Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Plant a Blade of Grass Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Plant a Blade of Grass Chiang Xiao had wandered around the Space for a long time, and the Black Soil was still just Black Soil, not a single new discovery.
However, she had mastered the method of entering the Space; she needed only to will it. Whether she wished her consciousness or her physical body to enter, it was all but a thought away.
The ruckus had started next door at the Old Chiang Family, with Dongdong clamoring for meat buns, Song Xiyun’s tattle-telling, and Ho Laidi’s cursing. The quarrel traveled over the walls, which were too low, making every word cariable.
Chiang Xiao realized that even inside the Space, she could still clearly hear the outside noises.
She really wanted to immediately raise the height of the courtyard wall!
She fumed with the thought but also knew that it was not as simple as she imagined, not a small matter at all.
First off, her family did not have the money to buy bricks; secondly, houses in Siyang Village were all , with neighboring courtyards separated by walls no taller than a person, nobody wanted to be the odd one out.
And what’s more, it was the Old Chiang Family?
Her grandfather held Chiang Songtao in high regard. To raise the wall between the two families would be to clearly show they wanted to guard against the Old Chiang Family, drawing a line between them, which would be awkward.
Chiang Songhai definitely would not be pleased with that idea.
Forget it, she’d take it slow.
But now, she just didn’t feel like going out at all.
Chiang Xiao simply moved a small stool over to sit on the Black Land, and she tossed the medicinal herb in her hand onto the Black Soil, thinking about things. After a while, her gaze returned to the herb; she blinked in surprise, even rubbing her eyes a few times for fear she was seeing things.
She hadn’t seen wrongly—the herb she had brought in, which had already lost its moisture and wilted, now appeared to have come back to life!
The leaves were moist and spread out, just as if they had just been plucked from the soil.
Chiang Xiao was very surprised.
At the same time, she also smelled a very faint herbal fragrance in the Space.
Could it be that this Black Soil was suitable for growing medicinal herbs?
Chiang Xiao’s eyes lit up in an instant. She hurriedly planted the herb in a corner of the land and then sat on the stool, propping her cheeks in her hands, watching the herb with immense anticipation.
This was a Fragrant Russian Knapweed that she had casually picked from the pile of herbs Chiang Songhai had in the yard. Having followed her grandfather in drying herbs for so many years, Chiang Xiao could recognize that this herb was used to treat colds and fevers. It wasn’t rare, as it grew on the Back Mountain of Siyang Village. She remembered that in her childhood, during a disastrous year when they were too poor to have enough to eat, her grandfather collected the tender shoots and stir-fried them to eat.
Many in the village followed his example back then. During that half-year, the villagers had eaten all the wild vegetables near the village. Now, one had to go higher up the mountain to pick Fragrant Russian Knapweed.
Chiang Xiao was still staring at the Fragrant Russian Knapweed when she suddenly heard the courtyard door being violently kicked open.
“You little wretch, get out here quick! Hiding inside pretending to be dead, are you?”
Upon hearing that voice, Chiang Xiao’s scalp tingled instinctively.
In her previous life before leaving Siyang Village, the person she had feared the most was this man. Even now, the sound of his voice immediately conjured up fear and dread in her heart.
This person was the second son of Chiang Songtao and Ho Laidi, Chiang Baohe.
Chiang Baohe was twenty-nine this year and still unmarried.
He had been engaged once, but the engagement had fallen through due to an unforeseen incident. In that incident, Chiang Baohe even lost sight in one eye, and that had delayed things ever since.
Over the years, Ho Laidi fretted over her son’s marriage to the point of turning her hair white, but still, no family was willing to marry their daughter to Chiang Baohe.