Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Pocket Supermarket - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Trap

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Yu Changhe and Madam Sun worked together to set up the pot, they started to build a wooden shed without stopping for a moment. Madam Sun jumped up and down to do some work that was inconvenient for Yu Changhe.

When there was something out of reach, Yu Changhe squatted down and let Madam Sun step on him. Madam Sun did not stand on ceremony either. The two of them worked very well together.

Yu Xiaolian would occasionally help pass things over.

After laying straw on the shed and using a simple door to block the wind, a kitchen was completed.

“Why did you buy these two jars?” Yu Changhe asked.

As Madam Sun washed her hands, she replied, “We can’t just eat porridge all the time. I’m thinking of making some pickled vegetables. Coincidentally, the wild vegetables aren’t old yet. If we marinate two jars, there will be a dish to eat in winter.”

When Yu Changhe heard Madam Sun’s words, he felt a little upset. When he earned a lot of money, he would hand it all over to his mother. Occasionally, he would secretly give Madam Sun a few copper coins behind Old Madam Yu’s back. If Old Madam Yu found out, she would also make a fuss.

That year, it was Madam Sun’s birthday. Coincidentally, Yu Changhe had just received his monthly allowance, so he bought a silver hairpin for Madam Sun. Old Madam Yu caused trouble for many days in a row because of this silver hairpin, and kept finding fault with Madam Sun.

“Following me has made you suffer.”

Madam Sun glanced at Yu Changhe. “Since you know, why didn’t you ask your mother for that gold ingot yesterday?”

Yu Changhe lowered his head. “I mentioned it in private. Mother said that she wanted to keep it for Changyu to marry. She told me not to mention the gold in front of the village chief.”

“If she doesn’t let you mention it, you won’t? You’re really obedient!”

Yu Changhe continued, “Mother said that if I mentioned it, she would chase us out.”

“So be it. That half of the gold is worth dozens of taels of silver. With silver, how can there be no place to stay?”

When Yu Changhe picked up Yu Xiaolian, she had ten gold ingots with her. If they were exchanged for silver, it would be a hundred taels of silver. However, Yu Changhe didn’t even compete with Old Madam Yu.

Although he was separated from the family, he did not leave home. If he really fell out with his mother because of the gold ingots and left home, he would have completely cut ties with her.

He didn’t want to.

Yu Changhe knew that he was in the wrong, so he lowered his head to clean up the broken wooden planks around him and did not reply to Madam Sun.

He still sided more with his mother. How could Madam Sun not be angry?

Seeing that Yu Changhe was silent, Madam Sun ignored him. Instead, she adjusted her mood and began to clean up the mud and soil in the kitchen. She set up a few boards and placed the seasonings she had bought on them.

After some thought, she put them away.

The shed could only block the wind and was not tight. If it rained, the seasonings would not be usable.

It seemed that she could only put these seasonings in the house first. Every time he cooked, she would go in and bring them over.

However, with her family’s current conditions, they could only stir-fry wild vegetables to eat. There was nothing else. As for the vegetables in the vegetable garden, Old Madam Yu did not allow them to pick them casually.

Yu Xiaolian had drunk watery porridge in the morning and accompanied Madam Sun to town. At this moment, the food in her stomach had long been digested.

The fragrance of Madam Cao cooking wafted over, and Yu Xiaolian’s stomach growled uncontrollably.

Yu Xiaolian’s stomach growled, and Madam Sun naturally heard it. “Go and bring some firewood over. I want to put the lard out and see if this pot cooks well.”

Yu Xiaolian looked up at the sun. It was only noon. Yesterday, Madam Sun said that they would only eat two meals a day in the future, so they should eat dinner later.

Madam Sun shouldn’t be cooking so early. Yu Xiaolian knew that Madam Sun had a sharp tongue but a soft heart. She picked up the empty basket beside her. “Mother, I want to eat wild vegetables today. I’ll go dig some. Can you cook later?”

Madam Sun looked at Yu Xiaolian in surprise. She felt that she was a little different from before. In the past, because Madam Sun was getting colder and colder to her, it had been a long time since she called Madam Sun Mother.

But today, Yu Xiaolian had called her mother several times, and in an affectionate tone.

“Then be careful. Go and come back quickly. Don’t go east of the forest. Hunter Jiang dug many traps in that area. It’ll be over if you fall into them.” Madam Sun softened her tone and took the small bags of seasoning into the house.

Yu Xiaolian carried a small basket and a blunt kitchen knife to the back mountain of Hewanzi.

Although the back mountain was not big, it was connected to a mountain range. Overall, it was not small.

However, the people in their village only wandered around the nearest mountain. Very few people were willing to go to the second mountain.

It was midsummer now, and the water plants were lush. Yu Xiaolian thought that wild vegetables should be everywhere, but in the end, Yu Xiaolian searched at the foot of the mountain for a long time under the scorching sun. It was not easy for her to dig up a few wild vegetables. It seemed that the nearby wild vegetables had long been dug up by the villagers.

Glancing at the wild vegetables in the basket, Yu Xiaolian felt a little embarrassed to go back like this.

She looked up at the lush mountains. She should be able to dig more in the mountains.

Yu Xiaolian made up her mind and followed the dirt road up the mountain.

After entering the dense forest, not only did the number of wild vegetables increase, but the sun also couldn’t reach her. Yu Xiaolian happily dug up the wild vegetables. She thought that since Madam Sun said that she wanted to marinate two jars of pickled vegetables, she had to dig more back.

After digging a basket full of wild vegetables at the edge of the dense forest, Yu Xiaolian realized that she had been out for too long.

Just as she was about to carry the basket down the mountain, she saw a white mushroom from the corner of her eye. Yu Xiaolian was overjoyed. This mushroom was a good thing. If she didn’t pick it back today, it might be picked by someone else the next time she came.

Moreover, this kind of white mushroom tasted delicious. Without hesitation, Yu Xiaolian poured out some wild vegetables from the basket, leaving a place for the mushrooms.

Perhaps it was because it had just rained not long ago, but these mushrooms had just grown. They had not grown too big yet. They were all small and difficult to pick.

However, Yu Xiaolian still dragged the small basket and plucked them one by one.

When she heard the strange sounds of animals, she realized that she had been brought to the edge of the mountain by the mushrooms.

Thinking that it was not safe deep in the mountains, she did not dare to go deeper. She quickly carried the basket and walked back.

However, she had just taken a few steps back with the basket when she missed a step and fell into a hunting trap.

Yu Xiaolian fell flat on her back, and the wild vegetables and mushrooms in the basket fell to the ground.

Fortunately, there were no barbs in this pit. Otherwise, her life would have been lost here.

This hunting pit was nearly three meters deep. Yu Xiaolian was a little panicked. She knew that there was no one in this deep mountain forest, but she had no choice but to shout for help, “Help… Help… Is anyone here?”

After shouting for a long time, he saw that the light was getting dimmer and dimmer, but no one came.

If this continued, the sky would turn dark. Because of the dense forest, the light here was not very good. In a while, she would probably have to spend the night here.

Yu Xiaolian found the kitchen knife and began to carve a soil ladder on the wall of the pit. Since no one came, she could only rely on herself.

After digging two earthen ladders, Yu Xiaolian felt that the originally weak light was blocked by someone. She stopped digging and looked up.

Someone was looking up at her, but she couldn’t see his face against the light.

However, no matter who it was, she was saved. “Help!”

“You broke my trap?”

That person’s voice was cold. Yu Xiaolian could hear the displeasure in his voice, but she still explained, “I didn’t do it on purpose. I accidentally fell in.”

I haven’t even argued with you about falling into the pit, and you’re already unhappy.