Chapter 139 There is money to be made on the slope
The people from Qinglong Camp dug a pit on the slope and placed the two hundred bags of grain in the pit.
Li Yong and his men carried all the food and fodder back to Tiger Camp. However, to be on the safe side, Hu Wei asked them to take the food to Su Ying first after collecting it so that she could check it to see if anyone had poisoned the food.
"You mean that the Qinglong Camp wants to form an alliance with the Laohu Camp, and these two hundred bags of grain are gifts of sincerity?" Su Ying asked with a frown as she looked at the grain on the cart.
"Yes, Madam Su, our leader didn't believe it at first, but it was two hundred bags of grain. If it was real, we would have made a profit. So the leader asked me to go to the slope to check. After confirming that it was really grain, I would bring it back for Madam Su to see if it was poisonous."
Su Ying nodded, but it would take time to check all two hundred bags of grain, so she asked Li Yong to move all the grain into her yard so that she could check them one by one.
Li Yong and others quickly did as they were told.
After all the food was moved, Li Yong said, "Madam Su, we can't buy food now. The leader is still short of thousands of bags of food. If we can't gather them all, we will be in big trouble. So this food is very important to us."
Su Ying carefully checked the food in the sack and did not pay attention to what Li Yong said. She just thought he meant that there were many people in the Tiger Camp and they needed a lot of food to survive the winter. Without food, they would starve to death, which would be a big problem.
"Put the food here with me first. I'll check it and let you carry it back after I'm sure it's all right."
"Okay, I'll have to trouble you, Madam Su."
Su Ying nodded, and asked No. 1 and the others to go to the stream to practice by themselves in the afternoon, while she stayed at home to check the grain.
Su Ying asked Bai Shuang to bring her a few large bamboo winnowing baskets. These winnowing baskets were made by Uncle He in his spare time.
Su Ying poured out all the rice in the bag and checked it one by one.
It took Su Ying two full days to make sure there were no problems with the two hundred bags of rice.
She packed the rice after inspection and asked Jiang Yang to pass a message to Li Yong, asking them to transport it back.
Hu Wei stood at the fence on the second floor, watching Li Yong and his men carry two hundred bags of rice into the warehouse.
"Brother, did they really give us two hundred bags of rice for free? Is Wu Feng crazy?" Qiao Yang almost lost his life in Qinglong Camp, and he didn't believe that they would be so kind.
Hu Wei didn't know what the people in Qinglong Camp were going to do, but since they dared to take out the grain, they dared to accept it.
"Who cares? If enemies come, we will stop them. If floods come, we will block them with earth."
After Li Yong had the grain moved in, he went to Hu Wei to report, "Chief, the grain has been put in."
Hu Wei nodded, "Didn't Madam Su say anything about this?"
Li Yong shook his head, "Madam Su didn't ask any more questions."
"Well, continue to send people to keep an eye on the Qinglong Camp, and report back immediately if there is any unusual movement."
"yes."
Su Ying didn't know about the confrontation between Hu Wei and Qinglong Camp. After she asked Li Yong to carry the grain away, she took a shovel and went to the coal burning pit behind the yard. The wood in the pit had been burning for several days, and she planned to open it today to see if it was done.
"Madam, do you want to go to the earth pit? I'll go with you." Tian Mu saw Su Ying going out with a shovel and followed her.
Su Ying nodded, and the two of them walked to the pit together.
Tian Mu pushed aside all the hay on top of the pit, and a cloud of white smoke came out, making his eyes sore.
Su Ying used a shovel to break up the yellow mud at the mouth of the pit, revealing a larger hole.
After the white smoke had almost dissipated, Su Ying used a shovel to get out the burnt wood.
Tian Mu squatted down to check the finished product. When he saw it, he showed a look of surprise on his face. "It's done, ma'am, we've done it. Although these charcoals are not as good as the top-grade silver charcoal, they are definitely good for heating in winter."
Su Ying also walked over to check it out. Judging from the quality, it was indeed quite ordinary, but it could already be burned in this state. She was quite satisfied that it was the first time she could do it like this.
"It's good that it's done. Go get a cart and take these charcoal back."
"I'll go right away." Tian Mu responded excitedly and ran away excitedly.
Making charcoal fire would at least ensure that they wouldn't have to suffer the cold in winter, so how could Tian Mu not be excited?
Su Ying took out all the charcoal and then got some ash and sprinkled it on the charcoal to cool it down. After the temperature of the charcoal surface cooled down, she and Tian Mu loaded the charcoal into the car one by one.
"Hurry up, you useless thing. If you walk so slowly, it will be your turn to pick it up by the time we get there!"
"Dad, please stop hitting me. I'm leaving. Isn't it okay for me to leave?"
Su Ying followed behind the car and saw a lot of people walking towards the slope behind the Tiger Camp.
One or two would be fine, but slowly more and more people came here.
"Hurry up, hurry up, if you go too late there will be nothing left."
Su Ying couldn't help but stop in confusion and stopped a middle-aged man, "Brother, where are you going?"
The man was kind, and when Su Ying asked, he said, "Young lady, you don't know yet. This morning, someone came back from the dirt slope behind and said that the dirt slope was full of copper coins, and he picked up quite a few. If you have nothing to do, go and have a look, and you might be able to pick up quite a few. Anyway, it's better to get something for free than to waste it."
After the man finished speaking, he ran away in a hurry.
Su Ying became even more confused when she saw everyone's high spirits. The slope they were talking about was the slope between the Qinglong Camp and the Laohu Camp. How could money appear there for no reason?
She thought again, Li Yong said that the food given by Qinglong Camp was also placed on the slope. Is this a coincidence?
Abnormality is a demon, Su Ying plans to go and see what is going on.
"Tian Mu, you pull the charcoal back first. I'll go to the slope at the back to take a look."
Tian Mu looked at the crowd rushing towards the slope and said with some concern: "Madam, how about I bring the charcoal back and go with you?"
Su Ying shook her head. "I'll go take a look and be back soon."
Tian Mu nodded helplessly, "Then Madam, please be careful."
Su Ying responded and disappeared from sight with the crowd.
As soon as Su Ying walked up the slope, she found a copper coin in the mud.
She squatted down, picked up the coin, and looked at it to make sure it was real money.
She looked around and saw people everywhere looking for scattered copper coins.
Su Ying walked forward for a while and found another copper coin on the ground.
She walked along the way, picking up coins as she went. In a short distance, she had picked up more than a dozen copper coins.
The people scattered around slowly gathered on the slope like ants returning to their nest.
When Su Ying walked to the front, she found a big pit on the slope. This big pit should be used by the people of Qinglong Camp to store rice.
"I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, this pit is full of copper coins hahahahaha!" A man who jumped into the pit dug the yellow mud under his feet frantically, and shouted excitedly at the copper coins popping out one by one.
Seeing this, the others jumped into the pit like crazy.
As more and more people jumped down, Su Ying clearly felt the loosening of the soil beneath her feet.
Her brows sank, and she turned around and tried to leave, but the ground under her feet collapsed and she fell into the pit.
(End of this chapter)
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