nashuaworldcup Chapter 27 Ginseng of the Year, Ganoderma lucidum of the Year
Chapter 27 Ginseng of the Year, Ganoderma lucidum of the Year
"Dad, it's so lively!" Xia Mo nodded obediently and said, "Later, I still want to go into the mountains. This time, let Third Brother stay home and help out?"
Mr. Xia frowned. Knowing that his daughter was very capable was one thing, but leaving her alone... he was extremely worried.
"Daddy..."
Acting coquettishly at the end of summer.
With Xia's father agreeing, things became much easier with Xia's mother.
As for Brother Xia, Second Brother Xia, and Third Brother Xia, she wasn't worried.
Xia's father was torn between his options.
Xia Mo deliberately picked up a pebble and showed it to Xia's father.
Xia's father, not understanding the situation, took the pebble, looked at it, and then handed it back to Xia Mo.
"Look," Xia Mo mysteriously demonstrated how to crush a small stone into even smaller pieces with his bare hands.
Xia's father: "..."
“Alright, go into the mountains. Remember to stay away from men. If anyone gets within a foot of you, step back. If they force their way in, you… do what you did with the little pebble, understand?” Xia’s father was still extremely worried.
"Hmm."
Xia Mochong gave Xia's father a sweet smile.
With Xia's father's consent, Xia Mo then went to ask Xia's mother and the others, and easily obtained their agreement.
Xia Mo, holding her slingshot, waved to her father and the others, saying, "I'll be back by noon."
"Go early and come back early," Xia's mother whispered worriedly.
"Mmm," Xia Mo nodded obediently.
Without Xia Sange following her around, she had more places to go.
I went into the mountains at the end of summer, heading deep into the mountains with a clear purpose.
When she first entered the mountain, she was only a little faster than a normal person. At first, those who followed her could barely keep up with her. But when blind spots appeared, those who followed Xia Mo caught up with her, but Xia Mo was nowhere to be found.
The five young men from Anjia Village, who were temporarily acting as hunters and carrying hunting bows, looked at each other in bewilderment.
Did you see which direction she went?
"I didn't see you..."
The five people asked the question almost simultaneously and all gave the same answer.
The five people sighed.
"I was thinking that since Shengqiu didn't come, there was nothing Momo could do about finding the prey. It was bound to be my turn eventually, right?" Zhang Dami from the same village sighed.
Of the other four, only one had ulterior motives; his eyes flickered as he nodded.
Xia Mo withdrew his extended divine sense and quickened his pace, rushing into the mountains and forests.
People frequently enter the shallow mountainous areas, where wood energy is scarce, while few people venture into the deep mountainous areas where wood energy is abundant, which is more beneficial for improving her physical abilities. Furthermore...
Her journey into the remote mountainous area was not without purpose.
Relying solely on cultivating the Nourishing Breath Technique is too slow for her. If she could supplement her baths with medicinal herbs, she could accelerate the improvement of her physical constitution.
She hoped that the situation, like yesterday, where her body couldn't handle using her spiritual power for even a short while and she suffered from a terrible headache, would not happen again.
After entering the deep mountains in late summer, he used his divine sense to scan the area and take in all the plants and animals within a five-kilometer radius.
Once the divine sense is released, it is immediately withdrawn without lingering. This minimizes the consumption of the divine sense and reduces the pressure on the body.
Xia Mo ran quickly in the direction of the information collected by her divine sense. When she stopped, there was a ginseng plant with all its leaves fallen and buried in the soil, its appearance unrecognizable, right next to her feet.
Xia Mo decisively took out a small knife, cleared away the soil, and harvested the ginseng.
While she was digging for ginseng in late summer, a dozen pairs of green eyes were watching her warily from a distance.
I have acquired a ginseng root that is a thousand years old.
As summer faded, Xia Mo stood up and looked with a smile at the owner of the dozen or so pairs of bright green eyes—the wolf pack.
"Are you coming over?" Xia Mo didn't retreat but instead walked closer to the wolf pack.
Startled, the alpha wolf promptly let out a cry and led the pack to retreat.
The alpha wolf could feel a powerful sense of oppression emanating from Xia Mo.
As summer drew to a close, seeing the alpha wolf lead the pack away, Xia Mo pursed his lips and hopped off to the next spot.
In late summer, we ran deeper into the mountains.
In this area, there is a male and a female tiger, which is their territory.
The tiger stood up, its size no less than that of a two-meter-tall, strong man, and even more terrifying.
Xia Mo greeted the tiger sweetly: "Hello, I'm here to pick a Ganoderma lucidum. I'll leave as soon as I'm done."
The male and female tigers gave uneasy warning growls, but dared not actually roar at Xia Mo. When Xia Mo went to dig for Ganoderma lucidum, he was clearly facing away from them, which should have been their chance to kill the intruder. However, they felt that countless dangers were lurking around them, making them afraid to move.
In late summer, I dug up a large Ganoderma lucidum and looked towards the deeper mountains.
She has now ventured ten kilometers into the deep mountains; if she goes any further, she doesn't know which wild beast's territory she'll be in.
I looked up at the sky at the end of summer.
The journey and the time spent digging for ginseng and lingzhi took an hour. In the morning, there was only an hour and a half. If she continued to explore deeper into the mountains, she might not make it home for lunch, and her parents would definitely worry.
Forget it.
Xia Mo waved to the tiger and ran briskly towards Anjia Village.
After Xia Mo left, the two tigers sniffed around, trying to detect the scent of the intruder, but after sniffing for a long time, they couldn't detect Xia Mo's scent.
As summer drew to a close, she entered the deep mountains, concealing her presence and even her scent using her divine sense. If she could still be detected by the two tigers, she could return to the cultivation world to resume her practice and come back again.
In the ten-kilometer radius area she passed through, there was more than one ginseng plant and several lingzhi mushrooms, but none of them were as old as the thousand-year-old one in her hand.
In late summer, he returned to the area inhabited by the wolves and confronted them.
The wolves watched Xia Mo warily. As animals, they realized that Xia Mo wasn't there to hunt them. As long as they didn't provoke Xia Mo, she wouldn't attack them.
Xia Mo dug up a 600-year-old ginseng, waved to the wolf pack, and left.
A thousand-year-old ginseng or lingzhi can sell for three to five hundred taels of silver, but Xia Mo doesn't plan to sell them. What she wants to sell are six-hundred-year-old ginseng that she dug up later.
They can't be sold in Anping County; they have to go to more distant places to sell them, so that they can be less conspicuous and fetch a better price.
But in her previous life, the farthest place she had ever been was Anping County, and the even more distant prefectural city... she had to find her way around it.
Xia Family Village, Anjia Village
Xia's father and mother were busy killing wild birds and plucking their feathers, but this did not stop them from worrying about Xia Mo, and they would look towards the mountains and forests from time to time.
Xia Mo appeared with light steps, carrying a wild rabbit.
Xia's father, Xia's mother, Xia's eldest brother, Xia's second brother, and Xia's third brother all had smiles in their eyes.
"Dad, Mom, it was so silly, it crashed into a tree and died," Xia Mo said with a grin. She said this to make her father and mother laugh.
Xia's mother laughed when she heard this, shook the water off her hands, stepped forward, took the wild rabbit from Xia Mo's hands, and said, "I'll clean its fur now and stew it for our little girl."
"Ok!"
Xia Mochong smiled sweetly at Xia's mother and father.
After lunch, Xia Mo suggested going to the mountains again.
Xia's parents thought that Xia would be able to go early in the morning and return safely, so they agreed.
Xia Mo waved happily and ran towards the mountain.
Of the five people who followed Xia Mo in the morning, four had already given up, while the remaining one, with ulterior motives, immediately followed after Xia Mo as she entered the mountains.
Xia Mo ran briskly into the mountains, a joyful smile on her lips.