After working hard for more than half a month, the autumn harvest is finally coming to an end.

Next...we will go to the commune to collect the public grain and then distribute it to the members of the brigade.

After distributing the food, the brigade gave most of the members a holiday.

During this period, chestnuts, pine nuts, and hazelnuts in the mountains are ripe.

Many people would put down their work and go to the mountains to pick up edible things to take home.

For the few poor families in the village, these things are also an extremely important food supplement.

For example, for some families that do not have strong labor, cannot earn many work points, and have insufficient food rations, these things can just fill their food gap.

Of course... most people pick them up and take them home, except for giving them as snacks to their children...

More...you can take these things to the market to sell them, or exchange them for some daily necessities needed at home.

For example, scarce tickets.

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Apart from those who are on holiday, some members are working as usual.

Because Mu Yunxi had previously said that she would help find a market for the village's tea, and there had been some progress in the past period of time.

However, because we were busy with the autumn harvest during this period, we put it on hold for the time being.

Now that the autumn harvest is over and the grain has been distributed...

The team leader and the village chief immediately held a meeting in the village and began to organize manpower, sending a group of people to dig tea seedlings in the mountains and transplant them to the mountains behind the village.

We also found several members who knew how to cultivate and propagate tea seedlings...

Let these people act separately, and some of them start sowing and cultivating tea seedlings...

Several people selected the land, picked healthy and disease-free tea tree branches, and began to process and graft them.

The aunties, sisters-in-law and young wives in the village who were good at picking tea, each family sent one person to go to the mountains to pick tea, and picked all the young buds of wild tea that could be picked nearby.

Then, skilled villagers will use different methods to make tea from these different varieties of young buds.

Of course, the members who participate in tea planting, tea picking, and tea making are basically the village labor force.

After the autumn harvest, the educated youth were busy going to the mountains to pick wild fruits and vegetables, picking chestnuts, picking pine cones, looking for hazelnuts...

After everyone has collected most of the edible things in the mountains, it's time to go back to the mountains to collect firewood and pine needles for kindling...

Stock up as much firewood as possible, preferably enough to last for half a year, so that everyone can have more time to spare during the busy spring season after the New Year.

You don’t have to drag your tired body to the mountains to pick pine needles and collect firewood after work every day.

After returning home, I still have to fetch water, cook, boil water, take a bath...

I even have to squeeze out time to take care of my own private plot of land, and I am busy like a top every day.

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Mu Yunxi and Sheng Zhiyi naturally did not participate in picking and planting tea.

After the rush to harvest, the school has resumed normal classes.

After registering her work points every day, Mu Yunxi would go to the mountains to pick various nuts.

I picked up several baskets of chestnuts and dozens of kilograms of hazelnuts.

The rest of the time, the two of them picked plump pine cones in the pine forest.

Now is the best season for picking pine cones, and many ripe pine cones have fallen directly to the ground.

Some... have already been grabbed by squirrels and other animals... Some... have already started to deteriorate due to moisture...

Of course, the pine nuts inside most pine cones are still intact.

After school every day, Sheng Zhiyi would go to the mountains to pick pine cones with Mu Yunxi.

On Saturdays and Sundays, the two of them would spend the entire day picking fruits in the mountains.

After working for more than half a month, the villagers had almost picked all the pine trees in the nearby forest.

The two of them took advantage of their free time to smash the naturally dried pine cones with stones or hammers and take out the pine nuts inside.

From ten kilograms of pine cones, you can probably extract about one kilogram of pine nuts.

There is a pile of pine cones under the eaves. If you take all of them, you can get a lot of pine nuts.

Pine nuts in the south are smaller, about half the size of sunflower seeds.

However, although these pine nuts look small, the kernels inside are very plump.

Fry them and eat them as melon seeds, which has a unique taste.