Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 91 Return Laden with Riches

Chapter 91: Chapter 91 Return Laden with Riches

On the second day, as Xie Changgen and his father were preparing to tidy up the house lent to them by the village, Xie Jiang arrived with several people to help.

After they had been gone for a while, Lu Aijiao also came over with cured meat and glass noodles, offering to help Lu Aimei cook.

Many hands make light work, and they finished cleaning the house and moving in just one day.

The next day, Xie Changgen took the opportunity to go up the mountain alone, and when he returned, he secretly handed Lu Aimei a black wooden box that wasn’t very large. The box had visible traces of mud on the outside, and inside, locked and slightly smaller, was a Zitan Wood Box. In the space between the box and the Zitan Wood Box, it was stuffed full of Yuan Big-Head coins.

"This has been passed down from our ancestors, and everything here will be left to you from now on. Sister-in-law, you just need to keep these things to yourself, no need to tell your husband. I still have a little left with me, and we’ll see how that will be arranged in the future. Don’t take these things out for now. Even if you do, try to take as little as possible. Keep them, they’ll always be worth more later."

"Dad, I understand, you can rest assured," Lu Aimei said, hugging the objects in her arms, feeling as if she was holding a small fortune. After Xie Changgen had left, she carefully took out the Zitan Wood Box and noticed that the bottom was neatly lined with five small yellow croakers.

Upon unlocking the Zitan Wood Box, she found it was divided into two layers. The first layer contained jewelry, an assortment of glittering gold, jade, rubies, sapphires, pearls... bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc., about sixty to seventy percent full; the second layer also held small yellow croakers and Yuan Big-Head coins, similarly filled to sixty or seventy percent.

Lu Aimei’s heart pounded furiously, she didn’t dare to look closely, and quickly covered both the little box and the black wooden box. She couldn’t help but peek outside to see her father-in-law standing about a dozen steps away at the door, smoking. Only then did she pat her chest in relief and begin to look for places to hide them.

It was terrifying, who would have thought that her father-in-law had held onto such an ace up his sleeve. Probably the mother-in-law didn’t know, would she? If she knew, wouldn’t she regret it deeply?

Lu Aimei remembered her father-in-law suggesting not to tell Xie Changgen, and she pursed her lips, trying to suppress a laugh. Was her father-in-law also worried that Xie Changgen might make another foolish mistake? It seemed that his wife’s actions had truly chilled his heart.

Lu Aimei’s mood suddenly lifted.

Indeed, there was always time to reform Xie Changgen. If he persisted in his stubborn folly, she would simply take his children and his money and remarry, hmph! Let him cry when there’s nowhere to cry.

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Lu Aiguo, Xia Yuan, Shitou, and Lu Yun spent a full fourteen days in the mountains before returning.

They would have stayed longer if they weren’t worried that their uncles from the Lu Family would get anxious due to their prolonged absence, and because it was nearing September, which could interfere with Lu Yun’s school day. They almost didn’t want to leave.

The trip yielded not only an extraordinarily rich harvest, but their daily life in the mountains was also luxuriously pleasant. The food and accommodations were especially comforting, and as everyone spent time together daily, their affection for one another grew rapidly.

For example, Xia Yuan had become even more affectionate towards Shitou, chatting and joking with him without the initial strangeness and hesitation.

Although they were a bit tired, everyone was in high spirits. Not having to worry about someone or something annoying suddenly jumping out to disturb them was undeniably a very comfortable feeling.

After the final tally, they found that their biggest harvest was yams, about fifteen thousand jin, followed by chestnuts.

In the depths of the mountain forest, they later encountered two even larger chestnut groves, so in total, they harvested over twelve thousand catties of chestnuts.

Following that were apples and kiwis, each tallying over three thousand catties.

As for the goji berries, they eventually no longer wanted to be constrained to a small area by them, so on the second day they returned to the secret base to collect them. After that, they were so busy they hardly ever took them out to dry, so they still remained semi-dry.

Those weighed over one hundred and fifty catties.

Beyond these were some hawthorn, mountain pears, grapes, plums, watermelons, and papayas, but the yields were extremely limited, with the most being over two hundred catties and the least being around a dozen catties. Some were past their season with few good ones left; some had a bad taste, overly sour and astringent; and others were not yet in season with most still immature.

They also gathered over three thousand catties of various mushrooms, wood ear fungi, and wild greens.

On the mountain, although Lu Yun did most of the labor-intensive work, Lu Aiguo, Shitou, and Xia Yuan were also busy.

Lu Yun’s advantage was very obvious when it came to collecting things over a large area. However, for scatteringly distributed fruits, and for those wild fruits that were a mix of good and bad, her advantage was not so evident. Whenever this happened, it was time for the other three to show their skills.

Even more noteworthy were the piles of game that resembled small mountains, and the considerable number of wild chicken eggs, wild duck eggs, and various bird eggs. There were also the fish from the lake, lotuses, lotus pods, lotus leaves, and lotus roots.

With Lu Yun’s Space Cheating Device, if she encountered these creatures, most of them could not escape. Wild boars, in particular, became more numerous deeper into the mountains. Over the span of the days, the group encountered several groups. Each time, when paths crossed, the wild boars obediently became Lu Yun’s catches.

Carefully counting, there were three to four hundred small game, such as wild chickens, wild rabbits, and wild ducks. Wild boars often lived in groups, usually appearing several at a time, and in total, Lu Yun captured about thirty of them, most of which were plump and robust. An adult boar weighed almost four to five hundred catties, with the largest ones even reaching over seven hundred catties.

The lake was the place where the four of them stayed the longest, for fear of Lu Yun’s destructively efficient harvesting. Except for some lotus roots, lotuses, lotus leaves, and lotus pods that Lu Yun took, the rest, especially the fish, were mostly caught and gathered by Lu Aiguo and Shitou.

Luckily, the fish in the lake were plentiful and naïve, allowing them to catch quite a lot with a single net.

In the end, they harvested over a thousand catties of fish and lotus roots. As for the lotuses, lotus leaves, and lotus pods, there were even fewer.

All these game and fish were kept in their original state in Lu Yun’s space—how they were when they came in, they remained the same. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to process them right in the space with her mind.

But aside from feeling uncomfortable at the thought of gutting those wild creatures, with a hair-raising sensation, the main issue was that her consciousness, although useful in space, could only handle single and very simple steps.

Such as peeling the skin off of something. For example, if a fish needed to be processed, it would have to be done in many steps, slowly.

Even if using her consciousness to work in space wasn’t very tiring, it wasn’t tireless. Plus, her five senses were amplified to the extreme within the space. Bloodied scenes or odors were magnified infinitely, and over time, she simply couldn’t bear it.