C8 The First Bucket of Golden Dream Breaks

Su Zhi took a few steps forward and saw from afar Lee Family boss Li Wangcai, who was squatting not too far away and was unceasingly waving his hoe.

Other than the already married Auntie Li, Second Mother, Third Mother, and Fourth Mother were all carefully half-kneeling as they picked up the black stuff that had been dug out.

Lee Erwa shook his head and walked over, seeing that his face was blushing red, he was actually very happy, he said proudly: "Hmph, you actually ate alone, luckily I have good eyes, and taught me, now our Lee Family has received it, you guys can get lost for a long time!" He boasted about what he had seen here yesterday and then issued an ultimatum. He actually shamelessly kicked someone out to monopolize the place.

But now, with such a large family, how could she bring her two children to fight against him?

However, even if she couldn't defeat her family's overlord, didn't that mean that others couldn't do the same to them as well?

She turned around and left. She went back to stew the remaining boar artemisia. Then, she took the two children and ran towards the big brick house in the village. It was the most elegant house in the village. It belonged to Village Magistrate, Lee Dezheng.

After a while, he tasted the Fungi soup that Su Zhi brought to his doorstep. Under Su Zhi's lead, Lee Dezheng called for many of his tribesmen to carry their hoes and head back into the ravine.

When Lee Family saw that all of the villagers had arrived in groups, he was startled for a moment. But in the end, he was shocked by the hoe they were carrying, and didn't dare to bring up the matter of monopolizing their own group. He obediently holed himself up and dug in a ball, and only occasionally glanced at Su Zhi who was squatting not far away and digging a hole.

The others all looked the same as Su Zhi. Everyone seemed to know how to dig, except for them. They just randomly dug around. The hole was wide, but only a few of them were still intact.

After watching for a while, Madame Li Du could not bear to watch any longer, so she pushed her man aside, allowing him to secretly steal her teacher.

Although Su Zhi kept her head down and kept her hands moving, her ears were sharp. She heard Li Wangcai whispering questions to the villagers, but they didn't like it when they monopolized the village. They didn't lie to him, so they pretended to work until he got anxious and asked Lee Dezheng where Lee Dezheng was.

Pointing at him, he said, "This ditch belongs to everyone in our village. Yet, you brought your wife along in the middle of the night to dig it. At that time, did you not know that we are from the same family?"

"I... This is none of our business, we just saw... " In the end, Li Wangcai was still someone who cared about face. He ate alone and looked bad, but he was also seen by everyone.

After throwing Su Zhi's name out, he didn't have any more words to say. He just curled up on the side and lit up the smoke pipe to blow bubbles of smoke.

At that time, he did indeed see Su Zhi bringing along people from Zhao Family to dig things out. However, at that time, it was not that the people from Zhao Family had no intention to hide it, but rather that they did not have the intention to get to the bottom of it.

Furthermore, she came here to tell them that she found some good stuff yesterday. She didn't even hide the method to dig up the fresh stuff, she even taught them how to cook and eat. Su Zhi was really interesting!

So who was willing to believe in Li Wangcai now?

Listening to Lee Dazhuang's words, Su Zhi lowered her head and smiled with a straight face — it was a bitter smile. No matter what, they gave her the good will to rely on these goods to unearth the first pot of gold.

She dug for a while, then raised her head to look at the mountain valley that was filled with people. Although it was called a ditch here, it was actually a basin shaped hole in the ground, and beneath it was a flat mountain slope with a high slope on all four sides. It extended all the way down to the edge of the mountain range, and beyond it was the Nankou Village that supported the mountain.

She was lost in thought, and the villagers around her all called out to her, telling her to dig a bit more while she was at it. Seeing that everyone was busy digging, she knew that she wouldn't be able to dig anything out today, so she decided to tell Village Magistrate that she would go home to make dinner first.

She suppressed her anger on the way back, knowing that her sister-in-law was in a bad mood. She comforted her, "Sister-in-law, don't worry. Perhaps Brother Xu can sell for a good price!"

Speaking of this, Su Zhi became excited. That's true, now she could only hope that Zhao Jin would bring her good news. Otherwise, she really didn't know what to do.

Coincidentally, before they had even reached the halfway point of their journey, they saw a tall and thin figure slowly approaching from the Pagoda tree at the village entrance. If one were to look carefully, who else could it be but Zhao Jin?

He saw three people in the distance, and they quickly came forward to pick up Su Zhi's knapsack. Seeing that it was only half-filled, his handsome face couldn't help but have a look of surprise.

There was a moment of worry in Zhao Jin's eyes, but he soon recovered. Looking at her fat face, he knew she was worried about her future life. He comforted her slowly, "Well, don't worry, I can still copy books and earn some money to chew."

Su Zhi didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a chill in her heart when she heard him say this. An ominous premonition welled up in her heart as she kept asking about the situation of the sell of the boar's artemisia.

Zhao Jin was walking in front as if he was flying. When he heard her question, his slim figure stopped and explained everything in detail.

In fact, the situation at the market today was not that good either, the fresh goods were really too unique, a black one, and the common people had never seen one before. If it wasn't for the fact that there were people with great courage, they would not have dared to try it, so there were a lot of people who had been guarding the market for a long time, but none of them had dared to buy it.

Until he finished copying a book of poems, it was still a basket full of holes. Even after the price was lowered, no one was interested in selling it.

Some people even questioned him, saying that he shouldn't kill him if he ate too much. With that said, even the person who asked had disappeared.

"Then he didn't sell it?" Su Zhi frowned. Her chubby face was pale, but her nose was red. It was hard to tell if it was because of the wind or because she was sad.

"Silver …" Silver? " Is this silver? Unlike the silver ornaments she had bought in modern times, this one was darker, with faint marks of sweat.

Zhao Jin lowered his head and said embarrassedly, "This is five taels of silver!"

According to the conversion cost of silver and copper in this era, it was only worth fifty copper coins — which was the price of the two bowls of Grass Ash that Su Zhi gave Lee Erwa.

He clenched his hands into fists. He would definitely work hard in the future and try his best to let her and her family live a good life with him!

When they got home, Madam Zhao had already prepared dinner. From her performance, Su Zhi knew that she had long heard about the matter of the ravine behind the mountain. She didn't want to hide it anymore, so after everyone finished eating, she held a short family meeting with the light shining from the sky.

Looking at the situation today, it was not easy to sell it in the market. Speaking of which, Su Zhi remembered that Zhao Jin had previously said that he couldn't sell it, but then who did he sell it to?

Zhao Jin's face suddenly turned red. He cleared his throat and said: "Ahem, I heard it was bought by a servant of a large family. I didn't even ask who exactly it was!"

Su Zhi tilted her head as she looked at him, frowning slightly. There was something fishy going on here!