In late spring in March, when Su Wanwan woke up to the damp and musty smell, the burning pain from the explosion in a modern laboratory still lingered in her throat. The holes in the thatched roof leaked tiny bits of skylight, the five-year-old brother was curled up in the corner eating Guanyin soil, and the mother who was coughing up blood was groping to pawn her last cotton-padded coat - this was the first day she traveled through time and became an ancient peasant girl.
That night, dark-colored mushrooms were discovered among the rotting trees in the back mountain. The professional knowledge of a modern nutritionist shines in the dark. She took the risk to collect the highly poisonous fungus and used twelve steps to remove the poison for three days and nights. When "Cold Black Jade Ears" started a trend of tasting in the market, eight hundred copper coins made the fragrance of rice float in the Su family's thatched hut for the first time.
But the mountains and fields cannot accommodate a woman with stunning talent and beauty. Widow Zhang and her eight burly sons surrounded the hilltop, using their blood-stained hatchets to smash the bamboo plaques used to dry the fungus. "Either hand over the secret recipe, or take the recipe and marry my stupid son!" The evil woman slapped the marriage certificate on the pillow of Su's mother who was coughing up blood. "Such a charming girl is a perfect match for my forty-eight-year-old youngest who is pissing on the bed!"
On a rainy night, I carried my young brother with a high fever into the mountains every night. The wild ginseng buried under the rotten leaves saved two lives, and even accidentally saved the medicine dealer Gu Jiuqing who was injured by a bungara snake. When the fragments of "Baicao Jing" fell into the palm of her hand along with the ten taels of medical money, she chuckled at the valley steaming with morning mist: "Auricularia fungus can be used as a cold dish, why can't it be used as a medicinal diet?"
Three months later, "Su Ji Poria, Fungus Soup" became popular in eighteen counties and towns. The celadon bowl is filled with crystalline jelly-like gum, and the mellow aroma of Codonopsis and Astragalus hides the crispness of the fungus.
