Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 167 - 138 Accident_2

Chapter 167: Chapter 138 Accident_2

And that pouch full of Ordinary Pearls wasn’t the best thing to take back at this time either. If people knew one place had so many treasures, both Monkey Brother and I would be in danger.

This bag of Pearls, I’ll have to forsake.

The peaches too, I’ll forsake for now.

The tea leaves... can’t forsake, this was the best opportunity to collaborate with Shopkeeper Cui, to rely on powerful backing. As just a farming household, no matter how much money we make, we can’t protect it. And mother is even less able to protect it.

So, she put those four big Pearls into a pouch. Then she took out the pouch with Ordinary Pearls, picked a few that were slightly better in quality, and put them into her bosom. She still needed to bring some Pearls back just in case. Then she put these two pouches into a backpack and secured it.

She went to a mountain side next to Cave Sky Pool, where a crevice went into a hole. She stuffed the bag into it, then found a rock of roughly the same size to plug it up. She said to Monkey Brother and White Wolf who followed her, "Remember this, it’s our treasure hiding spot."

Yixiu then stuffed ropes, some tools, a few flint stones, and two cotton-padded jackets into another backpack, and placed it in a groove under another huge rock; this place was higher in elevation, wouldn’t get wet in the rain, and was also more hidden. Coming here in the future would mean less to carry.

After finishing these tasks, Yixiu returned to the Peach Grove, strapped a four-shoulder bag carrying two torches onto White Wolf, loaded the lotus seeds and young tea leaves into Monkey Brother’s backpack, and the tea vine leaves into her own backpack.

She took one reluctant look at the peach branches broken off by Monkey Brother, then looked around fondly, before leading a monkey and a wolf on the journey back.

She was worried her family was looking for her, otherwise she would have stayed a few more days.

As Yixiu left the Peach Grove, she turned around and saw the little squirrel with a necklace was still following her. When Yixiu looked back, the squirrel timidly stopped and gazed at her.

Yixiu smiled, went over and picked it up, saying, "Darling, I can’t bear to leave you either. But I can’t take you out there, it’s too dangerous, Cave Sky Pool is the true Imaginary land of joy and plenty. Wait for me, I will come to see you again."

After saying this, she also kissed its little nose, gently placed it on the ground, waved goodbye, and left with a monkey and a wolf.

Yixiu, biting her lip with feet so sore she could hardly stand, tears streaming down her face, said to White Wolf, "Uncle Wolf, could you carry me? I really can’t walk anymore. Once I’ve rested, I’ll walk on my own."

White Wolf, already annoyed by Yixiu’s nagging, saw her pleading and swallowed his pride to let her ride on his back.

Yixiu shoved the torches in her backpack to one side and climbed on. Riding on the pack wasn’t bad; it wasn’t slippery, and it didn’t chafe too much.

She rode on White Wolf’s back for all but the steepest ascents and descents, wherever the path was smooth.

This way, their pace quickened considerably.

Because both the wolf and Fierce Red Monkey could see objects even in very dim light, they didn’t need to light torches in the long mountain cave, which also saved some time.

Yixiu was now anxious to get home, fearing they wouldn’t make it before dark, which would worry her family.

Hiding the treasures had delayed her, and walking slowly before that also lost time. Fortunately, now that she was riding on White Wolf’s back and moving faster, perhaps they could still make it home before nightfall.

They reached the longest tunnel, where the light grew dimmer as they progressed. In the depths, Yixiu couldn’t see anything and could only hear Monkey Brother and White Wolf’s footsteps, along with the sound of dripping water.

Suddenly, Monkey Brother called out twice as if he had stopped, and White Wolf stopped too. Yixiu’s heart tightened; there was nothing scarier than knowing you were in danger but not knowing what the danger was. She instinctively crouched down and held onto White Wolf’s neck.

She heard a hissing sound coming closer, and Monkey Brother started fighting something. White Wolf suddenly leaped, throwing Yixiu to the ground, and joined the fray.

Yixiu curled up against the damp cave wall, seeing nothing, with only the hissing, the sound of blows, and the cries of the monkey and wolf to listen to.

She bit her lip hard, afraid to make any noise that might attract the creature to her.

Suddenly, a slick entity brushed against her, and immediately coiled around her, constricting tighter and tighter. She screamed in terror, guessing it must be a large snake. The snake’s tail was winding around her, while its head fought with Monkey Brother and White Wolf. As they fought, she was shaken about.