The Farm Girl’s Charismatic Fortune
Chapter 246 - 242 Unconcerned with Shu

Chapter 246: Chapter 242 Unconcerned with Shu

Xuanbao happily handed He Xinghua a pheasant and a hare, "Pretty sister, this is for you, thank you!"

He Xinghua still wanted to refuse, but Ruo Xuan didn’t give her a chance to speak. She continued, "I know pheasants and hares are hard to catch, but I have practiced martial arts since I was little. Catching hares and pheasants really just depends on whether I want to or not. Don’t be polite with me. If I want to catch pheasants and hares, I can catch a hundred or so in an afternoon. And it’s not just pheasants, I can kill a wild boar with one punch. So a pheasant and a hare really aren’t a big deal!"

He Xinghua: "...."

Suddenly feeling envious of the little girl’s skills, aren’t you?

If she had these skills, her family wouldn’t be so poor.

Five hares and two pheasants, caught in less than five sentences!

But this little girl has been practicing martial arts since she was a child? Looking at Ruo Xuan, she wondered just how young ’since she was little’ really meant. It couldn’t have been since she was in her mother’s womb, could it?

Granny Lei saw He Xinghua’s reluctance and said considerately, "Miss, if you feel embarrassed, you can bring a hoe from home to help us dig for ’Five-fingered peachroot.’ You just helped us, and Xuanbao is a grateful child. She will still be preoccupied if you don’t accept the pheasant and hare. Now, if you help us dig for medicinal herbs this afternoon and then accept the pheasant and hare, how about that? Just now, outside your yard, I smelled the scent of medicinal soup, so I guess there’s a sick person at home. Although the pheasant doesn’t have much meat, making a soup from it can still be nourishing."

He Xinghua no longer acted coy. She really did want the pheasant and hare, but she didn’t like to take advantage of others. However, helping to dig for the afternoon’s herbs in exchange wasn’t the same as taking advantage. So, she readily agreed, "Okay, I will first bring food to my parents, and then I’ll come back to help dig for the herbs."

Today, her parents and younger brother were planting trees in the mountains, and they happened to have hoes, so she could just take one and help.

Granny Lei nodded, "Go ahead then!"

He Xinghua, carrying the food basket, hurried into the mountain.

Her family also cut and sold wood in the mountains. To ensure future generations would always have trees to cut, the villagers adhered to a policy of cutting one tree and planting another. The trees that each family planted would belong to them once grown, but it takes an agonizingly long time for trees to mature, especially the high-quality ones.

Now, to find good timber, people had to search in the deep woods. The villagers would form teams of able-bodied men from each family to go into the mountains and look for quality wood.

Her father had once rolled down the mountain and injured his foot during a trip, so he could no longer join the villagers in the mountains. Her brother was only fourteen years old, frail and not strong enough to go with the villagers to gather wood.

In recent years, her grandparents had been sick for several years, costing a good deal of Silver for treatment that eventually failed, and they passed away one after another. The Silver her father had earned in the earlier years was spent, which is why their family’s situation was getting increasingly worse.

After a quarter of an hour, He Xinghua finally arrived gasping for breath in front of her parents.

Her father, seeing her panting, his heart tightened, "Did you encounter a wild boar?"

Her mother and younger brother nervously grabbed hoes, ready to fight a wild boar.

He Xinghua set the food basket down, gasped for air with each breath and unable to speak, could only bend at the waist, resting one hand on her knee, waving the other hand, and managed to get out the words with great difficulty, "No, it’s fine, don’t worry."

Only then did the three relax.

After a while, when He Xinghua had caught her breath, she explained to her parents why she had run so fast.

The He Family were all stunned.

Caught five hares and two pheasants all at once?

And right at the foot of the mountain?

He Xinghua didn’t have time to talk much with her family, "Mom, Dad, I’m going to help them dig for medicinal herbs! I’m taking the hoe."

He Father felt that helping to gather herbs for an afternoon in exchange for a pheasant and hare was a loss for the other party. A single hare was worth a hundred and several tens of Wen, and a pheasant was worth twenty or thirty Wen. He said to his son, "Dalin, you go help gather herbs too. Your mother and I can handle things here."

He Xinghua also had no objections to this, after all, the pits for planting trees were already prepared.

So, the two siblings quickly grabbed their hoes and rushed off to dig Wuzhi Maotao for Ruo Xuan and her grandmother.

He Xinghua returned to where Ruo Xuan was and explained, "Granny, my parents said it’s too much for you to give us a wild rabbit and a pheasant, so they sent my brother to help, too."

What could Granny Lei say? She was happy in her heart, as it showed that this family was honest and kind. If her eldest grandson took a liking to them, it would be comforting to become relatives with such a family.

Although nothing was settled yet, Granny Lei was still pleased that the He Family’s boy had come to help gather herbs. After spending the afternoon together, she would probably get to know the siblings’ temperament.

The temperament of children is closely related to their parents, so from this, she could also infer what this family was like.

Xuanbao really was a clever sprite. How could he have thought of the excuse of going up the mountain to gather herbs!

Because of a wild pheasant and a rabbit, the siblings firmly refused to let Granny Lei and Ruo Xuan lift a finger, and they joined forces to dig up the entire Wuzhi Maotao.

Then wherever Ruo Xuan pointed, they would dig.

In one afternoon, they dug up fifty or sixty jin of Wuzhi Maotao, seventy to eighty jin of Tufuling, and several dozen jin of other medicinal herbs.

The siblings never knew why there were so many herbs near the base of the mountain!

People also went up the mountain to gather herbs on normal days. Were all those people blind?

If it weren’t for the fact that the siblings recognized some of the herbs, they would have suspected the grandmother and granddaughter were picking randomly.

However, considering they almost climbed the mountain every day and never found those Wuzhi Maotao and Tufuling, it was not so strange after all.

Meanwhile, as the siblings worked hard to dig up Wuzhi Maotao and Tufuling, Granny Lei had almost inquired about every detail of the He Family’s ancestors going back eighteen generations.

Seeing how the siblings worked and interacted, she felt that this family was good to get along with.

Granny Lei was so content that she was beside herself with joy, and so was Xuanbao, though she was just digging out bird eggs. It was just getting late.

Realizing the time, Granny Lei said, "I never expected the mountain to have so many herbs. We’ve gathered enough for today. I really can’t thank you siblings enough. Let’s go down the mountain!"

They had over a hundred jin of herbs in total!

He Xinghua had run back home earlier to fetch two sacks for packing, and the siblings could help carry the herbs down the mountain. But how could the elderly and the young one get home?

She then said, "Granny, which village do you live in? With so many herbs, we’ll carry them down the mountain for you and even find a ox cart to have my brother take you home!"

Granny Lei laughed and said, "No need; my son will come to pick me up. He’s probably waiting at the village entrance by now! You just help me take the herbs to the village entrance."

Only then did Granny Lei remember that she had agreed to meet her youngest son at the village entrance around this time and he must be getting anxious.

At that moment, Ruo He’s voice came from the foot of the mountain: "Mom, Xuanbao. Mom, Xuanbao...."

Ruo Xuan promptly responded loudly, "Third Uncle! We are here!"

Hearing the reply, Ruo He ran up and, seeing his grandmother and sister safe and sound, he sighed with relief.

Ruo He had waited at the village entrance for almost half an hour and, getting worried, he ventured into the village to look for them.

He had asked almost every household but found no one, with only one family mentioning they had seen the grandmother and granddaughter going up the mountain.

He did not care about his cart; leaving it at the base, he had come up the mountain to look for them.

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