Mountain Hunting: Happiness Begins When I Untie the Ginseng Doll's Red Cord

(New book out now: Golden Fisherman: From Bachelor in a Fishing Village to Island Tycoon) Li Ping worked hauling construction materials to put his younger sister, Li Bao'er, through high school and college. Wanting to make sure Li Ping could afford to marry, Li Bao'er planned to marry whoever offered the most money. Forty-eight years old? Li Dong'er is only twenty-two this year! Are older people really better at treating women well? Not a chance! In ten years, she’d be emptying this guy’s bedpan! He scraped together 200,000 yuan? Doesn’t that borrowed money have to be paid back? How much hardship would she have to endure after marrying him to repay that debt? The highest bidder? Are they buying and selling a person or what? Furious, Li Ping saw red. He chased the matchmaker out with a broom, then turned and headed into the mountains. In Dead Man’s Ravine, he came across a ginseng root caught in a noose trap. Out of kindness, he untied its red cord, only to be bitten by a venomous bamboo viper nearby and pass out. The freed ginseng transformed into a chubby white baby in the wind. It bit its finger and gave Li Ping two drops of ginseng essence. Not only did Li Ping come back from the brink of death, he also gained the ability to “call to the mountains.” With a single call from Li Ping, every mountain treasure in the hills reveals its true form and location. On his own two feet, he climbs towering mountains that pierce the clouds, crosses endless forests, and wades through countless rivers. With his own two hands, he gathers wild vegetables in spring, mushrooms in summer, wild fruit in autumn, and medicinal herbs in winter. Li Ping's life grows happier and more prosperous by the day. (Everyday life + mountain foraging + not reborn + present-day setting. If you don’t like it, don’t read.)