The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1106 - Chapter 1106 1106 deep mountain collect medicinal herbs 1

Chapter 1106: 1106 deep mountain collect medicinal herbs 1 Chapter 1106: 1106 deep mountain collect medicinal herbs 1 He glanced down the hillside and said, “I think that Zhu Daqi is a tough cookie.

Even after such a tumble, he can’t be killed.

If he falsely accuses me one day, I hope you’ll be my witness.”

From his sleeve pocket, he pulled out a 5-tael silver ingot and stuffed it into Ding Er’s hand.

Ding Er accepted the money, weighed it, and estimated it to be about five taels of silver.

His heart was filled with joy, and seeing how pitiful Su Qingyue looked, he naturally took her side, immediately feeling sympathetic.

He heartily agreed, “Sister Su, don’t worry.

If the Zhu Family comes after you, I’ll definitely testify for you.”

“Then, thank you, Ding Er,” Su Qingyue said her thanks and continued deeper into the mountain forest with her back basket.

Ding Er looked down the hillside and saw Zhu Daqi lying at the foot of the mountain, wailing nonstop.

He wondered whether he should help him up or go and inform the Zhu Family’s people.

Considering that Zhu Daqi was nothing more than a lecherous scum trying to dishonor a married woman, he decided against it.

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Having accepted Su Qingyue’s money, he chose not to meddle in this affair and walked down the mountain with his load of firewood.

Nobody knew that after Su Qingyue and Ding Er had left, just as Zhu Daqi was trying to get up and climb the slope, a pair of shoes appeared before him.

Anxious about how to get up the slope, he saw someone coming and immediately said with relief, “Quick, help me up.”

“I’m not here to help you up, but to ‘send you off’!”

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Su Qingyue, with her back basket, walked through the mountain forest, going deeper and deeper.

After several months, she had thoroughly explored both the nearby and distant mountains.

The deeper she went into the mountains, the more wild animals there were.

In fact, she could hunt prey just like her second brother, but with no need for extra money at home, she was too lazy to hunt and just collected herbs instead.

In the depths of the old-growth forest, ancient trees reached for the sky.

Since it was winter, the tree bark in the grove was stark and bare, and no matter which way you looked, you couldn’t see deep into the woods.

The thick trees, with their spreading branches, basked in the sunlight, casting shadowy figures.

In the forest depths, occasional unidentified animal sounds added an eerie touch.

Su Qingyue wore a pair of cotton gloves she had made herself, which her third brother had helped her sew.

For some herbs, she needed to dig them out from the roots, not just break off the branches.

Therefore, in the back basket for collecting herbs, she also had tools like a small hoe, cleaver, dagger, hatchet, and other small implements.

She was wearing the same clothes as yesterday, not having changed, which was convenient because her pocket contained five taels of loose silver, and she had just given five taels to Ding Er.

Because she had been collecting herbs and training in the deep mountains for these past few months, she walked much faster than ordinary people.

At this moment, she was in a part of the deep mountains where even hunters had never been.

She wouldn’t bother with common herbs in such deep mountain areas.

She arrived at a spot surrounded by mixed woods and glanced at the ground.

Squatting down, she began to dig with a small hoe and quickly unearthed a ginseng root.

This was the tenth ginseng she had dug up in recent months.

The other nine were stored at her home.

Examining the ginseng in her hand, it had long roots, was old and tough, sparse but long.

Near the shoulder-like top end of the main root, there were fine and deep spiral groovesaEUR”an excellent wild ginseng indeed.

The age was also quite good, and the quality was fine.

Sold at a pharmacy, it would fetch at least one hundred taels of silver.

If she opened her own medicine hall, mixing it with prescriptions, she could make two hundred taels of silver.

A small squirrel skittered from the ground and up a tree with a swish.

Su Qingyue acted as if she didn’t see it at all.

In the deep forest, wild rabbits, roe deer, pheasants, and other small animals were occasionally seen.

She wasn’t there to hunt, so she let these small creatures be.