Chapter 293 Is this a windfall?

Harvesting potatoes from a potato cellar?

Has my senior finally found a suitable date?

Song Chunxue thought her senior brother had forgotten about it.

However, she wasn't in a hurry. Regardless of whether there was anything behind it, she wasn't struggling financially and wasn't too curious about whether there was treasure behind it.

She figured that since the yard was hers anyway, it would be safer to leave it there.

She was surprised when her senior brother suddenly brought it up, which made her wonder if he had a place where he could spend a lot of money.

With so many questions in her mind, Song Chunxue didn't know which one to ask first.

"Why are you so quiet? Are you afraid to let your senior brother go to the potato cellar?"

The Taoist priest chewed on the crisp Jerusalem artichoke, which sounded delicious.

"How could that be? If I were wary of my senior brother, I wouldn't have given you the key. When famine strikes, food is more valuable than money," Song Chunxue said in a low voice. "I'm just curious, senior brother, why did you suddenly want to dig it up to see if you're short of money?"

"If there's anything in that potato cellar, it must be a considerable amount. What does Senior Brother intend to do?"

After a moment of contemplation, the senior brother said mysteriously, "The matter is to be kept secret, and I cannot tell you now. It will be of great use, and you will definitely not suffer any losses."

"When would you like to go see it, Senior Brother?" Song Chunxue drank a glass of wine and put it on the table. "It would have been better if you hadn't brought it up. Now that you've brought it up, I don't want to wait a moment longer."

As she spoke, she stood up. "Senior brother, this matter should be addressed sooner rather than later. Let's go now. I'm going to find Hongying soon and I don't know when I'll be back. If you need her urgently and I'm not there, you'll be anxious as a spinning top."

"No rush, no rush, it's not too late to wait for you to come back." The Taoist priest pointed to the food and wine on the table. "We haven't finished eating yet, don't waste it."

Song Chunxue had already decided to investigate, and at this moment she felt an itch in her heart, which made her very uncomfortable.

She glanced at the sky outside. "Isn't it the same if we take the food and drinks home and eat them slowly?"

If there really is something in that potato cellar, wouldn't they drink even more heartily after digging it out?

If not, it saves her from worrying and allows her to drink to soothe her disappointment.

"Alright, alright, junior brother is really impatient," the Taoist priest said helplessly as he got up and poured the remaining wine into the gourd. "Take these dishes back with me, I'll go find a food box."

Half an hour later, the brothers hurried back to the fortress, some of them eager to return.

After closing the door, Song Chunxue immediately bolted it shut.

"What are you doing?" The Taoist priest looked at her furtive appearance and couldn't help but laugh. "Are you afraid that someone will come because they smell you?"

"I'm not only afraid of people coming in, I'm also afraid of ghosts coming in and taking our things." Song Chunxue rubbed her hands together nervously. "I'll go wash my hands."

The Taoist priest chuckled helplessly, "Junior brother, as the saying goes, what's yours can't be taken away, and what's not yours you can't keep. Keep a calm mind. Besides, this isn't the first time you've made a fortune."

Song Chunxue quickly came out of the kitchen, holding a tinderbox and a dagger.

Two large wolfhounds followed behind her, running quickly towards the backyard.

The yard was swept spotless, and apart from the gray donkey, the backyard was quiet and peaceful.

Song Chunxue eventually stopped raising chickens in the past two years because the smell of chicken manure was too strong.

She pushed aside the straw bundles and was the first to crawl into the potato cellar.

Potato cellars are warm in winter and cool in summer, but now that it's mid-March, there's not much of a feeling when you go inside.

The cellar was piled high with potatoes, with the mud brick hidden behind it.

"Brother, take it. I'll make room."

The Taoist priest shook his head in amazement, "This is indeed a good place to hide treasures, but how come they didn't find it before?"

Song Chunxue knelt on the potatoes and vigorously rummaged through them. "According to Sister Tian, ​​the old man hid them and never told his family. Later, he got old and couldn't remember them. I guess he hid them somewhere else too. It is said that his family is very rich and has hidden them in too many places, so he forgot about this place."

Song Chunxue tossed the potatoes in the middle of the wall to either side and pointed at the wall, "Senior brother, look, if I weren't young and had good eyesight, I wouldn't have been able to notice such a small crack between the bricks."

The Taoist priest walked over and knelt on top of the potato. He saw that the mud bricks were tightly sealed with mud. If it weren't for the fine cracks, most people wouldn't have noticed that there were mud bricks here.

"Tsk, I'm so envious. You can even find treasure while digging for potatoes."

Song Chunxue, now calmer, thought, "What if it's not a treasure, but something shady?"

“That’s impossible. Your senior brother makes a living from this. If he can even get this wrong, how will he survive in the martial world?” The Taoist priest reached out his hand. “Give me the dagger.”

Song Chunxue handed him the dagger and stepped aside, afraid that something else might jump out from behind the brick.

The blame lies with her for recently reading two books of supernatural tales; she hasn't dared to leave her room after dark these past few days.

Even when she goes to the outhouse, she needs two dogs to accompany her.

"Clang, clang, clang."

The Taoist priest used a dagger to chisel at the cracks in the bricks. Sensing the tense atmosphere, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "When I washed my face this morning, I felt my left eyelid twitching non-stop. I didn't expect my junior brother to insist on giving me some silver today."

Song Chunxue said calmly, "It might be a copper coin. If it were a large silver ingot, would the old man forget it completely?"

"Clang."

The Taoist priest removed the mud bricks.

It was stuffed tightly with rags inside.

The Taoist priest held his breath and tore open the tattered cloth that had been sealed for many years.

The next moment, a rustling sound, a crisp and pleasant sound, came from behind.

A pile of things rolled down and landed on the Taoist priest's robe.

The two brothers were stunned for a moment, then stared at each other with wide eyes.

"My goodness, junior brother, these... these are gold ingots and silver ingots, aren't they?"

Song Chunxue picked up a gold ingot that had rolled to her knees and, mimicking her senior brother's tone, said, "My goodness, senior brother, it really is a gold nail. I've never seen such a big and ugly gold ingot before."

"..." The Taoist priest turned to look at him, as if he hadn't expected to actually dig up so much real gold and silver.

Then, he frowned and said, "Junior brother, you're really rich. How dare you complain that gold is ugly? Who gave you the guts?"

Song Chunxue smiled, "Isn't this the courage my senior brother gave me? Senior brother, do we look like we've struck it rich?"

"What else? You're still not satisfied!"

Seeing the gold and silver ingots weighing about twenty pounds in front of her, Song Chunxue remained calm.

They might have been confused.

She pointed to the hole behind the mud bricks, where some gold and silver ingots had not fallen out, revealing the black box behind them.

The Taoist priest took down the palm-sized wooden box and weighed it in his hand.

"It's quite heavy. Junior brother, guess what's inside?"

Song Chunxue swallowed hard. "The key is that there's something else behind it."

The Taoist priest was helpless; his junior brother's luck was simply unbelievable.

“I saw it too. Let’s take it one step at a time. The ones at the back probably aren’t anything valuable.”

With a click, he opened the black box.

"Huh, huge pearls!" The Taoist priest's pupils widened in surprise. He grabbed a handful of pearls and examined them closely. "There are actually people in this place who would buy pearls?"

Song Chunxue had never seen anything like this before; she just thought it was beautiful. "Is this thing more valuable than gold?"

P.S.: I'm so sorry, it's been a holiday, I'll make up for it later. I was going to post two updates, but I got carsick and threw up~