Rebirth of a Portable Space: Transforming My Hometown

Chapter 194 Encountering Ginseng in Another World

"Should I pick some more to take back?" Wamer noticed that his older sister seemed to enjoy the fruit, and he was a little unsure whether he should pick more.

After all, the previous boss hated this kind of thing. Women—ha! Your name is fickle.

Miler slapped Wammer on the head. This guy! I thought he was clever just now, but now I don't know how to get things done?

"Aren't you going to get it right away?"

Wamer rubbed his head, then went off to climb the tree again to pick fruit juice. After that, they continued their search for food.

After leaving, the fruit tree laden with spoiled fruit suddenly vanished from its spot…

Along the way, they stopped frequently and discovered many wonderful things: layered red berries with a sweet and sour taste, crimson berries that could turn your mouth purple with sweetness, and berries that produced several different flavors within a single bunch.

The variety of fruits was exceptionally large, comparable to those on their Blue Star. Yufei stored them all in her spatial storage after they left.

Besides fruits, there are also wild vegetables. Miler didn't recommend many wild vegetables, only one called Thousand Hand Grass and Wave Color.

These two vegetables taste somewhat similar to lettuce and kale from Blue Planet, and are mainly used in salads and eaten raw.

Everything else was considered weeds by Miler. They had actually tried them; as long as they were tested and found to be non-toxic, they would try to eat them.

The taste was indescribable, unforgettable, the kind that once you took a bite, you'd never want a second.

Hearing what Miler said, Yufei wasn't particularly willing to try it. Of course, if she were from Yunnan Province, she might give it a shot. After all, if someone dares to eat houttuynia cordata, what other wild herbs wouldn't they dare to eat?!

Unfortunately, Yufei wasn't like that. She was willing to try the taste of fruit, but since she didn't particularly like vegetables, she decisively gave up.

"Hmm? What's this?" While picking Thousand Hands Grass and Wave Vegetable, Yufei noticed a leaf with palmate compound leaves, serrated edges, and a single cluster of red fruits at the top.

This... looks familiar? Yufei looked at each plant in the clump of plants with some uncertainty.

If she guessed correctly… she carefully used her hands to trace the outline of the plant's roots and the soil around it.

Before long, she was drenched in sweat.

"Sister Yufei, what are you doing?"

Miler watched as Yufei carefully poked at something in the dirt and asked, puzzled.

Yufei stopped what she was doing and excitedly said to Miler.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is a good thing. I need to get it out to confirm, which will take some time. After you finish gathering the wild vegetables, go and call Lei Jun over for me."

After saying that, Yufei stopped paying attention to Miler and the others, and instead focused all her attention on carefully tending to the plant in front of her.

She didn't know how long she worked on it; she only felt incredibly hungry after she finished, and her eyes were slightly blurry, making her feel a little dizzy and disoriented.

Then she became extremely excited again, and carefully patted the soil off the plant's roots.

A plant with an exceptionally long beard, resembling a human figure, was fully revealed before Yufei.

"This is ginseng?!"

Before Yufei could even shout out in joy, a deep, magnetic male voice sounded beside her, carrying an barely suppressed excitement.

Lei Jun was summoned by Miler. He'd been waiting for Yufei for who knows how long, but by the time the ginseng appeared, it didn't really matter anymore.

"Ok!"

When Yufei saw that it was Lei Jun, she excitedly shared her joy with him.

Whether in her past life or this one, she had only ever heard of ginseng's reputation; she had never actually seen one before today.

In this lifetime, she originally wanted to go to Changbai Mountain to find ginseng to cultivate in her own space, but by then, ginseng had become extremely difficult to find.

Otherwise she wouldn't be so excited.

Lei Jun is a true Northeasterner; his ancestral home is in Changbai Mountain. He used to dig for ginseng in the mountains with his grandfather when he was a child.

He still vividly remembers his ginseng-digging experience back then. Later, when he grew up and joined the army, his grandfather wrote to him while he was in the military, saying that ginseng was now almost impossible to find in their area.

He retired honorably! Later, he performed many more missions, and as he got older...

He had just received news of his grandfather's passing, leaving only memories of his grandfather and ginseng. Now, seeing this ginseng plant evoked emotions in him that transcended the ordinary.

This is not just a ginseng root, but also a memory of him and his grandfather. When Lei Jun recalled his grandfather, his eyes reddened.

Yufei looked at the ginseng with a questioning gaze and asked Lei Jun.

"I don't know if Brother Lei knows anything about ginseng. This is the first time I've ever seen real ginseng. I've only ever read about it in books before."

I wonder how old this ginseng is? I've heard that the older the ginseng, the better, right? I also wonder which is better, ginseng from Changbai Mountain or ginseng from Changbai Mountain.

Lei Jun immediately composed himself, took the ginseng from Yufei's hand, and examined it thoroughly, inside and out.

"This ginseng should be at least 500 years old. As ginseng ages, its medicinal effects definitely become stronger. 500-year-old ginseng is practically nonexistent in Changbai Mountain. I just examined the appearance of this ginseng and the firmness of its root; its quality is even better than that of ginseng from Changbai Mountain."

Although Lei Jun was reluctant to admit that there were other ginseng varieties that were better than those from Changbai Mountain, he still had to take responsibility for his words.

Yufei's eyes lit up when she heard Lei Jun's words. She trusted Lei Jun completely; if he didn't know, he wouldn't have said that, which meant he did have some knowledge of ginseng.

"Brother Lei, look, this whole area is full of them, let's take them all back!"

Yufei frowned, as if remembering something, and continued with a troubled expression.

"Unfortunately, our dimensional pockets can only hold inanimate objects; living things put inside will lose their vitality. I want to transplant living ginseng back to Great Xia, but these ginsengs cannot be put into our dimensional pockets."

Lei Jun nodded; he shared the same thought. The quality of these ginsengs was in no way inferior to that of Changbai Mountain ginseng, which was now almost extinct.

Taking these ginsengs back for research and cultivation would also supplement the lack of ginseng in their Great Xia region.

"Okay, no rush. Let's go back and eat first. Look at all these ginseng forests here. The people in this world probably don't recognize ginseng or know its medicinal properties, so no one should be interested in them. Let's go back to camp for lunch first, and I'll bring a few brothers to dig for ginseng later."

Most of them were from the Northeast region and had some experience in ginseng digging.

Yufei excitedly came over, and facing her rumbling stomach, she nodded, agreeing with Lei Jun's arrangement.

When they returned to camp, a patch of ginseng ground was visibly missing a small portion of its green.