“You’re talking about another kind of shepherd’s purse, which grows in the grass and has pinnate leaves. This is the one that I’m looking for, which is a type of wild shepherd’s purse that grows in early spring. Though it doesn’t look very good, it’s actually very tasty. If you don’t believe, smell it.”

Xiaocao dug up a shepherd’s purse, which had leaves that were only two centimeters long, and delivered it to his nose for him to smell it. Sure enough, there was a refreshing scent of wild herbs.

“But this kind of shepherd’s purse is so small…” With his butt sticking out and humming, Little Shitou also squatted down and dug for wild herbs.

There were a lot of shepherd’s purse in this area. It seemed like in a few months there would be a bed of white flowers. Yu Xiaocao picked the bigger ones and dug without stopping as she laughed, “We came a little early. They will be bigger in a few more days. The biggest ones have leaves that are three to six centimeters long! Don’t dig out the smaller ones. Let’s wait until they grow bigger.”

Along the edge of the ditch, the siblings kept searching as they dug. The shepherd’s purse on the bank facing the sun had sprouted earlier, so their leaves were evidently larger.

The warm spring sun gradually rose. Xiaocao and her younger brother basked in the warm sunshine...