Chapter 20

Bai Xiuxiu sneered at her words, “Did we find anything? There are so many people in the mountains, how come it’s such a coincidence that our whole family can find good things? They three are lucky, do we have that kind of luck?”

Bai Xiuxiu’s repeated questions made Zhao Cuihua gasp.

Good heavens, Sister-in-law!

Sister-in-law is planning to keep it all for herself?

She was too naive! She actually had the idea of giving some to the family!

“With our mother-in-law’s temper, if you take out some of the things, she’ll suspect that you’ve secretly hidden some. If you don’t take it out, she’ll just scold you for being stupid. But you can actually hide the things.” Bai Xiuxiu calmly began to instill anti-mother-in-law thoughts in her.

Of all the Wang family members, the only one she didn’t hate was Zhao Cuihua.

Only Zhao Cuihua had washed clothes for her two children and secretly given them food after her death.

Besides, Zhao Cuihua was smart and decisive.

After listening to Bai Xiuxiu’s analysis, Zhao Cuihua agreed.

Yes, that’s how their mother-in-law was!

“Sister-in-law, you’re right, we’ll hide all these things. How do we explain it when we go back?” Zhao Cuihua was a little worried.

They had to fool her somehow!

“That’s easy. Just pick some wild vegetables from the field and mushrooms from the mountain, and that’s it. Didn’t we come up the mountain to find these things?” Bai Xiuxiu said decisively!

She wouldn’t give anything that ended up in her hands to the Wang family!

“That’s settled! Sister-in-law, which way should we go next?” Zhao Cuihua felt even more energetic. Thinking that everything she found would be hers made her happy.

There was a fork in the road ahead. Bai Xiuxiu said without hesitation, “Wait for them to leave, whichever way they go, we’ll take a detour and follow them. Then we’ll shake them off and get ahead of them. They’re carrying an injured person, they can’t walk as fast as us.

I feel like they three are really lucky, let’s follow them.”

Zhao Cuihua also thought it was a good idea!

So the two of them waited for a while.

After about ten minutes, the three of them came over.

But when the three of them came over, Zhao Cuihua was scared.

Bai Xiuxiu was also surprised. Originally, the three of them were Chen Fang and Zhou Jiaojiao supporting the second sister-in-law, Liu Xiao’e.

Now… Chen Fang was also limping, and Liu Xiao’e was being supported by Zhou Jiaojiao.

“How come another one fell?” Zhao Cuihua asked in a low voice, incredulously.

Bai Xiuxiu couldn’t believe it either.

However, there was someone even more puzzled than them!

That was Zhou Jiaojiao!

All the way, the second sister-in-law and the fourth sister-in-law had been unlucky, but they hadn’t found much!

It was really strange. In the past, when people followed her up the mountain and were unlucky like this, her harvest should have been even greater.

Zhou Jiaojiao was puzzled. Chen Fang and Liu Xiao’e were already cursing in their hearts.

They had lived for over twenty years and had never been so unlucky!

How could they be so unlucky?

“I say, fifth sister-in-law, let’s go back. We’ve already found a lot of good things, what are we doing still in the mountains?” Chen Fang urged, dissatisfied.

“Fourth sister-in-law, let’s walk a little further. We’ll go over that mountain, and if we still don’t find anything good, we’ll go back. Don’t worry, when we go back, we’ll wait for the eldest sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law, so someone will help you.” Zhou Jiaojiao persuaded.

If these two left, she would be pointless in the mountains!

Chen Fang was cursing, but the harvest along the way made her hesitate.

In the end, she followed.

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

The two of them intentionally avoided the three of them and were not discovered along the way.

When they got to the front, not long after, they heard Chen Fang scream from behind.

Bai Xiuxiu couldn’t help but be surprised. Was this too unlucky?

What good things could there be ahead?

The two of them searched carefully in front and soon found a new patch of astragalus.

“Is there a bumper harvest of astragalus this year?” Zhao Cuihua discovered that she had seen more astragalus today than she had in years!

The two of them worked hard and pulled out all the astragalus.

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

Was that ginseng?

Bai Xiuxiu wasn’t sure, but she was sure that if she didn’t get it back, this thing would be Zhou Jiaojiao’s today.

At this moment, she even regretted calling Zhao Cuihua along.

“If I called her over, wouldn’t I have to share some with her?”

But, that didn’t matter. What mattered was the ginseng seed!

“Sister-in-law, what are you doing?” Zhao Cuihua was exhausted. She was about to call Bai Xiuxiu when she noticed her staring at something.

Bai Xiuxiu motioned for her to be quiet, then pointed over there. She used lip movements to tell her what it was.

Zhao Cuihua’s eyes widened!

Ginseng!

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

She had only heard that someone had found it in the mountains.

Could this good fortune befall her?

“This thing is not easy to dig. If we dig it casually, we’ll definitely damage it. But if we dig it slowly, we’ll have to share it with the whole family. Or maybe we won’t even get to share it, our mother-in-law will keep it for herself.

Then she’ll use it to bribe the second son or the fifth son.”

Bai Xiuxiu and Zhao Cuihua analyzed.

“Dig! Let’s dig it now! Whatever we can dig out is what we get! We absolutely cannot let them find out about us.” Zhao Cuihua hardened her heart.

Bai Xiuxiu had the same idea.

“I’ll go down this pit first. Sister-in-law, you don’t do much work, I’ll make a path for you to come down.” At this moment, Zhao Cuihua felt that Bai Xiuxiu wasn’t a shrewd eldest sister-in-law at all! She was her lucky star!

Bai Xiuxiu didn’t stand on ceremony and followed behind Zhao Cuihua.

The two of them went down the pit. Zhao Cuihua grabbed a dry branch and poked around, in case there were poisonous snakes hiding in the grass.

Old people say that there are poisonous snakes near ginseng!

This ginseng looked like it was twenty to thirty years old.

Finding such ginseng now was considered hitting the jackpot!

The two of them didn’t hesitate, took their digging tools, and started working.

They were very fast, but their technique was terrible! After all, they had to disappear from here before Zhou Jiaojiao and the others arrived!

As their movements started to get closer, Bai Xiuxiu hardened her heart and didn’t care about the remaining roots.

But she didn’t waste a single seed from above.

As long as she had the seeds, her bracelet could give her a whole patch of ginseng!

When she collected the seeds, she didn’t let Zhao Cuihua see them.

Zhao Cuihua was in a panic at this moment. “Sister-in-law, let’s go quickly.”

Bai Xiuxiu put the ginseng away and the two of them buried the potatoes back in the ground, then quickly disappeared from the area.

When they reached a safe place on the mountain top, Zhao Cuihua’s heart was still racing. “Sister-in-law, we’re going to be rich now!”