Lin Weiming wasn't much better off, but he was thick-skinned and could easily swat a mosquito, unlike Lin Wanyue whose face was covered in small red bumps.

“Wanwan, be good, let’s be patient a little longer… Let’s go home after everyone who’s been working in the village has gone back. If they see us, they’ll definitely be green with envy.” He said in a low voice.

Lin Wanyue nodded.

Her father was right; one should not flaunt one's wealth.

If others see that my family bought so many things, there will definitely be a lot of gossip about it.

The father and daughter hid in the bushes outside the village and waited until the moon had climbed into the trees and the village was almost quiet.

The two of them then secretly carried their baskets on their backs and quietly made their way home.

The family had already prepared dinner and were just waiting for the two of them.

"Why are you back so late today? Did something happen on the way?" Liu Junlan asked, somewhat puzzled.

She knew her son's walking distance; the county town was a bit far, but it wouldn't take a whole day to go there and back.

Liu Junlan came over and hugged Lin Wanyue, and saw that she was scratching herself incessantly, obviously from mosquito bites.

Lin Weiming chuckled, carefully closed the door, and then opened the basket on his back.

The three brothers, Lin Zheyun, Lin Zihan, and Lin Ziqiu, had already swarmed over, their eyes fixed on their father's basket.

"Little sister, shall I put some medicine on you?" Lin Zhongyuan took out his homemade herbal ointment and applied it to the small red spots on Lin Wanyue's face.

The strong scent of fresh grass actually soothed those unbearably itchy little red bumps very quickly.

"Thank you, big brother." Lin Wanyue smiled at Lin Zhongyuan.

Big brother is the best!

"Wow!!!"

As Lin Weiming took out the large pieces of fatty meat, offal, pastries, and cloth from his basket, the three mischievous boys' eyes widened, and they croaked like frogs.

Even Xuefu and Liu Junlan were surprised.

"Why did you buy so much stuff?" Liu Junlan was already a little angry. Lin Weiming hadn't taken good care of Lin Wanyue, and now he was wasting money. She reached out and slapped Lin Weiming hard.

Caught off guard, Lin Weiming was slapped hard and quickly explained, "These didn't cost much money."

"I see you've really learned something from your trip! All this stuff and you didn't even spend much money? You bought offal, why did you buy pork too? And this fabric! Even if you were making clothes for Wanwan, you wouldn't need this much." Liu Junlan angrily slapped him twice more.

Xuefu had already picked up the fabric to look at it, her brows furrowed tightly: "Our mother is right. I saw this fabric when I went to the market last time. It costs ten coins per foot! Eight feet would be enough to make two new outfits for Wanwan. You have a whole bolt of fabric here."

Good quality fabric, costing ten coins per foot, could only fetch one tael of silver per bolt.

"You brat, you really think money is too good to be true? Spending so much money!" Liu Junlan instantly flew into a rage.

These days, the family is already struggling financially. If it weren't for the worry that they wouldn't have enough money for taxes after summer, they wouldn't have let Lin Weiming risk going up the mountain to hunt.

But now he's already spent a tael of silver just on some fabric!

"Mother, please don't be angry! Please don't be angry!" Lin Weiming quickly begged for forgiveness, taking out the heavy silver from his pocket: "Mother, you don't know, our family has made a lot of money this time. The ginseng that Wanwan found sold for a hundred taels of silver!"

"What?"

"One hundred taels?"

Liu Junlan and Xue Fu, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with disbelief.

They had seen that ginseng before. Although they knew that ginseng was expensive, they never expected it to be worth a hundred taels of silver!

If this bolt of cloth is worth only one tael of silver, then their family could buy a hundred bolts of cloth! That would be enough to start a business in town!

The two had no choice but to believe it; the gleaming silver was placed on their broken wooden table, standing out conspicuously among the pile of other things.