Jinghan was very fond of eating matsutake mushrooms, so every morning she would make a trip into the forest to forage. If she gathered a surplus, she would lay them out to dry. Though the flavor of dried matsutake wasn't as good as when they were fresh, they were quite nice stewed with chicken. Besides, there weren't many vegetables in winter, so by then, any kind of dried vegetables would be much appreciated.
On the fifteenth of July, the elder ordered Zhixin to return to the village to tend to the ancestors' graves, and it was there that he ran into Zhide. Seeing Zhixin, Zhide grew sad and repeatedly expressed that he had had no other choice back then and never expected to end up in a situation where the family had to sell their house and land and go up the mountain to tend to the ginseng fields.
