"Where? Nowhere?" Zili, who was standing halfway up the mountain, stood on tiptoe and squinted his eyes.
All I could see was a fish pond connected to the river, its original appearance no longer visible.
If it weren't for the familiar angle of the mountain, he would have thought he had found the wrong place.
Unlike Zili who focused all his attention on the surging river, Shu Miao began to pay attention to whether there were any traces of footprints around.
It turned out that this location was not known to just the two of them. There were about 300 people in the entire team, so there had to be someone smart enough to think of this.
It all depends on who reacts first!
After all, the Shu family was one of the families closest to the fish pond. Even so, it was by chance that she realized that there might be a treasure trove of land.
If it were the families whose belongings or livestock were washed away, would they come here to check sooner?
Of course, most families must first rescue their belongings, and at the same time take care of the elderly and children at home. Even if no one comes now, they will probably come soon.
Fortunately, there were no obvious footprints on the roads that people usually walked on, so she randomly picked the closest road with not too bad road conditions, and slowly moved down by holding on to the branches beside her.
Shu Miao heard Zi Li's noisy voice from afar, but was too lazy to pay attention to him.
I don't know if this guy is really stupid or just has a mouth that itches. Except for the understanding look at the beginning, he seems smart.
After that, he kept chattering all the way, completely losing the sympathy he had shown for the old lady just now.
Not knowing that he was being disliked again, Zili didn't hear any response. When he turned around, he saw his cousin had already walked down the mountain. He immediately shouted anxiously,
"Eh, hey, hey? You're just going to go like this? Without taking any protection or anything?"
Shu Miao looked at the slippery and muddy mountain road under his feet. As long as he was careful and held on to the trees on the roadside, the risk of slipping directly into the water was very small.
The road conditions are so good, are you sure you want to take precautions?
But Shu Miao, who always knew him, also knew that if he didn't respond, he would chatter for a long time, and might even rush down without caring about anything.
If I accidentally fall... the scene is so frustrating. Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
"It's very safe!" I had no choice but to turn around and give him a look that asked him if he was stupid, and then I ignored him.
Seeing her perfunctory attitude, Zili immediately became unhappy. Without thinking, he held onto a tree trunk nearby and tried to take a shortcut to get ahead of her.
Unexpectedly, his foot slipped and he fell on his butt on the muddy mountain road. DuangDuangDuang! He went straight to Shu Miao without any obstruction.
He was so frightened that he frantically grabbed at things with his hands, and subconsciously screamed, "Help, help, help!"
When Shu Miao heard a loud squeaking sound behind him, he subconsciously hugged the tree next to him.
By the time she turned around to see what was happening, it was too late. Without thinking, she raised her foot to protect herself and kicked the man into the gap between the trees nearby.
"Boom!" A muffled sound accompanied by screams resounded throughout the forest.
Shu Miao kicked his numb right leg and looked at someone who was covering his head and screaming. His chest was heaving and his anger was rising.
"Shut up! Can't you use your brain? Don't you see what weather it is now?
Is there nothing else in your mind except that competitive thought?"
When Zi Li found that his hands covering his head were covered with mud, he felt pain and disgust. Now when he heard her scolding again, he pouted in grievance.
He suddenly looked up at her and was about to accuse her of provoking him first.
Who would have thought that he would meet her eyes filled with anger so gorgeously, and he was frightened out of his wits.
He inexplicably knew that she was really angry at the moment, and worried about being beaten, so he didn't dare to quibble anymore, and gave in with a dodging look.
"I didn't mean to do that. I was just worried that you wouldn't wait for me..."
Shu Miao glanced at the big bump on his forehead, frowned, and finally let him go.
"Alright, hurry up and get up. Your pants are already soaked. Do you want your shirt to get soaked too?"
After saying this, worried that he might make some inappropriate noises again, he added,
"Didn't I tell you to keep your voice down when I came here? What if there's someone nearby and we attract them? Even if there's something good here, will we still get a share?"
Zili only realized what a foolish thing he had done. In his frustration, he instantly forgot about the injury on his head and jumped up from the ground.
"Yes, yes, let's go quickly!"
Although he was very anxious, he did not dare to act on his own. He just looked at his cousin anxiously, waiting for her to speak.
Seeing that he finally calmed down, Shu Miao didn't say anything more and walked ahead first.
As we got closer to the water at the foot of the mountain, most of the tall trees around us turned into low shrubs and weeds.
These shrubs are treated the same as other shrubs at the foot of the mountain. They are cut down completely every autumn, and a new one will grow the following year, repeating this cycle every year. Therefore, there are almost no mature trees at the foot of the mountain in the Yanhe Brigade area.
It would be better if there were no more shrubs growing at the foot of the mountain, because that would mean there would be one more place to collect grass for the pigs.
Especially the pig grass at the foot of the mountain along the river has always grown the most lush and abundant.
At this moment, the grass and bushes at the foot of the mountain had already been submerged by the river water. However, it was also because of the existence of this patch of grass and bushes that the flow rate of the river was greatly reduced.
Not far away is the river with fast-flowing water, and nearby are some broken tree stumps and the like that are forcibly blocked by the angle of the wall.
Apart from that, there were those floating sacks and sundries, which made the two men's eyes sparkle.
The two looked at each other, immediately understood each other, and dispersed to find suitable tools.
As soon as Zili's figure disappeared into the bushes, Shu Miao immediately stopped and returned to the water's edge.
He bent down and squatted in the tall grass, pretending to grope around in it, but in fact he quickly took out a wooden stick as thick as sugarcane from the space.
This was what Shu Miao was going to use to make a fence, so he had prepared a bunch of them in his space early on, so he could just pull one out and use it.
Fortunately, because she didn't have that much time to stare at the wooden sticks to dry, she only dried a part of them intermittently, and there were still a lot of fresh ones left that were randomly piled in the yard to dry naturally.
Although a closer look reveals that the stick is not newly cut, it is almost impossible to tell once it is soaked in water.
So Shu Miao grabbed a small tree with one hand and a wooden stick with the other to reach the nearest bags.
After paddling for several times, he managed to drag up three bags.
Before he could check what was inside, a sack floating completely on the river surface spun in front of Shu Miao.
She would never let go of something that was delivered to her door. She grabbed it with her quick eyes and hands.
As Shu Miao felt the soft touch, his eyes lit up.
He turned his head to glance at the empty bushes and tentatively called out, "Self-reliance?"
At the same time, she immediately pricked up her ears and listened carefully. The moment she heard the response coming from a distance, the sack in her hand disappeared out of thin air.
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