Rebirth: Making a Fortune in Ancient Times

After spending a few more days lying in bed, eating and waiting to die, Jinghe noticed a persistent itch on her head where the wound was. Knowing this was new skin tissue growing, she didn't dare scratch it, instead applying a mixture of water from her spatial well and water from home to relieve the itch. One morning, while washing her face, Jinghe removed the cloth from her head and found the scabs had fallen off, leaving only a tender, pinkish patch of new skin. She then removed the cloth. Liu Shi carefully examined the faint mark on her daughter's head and was quite satisfied, seeing that it wouldn't leave a scar. After breakfast, Jinghe wanted to ask her brother to go for a walk in the mountains with her. Liu Shi was worried; her head wound had only just healed, and she feared her daughter would be carried back covered in blood again like last time.

"Don't worry, Mother. I fell last time because we were catching pheasants. This time I'll just quietly dig for wild vegetables and promise not to climb trees or catch chickens," she solemnly assured Liu.

Seeing that she wanted to go out so badly, and considering that she had been cooped up at home for several days, Liu told her son to keep a close eye on his sister and not let her do anything dangerous.

The brother and sister each carried a basket containing a sickle and a shovel as they headed into the mountains. This time, Jinghe didn't ask her cousin Changsheng and her older sister Chunyu to come along. She wanted to test her spatial ability and see if there were any rare species; too many people would make things inconvenient.

Changyun, familiar with the route, led his younger sister along the path they used to take to climb the mountain. He carried a long stick he had found at the foot of the mountain and tapped the grass on both sides of the path as they walked.

Changyun took his sister to the place where they used to dig for wild vegetables. Jinghe looked at the dandelions on the ground and felt a bitter taste in her mouth. This was probably the wild vegetable they had been eating the most lately.

"Brother, I want to go over there and take a look," Jinghe called to her brother and pointed in a direction.

"Come on, I'll go with you," Changyun put the dandelions he had just dug up into his basket and walked ahead in the direction Jinghe was pointing.

Jinghe silently swallowed the words of objection she wanted to say and obediently followed behind Changyun. After walking for about ten more minutes, he stopped. "Xiaxia, we can't go any further. The deepest I've ever gone before is this far. It might be dangerous to go any further. There are more kinds of wild vegetables here than in the previous area. We should have enough to dig." After saying that, he put down the basket on his back and called Jinghe to dig for wild vegetables.

Jinghe looked deeper into the distance and realized she couldn't go any further today, so she squatted down and started digging for wild vegetables, just like her brother. There was a lot of wild millet here, and it tasted much better than dandelion. A few days ago, because she had to take care of Jinghe, Liu Shi couldn't go too far to dig for wild vegetables and could only dig for dandelion, which was everywhere nearby. Now that she had found something else, Jinghe had absolutely no desire to eat that vegetable.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Jinghe moved along as she dug, and soon she had put some distance between herself and her brother. Changyun, who was digging for wild vegetables, would look up at Xiaxia every few minutes. Seeing that Xiaxia was a little distance away but still within his sight, he didn't say anything to remind her.

While Changyun wasn't looking, Jinghe secretly stored all the wild vegetables she had dug up into her spatial storage and planted them in the soil there using her mind. Suddenly, Jinghe noticed a different plant. Its leaves were dark purplish-red with crisscrossing golden veins, making it very beautiful. It was actually *Anoectochilus roxburghii* (Golden Thread Orchid). In her previous life, Jinghe had seen this plant in the mountains when she went to Yunnan with her company. The local guide clearly stated that it was a national second-class protected plant and that picking it was forbidden, or she would face life imprisonment. Moreover, this plant was on par with cordyceps, so although Jinghe's work in her previous life had nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine, she recognized *Anoectochilus roxburghii*.

I quickly dug up a few seedlings with intact root systems and planted them in my space. I dug up all the other larger seedlings and prepared to take them to the town pharmacy to ask if I could sell them for money.

Jinghe was in a good mood after digging up the golden thread lotus. At least she had some gains on this trip to the mountains and hadn't returned empty-handed. Seeing that it was almost time, Jinghe called her brother and prepared to go down the mountain and go home.

Changyun saw the golden thread lotus in Jinghe's basket and exclaimed, "Xiaxia, why are you digging up so much bird grass? It's not tasty."

"Brother, do you recognize this grass?"

"Yes, I recognize it. It's called bird grass. I used to dig it up, but my mother said it didn't taste good, so she picked it out and fed it to the chickens."

"Brother, this is a medicinal herb; every part of it is valuable. It should be able to be sold for money."

"When did you learn about herbs?" Changyun looked at his sister suspiciously, noticing a change in her over the past two days.

"I know! Why don't we go ask Doctor Li in the village?"

Jinghe had fooled her own brother, but felt that there were some things she should tell Liu Shi honestly, otherwise they would think that she had changed too much and might think that she was possessed by a ghost.