Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

The others were also enlightened when they saw this. "Hey, why didn't we think of this method when we were on the night shift? We left marks along the way. I don't believe we can walk back like this."

Someone asked, "Don't you know the way? Don't you remember how many times we walked? We always ended up back on the same path. You know this section of the road, so why did you end up back on it?"

The man was speechless.

Zhou Guo led the way in front, and they had to stop after walking for a while to determine the direction. Zhou Su followed beside them, watching her sister's strange movements, she was extremely curious and kept asking questions.

She answered every one of his questions patiently.

"What if there is no sun?"

"If there is no sun, cut down a tree and look at the stump. There are circles of tree rings on the stump. The side with dense tree rings is the north, and the side with sparse tree rings is the south."

"What if it's at night?"

"Just look at the stars in the sky at night. I will teach you to recognize the North Star at night."

"What if there are no stars at night?"

“What if there are no stars and no time to cut down trees?”

"Then just look at the tree crown. The side with dense leaves is the south, and the side with sparse leaves is the north. Apart from that, you can also..."

The two siblings asked and answered each other. Because their voices were soft, the people behind them could only hear the two people whispering and could not hear clearly what they were saying, otherwise they might have been frightened.

She was a little girl who never left the village. She was stupid for the first eight years. Suddenly she got better and knew so many things. It's scary to talk about it.

After walking for half an hour, the team really did not go back, and everyone became happy. The ghost wall now had to give way to them. It was good to have a golden boy who had a connection with the Bodhisattva in the team.

Everybody was happy.

Zhou Su held his stomach and wanted to poop.

Zhou Guo had no choice but to take him to the nearby mountains. The little guy was getting older now and knew that he should not take off his pants in front of others, so he dragged Zhou Guo into the mountains.

Once you enter the forest, you have to find a flat place with a pit, like the toilet at home, otherwise it is easy to get your butt pricked. The little guy has been in the wild for so long that he has already experienced this.

After finally finding a perfect position, I had to ask Zhou Guo to go away before taking off my pants.

Zhou Guo left with a smile and wandered around in the woods, trying to find some leaves for him to wipe his butt.

But after turning around, I found that the trees in this forest were very tall, with leaves growing very high up, and most of them were coniferous trees. How could I wipe my butt?

I was thinking of finding some branches on the ground, and as I was searching, I discovered a lot of fruits as big as red dates fallen on the ground.

She picked it up and took a look. The fruit was like a walnut, with a layer of skin on the outside, which was rotten. When she pinched off the skin, there was a hard shell inside. After peeling the fruit clean, she could barely see its true appearance: an oval, long, pointed fruit, black in color. When she pinched off the hard shell, there was a whole kernel inside, which was moldy and rotten!

She looked around and saw the ground was covered with these fruits, some newly fallen and some from previous years, densely packed.

She felt that the fruit looked familiar, so she picked up the newly fallen fruit and peeled off the layers one by one. When she saw the kernel at the end, she almost jumped up. This was a Torreya grandis, a Torreya nut!

Oh my God, there is such a good thing growing in this damn place!

Looking up, I saw that the trees were tall and strong, with branches extending in all directions in a winding manner. I hadn't noticed before, but the trees were really big, as thick as two people could hug together, and their canopies covered the sky. Unfortunately, I was too high up, so I couldn't see the fruits among the leaves.

She couldn't help but look around and count them. There were a total of eighteen such trees!

They are all ancient trees that are at least hundreds of years old!!

A smile unconsciously spread across the corners of my mouth. With so many, I must be rich!

The village chief led the way very well. Fortunately they came to this place, otherwise they would have missed out on so much money!

“Sister, sister, sister!!!”

Zhou Su was so anxious that she was about to cry when a voice came from the side.

"Hey, I'm here!" He patted his forehead and forgot about Zhou Su in his joy.

After a while, Zhou Suli's little head popped out from the hilltop. When he saw her, he rushed over here. He accidentally fell down, but he didn't cry. He quickly got up and ran towards her again.

Zhou Guo had no choice but to remind him, "Slow down, slow down, watch your step, I can't run."

"Where have you been? I called you so many times but you didn't answer!!" The little guy looked aggrieved and his throat was almost broken.

Zhou Guo apologized with a smile, "I'm sorry, it's all my sister's fault."

Then he spread out his palm and said, "Look, this is the fruit I found."

fruit?

Zhou Su's eyes lit up as he looked at the green-skinned fruit in her palm. "What kind of fruit is this? Is it sour?"

"Guoguo, Guoguo, Zhou Guo! Zhou Su!" Li's voice sounded not far away.

The two agreed quickly.

"Where are you? It takes you so long to take a shit. Are you done? Hurry up, we have to get on with our journey."

Zhou Guo looked at the big trees around him and said, "Mom, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave for a while."

Li: “!!! What’s wrong, what’s wrong, what happened?!” The screams of fear echoed in the woods.

When the people outside the woods heard the noise, they looked at each other in bewilderment and rushed back into the woods. If something happened, it would be terrible. They couldn't get out and all of them would have to die here.

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Everyone looked up at these tall and vigorous ancient trees. After a long silence, they finally asked, "What kind of fruit is this? Can it really be eaten?"

"Are there really fruits? I've been looking for so long, my eyes are almost blinded, but I still can't see anything?"

"Oh, you are so stupid. You are blind, and your heart is blind. You can't even lower your head to look at the ground. You can't even see the fallen fruits. You just keep looking for them with your head raised!"

No one in the group could recognize what it was.

Old man Zhao did know something. He shook the fruit in his hand and looked at Zhou Guo with some uncertainty. Is this girl really just a farm girl? Why is it that no one in the village knows about this thing, but she is the only one who knows it?

But then he thought of her terrifying strength and became deflated again. Forget it. What's the point of knowing so much? As long as the child has a good heart, it doesn't matter how she knows it. It's a good thing anyway. With the money to settle these people, why should he worry?

Zhou Guo didn't know how she knew it, and she didn't explain. If she really had to explain, there were some things she didn't know, like how she came to this world and how she had so much strength. She didn't know any of these, but fortunately no one asked.

Why ask? Is there any need to ask? It must be the Bodhisattva who told her in a dream, just like her strength.