Orange Blossom is a bit sweet

Chapter 478 Chapter 476
Li Cheng was wrapped in her quilted sweater, lying on the tree roots next to the tree hole and fell asleep.

She slept too deeply, almost the deepest sleep since she became conscious, until the morning light on the horizon pierced the sky, and the sun lightly brushed her eyelids, and she suddenly woke up.

"Ji Yingduo?" Li Cheng seemed to be calling Ji Yingduo's name for the first time since he was in kindergarten.

However, Ji Yingduo was digging the gaps in the branches of the tree roots with his hands, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, as if the low temperature in the morning in the forest did not affect his mood at all: "Yes."

Because Li Cheng fell asleep for 2 hours in a completely dreamless state, it seemed that 1000 years had passed, so the first thing he did when he opened his eyes and saw Ji Yingduo was to confirm whether she was still alive: "I have never seen you It's been so dirty, it's covered in dirt."

Ji Yingduo was looking at himself, as if calling for her to help, but he was too tired to speak a word.

His sparkling eyes were so bright that people couldn't take their eyes off them.

"Okay. Let me try the last of my prehistoric power."

The two dug open the soil layer near the main trunk of the third vertical taproot under the spruce.

There is a nylon red rope tied to the root of the tree here as a mark. The downward direction is not solid, and the soil layer is obviously loose, and there is indeed a circular tree hole.

If it weren't for Wang Yuchen's nylon rope hanging from the spruce's third vertical main fork, Ji Yingduo would not have been so determined to keep digging.

In front of the solid soil being tightly hugged by the roots of the pine trees, even the most skilled workers would spend 5 days with the sharpest shovel and hammer.

And Ji Yingduo, a young man who had never done any manual labor since he was a child, dug more than 30 meters deep with hand tools without damaging the taproot of the spruce tree.

The gloves were already covered with mud, and the skin on the balls of the fingers was torn with blood.

After working continuously for 38 hours, Ji Yingduo has forgotten what it feels like to be tired, and he doesn't even notice the bleeding blisters on his hands worth hundreds of millions.

Looking at the large square plastic packaging box tightly fastened with perchlorethylene placed in the tree hole, he was completely shocked.

There is a cute plastic bow tied with a gold ribbon and nylon rope on the huge plastic gift box. It has been hidden in the tree hole for hundreds of years, and there is no trace of dust, as if it is still the same as it was when it was sealed.

Ji Yingduo exerted some force on the nylon rope, thinking that the things in the tree hole could be taken out casually.

But he tried to pull it in the direction of the ribbon, and it didn't move at all, but he fell into the soft mound.

Li Cheng saw that Ji Yingduo was struggling to pull out the box with all his strength, so he hurriedly got up from the pit, dropped the basket used for unloading soil from the top of the pit, and quickly slid down the slope to the bottom of the pit along the zipline.

"Pull the radish...Pull the radish!" Li Cheng yelled to pull out the radish for the last time, and the two of them worked together to pull out the treasure box containing the secrets of time and space that was inserted obliquely into the tree hole.

It just landed on the soft soil that had just been lifted.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”, Li Cheng turned into a groundhog and shouted: “This is against the sky!”

Ji Yingduo wiped his sweat, he was so tired that he lost his sense of smell.

Without caring to say anything else, he smashed the shovel on the gift box with a shovel in his hand, and the outer packaging was instantly torn apart, and the gold jewelry box hidden inside appeared in Li Cheng's vision.

"A jewelry box made of pure gold! This box weighs 10 kilograms? This treasure is hidden deep enough. Who came up with the idea to bury it in the tree hole at the root of the tree? I promise not to kill him!" Li Chenglei His teeth were chattering.

There is no other reason why the golden box can be embedded in such a deep hole at the root of the tree. When Ji Yingduo buried it on Christmas Eve, the box was only in a shallow soil layer 2 meters deep.

As time flies, the holes of the spruce trees have been growing deep into the soil.

The box extended to more than 30 meters underground along with the roots of the tree, and the entire gift box was tightly embedded in the tree hole.

The walkie-talkie between Ji Yingduo and Li Cheng has been connected all the time. At this time, the walkie-talkie stopped making the buzzing noise because it ran out of power.

The world is so quiet, so quiet, so quiet that you can hear the sound of pine needles falling to the ground.

Ji Yingduo was no longer interested in what was in the box, and he was not in a hurry to open it, but leaned up on the slope of the pothole and closed his eyes.

Li Cheng looked at the little spruce growing on the slope, and couldn't describe his mood: "Go to sleep, wait for me to regain some strength to see what's inside."

In fact, the height of this special spruce tree is not the most eye-catching in this forest, and even the height is very ordinary, less than 10 meters. You can't imagine that a spruce tree that has grown for nearly 1 years , it actually only has this point.

Compared with the 3000-meter-high giant redwood tree in the United States in 100, the height is simply insignificant. Otherwise, Li Cheng would not be afraid that the tree would fall down because of their excavation.

However, this tree, from the crown to the trunk, looks only 400 years old. It is called "The elder Spruce" by botanists and deserves its independent name.

Its roots have been measured to be more than 10000 years old since they were discovered at any time. If it had not maintained its youthful appearance in the cycle of time and space, it would have been easily ignored in the spruce forest.

But if this old spruce tree did not enter the folded time and space, but was born in a smooth linear time, then it should have been born at the end of the Ice Age.

Now, it is the only plant that existed before humans entered overlapping time and space, and it has never "returned to youth".

Ji Yingduo opened his eyes after falling into a coma for a long time, and the noon sun shone through the canopy of trees sparsely on his eyes, and the light was not very strong: "What time is it? Sasha, bring a carbon 14 pen."

"I took the test while you were asleep.

The C30 comparison result of measuring the carbonization of the soil layer and rhizome at a depth of 14000 meters is about [-] years ago.

In other words, it has been 900 years since the box was buried last time. "Li Cheng couldn't believe that the world could be so magical that a token of marriage proposal could be buried here for nine centuries.

Spruce has the conditions for asexual reproduction, and in the cold zone, it grows very slowly every year.The ratio of the root system to the canopy is completely different. The spruce root system is very developed, and the growth rate of the root system is at least 30 times that of the canopy.

The reason why it can live for so long is that all the plant cells of the tree can clone themselves without damage, and there is no need for flowering and fruiting. Therefore, in the virgin forest where there are few people, deep forest fires rarely occur, and it is cold and dry almost all year round, this cloud Cedar can exist quietly for tens of thousands of years.

Ji Yingduo lay back in peace, and murmured, "Do you know what's inside the golden treasure box?"

(End of this chapter)