Chapter 524: He He Shizi Supports Her
Qin Xun could already imagine that during this Red Flame Festival, they could socialize with cultivation families.
Qin Di called out to a few people: "Hurry up and dig."
Qin Bi stared at the vines growing on the ground, searched first, and made a selection. Vines grew sparsely across this area, quite numerous, and she did not want to dig them one by one, so she walked a bit further before finally choosing one to start digging.
Lin Yao, Qin Xun, and the young illegitimate son of the third branch saw this and naturally had to make a selection too; Qin Di simply picked one and started digging.
The young illegitimate son of the third branch grew anxious. He dug several times but still failed to unearth a spiritual-energy sweet potato. He stood up, looked at the others, and saw that Qin Bi had clearly found one; she was carefully using her hands to brush away the soil.
Lin Yao no longer used the small hoe; the hoe could easily damage the sweet potato.
If it were an ordinary sweet potato, damaging the skin wouldn't matter, but would cultivators care about that? Cultivators all have some family wealth; a spiritual-energy sweet potato with damaged skin is useless.
The young illegitimate son frowned. There were some; it wasn't that there were no spiritual-energy sweet potatoes.
It was just that he hadn't found one. The young illegitimate son paused, then gave a bitter smile. His luck was just bad, so he would have to work harder. He went back to dig at the sweet potato vines nearby.
No more picking. With bad luck, picking was worse than not picking at all.
Qin Bi saw a faint halo flash and vanish on the small sweet potato she had partially unearthed. Her cultivation base was low, and she didn't know much about items with spiritual energy, so she was unsure if this was an Immortal-grade item.
"Lin Yao." Qin Bi called out to Lin Yao, who was digging soil nearby.
Lin Yao stopped digging, stood up, walked over, and squatted beside Qin Bi, his gaze fixed on the unearthed sweet potato. When digging for things, especially food with spiritual energy, everyone was curious whether others had found any, and whether the size was large or small.
"Is this Immortal-grade?" Qin Bi asked.
Lin Yao was a strategist; he wasn't straightforward and wanted to say no.
But this was their Young Master's wife. The words on Lin Yao's lips changed to: "Low-grade Immortal-grade."
Whether it was low-grade or not didn't matter; as long as it was Immortal-grade, it was fine. Qin Bi waved her hand, intending to continue digging: "Go back to your business."
Lin Yao: "..."
Being envious was useless; the Young Master's wife would never give him an Immortal-grade sweet potato. Amazed by Qin Bi's good luck, Lin Yao stood up and prepared to return to continue digging for his own spiritual-energy sweet potato.
It couldn't compare to an Immortal-grade item, but it was still a spiritual-energy sweet potato.
Su He Shizi and Qin Tan's group returned. Su Er Young Master saw them from afar and stopped digging sweet potatoes.
Su Er Young Master ran over to Su He Shizi: "We aren't leaving."
"Why aren't we leaving?" Su He Shizi asked in confusion.
Su Er Young Master looked around; there were no other groups nearby, so he lowered his guard. Lin Yao, Qin Di, and the others also stopped digging and walked over toward Su He Shizi and Qin Tan's group.
Qin Bi stayed behind to continue digging. Her item was Immortal-grade; if she left its side, it would run away.
Besides, she didn't feel safe leaving it.
Everyone stood together, glancing at the Su Guogong Fu group's team. Some were searching, some were digging; they were quite busy. As for Qin Bi's side, she dared not leave even after digging something up. Qin Lang was very curious.
Su Er Young Master was somewhat excited. He pointed to the ground where vines grew and said: "Although some vines don't yield spiritual-energy sweet potatoes below, you can still find some by searching. We'll dig sweet potatoes instead of hunting high-grade demonic beasts."
Oh, Su He Shizi, Qin Tang, and the others were all surprised. No need to ask; they must have dug up more than one spiritual-energy sweet potato.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have decided to dig sweet potatoes here and given up on hunting high-grade demonic beasts.
Su He Shizi, Qin Tan, Qin Tang, and the others followed to the location of the Su Guogong Fu team and took a look. Good heavens, they had dug up over ten spiritual-energy sweet potatoes. They weren't large, about the size of an orange. They had only walked around once, yet over ten was quite a lot.
After all, they were spiritual-energy sweet potatoes; ordinary sweet potatoes wouldn't even catch their eye.
Qin Di took Qin Tan to the place where they had been digging. Qin Bi had already quickly unearthed the Immortal-grade sweet potato and stored it in her storage bag. Su Er Young Master was momentarily puzzled.
"Where are the spiritual-energy sweet potatoes you dug?" Su Er Young Master muttered.
"I stored them." Qin Bi replied.
Su Er Young Master turned around and let Qin Bi look at their side: "We've piled them up over there."
You pile them up; Qin Bi certainly wouldn't leave them on the ground in a heap.
An Immortal-grade sweet potato; could it just be left in a pile there? Absolutely not. It would attract envy. Even the Su Guogong Fu team couldn't do that. Everyone cultivated; could they see an Immortal-grade sweet potato and remain unmoved? Impossible.
Qin Bi didn't want everyone to be envious, so she simply stored the Immortal-grade sweet potato away. It wasn't large; it was a very small Immortal-grade sweet potato. If it weighed a jin, that would be great; one dig, one find, very cost-effective.
Su Er Young Master said nothing more. Storing it was fine; no one wanted hers anyway. He hadn't realized that this Qin Bi knew how to manage a household and kept a tight grip on her belongings.
The young masters of the Su family didn't think Qin Bi was stingy. Cultivation resources were very scarce. Who was as generous as Qin He, giving a demonic beast crystal to anyone she was close to? With He He Shizi supporting her, things were different.
People who worked hard to collect things themselves tended to guard them more closely.
Qin Tan looked around, overjoyed, and asked Su He Shizi: "Su He Shizi, are we still going to hunt demonic beasts?"
Su He Shizi smiled. Were they still leaving? He guessed his own younger brothers didn't want to leave: "Dig sweet potatoes. At worst, we can kill a tasty high-grade demonic beast when we leave the demonic beast realm's small space."
Not leaving was good. Qin Tan was truly focused on the benefits of good fortune.
Qin Yan and Qin He were in one team; they could only invite Su He Shizi to team up with them. If they hadn't sensed the good fortune at the beginning, they felt it now. No other team had found spiritual-energy sweet potatoes, yet they had.
How did they know the other teams hadn't found spiritual-energy sweet potatoes? Just by looking around, they saw there were no other teams nearby.
Few teams were hunting flame demonic beasts; those collecting spiritual plants and medicinal herbs had gone far away. In this area, only a few teams remained, spaced far apart, unable to see each other's groups.
Such a large area covered in vines; could they not dig wherever they pleased?
Qin Tan got excited: "Dig sweet potatoes."
At these words, everyone scattered, searching for vines to dig sweet potatoes.
Qin Lang ran to find Qin Bi: "Sister, how many have you dug? The Su Guogong Fu team has dug a whole pile."
Qin Bi smiled. A pile was just over ten spiritual-energy sweet potatoes. She took the Immortal-grade sweet potato out of her storage bag, quickly let Qin Lang see it, then hurriedly put it away. Qin Lang's expression froze.
"One Immortal-grade?" Qin Lang asked in a low voice.
"Mm." Qin Bi nodded with a smile: "You hurry up and dig too; maybe you'll find an Immortal-grade sweet potato."
Qin Lang rubbed his hands together, walked around for a long while, then finally selected a vine to dig. It was empty; only vines grew there, no sweet potato. Qin Lang was dumbfounded and had to find another vine to dig.
Su He Shizi's team knew nothing about this; they were still happily digging vines, searching for spiritual-energy sweet potatoes.
By noon, they had dug ten jin of spiritual-energy sweet potatoes, making Su He Shizi's entire team overjoyed. Immortal-grade? They hadn't known they could still find Immortal-grade items. They had only found one earlier; once found, it was unlikely there would be another.
Immortal-grade items! Who would dare to foolishly hope there were more? They weren't Chinese cabbage.
End of Chapter
