Chapter 427 - Harvesting Thousand Grain Gold
The days passed. As the Thousand Grain Gold ripened slowly, there were irregular occurrences in the forest at the foot of the mountain. The ducks grew more and more anxious and started to move closer to the tribe in search of protection.
The number of patrolling members increased, most of them in the forest outside the tribe because many wild rats had appeared. There were all kinds of rats, big and small, digging holes and hopping around coming continuously.
Not just wild rats, there were birds in the sky too. There were often birds circling the area. Now, around Shao Xuan’s house, Zheng Luo had sent his men with a sufficient supply of arrows to shoot the birds.
Other than regular animals, there were fearsome beasts too. They were not the large kind though, those lived far away from the tribe.
Some people even joked that they did not have to go out hunting because all these animals would just arrive at their doorstep.
Quan Bai and the rest of the people in the Taihe tribe mentioned that they could send people over if they needed help. They were turned down by Zheng Luo because they could solve the problem on their own and they did not need help. The Taihe tribe definitely wasn’t helping for nothing too, they would ask for a favour, and it would be the ripe grains.
Zheng Luo could not bear to share such a good thing. Quan Bai and the rest had already contributed to the planting of these grains so they were naturally given a portion. However, Zheng Luo did not want to give out even more.
When it was time for the switching of shifts for patrol, the new members looked at the pile of rats on the ground and asked the patrol team, “How many did you hunt today?”
Shao Xuan looked at the twenty-three animal skin sacks in his house. Including him, there were twenty-three people, each person harvesting one sack and one plant. Although he didn’t count, he knew that there weren’t just a thousand grains, there must be up to ten thousand grains here!
Ignoring the smell of bird poop since Qi Qi, the shamaness and the chief were here, Shao Xuan opened one sack a little. He took a grain and carefully peeled the husk away.
The dark golden husk was pried open to reveal a purple grain inside.
“How?!” gasped Shao Xuan.
The grains he brought back were all golden inside, why was this purple-gold? This was a lot different!
He opened the other twenty-two bags and took five random grains from different plants. He opened to realise they were all purple-gold inside1
“Why… Why did they change colour?” Qi Qi was worried too.
Shao Xuan had said the plants were growing better than the one he previously saw but better didn’t mean change in colour!
There was such a difference in colour, was it natural? Was this supposed to happen?
Shao Xuan thought for a moment and felt like it must have been due to the planting methods. They had fed it so much bloody fearsome beast meat too.