harvest wheat
Many people doubted Su Yanxi and Shen Shi's mining skills, but Xiao Hai always believed that they were the real deal, and their performance in the cafeteria just now was just to cover up.
There is a saying that goes, "A true man never reveals his true face!"
The reason is simple, it's because the administrator told him personally.
The administrator had a good relationship with his father and liked his sweet talk. In addition, he would occasionally dig dozens of extra minerals and secretly supply them to the administrator, so there was no reason for the administrator to lie to him.
There is no benefit in lying to him!
The only possibility is that those two people are disguising themselves.
So Xiao Hai brought his two friends to the house.
Chenshi was closer, so he found Chenshi first.
As soon as the door opened, Chen Shi felt strange when he saw Xiao Hai.
He knew Xiao Hai. He was a miner like them, but because of his family connections and his adaptable personality, he was very successful in the mining area.
"Brother Stone!"
As soon as the door opened, Xiao Hai put his arm around Chen Shi's shoulders and smiled, as if they had a very good relationship.
Chen Shi shuddered with a chill and tried to distance himself, but Xiao Hai hugged him even tighter.
It was the first time he was called brother, and he felt very nervous.
"What's the matter?" Chen Shi said with a cold face, trying to scare the other person away.
Xiao Hai doesn't care whether the other person gives him a cold reception or not, as long as he doesn't refuse, he will just go with the flow.
"Brother Shitou, you have a keen eye. I do need your help!" Xiao Hai said, "I heard you completed the task this morning. You know my abilities well. Asking me to dig 100 ores would be worse than asking me to die! So I'm asking for your help!"
“…” Chen Shi didn’t expect it to be this.
In the past, Xiao Hai always exchanged the cafeteria batter and nutrient solution that he didn't like to eat for Dali to help him mine. Why did he suddenly think of changing people?
"Brother Shitou, I won't let you suffer any loss. I know that mining requires strength. As long as you help me, I will give you all my food!"
Seeing that Chen Shi didn't respond, Xiao Hai continued:
"I asked the waiter to give you more food, a full bowl, and double the nutrient solution! Dali doesn't offer this!"
Chen Shi glanced at the three people and said tentatively: "The conditions are very good, but..."
"No buts! Brother Shitou, anyone who doesn't do this sure-win business is a fool!"
Chen Shi didn't know how to refuse, so he brought the person to Su Yanxi and conveyed Xiao Hai's words to her in detail.
"Fool?" Su Yanxi's eyes lightly swept over Xiao Hai and the other two.
"Yes, Brother Nian, that's what they said!" Chen Shi seemed to have found a backer, and his voice was very loud when he complained.
"I have something else to do this afternoon, so I'm not interested in your batter and nutrient solution." Su Yanxi said indifferently, "Do you have any objections?"
After saying this, he looked at the three people calmly.
"...No." Xiao Hai was startled by Su Yanxi's eyes.
The man in front of him spoke softly and was not angry, but Xiao Hai sensed a look of condescension on his face. The aura of a superior was so strong that he dared not even breathe loudly.
"Well, take care." Su Yanxi nodded with satisfaction, let Chen Shi enter the room, and locked Xiao Hai and the other two outside the door.
The slamming stone door almost made Xiao Hai lose his nose.
He frowned and suddenly realized.
"That's not right! Why would I be afraid of him?!"
Chen Shi and Shen Yunian had no background or connections, yet they dared to refuse his request?! He wanted to see what they were going to do this afternoon!
Xiao Hai became stubborn and hid in the corner waiting for the two to leave.
The two friends were puzzled: "Brother Hai, why are we hiding here? Aren't we going to mine? Later, all the orders will be filled and we will have to mine alone!"
"No rush, just hire someone to dig the same thing up tonight."
After hearing what Xiao Hai said, the two friends were still a little worried.
It is impossible for Dali to dig out the share for three people in one night. Xiaohai has someone to back him up, and they are just small miners with no strength. If they fail to complete the task, they will be beaten.
"Brother Hai, how about this? Let's go back and let Dali help you dig..."
"You're a bunch of cowards! If you want to go back, go back! Leave me alone!" Xiao Hai kicked both of them.
"Thank you, Brother Hai." The two friends were not hurt by the kick. After getting the promise, they smiled and ran away faster than anyone else.
Xiao Hai: ...
There is no one he can rely on at critical moments, he has to rely on himself!
After his friends left, he soon saw the two of them go out and quietly followed them.
…
Su Yanxi discovered a large forest on the edge of the mining area. As a student of the Department of Agriculture, he would definitely explore it when he got to the wild.
After her nap, Chen Shi happened to come to see her, so she took him with her. Chen Shi was very obedient and didn't ask any questions. He just did what she asked him to do. He was a good little brother.
The two men each carried a cloth bag and walked towards the woods.
The woods were overgrown with vines and weeds, and no one had ever set foot there. There wasn't even a path, so the two had a very hard time walking.
Not to mention that Su Yanxi had no shoes, and her bare feet stepped on the ground mixed with gravel, weeds and branches. Even the hardest skin was cut by several small cuts, and the pain made her hair stand on end.
She gritted her teeth, picked a few large leaves to wrap the soles of her feet, and then tied them around her ankles with tough vines to tighten them, making a pair of simple straw sandals to add a little fragile protection to her scarred feet.
Pushing aside the branches, she marked the distances between each tree. After walking for a long time, she saw nothing but bare tree trunks and the shade of trees above her head that blocked out the sunlight.
Time slipped away quietly, and Su Yanxi's patience slipped away with it. The longer the time went on, the more pressure the gloomy space and depressing green shade brought to her.
There is not even a bird in this huge forest!
She stopped and turned to look at Chenshi. He didn't look like he was giving up or getting impatient, as if he really believed that she would find something good in the woods.
Su Yanxi was also very unwilling to return empty-handed, so he continued to move forward with his last bit of patience.
"Live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. There must be something in this forest!"
With Su Yanxi's persistence, they finally walked out of the woods and came to a wide slope. The broken land was slightly slanted, with ankle-high grass growing on it, and patches of golden wheat ears bent with fatigue in between.
Reflecting the setting sun, the crimson sky and the golden slopes met in a line. The breeze blew gently, and the hair of the two people fluttered. The ears of wheat nodded at them repeatedly, as if welcoming their arrival.
"This is wild wheat! We have something delicious!" Su Yanxi rushed into the wheat field, greedily harvesting the bountiful harvest that he had encountered after a long wait.
Chen Shi didn't know what wheat was, so he followed Su Yanxi's example, breaking the wheat ears and putting them into a cloth bag.
After a while, a small gap appeared in the wheat field, and the two men's cloth bags were filled to the brim.
Su Yanxi felt a little reluctant that she couldn't harvest all the food in one go. She also knew that one can't become fat in one bite.
"Come back next time. This place is rarely visited and Xiaomai is safe." Su Yanxi made the final decision and returned with Chenshi the same way.
The cave was small, so the two could only hang the wheat ears in the room. After doing all this, Su Yanxi fell on the stone bed and sighed:
“This is much harder than mining.”
"But once the wheat is dried and ground into flour, we can bake bread and eat it! Stone, good times are coming for us!"
Chen Shi didn't know what the scones smelled like. He just secretly smelled the wheat, and it was just an ordinary plant smell. The wheat ears were very prickly, and they would probably taste prickly too. But even though he knew nothing, he was still infected by Su Yanxi's emotions.
Brother Nian said, "Good days are coming," which he had never said before.
He was the son of a native miner, and was abandoned as a redundant one because his family had many older brothers and enough young and strong men. Nian Ge was a little orc who suddenly appeared on the mining planet for some unknown reason. The two little boys, isolated from the whole world, gritted their teeth and struggled to grow up from the cracks in the rocks. When they finally grew up, they found that their days were foreseeable.
They did nothing but dig, and if they didn't dig enough they would be beaten. Amid the sound of "bang bang" day after day and the brutal whipping of the managers, their edges were smoothed out.
Brother Nian doesn't talk much, and he doesn't talk much either. They just bury their heads in work to numb themselves, but suddenly, he found that Brother Nian seemed to have changed.
There was suddenly light in his eyes.
Is it because of that master? Are their good days really coming?
"Brother Nian! Let's live a good life!" Chen Shi choked a little. He couldn't bear to hear this and was afraid it was just a dream.
He didn't know what a good day was, but it was definitely not the present day.
*
Xiao Hai followed the two men for an entire afternoon and was hit countless times by branches. He thought there were some treasures in the woods, but he found that the two men had found a meadow and were pulling weeds.
Xiao Hai: ...If I had told him earlier, he wouldn’t have come. He would have wasted an entire afternoon!
Xiao Hai was almost mad with anger. He cursed as he returned along the mark on the tree. During the journey, he was hit by various branches and vines. He struggled in the woods for an entire afternoon, with many small scars on his face and arms. He would rather go mining than suffer this torture.
The bad luck was not over yet. When he got home and wanted to ask Dali to help him with mining, his father told him that there was an accident in the mine. When Dali was mining, the mine suddenly collapsed and people were trapped under the rocks. Their life or death was unknown.
"Ah?!" Xiao Hai felt that he was extremely unlucky.
He hadn't dug a single ore today, and was just waiting to hire Dali to work. Now something happened to Dali, what was he going to do?!
"You little bastard, you've been out playing all day. Your two friends all knew to come back and dig for minerals, but you didn't dig a penny! I'm going to beat you to death!" Xiaohai's father picked up a piece of ore and threw it at Xiaohai, but Xiaohai dodged it with his agility.
Xiao Hai's father was furious. "Aren't you good friends with those two? Let them dig with you!"
Xiao Hai was kicked out of the house and crawled and ran towards the mining area, where he met two of his friends dragging ore out of the mine.
"Great!" Xiao Hai stepped forward to stop the two of them. "You guys have finished digging, and I haven't even started. I can only rely on your help tonight!"
Xiao Hai originally thought that if the two of them helped him mine, he could dig 100 black crystal ores in one night. Although it would be tiring, he would definitely meet the target and it was a sure thing. However, his two friends rejected him.
"Brother Hai, I'm sorry, I twisted my waist while mining, so I may not be able to help you."
"Brother Hai, my mother told me to go home for dinner. If I don't go back, she will beat me to death. I have to go first."
The two bad friends slipped away in the blink of an eye, and Xiao Hai was stunned.
Would I die if I helped him?
Little did he know that his two friends were still complaining about him behind his back:
"You treat me like a fool, not digging for yourself, but going out to play in the middle of the afternoon!"
"That is to say, now that Dali is gone and no one is helping with the mining, who would be in the mood to help others? I'll just have a good rest and complete my share tomorrow and be thankful!"
Xiao Hai stood in the cold wind in a daze. He thought he had been very good to his two friends. He never left them without a bite of delicious food and drink. He also paid the most for hiring Da Li to dig the mines. When the two of them put together to make a bowl of batter, he never said anything.
Now we are just helping him mine to save the day, but the two of them are running away as if they have encountered the plague, faster than anything else. It is impossible to say that I am not heartbroken.
After thinking about it, the only people who can help him now are Chen Shi and the others.
Xiao Hai went straight to Su Yanxi's door. He knew that she was the one who could make the decision.
The door opened from the inside and was about to close, but fortunately he was quick enough to hold the door open and slip into the cave.
What he saw was a field of withered and yellow grass, and Xiao Hai was speechless.
Are these two children? Playing house?
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