Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Hearing this, Bai Xiuxiu sneered. "Have we found anything? There are so many people in these mountains, how could it be so coincidental that only our family finds good things? They were lucky, but do we have such good luck?"

Bai Xiuxiu's consecutive questioning made Zhao Cuihua gasp.

Goodness, Big Sister!

Big Sister actually planned to take everything for herself?

She was too shallow! She even had the thought of sharing some with the family!

"Given Mother-in-law’s temper, if you take out part of the items, she will suspect that you’ve hidden the rest. If you don’t take them out, she’ll just scold you for being stupid. But the items, you can hide them securely." Bai Xiuxiu calmly began to instill anti-mother-in-law thoughts into her.

Among the Wang family members, the only one she didn’t dislike was Zhao Cuihua.

Only Zhao Cuihua washed clothes for her two children and secretly gave them food after she died.

Moreover, Zhao Cuihua was smart and decisive.

After hearing Bai Xiuxiu’s analysis, Zhao Cuihua agreed completely.

Yes, Mother-in-law was that kind of person!

"Big Sister, you’re right. We should hide all these things. But how do we explain ourselves when we go back?" Zhao Cuihua was a little worried.

They still needed to come up with an excuse!

"Isn’t this simple? Just pick some wild vegetables from the fields and mushrooms from the mountains to hand over. Didn’t we come here to find those things?" Bai Xiuxiu spoke decisively!

Anything that came into her hands wouldn’t be given to the Wang family!

"Then it’s settled! Big Sister, which way should we go next?" Zhao Cuihua felt more energetic. The thought of keeping whatever they found made her happy.

At the fork in the road, Bai Xiuxiu said without hesitation, "Let’s wait for them to move. Whichever direction they go, we’ll follow from a distance. Then, we’ll shake them off and get ahead of them. They have an injured person with them, so they won’t be able to keep up with us.

I feel like their luck is unusually good, so we should follow them."

Zhao Cuihua also thought that was a good idea!

So the two waited for a while.

About ten minutes later, the three women finally appeared.

However, their appearance startled Zhao Cuihua.

Bai Xiuxiu was also surprised. Originally, Chen Fang and Zhou Jiaojiao were supporting Second Sister-in-law Liu Xiaoe.

Now… Chen Fang was limping, and Liu Xiaoe was being supported by Zhou Jiaojiao.

"How did another one fall?" Zhao Cuihua asked in disbelief, lowering her voice.

Bai Xiuxiu was also taken aback.

However, there was someone even more puzzled than them!

That was Zhou Jiaojiao!

Along the way, Second Sister-in-law and Fourth Sister-in-law had both suffered misfortune, yet they hadn’t found much!

It was strange. In the past, when the people who accompanied her into the mountains suffered such misfortune, she would have gained more.

Zhou Jiaojiao was puzzled, while Chen Fang and Liu Xiaoe were already cursing inwardly.

They had never been so unlucky in their entire lives!

How could they be so unlucky?

"Old Fifth, let’s go back. We’ve found quite a few good things. Why are we still in the mountains?" Chen Fang urged unhappily.

"Fourth Sister-in-law, let’s go a bit further. After we cross that mountain range, if we haven’t found anything good, we’ll go back. Don’t worry, when we return, we’ll wait for Big Sister and Third Sister. That way, there will be someone to support you," Zhou Jiaojiao persuaded.

If these two left, she would have no reason to stay in the mountains!

Chen Fang cursed, but the gains along the way made her hesitate.

In the end, she followed them.

On top of the mountain, Bai Xiuxiu and Zhao Cuihua went ahead after hearing their conversation.

The two deliberately avoided the three women and weren’t discovered along the way.

Not long after reaching the front, they heard Chen Fang scream in pain.

Even Bai Xiuxiu couldn’t help being surprised. Wasn’t this too much bad luck?

What good things could there be ahead?

The duo conducted a meticulous search and swiftly discovered a fresh expanse of yellow ginseng.

"Is there a bumper crop of yellow qi this year?" Zhao Cuihua noticed that she had seen more today than in the past few years combined!

After they finished pulling out the yellow qi,

Bai Xiuxiu stood up and her gaze fell on the deep pit. It was overgrown with weeds, but... in one corner, she saw something different!

Was that ginseng?

Bai Xiuxiu wasn’t sure, but she was certain that if she didn’t take it back, it would belong to Zhou Jiaojiao today.

At this moment, she was somewhat regretting asking Zhao Cuihua to come along.

Now that she's here, she would have to give her a share, wouldn't she?

But that wasn't important; what mattered was the ginseng seeds!

"Big Sister-in-Law, what are you doing?" Zhao Cuihua was exhausted and just as she was about to call out to Bai Xiuxiu, she noticed her staring blankly at something.

Bai Xiuxiu signaled her to be quiet, then pointed over there, mouthing what it was.

Zhao Cuihua’s eyes widened!

Ginseng!

She had only heard of it, never seen it before.

She had only heard stories of people with good luck finding it in the mountains.

Could such good fortune come her way too?

"This thing isn’t easy to dig up. If we just start digging like this, there will surely be damage. But if we take our time digging, we’ll have to share it with the whole family. Or even worse, our mother-in-law might keep it all for herself.

And later, she might use it as a gift for Second Brother or Old Fifth."

Bai Xiuxiu analyzed for Zhao Cuihua.

"Dig! Let’s dig now! We’ll do the best we can! We absolutely cannot let them find out," Zhao Cuihua made up her mind.

Bai Xiuxiu shared the same thought.

"I’ll go down into the pit first, Big Sister-in-Law. You don’t do much work, so I’ll make a path for you to follow." At this moment, Zhao Cuihua felt that Bai Xiuxiu wasn’t some shrewd sister-in-law; she was her goddess of fortune!

Bai Xiuxiu didn’t hesitate and followed Zhao Cuihua.

The two descended into the pit, and Zhao Cuihua pulled a dead branch to poke around, making sure there were no venomous snakes hiding in the grass.

Elders always said that venomous snakes frequented areas where ginseng grew!

This ginseng looked to be at least twenty or thirty years old.

To find such ginseng now could only be described as striking gold!

Without hesitation, they took their digging tools and got to work.

Their speed was fast, but their technique was terrible! After all, they had to vanish from here before Zhou Jiaojiao and the others arrived!

As their movements started to draw attention, Bai Xiuxiu, with determination, decided not to retrieve the remaining roots.

However, she didn’t waste any of the seeds above.

With the seeds, her bracelet could grow her a new ginseng!

When collecting the seeds, she made sure Zhao Cuihua didn’t see.

Zhao Cuihua was panicking: "Big Sister-in-Law, let’s leave quickly."

Bai Xiuxiu put away the ginseng, and together they buried the potato back in place, then swiftly vanished from the area.

Arriving at a safe spot on top of the mountain, Zhao Cuihua’s heart was still racing: "Big Sister-in-Law, we’ve struck it rich!"