"If we cut down more trees, it will depend on you to help us settle down sooner. I will go with your sister-in-law Xia to find the rope. You arrange for people to cut down the trees, and we also need to leave some people here in the cave and slaughter the cow."
Village Chief Lin nodded. "Sister-in-law, are we going to take a raft south?"
An Shuyi said, "Yes, we guessed that this rain wouldn't stop for at least half a month, and we didn't know how deep the water would be by then, so we made the rafts so we could go south by raft."
"Okay, I'll go arrange it right away!" Village Chief Lin hurriedly went to discuss it with the others, and he also thought that his sister-in-law's idea was feasible.
"Eldest son, second son," An Shuyi turned to her sons, "take good care of Xiao Wu and the other children today. We'll make medicine for Xiao Wu later. Your village chief uncle can cook porridge, so go and get some. I'm going out with your Aunt Xia to find some things, and we won't be back until noon."
“Especially the third and fourth brothers, since your eldest and second brothers are busy, you are responsible for taking good care of the younger ones, such as the fifth brother. If anything happens to them, I will chop you up.”
"And Zhao and Wu, take good care of your children. It's too cold. I have some fabric, so you can make two outfits for the children. Your Aunt Xia has needles and thread; you can go and get them later."
The eldest son nodded and said, "I understand, Mother. Don't worry, I'll take good care of them."
An Shuyi nodded. She wasn't entirely at ease with her other sons, but she trusted her eldest son completely. "Then I'll leave them to you." With that, she hurried off to find Xia Hua.
Today, the two of them planned to go somewhere else, perhaps a bit further away. Behind their mountain, there was another high mountain where she could clearly see green plants. This time, she wanted to find saplings, tea trees, anything that could be sold.
However, going down the mountain and then climbing back up would take them a lot of time, especially with the heavy rain pouring down. The two of them carried baskets on their backs and headed down the mountain. Because it was downhill, they made it quickly.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they found a relatively flat spot. The two of them took out a simple tent, opened it, and secured it in the heavy rain before entering the tent. Then they pulled off the bags they were carrying and took off their clothes.
Xia Hua opened the shopping mall and bought two sets of thermal underwear for the two of them, followed by two pairs of cloth pants. They wore the padded jackets made by her daughter-in-law on top, but not the padded skirts. These were all taken from the warehouse and were clean. Finally, they put on raincoats and a pair of rain boots.
This way, even if it rains heavily, they won't get wet. It's still spring now. Before, because of the drought, the weather was abnormal. Even in winter, it was unbearably hot. But now it's different. After the rain, the weather is starting to get colder.
They're not young anymore; they can't prioritize style over warmth, or they'll catch a cold and suffer the consequences.
After everything was settled, the two ate breakfast, and Xia Hua packed up the tent and started climbing the mountain. Each of them carried a hoe, because they had left their knives in the carriage. When they were escaping, they didn't even need the carriage, so the knives were gone.
Although the two mountains are only a short distance apart, this mountain is clearly very different from the previous one. The previous mountain was a desert with no green trees at all except for withered ones, but this mountain has small grasses at its foot, even though they are withered.
By the time we reached the halfway point, the grass had turned green, and the leaves on the trees were also green. After the rain these past few days, they looked especially vibrant.
An Shuyi said to Xia Hua beside her, "Hua Hua, let's start looking from here. Whatever it is, as long as it looks useful, you can dig it up."
Xia Hua nodded in agreement. She started looking for saplings, tea trees, and flowers, and sometimes she also watched the comments on her live stream.
These past few days, due to the heavy rain, she has been live streaming almost every day. She has already earned several million yuan, but that doesn't amount to much cash, so she will live stream whenever there is a suitable opportunity.
The two searched together, which was not only safer, but also allowed them to talk sometimes. Looking at the saplings in front of them, An Shuyi stepped forward and placed her hand on one. It was Phoebe zhennan wood, worth five taels of silver. There were a few more nearby, which she dug up and put in the warehouse to sell when she got back.
Before we'd gone far, we spotted another tea tree nearby, a Tieguanyin tea tree, priced at 500 taels. This one's good too, even though it's not as expensive as the original Da Hong Pao tree. We dug it up and put it in the warehouse.
Later, she dug up several other saplings, tea trees, and flowers, but they were all ordinary. She dug them up and sold them directly. Seeing that it was getting late, she figured that the tea tree would allow her to buy more items in her trading system.
"Huahua, we should go back now!" We still have to go down the mountain and then climb back up, which will take quite a while.
"Here you are!" Xia Hua ran over from a distance and handed her something. "Shu Shu, take a look, what kind of bird is this?"
An Shuyi glanced at the bird in her hand. "Huahua, you still want to keep a bird?" As she asked, she placed her hand on the bird. "Red-bellied pheasant, not bad, quite precious."
Xia Hua rolled her eyes at her, "What's wrong with your brain? Do I look like someone who raises birds? I'd be more like someone who eats birds. Hurry up, you've only told me this bird is precious, you haven't even mentioned how much silver it costs!"
"So you were going to sell it!" An Shuyi exclaimed in realization. "Why didn't you say so earlier? I thought you were going to raise it. Five hundred taels of silver, isn't that a good amount?"
“There are quite a few,” Xia Hua handed the bird to her. “Sell them quickly. I found this bird on the ground. I guess the rain was too heavy and it couldn’t fly, so it could only hide in the grass. Now we can have one more thing to sell in the future.”
An Shuyi clicked on the "sell" section and sold the bird directly. Neither of them knew how to raise animals, nor how to care for them. This bird was worth some money, so they sold it to save its life. After all, with such heavy rain, the little bird would definitely die in a few days.
“Let’s go back first and come back tomorrow. I still have a lot of saplings in my warehouse, but they don’t look very valuable. You can keep them in your own warehouse and sell them when you get back.” Xia Hua said, taking out the saplings from her warehouse.
“Okay, I’ll sell them when I get back.” An Shuyi took the saplings and put them in the warehouse. The two of them then started to go down the mountain. It wasn’t until it was almost dark that they returned to the cave. Actually, they could have arrived earlier, but they were delayed because they needed to change clothes and eat.
When they returned this time, they only put rope in their baskets and nothing else. After handing the rope to Village Chief Lin, they went back to their resting place to dry their clothes. Fortunately, they didn't take off their thermal underwear; they just wore their morning clothes over them. Although it was cold, they could still manage.
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