Chapter 569: Truly a Treasure

After chatting with He Yi that night, everything seemed to revert to normalcy. Yan Moshan continued to toil diligently, occasionally sequestering away some Zijin when chance arose—guards never entered the slave quarters for inspections. Stationed here were eighty thousand elite troops from the Great Yi Dynasty; Yan Moshan and his fellow slaves stood no chance of escape. The twenty years of labor was purportedly an exceptional clemency from the Human Emperor, but in the centuries since its proclamation, scarcely anyone managed to endure it. Hence, the guards harbored no fear of them hiding anything.

It was due to this lax oversight that Yan Moshan managed to hide Zijin, roughly the size of half a palm and weighing about ten pounds—a month's worth of his painstaking effort. Of course, he also stashed away some long-lasting dried food, all carefully concealed.