Tian Jing went directly to the hillside where she had found ginseng last time. She wanted to sell one more ginseng and then stop selling ginseng to outsiders.
At full speed, it took her only half an hour to reach the dense forest. The hillside below looked just as it did when she left that day.
She placed her palm on the ground, sensing the planted seeds. There was no change, so she simply used her wood-elemental ability on the entire slope, urging ginseng seedlings to grow.
She then singled out one of the few remaining ginseng plants and nurtured it separately, stopping when it was about fifty years old. This should sell for more than the last one, enough to cover her initial cost. She intended to earn money openly using the Li family's spare land.
After wrapping up the ginseng and putting it away, she didn't have enough time to cultivate her abilities, but she did have time to practice them.
She practiced energy exchange with trees in the dense forest.
After exchanging energy back and forth with a tree a few times, intending to withdraw her ability and switch to another tree, she surprisingly sensed the tree's consciousness. The tree's consciousness was asking her not to leave, that it still wanted delicious food.
This sudden communication startled Tian Jing at first, then she jumped up with joy.
Her happiness wasn't just because the tree could communicate, but more so because of the convenience of communicating with plants.
In her previous life, there was a wood-elemental ability user whose ability was unique.
That ability user could communicate with plants. By communicating with plants, she learned everything they had seen and heard, and repeatedly led her teammates to successfully avoid high-level zombies and mutated animals.
This ability was even more sought after than mental abilities. Single-line mental ability users had weak bodies and needed a personal protector, as well as needing to be wary of high-level psychic zombies. With this wood-elemental ability, it was practically an alternative detector.
Later, this wood-elemental ability was publicized, and all wood-elemental ability users tried to communicate with plants, but found it very difficult.
Because plants had consciousness and were unwilling to communicate with humans, especially wood-elemental ability users, whom they disliked even more, as wood-elemental ability users would dig up their crystal cores. As a result, that ability user became the base's darling.
Now, she could also communicate with plants. Although they were just ordinary plants, being able to communicate was a good thing, a very good thing, and it could bring her a lot of convenience.
After her excitement subsided, Tian Jing infused some wood-elemental energy into the tree and 'chatted' with it using her consciousness.
Since the tree had only stayed in the dense forest, it knew only about the nearby wild grass and trees.
Tian Jing treated the tree like a small child, patiently communicating with it.
She figured that the wood-elemental ability user in her previous life was probably also an ordinary ability user, and she must have discovered energy exchange, which led to the result of communicating with plant consciousness.
Why did she think this? Because that ability user leveled up faster than many ability users who leveled up by consuming wood-elemental crystal cores. Moreover, mutated plants were close to that ability user, which was exactly the same situation as her now.
In that case, that ability user was truly cunning, generously agreeing to let the base publicize her unique ability, prompting many wood-elemental ability users to practice her method.
It was like a cultivation technique divided into three parts: upper, middle, and lower. Only the lower part was released, and without the upper and middle parts, no one could truly cultivate it.
None of this mattered to her now. She was Tian Jing of the 1970s in another world.
Tian Jing finished her communication with the tree. The tree received a lot of energy and had 'chatted' with a human, shaking its leaves happily.
Tian Jing tried another tree. She wasn't sure if it was just that the previous tree had developed consciousness, or if she had exchanged too much energy, which had caused the tree to develop consciousness.
She tried several trees of varying sizes, even the wild grass under the trees. Her final conclusion was that the older the plant, the more likely it was to develop consciousness. Plants like wild grass, which lived for only one year, could not develop consciousness.
The prerequisite for developing consciousness was indeed her energy exchange. The more energy exchanged, the clearer the consciousness, and the easier it was to communicate.
Looking at the sunset on the western hill, Tian Jing left the dense forest and found a patch of withered thatch. She wanted to use the thatch to make straw mats to cover the plastic shed.
In fact, straw was the lightest and most insulating, but not only in Ku Mountain, even in the production teams that grew rice, there was no surplus straw.
Because that straw also had a quota for submission, and the remainder was feed for the team's draft animals. She could only choose thatch.
But this mess of withered thatch in front of her was really difficult to sort and weave into straw mats. She would rather use her ability to make the thatch roots grow another season and cut a few bundles before they turned yellow and fell.
Therefore, Li Zhenguo's worry was correct. As the sunset completely turned into dusk, he began to worry.
As the orange sunset slowly faded to black, he anxiously wanted to enter the deep mountains when he heard running footsteps, "Tiantian?"
"It's me." Tian Jing deliberately ran down the mountain. It was getting dark, and if she didn't make a sound, Li Zhenguo might go up the mountain to look for her, and they might miss each other.
Ability users had good eyesight, and Tian Jing ran directly to Li Zhenguo's side.
Once she was by his side, Li Zhenguo naturally felt it and accurately grabbed her hand, "Tiantian."
Tian Jing could feel his rapid heartbeat from his palm, "I'm fine, it just took a little longer to cut a few bundles of thatch."
These words made Li Zhenguo relax his tense spirit, "Thatch? Are you planning to make straw mats to cover the plastic sheeting?"
"Yes, to use for keeping warm at night. Straw is hard to find, and it's also cattle feed. Let's not be too special. Using thatch, everyone can find it."
"You plan to teach others?"
"Yes, once I teach them, whether they do it or not has nothing to do with me."
They walked down the mountain, talking.
In the Li family's courtyard tonight, an extra oil lamp was lit luxuriously, hanging above the courtyard gate.
Seeing this lamp, Tian Jing felt a warmth in her heart, the warmth of home.
As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she called out loudly, "Mother-in-law, we're back." Su Dan Novel Network
"Eh," Mother Li replied from the kitchen, "Wash your hands quickly, dinner will be ready soon."
"Okay."
Tian Jing took off her heavily laden back basket. On the lid of the bamboo basket were several bundles of tightly tied thatch.
Li Zhenguo then saw what Tian Jing had cut. Thatch is harvested at the latest in September. At this time of year, it would be good if the thatch didn't turn to mud, how could there be thatch ready for harvest?
The thought only crossed his mind for a moment before he let it go. No matter what strange things Tiantian did, he wouldn't find it strange, because this was his Tiantian. With the matter of rebirth, nothing else was surprising.
Tian Jing instructed Li Zhenguo, "You untie the thatch and dry it, and take the back basket to the west room."
"Okay."
Li Zhenguo responded, and coincidentally, his back basket also needed to be put in the room.