"Hmm? Those four wild ginseng plants and three wild lingzhi mushrooms are growing well. They look like they're about a year old and should be ready to eat."
Lin Xiaofei walked over to the few wild herbs and examined them carefully.
Lin Xiaofei's body was rather thin, but fortunately, on the first day of his rebirth, he discovered the function of the space bead, and then went to the hillside to find some wild vegetables and planted them in the space bead.
Some short-lived wild vegetables mature in the black soil in just three days.
Since there wasn't much food left at home, Lin Xiaofei gathered some firewood in his spatial bead and cooked the wild vegetables over the flames to replenish his body's nutrients.
For fifteen days, starting from the third day, he would go to the space bead every day to cook some wild vegetables.
Within twelve days, he ate a lot of roasted wild vegetables, eating his fill each time. His originally thin body, which had little strength, was now much better, and he no longer looked as thin as before.
Of course, Lin Xiaofei didn't keep the food to himself. Every two days, he would bring the ripe wild vegetables from his spatial bead home for his parents to enjoy.
He dared not bring back too many wild vegetables, fearing that his parents would become suspicious and ask him too many questions.
The Space Bead is his biggest secret, and he will not tell anyone, not even his parents.
It is said that wild ginseng can nourish the body's vital energy and blood. Lin Xiaofei squatted down and looked at a wild ginseng with only one small green leaf.
In this world, the age of wild ginseng growing in the mountains is determined by its leaves: a small green leaf represents one year, a medium green leaf represents ten years, and a large green leaf represents one hundred years. There are a maximum of ten leaves.
As for thousand-year-old ginseng, no one has ever seen it.
Lin Xiaofei understood that the body is the foundation of a person, so in order to improve his health, he didn't hesitate and directly pulled out a wild ginseng that was a year old.
Fortunately, there was a shallow well in the space bead. He took the wild ginseng, washed it in the clear water, and then cooked it before eating it.
Lin Xiaofei really wanted to make wild ginseng soup, but his family was too poor to afford it. They didn't have any extra iron pots or porcelain bowls. He didn't dare to cook ginseng soup at home, because if his parents found out, they would not only scold him for wasting food, but also ask him where the wild ginseng came from.
He didn't want to cause trouble, so Lin Xiaofei simply roasted it and ate it. The medicinal properties were just slightly weaker, but it didn't matter.
"It smells really good. I wonder what roasted wild ginseng tastes like?"
Lin Xiaofei held a tree branch in one hand, with roasted wild ginseng at the other end. He brought his nose close to smell it and swallowed.
I took a bite, and it had a medicinal taste, somewhat like eating a radish, with a slightly bitter flavor.
After chewing a few times, I swallowed it.
Suddenly, his body began to feel slightly warm, as if a heat was spreading from his stomach throughout his body.
After finishing a roasted wild ginseng, Lin Xiaofei felt warm all over, and even broke out in a light sweat, as if he had just finished a workout.
Lin Xiaofei closed his eyes, feeling the warmth in his body. He spread his fingers and found that the strength of his fist had increased slightly.
Lin Xiaofei opened his eyes, his gaze brightening. He plucked another wild ginseng, roasted it, and ate it.
Immediately, a warm current flowed through his body once again.
Lin Xiaofei closed his eyes and felt it again. He confirmed that eating the wild ginseng had indeed increased his strength a little. Although the increase was not much, he could really feel it.
"I never expected that eating wild ginseng would enhance my strength. This can be considered a way to strengthen myself."
Unfortunately, only two wild ginseng roots and three wild lingzhi mushrooms remain. Currently, my method for obtaining wild herbs is to search in the mountains, but how will I obtain herbs once I go to town?
Lin Xiaofei thought about it for a while, but couldn't come to a conclusion, so he decided to put it aside for the time being. Then he left the spatial bead, covered himself with the blanket, and went to sleep.
The next day, the weather was clear and cloudless.
Lin Xiaofei got up early and quickly went into the space bead. He cooked some wild vegetables for breakfast, then led two calves to graze on the grassy slope in the field.
These two calves were bought by a group of villagers who pooled their money, hoping to raise them for a year so they could grow up and be used for plowing the fields for every household in the village.
Based on the circumstances of each family, the village chief decided to assign the two calves to the Lin family to raise. During this period, Lin Xiaofei was in charge of herding the cattle.
Lin Xiaofei was very sensible; he immediately led the two calves towards the grassy slope.
Suddenly, two or three children, around eight or nine years old, ran up to Lin Xiaofei with cheerful expressions and asked curiously, "I heard you're afraid of snakes, so you want to learn martial arts and then kill wild animals, is that true?"
In a small village, news usually spreads quickly and soon the whole village knows about it.
The three children followed Lin Xiaofei all the way, always asking him questions, all of which were related to the black snake that had been killed.
Lin Xiaofei answered a few questions, but found them uninteresting; they were all childish questions asked by a child.
Lin Xiaofei ignored them and led the two calves to another hillside meadow.
An hour and a half later, Lin Xiaofei saw that the calf's belly was bulging and the calf wasn't eating grass as well. He knew the calf was full, so he led it home.
At this moment, her mother, Hu Baihe, was cooking in the kitchen.
Although Hu Baihe looks ordinary, she is a great cook. She can make even a wild vegetable taste delicious.
As soon as Lin Xiaofei stepped into the kitchen, the aroma of chicken wafted over.
"Mother, did you kill that hen?"
Lin Xiaofei quickly asked.
This hen lays eggs every day, and selling the eggs earns the family some copper coins. It's one of the most valuable things in the house, but somehow it's become a dish.
“Yesterday your father said that you wanted to learn martial arts, right? It just so happens that your Uncle Hua is willing to take you to the Qingfeng Gang to learn martial arts. Your father hopes that after you go to the Qingfeng Gang, Uncle Hua can take care of you. So, he will treat them to a meal as a token of his gratitude.”
As Hu Baihe spoke, she glanced at the chicken cooking in the iron pot.
Lin Xiaofei nodded, took out the wild vegetables hidden behind his back, and said, "Mom, these are two big wild vegetables that I picked by chance. They're enough for us to eat for three days."
Hu Baihe felt a little strange. Lin Xiaofei had been able to find several large wild vegetables lately, but she didn't ask any questions. After taking the vegetables, she continued cooking.
Looking at the chicken soup simmering in the iron pot, Lin Xiaofei noticed a small piece of angelica root in the soup.
Lin Xiaofei really wanted to put the one-year-old wild ginseng from his spatial bead into the pot, but after thinking about it, he decided not to cause any trouble.
On the hillside where he went to graze the cattle, he dug up some wild vegetables and planted them in the black soil of the space bead. He originally wanted to find some wild medicinal herbs, but he couldn't find a single one.
Currently, the only way he can strengthen himself is by consuming herbs that replenish his qi and blood.
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