The Real Heiress's New Family Adored By All novel Chapter 17

Chapter 17 Wild Ginseng Windfall

“I only have five.”

Zora tucked the wooden token back into her bag and pulled out a small white tin box.

She only planned to sell five-she had other uses for the rest.

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“Do you buy these?” She opened it. Inside, wild ginseng roots jumbled together, messy and unarranged.

“That’s… wild ginseng! These are at least 80 years old!”

The young clerk stared at the box, utterly stunned.

His shop bought plenty of ginseng, but roots this intact, this wild and high-quality, were extremely rare.

Eighty years wasn’t ancient, but the fact that they were wild made them worth a fortune.

“Mm-hmm.”

Zora watched his excitement and suddenly felt a little guilty.

She quickly brushed the messy roots with her hand-only to accidentally snap one off. The clerk winced in pain.

“Miss, we’ll take all of these! Please let me handle them!”

He couldn’t stand her careless handling.

Good grief-this was genuine wild ginseng, not weeds!

That single broken root alone was worth tens of thousands.

And she’d just tossed them in a plain box, no padding, no protection, thrown into her bag and carried around like nothing.

This girl had no idea what she was holding.

Who was she?

“Oh… okay.”

Zora didn’t understand why he was so frantic.

They were just wild ginseng. There were plenty more in the woods.

Her mentor had made them into pills for her to eat like candy when she was little. She’d gotten sick of them.

When she first came to Seacrest to return to the Knox family, she’d planned to give them as gifts. But their first meeting had gone terribly.

Jolie had fainted the day she arrived, and the whole family had rushed her to the hospital, leaving Zora alone in an empty living room.

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She never gave them.

During her two months at the Knox Villa, she kept them hidden.

She decided the Knoxs didn’t deserve what she and her mentor had. The gifts weren’t expensive, but she just didn’t want to give them anything.

Selling them for herself felt far better.

Zora was petty like that. She gave nothing to people who treated her badly-not even a little.

She only cared for those who cared for her. If someone disliked her, she disliked them right back.

Zora’s five wild ginseng roots sold for three million dollars.

She was shocked.

Big cities really were different.

She’d thought they might sell for a few tens of thousands at most.

Back in Maplewood, that’s all they were worth-enough for a few meals of meat.

But now, seven whole digits. She could eat so much meat.

The price was way beyond her imagination. And these were the small ones-she hadn’t even brought the big roots still in her suitcase, or the dozens more in the woods.

She’d never go hungry for meat again.

After the sale, Zora left the mall with her packaged herbs. She needed to find a safe place for her new wealth.

She hadn’t realized they were worth this much.

If she’d known, she wouldn’t have eaten all those ginseng pills as a kid. She could’ve sold them in the city and never been poor.

Zora never fully understood ginseng’s value. Her mentor always told her: one root was equal to one meal of

meal.

She believed whatever he said.

Now, staring at the three million in her account, she felt confident about her future.

She was staying at the Marlow Manor, and they served meat every day-so she didn’t need to spend money

yet.

Once she moved out, she could have one meal of meat a day, even at ten thousand dollars per meal.

Well, the prices in Seacrest actually seemed a bit cheaper than back in her village. Meat was much more

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affordable.

She’d asked John, the chef. He said a ribeye steak here cost only about a hundred dollars. Back home, it would run a thousand.

Meat was so expensive back home; no wonder her village was so impoverished.

With three million dollars, she could eat meat for ages.

She could even skip a day sometimes-too much meat made her stomach hurt.

Her needs were simple-just one meal of meat a day.

Yeah, three million would last her quite a while.

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