A Happy Wife in a Rural Family - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Chapter 12. Ginseng

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Gu Qingli looked at a small crack in the ground. There was a plant with a few small red fruits growing on it.

“Ginseng!”

Gu Qingli was surprised. Da Shuang was so lucky. People passed by this place often, but no one noticed it.

“Second sister, this is ginseng?”

“That’s right. I didn’t expect our Da Shuang to be so lucky. We won’t have to worry about money for school next year.” Gu Qingli pinched Da Shuang’s little face.

Gu Qingli could pinch the eldest Shuang as she pleased. He smiled naively, thinking that he wouldn’t have to worry about money for his studies next year. He was thinking about finding a few more trees to help his mother recover, and his second sister would have money for her dowry.

Gu Qingli said, “Little brother, you’re overthinking it. Do you think the whole mountain is full of ginseng?”

It wasn’t her space. There was indeed a tiny piece of ginseng in her interspace, over a hundred years old.

She would not take it out unless she had no other choice.

Gu Qingli asked Da Shuang to step aside. She dug away the mud and then searched carefully.

The ginseng grew in a crevice and was not easy to dig out. The roots could be hurt if one was not careful.

Da Shuang was gritting his teeth. He wanted to go over and help several times, but the place was too narrow for them.

“Second sister, third brother, what are you guys digging for?” When Xiao Shuang arrived, he saw Da Shuang clenching his fists and looking at Gu Qingli nervously.

“Shush, don’t disturb second sister. She’s digging for something good.” Da Shuang pulled Xiao Shuang back.

Xiao Shuang nodded and craned his neck to watch Gu Qingli.

It took Gu Qingli a lot of effort to dig it out. She carefully held palm-sized ginseng in her hand.

The roots were intact, so she carefully carried them to the place where the basket was.

The two quickly ran over and stretched their necks.

Gu Qingli placed the ginseng on the herb and smiled happily.

“Second sister, is this what life is like?” The two of them stared at the ginseng like it was a treasure, and they even used their little claws to poke at it.

“Yeah, don’t you look like a little person?” Gu Qingli sat on the ground and rested for a while. She was exhausted, and her tiny body was too weak.

“It seems so.” The two stared at the ginseng without blinking as if they were looking at a live thing.

Gu Qingli sat for a while and patted their heads. She carried the basket on her back and led the two to a place with water.

“I’m hungry; it’s time to eat.”

The two of them went to pick up the firewood while she skinned the rabbit and cleaned it up.

The firewood had been set up, and they were waiting for Gu Qingli to get on with the rabbit.

Gu Qingli put the rabbit meat on a thick branch and started to roast it.

In the beginning, the two were still obediently adding firewood slowly, but later on, the other two added firewood with all their might.

“Cough, cough, cough, stop it. It’s going to be burnt.” The fire was big, and so was the smoke. Gu Qingli choked and coughed. These two little idiots didn’t roast meat in broad daylight.

“Oh.” The two silly boys threw away the firewood in their hands and glanced at the rabbit that Gu Qingli had moved away with her hand. There was no golden, fragrant rabbit. It was black with a burnt smell.

“Hahaha!” The two silly guys pointed at the lump and laughed.

“You’re still laughing.” Gu Qingli glared at the two. She put it on the grill again when the fire was almost done.

After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, although it wasn’t satisfactory, it was finally done.

“Second sister, are we eating now, or are we taking it home to eat together?” Da Shuang asked as he stared at the roasted meat, gulping down his saliva.

“Go and pick a bigger leaf.” Gu Qingli said.

“Oh.” Both of them ran.

After a while, the two of them cut off a large piece of dead leaf and washed it clean.

Da Shuang put the leaf on the ground, and Gu Qingli cut the meat into small pieces and placed them on the dead leaf.

“Eat.” Gu Qingli glanced at the two greedy little cats.

“Oh.” The two used local materials and broke three pairs of chopsticks from the unburnt branches. They quickly washed them and put a couple for her first.

Xiao Shuang picked up a piece of meat and put it near Gu Qingli’s mouth. Gu Qingli smiled and ate it. Then, Da Shuang picked up a piece of meat and ate it.

“Yes, yes. It’s delicious. You two, hurry up and eat.”

The two of them smiled at her and picked up some food.

The two chewed slowly as if they were savoring the taste of the meat.

Gu Qingli had mixed feelings. This was the first meat meal for the three of them in her memory.

“Second sister, the meat is delicious.”

The two of them smiled at her with curved eyes.

“Yes, yes. Eat more. After you’re done, I’ll go and catch more.”

Seeing them eating happily and satisfyingly, Gu Qingli’s heart ached, and she couldn’t swallow the meat in her mouth.

In her heart, she promised herself that she would let them walk out of this place in the future and create a path that belonged to them.

The three of them finished the rabbit. To be exact, two of them finished the rabbit. Gu Qingli only had two or three pieces, including the two that the two of them fed her.

The two of them were still savoring the aftertaste.

Gu Qingli took the two to the water to wash their mouths before washing them.

At night, she still secretly gave the buns to Mrs. Wu and second brother Gu. The buns had been in the basket and were already cold.

It was second brother Gu who had the idea. He used a pot to make charcoal, heated it a little, and ate it.

The next day, the three siblings woke up early as usual. They were going to the market today, so they went even earlier to avoid bumping into people on the road, especially Zhang Qiaozui.

When they arrived at the medicine shop, it was not open yet. The three siblings had to wait in the empty alley next to it.

It was freezing in the morning, and the three siblings’ faces were red from the cold, but when they thought of the ginseng in the basket on her back, they could bear it no matter how cold it was.

They didn’t have to wait long before the medicine boy opened the door after half an incense’s time.

At this time, people on the street were going to the morning fair in twos and threes.

The three of them entered the shop. Gu Qingli carefully picked up the ginseng and placed it on the herbs.

“Eh? You siblings are so early?”

The two of them nodded at him in embarrassment.

“Little brother, is your shopkeeper here?” Gu Qingli asked.

“What’s wrong? What herbs do you need our manager to look at personally?” The medicine boy walked over. What precious herbs did they have?

Gu Qingli pointed at the basket.

The medicine boy looked into the basket on her back. Oh my God, it’s ginseng! The medicine boy turned and ran to the back hall.

The three siblings smiled and waited around the basket.

After a short while, the shopkeeper ran out excitedly, tidying up his robe as he ran.

“Come, come, let this old man take a look.” The shopkeeper’s voice arrived before he did.

The three siblings made way for him. The shopkeeper walked over to look, and then the smile on his face deepened. “Hehe, young lady, you’ve come at the right time. Yesterday, this old man urgently needed this hundred-year-old ginseng, and today you’ve brought it over. You’re this old man’s lucky stars. Hahaha, Xiao Liuzi, you help them weigh it; this old man will handle this.”

As he spoke, the shopkeeper carried the ginseng into the back hall, and the medicine boy, Xiao Liuzi, took the basket and weighed it.