Chapter 150
Chapter 150
Jiang Yunsui was suddenly scooped up.
Nanshu was so happy that he lifted her high into the air, but he had overestimated his own strength and underestimated Jiang Yunsui’s “true weight.”
That one lift nearly threw out his poor old back.
“Owww, Little Yunsui, you’re not losing weight, you’re gaining it.”
Little Mushroom glared at him, fuming. “You’re the one with no strength.”
Nanshu refused to admit it. “I’m not arguing with you. I’m going to look for cordyceps.”
But cordyceps were not that easy to find.
Picking out those tiny things from a whole field of grass was genuinely difficult.
After a while, Nanshu rubbed his eyes.
“This is way too hard. I’ve stared until my eyes are going blurry and I still haven’t found a single one.”
Fat Chef deeply agreed.
“Exactly. I’ve been at it all this time, and I’ve only found these five.”
The others were not doing much better.
“Now I finally know why this stuff sells for so much.”
Cordyceps only grew in high-altitude places, which meant only the nomadic tribes on the grasslands could find some.
And they were this hard to locate on top of that.
In this era, transportation was inconvenient, and there were roaming bandits on the grasslands too. It was extremely dangerous.
Bringing these things all the way to the Central Plains to sell really was no easy feat.
“How is it that Little Yunsui can find so many?”
Nanshu muttered as he looked over toward Jiang Yunsui.
He discovered that the little girl was once again huffing and puffing as she dug.
He immediately ran over. “Little Ancestor, stop digging. I’ll do it, I’ll do it.”
His smile was so ingratiating it practically dripped flattery.
She really was a Little Lucky Treasure. Every time they went out, she managed to discover something good.
“You only need to find them. Leave the digging to us.”
Jiang Yunsui was holding a small twig. Without any tools, she could only dig with that.
The adults could use their hands, but it was a bit much for a child.
“I’m super amazing.”
Little Mushroom lifted her chin slightly, looking terribly proud.
“Yes, yes, Little Ancestor, you’re the most amazing.”
And so, very soon, Jiang Yunsui was only responsible for finding them.
“There’s one here.”
“There’s one here.”
“Over here…”
Jiang Yunsui’s clear little voice rang out every so often.
The others immediately hurried over and started digging.
“Good heavens, Little Yunsui’s eyes are incredible.”
Everyone was stunned. What was she, some kind of Human Cordyceps Detector?
Ji Yan’an also raised his eyes toward the little girl bouncing happily around the hillside, a smile flickering through his gaze.
Jiang Yunsui really was amazing at finding cordyceps. Before long, several people digging together still could not keep up with how fast she found them.
So she ended up holding a handful of twigs and sticking them into the ground near the cordyceps as markers.
To her, it was basically like playing.
But searching for cordyceps the whole time was tiring too.
After planting another handful of twigs, Jiang Yunsui looked at the adults sprawled on the ground with their backsides in the air as they dug for cordyceps.
“I’m not looking anymore. I want to rest.”
No one objected.
“Go on, go on. Just don’t run too far.”
Jiang Yunsui answered with a crisp okay, then vanished as her short little legs bounced away.
“She really can run.”
Jiang Yunsui missed Zuozuo Youyou a little. By now, she had already climbed to the top of the hill.
It was a bit cold up there. She picked a handful of pretty little wildflowers and was just about to leave when, from who knew where, a deer suddenly charged out and slammed into her.
Jiang Yunsui: !!!
Was she unlucky again?
With a loud duang, Jiang Yunsui was knocked hard. In her panic, she grabbed onto the deer’s antler.
Crack…
Something fell off.
Holding an antler in her small hand, she smiled awkwardly and asked in a timid, tentative voice,
“Hehe… um, this… can this be stuck back on?”
The deer did not answer her question. It only scraped its hooves against the ground a few times and lowered its head slightly.
It was obvious that it wanted to ram her again.
“I didn’t mean to!!!”
She spun around and bolted.
Halfway up the mountain, Song Jin, who was still huffing and puffing as he dug for caterpillar fungus, paused.
“Did any of you hear something just now?”
Nanshu grinned foolishly as he placed the caterpillar fungus onto a piece of cloth beside him.
“Hear what?”
With this much caterpillar fungus, how much silver would they save?
Song Jin shook his head. “Nothing.”
He must have heard wrong.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yunsui, panicking and taking whatever path she could, ran farther and farther away.
“You were the one who rammed into me first! Why are you being so petty?”
“I’ll give it back to you, okay? Stop chasing me!”
“I’m warning you, don’t push me! Even I’m scared when I lose my temper!”
Those two short little legs of hers were pumping so fast they were practically throwing sparks.
What kind of rotten temper did this deer have? It had rammed into her for no reason, and now that its antler had fallen off, it was blaming her.
Good thing she could run much faster than before.
As Little Mushroom ran, she kept looking back and cursing at the deer, her milky little voice rising higher and higher.
“Stop chasing me!”
“Ow-holy crap!”
She hadn’t noticed the rock up ahead. The moment she stepped on it, she twisted her ankle, lost control, and toppled to the side. And as luck would have it, that side was a slope.
Jiang Yunsui’s mind went completely blank.
The only thing she could think was: thank goodness she’d handed the Golden Eagle Egg to Ji Yan’an while she was digging for caterpillar fungus.
Otherwise, after all this running and falling, the egg inside would have been shaken into a perfectly blended omelet.
“Yo!”
Jiang Yunsui really wanted to snap, yo your dad!
As she rolled downhill, she skillfully hugged her head. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw something bigger than herself rolling down too.
Wasn’t it that deer?
She couldn’t help wanting to laugh. Serves you right!
She was dizzy and disoriented as she tumbled, but Jiang Yunsui didn’t even scream this time.
She was used to it. Totally used to it.
A faint air of resignation spread across Little Mushroom’s face.
Thud…
She hit something and finally stopped.
For a long while, Jiang Yunsui felt as if the world were spinning and couldn’t come back to her senses.
Dazed, she stared up at the blue sky and white clouds.
“Wh-where is this?”
So dizzy.
It felt like something was swaying in front of her.
When the dizziness finally eased a little, several dark shadows overlapped before her eyes and turned into one huge bull’s head.
That pitch-black nose was leaning right toward her face. Jiang Yunsui’s eyes went wide.
The next second, a wet tongue gave her face one huge lick.
Jiang Yunsui: blech…
How could it be so rude?
She hurriedly pushed away the huge bull head that had come over to lick her.
“Blech…”
It stank!
After dry-heaving a few times, she felt the ground tremble slightly. Something bumped into her back.
She turned her head in terror and nearly scared herself into rolling her eyes back.
So… so big.
Jiang Yunsui’s tiny body looked like that of a super-dwarf in front of this yak.
As for the yak’s height and enormous build, to her, it was like a moving mountain.
The wild yak in front of her looked close to two meters tall and weighed more than eight hundred kilograms.
Its head alone looked bigger than she was.
The yak stared at Jiang Yunsui, its upward-curving horns long and sharp.
If it gored her once, wouldn’t it pierce straight through her body?
And those thick hooves: one stomp and her little life would be over.
“D-don’t come any closer, QAQ.”
“You can eat this, you can eat this! Don’t eat me, I don’t taste good, and don’t step on me…”
A certain Little Mushroom was so frightened she trembled all over, desperately stuffing Imperial Flowing Essence Ball after Imperial Flowing Essence Ball into the yak’s mouth as it came closer.
Yak: ???
Yak: !!!
Delicious. More.
Even its tail started swishing happily.