Chapter 23: Digging up wild ginseng
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the eldest and second sister-in-law started cleaning up, and Ye Jingchen stood up and prepared to leave.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Wu Yuetang called him back.
"Go to the mountains and hunt."
"Wait for me, I'll go with you."
After saying that, Wu Yuetang put on the backpack and took the sickle and left side by side with Ye Jingchen.
Wu Zhiyun wanted to go too, but unfortunately he was a step too late and was dragged to the fields by his father and eldest brother. He didn't want to go to the fields at all. Not only was the sun so hot, but he also had to carefully care for every seedling. The work was not only boring but also tiring. It was more fun to go into the mountains.
Wu Zhiyun felt a little aggrieved when he saw his younger sister was abducted by Ye Jingchen. He pouted and followed the fathers anyway.
I haven't been to the mountains for several days. I wonder if I can pick anything good.
Ye Jingchen took her to a hill far away from Dayao Village. Wu Yuetang had never been to this hill before. As soon as they entered the mountain, an electronic map popped up. The markings on it were so dense that two eyes were not enough.
"Remove the ore and the insects."
After blocking these two categories, the markings suddenly become clear.
Wu Yuetang ran westward along the mark and started digging in the ground. Ye Jingchen came over to help. Soon they dug out several large white radishes, which were wild. One was as thick as a wrist and weighed more than a pound.
Wu Yuetang's mind began to conjure up the image of carrot and pork rib soup, and her mouth began to water. It had been so long since she had this drink, and she was really craving it. She turned to look at Ye Jingchen, blinking her big eyes pitifully.
"Can you hunt a wild boar today?"
Looking at the little girl in front of him acting coquettishly and cutely towards him, Ye Jingchen's heart was beating fast and he nodded.
"Yeah, I'll get it."
After saying this, he immediately stood up and went deeper into the forest.
Wu Yuetang continued to dig nearby along the marks. Not only did he dig up a whole basket of wild white radishes, he also threw the ones he couldn't fit into the space.
"Host, host, a hundred-year-old wild ginseng has been detected within five meters. Please be careful when digging it up and don't break it."
The long-awaited system finally appeared, bringing with it such explosive news.
Wu Yuetang took the sickle and dug the ground bit by bit, fearing that if he dug it too hard, he would break it.
"I see!" Wu Yuetang's attention was focused until a small piece of ginseng leaf appeared.
It took Wu Yuetang almost a cup of tea to dig a hundred-year-old wild ginseng. Looking at the ginseng in his hand, he found that it weighed about six taels, had five-grade leaves, a slender rhizome, and fibrous roots covered with pearly dots. It was indeed a hundred-year-old wild ginseng.
What kind of luck do I have today? I even encounter something that happens every hundred years.
Now Wu Yuetang didn't have to do anything. She found a clean place to sit and waited for Ye Jingchen to come back from hunting.
At this time, Wu Yuetang's consciousness was already busy in the space. The wheat and rice that had been planted before had matured, and a harvest of 600 kilograms each was obtained.
After systematic basic processing, it was directly ground into precise and fine flour. Then I went to check on the Fritillaria cirrhosa. It was in good growth condition and there was no major problem.
"System, help me plant lemongrass, honeysuckle, Chuanxiong, and salvia miltiorrhiza in this medicinal field."
"Okay, host."
Then Wu Yuetang went to see the quails she raised. She was not interested in chickens and ducks, and what she wanted to eat most was quail eggs.
According to the system prompt, I can collect a batch of quail eggs tomorrow. I will then put them in the space and make them into salt-baked quail eggs. I can then sell them even after I arrive in the provincial capital.
Before leaving the space, he looked at his experience points again. He only needed 300 experience points to upgrade to level five.
After regaining consciousness from the space, he waited for a while and saw Ye Jingchen coming back with two wild boars on his shoulders.
Wu Yuetang was stunned. This guy really did what he said he would do. He was indeed a vassal king and a general. His fighting power was terrifying.
"You really did catch two pigs! We only need one for dinner tonight. Let's take the other one to town and sell it."
Ye Jingchen was reluctant to sell them. These two pigs were given to her, and he didn't want to sell them.
But he didn't want to refuse Wu Yuetang, so he nodded to show his agreement.
"Well, let's go."
Wu Yuetang waved his hand and walked ahead down the mountain.
"Hey, do you know what else I dug up today besides radishes?"
Ye Jingchen shook his head. "What?"
"I dug up some wild ginseng! It's a hundred years old! I have to go to town and sell it!"
There were stars in Wu Yuetang's eyes, as if she had seen the money.
Ye Jingchen walked aside carrying the wild boar, his eyes full of tenderness. Looking at the money-loving little girl beside him, he somehow felt a little warm.
The two of them walked and talked, and most of the time it was Wu Yuetang who was talking about everything, from all over the world to food and infrastructure.
Today's pace was a bit slow. I don't know if it was because Wu Yuetang was too engrossed in the conversation, or if Ye Jingchen deliberately slowed down his pace. It took him almost two hours to get to the town today.
It was still Rendetang, and the same shopkeeper, who directly offered three hundred taels to buy the hundred-year-old mountain ginseng.
Wu Yuetang came out holding three silver bills, and then took Ye Jingchen who was waiting at the door to sell wild boar meat.
Ye Jingchen used to come to sell wild boars, but he could only sell a wild boar weighing more than 300 pounds for a few taels of silver, and at most he could only sell it for ten taels.
But today, Wu Yuetang was not going to let Ye Jingchen suffer in silence, so she brought wild boar meat directly to the door of the tavern where Ye Jingchen was bullied that day.
"Does your family take in wild boars?"
The waiter at the door felt a little uncomfortable when he saw the same two people from yesterday, but when he thought of the tip of more than one or two taels he earned yesterday, he immediately perked up.
"Wild boar? Collect it, collect it."
The waiter looked at the two pigs Ye Jingchen was carrying and asked, "How many pigs are you selling?"
"One!"
As Wu Yuetang spoke, she signaled Ye Jingchen to put down the heavier end. Seeing this, the waiter immediately went in and called someone to weigh it.
"This pig weighs three hundred and fifty pounds."
The cook said this after weighing the food, and Wu Yuetang frowned after hearing it.
"Three hundred and fifty pounds? You've deducted at least a hundred pounds from me. What kind of scale do you have? How can you deduct so much?"
After hearing Wu Yuetang's rebuttal, the chef also got angry. But he had the restaurant to back him up, so he stiffened his neck and retorted.
"Who deducted your weight? I'm the one who weighs everything that comes to our restaurant, and no one has ever questioned it. You little bastard, did you do it on purpose? And you're trying to slander me, bah!"
The cook shook off the fat on his body, threw the scale to the ground, and started swearing at Wu Yuetang.
"You said you didn't weigh it wrong, right? Fine, then let's go to the market and borrow another scale to see whose scale is faulty!"
"You say that, but what if the person who lent you the scale is your accomplice?"
The two of them stood at the door of the restaurant and quarreled loudly, and the door of the restaurant became lively in an instant. Of course, this noise also disturbed the owner of the restaurant, and he hurried over.
After understanding what happened, I reweighed the pig myself.
"This pig weighs 485 kilograms. Our cook must have weighed it wrong."
The owner was wearing a dark purple silk robe. He was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old and looked to be an honest man. I never expected that this restaurant belonged to him.
"Okay, then you can charge according to the market price."
Wu Yuetang ignored the man and said, "According to the market price of 70 wen per catty, the total is 33 liang 9 qian. Give me the money."
He stretched out his hand and waited for the other party to put the money up.
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