I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 264: Seeing the Sun Again

Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Seeing the Sun Again

Qiao Qingyu thought she was seeing things, so she blinked hard.

Then, she heard a thunderous explosion.

Plumes of dust rose swiftly, along with the startled cries of two children.

Her complexion drastically changed, and she threw down what she had in her hands and ran frantically towards the front.

With a speed she had never possessed before.

It wasn’t more than a few tens of meters away, she swept through like the wind, but instinctively screeched to a halt.

At first, she stared in disbelief at everything before her, and then suddenly she threw herself onto the ground.

Ahead, the grassland, which was previously intact, now had a huge hole in it.

Even with the dust obscuring her view, Qiao Qingyu could still see the golden Buddha several meters high, seated on a lotus pedestal.

Majestic and merciful, he looked down upon all beings.

She saw He Xuerong and Li Mingguang sitting in the palm of the Buddha’s hand, the two children also looking up at her in a daze.

Qiao Qingyu couldn’t help but mutter, "Namo Amitabha!"

She saw that the platform of the Buddha was still several meters above the ground and told He Xuerong and Li Mingguang with the gentlest expression, although her hands trembled slightly, her voice was exceedingly tender, "You two, don’t move, don’t move at all."

Given the sudden change in the environment, no matter how smart Li Mingguang and He Xuerong were, they would not be able to react in time. The best thing to do was to stay perfectly still.

At this moment, two people hurriedly ran over from a distance.

They were He Xiuyu and He Shan, who had returned. Despite He Shan’s age, his movements were fast and agile.

In the blink of an eye, they both arrived opposite Qiao Qingyu.

Qiao Qingyu hastily called out, "Be careful where you step."

Seeing the situation before them, there was no need for Qiao Qingyu to explain anything, as she herself did not understand what was happening. However, as He Shan saw everything before him, he too was momentarily stunned.

He could never have imagined that the Buddha statues, murals, and some precious gems that had been elusive, and the Buddha Tower enshrining the Shariputra, lay slumbering beneath this Barley Grassland.

Now, they had finally seen the light of day again!

But at this moment, the most important thing was to get the two children to safety.

This was not difficult for He Shan and He Xiuyu. Qiao Qingyu soothed the children’s emotions, and the little ones, with their courage, were not frightened at all but rather excited.

He Xiuyu pulled the children up.

Qiao Qingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Two hours later, the area was under martial law.

The base guards, commune militiamen, and the county public security officers set up a cordon stretching hundreds of meters; He Shan could not return to his station this time.

Li Mingguang and He Xuerong were also taken to the periphery, but as they looked towards the grassland, the two little ones’ eyes shone with excitement as they asked Qiao Qingyu if they had found the treasure and if they were heroes.

Qiao Qingyu gave them an affirmative answer.

Qiao Qingyu first took the two children home, then He Shan set up tents here. Soon, his engineer troops started moving towards this location.

The entire half of the Barley Grassland and the barren slopes were cordoned off.

Even the crossroads were secured.

After Qiao Qingyu got home, she made some delicious food for the children, and even Xiao Hu wasn’t allowed to leave; she settled him in He Xiuyu’s room.

The house didn’t have any calming medicine, but at noon, Qiao Qingyu fried potato balls that the two children had been longing for.

In those times, when children from poor families felt unwell, a good meal often cured their sickness better than medicine sometimes did.

Nevertheless, Qiao Qingyu still followed the old methods and gently stroked both children’s heads and pinched their small hands. Only after they had fallen asleep did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Although her patch of grass had suffered a mishap, there were still other large expanses of grassland. She went to the study to call Station Chief Meng Ke to discuss the matter of lambs and ewes.

Station Chief Meng Ke wasn’t in charge of this, but he was familiar with the matter and told Qiao Qingyu to wait for his call.

Afterward, Qiao Qingyu made another round of checks in front of her house and behind it. Everything that should have been planted had been planted, and now the sea buckthorn was also sprouting green buds.

Last year, some seeds from this vegetable plot were saved. However, she had given them to family members who came asking for vegetable seeds at the start of spring.

This year, what she planted were seeds from her own space.

The vegetable garden wasn’t big and didn’t need too many.

Only after keeping herself busy did her mood begin to stabilize. Qiao Qingyu had never expected that there would be such a vast underground space beneath the Barley Grassland.

It was clear that this was not the original location, but rather something that had been moved here.

That evening, only He Xiuyu came back alone, He Shan stayed in the tent on the Barley Grassland.

He Xiuyu also had his own urgent business, as he was heading to Beijing tomorrow.

However, regarding the underground space beneath the Barley Grassland, he told Qiao Qingyu everything he knew. It turned out its discovery owed much to the barley grass Qiao Qingyu had planted, as the soil layer from those years was not very thick.

Similar to an air-raid shelter, the structure didn’t use steel but wood instead.

The roots of the barley grass went deep, and the beams above, made of unprocessed wood, had started to rot when the roots of the barley grass had grown over them.

This was built as a temporary measure, likely planning to quietly move everything out once the situation had cooled down.

Nobody knew what had happened, but those people left Huaxia.

And just like that, fifty years went by.

"The corn I planted nearby won’t be affected, will it?" Qiao Qingyu asked.

"No, the cordon is only around the grassland."

"Then do you think Xiao Hu and Rongrong can be considered to have made a contribution?"

He Xiuyu smiled and ruffled Qiao Qingyu’s hair, "They’ll be given a certificate at the right time."

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The next day, He Xiuyu left in a hurry after breakfast.

Qiao Qingyu took Rongrong to kindergarten. Along the way, everyone was talking about the incident; many people knew that underneath the piece of Barley Grassland that Qiao Qingyu had contracted, a treasure trove had been found. It was full of cultural relics, with the most important being the Buddha statues, Buddha Towers, and the cut-out murals from the Sansha Buddha Cave.

It was truly a significant event.

Sister-in-law Li and Qiao Qingyu walked together to send the children to kindergarten. Along the way, Sister-in-law Li said, "They don’t let us visit now, but if they did, I’d really like to go and worship. The Buddha provides blessings, otherwise the children would have coincidentally ended up in the Buddha’s hands."

Qiao Qingyu also felt scared after the fact—if they hadn’t landed in the Buddha’s palm, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Sister-in-law Li went to work on the farm, and Qiao Qingyu drove the tractor to her Barley Grassland.

Not too far away, Wang Laogen hurried over. Seeing Qiao Qingyu, he said anxiously, "Qingyu, I came over yesterday afternoon. And then they didn’t allow anyone to enter the grassland, what’s going on?"

"Uncle Wang, didn’t you have the day off yesterday?"

"There was nothing to do at home, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about the land here, so I came over to check it out. But they wouldn’t let me go this way. However, they didn’t care about the cornfield over here."

Then he said in a low voice, "I heard there was some treasure discovered. Is that true?"

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