Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Bamboo shoots digging expert
Everyone followed closely to the outskirts of the bamboo forest. As Yun Miao stepped into the bamboo forest, the uncle who provided the incense burner stepped forward, twisted one of the incense sticks with his finger, and a spark immediately came out of the incense head, and it ignited without fire.
The lame old woman shook her head helplessly as she watched the girl disappear into the bamboo forest.
"She's still too young. She fell for your provocation. There aren't that many bamboo shoots for her to dig this season. And there's only two sticks of time... It's really cruel of you, Mr. Tian, to make things so difficult for a mortal girl."
Mr. Tian rolled his eyes. "Don't act like you're such a good person. You didn't warn her, either. Besides, I'm just teaching her not to be too greedy. Greed will lead to great losses. Just consider the bamboo shoots she dug as her salary."
Huo Xin glanced coldly at the cunning old man who deceived the child, and thought to herself: She can buy Yun Miao a bun with her own money later, but she just hopes that Yun Miao will not be too sad after losing.
Fortunately, even if I lose, I will only lose a few bamboo shoots...if Yun Miao can really find bamboo shoots.
After being glared at several times, Tian Laokou turned his head away angrily: These people are quite protective of their children.
At the same time, Yun Miao was quickly opening her mini-map. The mini-map function of this game could only remember the paths she had walked, and the areas she had not walked were all pitch black, waiting to be lit up later.
And just like when the player was resurrected on the spot before, the [Poison Resistance +1] obtained before death would not disappear, but would continue to be inherited. Even if the game was rolled back, the bamboo forest map she had previously lit up and the points marked on the map did not disappear.
Yun Miao immediately found the nearest marking point, carried the bamboo basket sponsored by others, and started digging quickly with a small hoe that was also sponsored.
That NPC named Tian Laokou was truly insidious. One stick of incense lasted half an hour, and two sticks lasted an hour, which was sixty minutes. This meant she had to dig out a bamboo shoot in six minutes to fulfill the bet. If it weren't for the noble cheating skills of a player, there was no way to deal with this treacherous NPC!
Fortunately, Yun Miao has a save file, a punctuated map, and a body that is far superior to that of an ordinary person!
Poor aptitude does not mean a bad body. A physical fitness of 80 points is enough for her to be on par with the average strong man. The best thing is that this game does not have an energy bar setting, which means that players will feel hungry, thirsty, and lose blood, but will never get tired!
So Yun Miao hummed a song while digging out a bamboo shoot buried in the ground with a few "swish".
Dig and dig in the big bamboo forest, dig out the tenderest bamboo shoots and become the biggest winner!
The people outside the bamboo forest could not see the small map. They could only see that after Yun Miao walked into the bamboo forest, he did not rush to dig bamboo shoots, but stopped and stood there as if sensing something.
Just as everyone was puzzled, she suddenly ran a few steps with a clear goal, wielded her small hoe and began to dig. Before most people could even see the tip of the bamboo shoot, she had already dug out a tender bamboo shoot buried deep in the ground!
This good start stunned many people who thought Yun Miao was doomed to lose. Hey... this girl is quite interesting.
Even with a smooth start, no one believed the young woman could win. It wasn't that they looked down on her, but rather that the bet itself was anomalous and the odds of winning were too slim.
How could a normal person possibly dig up ten tender bamboo shoots buried deep in the soil, with only the tips of the shoots sticking out, in such a short time as two incense sticks at this time of year? This was as difficult as digging winter bamboo shoots!
In fact, it is impossible for normal people to do it, but stubborn players can do it.
Then everyone saw that the little girl seemed to have eyes on the soles of her feet. She hardly had to look for anything. She would just run a few steps with a clear goal in mind and then dig bamboo shoots quickly.
"Huh?"
"ah?"
“Wow!”
If everyone thought the first and second bamboo shoots were just the girl's good luck, but as Yun Miao kept throwing the third, fourth, and forearm-long bamboo shoots into the bamboo basket behind her, everyone's eyes began to change.
"How did she find it?"
"She must have buried these bamboo shoots herself beforehand, otherwise how could she find them so accurately?"
"What's so difficult about this? I can just use my spiritual sense to scan it, and even if it's not sticking out, I can dig it up!"
"What's so great about using spiritual sense to find bamboo shoots? I can do it too. The key is that this girl looks like a mortal who hasn't yet absorbed Qi into her body. Even those in the Qi Refining Realm don't have spiritual sense, so it's even more impossible for mortals to have it. How did she achieve such accuracy?"
Some people have different focuses.
"She's quite strong."
"It's not just her strength. Look carefully, she hasn't slowed down swinging the hoe even after the entire incense stick has burned. Doesn't she get tired?"
"Now that you mention it, it seems to be true. This little girl looks thin and leggy, but I didn't expect her to be so extraordinary. No wonder she dared to accept such a bet!"
"Strange, strange... How on earth did they do that..."
As people around him talked, Tian Laokou, who was originally watching the fun, gradually stood up straight and widened his eyes.
"This... How is it possible..."
"Hey, hey." The lame old woman glanced at him and said, "Mr. Tian, please don't do anything unnecessary. I'm watching you."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm not that kind of person!"
Tian Laokou muttered, "Okay, I'm a bit stingy on a daily basis, but even if I were stingy, I wouldn't do anything to a mortal girl. I just find it a little strange... Don't you think it's strange? How did she do it?"
The fat old man looked at the little girl in the bamboo forest with a gleam in his eyes. As his spiritual consciousness in the state of transformation spread out, everything around him was exposed.
The little girl's black hair, woven with a red ribbon, formed into an elaborate braid that fell across her chest. She wore an ill-fitting cyan dress, the sleeves too long covering her hands and the skirt covering her feet. She held a small hoe for digging herbs and a bamboo basket on her back.
Having worked in the bamboo forest for so long, she looked dusty and her braids were much looser. At first glance, she looked like a lively and capable peasant girl. Other than that, he couldn't see any problem.
But for an ordinary mortal girl to achieve this... It's impossible, absolutely impossible, no matter how I think about it, it's impossible...
Old Tian's face was wrinkled, and he felt his thoughts were in a tangle.
"Yan'er, what do you think?"
The lame old woman—Ge Yan—glared at him and said, "If you can't see it, then of course I can't see it either. And I've told you so many times, don't call me Yan'er, it sounds so unfashionable!"
Tian Laokou: "Whenever you change your bad habit of calling me Tian Laokou, I will stop calling you Yan'er."
Hearing this, Ge Yan snorted coldly: "Don't even think about it. As long as you don't pay me back, I will call you Tian Laoshen."
Tian Laokou scratched his ear with his little finger, looking like a scoundrel: "Then shout, it doesn't matter if you call me Tian Sikou, I don't have the money to pay you back anyway."
Ge Yan rolled her eyes in anger. "Old Tian, it's no wonder Senior Brother Qian keeps beating you up like that. You really deserve it! Next time, even if he beats you to death in front of me, I'll pretend I didn't see it!"
Tian Laokou muttered, "Tsk, you're talking as if you would help me if you saw Qian Datou beating me up."
*
"Two incense sticks have arrived!"
The two incense sticks in the incense burner burned out one after another, and the onlookers looked at the bamboo forest in amazement.
And it was under such a watchful gaze that Yun Miao quickly walked out of the bamboo forest, took off his backpack, handed it in front of Tian Laokou, and announced in a domineering manner.
"Ten bamboo shoots, no more, no less. I win, all your buns are mine!"
Tian Laokou stared at the bamboo basket full of bamboo shoots, as if he wanted to make the bamboo shoots disappear, or as if he wanted to slap himself in the face two incense sticks away.
You were greedy and insisted on eating some three-spice buns. Now, the bamboo shoots are gone! And the buns are gone too!
Seeing that the old man didn't say anything, Huo Xin immediately stood beside Yun Miao and said in a slightly cold voice: "Old man, you won't regret it, right?"
"Of course not!"
Tian Laokou immediately stiffened his neck and said, "I accept the bet. It's just a few buns. Here, the stall is right over there. Go and get them yourself!"
Yun Miao immediately pulled Huo Xin happily, turned around and called Hua Po Po and the other two.
"Come on, come on, I'll treat you to some buns!"
Grandma Hua, Guan Dahai and Gao Zhu all followed with a smile.
"Haha, then I'll accept your favor and try the meat buns that even the so-called Xuantian Sect leader loves to eat."
"I'm just hungry."
"This is a five-ounce meat bun. I have to savor it carefully."
Huo Xin and the others were curious about how Yun Miao had managed to gather all ten bamboo shoots so quickly, but they also knew they had only known Yun Miao for less than two days. As the saying goes, the worst thing to do when interacting with people is to talk about superficial things. So, they all tacitly avoided the topic, only jokingly mentioning the crowd's amazement and Old Tian's wrinkled face. The conversation was lively and enjoyable.
As the incident ended, the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, and as they walked away, they enthusiastically discussed with their friends how the little girl had done it.
Everyone was pleased with this unexpected turnaround, except for Tian Laokou, whose face instantly fell as the crowd dispersed. He sat down on a rock by the roadside, his back hunched, and he stared at the ground with dejected eyes. The wind blew up the corners of his clothes, making the old man's back look extremely desolate.
"My buns, the big meat buns I worked so hard to make all morning, I didn't even eat a few myself because I was trying to sell them, and now... they're gone, all gone."
Ge Yan looked at his second brother's strange behavior in silence: "It's just a few buns. Besides, the small amount of money earned from selling buns can't be exchanged for many spirit stones."
Tian Laokou was filled with righteous indignation: "What do you mean by a few buns? Those are a full 125 large meat buns with thin skin and big fillings! Five taels each, so 125 of them would be 625 taels of silver! Although not worth many spirit stones, it can buy a lot of high-quality medicinal herbs in ordinary towns!"
Ge Yan sarcastically said, "In the end, it's because of your greed that you suffered the most. You said you wanted to teach the little girl a lesson, but she ended up teaching you a lesson instead."
Tian Laokou quickly grabbed Ge Yan's sleeve: "Yan'er..."
"I told you not to call me Yan'er! It's so unfashionable!"
Ge Yan's figure flashed, and she appeared a few steps away in an instant. However, as soon as she landed, she felt the weight of her sleeves had not been reduced. Turning her head, she found that Tian Laokou, who had just been sitting on the stone, was now standing next to her, his fat hands still grabbing her sleeves.
Tian Lao smiled with wrinkles all over his face, his face full of flattery: "Junior sister... my most gentle, lovely, and kind-hearted junior sister, you must keep this matter a secret. Don't tell anyone else, otherwise Qian Datou and the others will laugh at me to death!"
Ge Yan snatched back her sleeve with a sneer, kicked Tian Laokou hard, and flew away.
"You're fine, Junior Sister, right? Don't worry, I'm not only going to tell you when I get back, I'm going to tell you a lot!"
Tian Laokou was kicked and sat on the ground. He stretched out his hand to try to stop Ge Yan who was flying away.
"No, Yan'er! Let's discuss this further, Yan'er!"
The author has something to say:
----------------------
Tian Laokou: It’s all gone, the buns are gone, the money is gone, even the dignity is gone, now it’s really all gone...QAQ
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
