"Hua'er, where do you think we should put these two boxes?"
Inside the main house, Madam Su Bai had just finished putting away four bolts of brocade, but she was holding two mahogany boxes with a worried expression.
Previously, the entire Su family's wealth amounted to only a few dozen copper coins, enough that even a mouse would turn away at the sight of it. Over the years, she had simply hidden the money under the bed.
Recently, her family started a snail business, and their daily income gradually increased, reaching about a thousand coins a day. Since the money could no longer be hidden under the bed, she smashed a hole at the head of the bed to hide it.
But now, neither of these two square mahogany boxes can fit into the hole.
Moreover, she always felt that the hole where she hid the silver was not safe enough.
The news of Qin Yucheng's visit to deliver a thank-you gift spread throughout the village within an hour. Although the Su family had three sons, as the old saying goes, it's not the thief you should fear, but the one who has his eye on you. There have always been a few petty thieves in Shanghe Village, so she couldn't help but worry that someone might be eyeing this place.
Seeing her pacing around the room, with blisters on her lips, Su Hua couldn't help but look around the room.
Immediately, he stretched out his chubby finger and pointed to the corner, "Mother, shall we hide the box under there?"
"What?" Su Baishi stopped in her tracks.
I looked in the direction my daughter pointed.
I happened to see a series of round...chamber pots.
The woman paused for a moment, her face showing difficulty. "Hua'er, these silver ingots and jade ornaments are meant for your dowry. If we put them under the chamber pot, they'll probably rot in a few days. What will we do then?"
Su Hua smiled and said, "As long as the hole is dug a little deeper and the box is wrapped in some rags, it won't smell."
The most unexpected places are often the safest.
This family worried when they had no money, and now that they have money, they still worry.
If we don't find a proper place to store it, I'm afraid her mother won't be able to sleep soundly every night from now on.
As for whether or not there's a dowry, that's something for many years to come.
She wasn't worried about that at all.
“Okay!” Su Bai thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement. She picked up a small shovel from the corner of the wall and prepared to start digging.
However, at that moment...
"Sizzle—"
Suddenly, a sound came from outside.
"Who?" Su Bai's expression hardened, and she shoved the mahogany box into Su Hua's arms.
He took off running towards the door.
As soon as the door opened.
A figure in light red fell to the ground with a thud.
Su Bai's face immediately turned cold as she looked at Qian, who was lying on her back.
"Why aren't you going to the river to collect snails? What are you doing sneaking around here?"
Caught off guard by the sudden push, Qian grimaced in pain. She slowly got up and chuckled awkwardly, “Mother, I just put away the fine cotton cloth, thinking of making a new dress for Chunhua, but I’m out of needle and thread. I was wondering if I could borrow some from you.”
Su Bai stared at Qian Shi for a long time before saying coldly, "I don't have any needles and thread here. Go find Dongmei when she comes back."
"Alright," Madam Qian replied. "Then I'll go and collect some snails."
After saying that, he patted the dirt off his backside and walked away briskly.
Su Bai stared at her figure for a long time until she could no longer see her, then turned and went into the main house, lowering her voice and saying, "Hua'er, you stay here and dig the hole properly. I'll go to the yard and keep watch."
Qian Yueniang had been married into the Su family for three years, and she had always been quite cunning.
Now that her family has started a business, she's been doing even more of these little tricks.
"Okay." Su Hua nodded in agreement.
Just now, as soon as I received the jade jewelry box, the bluestone bracelet on my wrist started to get hot again.
She glanced up at the tightly closed door, and as she heard Su Bai's footsteps gradually fade into the distance, she finally couldn't help but raise her hand to touch the mahogany box.
"Thud—"
I just pressed the latch.
A flash of white light appeared before my eyes.
The blue stone bracelet on her wrist seemed to suddenly emit an extremely strong suction force.
The pain caused Su Hua to tremble all over, her mind went blank, and her body was instantly covered in sweat.
"Bang!" Su Hua's eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds. She finally couldn't bear the piercing pain and fell straight down, landing right on the round chamber pot.
After an unknown amount of time, the earth-shattering pain finally subsided, and Su Hua opened her eyes with great effort.
But then, everything in the main house disappeared, replaced by desolation. In the center of the wasteland, a lone, crooked, withered tree stood, without a single leaf on it, its existence unknown.
"Oh my god!" Su Hua, who was on her deathbed, sat up in shock and rubbed her eyelids frantically.
But nothing in front of me has changed at all.
It was still barren land and withered trees.
"No way, have I transmigrated again?!" Su Hua murmured, looking at the crooked tree in front of her, tears welling up in her eyes. "I finally had a warm family, and now, everything is gone, except for this crooked tree!"
Is this supposed to be used for her to hang herself?
The girl instinctively clenched her hands, letting her nails scratch her skin.
"hiss--"
A bright red bead of blood fell from the palm of his hand.
Su Hua gasped, but then her eyes lit up. If she could still feel pain, it meant that the body was not dead.
She couldn't help but think of the scene before she entered this wasteland.
The burning hot bracelet, the inexplicable suction, the pain in my body...
Could it be that the space inside her pigeon egg-shaped diamond has increased?!
Thinking of this, Su Hua suddenly jumped up, her head hitting the crooked branch. A section of the branch, about an arm's length long, was knocked off the very edge of the canopy with a 'clink' sound.
"Huh, that sound..."
The girl frowned and followed the sound.
But behind the crooked tree, I found... a puddle of water.
The puddle, roughly two square meters in size, was so clear that the large stones at the bottom were clearly visible.
Su Hua sniffed, bent down, scooped up a handful of water, and gulped it all down.
"Hahahaha...this is the taste!" The girl smacked her lips, the herbal fragrance between her lips and teeth making her eyes crinkle with laughter.
Originally, only three drops of water would slowly fall from the space around noon each day, but now, there is a puddle of water right there.
Moreover, the handful of water she had just drunk was replenished in the blink of an eye.
She looked at the roughly half-acre plot of wasteland in front of her and laughed like a fool.
I originally thought the pigeon egg-shaped space inside the bracelet was just a useless thing, but I never expected it to be such a wonderful treasure that can transform.
"Hua'er! Have you finished digging?" Su Hua was about to take a few more sips of water when she heard Su Bai's low voice coming from outside. Startled, she spilled the water in her hand, subconsciously pressed her hand on her bracelet, and silently said something before leaving.
Sure enough, the next second, he was transported back to the main house from the spatial dimension.
What she didn't see was that the handful of water happened to fall onto the crooked tree root.
The withered branches seemed to suddenly come back to life, sprouting tiny green buds.
In the blink of an eye, tiny green shoots, no bigger than grains of rice, unfurled into leaves. Where the leaves and vines met, flower buds suddenly appeared, opening into pale white and reddish petals. Then, pollen was shaken off and returned to the flower's center, and tiny fruits began to grow.
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