Chapter 87: Search
“Pig blood mixed with glutinous rice is stuffed into the intestines, then smoked over pine and cypress leaves, sliced, and stewed or stir-fried with meat… Just thinking about it makes one’s mouth water!”
Is there such a way to make this delicacy?
Su Ning secretly noted down what she said, since all the ingredients were available, planning to try it out back in the space.
While they were discussing, the pig slaughterers on both sides had already scalded the pigs with hot water, and with knives raised and falling, they began to divide them up.
Women from each household who were quick at work and skilled set up temporary stoves and erected large pots.
No matter how scorching the sun was in the sky, baking people until they were drenched in sweat, it couldn’t stop everyone’s desire to eat meat.
Blending into the crowd, feeling for the first time this intense emotion overflowing from everyone’s hearts around her, Su Ning couldn’t help but curve her lips along with them.
……
After finishing an extremely lively pig slaughter feast, Luo Shuangshuang, who had greedily overeaten and couldn’t move, could only give up the idea of continuing to catch crabs and looked at her pitifully.
“Alright, alright, I’ll catch some for you. I guarantee there’ll be a bowl of fried crab for you at dinner, okay?”
If worst came to worst, she could smuggle out a full bamboo basket from the space and let this gluttonous girl eat her fill all at once.
“I knew Ning Bao Gai was the best best best~”
Luo Shuangshuang blinked her sparkling eyes, shaking the hand she was holding back and forth, “Then I’ll go with you…”
“No, I’m afraid you’ll throw up after two steps!”
She was shaking her so much she felt like she was falling apart, so Su Ning quickly pulled her hand free. “I already know the place, it’s safe and not far from the end of the village. Rest assured, go back and rest, I’ll catch them and come right back.”
“Really won’t let me come along?”
“No need, go on, go on. Seeing you like this makes me uncomfortable too, hurry back and lie down.”
“Alright then, if Ning Bao Gai doesn’t catch any, that’s fine, but you must come back before dinner!”
Having eaten two lunches in a row without controlling her mouth, Luo Shuangshuang was really stuffed and uncomfortable. Seeing her so serious and thinking that the small stream really wasn’t dangerous, she obediently went home first.
People as stuffed as her were definitely not few; usually every household mixed porridge with sweet potatoes just to fill their stomachs, and it was rare to eat meat, so even if every family had just eaten, they all stuffed themselves to the neck without exception.
Along the way, she saw people either supporting their bellies or propping their waists as they walked slowly.
The smile in her eyes never stopped until she walked out to the end of the village, gazing at the two mountain paths, when Su Ning finally restrained her expression.
Without much hesitation, she stepped onto the one leading to Treasure Mountain.
The two outer hilltops had many man-made traces from the foot of the mountain up to the mountainside.
It was clear that villagers often came here to gather firewood, collect rotten leaves and fir leaves as kindling, and search for mushrooms, wood ears, and other fungi after rain.
One hand gripping the Swiss Army Knife, the other leaning on a thick branch she had picked up, she gradually moved away from the area where villagers were active.
Fortunately, the two connected hilltops weren’t high, and though the path to the mountain peak was a bit difficult, she hadn’t encountered any dangerous things yet.
……
She smoothly reached the foot of Treasure Mountain, the sun already fully hidden behind the mountain, with the clouds and mist at the mountainside slowly shifting downward bit by bit.
In the silent mountain forest, aside from the whooshing wind, there were only the calls of unknown birds.
No matter how bold, she hadn’t thought of actually climbing Treasure Mountain alone, so Su Ning glanced at the watch on her wrist and decided to wander around here for an hour.
Carefully recalling the growing environments of precious Chinese medicinal materials like wild ginseng, she picked spots to start searching.
Using the wooden stick in her hand to probe, tapping the surrounding grass, she moved forward cautiously.
Whether it was her luck being too good—encountering a cauliflower snake after wandering for a while—or too bad—not finding even a single ordinary Chinese medicinal material, let alone wild ginseng.
Just as she was about to give up and head back, a vine tripped her foot. She barely steadied herself when she stepped into empty air and flew straight forward.
Always remembering she had a life-saving space, the instant her body was airborne, she flashed inside.
Landing steadily in the space courtyard, Su Ning patted her startled little heart. Just as she was about to muster her spirits to go back out, she suddenly thought of something and froze.
If she went out like this, wouldn’t her body still be suspended in mid-air?
Experimenting confirmed it was exactly as she thought: enter from where, exit to where!
Holding her breath, Su Ning began her entering and exiting journey until she safely landed on the ground before stopping this dizzying teleportation.
Looking from above, this was a bottomless deep ravine, but down here it was another world.
Avoiding the thorns growing wildly on the mountain wall overhead, gripping a vine thicker than her arm, she inch by inch moved to a relatively safe open area.
The surrounding large patches of rotten leaves covered it without revealing even a bit of soil underneath.
Not far away, a plant with seven or eight leaves and small red fruits on top instantly brightened her eyes.
“There’s really wild ginseng!”
Joyfully arriving in front of it, she discovered there was more than just this one with small red fruits!
One, two, three, four, five—exactly five plants!
She immediately got down on her belly, took a red string from the space and tied it to the top of the largest one, then carefully dug around it with the knife in her hand.
Being inexperienced for the first time, she accidentally broke several root tendrils. Su Ning clasped her hands together guiltily and bowed, “Sorry, sorry.”
It wasn’t superstition; it was just that the dug-up wild ginseng was too humanoid, and breaking its arms and legs really felt… sinful.
Anyway, the space land was special, so she even dug up the broken tendrils.
By the time she had dug up all the ginseng, half her body was numb. After recovering for a while, she flashed into the space with the ginseng and broken tendrils.
She originally planned to plant them behind Fruit Mountain, but for some reason, she inexplicably transplanted them beside the spring water.
After burying the largest humanoid ginseng in the soil and pouring a scoop of spring water on it, the entire Peach Blossom Spring Space seemed to tremble inexplicably.
That feeling was very brief, just a second, but Su Ning was certain she hadn’t sensed wrong!
“What’s going on?”
Standing up with shock in her eyes, ignoring the dirt on her body, she quickly inspected every area.
Fruit Mountain aquaculture farm, farmland vegetable patch, small river, and inside and outside the small courtyard—she checked everywhere but found no differences or changes.
“Strange…”
That tremor earlier seemed related to that humanoid ginseng.
Coming back to the spring water and squatting down, after watering them, the few ginseng plants looked more spirited, but they hadn’t grown fatter or bigger?
Her gaze inadvertently swept over the spring water, and whoa—she stood up and strode to the spring water’s edge in a few steps.
The originally crystal-clear spring water now looked like… clean water turned into thick rice soup?
She stirred her hand in the water, hesitantly scooped up a small handful, and licked it first with the tip of her tongue.
Still sweet, no other flavors.
After drinking the handful of spring water, the fatigue from walking all day and climbing the mountain for so long instantly dissipated, even the soreness in her soles vanishing in a moment.
She did another injury experiment with the knife, and the results were not much different from the first time.
“Strange!”
The appearance of this spring water had clearly changed; according to the notebook, shouldn’t there be a leap forward?
Could there be something she overlooked?
Unconsciously staring at the spring water, frowning and pondering deeply, “Right!”
There was also the raw jadeite that had suddenly appeared at the spring bottom before!
Energized, Su Ning plunged her entire hand into the spring bottom and casually fished out one.
The previous raw jadeite looked pretty, but far less translucent and moist than this one in her hand, intoxicating to behold.
She had carefully counted that there were seven colors of raw jadeite at the spring bottom: red, yellow, blue, green, cyan, purple, black.
The one in her hand now was blue; she unconsciously rubbed its smooth surface, the delicate touch like a baby’s skin.
Huh?
Her pupils dilated sharply as Su Ning picked up the jadeite with her other hand and brought the one that had been rubbing it to her eyes.
The wounds from several experiments had been healed by the spring water, but faint scars remained.
Now those scars left on her fingertips had all disappeared!
This blue raw jadeite has scar removal effects?
Hard to believe, but the facts were right there—
Going to the bedroom and taking off her clothes, she rubbed her back with the blue raw jadeite.
The scars from being pricked by stones before had all vanished, leaving only smooth whiteness.
“I… need to calm down.”
Taking a deep breath, her brain still felt dizzy, so Su Ning put her clothes back on and plopped down on the bed.
What exactly is the heirloom left by Maternal Grandmother?
Why is it getting more and more bizarre?
The blue raw jadeite can remove scars, then the other colored raw stones…
