Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 477 Koi Little Lucky Star 6

Yun Chu and the other two took three mixed-flour pancakes with them, and they decided not to go back for lunch.

At noon, everyone rested in the valley, and the Yun sisters chose a spot on a bluestone by the stream. Yun Yue pulled three mixed-wheat pancakes from the bottom of a basket, sandwiching chopped pickles. The browned crusts roasted over the fire, emitting a rich, wheaty aroma.

Fifty steps away, the Lin family team was as bustling as a market:

Three or four girls scrambled to untie the water bag and feed Lin Fubao. A silk handkerchief wiped the non-existent biscuit crumbs from the corner of her lips.

The girl in the apricot yellow shirt took out an oil-paper bag and said, "I made these specially steamed sugar triangles for my sister Fubao!" The white dough was filled with low-quality syrup mixed with bran.

Yun Chu saw Lin Fubao take a bite and put it on the stone. The rolling syrup attracted a black swarm of ants.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, carrying the ashes of the charcoal fire towards the sugar triangle -

Ashes like ink specks fell on the snow-white dough. Lin Fubao abruptly stood up, her embroidered shoes accidentally running over the sugar triangles. The sticky syrup coated the ashes and clung to the struggling ants in the cracks of the stone.

The girl in the apricot-yellow shirt exclaimed, "Sister Fubao, the sugar triangle is dirty."

"It's dirty, so it is." Her voice was saturated with honey. "It was originally meant to be shared with the mountain god."

Yun Chu's fingertips moved slightly.

The syrup in the cracks of the rocks suddenly crystallized and hardened, forming amber-like blocks wrapped in ash. The struggling ants shook off the sugar coating and, carrying the crystal blocks in their mouths, filed into the underground cave.

From the other side of the stream came Yun Xia's undisguised sneer: "The Mountain God isn't picky!"

When Lin Fubao heard this, his face flushed and he retorted, "The mountain god is kind and amiable, he won't despise me."

Yun Xia rolled her eyes and ignored Lin Fubao.

Lin Fubao's face was as colorful as autumn leaves.

After Yun Chu and the others finished eating, they continued to wander around in the mountains.

An hour later, Yun Chu found a ten-year-old wild ginseng (Yun Chu planted it in a prop planting pot, planted here two months ago, and in order to prevent other villagers from finding it, Yun Chu also put a concealment talisman on it).

The reason why Yunchu planted a wild ginseng was because his family was worried about the tuition fees for his brothers next year.

With this ginseng, the problem of paying for maintenance can be solved.

Yunyue and Yunxia heard Yunchu's shout and immediately ran to Yunchu.

When they saw that it was wild ginseng, they were very excited (although they had never seen it, grandpa often mentioned that when he was a teenager, grandpa discovered a wild ginseng. Thanks to this wild ginseng, the Yun family built a house and bought a piece of land).

Yunyue immediately took out a small hoe and carefully dug the wild ginseng. After digging for quarter of an hour, she finally dug it out.

Yunxia immediately untied her hairband (the red one) and tied it to the wild ginseng.

Yunyue took out a handkerchief, carefully wrapped the wild ginseng roots, and then hid them in the backpack.

The Beilou Mountains are covered with a layer of dry grass.

Yunyue said, "Let's go home now." Wild fruits and the like are not as important as this wild ginseng.

On the way back through the maple forest, Yun Xia discovered a cluster of rare blood vine fruits hanging on the cliff. The scarlet berries looked like congealed blood in the sunset.

Just as he was about to climb, two older girls from the Lin family team grabbed the vines first.

"Crack! Crash—"

Although the slope is not extremely steep, it is covered with gravel and thorns.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of dead branches and leaves breaking and the shrill screams of the forest grass, the two girls who tried to grab the blood vine fruit rolled down the gentle slope that was not steep but full of rocks like two uncontrollable sacks, along with broken dead vines.

His clothes were torn in an instant, leaving scratches on his arms and cheeks. His ankle seemed to be sprained, and he collapsed in the grass at the bottom of the slope in a miserable state, grimacing in pain and tears streaming down his face.

Dust and fallen leaves were raised, startling a few birds in the woods.

The three sisters of the Yun family suddenly stopped. Yun Yue subconsciously protected the backpack filled with ginseng behind her, while Yun Xia tightly grasped the wooden hook in her hand and looked down vigilantly.

"Ouch! It hurts me so much!"

"My foot! My foot is twisted! Ouch..."

There was a sudden cry of crying at the bottom of the slope.

Apart from the two girls who rolled down and were covered in dust and grimacing in pain, Lin Fubao and the other girls on the slope were also frightened by this sudden change and turned pale and stood there in a daze.

Lin Cao fell to the ground, holding his ankle, howling loudly, and all the momentum he had when he was snatching the fruit just now was gone.

The girl in the apricot-yellow shirt reacted the fastest, quickly calling out, "Sister Cao'er! Chun'er! How are you guys?"

"My feet!" Lin Cao gasped in pain.

The rest of the people went down in a hurry, except Lin Fubao, who stood alone on the slope, staring at Yun Chu and the other two.

She was clearly cursing the three sisters of the Yun family, so why did her own sister fall down? This shouldn't be the case.

Lin Fubao turned his head again and looked at his two sisters at the bottom of the slope, then slowly went down.

Yun Yue subconsciously protected Yun Chu and took a half step back. Yun Xia also tightly gripped the wooden hook and looked at the chaos below the slope vigilantly.

"Sister?" Yun Xia whispered, "Do you want to... do you want to go and take a look?"

Yun Yue quickly glanced at Yun Chu, who was clutching her clothes tightly, with an innocent look on his face. Then he looked down at the treasure (wild ginseng) in the basket, which was tightly covered with hay. He shook his head decisively: "They have enough family members. If the fall is not severe, what can we do to help? We will only cause more trouble."

"That wild ginseng is important. Let's go now while there's so much noise here and no one's paying attention!" She held Yun Chu tightly with one hand and pulled Yun Xia with the other. "Take this small path and go around!"

The three sisters immediately quickened their pace and followed another steeper but closer path. Their figures quickly disappeared into the depths of the layered maple forest, leaving the crying and noise behind them far behind.

When the sun set, the three Yun sisters finally arrived home.

The rich aroma of rice wafted from the kitchen, and several aunts were busy working.

Wang was the first to see them. Just as she was about to complain about why they had been gone for so long, she saw Yunyue's face was serious. She gave her a very covert look and glanced at her backpack.

Wang's heart skipped a beat and she immediately fell silent.

Yunyue calmly pulled Yunchu and Yunxia into her mother's (Ms. Li) room, then gently closed the door.

"Mom, Dad, look!" Yunyue carefully untied the top cover of the backpack under the dim oil lamp, and removed the hay and wild fruits used as camouflage, revealing the carefully wrapped wild ginseng.

Li and Yun Ji, who had just returned from the fields, took a closer look and gasped!

Although it is not very clear under the light, the shape of the tightly packed reed bowl and the long and tough root fibers clearly shows that it is the legendary wild ginseng!

Yun Ji's voice trembled. "Is this... is this really ginseng? Where did you find it? Did no one else see it?"

Yunyue quickly recounted what she had discovered and how she had avoided the Lin family.

"God bless you!" Li clasped her hands together. "This ginseng looks quite old. It's really a lifesaver! Quick, go quietly call your parents and your eldest and second uncles over!"

Soon, the Yun family huddled in the inner room of the third house. The windows were tightly covered with straw curtains, and only a tiny oil lamp illuminated everyone's excited and nervous faces.