novelraw Chapter 531 Still Needs to Collect Baskets
Chapter 531 Still Needs to Collect Baskets
Qin Bi was a young lady from a noble family. While she didn't live a life of luxury, she certainly didn't lack for food or clothing.
At this moment, Qin Bi squatted by the cool stream. The stream was shallow. She picked up a few snails and examined their quality. The shells were hard and the shell patterns were smooth. The snails she picked up were of different sizes and looked very good.
Qin Bi smiled and said, "I want these snails myself, I won't give them to anyone."
After saying that, Qin Bi was stunned.
She had said the same thing when she was a child in her previous life. She didn't understand it when she was young, but she realized it when she grew up. It was because she had an extreme distrust of her parents and was worried that they would give things away.
In her previous life, she had a pair of cowardly, people-pleasing parents.
She shouldn't think about it anymore. This life is good. Her father and brothers can stand up for her, and even her stepmother is not someone to be trifled with. She can also keep her family from contacting her. That's enough. Why think about the past life?
Qin Bi's tears rolled down her cheeks, feeling wronged; she had suffered injustice in her previous life.
With her parents not protecting her, it's hard for Qin Bi to be a coward with her personality.
Being a coward is something you're born with. Trying to turn a strong person into a coward is futile. Even in this life, Qin Bi still feels wronged. Qin Lang and Lin Yao noticed this as soon as they looked up, and Qin Lang rushed over to comfort her.
"Sister," Qin Lang asked, "What's wrong?"
Qin Lang didn't even dare to wipe Qin Bi's tears; he was so distracted that the more he tried to comfort her, the more she cried.
"It's nothing," Qin Bi smiled helplessly, "My mind is not in control of my spirit."
Qin Lang stayed with Qin Bi for a while. During this time, Lin Yao moved some rocks and placed them in the small stream. Qin Bi saw this and called Qin Lang to help her step on the rocks and collect snails from the water.
The snail that eats food is different from ordinary snails; it is clean and there are few aquatic plants in the streams during winter.
They scooped up a handful and put them in the basket. After working for a while, Qin Bi, Qin Lang, and Lin Yao finished scooping up this section of snails. They then moved the basket around a bit. There were quite a few snails in the water, and they actually managed to fill a basket.
Qin Bi was in a great mood, and she put her past life out of her mind.
I don't know how this basket was woven, but it doesn't leak. Lin Yao and Qin Lang put some water in the basket to prevent the snails from dying. Only now did Qin Bi truly appreciate the benefits of saving money. This basket is indeed very good.
"I still have to collect baskets when I have time!" Qin Bi said.
"We'll have to wait until after the Crimson Flame Festival," Lin Yao said. "Will the Crown Princess also be going?"
Qin Bi nodded: "Go."
Lin Yao was momentarily dazed. The young prince followed the princess, especially the young prince Rong Chi.
There were also snails in the stream. Qin Bi took out another large basket from her storage bag. Why? Because there were also shrimp and small fish in the stream. She caught them all, put some water in the basket, and the basket was full again.
Lin Yao and Qin Lang picked up some leftovers, and each of them found three to five catties of snails.
"Qin Bi doesn't want this anymore," Lin Yao and Qin Lang laughed. Qin Bi's greed wasn't because she was greedy; it was mainly because she had children at home, and Qin Bi doted on her children—that much was undeniable.
Perhaps because Qin Bi was once predicted by a sorcerer to be childless in this life, she dotes on children exceptionally.
Lin Yao and Qin Lang were both dumbfounded. In the dead of winter, Qin Bi had found quite a few spiritual mushrooms. You know, even luck seems to be biased! Lin Yao even wondered who had the maximum luck value!
This trip to the small space in the Beast Realm has been quite fruitful.
In the following days, Su Shizi's team and Qin Tan's team dug up everything edible they could find, like scraping the ground. There were quite a few sweet potato vines, but not every vine had a spiritual sweet potato underneath.
Go ahead and dig them up one by one. They're all here to collect things in the small space of the monster realm, so what's the difference between digging them up and digging them up?
On a lucky day, one can dig up a small basket of spirit sweet potatoes, which is about fifty in number. On a bad day, one can only dig up a dozen or so spirit sweet potatoes.
Even so, the third son of the concubine and Jiang Xu were content.
The boy's face flushed: "I dug up quite a lot."
The young master of the Duke of Su's mansion exclaimed, "You call this a lot? You've only dug up a few." Then, the young master of the Duke of Su's mansion began to show off, how many of this one he had dug up, how many of that one he had dug up. He could show off the spirit sweet potatoes, but he couldn't show off the little sweet radishes.
Why? Because I don't have much food left.
"I never would have guessed," Qin Xun said to Qin Tang. "The Su State Duke's mansion is full of foodies."
Qin Tang said, "Foodies are lucky."
That's true," Qin Xun nodded. If he wasn't lucky, he wouldn't be with them. The luck of the two groups combined was incredible, and everyone was in a great mood, beaming with joy.
Qin Bi remained silent, her eyes fixed on the plants on the ground. She dug up the small sweet radishes, then dug up the vines. Under almost every vine, there were several spirit sweet potatoes.
Yes, it's not one spiritual sweet potato per vine, but several spiritual sweet potatoes growing on one vine.
Qin Bi dared not utter a sound. She dug one up and threw it into her storage bag. The more she dug, the more enthusiastic she became. Rong Yang and Rong Chi liked to eat spiritual food, and the more spiritual sweet potatoes she dug, the happier the children would be.
Other cultivation teams aren't blind either; they dug up the vines and searched for them as well.
I took a hoe and dug, but I didn't find anything.
That's really strange.
"Digging for fun?"
"Those who come to the small space in the demon beast realm are all here to collect things."
Therefore, it's impossible to dig up vines to play with.
Undeterred, the team dug at every vine they saw, but found nothing. They gave up and left. Then, another team saw the vines being dug and started digging, but found nothing there either.
After Su Shizi's group and Qin Tan's group had dug up most of the vines, Qin Bi said, "Let's go back."
Su Shizi and Qin Tan discussed it for a moment, and Qin Tan said, "Let's dig up some more things and go back in the afternoon."
It wasn't even noon yet, and upon hearing this, the second young master Su and his companions naturally wanted to collect as much as possible, so they hurriedly ran off. Qin Bi stopped looking for anything; she was tired, and she had already collected quite a lot.
In order to collect more items, no one ate lunch.
The third son of a concubine dug up several more sweet potatoes imbued with spiritual energy, which he found incredibly rare and delightful. The young masters of the Duke of Su's mansion didn't look for anything else but the sweet radishes, digging them up and eating them one by one.
Su Shizi said angrily, "You glutton, save up a few."
The young master of the Duke of Su's mansion patted his storage bag: "I've saved it up."
Then, they would dig one out and eat it one by one.
Qin Lang and Rong Yan weren't very old either. Seeing how much they were eating, they dug some up and started eating too. See? They became foodies too! Luckily, Qin Lang and Rong Yan managed to save up some sweet radishes.
We're leaving now, so there's no harm in digging it up and eating it.
If they don't save any, and instead dig one up and eat it all, Qin Tan will have to say something.
In the late afternoon, before leaving the small space of the demon beast realm, Qin Bi said to Prince Su, "This time we relied on luck and gained a lot. When we get back, Prince Su, don't mention that you were on our team, and don't mention how much our team gained."
"Why?" Prince Su asked, puzzled.
Qin Bi glanced at Su Shizi: "I don't want anyone to say that our team's great success is due to her luck."
Prince Su: "..." (End of Chapter)