Luo Luo also ran over at this moment. Seeing Shen Xiaoyan sweating profusely from the heat, she said, "See, I told you it wouldn't be that easy to find."
Shen Xiaoyan ignored her. She took out some immortal spring water from her portable space and drank it. Then, holding a fan, she fanned herself continuously.
While fanning with her right hand, her left hand inadvertently touched the ground. Feeling the soft grass beneath her hand, Shen Xiaoyan suddenly remembered something.
"I'm such an idiot," Shen Xiaoyan said, hitting her own head with her left hand.
Luo Luo looked at her, utterly confused. "What's wrong?"
Shen Xiaoyan looked at Luo Luo and said with regret, "I forgot about my ability."
Upon hearing this, Luo Luo immediately understood.
That's right, Shen Xiaoyan had superpowers, and she was a wood-element superpower user.
Finding any plant in this mountain would be a piece of cake for her.
Seeing Shen Xiaoyan's regretful expression, Luo Luo tried to comfort her, "It's understandable that you forgot, it's been too long since you used it."
Yes, life had been too comfortable. She hadn't thought about the use of her superpower, and over time, she had completely forgotten about it.
Shen Xiaoyan shook her head. She had become too lax. This was something that could save her life; how could she forget it? She needed to plan better from now on.
However, the most urgent matter right now was to see if she could find the wild ginseng.
After drinking some plain water infused with immortal spring water to recover her strength, she put away the fan into her portable space and placed her palm on the ground.
Closing her eyes, she focused, extending from the land beneath her hand outwards. Her superpower scanned every inch of the soil, clearly identifying what plants were growing on the land.
After about fifteen minutes, Shen Xiaoyan's superpower was almost depleted, her forehead covered in fine sweat, and her face growing paler.
Luo Luo sat to the side, watching Shen Xiaoyan's face intently. Seeing her condition, it immediately wanted to speak, urging Shen Xiaoyan to stop.
Before it could utter a word, Shen Xiaoyan opened her eyes and said joyfully, "Found it."
Luo Luo was stunned for a moment with its mouth agape, then said, "That's good."
Shen Xiaoyan didn't rush to dig up the wild ginseng. Since she knew where it was, she decided to recover her energy first.
After drinking some more water and resting on the ground for another fifteen minutes, Shen Xiaoyan stood up and led Luo Luo and Bai Bai back along the path they had come.
"Are we going back already?" Luo Luo was a bit confused. Didn't she say she found the wild ginseng?
"We're going to collect it now, it's in this direction," Shen Xiaoyan's tone was cheerful, clearly in a good mood.
After walking straight for a few hundred meters, Shen Xiaoyan turned left and walked for about another hundred meters before stopping.
She didn't say anything, but at some point, she had taken out a stick and gently used it to peel away the messy pile of grass.
After searching for a while, Luo Luo saw Shen Xiaoyan gently insert the stick into the ground. Even so, the stick only went halfway into the soil.
Shen Xiaoyan then took out a red string with a copper coin tied to it. She tied the red string to the ginseng leaf, then bowed her head in reverence before gently digging the soil with a small shovel.
This whole procedure was something Shen Xiaoyan had seen on a documentary on television.
Their methods were much more complicated, but Shen Xiaoyan couldn't remember it all. It had been a long time ago. Even if she only remembered the general idea, it should be enough.
The wild ginseng Shen Xiaoyan was currently digging had only two leaves, meaning it was a three-year-old wild ginseng.
Shen Xiaoyan had quickly scanned the area and found at least a dozen such wild ginseng plants.
Wild ginseng of this age wasn't worth much money, and Shen Xiaoyan didn't plan to sell it. She dug up the entire plant, soil and all, and immediately transplanted it into her portable space.
Although her portable space contained a lot of seeds, vegetables, and fruits, it lacked medicinal herb seeds.
This was because she truly didn't know where to get medicinal herb seeds. She hadn't expected to time-travel to ancient times and need these to make a fortune.
If she had known from the beginning, she would have prepared all sorts of seeds. Why would she need to search everywhere in the mountains now?
It took some time, but Shen Xiaoyan dug up all the more than ten wild ginseng plants and then directly moved them into her portable space, planting them one by one.
However, she did leave one plant behind, intending to take it out after leaving the forest and planting it in a wooden basin when she got back.
After transplanting the wild ginseng, Shen Xiaoyan's mood improved significantly.
Her portable space had a time dilation effect: one day in the outside world was equivalent to one hundred days in her portable space.
Of course, this time dilation did not affect Shen Xiaoyan's own aging process; she would not age prematurely.
On the contrary, because she often drank the spiritual water from her portable space, she would age more slowly than others, or perhaps not age at all. But these were matters for later.
On the way back, Shen Xiaoyan thought about digging up some other medicinal herbs and planting them in her portable space, so she could sell them later when the opportunity arose.
However, when she actually started looking, she realized a problem: apart from wild ginseng, she didn't recognize any other medicinal herbs.
Still, Shen Xiaoyan didn't hesitate. She had so many books; there must be one that discussed medicinal herbs. She would take the time to read it carefully and then come back to the mountains for treasure hunting.
Even so, this trip could not be considered without reward, apart from the wild ginseng.
Luo Luo and Bai Bai were also happy because Shen Xiaoyan's mood had improved.
With their increased happiness, Luo Luo became a bit too rough.
Pheasants and rabbits that occasionally darted out of the woods were all killed by its lightning-fast claws.
Shen Xiaoyan took out a basket from her portable space, placed the more than ten pheasants and rabbits into it, and slung it over her back.
As she walked down the mountain, she mentally grumbled, luckily they weren't caught dead, otherwise she would have had to bear the pain of leaving them in the woods.
If she returned with a pile of wild game bearing claw marks, how would she explain it to Zheng Wei and Shen Xiaoming?
Would she say she caught them dead?
Thinking this, Shen Xiaoyan couldn't help but laugh, which made Luo Luo somewhat bewildered.
"What are you laughing at?" Luo Luo asked, confused.
Shen Xiaoyan looked at the clueless Luo Luo and laughed even more heartily.
With her improved mood, her walking speed also increased. The journey back took Shen Xiaoyan only half the time it took to get there.
She had gone up the mountain around three-quarters past noon.
After spending an hour in the mountains, plus the time it took to get there, it was already past three-quarters past the hour of You (around 5-6 PM) when they reached the entrance.
Fortunately, it was summer, and it got dark late. The sky was still bright, and the sun, though setting in the west, had not yet gone down.
When Shen Xiaoyan returned, she glanced at the construction site. The workers were still busy working. They would stop in about half an hour.
Shen Xiaoyan pushed open the small door and walked into the courtyard. She didn't see Shen Xiaoming or Wu Dagang in the yard. Just as Shen Xiaoyan was feeling puzzled, Shen Xiaoming came out of the house.
Shen Xiaoming was surprised to see Shen Xiaoyan carrying a basket. After Shen Xiaoyan walked in and put the basket on the ground, he was shocked to see what was inside. "Sister, you went up the mountain alone?"