After dinner, Su Zu washed the bowls and cups as usual. She had often helped her grandparents with their work ever since her injuries had healed. Recently, the two old men had also let her do whatever she wanted. They did not want to treat her like an egg. They were already giving her enough love and warmth. They were afraid that if they took care of her too much, Su Zu would feel like she was a burden to them.
After Su Su finished washing the dishes, she went to take a shower and changed into clothes that her grandmother had sewn into her son's old clothes several months ago. This meant that Su Su now had five sets of clothes to change into. Before going to bed, Su Su also went to say goodnight to her grandparents, as she had always done since she recovered from her injuries. The two old men smiled and told her to sleep well as well. They had not been lonely since little Su Su had come to live under their roof. Moreover, Su Su had helped them with many chores, even though she was so small. Each day, the two old men loved and adored their little granddaughter more and more.
After breakfast the next day, Su Su prepared a backpack to go up the mountain again. She told her grandpa and grandma that from now on, she would go up the mountain to find forest products to sell every day. It was also a form of exercise that would make her body stronger. The two old men just thought about it and nodded in agreement, but they only told her to walk carefully. There weren't only forest products on the mountain. If she encountered a big wild animal, she should hurry down the mountain as well.
Su Su promised her grandparents with a smile before skipping around like a child towards the mountain. He Yang Bao and Shuang Yuan'er could only shake their heads with smiles at their lively granddaughter. They didn't think she would scold her if she wanted to earn a little money herself, they only told her to take good care of herself and not let them worry too much. They had only taken her in for three months, how could they want her to get hurt again?
It didn't take Su Zu much longer to climb the mountain than yesterday. With her lightness skill, she had almost reached the top of the mountain. But because she was afraid that she would miss out on some good herbs, Su Zu didn't reach the top of the mountain yet. She walked around the forest to find forest products and herbs like yesterday without any hurry. Until Su Zu found a ginseng leaf that she remembered from her previous world. Su Zu quickly sat down to take a closer look. When she saw that it was definitely a ginseng leaf, Su Zu used her Qi and a short knife to slowly dig the soil around the ginseng plant. She knew that if even a little bit of the ginseng root was missing, the price of the ginseng would definitely not be worth the full price. The more Su Zu looked around the area, the more she saw that there were still many ginseng plants for her to collect. So Su Zu was very careful when digging up the first ginseng plant.
Su Zu dug the soil around the ginseng tree until it was loose and deep enough, then she gently pulled the ginseng tree up so as not to break the roots. After pulling it up and checking, she saw that the roots of the ginseng tree were healthy. Su Zu found some dry leaves to put at the bottom of her backpack and put the first ginseng in. Su Zu intended to select the ginseng that did not seem very valuable to give to her grandfather and grandparents to boil and drink to nourish their bodies. As for the older and more expensive ginsengs, Su Zu would put them in her bracelets to store them, waiting to sell them in the city later.
After Su Zu had the experience of collecting the first ginseng, she dug the next ginseng faster. Until she got almost twenty ginsengs in total. She selected only the three youngest ones to prevent her grandfather and grandmother from being suspicious. As for the older ones, there were more than ten. Su Zu had already put them in her storage bracelet. She looked up at the sky to check the time and saw that it was probably past noon. After digging the ginseng, Su Zu walked around the area to find forest products to bring back to her grandfather and grandmother to cook. However, she found that there were no other forest products in this area, apart from ginseng. Su Zu could only use the Light Body Technique to go back to the bamboo forest, where there were still quite a few bamboo shoots for her to collect and take home.
Su Zu arrived at the bamboo forest without delay. She put three ginsengs into her bosom instead, and quickly dug up bamboo shoots until her backpack was full like yesterday. Then, Su Zu hurried down the mountain to distribute bamboo shoots to the villagers and her grandparents as usual.
Su Zu returned home right at the time her grandparents had instructed her to. She still called out to her grandparents in a sweet voice like yesterday, and told them about finding bamboo shoots in the forest and distributing them to the villagers with a smile as usual. The two old men smiled and stroked Su Zu's little head, praising her as a sensible child.
" Grandpa, Grandma, let's hurry home first. I have something good for you today. But you have to keep this a secret."
He Yangbao and Song Yuan'er could only look at each other, wondering what their little granddaughter was hiding in her gourd. But they still followed their little granddaughter into the house as she had wished.
Su Su, who saw that her grandparents had come into the house, quickly closed the door and held the hands of the two old people to sit down properly before they would be shocked and do something to themselves if they saw her ginseng.
" Grandpa, Grandma, please take a look and see what this is. I happened to find it on the mountain, so I brought it for you two to boil and drink to nourish your bodies." Su Su took out a ginseng plant and showed it to the two of them. She placed the ginseng on the table in front of her grandpa and grandma with a satisfied smile. She had fulfilled her promise long ago to find ginseng to nourish their bodies. Today, she had finally done it.
" This is ginseng, Su Su. Where did you get it? No one has ever found ginseng on the mountain before. What part of the mountain did you go to?"
" Oh, Grandfather, I went up the mountain as usual. But I thought the villagers might not know the leaves of ginseng, so I didn't dig them up. As for me, I could remember some of them, just by trying to dig them up. When I saw that they were real ginseng, I dug up three plants in total. I'll take one to Grandfather Doctor, and I'll take the remaining one to sell at the doctor's shop in town tomorrow."
" Hey, you, don't make your grandparents worry, okay? And don't you feel bad about bringing ginseng for your grandparents to boil and drink?"
" Why would I regret it? I want you to be healthy and stay with me for a long time, so I brought it to you."
" Oh, you idiot. Don't you know how expensive ginseng is?"
" I know, but I care about you more than money. I don't know. I'll boil it for you to eat to nourish your body anyway."
The two old men could only shake their heads with both smiles and concern for the little one in front of them. Of course, they were happy to see her being so filial. Then, they had to take care of her body as Su Su had said, so that they could take care of her for many more years.
When Su Su saw that her grandparents had accepted, she asked permission to take another ginseng to the doctor grandfather for a while before returning to have dinner with them later. He Yang Bao and Song Yuan'er could only allow her to hurry up and go back. They would also have time to cook for Su Su. They also had to boil ginseng to nourish their bodies. The two old people agreed that they would cut the ginseng into pieces and boil it one piece a day until it was finished, instead of boiling it all at once. After all, they were already very old, so they were afraid that if they ate the ginseng at once, it would harm their bodies more than nourish them.