Traveling through time with spatial abilities, the scientific research genius is a little sweet.

Chapter 224 Courting Death

After Su Erqiang recovered, Su Nuannuan helped him up from the ground.

"Second brother, we will never go into the deep mountains again."

Su Nuannuan was worried that her family, having tasted the benefits this time, would continue to seek refuge in the deep mountains.

Su Erqiang nodded vigorously.

While the two were talking, Su Daliang and Su Sanquan came out of the house.

When they saw the black fungus scattered all over the ground, their eyes were filled with undisguised shock.

Su Daliang pointed to the wood ear mushrooms on the ground and said.

"Nuannuan, Erqiang, you found so many wood ear mushrooms!"

Su Sanquan was equally surprised.

Hongqi Village is located near the mountains, and people there used to frequently find mushrooms and wood ear fungus there. The Su family had also found some before, but never as many as Su Nuannuan and Su Erqiang had brought back this time.

Su Nuannuan and Su Erqiang exchanged a glance, both feeling a little uneasy.

Su Nuannuan knew that the wood ear mushrooms were a trap she had set. Therefore, she felt somewhat guilty when Su Daliang and Su Sanquan questioned her.

Su Erqiang, on the other hand, felt somewhat guilty for taking Su Nuannuan into the deep mountains today.

Although their thoughts were different, their feelings about the matter were roughly the same.

After Su Daliang and Su Sanquan finished their exclamations, they began to pick up all the wood ear mushrooms and put them into their baskets with Su Nuannuan and Su Erqiang.

Ever since Chen Xiuting returned from the island, she's been strolling around the village entrance every day wearing the clothes Su Jinjin and Su Mianmian bought for her. Even the usually composed Su Jianjun has been going out for walks quite often these past few days.

Therefore, only the three brothers, Su Nuannuan and Su Daliang, lived in the family.

After collecting all the wood ear mushrooms, Su Erqiang pulled Su Nuannuan and called Su Daliang and Su Sanquan back to the main room.

Although Su Daliang and Su Sanquan were puzzled, they followed Su Erqiang's lead and went into the house with him.

After pulling the person inside, Su Erqiang looked around and, finding no one, tightly closed the main room door.

Su Daliang watched as Su Erqiang bolted the door, his brow twitching as he said speechlessly.

"Erqiang, what are you doing? Dad and Mom will be back soon. What kind of talk is it to lock the door to the main room?"

After saying that, Su Daliang reached out and tried to pull open the door bolt.

Seeing this, Su Erqiang quickly stood in front of the door to prevent Su Daliang from making a move. At the same time, he raised his chin, looking smug.

"not open."

Su Daliang frowned, wishing he could give his troublesome second brother a good beating.

Seeing this, Su Nuannuan quickly offered some words of advice.

"Big brother, come here first. My second brother and I have something to tell you."

The two looked at Su Nuannuan, who also appeared very serious, and were filled with curiosity.

For Su Nuannuan's sake, Su Daliang didn't argue with Su Erqiang and sat back down.

After locking the door, Su Erqiang jumped up and sat on a bench.

Su Nuannuan's lips twitched.

She could clearly feel that her eldest and third brothers were looking at her second brother with very unfriendly eyes.

Perhaps because today's experience was too thrilling, Su Erqiang, having recovered, was somewhat excited and wanted to do something.

Once Su Erqiang had behaved himself, Su Daliang and Su Sanquan focused their attention on him.

Su Erqiang was somewhat puzzled and said.

"Why are you looking at me? Look at Nuannuan!"

Su Daliang: ...

Su Sanquan: ...

People can laugh when they are speechless.

However, Su Nuannuan was amused by Su Daliang and Su Sanquan's reactions this time.

After everyone quieted down, Su Nuannuan cleared her throat when she saw that all eyes were on her. Then, Su Daliang and Su Sanquan saw Su Nuannuan pull a yellowish-brown 'tree root' out of her bosom.

and many more!

It's not a tree root!

Su Daliang and Su Sanquan exchanged a glance, their eyes fixed on the item Su Nuannuan pulled from her bosom.

Su Sanquan's voice trembled slightly as he pointed to the things on the table.

"This...this is...ginseng?"

Su Daliang wasn't much better off than Su Sanquan. Although he didn't show any shock, his trembling fingers betrayed his inner turmoil.

He picked up the ginseng from the table and carefully examined it using some knowledge he had gained from books.

After looking at it for a full ten minutes, Su Daliang carefully placed the ginseng back on the table.

He looked at Su Nuannuan and Su Erqiang, his voice a little hoarse.

"Tell me, where did this ginseng come from?"

As the eldest son in the family, Su Daliang was delighted to have a ginseng plant in the house, but he was more concerned about the origin of the ginseng.

Su Nuannuan felt a little scared when she met Su Daliang's sharp gaze.

She spoke in a low voice to Su Daliang.

"Dig it up from the mountains."

Su Daliang frowned, clearly not believing Su Nuannuan's words. Ginseng is so easy to dig up? A few months ago, the villagers practically searched the entire area behind the mountain, yet no one found any ginseng.

Su Nuannuan and Su Erqiang found ginseng as soon as they went up the mountain, which Su Daliang found hard to believe.

His gaze sharpened as he looked at Su Nuannuan.

Su Nuannuan couldn't take it anymore, so she gestured towards Su Erqiang with her lip and said.

"Let my second brother speak. He's the one who discovered ginseng."

A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist.

Su Nuannuan decided to shift her eldest brother's attention to her second brother.

Su Nuannuan didn't feel guilty about this. After all, it was indeed her second brother who 'discovered' the ginseng.

Su Daliang was not so polite to Su Erqiang.

Su Sanquan didn't stop it, watching the scene with a smile. Su Nuannuan knew that her seemingly innocent but actually cunning third brother was on the side of her eldest brother.

Under Su Daliang's persistent questioning, Su Erqiang confessed that while they were digging for wood ear mushrooms, they accidentally wandered into the deep mountains. That's when they encountered ginseng.

When Su Daliang and Su Sanquan heard that the two had mistakenly entered the deep mountains, the veins on their foreheads bulged.

Su Sanquan slapped Su Erqiang on the back of the head, somewhat angrily.

"You idiot, are you trying to get yourself killed! How could you take Nuannuan to such a dangerous place? Don't you know that after the Cao family went in two years ago, only Cao Sanye came out?"

Uncle Cao is an elderly man in the village. His family consists of five people: Uncle Cao and his wife, their two sons, and their daughter.

The Cao family makes a living by hunting. They have two hunting rifles, and every time they go into the mountains, they have a good catch, making them one of the few families in the village who can eat meat every day.

However, since the drought began a year ago, resulting in reduced grain production, many people have gone hungry. This is especially true for Cao Sanye's family, who rely on hunting for a living.

In order to have some meat to eat, the whole family went into the back mountain.

No one in the village knew the mountains better than the Cao family. So, the whole family went in.

Two strong men from the village went in with them. However, the next day, the villagers discovered that none of them had come out.

Su Jianjun realized something was wrong, so he organized the villagers, young and old, to search for the person in the back mountain.

However, instead of finding the person, they encountered Third Master Cao, who was missing an arm.

Although the villagers didn't want to talk too much about it, according to those who saw Cao Sanye that time, Cao Sanye looked like he had walked out of a pool of blood and was no longer human.

One sentence was enough to scare the villagers so much that they had nightmares for days.

(End of this chapter)