Chapter 39 Plant Essence

Yunxi read until sunset, but she had only read half of the book.

Because she not only had to see it, but also had to memorize it. Although she had a good memory, she still had to go through it carefully to remember it.

I put the book away in my storage space and looked at the green beans drying on the stool. They should be ready to be cut now, and the moisture content is about right.

First, I'll put the clothes away, and I'll also put the mushrooms into my space. I'll air them out for another day tomorrow.

Then I took a large wooden basin and a small cutting board, ready to chop the green beans.

The chopped green beans will be placed directly in the bowl, so there's no need to worry about making a mess.

After Yunxi finished chopping all the green beans, he felt like his hands weren't even his own anymore. He even had two blisters on the web of his hand where he gripped the knife.

Just use a needle to puncture the blister and squeeze out the water.

Then, I took out some medicinal herbs from my space, found the right herbs, extracted their essence, and applied them to the blisters.

It feels cool when applied, and you can clearly feel the great effect.

Although the blisters on her hands were not visible to the naked eye as they were healing, Yunxi knew they would be fine overnight.

The flesh is tingling and itchy inside, which is definitely due to the wound healing process. Once it's healed, it will scab over again.

Looking at the green beans in the wooden basin, Yunxi suddenly realized that she didn't have enough salt at home. When she went to buy some yesterday, the supply and marketing cooperative had limited the amount she could buy, so now she simply didn't have enough salt.

I kept some salt for the time being, and used the rest to mix with a small portion of the green beans. As for the other green beans that weren't mixed with salt, I could only temporarily store them in my spatial storage.

I'll buy more salt at the market in a few days and then take care of everything.

I threw a few chili peppers into the salted green beans, and then put them in a jar.

For now, we'll put them in a separate empty room. There are two other rooms to the left outside, but they're not really used.

Put all the jars inside, and when the green beans inside are ready to eat, put them back into your spatial storage.

After everything was packed up, Yunxi noticed that the tiger bone next to her thumb seemed to be less painful.

It feels like a thin layer of skin has grown inside.

I went to the kitchen and cooked myself a bowl of noodles, which will serve as my dinner tonight.

After eating and drinking to our hearts' content, we washed all the pots and pans and then prepared to boil water.

After taking a shower, Yunxi reapplied the herbal essence to the blisters, decided not to wash her clothes yet and would do so tomorrow, and then went into her room.

Yunxi plans to finish reading the entire book on medicinal herbs tonight. Since there's less and less work to do at home, she can pick more herbs, process them at home, and sell them in town to earn money.

He placed the kang table directly on the kang, then sat down on the kang with his books to read.

Although the whole room was pitch black, it did not affect Yunxi's vision at all. Even though it seemed very dark, she could still see the contents of the book clearly.

I don't know how many candles Yunxi saved, and because there were no candles, no light shone through, so people would think she was already asleep.

After spending nearly three hours, Yunxi finally memorized the entire herbal medicine book and could recite it from memory with ease.

He put the books back into his spatial storage, placed the table at the very edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), lay down on the kang, closed his eyes, and reviewed the knowledge he had just memorized in his mind.

Only after confirming that I could remember it firmly without making mistakes did I feel satisfied and prepare to go to sleep.

The next day, I woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing.

The first thing Yunxi did when she woke up was to look at the blister on the back of her hand. By then, the blister had already scabbed over, and a new layer of skin had grown inside.

Now I can move my fingers around without feeling any pain.

He nodded in satisfaction, it seemed her abilities remained as strong as ever.

Extracting the essence of a plant is her innate talent as a peach tree spirit. She is originally made of wood, and after gaining intelligence, she also possesses some innate supernatural abilities.

In addition to the space inherent in her physical body, which is always within her soul, the ability to extract plant essence is also inherent to her.

After getting dressed, I went straight out of the house and quickly went to the well to wash my face and brush my teeth.

After washing up, I started my daily routine: first, I fed the chickens, then I made myself breakfast and also prepared lunch so I could eat it at lunchtime.

After breakfast, I took out the mushrooms from the space and spread them all out in the yard along with the drying mats.

Then I washed the dirty clothes I had changed out of last night and hung them directly in the yard.

The green beans that were drying yesterday haven't been taken down yet; they're still on the rack, and Yunxi doesn't plan to take them down either.

Although it looks like it will have dew on it, I always feel that it will taste better if it gets covered in dew for a few more nights. Once it's almost dry, don't leave it outside overnight.

After looking around and finding nothing else to pack, I picked up my basket and prepared to head up the mountain.

Yunxi is planning to go deep into the mountains today, because she has been wandering around the outskirts and hasn't found anything good.

So she wanted to finish today's task as soon as possible and quickly put it on her body when no one was looking.

She came to this secluded place alone and stayed there for half an hour. During that time, she didn't waste any of the medicinal herbs available nearby; she didn't let any of them go to waste.

Half an hour later, they quickly carried their full baskets down the mountain to the pig farm.

It took about an hour and a half, less than two hours, to finish today's task.

Pretending to have completed their mission and be ready to go home, they actually took a detour and changed roads when no one was looking, heading straight into the deep mountains.

This was a path Yunxi had never taken before, but she knew where the deep mountains were, so she found a straight path and went directly into the deep mountains.

However, because there was no road, it was still a bit difficult to walk, but there were still quite a few good medicinal herbs to be found.

Most of them are medicinal herbs that have been around for a long time. Perhaps because not many people pass by here, they are all growing exceptionally well.