Two hours later, the mountaintop had been dug up to its core, but the three ginseng roots were still nowhere to be found.

"They must have been dug up by someone. What a huge loss! We should have dug them all up back then." Lin Chacha was furious. She couldn't hunt small animals to sell for money, and now the ginseng was gone too. She was so angry.

After her initial agitation subsided, Lin Xiazhu calmed down. She and Xiao An sat peacefully under a large tree, enjoying the cool shade and leisurely drinking honey water.

Oh dear, it's lunchtime in the blink of an eye. Lin Xiazhu took out a pack of sliced ​​pancakes from her bag and ate them. They tasted pretty good with honey water.

"Sis, are we going to go home empty-handed like this? Why don't we find a wild boar to take back? Hey, why didn't any wild boars come looking for trouble this time?" Lin Chacha felt very disappointed. Wild boars aren't sold for money, but they'd be quite satisfying to eat themselves.

Pig's blood, pork, and offal are all delicious.

The stewed pork heart and pheasant tasted amazing, it was so nutritious! Lin Chacha wiped her lips hard, her mouth watering.

"Don't rush. When I was going up the mountain, I saw a place with lots of maple and tung trees." You can definitely find Ganoderma lucidum and various medicinal fungi where there are maple and tung trees.

After filling their stomachs, the three rested for an hour before heading down the mountain to find the maple and tung forest. The maple forest wasn't large, taking up about one-fifth of the entire mountain.

Lin Xiazhu and Lin Chacha each took a spot and quickly sifted through the fallen leaves under the tree roots. At first, they didn't find anything, but soon Lin Xiazhu found a cluster of Ganoderma lucidum in the decaying leaves under a maple tree.

"I've struck gold! I've really found wild Ganoderma lucidum! I'm going to make Ganoderma lucidum chicken soup as soon as I get back." No matter what good things you find, you must not let your stomach down and take good care of yourself and your family.

Xiao An followed closely behind Lin Xiazhu. He was slightly out of breath, but his eyes lit up when he saw Lingzhi. He was very excited. It was worth the trip.

No, he can't hold us back. Xiao An carried a black cloth bag and ran to a maple tree. He tried his best to clear away the leaves on the ground, just like Lin Xiazhu did. And sure enough, he found a cluster of red mushrooms.

But he wasn't sure if it was edible. "Sister, can I eat these red mushrooms?"

Lin Xiazhu came over after picking the Ganoderma lucidum. When she saw the cluster of red mushrooms, she was overjoyed. "Oh my, these are red mushrooms! They're good stuff! Of course they're edible. Pick them quickly!"

In later generations, red mushrooms sold for eight or nine hundred, even a thousand yuan per kilogram. Wouldn't you say that's a good thing?

As the sun began to set, Lin Xiazhu glanced at the digital watch she had bought for thirty yuan on her wrist. It was already four o'clock, and she should head down the mountain back to her cabin. She couldn't stay here after dark; there was a high chance that large wild animals might appear.

"Cha Cha, let's go back. There's no need to pick anymore. It'll get dark if we delay any longer." The snakeskin bags and cloth bags they brought were already full, more than enough.

Lin Chacha quickly picked up the two full snakeskin bags and ran down the mountain. Lin Xiazhu tied the two snakeskin bags together with rattan and carried them on her left shoulder. Then she picked up Xiao An and carried him on her right shoulder.

Xiao An was taken aback. He knew Lin Xiazhu was strong, but he didn't expect her to be this strong. How could he let her carry him?

"Sister, put me down quickly, I can walk by myself." Xiao An was so anxious that her face turned red.

"Don't be a show-off." Xiao An's face was deathly pale, and she was panting heavily. She and Cha Cha walked fast, and he couldn't keep up with them on foot.

Without saying much, Lin Xiazhu carried Xiao An and two bags and ran down the mountain. She quickly caught up with Lin Chacha, but she didn't overtake her. Instead, she followed behind Lin Chacha to keep up with her pace.

Back in the wooden cabin, after resting for a while, Lin Xiazhu went to the nearby area and caught two wild rabbits. She processed one of them and used it to stew with mushrooms.

After dinner, the three of them began to categorize the day's achievements.

Finally, the Ganoderma lucidum filled half a sack, the red mushrooms filled one sack, and the other mushrooms, including wood ear fungus, trumpet mushrooms, and various other types, were in three sacks.

"These need to be dried a bit before we take them back, otherwise there are too many to carry." Everything definitely needs to be moved out at once; it's impossible to move them back and forth. The journey is too long, tiring, and the mountain roads are fraught with danger.

Lin Xiazhu decided to go up the mountain again tomorrow to look for ginseng, and if she still couldn't find it, she would give up.

"Tomorrow, Chacha, you and Xiao An will stay here to dry the Ganoderma lucidum and shiitake mushrooms. I'll go up the mountain by myself to take a look."

"It's too dangerous, let's go together." Xiao An was worried.

"No, I'll be faster on my own, and it'll be easier for me to escape if there's danger. Listen to me, I can go by myself. Now go to sleep." Exhausted from traveling all day, the three of them didn't have time to think and fell asleep almost immediately after lying down.

The next day, before six o'clock, as dawn broke in the east, Lin Xiazhu got up to wash and then went to the neighborhood to hunt a few wild rabbits and bamboo rats.

They were all alive. Lin Chacha would kill one when she got up, and the rest could be taken back to town. She ate the rabbit meat that she had roasted last night. After she was full, she would take the rest with her for lunch.

With two bamboo tubes filled with cooled boiled water tied around her waist, and a machete, axe, and rope in her hands, she went out. When she reached the wooden fence, she paused and looked back.

But then she saw Xiao An standing quietly in front of the wooden house watching her. When she turned around, her eyes lit up, a happy smile appeared on her lips, and she waved to her.

"Sister, come back soon, I'll be waiting for you to come back for dinner." Xiao An's voice was clear and crisp, echoing faintly in the mountains and forests, it was very pleasant to hear.

Lin Xiazhu grinned broadly, "Okay, I'll have Chacha cook for you. Stay home and dry the mushrooms properly. Don't go out; it's not safe outside."

"Don't worry, we won't hold you back," Xiao An replied loudly. He was usually very quiet and rarely spoke, and he would ignore others when they tried to talk to him. But today he was being a bit long-winded.

For some reason, seeing Xiao An's handsome face, which looked almost translucent in the morning sunlight, made Lin Xiazhu feel exceptionally good.

The ascent was twice as fast. The highest peak in the deep mountains was shrouded in milky white mist, making one feel as if they were in a fairyland.

Lin Xiazhu arrived at the edge of the sheer cliff at the top of the mountain. Looking down at the plants on the cliff through layers of mist, she vaguely saw familiar ginseng leaves on the cliff yesterday. At that time, she wondered if the ginseng had grown up on the cliff.

She had kept her thoughts to herself because Xiao An and Cha Cha were both there yesterday, and she was afraid they would worry. Now she could go down and take a look, but she still had to be careful. She didn't want to fall off a cliff and be smashed to pieces for a ginseng.

The rope she brought wasn't long enough, so she had to cut some more vines to attach it. Once she estimated that the rope was long enough, Lin Xiazhu found a towering tree, tied one end of the rope to it, and the other end around her waist.

After taking a deep breath, she began to walk down the cliff. Even though she was brave, she felt a little apprehensive hanging there. After exhaling her pent-up emotions, she selectively numbd her senses and focused on going down to the ginseng leaves.

On a cliff about ten meters from the mountaintop, Lin Xiazhu found the familiar ginseng leaves. It was truly surreal; it really was a ginseng plant.

She subconsciously looked down and saw two more ginseng leaves tens and hundreds of meters below. By this time, the fog had already dissipated, and the plants on the cliff were not dense, so she could see them clearly.