Sharon, why don’t we go somewhere else to take a look?”

Sharon looked at their expressions and sensed their rejection, but she didn’t put down the black fruit in her hand. Instead, she peeled off the skin on the surface and revealed the inside of the fruit.

In between, a brown fruit appeared in Sharon’s hand. The veins of the fruit were so deep that it looked like a human brain. Melissa and Melinda also recognized the thing in her hand now, and their expressions changed from rejection to surprise. “This is actually a walnut.”

“Yes, I just saw a few walnut trees from afar. Walnuts usually ripen in July to September. The month is just right now. Let’s just pick up the ones that fell to the ground.”

After she finished speaking, Melissa and Melinda squatted on the ground and picked it up. Sharon, on the other hand, looked around to make sure there was no danger before lowering her head to pick it up.

“Ah!” Melissa, who had been focused on picking up the walnuts, suddenly screamed.

“What’s wrong?” Melinda was shocked by the voice and quickly turned around to ask.

Melissa squatted on the spot in horror and looked at her hands. Melinda asked her a few times, but she did not respond. Helpless, Melinda could only walk to her side and poke her with her hand. She asked, “Miss, what’s wrong with you

“My hand, my hand…” Melissa looked up at the person beside her in a daze. Then, she showed her hand to him and saw that her fair and slender hand had turned blackish-purple. “How did my hand become like this? Have I been poisoned?”

Melinda was obviously frightened when she saw her pair of hands. She stood rooted to the ground and didn’t speak for a long time. However, Sharon walked over. “It’s fine. It’s just that the color of the walnut shell stained your hands.” Melinda raised her hand in front of her eyes. She was focused on picking up the walnuts when she realized that her hand had already changed color.

“Why didn’t you say so earlier? What am I going to do in the future now that my hands have become like this?” Melissa was a little agitated. After all, it would be a joke if word got out that a member of a girl group had such a pair of hands.

Sharon clearly understood her worry. “The situation is special now. It’s more important to fill your stomach. Moreover, this color will fade in a few days.”

Hearing Sharon’s words, Melissa’s mood clearly improved, but she still couldn’t believe it. “You’re not lying to me?”

“I’m not lying to you. I swear to God. Besides, my hands are the same.” After saying that, she ignored Melissa and squatted down again to continue picking up the walnuts..