Chapter 88: The bags we brought seem to be insufficient.

"Will that mean I have to spend a lot more money?" Sang Yu is now obsessed with money. When something happens, the first thing that comes to his mind is that he will have to spend money again.

Sang Yongjing spread his hands helplessly: "Who said it wasn't true?"

Although he couldn't quite understand why his daughter had to dig a deep hole, past events proved that she was right, so he decided to dig it.

Sang Yu, who was already determined to make money, became even more determined. It turned out to be a good idea to earn more money at one time. Otherwise, he would need money every now and then, and where would he get so much money?

After walking through the bamboo forest for a short distance, they came to a golden cherry bush. As soon as Sang Yu saw the fruits on the bush, he was shocked.

She remembered that when she came to pick fruits last time, there were still a lot of fruits hanging on the branches of the tree. Why was there only so few left this time?

She was not the only one who was surprised. Sang Yongjing and Xie Qiujin were also very surprised.

"How come there are so many missing? There were still quite a lot left when we picked them last time."

Sang Yu's gaze fell on the roots of the bushes, and sure enough, he found a lot of golden cherry seeds there. Had any wild animals come here to feed on them?

"After all, we're in the mountains. Wild boars or something might come here following the scent. Let's just pick the ones that are intact. We'll take as many as we can."

The various things in the mountains and forests are not meant to be enjoyed exclusively by humans. Whether it is wild fruits in the mountains or various rare animals and plants, it is all on a first-come, first-served basis.

"Ah? Wild boar?" Xie Qiujin was shocked when she heard this, and looked around in uncertainty, fearing that the bushes somewhere would shake and then a wild boar weighing several hundred pounds would come out.

Sang Yu comforted him, "It's not necessarily a wild boar. I didn't see any traces of it being disturbed by a wild boar nearby. I was just giving an example."

There are fewer fruits on the trees, and it’s not just the ones eaten by animals that are missing. Many of the fruits are overripe and fall to the ground, which are picked up and eaten by squirrels.

Even the golden berries at the top of the tree showed signs of being pecked by birds.

The three of them worked hard and picked all the usable golden berries, but they only picked one and a half bags, which was much less than Sang Yu had expected.

"Yu'er, aren't these a bit too little?" Sang Yongjing was also very disappointed. He brought so many bags up the mountain, but in the end, not even two bags were full.

“It’s less than I expected.”

Sang Yu stroked his chin and calculated that a bag could hold about 20 kilograms of golden berries, and one and a half bags was more than 30 kilograms, which could produce more than 7 kilograms of sugar.

If they were sold at once, it would cost more than 400 Wen, which seemed far from what she called a big profit.

It would be nice if I could pick more fruits. Sang Yu's eyes fell on the golden cherry seeds at the roots of the bushes, and suddenly he noticed that there seemed to be some traces underneath those seeds.

Using a branch to push aside the seeds covering the ground, she saw two faint claw marks. The marks were not large, and seemed to be overlapping traces of someone standing upright to reach for fruit on a bush.

Sang Yu is not an experienced hunter. He cannot guess what kind of animal it is based on two claw marks, but since there are animals nearby, does it mean that there must be other fruits?

Thinking of this, her eyes suddenly lit up. She used a branch to push away the fallen leaves on the ground and carefully searched for other claw marks, trying to find some other gains based on them.

A mountain is not a flat surface, it has slopes and heights.

When Sang Yu and his friends went into the mountains before, they basically took the same route every time and did not dare to explore the mountains and forests inch by inch.

So even Sang Yu himself didn't know whether there were other fruit trees or shrubs nearby.

Sang Yongjing and Xie Qiujin held their breath and watched her follow the claw marks out little by little, afraid that any noise would disturb her.

The animal that left the claw marks should not be large. Fortunately, there is not much else in the forest, but there is a lot of humus and fallen leaves. Even if the animal is light in size, it will leave some marks when stepping on them.

Sang Yu was very patient and searched bit by bit. If he found that the paw prints disappeared, he would not be anxious. He would just expand the search range at the disappeared location and look in different directions.

It's true, with her patient and meticulous search method, although extremely slow, she actually found the animal's movement trajectory.

They walked all the way northwest at a very slow pace, and from time to time Sang Yu would make a mark on the tree trunks to avoid losing his way back and getting lost in the forest.

After walking for quite a distance, Sang Yu was still looking down for subtle claw marks when he heard two people behind him exclaim.

“Oh my God!”

"Yu'er, look!"

It didn't sound like she was scared, but more like she was surprised. Sang Yu slowly raised her head and her mouth gradually opened wider.

Before coming here, she had imagined that there would be other fruits or bushes here, but she really didn't expect there would be so many.

What comes into view is a golden cherry bush that stretches for more than 30 meters.

All the fruits high and low were swept away, leaving only the area in the middle where the animals could not reach, still hanging with fruits.

"There are so many, the bags we brought seem a bit insufficient." Sang Yongjing couldn't help but sigh.

Sang Yu suddenly became energetic and rolled up his sleeves to pick the fruits: "As I said before, pick as many as we can, let's do something big."

She had originally thought there weren't enough golden rose fruits left to make much sugar, but now her worry was about whether the three of them could carry the bags back home after filling them.

Now is the end of the ripening period of golden berries. The golden berries on the branches are frighteningly red and contain plenty of sugar.

The mulberry trees can even be selective, leaving some that are not dark enough on the treetops. After a frost, they will fall from the branches to the ground and become a delicacy for small animals in the forest.

The three of them brought six bags in total, not because they were afraid of carrying too many bags, but because there were only six bags in the house.

I originally thought I brought too many bags, but after just a while, the six bags were already bulging and could no longer hold any more fruit.

Xie Qiujin looked at the large amount of fruits hanging on the bushes not far away and felt very distressed: "Let's come back again after we go back. There are still so many fruits left."

This is all money, and the family has no other way to make money for the time being. Sang Yu also said that after making this deal, she will never do the sugar business again. She just wants to pick all the fruits and take them back.

She was prepared to be rejected by Sang Yu, but saw Sang Yu nodded readily: "Okay."

"Hmm?" How could you agree so easily?