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The next morning, Tao'er specially changed into a neat short-sleeved shirt and tied her black hair tightly behind her head.

After breakfast, Tao'er took her brothers into the mountains again.

After all, selling herbs is a stable source of income for her.

Otherwise, how would she exchange the medicinal herbs in her spiritual field for silver?

Tao'er carried the medicine basket on her back. The money from selling medicinal herbs always needed to come from somewhere. If she didn't pretend to be collecting herbs, the villagers would inevitably become suspicious.

Moreover, she wanted to take out a ginseng from her spatial storage and sell it, but digging up a ginseng in the outer forest would seem suspicious to anyone.

So she plans to go deep into the mountains today, because there's no way to find ginseng in the outer areas.

Once inside the mountains, the second brother, Liu Tiechui, led the way.

He was tall and wielded a machete with great force, cleaving through the thorny vines that blocked his path.

The eldest brother followed closely behind.

Tao'er walked in third place, while Qingge protected her at the very back.

Tao'er understood that they were protecting her.

Before she left home, her parents repeatedly told her brothers to protect her.

The older brothers did the same.

The mountain air is moist and sweet, birds chirp and sing on the branches, and dewdrops roll off the broad leaves, hitting Tao'er's forehead with a cool sensation.

One hour later...

She gathered some common medicinal herbs, a few Bupleurum and Panax notoginseng plants, and some ordinary mushrooms.

She absentmindedly tossed a few freshly dug Bupleurum chinense plants into her basket, and finally couldn't help but say, "Brother, let's go deeper into the area today."

I read in a book that the best medicinal herbs are found in remote, secluded places.

"Maybe with a bit of luck, we might stumble upon wild ginseng."

Liu Tiechui glanced back at her, his thick eyebrows furrowing slightly: "Little sister, there are big guys in the deep mountains. Last year, the third son of the Li family ran into a bear in there and almost lost his life."

There were also wolf packs.

"Little sister, you can't go into the deep mountains. I heard there are big cats inside."

Upon hearing this, the eldest brother, Liu Tiezhu, waved his hand repeatedly, disagreeing with going into the deep mountains.

Tao'er tugged at her second brother's sleeve playfully, "Let's be careful. I have a feeling we'll have good luck today."

She was thinking that when her brothers weren't looking, she would take out a ginseng from her spatial storage and say that she had found it herself, so that she could cover up the money from selling the medicine.

"Girl, there are ferocious wild beasts in the deep mountains, we'd better not go in."

Too dangerous!

"If we really encountered a tiger, even the four of us combined probably couldn't defeat it!"

Qingge quickly added her own words of advice.

Beasts and humans cannot be compared. She can take on two people by herself, but several people may not be able to defeat a single beast.

Because ferocious beasts have exceptionally strong attack power.

"Brother, you forgot I have chili water. Don't worry, I'll only be inside for half an hour, I won't stay long."

I haven't dug up many herbs yet today!

We didn't harvest many mushrooms today.

You only managed to hunt two rabbits and one pheasant today.

We've already gone into the mountains today, we can't just go back like this!

Seeing his sister's attitude, Liu Tiechui finally gave in, "Since you've said so, little sister, then go in. But you have to stay close to your brothers and not separate from them."

"It's much more dangerous inside than outside."

Tao'er nodded, "Yes, yes, I'll definitely stick close to my older brothers when I go in."

The mountain path became increasingly treacherous, and a thick layer of withered leaves accumulated underfoot, making a soft, silent sound when stepped on.

The towering ancient trees block out the sun, and sunlight can only filter through the gaps in the branches and leaves, casting dappled beams of light on the moss-covered boulders, creating an otherworldly scene.

The deep mountains and forests are full of treasures, since few people venture in.

She and Qingge dug up a lot of good medicinal herbs, such as Panax notoginseng, Polygonatum sibiricum, and Gastrodia elata.

Qingge collected a lot of matsutake and morel mushrooms.

The older brother was also lucky; he not only picked mushrooms but also found wood ear fungus, weighing a good five or six pounds!

Because there is a lot of rotten wood in the deep mountains, it is not surprising to find wood ear mushrooms.

As Tao'er bent down to part a clump of ferns, her fingertips suddenly touched a leaf that looked quite different from the others.

The leaves are palmate compound leaves with finely serrated edges, and a bright red stem stands upright in the middle, topped with a few round berries that are so red they almost seem to bleed.

Her heart pounded. She squatted down and carefully brushed away the surrounding soil, revealing a pale yellow reed shoot with fine lines winding around it, like the wrinkles on an old man's forehead.

That's wild ginseng, and it's been around for years!

Tao'er's fingers trembled slightly, and she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

She originally intended to take the opportunity of going deep into the mountains to retrieve the ginseng from her spatial storage.

Surprisingly, we actually found wild ginseng in the forest.

This luck is probably unmatched.

"Big brother, second brother, Qingge, come quick! I've found wild ginseng!"

Tao shouted.

Liu Tiezhu leaned closer and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, it really is ginseng!"

Liu Tiezhu didn't recognize the leaves, but he recognized the part protruding from the mud as ginseng.

"Girl, you're so lucky!"

Last time I went into the mountains I found Ganoderma lucidum, and this time I encountered wild ginseng.

Is your mouth blessed?

"You said before that you would encounter wild ginseng, and you actually did?"

Qingge couldn't help but marvel at the girl's luck.

"Only a lucky person like me has such good fortune."

Liu Tiezhu could praise his younger sister effortlessly.

"Little sister, with you as our lucky star, it'll be hard for our family not to have a good life from now on!"

"My second brother is also benefiting from your good fortune."

Liu Tiechui said with a chuckle.

"Alright, stop praising me. I need to hurry up and dig the ginseng out; I can't stay in here any longer."

She took out a red string and tied it an inch above the root of the ginseng.

I heard it from someone else; that way the ginseng won't run away.

Seeing their little sister like this, the two brothers thought to themselves that she was quite experienced.

Everyone surrounded Tao'er, forming a circle around her, remaining vigilant about their surroundings.

Tao'er dared not be careless. She took out a bamboo skewer and carefully removed the pebbles and rotten soil around the roots, carefully lifting the entire ginseng plant out piece by piece.

The ginseng rootlets were long and intact, the main body of which was about the thickness of an adult's thumb, and the whole body shone with a warm luster, indicating that it had been around for at least one or two hundred years.

She was holding the ginseng, overjoyed, when suddenly a strong wind rose in the forest, and a deafening tiger's roar exploded, startling all the birds on the mountain into taking flight.

A snow-white tiger with an inky black "king" character stripe on its forehead leaped out of the bushes. It was a full size larger than an ordinary tiger, and its amber eyes stared straight at them.

Liu Tiezhu grabbed Tao'er and pulled her behind him, holding his wood-chopping knife horizontally in front of his chest, and roared, "Tao'er, run! Get down the mountain!"

Liu Tiechui also stepped in front and shouted, "Qingge, you protect your little sister and go down the mountain. Leave this to us brothers."

Tao'er's heart was in her throat. She was about to take out the pepper spray and stun gun. At this moment, she couldn't care less about anything else; her life was more important.

But in that instant, she suddenly realized that the white tiger had not adopted an attack stance.

Its forelimbs were slightly bent, and its huge tiger head slowly lowered, its forehead almost touching the ground, once, twice, as if it were kowtowing and begging for help.

She pressed down on her brother's arm: "Wait, something's not right."

Liu Tiezhu's forehead was covered in cold sweat: "What's wrong?"

That's a tiger!

It can eat people.

It's not a docile wild rabbit!

Tao'er took a deep breath and squatted down to be at eye level with the white tiger.