I knew that type of grass; it belonged to the group of plants called Ferns. Although people wouldn’t use them as a source of food, they were useful because of their digestive properties. In other words, the more people ate the plant, the hungrier they would become.

I was disappointed, so I threw the fern back to the ground and lifted my head to look at the place above.

Yin Xinyue woke up while I was studying the fern. She told me she had seen Zhou Tufu feeding Zhou Laoshi with that grass.

It suddenly came to me; Zhou Laoshi’s sickness was indeed associated with those ferns.

Some commotion above my head roused me from my deep thinking.

Yin Xinyue’s eyes showed tension the moment she heard the noise. She thought that Zhou Tufu had returned.

I patted Yin Xinyue’s shoulder to calm her down...