Chapter 427 (2/2)

When he thought about how manic the swarm of rats was on the hill, then looked at the flock of birds in the sky and the bundles of rats of different sizes the warriors brought home, Shao Xuan felt goosebumps.

Although they were just animals, they were still going to be difficult to deal with in large numbers, especially when they had lost their sanity.

Due to the disturbance caused by the birds and rats, the ducks all hit. The funny part was, the fat duck had opened the door to let many ducks into the duck shed. After seeing this, Shao Xuan got the people who were not involved in defending the plants to separate the ducks originally in the pen and these new ducks. Then, they opened the door to the shed so the fat duck could bring more ducks inside to hide.

In the sky, conflicts erupted between flocks of birds. They often fought so feathers would fall like snow, bird poop splattered everywhere. There was already a layer of bird poop and feathers on Shao Xuan’s roof, the smell was…

However, for the Thousand Grain Gold, Shao Xuan had to live with it.

One day, Shao Xuan was guarding the plants.

“It should be one of these two days?” Qi Qi asked as she looked up at the feathers falling like snow.

Shao Xuan looked at the heavy grains with a pause. “I think today's the day.”

When Qi Qi and Zheng Luo heard this, their heart skipped a beat. Qi Qi took several steps back into the house. She had no choice, she wasn’t strong enough to fight. This was the time for her to leave the space for the warriors to do their jobs.

Zheng Luo had already started to call his men to prepare.

A whistle sounded from the forest at the foot of the mountain.

When they heard the whistle, the ones on duty knew it was time.

The rats that were still peering curiously in the bushes had a sudden pause, then as if they were suddenly provoked, stopped hiding and dashed forward with no regard for their lives.

The birds in the sky stopped fighting as if they had some prior agreement, then dove directly at Shao Xuan’s backyard.

“It’s ripe! Now!” Shao Xuan roared. Before he finished, they all rushed out to cut off the grains into prepared sacks.

Not just Shao Xuan- Zheng Luo, Duo Kang and the rest who were already there also helped at the same time.

Within a few moments, the heavy, golden grains were all harvested. Even the grains that had fallen on the ground were picked up so when the birds arrived, there were only green plants but no grains. All they received were arrows.

There was an eruption of squawking. Since the disappearance of the grains, the birds flew higher up into the sky once again to dodge the attacks. However, they did not leave and just squawked and flew in the area as if they were unwilling to leave and waited to see if more grains would appear.

The grains were harvested at noon but the birds only left completely at night.

The swarm of wild rats had long dispersed, the warriors were now scooping up drowned rats in the river. These rats could not swim, yet had jumped into the river in a frenzy with the rest who could. They had broken past the warriors’ defences and yet still drowned to death here. They really were not thinking. There were at least thirty rats like that. The people at the tribe were now cleaning up the rats that had slipped inside.

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?