Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“But doesn’t ginseng grow on trees?” The moment Jiang Zebei said this, he remembered what Chen Mengtian said just now.
He looked up and stared at the girl beside him, unable to believe what she said.
“Do you still have your great-great grandfather’s medical book?” Expectation laced his tone, and there was even slight excitement on his face.
No matter what, Jiang Zebei was sent to be enlightened since he was young, and he had been studying in school for nearly ten years. His vision was naturally wider and longer than that of others.
The ginseng in front of him made him think about medicinal herb trade opportunities between countries and that this could become the wealth of Cold West in the future.
If he could use this properly, it could even make Cold West become stronger.
But similarly, if he were careless, it would be used by officials who only thought about profit.
The moment he thought about it, he could understand why Viridianers said that ginseng grew on trees.
The Viridianers had kept the truth of where ginseng grew a secret. Then, what about the other things?
Chen Mengtian did not know what Jiang Zebei was thinking. At that moment, she was just thinking about her own problems.
In the future, she was definitely going to be reading medical books, and this was going to last for a long time.
Jiang Zebei was the closest person to her, so she would be unable to hide it.
She wondered whether she could bring the medical books from the dimension out.
If she could, then they would serve as her perfect cover.
Because she would know things that other people did not know. But as long as she said she learned those things from the medical books, it would be much easier for her to offer an explanation to the people around her.
She thought over her words, then said, “I remember that I brought some medical books when I came to your house. I’ll go back and see whether I can find them.”
When Jiang Zebei heard this, he was delighted. But soon, his smile faded away.
Slight displeasure appeared on his face. “‘Your’? Right now, we’re the only ones in our family. Shouldn’t you be saying ‘our’?”
Chen Mengtian had said it offhand, and after she did it, she found that her wording was wrong.
Hence, once Jiang Zebei mentioned it, she just smiled and agreed to it.
Then, she saw the boy’s expression turn for the better, and she asked, “Can we sell these ginseng for money?”
Jiang Zebei placed the ginseng back into Chen Mengtian’s hands. “If we only have a few of them, we can sell them. But if we have a lot of them, it’ll bring suspicion, and it’ll cause us trouble.”
Chen Mengtian did not have other opinions about that. “Then, we’ll just sell a few of them. How much silver do you think we’ll get?”
Jiang Zebei shook his head. “At most, we can only sell three of them. The one in your hands will earn us from three hundred to five hundred silver taels.”
Chen Mengtian’s jaw fell slack. Her mouth was so wide open that she could swallow an egg.
The expenses of the villagers were less than one silver tael a month.
Some of the families even only spent a few hundred coins a month.
But one ginseng could be sold for a few hundred silver taels. It was enough for a normal family to not have to worry about their livelihood for the rest of their lives.
When Jiang Zebei saw how shocked she was, he reached out and helped her shut her mouth.
Before he pulled his hand back, Chen Mengtian grabbed it. “Jiang Zebei, we’re rich! Once we sell three ginseng, we’ll be able to live without worry for the next few years. Three years later, you’re going to take the imperial examination, right? At that time, we’ll have the silver necessary for you to take the examination.”
Jiang Zebei looked down at the hand the girl held, and no one could tell what was on his mind.
“Yes,” he answered softly.
“Then, let’s sell them. We’ll sell three of them, and I’ll try to learn medicine. After I fell into the water, I have felt that learning medicine is really important. I can save a lot of lives that way.
“But I need a lot of money to learn medicine. I also need a lot of medicinal herbs to examine. Some of the medicinal herbs don’t grow in this season, so I won’t be able to find them in the mountains. I need to buy them from the apothecary, and I need silver for that…”
Chen Mengtian let her mouth run off, which made it seem like what she said was the truth.