Chapter 170 Picking up mountain products (Part 2)
"Second sister, why are you still standing there? Most of the chestnuts on the tree have fallen. Come quickly and pick them up."
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, the second sister finally came back to her senses. She closed her open mouth, swallowed her saliva and said, "Xiaoxiao, you are too strong."
"Hehe... I was born strong. Maybe I got it from my dad. He is just extraordinarily strong." This was all I could say to prevent my second sister from asking further questions.
"So that's how it is. That's not surprising. I'm also a big eater like my dad. My dad and I are the ones who eat the most in my family."
"Second sister, let's not discuss the issue of heredity right now. Let's hurry up and pick up the chestnuts. See if there are enough chestnuts on the ground to fill our backpacks. If not, I'll kick some more down."
For the next hour or so, Lu Xiaoxiao and her second sister were constantly peeling the thorny shells to take out chestnuts. When she encountered a thorny shell that was particularly difficult to open, Lu Xiaoxiao would put it into the space when her second sister and the others were not paying attention.
By around four o'clock in the afternoon, all the chestnuts that had been shaken off the ground had finally been picked up. Although the four people's backpacks were only two-thirds full, this was the best possible situation.
Firstly, the backpack was filled with peeled chestnuts. If it were filled to the brim, you could imagine how heavy it would be, so two-thirds full was just within the weight that my second sister and the others could bear.
Secondly, one-third of the space in the backpack can be used to put pig feed, so that the chestnuts in the backpack can be covered and not be discovered.
"Second sister, it's getting late now. We still need to cut grass to cover the chestnuts, so let's go down the mountain first. We can pick up the remaining chestnuts tomorrow."
"Okay, but let's not go to cut grass for the pigs tomorrow morning. Looking at the chestnuts left on the trees, it will probably take three trips to pick them all. Let's go early tomorrow and try to pick them all in one day.
Besides, the autumn harvest is over now, and the villagers go up the mountain to pick up mountain products every day. I am afraid they will find this, so I have to hurry up."
"Okay, but you two, second sister, be careful when you go home. Don't let others see that you are not carrying pig grass. After all, a basket of pig grass is much lighter than a half-sized basket of chestnuts."
"Don't worry, Xiaoxiao. We have been working since we were young. Although we are not as strong as you, we still have no problem carrying these chestnuts."
"That's good, let's go down the mountain now."
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, Lu Xiaoxiao found that there was no one around, so she quickly cut a handful of pig grass and put it in the backpack. Her second sister and the others did the same thing. After doing all this, Lu Xiaoxiao and her second sister agreed to go home when they went up the mountain tomorrow.
After returning home, Lu Xiaoxiao poured all the chestnuts in the basket onto the ground. She picked out all the scratched ones and stored the intact ones in the space.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at a pile of scratched chestnuts on the ground and suddenly thought of the chestnut rice and chestnut roast chicken she had eaten on a farm in her previous life. She couldn't help swallowing.
She must eat chestnut rice and chestnut roast chicken tonight, otherwise she would probably drool in her dreams. In her previous life, she had eaten roast chestnuts and chestnut rice once on the farm and fell in love with them, but since the farm was in another province, she never had the chance to eat them again.
Later, Lu Xiaoxiao also bought chestnuts and took them home to try to cook these two dishes, but she could never achieve the taste of those cooked in a farmer's big wood-burning pot.
Now she has a big wood-fired pot and ingredients. It can be said that she has everything going for her. She will definitely be able to cook out that flavor this time, and she will have made up for a small regret in her previous life.
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