As Minister Li fell unconscious, his thoughts were of Zhang Yuanmin.
Coincidentally, Zhang Yuanmin was not far from Minister Li at that very moment.
If you went down the slope from where Minister Li had just been picking spikenard shoots, headed west into the gully, then climbed the ridge, crossed the mountain, and descended into the gully on the other side, you would run right into the couple, Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng.
In other words, a single mountain separated them.
At that moment, Zhang Yuanmin and his wife were out gathering "cucumber fragrance," their wicker baskets strapped to their backs.
"Cucumber fragrance" resembled bracken, but it carried the fresh scent of cucumber and had a similar clean, sweet taste, hence the name.
This wild vegetable grew only in the Northeast, but people from Guangdong were particularly fond of it, so in the Southern Region, it was also known as "Guangdong vegetable."
