Chapter 24 24. Picking Wild Vegetables

There are not many wild mushrooms, but they have just sprouted. Each one is round and cute, and has not yet aged.

Huai Yu walked around the tree trunk, carefully picking up the umbrella handle and breaking it off. Looking at the new ingredient in his backpack, he felt more and more satisfied.

After breaking them all off, she followed the mark of the vines that had entangled her last time and moved forward, and as expected, she came to a gentle slope in front.

There, after a spring rain, the ferns grew quietly one by one, and there were more of them than last time! Huai Yu only needed to reach out and gently pinch and break them -

"clatter."

The crisp and subtle sound was so pleasant to the ears, coupled with the feeling of harvest, Huaiyu couldn't help but grin and reveal a bright smile.

Next, she's going to do something big!

“Da!” “Da!” “Da!”

Continuous crisp sounds continued to be heard on the hillside, and the ferns in Huai Yu's hands became more and more.

Although she thought this fern was not as delicious as water fern, she had no choice now.

What's more, leeks can be sold for 12 cents per pound. If I take this over, Boss Tang will probably keep his word and sell it for 8 cents per pound!

Her figure spread back and forth across the entire hillside, and except for the ferns that had just emerged, all the others were caught in her net.

But this kind of thing will grow again when the spring breeze blows, so there is no need to hold back at all!

Now the backpack was already full, Huai Yu took back his hand and saw a few small thorny dragon bud trees. But he estimated that if he broke off all of them, they would not weigh more than two kilograms, so he let them go for the time being.

There is another Chinese toon tree that is growing vigorously and is particularly tall. The tender buds on it have already poked their heads out. Although it is still early, it is still a good tree to be saved.

But Huaiyu only took a glance and sighed with regret:

"It's too high, I can't climb up..."

But it doesn’t matter, there are still large areas of shepherd’s purse at the foot of the mountain!

When thinking of shepherd's purse, one can't help but think of shepherd's purse dumplings. When thinking of shepherd's purse dumplings, Huai Yu couldn't help but feel greedy again.

But it was already past nine o'clock and the sky was still gloomy. She put the dumplings aside for the time being and quickly went to dig shepherd's purse.

It was called digging, but since I didn't bring any tools, I could only pinch the roots and carefully pull them out. Fortunately, it had just rained and the soil was moist, so it wasn't that difficult.

But compared to bracken, shepherd's purse is inevitably a little underweight.

Huaiyu put down the backpack, took out a large plastic bag, shook it vigorously, and put the shepherd's purse he had just brought into it.

This area is so big, and she has three plastic bags on her, so she has to pick one or two bags first.

The hour hand of her tattered watch pointed to 11:00, and her three bags were already packed full.

Huaiyu had been bending over for the whole morning, and now he could hardly stand up straight, with back pain. But he did not dare to rest, fearing that he would have no strength left after relaxing.

At this moment, he just stretched a few times, put the heavy backpack on his back again, held the bag in his hand, and hurried home again.

Sanqing Mountain is so big that the distance didn't seem far when picking wild vegetables, but in fact, it took an hour to go all the way around the mountainside. She would get home at twelve o'clock, and if it hadn't rained yet, she would have to deliver these to Boss Tang as soon as possible.

otherwise……

Huai Yu began to worry: Otherwise, I would have to find another reason to hand them over to the defense army.

She sighed, looked up at the dark sky, clasped her hands together and muttered softly: "Please! Give me some face! Don't let it rain during the day!"

…

After going through the standard psychological comfort process, she set off quickly.

It was exactly half past twelve when she returned to the tree house. She only had time to pour the cold salt and sugar water she had prepared yesterday into a bowl and drink it in one gulp before setting off again.

After walking two steps, she turned back, covered the backpack with a straw mat, and used the coat she had taken off in the morning to cover the three plastic bags.

She looked at the slightly moist grass, gritted her teeth and put on the new shoes and pants she had bought the day before, then used her fingers to comb her hair again before setting off again.

Unfortunately, Huaiyu waited for nearly half an hour before the bus finally arrived. Probably because it was going to rain, there were only a few people on the bus.

There was no one to chat with, and she knew a lot of things now, so she didn't start any more casual topics.

It was just a short while after the car started, and nowadays not everyone can use their mobile phones to watch video chats, so someone started talking again.

"The forecast said it would rain heavily tomorrow, but why do I feel like it's going to rain today?"

"Hey, our forecasts have been inaccurate for a while. Ever since the mutation, it's been difficult for satellites to take pictures of places with plants. All they see are flowers."

"You can't even take good photos of the flowers, plants and trees, so the weather must be terrible too."

"That's right! Even if it rains, the family still needs to prepare a raincoat, otherwise it will be inconvenient for the children to go to work. It will cost points again."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Alas. My son hasn't found a job yet."

"Who says it's not true? People living near here don't have high initial contribution scores, but employers now give priority to those with higher scores during interviews..."

"Alas! If I had known that life would be hard for a few years, I would have gotten through it. I shouldn't have let him slack off in the base..."

"...Don't spend that money. Just use the plastic bags that you don't need for the time being. I'm just worried about what to eat... You know, rice, flour, grain and oil are all expensive now. I'm sick of drinking nutrient solution every day."

"There are people selling aged rice in the square of our community. Didn't you buy any? There are also people selling home-grown wild vegetables."

"Oh my! Aged rice costs 30 cents a pound, which is only enough for my family to have one meal. It's not a festival, I can't bear to give it away."

"What kind of self-cultivated wild vegetables are these? They are all picked up from parks or roadside bushes. The variation value is very high, there is nothing below 18, it's so miserable..."

"My son had a good education before. He also did a lot of work in the base. Now he has been assigned to work in the statistics department. The salary there is high, and he can make about 100 to 180 yuan a month..."

"Oh my! My daughter also works in that administrative building, but she didn't get a house. She has to catch the bus at six o'clock every day to avoid being late..."

"Let me tell you, there are flours for sale in the market. Although they are a bit old, they are still edible. They are 22 cents a pound. You can buy them and mix them with nutrient solution to make steamed buns..."

The conversation was actually a mess, but Huaiyu could still hear some details.

But it was the monitoring satellite and weather satellite that gave her a fright.

Then she relaxed again.

Since photography of plants was not allowed, photography of the rose corridor was certainly not allowed. She had been too careless before.

However, there is no way to be careless.

Huaiyu gently stroked the straw curtain on the backpack.

Now, the only source of food and clothing for me is that mountain.

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Update is here! A bit late.

(End of this chapter)