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“‘Ginseng’s the only one I care about,’ he said frankly. ‘The others are just plants. Ginseng’s special.’

Pressed to explain why, words failed him. He can’t articulate the feeling he gets from hunting shang, he said, except to say that it ‘reinforces the primeval connection between humans and plants.’” - chapter 1