The mountain road on Rootless Mountain was not particularly rugged, but it was precisely the kind of winding road Liu Zheng hated most.
For a while, he had been sent on business trips to Guizhou Province, and those mountain roads had made him sick to his stomach.
The road up Rootless Mountain was even worse, coiling around and around like a mosquito coil.
Fortunately, his physique had become extraordinary. Otherwise, he would have thrown up on the spot.
"Are those Rootless Flowers?"
Liu Zheng pointed at the little flowers growing everywhere along both sides of the road.
They had purple petals speckled with yellow spots like eyes. Their leaves and stems were dark green, and they truly looked as sinister as their name suggested.
"That's right. These are Rootless Flowers. An ancestor who discovered them stayed around them for too long and completely lost his fertility. The family spared no expense to send him to the hospital, but he still could not be cured. In the end, he became teaching material for the hospital. Sigh."
Bai San let out a sigh.
"Your Bai Family is quite generous."
A hospital was not somewhere just any family could afford to send someone.
"It isn't that we are generous to everyone. Naturally, we favor those with potential or those who have contributed to the family. Otherwise, where would the cohesion come from?"
"That is how families are. The predecessors endured hardship to build the road, and later generations rest in their shade. But before those predecessors, there were predecessors who cleared the way, and later generations will plant trees for those who come after them. It passes on from generation to generation, multiplying and prospering."
Bai San said.
"But there are always people who only want to enjoy the benefits and refuse to