Su Hua's heart skipped a beat as she was moved. She glanced silently at Da Niu and Da Bai on the ground. Putting aside whether she could beat a tiger, was fighting a tiger really a good idea?
The girl's eyes widened in surprise: "………………"
Big White looked aggrieved: "Meow..."
Madam Qian quickly pulled Chunhua aside and quietly moved away from Da Bai. A beast will always be a beast. Only these people have such big hearts. Who knows when the tiger will roar and eat people without them even realizing it? She wouldn't be that stupid.
Upon hearing this, Su Bai waved her hand and said, "Alright, Hua'er is back. Everyone go do what you're supposed to do. It's almost noon. Second son's wife, eldest son, second son, Chunhua, you all go to the kitchen and help Dongmei prepare the dishes. So many villagers are waiting for their meal. If I see you hiding in the house being lazy again, you can forget about eating in the future!"
"Yes, Mother, don't worry, I'll go right away." Madam Qian forced a smile onto her full moon face. She had only stayed in the house for a day because she was worried about the big tiger, but in Madam Su's mouth, it sounded like she was a lazy woman all day long.
However, Su Bai was in a bad mood, so she only dared to mutter a few words to herself before quickly leading the three little ones into the kitchen.
After saying that, Madam Su waved to the Su brothers beside her, "Erhu, Sanhu, you two hurry up and go to the back hillside to look for Yu Feng and Yu Yu. If you don't see them, just wait there and tell them that Hua'er is back and you don't need to look anymore. Also, invite them to come to our house for lunch."
"Yu Feng and Yu Yu?" Su Hua was a little surprised when she heard the voice. After the two of them came to help at her house yesterday morning, she invited them to have hot pot at her house, but she never saw them. Even the hot pot base, beef and offal were delivered by Su Sanhu later.
“Yes, I couldn’t find you when I came back, so I immediately searched around the house and the hillside. It was Yu Feng and Yu Yu who came over and said that they found shoe prints on the hillside, saying that you might have gone to Fuhu Mountain.” As Su Bai said this, a hint of appreciation flashed in her slanted eyes.
"As expected of Jin Han's troops, the two of them stood on the tree branches and flew up like wild geese, soaring far into the mountains. Compared to your brothers, they are much better. They can't even find where to look for someone, let alone fly."
If it weren't for the two of them, the old woman would probably have been scared half to death.
Upon reflection, she realized that Xiao Jinhan had arranged for these two people before leaving, which further increased her satisfaction with him.
If it weren't for careful planning, how could it have been arranged so perfectly?
Su Erhu and Su Sanhu blushed with embarrassment after being told this, and could only nod repeatedly, "Mother is right, we'll go and guard the back hillside right now."
Before the words were even finished, the person had already run quite a distance.
It felt like a ghost was chasing us.
Su Hua nodded in understanding. Seeing that only Su Baishi, Erhu, and the dog were left in the courtyard, she took the items out of the basket in a flattering manner, "Mother, look what good things I found in Fuhu Mountain today! This trip was definitely worth it."
"What's this about losing money? No matter how good something is, nothing is more important than you." Madam Su snorted lightly. Her daughter magically produced half a basket of sweet potatoes and vines, and then a huge, fat radish as thick as a child's arm?
Beneath the big, fat radish, there are about ten finger-thick... little radish sprouts?
Upon seeing this, Su Bai frowned. Although they had never grown vegetables well over the years, they were still experienced farmers with more than ten years of experience. At first glance, this thing looked similar to a radish, but upon closer inspection, it was quite different from a radish. Radishes do not have so many roots.
Moreover, when you pick it up and sniff it lightly, there is no pungent smell of radish, but rather a faint medicinal smell.
Before her doubts were resolved, she saw her daughter take out palm-sized mushrooms from the basket. Some mushrooms were purplish-red, some were reddish-brown, and some were brownish-brown. Each large mushroom had a sturdy, long stem underneath, and the mushroom surface and stem looked as if they were coated with glaze, making them particularly vibrant in the sunlight.
"Hua'er, these, these..." Even Su Bai, who had seen a lot in recent days, was speechless when she saw these things.
Su Hua smiled slightly and lowered her voice, "Mother guessed right. The one in your hand and these finger-thick ones are all ginseng. The difference is that the one in your hand is older, while these on the ground can be considered its offspring. As for the ones next to the ginseng, they are purple lingzhi, red lingzhi, and yellow lingzhi."
"Ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum? So many ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum?" Su Bai swallowed silently as she listened to the girl's affirmative words. Before Su Chengde became the village chief, he had dug up a ginseng plant, but it was just a lone plant, not even half the size of a finger.
But her daughter just pulls out a whole bunch of them. Could it be that she's stirred up trouble with ginseng and lingzhi?
Thinking of this, she instantly grasped the key phrase, "Hua'er, tell me, how old is this one in your hand...?"
It is said that the longer the ginseng is aged, the more ginseng roots it will have. She looked at the tangled and messy roots in her hand, which were just like human hair, and were too numerous to count.
Su Hua raised her hand and pointed to the ginseng body, "Judging from the pearl-like spots on the reed bowl and ginseng rootlets, this old ginseng is about a hundred years old."
She dug up three ginseng nests in Fuhu Mountain, and each nest contained an old ginseng. The one she took out was the youngest. The other two were 120 and 150 years old respectively, both of which were old ginseng.
Ginseng can save lives in critical moments. This century-old ginseng is not particularly outstanding compared to the other two. It's just right to keep it at home, just in case. After all, there are so many people in the Su family, young and old, that there will inevitably be times when we can't help them.
Upon hearing the words "hundred years," Su Bai gasped in shock. Good heavens, this ginseng was bigger than her, twice her size!
The ginseng that Su Chengde dug up, which was no bigger than half a finger, sold for ten taels of silver at the town's pharmacy. How much silver would this hundred-year-old ginseng be worth?
Moreover, there's not just this one old ginseng, but also so many tiny ginseng roots the size of a finger, and various red and purple Ganoderma lucidum. Could this really be what Hua'er said earlier about carrying money in a burlap sack?
Thinking of this, she quickly wrapped the ginseng seedlings carefully in damp moss and hid them in the basket along with the lingzhi mushroom. "Hua'er, didn't you have a good place to hide things on Fuhu Mountain? Hide these things quickly later. You can keep these valuable things yourself from now on. There are so many eyes in the house, but none of them are as reliable as your place."
Su Hua: "…………"
The reason she only brought out these younger-aged ginseng was because she was afraid that if Su Baishi saw the older ginseng, she would worry so much that she couldn't sleep all day, just like when she hid the silver.
Now that she's been made to hide it again, all that effort she put into digging and sorting through it was for nothing, wasn't it?
She thought for a moment before speaking gently, “Mother, I will process this old ginseng and keep it for now. As for the Ganoderma lucidum, I will go to the pharmacy in Qingshui County to see if they will buy it. As for these small ginsengs, I plan to plant them in the yard. After all, the small ginsengs are only 10 or 20 years old now, and they are not worth much when sold. After a while, they will not only increase in value, but they may also produce new ginseng.”
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