Chapter 171 Harvest
Anyone seeing so much gold and silver treasure would be unable to resist…

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Fu Jiaming was puzzled when he saw Su Ning beside him, who looked calm, as if she were holding an ordinary little stone instead of a gold ingot.

"Don't you have any normal reaction at all?"

Just like Yan Xi, just like himself, even if he wasn't flushed with excitement, his heart was racing and he was a little excited, right?

With her hands gracefully outstretched, Su Ning simply smiled and remained silent: Could she possibly claim that she was already immune to treasure chests and their contents?

Yan Xi, who was half-squatting on top of the boxes, had recovered from her great joy and quickly opened all the boxes on the top layer one by one.

Inside were stacks upon stacks of gold and silver ingots, as well as various jewelry pieces.

This time it's really big!
The real challenge is figuring out how to get it out of the country.

Scratching his head, Yan Xi leaped down from above and looked at the two of them. "What are your thoughts?"

"Uncle, you tell me."

After the initial excitement subsided, Fu Jiaming calmed down. Most of them were people who had never been poor, so it was only natural for them to be excited to see so many treasures. Once that initial excitement wore off, they would realize that it wasn't all that special.

It's because even if they desperately stuffed themselves with gold, they still couldn't carry a whole chest of it out.

"Ningning found this place; finding it was all thanks to her luck. Of course, she gets half of the box, and the rest we'll split equally between us."

"No need, Uncle Yan. Let's split it equally since we came together. That's the fairest way."

"Don't look at me, I can do anything."

She was adamant in her stance, and Yan Xi, unable to win the argument, stopped talking and all three accepted the division.

There were a total of 162 boxes, with 54 for each person, placed in three different locations.

Fu Jiaming patted the large box in front of him with a happy smile, and took out ten gold ingots, a pair of gold bracelets, a pair of jade pendants, and a pair of pink pearl earrings: give all the gold to his mother, and the rest can be given to Shuangshuang as betrothal gifts.

Yan Xi did the same thing, picking out some gold ingots and a few pieces of jewelry to take back to his mother and wife.

Only Su Ning didn't touch the things inside, quietly waiting for the two of them to finish having fun before pointing to the red Ganoderma lucidum on the cliff above the canyon.

“I just looked closely and there’s nowhere to tie the rope. The cliff seems to be made of rock, so I can only try to see if I can climb up by hand.”

Upon hearing this, Fu Jiaming immediately remembered the real purpose of his trip to Baoshan. He angrily pounded his head, took out the things from his arms and placed them on the lid of the wooden box, then turned around and went to the bottom of the cliff to forcefully pry open the protruding rocks.

The rock is quite hard, but the protruding parts are very sharp. If you're not careful, you might get pricked, which is a minor issue. The real danger is that once you're up there, you might instinctively let go and fall down in pain.

"How about I try it first?"

Looking up and observing Yan Xi several times, he put down the bow and arrows on his back along with the things in his arms, rubbed his hands together, and was somewhat eager to try.

Having been in the mountains for so many years, how could I not have encountered some dangers? Back then, when I was chased by wild wolves and boars, I climbed all sorts of things just to survive.

This cliff looks difficult to climb, but as long as you are bold and careful, and find a good foothold each time you start climbing, it shouldn't be too difficult to get up. It just takes some time and requires more physical strength.

"My uncle insisted I go first; after all, he's my old man..."

"Are you the elder or am I? Listen to me!"

This is a prospective son-in-law who hasn't even officially entered the family yet. What if something happens to him, and he injures or cripples his family?!

Yan Xi glared at him, forcefully pulled him behind her, and without saying another word, spat twice into her palms, rubbed them vigorously, and began to try to climb.

It's no wonder that the Yan family was once the most skilled hunters in Luohu. Although after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yan's father moved out of the deep mountains with his wife and children and began to make a living in the fields.

But he never forgot or even threw away anything he had given to Yan Xi.

Even though we live in a collective society now, if he weren't afraid of being reported for undermining socialism, his skills would have been enough to ensure his family had enough to eat.

It's nothing like now, where you don't see meat even once a month, and you only sneak up the mountain once when the kids are really craving it.

"Uncle Yan, be careful. If this doesn't work, we'll think of another way."

Looking up at Su Ning below, just by watching how fast he climbed, he was already more than ten meters off the ground in just a short while.

She couldn't help but whisper a reminder, her heart pounding, afraid that raising her voice would disturb him.

Fu Jiaming, standing below, constantly adjusted his position, his arms outstretched, ready to act as a human cushion at any moment. Time passed second by second.

As Yan Xi moved higher, each movement took longer and longer.

This is a time when physical strength is rapidly depleted, and it is also the moment that tests one's mental fortitude the most.

"Almost there, almost there! Just a little bit more..."

As November was approaching in late October, the two people sitting in the shade were sweating profusely, their palms sticky with nervousness.

I'm afraid that something might happen to Yan Xi above.

The sharp-eyed Su Ning noticed that his hand had turned bright red, and her heart jumped into her throat.

Fortunately, Yan Xi was calm and physically fit, and managed to reach the Crimson Spirit Mushroom without any major incident.

Seeing him picking the fruit bit by bit, he suddenly remembered the small basket he had forgotten outside the stone gate. No one had expected the scene inside to be like this.

It took Yan Xi about ten minutes to harvest the whole Ganoderma lucidum. The century-old Ganoderma lucidum was quite large, almost the size of two adult palms.

He carefully lifted the jacket tucked into his pants, and after placing Lingzhi close to his chest, he tucked the rest of the jacket back in.

After making sure they wouldn't fall out, they slowly began to climb down the bloodstained protruding rock.

Once he was safely on the ground, the two rushed to greet him.

"How are you, Uncle?"

"Uncle Yan, your hand..."

"It's nothing, it's nothing. We're tough and thick-skinned, so this little injury will be fine after we get back. We can just rub some cobweb dust on it."

Yan Xi smiled nonchalantly, slowly taking out what she was holding and handing it to Fu Jiaming. "Thank goodness, it's all over now. I've got the life-saving medicine!"

His hands were a bloody mess, not as nonchalant as he claimed.

Fu Jiaming accepted the Crimson Lingzhi, which he had almost risked his life for, with both hands. His eyes immediately reddened and misted over, deeply moved.

"What kind of womanly behavior is this? Alright, alright!"

"Uncle Yan, let me give you some basic first aid."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to Ningning."

Fortunately, knowing they were going into the mountains, they had prepared some medicine and carried it with them. Su Ning grabbed one of his hands and led him to a place with slightly more light.

The canyon above is like a narrow strip of sky, with sunlight filtering through and casting long bands of light on the ground.

Using the light, carefully remove each of the small pebbles embedded in the flesh.

He then took out a few small porcelain bottles from his pocket, opened the cork of the bottle marked with external injury marks, and applied the medicine inside evenly to the wound.

Only after doing all this did she and Fu Jiaming finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Yan Xi rested on the spot for more than half an hour until she recovered, and by then all the light above her head had disappeared.

After thinking about the dangers of the deep mountains at night, Yan Xi looked at them and suggested, "This is a good place, we don't need to worry about wild animals. By the time we get down to the foot of the mountain, it will probably be completely dark. Why don't we rest here tonight and set off back at dawn tomorrow?"

They exchanged glances and nodded simultaneously, offering no objections.

"In that case, I'll go up and hide the rope, and while I'm at it, I'll gather some dry branches to see if I can find anything to eat."

"I'm with you."

"Hey, you two wait here, I'm going to..."

"No!" "You can't!"

Fu Jiaming refused in unison, but Su Ning frowned and advised, "Uncle Yan, you can't use a bow and arrow on your injured hand anymore. The rupture will make the injury worse. Don't worry, we'll come back before dark, whether we find food or not."

"Yes, Uncle, you rest here. We'll be right back!"

If we can't catch any food, we can always catch a fish at the water source we passed earlier, right?

Fu Jiaming patted his chest as if to assure her, then gave Su Ning a wink, and the two of them quickly left without giving him a chance to refute.


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