Protect Our Chief-Chapter 524 - 27: Great Harvest and Excellent Young Clan Members_2

It must be said, Lady Bilian truly lives up to her reputation as a powerful woman who can hold up the family single-handedly when the Yuwen Family was at the brink of decline. Just this thank-you gift alone shows her exquisite mind.

Although sometimes this woman’s thoughts are quite mysterious and peculiar, making Wang Shouzhe often unable to guess what she is thinking. Nevertheless, this woman is indeed generous!

"Madam has been thoughtful~"

Wang Shouzhe thanked Lady Bilian for her kindness and happily put away the Spirit-Storage Jade Box and the Gold Notes. How could he not be happy? This "simple" task brought him a lot of benefits. Not only were there these gains, but also his bloodline had elevated to the Peak of the Third Layer, and he gained the "friendship" of the Seven-tailed Fire Fox, a strong ally for the future.

For Wang Shouzhe, the more such simple tasks, the better.

After settling the rewards, Wang Shouzhe stayed with the Yuwen Family for a few more days, sampling the delicacies of the New City Guard under the company of the Yuwen clansmen, before setting off home satisfied. After all, as the Patriarch, he was somewhat anxious to return, being away from the family for too long.

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Almost at the same time.

Changning Guard, Ping’an Town.

The rugged range of Liping Mountain stretches like a giant Hidden Dragon, spanning south from Ping’an Town, cutting through Anjiang, separating the entire Ping’an Town from the rolling mountains south of Anjiang.

At this moment, outside the mountain, summer is approaching, yet inside the mountain, spring is at its peak. Various mountain flowers bloom splendidly, adding colorful accents to the stretching mountains. From above, it looks like a colorful canvas has been spread out, indescribably beautiful.

But beneath this canvas, it’s not all safety, but rather hidden with unknown dangers.

At this moment, within the complex terrains of the Liping Mountain Range, a team of more than a dozen people is exploring and advancing within the mountains.

Beasts like pack horses and oxen have no place in the complex environment of the mountains. Thus, the pack animals in this team responsible for carrying some personal supplies are a goat-like creature called the Panjiao Tuo Sheep.

They are adept at climbing craggy rock cliffs and can walk on rugged mountain paths as if on flat ground. They are good partners domesticated by the Barbaric Mountain People over long years, able to help humans transport small amounts of supplies in the mountains.

In the areas surrounding the Changning Wang Family, which are mostly hilly and mountainous, and the rugged range of Liping Mountain extends even longer and steeper at the periphery. Therefore, the Changning Wang Family sourced a batch of Panjiao Tuo Sheep through its ranch channels, specifically for exploring and patrolling the surrounding mountainous areas.

The Liping Mountain Range is towering and steep, with countless valleys and ravines. Even though the Wang Family has been stationed in Ping’an Town for one or two hundred years, they have been unable to extend their reach into the intricate depths of the mountain range.

But this work must be done.

If they cannot map out all the surrounding mountain environments and eliminate some leftover fierce beasts or other hidden dangers, they are like invisible landmines, waiting to explode at any unforeseen time.

Especially after the beast disaster years ago, many fierce beasts had roamed into the depths of the surrounding mountains. Over the past sixty or seventy years, Tier One and Tier Two fierce beasts have been intermittently discovered around Ping’an Town, leading to incidents where they injured or even killed people and livestock. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Thus, the gradually strengthened Wang Family decided ten years ago to allocate some manpower and resources to clear out the "snakes, insects, mice, and ants" from the "yard" and accurately chart the mountain’s topography along with various special locations.

So-called special locations include some micro or small Spirit Veins, ore deposits, special herbs, Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, or some valleys that are barely cultivable but are extremely taxing to cultivate, and so on.

Over the past decade.

The Wang Family has been continually "clearing up the fog" in the surrounding mountains, with about thirty percent of the overall work completed. They have also successively discovered some special locations, which have been marked on the map one by one. When the time and opportunities are appropriate, they will be incorporated into the family’s development plans.

Due to the Changning Wang Family’s implementation of the clan Contribution Points system, which continues to improve and perfect over time, these exploration and patrol tasks, which are not highly dangerous but offer good Contribution Points, are well-loved by the young generation of the family.

If they are lucky enough to discover some valuable mineral deposits or small Spirit Veins, they will be rewarded with a lot of Contribution Points.

The only tiny regret for the younger generation is that they are only allowed to take on the "clear surrounding environment fog task" if they are sixteen years old or have reached the Spirit Platform Realm even if they are under sixteen, after receiving relevant education and passing the examination.

What the young generation of the Wang Family doesn’t know is that this restriction was strongly advocated by the family head, Wang Shouzhe. The reason is simple, to prevent the family from having members like his eldest niece, Wang Lici, who foolishly eats whatever she catches. Eating recklessly themselves is one thing, but then bringing it back and feeding it to children recklessly is another.

Though that incident inadvertently resulted in blessings for some children, reckless behavior is still reckless behavior. Just because fortune arose from recklessness once, doesn’t mean recklessness ceases to be reckless.

The Changning Wang Family has never had a large population, and it’s only after much effort that the younger generation has shown some slight prosperity. Wang Shouzhe is counting on them to strive for the Wang Family’s rise and work hard on proliferation for more offspring.