Ye Caiping and her daughter went up the mountain and saw more than a dozen people picking dates halfway up the mountain.

There were children and women.

Ye Yinhua was carrying a bag of dates in the hem of her clothes when she saw Ye Caiping and the other two and waved to them.

Ye Huan'er hurried over with her basket on her back. Yin Hua poured the dates into the basket, which weighed two or three pounds.

Tie Niu's wife was also there. She took a big bamboo pole and hit it hard. With a whoosh, the dates fell down like a rain of dates. The children were hit and laughed, scrambling to pick up the dates.

Ye Caiping also experienced the joy of picking dates.

After picking for a while, Ye Caiping decided not to compete with them anymore. She let Yinhua and Huan'er stay there to continue playing, while she and Jin'er wandered around the mountain to see if they could dig up some wild vegetables.

After searching in the mountains for a while, Ye Jin'er suddenly pointed to a steep slope: "Mother, look at that... isn't that ginseng?"

Ye Caiping was taken aback. Following the direction Ye Jin'er pointed, she saw a small red fruit peeking out from under a clump of wild grass.

Ye Caiping quickly walked behind Ye Jin'er, and from her angle, she could indeed see a ginseng growing at the bottom of the steep slope.

Ye Caiping was stunned. Could it be that the inevitable encounter with ginseng during transmigration had finally come to pass?

Thinking about it, she felt a surge of excitement. High-quality ginseng could sell for hundreds of taels, while even low-quality ginseng could fetch a dozen or so taels.

She seemed to see the silver coins waving to her in a friendly manner.

"Haha, today's harvest is really good."

"These dates are crisp and sweet."

Suddenly, a burst of laughter rang out. The women and children who had just been picking dates were coming this way. Seeing Ye Caiping, Tie Niu's wife smiled and said:

"Caiping, what are you doing here? Digging for wild vegetables?"

Ye Caiping quickly looked away from the ginseng and nodded with a smile, "Yes."

"Wow, there's a lot of shepherd's purse here."

Suddenly, Tie Niu's wife's eyes lit up. She saw that there were many shepherd's purse growing around her, so she quickly squatted down and began to dig for wild vegetables.

The other women, including Zhu Zi's wife, who were with her, also started digging.

Ye Caiping: "..."

Ye Jin'er's heart pounded, fearing that they had also discovered the ginseng.

Ye Caiping quickly squatted down and joined them in digging. They continued until all the wild vegetables were gone, then she smiled and said, "It's getting late, let's go back!"

"It's getting late. Look, the sun has already set, and the sky is still overcast. It looks like it's going to rain." Tie Niu's wife nodded.

The group chatted and laughed as they walked down the mountain.

The mother and daughter walked at the very back. Ye Jin'er tugged at Ye Caiping's sleeve and whispered, "Mother, I'm going back..."

"No, let's go! There are still people picking dates over there."

Ye Jin'er nodded nervously.

That slope is quite steep.

The people who just picked the jujubes haven't all left yet. If she's halfway through digging and gets startled, she might tumble down the steep slope. Not only would she expose the ginseng, but she might even lose her life.

That ginseng was quite well hidden; it would have been difficult to spot it if I hadn't happened to see it.

Let's go down the mountain now and come back tomorrow.

When Ye Caiping returned home, she saw Ye Jinhua feeding the chicks.

She and Ye Peng spent half a day covering the grasshoppers and insects.

Upon returning, he chopped up the grasshoppers and insects, mixed them with radish greens and rice bran, and put them into the feeding trough.

At this moment, Ye Bajin drove the oxcart over and handed a basket to Ye Caiping.

"10 catties of lean meat cost 150 coins, pig's head bone cost 5 coins, large bone cost 32 coins... a total of 187 coins." Ye Bajin said with a slight stutter, "I bought it from Butcher Chen. If you don't believe me, you can ask him tomorrow."

Ye Bajin was afraid that she would misunderstand and think he was taking kickbacks.

He had brought things for villagers before, but the man would ask questions and even go to the shopkeeper the next day, fearing that Ye Bajin would cheat him out of a single penny.

After agreeing to Ye Caiping's request that afternoon, he realized that money always causes trouble once it's been handled. He immediately regretted it.

And this wasn't just a small amount of money, but over a hundred coins.

Ye Bajin looked annoyed.

Ye Caiping smiled slightly and said, "What's there to ask? I told you to buy it, so of course I trust you."

He then gave them the money.

Seeing her straightforward and open-minded attitude, Ye Bajin felt relieved and said with a simple smile, "Then I'll be going. I'll come pick you up tomorrow morning."

They left happily.

That evening, Ye Caiping asked Du to fry up all the remaining pork cracklings, otherwise they would spoil even in the driest weather.

Upon hearing this, Du's eyes lit up.

After spending time together, she realized that her sister-in-law had really changed.

Judging from my sister-in-law's tone and expression, after she finishes eating the pork cracklings, she might buy some delicious food tomorrow.

After we finished eating, it suddenly started raining heavily.

Ye Jin'er looked anxiously at the rain outside.

After soaking the dried vegetables they would need for tomorrow in water, Ye Caiping urged her two daughters to go to bed: "It's getting late, let's go to sleep quickly, we have to get up early tomorrow."

After returning to her room, Ye Huan'er was exhausted and fell asleep soon after.

Ye Jin'er leaned close to Ye Caiping and whispered, "Mother, how about I don't go tomorrow? I'll go up the mountain to dig ginseng instead."

"No. That slope is too steep. And it's raining now, so the soil will become even looser and more dangerous." Compared to ginseng, her daughter's life is the most important thing.

...

The next morning, Ye Caiping got up at the sound of the rooster's crow. Seeing that her two daughters were still asleep, she didn't wake them and let them sleep a little longer.

They are still young and growing, so they need to sleep more.

Grandma Ye got up even earlier than her and was already chopping dried vegetables.

After a flurry of activity, once the three large buckets of spicy soup were filled, Ye Caiping finally woke up her two daughters.

Because I made an extra bucket, I arrived in town 15 minutes later than yesterday.

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