bookrandom Chapter 219: Dreams
Chapter 219: Dreams
No one had any objection, and Zhou Xing even agreed, as she was the only one who knew how troublesome it was to cook for so many people.
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The two soybean-sized lights flickered, causing the already dim light in the room to flicker.
In full view of everyone, Zhou Guo unbuttoned several buttons on her bag and took out thick moss rolls, one, two, three...six.
No one dared to even breathe. Not one person among so many people made a sound. It was wrapped so tightly that no one knew what was inside.
Zhou Guo picked up the largest one, carefully untied the knot on it, and slowly opened it layer by layer. For safety reasons, she wrapped it in several layers.
Everyone was getting impatient waiting.
Finally, the last layer of moss was opened, and on the black moss lay a large thing that looked like a white radish, but it had many, long and thin whiskers, which was different from the white radish in the ground.
Everyone wondered, “What is this?”
Zhou Guo took the thing in his hand and said with a smile: "Guess what?"
Zhou Gu clapped his hands. "Of course it must be wild radish. There are wild radishes in the mountains. We can dig them up and store them for the winter. This wild radish is a little small."
Zhou Mai took a closer look and shook his head, "It's definitely not a radish. How can a radish look like this?"
Zhou Dacang said, "What is it? Tell us quickly. We haven't even seen it, so how can we guess what it is?"
It’s good enough to be able to guess the radish.
Zhou Guo looked at the closed door and said to them, "Promise that you will stay calm when I tell you. Don't yell. Stay calm."
Everyone nodded, which really whetted everyone's appetite. The old man watching from the side couldn't help but smile and shake his head.
Zhou Guo touched the ginseng in his hand and said word by word: "Hundred-year-old ginseng!"
Everyone: "..."
Silence fell.
Zhou Guo blinked his eyes. What happened? They said you can't yell, but they didn't say you can't talk. Give me some reaction!
Zhou Dacang scratched his ears and said, "What? A hundred years? I didn't hear it clearly. Can you say it again?"
Zhou Gu frowned and asked, "Hundred-year-old Huangjing?"
Zhou Mai shook his head and said, "No, no, it's Centennial Renqing, what is that?"
Zhou Guo: "...Hundred-year-old ginseng! Ginseng! It's the rare ginseng from heaven and earth, the Ganoderma lucidum ginseng!"
Now everyone was finally sure and couldn't believe their ears.
Although I have never seen ginseng, I have heard of it, especially the old people in the village like to talk about it. One year, people from a certain village went up the mountain to chop firewood and found a ginseng. They sold it for a lot of money, and as a result, the whole family moved to the city, started a small business, and became rich from then on.
Listen to these words, ah, how enviable, just like a fairy tale, who doesn't want to become rich overnight and become a city dweller.
Who doesn't want to encounter a ginseng when going up the mountain to collect firewood or mushrooms? It's something you dream about, but no one has ever seen this thing.
We have been thinking about this for so many years, and now our family has finally come across it. We really dug up ginseng, and everyone feels like a dream.
Zhou Gu stammered, "This...this...this...this is...this is...this is...this is...ginseng?"
"It's been a hundred years since it was this big?! How much would it sell for? Has our family become rich again?" Zhou Mi thought of what the old man had said before. With such a hundred-year-old ginseng, could their family buy a shop and a house in the city?
Li couldn't believe it either, and asked again, "Is this really ginseng?"
Zhou Dacang and others also looked at her, wanting to confirm it again.
Zhou Guo nodded heavily, "It's really ginseng. Master and I have been digging for it for the whole afternoon, otherwise we would have returned long ago, right, Master?"
Everyone looked at the old man, and he smiled and nodded.
After getting the old man's confirmation, everyone went crazy.
Zhou Guo hurriedly said, "Shh, keep your voice down."
The exclamations that had not yet been uttered were suppressed.
Everyone's faces flushed with excitement, their eyes sparkling, "Let me see, let me see."
"Show me too."
They all crowded towards Zhou Guo.
Zhou Guo placed the hundred-year-old ginseng on the edge of the kang so that everyone could see it clearly.
When I turned around, I saw Li and Zhou Dacang standing there motionless, unable to squeeze in.
She picked up the other five moss rolls, walked up to the two men, and said to them, their eyes wide open, "Mother, uncle, these are all in here too."
The two of them froze when they heard this, "This...are these really all?"
"Are they all century-old ginsengs?" Zhou Dacang's voice trembled as he said this.
Zhou Guo's face froze, "...Of course not. You think the century-old ginseng is a big white radish in the field, you can pick it up at will. Although these are not century-old ginseng, they are still good in terms of harvest."
He opened them one by one and pointed to the largest one and said, "This one is also big. Master said it is almost fifty years old. This one is at least thirty years old. These two are twenty years old. This smallest one is at least ten years old."
She thought that she could keep the largest ones and sell the smaller ones, but then she thought again, her family was not so short of money now, and it didn't cost much to dig these ginsengs herself. If she bought them outside, the price would be much higher.
After thinking about it, I decided to keep it. My master knows how to prepare it anyway. If I run out of money later, I can just sell the prepared one. It’s more expensive than the fresh one.
Li and Zhou Dacang looked at the five ginseng roots in a row. They were all worth money. One root could be sold for at least a few dozen taels, right?
"There are more! There are so many of them. Oh my God, has the God of Wealth come to our house?" Zhou Gu came over to take a look, and when he saw that there were still five of them, he almost jumped up.
This one sentence attracted everyone else.
When they saw that there were really five ginseng roots, they were so shocked that they were speechless. They pointed at the ginseng roots excitedly and screamed.
Zhou Guo was worried that they would faint from joy, so he quickly said, "Don't shout, don't shout, talk slowly."
Zhou Gu was extremely shocked. "How many old people in the village have been wandering in the mountains all their lives and still haven't found any ginseng, and you guys can actually dig up six roots in one trip? There are so many ginsengs in the mountains. No, I have to go into the mountains next time, too. Sir, Guoguo, you must take me with you next time you go into the mountains. I may not be good at other things, but my eyesight is still okay."
Zhou Mai quickly raised his hand, "I, I want to go too. I want to dig ginseng, too."
Zhou Mi also wanted to go this time, and even Zhou Xing raised his hand hesitantly, wanting to go too.
Zhou Dacang clapped his hands. How could he be left out of such a matter?
Even Li quietly asked Zhou Guo whether he would go into the mountain tomorrow.
Zhou Guo waved her hand and said, "Let's go, everyone. When we finish our work at home, we will all go into the mountains."
Anyway, we still have to go into the mountains to chop firewood and pick wild mushrooms. Maybe we will really find ginseng in the process. If we can find a piece of it in the mountains, there must be some in other places. It is impossible that there are only these few trees growing in such a big mountain, right?