Chapter 107 A Lot of Gold
The birds expressed their wishes without thinking.

"can."

"Row."

"make a deal."

It was a deal. Tao Qiuyi was amused by the birds' words. She took out some corn crumbs from the ring space and sprinkled them on the ground. The birds were no longer afraid of her. When they saw her putting out the food, they rushed down to eat it.

Tao Qiuyi found a rock to sit on and watched the birds eat. "I say, don't sparrows like to flock together? Why are there only seven of you?"

She counted them twice and was right, there were only seven of them.

The bird answered while eating.

"The seven of us are just together."

"Yes, there are seven of us together."

"Please call us birds. We don't like you humans calling us sparrows."

"Why?" Tao Qiuyi asked curiously. Aren't all sparrows and birds like them?

"A sparrow can't turn into a phoenix. You humans always like to talk about a sparrow turning into a phoenix."

Tao Qiuyi was silent for a moment and explained, "A sparrow turning into a phoenix is just an adjective. It doesn't mean that you sparrows can really turn into phoenixes."

"What is an adjective?" A bird, after eating its fill, tilted its head and looked at Tao Qiuyi.

When a bird asked him what a bird meant by "description," Tao Qiuyi was speechless and decided to end this time-wasting topic. "This isn't important. Let's move on to the previous topic."

"Okay, let's continue with the last topic, the last topic..." The bird forgot and looked at his other companions.

After the companions finished eating the corn crumbs on the ground, they all came and stood in a row beside the bird.

"What was the last topic?"

"That's why we only have seven birds."

"Yes, yes, that's why there are only seven of us. Because the others were eaten by humans."

“Boil it, roast it, or make soup.”

"Humans have so many ways of eating us."

"Spring, summer, and autumn are okay. Humans are busy with farm work and don't have much time to go up the mountain to catch us."

"We're miserable in the winter. Humans aren't busy with farm work, so they have plenty of time to go up the mountain or set traps in the yard. They're trying every way they can to catch us."

“And then I ate it.”

Seven birds stood in a row, talking to each other, which made Tao Qiu feel overwhelmed.

After the birds had finished talking, Tao Qiuyi asked, "You are small, and apart from your feathers, you don't have much meat on your body. Why do humans like to catch you and eat you?"

"No matter how small we are, we are still meat!"

"There's nothing wrong with what you said." Tao Qiuyi found himself speechless.

A bird said, "It's not just you humans who like to eat us. The cats and dogs you keep also like to catch us and eat us."

"And snakes. Snakes eat us too."

"besides……"

"Stop." Tao Qiuyi immediately stopped them. They couldn't continue talking, otherwise it would go on and on. "I know. It's not easy for you to survive."

The birds nodded.

Tao Qiuyi stood up and said, "I'm going into the mountains to look for herbs now. If you want to follow me, you can follow me. If you don't want to follow me, you can go out and play around, or find something to eat."

After saying that, Tao Qiuyi didn't want the birds to answer and walked quickly into the depths of the mountains.

Looking for food, they were already full. They were birds, not squirrels, and they had no habit of storing food for the winter. Playing, following her was also playing.

The birds discussed it and decided to follow Tao Qiuyi.

Tao Qiuyi was very fast and had a good eye. She could spot any herb she could find, unless it was growing in a hidden place. This time, she sorted the herbs carefully, placing the herbs needed to treat Wei Jingyuan's leg in her backpack and the ones she didn't need in her ring.

The birds chatted beside her, very casually, saying whatever came to mind, such as seeing a thief stealing clothes, a man talking to a widow, or a new daughter-in-law being bullied by her mother-in-law...

Oh, there are so many kinds of things, everything.

Tao Qiuyi didn't stop them and let them talk as if they were listening to the news.

"Hey, this place looks familiar."

"Does it look familiar?"

"What do you mean it looks familiar? A little further on is the cave where the gold is hidden."

Hearing the birds' conversation, Tao Qiuyi tore off a herb she was pulling with both hands.

Sighing, Tao Qiuyi threw the broken herbs into the backpack. He looked up at the birds in the tree and asked, "Are we going to the cave where the gold is hidden?"

She went into the mountains this time mainly to look for herbs, not gold, so when she saw the birds, she didn't ask about gold.

I didn't ask, but ended up walking here. It could be considered fate.

"Yes, it's almost there, almost there." A bird answered.

Another bird flew down and landed on Tao Qiuyi's shoulder. "Do you want to go into the cave and take the gold away so that you can buy food for us?"

Tao Qiuyi tilted his head to look at the bird standing on his shoulder, nodded and said, "That's a good suggestion, let's go and take a look."

The other birds were leading the way in front, and the bird standing on Tao Qiuyi's shoulder was still standing on her shoulder.

Soon they came to a cave blocked by branches. The birds were small and flew directly through the gaps between the branches. Tao Qiuyi used his hands to push aside the branches and crawled in.

The cave was pitch black, but Tao Qiuyi had good eyesight and could see a faint light in the darkness in the distance.

He took out a small flashlight from the ring space and turned it on. The road ahead was illuminated. Amid the exclamations of the birds, Tao Qiuyi walked forward.

After walking for about a minute, a man and seven birds stood at the door of the stone house. There were many boxes neatly placed inside the stone house. One of the boxes fell over and gold bars fell out.

In the darkness, the faint light is the gold bar.

"Oh, so many boxes." exclaimed a bird.

"Look what's in the box."

"Yes, take a look."

"Look, look."

The other birds also encouraged Tao Qiuyi.

"Okay, let's open it and take a look." Tao Qiuyi walked over and opened the top box. "Wow, this is really blinding my titanium eyes."

There was a lot of gold, and it was full of gold bars neatly arranged.

This time I really made a fortune, a huge fortune.

Tao Qiuyi calmly closed the box and buckled it, then opened a box next to it, which contained gold bars, and closed and buckled it again... He opened five boxes in a row, and they were all gold bars.

Tao Qiuyi became nervous and counted more than a dozen boxes. If they were all filled with gold bars, it would be a huge fortune.

He walked to the overturned box, tiptoed, and the box returned to its original position. Tao Qiuyi squatted down, picked up the gold bars and put them in the box.

"Tell me, how did you find this place?" Tao Qiuyi asked the birds while picking up gold bars.

"It was raining, and I came in to hide from the rain and found it."

“We often come here to live.”

"There are branches outside, so other animals won't come. It's safe."

After the birds finished answering, Tao Qiuyi asked again: "Have you ever seen anyone come here?"

"No," the birds answered at the same time.

(End of this chapter)

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