Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife-Chapter 1253: A Real Ginseng

Releasing his mother, Feng Lin added with a warm smile, "Mother, I’m glad you found happiness. You deserve to be loved and I do love you. You will always be my mother."

Then, turning to He Xieyu, he said seriously, "Uncle He, I’m leaving my mother in your care. If you ever bully her, I will come and take her away. If that happens, I will make sure you will never see her again."

Hearing the little boy’s warning, He Xieyu was secretly amused. He didn’t believe a child could challenge him, but he still nodded and replied, "Don’t worry, I won’t let anyone bully my wife."

"Good."

"Alright, let’s not dwell on sad things anymore. Ah Yue, I have prepared your favorite braised fish, so let’s have lunch first," Grandma Feng said while wiping away the tears at the corners of her eyes.

Hearing her words, Ye Xinyue smiled softly and nodded, "Thank you, Mother."

Even though she was no longer married to Feng Chen, she still saw Grandpa Feng and Grandma Feng as her own parents and unwilling to call them aunt and uncle.

"Thank you, Aunt Feng," He Xieyu added politely.

Hearing this, Dong Huang quickly set down her bamboo basket and said, "Grandma, my mother made some snacks for you and Grandpa."

She then placed a three-layered bamboo basket on the table and continued, "Ah Lin and I already planned to gather mushrooms today, so we won’t stay for lunch."

"How can you go out to play without eating first?" Grandpa Feng asked with concern.

"Grandpa, I already ate at home, and my father packed some steamed buns for Ah Lin, so he won’t go hungry," Dong Huang replied.

"Grandpa, Grandma, if we don’t leave now, it will get dark before we finish. We will be back before sunset."

As soon as she finished speaking, she grabbed Feng Lin’s hand and pulled him toward the door.

Feng Lin didn’t resist and simply followed her lead. He had felt uncomfortable under his stepfather’s gaze and didn’t want to stay in the same room with him any longer. Going out with Dong Huang was the perfect escape.

As he ran out, he didn’t turn back to look at his mother. For him, Dong Huang and his grandparents were the most important people in his life.

His mother was, at best, a blood relative. While there was affection, it could never compare to the deep bond he shared with his grandparents and Dong Huang.

Looking at her son’s back, Ye Xinyue felt that something very important had been lost and she couldn’t help but feel a stabbing pain in her heart.

After they left the Feng family’s house, Dong Huang and Feng Lin went to the mountain foothills near Yun Village.

When they arrived, there were already a lot of children and several young girls gathering mushrooms and wild vegetables. Your journey continues at novelbuddy

Seeing the people there, Dong Huang said, "Ah Lin, there are so many people here. We won’t be able to gather much. How about we go to the bamboo grove behind my house? My brother said there are a lot of mushrooms there."

Looking at the sky, Feng Lin said, "If we go there, won’t it be dark before we finish gathering mushrooms?"

"It won’t. I know a shortcut. Let’s go," Dong Huang said as she pulled her friend’s hand and took a smaller path behind the bushes.

The path they took was not far from the mountain foothills but had not yet entered the mountain forest. It could be said that this path was located at the border of the foothills and the forest.

While it wasn’t deep in the forest, people rarely came to this area for fear of encountering a wild boar.

As they walked, Feng Lin looked around, trying to remember the path. Suddenly, his eyes locked onto something behind a big boulder. He tightened his hold on Dong Huang’s hand and said, "Xiao Huang, wait a moment!"

Startled by his sudden shout, Dong Huang stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him. She patted her chest and asked, "Ah Lin, what’s wrong?"

Focused on the red flower in the distance, Feng Lin didn’t notice her surprise and said, "Xiao Huang, do you think that red flower is ginseng?"

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Hearing this, Dong Huang looked in the direction he pointed and said, "It looks like ginseng. But doesn’t ginseng not have flowers?"

After thinking for a moment, Feng Lin said, "Xiao Huang, let’s go pick it up and ask your mother later."

"Okay."

The two of them walked over to the big boulder and noticed that behind it, the plant had grown very tall. The red flower was actually berries.

Before they started digging, Dong Huang took out a piece of cloth from her bamboo basket and gathered the berries from the plant. This plant was so big that she got a total of 58 berries. She used the cloth to wrap the berries before putting them inside the basket.

Afterward, they used a small hoe and started digging. The two of them didn’t dare dig too close to the plant, fearing that if it was ginseng, they would damage the root.

Although they didn’t know much about medicinal plants, they had helped Li Shu tend the medicinal field at Doctor Xie’s house and learned how to dig them.

Li Shu also taught them how to differentiate rare and precious medicinal plants such as ginseng and Lingzhi.

As for other medicinal herbs, she lent them a book with drawings and information about common herbs used to treat fever, wounds, poison, diarrhea, and other ailments.

Therefore, both of them had some basic understanding of common medicinal plants and how to collect them.

The two of them dug for almost an hour before seeing a large root beneath the stem. Around the root, many smaller roots spread under the soil.

Seeing this, Dong Huang said with joy clear in her eyes, "Ah Lin, this is real ginseng!"