These days, the Big Courtyard was filled with the rich scent of wild mushrooms. Black tiger's paw mushrooms were large, intensely fragrant, and delicious to eat. Otherwise, they could never have fetched such high prices.
Li Long brought back dozens or even a hundred kilograms of wild mushrooms every day, and they were drying all over the courtyard.
His footprints had also spread through the mountains for dozens of kilometers around Southern Mountain.
With the Jeep, he chose a ravine to drive into each time, then followed it deeper on foot. He had visited some places before and knew them fairly well. If he had never been somewhere, he would explore it.
In any case, Li Long had abundant stamina and senses far sharper than an ordinary person's, making him much better at finding mushrooms.
Besides mushrooms, he also discovered quite a few exceptionally large codonopsis plants.
It was not yet time to dig up codonopsis, so Li Long simply noted these places. If he had the chance later, he would return and dig up these visibly oversized plants.
There was no need to worry about driving them extinct. There was so much codonopsis in the mountains, growing in whole patches.
Although codonopsis had "ginseng" in its Chinese name, it was actually a bellflower-family plant, not the same kind of plant as ginseng, which belonged to the Aralia genus.
It also grew abundantly and reproduced quickly, spreading into patches wherever the wild terrain suited it. Li Long could see entire hillsides densely covered in pale purple codonopsis flowers.
There was far too much.
No one could dig it all up.
Besides, starting now, these medicinal herbs in the mountains were coming under protection. In the future, digging up or picking codonopsis, fritillaria, or even more valuable plants such as snow