Chapter 171: Harvest
Anyone who sees so much gold, silver, and treasure can’t help but…
?
Fu Jiaming saw Su Ning next to him with a calm expression, as if what he was holding in his hands right now wasn’t a gold ingot but just an ordinary small stone, and couldn’t help but have a face full of question marks.
“You, don’t you have any normal reaction at all?”
Just like Yan Xi, just like himself, not to mention getting excited with a flushed face and red ears, at least his heart would beat faster, with a little bit of excitement, right?
Elegantly spreading both hands flat, Su Ning just smiled without speaking: Could she say that she was already immune to the treasure chest and the things inside the box long ago?
Half-squatting above the box, Yan Xi had already come back to his senses from the huge joy, and quickly opened all the boxes in the topmost layer one by one.
Inside were actually stacks upon stacks neatly arranged gold and silver ingots along with various jewelry.
This time they were really rich!
But how to transport it out is a difficult problem.
Scratching his head, Yan Xi leaped down from above and looked at the two, “Do you have any ideas?”
“Maternal Uncle Yan, you say.”
After the excitement passed, Fu Jiaming also calmed down. Mainly they were all people who had never been poor. Seeing so many treasures, getting excited was human nature. Once that surge of energy passed, looking at it again it was just so-so.
It was also because even if they stuffed their bodies desperately, they couldn’t carry out a box of gold.
“This place was discovered by Ning Ning. Finding it here was all thanks to her luck. Of course the boxes should be split half with her, and the rest divided equally between us two men?”
“No need, Maternal Uncle Yan. We came together, so let’s split equally. That’s the fairest.”
“Don’t look at me. I’m fine either way.”
Her attitude was firm. Yan Xi argued with her but couldn’t win, so he said no more. All three accepted this division method.
A total of one hundred and sixty-two boxes, fifty-four for each person, placed in three different positions.
Fu Jiaming happily patted the big box in front of him, took out ten gold bars, a pair of gold bracelets, a pair of jadeite jade pendants, and a pair of pink pearl earrings: Give all the gold to his mom, and the rest could exactly serve as betrothal gifts for Shuang Shuang.
Doing the same as him was Yan Xi, who also picked some gold bars and a few pieces of jewelry to bring back for his own old lady and daughter-in-law.
Only Su Ning didn’t touch the things inside, quietly waiting for the two of them to finish being happy, then pointed to the red ganoderma on the cliff wall above the canyon.
“I just carefully checked. There’s no place to tie the rope. This cliff wall seems to be rock, so we can only try to see if we can climb up barehanded.”
Hearing this, Fu Jiaming immediately remembered the real purpose of coming to Treasure Mountain this time. Annoyed, he hammered his head, first took out the things in his arms and placed them on the lid of the wooden box, then turned and came to the bottom of the cliff wall, forcefully prying at the protruding rock blocks.
These rock blocks were quite hard, and the protruding parts were all very sharp. If not careful, getting stabbed and wounded was minor; he was just afraid that once up, he might involuntarily let go due to pain and fall down.
“How about I try first?”
Looking up and sizing it up a few times, Yan Xi put down the bow and arrow on his back along with the things in his arms, rubbed his hands, and was somewhat eager to try.
Having been in the mountains for so many years, how could he not have encountered dangerous times? Back then, chased by wild wolves and wild boars, he climbed anything as long as it meant survival.
This cliff wall looked hard to climb, but actually as long as one was bold and careful, found good footholds each time when climbing up, it shouldn’t be difficult to go up; it would just take some time and demand more physical strength.
“Maternal Uncle Yan, let me go first after all that’s my family old man…”
“You’re the elder or am I the elder? Listen to me!”
This was a son-in-law not yet through the door. If something happened, injured or disabled, what would happen to his family’s You You?!
Yan Xi glared at him, incomparably dominantly pulling him behind himself, said no more, spat twice into his palms, rubbed them hard, and began attempting to climb.
No wonder the Yan family used to be the most formidable hunters in Luohu. Although after the new country was established, Yan’s father brought his wife and children out of the deep mountains to start farming in the fields for a stable life.
But the things once taught to Yan Xi, he hadn’t forgotten or discarded.
Even now in this collective society, if not afraid of being reported for prying at the corner of the socialist wall, with his skills he could have long let his family eat meat without worry.
How could it be like now, not seeing meat once a month, only secretly going up the mountain once when the child was very hungry for it.
“Maternal Uncle Yan, be careful. If not, we’ll think of other ways.”
Su Ning below, tilting her head up, just looking at his upward climbing speed—swoosh swoosh, in just a short while he was already more than ten meters off the ground.
She couldn’t help but be shocked and softly reminded, afraid that a loud voice would startle him.
Fu Jiaming was also below constantly adjusting his position with him, hands spread open, ready at any time to serve as a meat cushion.
Time passed minute by minute, second by second.
As Yan Xi went higher, each move took longer.
This was physical strength rapidly depleting, also the moment that most tested mental fortitude.
“Almost, almost! Just a little bit more…”
Late October almost entering November, yet it made the two waiting in the shady crevice break out in a sweat, their tense palms sticky.
Just afraid that Yan Xi above would have some accident.
Sharp-eyed Su Ning saw his hand had bright red blood, her heart involuntarily rising to her throat.
Fortunately, Yan Xi was steady enough and his physical condition was top-notch, finally arriving in front of the red ganoderma without danger.
Seeing him carefully picking and shaking it bit by bit, she suddenly remembered the small back basket forgotten outside the stone door—really, no one had expected the scene inside to be like this.
It took about ten minutes before Yan Xi fully picked the whole red ganoderma plant. The century-old red ganoderma wasn’t small, nearly the size of two adult palms.
Carefully lifting the hem of his jacket that had pierced into his pants, he placed the lingzhi mushroom close to his chest in his arms, then tucked the lower clothes back in.
Confirming it wouldn’t fall out, only then did he start climbing down bit by bit along the protruding rock blocks stained with blood.
When he safely reached the ground, the two quickly went up to meet him.
“Maternal Uncle Yan, how are you?”
“Maternal Uncle Yan, your hand…”
“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. I’m thick-skinned; this little wound, just apply some cobweb dust when back.”
Yan Xi smiled indifferently, slowly took out the things in his arms and handed them to Fu Jiaming, “Finally safe and sound, the life-saving medicine is in hand~”
His hand was already a bloody mess, not as nonchalant as he made it sound.
Fu Jiaming took with both hands the red ganoderma that he had almost traded his life for, his eyes instantly reddening with a layer of mist, moved beyond words.
“Big man, don’t act like a woman. Alright, alright!”
“Maternal Uncle Yan, let me first simply treat your wound.”
“Hey, alright, then trouble Ning Ning.”
Fortunately knowing they were entering the mountain, they had prepared some medicine to carry. Su Ning grabbed one of his hands and came to a place with slightly better light.
The canyon above was like a slit in the sky, the sunlight coming through casting a long light band on the ground.
Using the light, she first carefully picked out the small pieces of gravel embedded in the flesh one by one.
Then took out a few small porcelain bottles from her arms, opened the wooden stopper of the one marked for external injuries, and evenly applied the medicinal water inside to the wound.
After doing all this, she and Fu Jiaming finally breathed a thorough sigh of relief.
Resting in place for more than half an hour, until Yan Xi recovered, the light above their heads had completely disappeared.
Thinking of the dangers in the deep mountains at night, Yan Xi looked at them and proposed, “This is a good place without worry of wild beasts. By the time we go down to the foot of the mountain, it’ll probably be completely dark. How about resting here tonight and setting off back at dawn tomorrow?”
They exchanged a glance, and Fu Jiaming and Su Ning nodded at the same time with no objections.
“In that case, I’ll go up and hide the rope, and by the way pick some dry branches to see if I can get some food.”
“I’ll go with you.”
“Hey, you two stay here waiting. I’ll go and…”
“No!” “Not allowed.”
Rejecting in unison with Fu Jiaming, Su Ning frowned and persuaded, “Maternal Uncle Yan, the wound on your hand can’t use the bow and arrow anymore. It would make the injury worse if it splits open. Rest assured, before dark we will come back immediately whether we find food or not.”
“Right, Maternal Uncle Yan, you rest here. We’ll be back soon!”
Even if they couldn’t hunt food, grabbing a fish at that water source they passed before should be possible, right?
Fu Jiaming patted his chest as if guaranteeing, then gave Su Ning an eye signal. The two didn’t give him a chance to retort and quickly left the spot.
