Lin Xiazhu noticed out of the corner of her eye that Xiao An was watching her, so she pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Xiao An, why don't you help start the fire? It'll be faster that way."
"Yes, Xiao An, come and watch the firewood. I've chopped up the rabbit meat. Oh dear, we're almost out of water. I'll go get two buckets." The two buckets for water were wooden and a bit heavy, but that didn't stop Lin Chacha from easily carrying back two full buckets of water.
While Lin Chacha went to fetch water, Xiao An spoke to Lin Xiazhu, "Sister, this ginseng must be quite old, with such a big root."
"It's about three hundred years old. It looks big now, but it will shrink when it dries." Lin Xiazhu happily wrapped the ginseng and hid it in the wooden house.
With this ginseng, the one at home can be kept to sell later. She currently has several hundred thousand yuan in bank savings, so she's not in a hurry to sell it. After all, money depreciates. She'll consider selling the ginseng if she needs money urgently in a few years.
After putting the ginseng away, Lin Xiazhu came out to find that Lin Chacha had already returned with water.
"I'll help. Let's have a good stew today," Lin Xiazhu said, her mood bright and cheerful because she had found ginseng. "Tomorrow, we won't go out. We'll dry the mushrooms for a couple of days and then go back to town."
Not going out anymore? Are you not going to look for those two ginseng roots? They're worth a lot of money!
"Sister, are there still two ginseng roots missing?" Lin Chacha felt that they should go up the mountain again in the next couple of days to search. With the three of them together, they would definitely find them.
"Don't bother looking anymore. When I came back today, I ran into a leopard. That big cat chased me for a long time. If I hadn't run fast and taken detours all over the mountains, I would have caught up with me to the cabin by now."
Lin Xiazhu eventually told the truth about encountering the leopard, but she lied about it.
Life is more important than ginseng; what's more important than life?
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