Chapter 167 - 138 Accident_2
And that pouch full of Ordinary Pearls wasn’t the best thing to take back at this time either. If people knew one place had so many treasures, both Monkey Brother and I would be in danger.
This bag of Pearls, I’ll have to forsake.
The peaches too, I’ll forsake for now.
The tea leaves... can’t forsake, this was the best opportunity to collaborate with Shopkeeper Cui, to rely on powerful backing. As just a farming household, no matter how much money we make, we can’t protect it. And mother is even less able to protect it.
So, she put those four big Pearls into a pouch. Then she took out the pouch with Ordinary Pearls, picked a few that were slightly better in quality, and put them into her bosom. She still needed to bring some Pearls back just in case. Then she put these two pouches into a backpack and secured it.
She went to a mountain side next to Cave Sky Pool, where a crevice went into a hole. She stuffed the bag into it, then found a rock of roughly the same size to plug it up. She said to Monkey Brother and White Wolf who followed her, "Remember this, it’s our treasure hiding spot."
Yixiu then stuffed ropes, some tools, a few flint stones, and two cotton-padded jackets into another backpack, and placed it in a groove under another huge rock; this place was higher in elevation, wouldn’t get wet in the rain, and was also more hidden. Coming here in the future would mean less to carry.
After finishing these tasks, Yixiu returned to the Peach Grove, strapped a four-shoulder bag carrying two torches onto White Wolf, loaded the lotus seeds and young tea leaves into Monkey Brother’s backpack, and the tea vine leaves into her own backpack.
She took one reluctant look at the peach branches broken off by Monkey Brother, then looked around fondly, before leading a monkey and a wolf on the journey back.