White and Plump Ginseng

With Chen Mengtian trailing behind Jiang Zebei, they headed in the direction Chen Mengtian pointed out some time ago. 

Soon, they reached the green plants with strings of red fruits on them. 

As Jiang Zebei stared at the plants that looked like weeds, he could not understand why the girl beside him would think that they were ginseng. 

He had not just heard that ginseng grew on trees, but had also seen ginseng before. 

Before his father fell gravely ill, Jiang Zebei followed his mother to the apothecary to buy ginseng. 

One small piece cost a silver tael, and the entire ginseng looked like a human doll. 

Chen Mengtian walked among the green plants, and the delight on her face grew. 

They were really ginseng bushes, and they did not even have leaves. She could tell with just one glance that they were quite old. 

This sort of ginseng had even stronger medicinal properties. 

She immediately forgot about Jiang Zebei's warning from before and flung off his hand to walk forward. 

Jiang Zebei watched as she moved among the green weeds and crouched down to begin digging. 

He remembered what he said to her just a moment ago, and he narrowed his eyes as he stared at Chen Mengtian. Slight displeasure appeared in his eyes. 

'This Chen Mengtian… She's far too fearless!

'The moment she falls into a pit, it'll be hard for her to climb out. Besides, I don't even know whether there won't be anything in those pits.'

When he nearly fell in last time, he had heard hissing beneath him. 

Also, when he looked there, he could not see the bottom. The pit was dark, and it made his skin crawl. 

In truth, Jiang Zebei had an idea as to what made those hissing sounds. 

Only one type of creature could make that sort of sound—snakes. 

Up to this date, he still remembered the hissing. There was more than one creature down there, and the moment he heard it, his heart thrummed with fear.

When Jiang Zebei saw that Chen Mengtian did not continue forward, his expression became a little more pleasant. 

Even so, the anger on his face did not fade away because of this. 

He moved beside Chen Mengtian. Right when he schooled his expression to make sure he had a steely look on his face and intended to speak, he saw the object in her hands. 

It was white, plump, and larger than her palm. A ginseng that looked like a small human lay in Chen Mengtian's palm. 

No matter what, Jiang Zebei was still a boy. When he saw the ginseng, an indescribable look of shock appeared on his face. He was so shocked that his facial features became a little twisted. 

Chen Mengtian sensed the shadow over her, and she lifted the ginseng in her hands so that Jiang Zebei could see it clearly. 

"Look! It's really ginseng."

She might not know how much ginseng was worth in Cold West, but she knew that it was definitely worth a lot of money. 

Jiang Zebei stared at the ginseng she lifted up high, and he could not even keep a firm grip over the wooden stick in his hand. 

"Is that really ginseng?" He could not believe it. 

When Chen Mengtian saw how he reacted, she smiled even more brightly. 

She stood up and plopped the ginseng in Jiang Zebei's hands. "Look, isn't this ginseng?"

Jiang Zebei touched the white and plump ginseng in his hand, and he tossed the wooden stick in his other hand to the side. 

He then used his hands to touch the ginseng. It was still a little wet from the dirt, but he was certain that it was a ginseng. 

He had personally witnessed a physician cut a small piece from one when he was in the apothecary. 

The ginseng in the apothecary was much smaller than the one in his hands. 

Chen Mengtian stared at the ginseng in Jiang Zebei's hands with a dissatisfied look on her face. 

Just then, when she was digging out the ginseng, the roots were left in the dirt. 

What a waste. Without the appropriate tool, she could not dig out the roots. 

The roots could also be mixed into medicine, and their medicinal properties were no lower than those of the ginseng itself. 

Suddenly, Jiang Zebei squatted down and looked at the ginseng under his feet. 

"Th-These are all ginseng?"

Chen Mengtian squatted down as well and agreed. "Yup. They're all ginseng."