Chapter 598 - 597
Ye Tian, of course, conceded. There was no way not to since he currently couldn’t even tie up a chicken, let alone the bird on his shoulder. How was he supposed to fight a big monk? If he tried anything, he’d just be asking for a beating!
"Little master, why are there so many bamboos on this mountain? Who planted them all?"
"The master said, some unknown predecessors planted some, he also planted some, and I myself planted some. Originally, the three mountains nearby were all bamboos. The master’s master’s master said that the villagers below needed to go up the mountain to chop firewood, so later on those two mountains gradually turned into forests, planted by the villagers and also those unknown predecessors. Later, the master also planted some. But now the villagers below no longer burn firewood, so they stopped caring about it."
Ye Tian looked at the distant sea of green and couldn’t help but sigh: indeed, the saying ’the forebears plant the trees under whose shade the future generations rest’ is true.
"So, it doesn’t matter if we chop some bamboo here for use, right?"
The little monk carried a bamboo basket on his back, which contained two hook-shaped sickles. He smiled and shook his head, "No problem at all."
Actually, what Ye Tian wanted to ask was whether they could make some business out of the bamboo. But thinking again, he felt it was going a bit too far to make money off bamboos someone else had planted. Seemed a bit shameless, no? No worries, no worries, he was never one to be ashamed. Ye Tian comforted himself with this thought.
When they finally found a place to start chopping bamboo, Ye Tian noticed a tiny crack under his feet. Despite being quite small, it was certainly not something you’d just come across here, considering the layer of dead leaves was about a foot thick. A crack visible through such a thick layer of leaves wasn’t made by any minor disturbance.
After chopping two bamboos, Ye Tian excused himself to "go do something" and walked away, while the little monk stayed behind and continued chopping bamboo.
Ye Tian followed the crack on the ground to the site of last night’s battle.