Chapter 87

87. Chapter 87: Stealing the Beam and Replacing the Pillar

At this moment, the box placed in front of the mother and daughter contained gold and silver jewelry, agate, jewelry, amber, coral jade, night-luminescent pearls, and so on.

Every single one was a valuable thing.

"Last time I fell, it was ginseng; this time it's a box of gold, silver, and jewelry..." Jiang Wei looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao, "Why is your luck so good?"

She hadn't heard that injecting gene modification liquid could make a person's luck better...

Jiang Xiaoxiao was crying without tears. She didn't know either...

She was living a good life in the modern era, didn't stay up late, didn't die suddenly, and suddenly transmigrated to this kind of ghost place for no reason... Could this be God making up for her?

"Then... what should we do? Mom, are we going to take this box of gold and silver treasures?" Jiang Xiaoxiao said helplessly. This thing didn't look like it was buried by an ordinary person.

"Since we met it, naturally there is no reason not to take it." Jiang Wei glanced at her and waved her hand, directly collecting the box of gold and silver treasures into the space.

"Is this really okay..." Jiang Xiaoxiao was still a bit worried. Would the owner of this box of gold and silver treasures come to find trouble in the future?

But then she thought, this is a world in a novel, and even the story plot is fictional. No matter what is in it, it doesn't really exist, so taking this box of gold and silver treasures should be fine.

Moreover, her mother is the female lead in the original work, with a protagonist halo. Once this thing falls into her hands, no one can take it away no matter what. Even if it causes trouble, she can solve it smoothly with her protagonist halo!

Jiang Xiaoxiao gradually felt relieved.

Jiang Wei said: "However, we can't come to this place again..."

She looked at the several ice makers still running nearby. She had to find another place next time. This mountain was not as safe as she imagined. Although the villagers wouldn't go up the mountain, maybe some outsiders would.

This box of gold and silver treasures was the best proof.

Looking at the rust on the curved knife, these things should have been buried here for five or six years. The time was not long, not short, but the owner of the things was very likely to come up the mountain to find them. They should also try to go up the mountain at night as little as possible in the future.

Jiang Wei rolled her eyes, threw the two sweet potatoes she had just taken out into the bottom of the pit, and then covered them tightly with soil.

Jiang Xiaoxiao saw Jiang Wei's approach, froze for a moment, then realized it, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

As mentioned before, sweet potatoes were not yet available in this era and would only be introduced to the country after the Ming Dynasty. Before that, sweet potatoes only appeared in small countries in the West.

She remembered that in the setting of this novel, the "Silk Road" on the sea also had a certain degree of prosperity and development. Through ships, local merchants not only had close business dealings with merchants in the Western Regions but also had certain trade dealings with some overseas countries.

She remembered that in the middle and late stages of the novel, the female lead once went to sea with a large maritime merchant fleet and rescued a foreign beauty with blonde hair and blue eyes near the Western coast... cough, of course, this is another story for the male lead.

On the way back to the sea, they also passed by island countries such as the Eastern Sea Islands and Luzon.

When the merchant fleet landed on the island, the female lead discovered crops such as sweet potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and chili peppers on the island. After this time, the crops piled up like mountains in her space finally saw the light of day.

Jiang Xiaoxiao remembered that the female lead also brought back sunflower seeds that were not in her space. In the families of this era, people used animal oil, and the sunflower seeds brought back by the female lead were not only drought-resistant, salt-tolerant, and easy to plant, but also could be used to extract oil.

Sunflower seeds had a very high oil yield, and the extracted oil was golden, clear, and transparent, with a fragrant smell, which caused a great sensation at the time. She was also therefore noticed and rewarded by the imperial court.

It was also from then on that the oil extracted from sunflower seeds entered the homes of many ordinary people, and people no longer had to eat clear boiled wild vegetables every meal because they couldn't afford lard.

Of course, these are all later stories.

If the owner of the box came to find it one day in the future and found these two sweet potatoes, he would definitely think that the overseas merchant fleet passed by here and dug away his things, so he wouldn't suspect the mother and daughter.

Not long after,

Therefore, these sweet potatoes that only appeared in the West suddenly appeared here, and the owner of the box would definitely not suspect them.

Not long after, Jiang Wei filled in the pit that she had spent a lot of effort to dig, stepped on it with her feet, and didn't leave a trace.

Although she felt sorry that she couldn't eat those two sweet potatoes, for the sake of future safety, Jiang Xiaoxiao would rather not eat these sweet potatoes.

The night grew darker, but the crescent moon overhead became brighter.

The bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground, and even without a flashlight, Jiang Xiaoxiao could see a large open space ahead.

It was getting late, and the sound of the ice maker gradually stopped.

Jiang Wei opened the ice storage tank and collected the ice cubes inside into the space one by one.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the ice cubes made by the ice maker, crystal clear, and could vaguely see the cold air rising under the moonlight.

Under normal circumstances, an ice maker can make 150 to 200 ice cubes. These ice makers only made thousands of ice cubes tonight, but it was far from enough for transportation to the Capital.

According to her understanding of her mother, tonight should be the last time to use the ice maker to make ice on the mountain. For the sake of safety in the future, she would definitely not go up the mountain in the middle of the night.

But the noise of the ice maker was really too loud. If she didn't go up the mountain in the middle of the night, where could she use it?

For this, Jiang Wei's countermeasure was to dig a cellar at home.

"Dig a cellar?" Hearing this method, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but freeze.

At this moment, she was already walking home with her mother. The silver-white frost covered the road they were walking on, so there was no need to use a flashlight on the way back.

"Dig the cellar deeper, and it can also isolate the sound." Jiang Wei said slowly, "We can also use it as an excuse, claiming to the outside world that the cellar is used to store the finished ice cream and snow cakes. Otherwise, when that Young Master Jiang comes to pick up the goods, I take out so many preserved snow cakes and ice cream at once, it will also arouse people's suspicion. The cellar can help us cover everything."

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement: "This method is good."

The cellar is equivalent to a modern refrigerator, waterproof, moisture-proof, and dry. It can not only store grain for a long time but is also quiet and can almost isolate the sound of the outside world.

In some wartime periods, people also relied on tunnels or cellars to avoid gunfire, and the safety factor was absolutely high!

When they arrived home, it was getting late, and the mother and daughter went to sleep after a simple wash.

But perhaps the impact of that box of gold and silver treasures was too great, and Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't sleep for a long time.