Qin Xiaoxiao glanced at Su Lu with disdain, then rushed into the wild boar's den.
Qin Xiaoxiao's action nearly scared Su Lu to death. He didn't care about blocking the wire mesh anymore and rushed in after her.
As soon as Su Lu went in, Qin Xiaoxiao moved to the side to make room, and the two of them blocked the remaining opening.
The four wild boars were small and were quickly dealt with. The two then pinched their noses, put the boars into their spatial storage, and left the cave.
The entire battle lasted less than half an hour. Qin Xiaoxiao glanced at her watch; it was only 2:30 a.m. She exchanged a look with Su Lu and turned to their next target.
Two hours later, the couple raided another wild boar den. This time, their catch was less than the first time, with only six wild boars, four of which were adults and two were cubs.
The two didn't linger there any longer and went to the back mountain on the right. It was just getting light, and the animals were starting to come out and move around, so the two became even more cautious.
In one morning, the two of them killed a total of thirteen pheasants, raided three rabbit burrows, and harvested forty-two rabbits, including eighteen baby rabbits. Qin Xiaoxiao released them, planning to come back in the fall to continue hunting.
Despite not having slept all night, the two were still full of energy, and by noon they began to think about the mountain products.
In July, some mountain produce begins to ripen, such as fruits like avocados, wild peaches, and longans.
Qin Xiaoxiao discovered the longan trees by chance. There were only two trees, but the yield was astonishing. Perhaps because no one had come to pick them for many years, the tall longan trees were covered with fruit.
Qin Xiaoxiao slapped her thigh and laughed, "That's great! We won't be short of snacks anymore. Longan is a good thing. Not only can we add it to soups, but we can also eat it as is. We can also dry it to make longan pulp or soak it in water."
Su Lu looked up at the longan tree, which was about ten meters tall, and squinted. "I saw this a few years ago, but I always came at night, so it was difficult to pick it."
"If I had known, I would have brought you here sooner; we wouldn't have had to wait until now."
Qin Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at Su Lu, "There's no need to come earlier. Longan ripens in July, so now is the perfect time to pick them."
After saying that, Qin Xiaoxiao rolled up her sleeves and prepared to climb the tree, but Su Lu pulled her down.
Su Lu looked at Qin Xiaoxiao with a dark expression, "You have a husband, why do you need to climb trees yourself? Just wait, watch your husband pick them all for you."
Just as Su Lu was about to climb up, Qin Xiaoxiao grabbed him again, "Wait a minute, carry this on your back, this is easier to handle."
He handed the special tool for picking longan to Su Lu, who looked at it, tried it out, and thought it was pretty good. He then carried it up the tree.
Qin Xiaoxiao glanced down and found that Su Lu climbed trees quite quickly and was very agile, which showed that he had played in trees a lot when he was a child.
Qin Xiaoxiao felt relieved. She took out ten large baskets from her spatial storage and arranged them in a row. She then spread a large plastic sheet on the ground. After Su Lu finished picking a bunch, he would throw it down, and Qin Xiaoxiao would pick them up from underneath and put them into the baskets.
The two worked together seamlessly, and with the special tools at their disposal, Su Lu was quick. In just over two hours, they finished picking all the longans from the two trees, harvesting a total of thirteen baskets of longans.
After storing the longan in his spatial storage, Su Lu took Qin Xiaoxiao to pick peaches.
This area is Su Lu's territory, and no one knows it better than him. After circling around twice, he chose a side road and arrived in a little over half an hour.
Looking at the vast peach orchard in front of her, Qin Xiaoxiao almost burst out laughing.
"We can make a fortune again."
She didn't have many peaches in her space. After all, she was busy protecting herself after the apocalypse. By the time she was able to leave her house, it was already three days later. By then, many fruits in the fruit shops had rotted. She picked and chose and went to countless fruit shops before she could fill up a few hundred pounds. It would be another twenty or thirty years before large and sweet peaches of various varieties appeared in later generations, so a few hundred pounds was really not worth much.
Therefore, Qin Xiaoxiao did not plan to sell any of the fruits in her space. She and Su Lu had to eat them sparingly. If they wanted to sell them for money, they could only look for the current varieties.
Qin Xiaoxiao picked a peach, took a bite, and found it not very tasty. It wasn't very juicy or sweet, and it was quite hard, making it difficult to chew.
Qin Xiaoxiao disgustedly stuffed a peach into Su Lu's mouth and pointed to the peach grove, saying, "General Su, this is the territory I have my eye on. The rest is up to you."
Su Lu obediently bent over halfway and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will take care of it immediately."
Qin Xiaoxiao took out two reclining chairs from her space, placed a tea table in the middle, brewed tea, and set out two plates of pastries. One of the plates was cloud cake, which Su Lu had bought for her from the black market a few days ago. She heard that after seeing it, he bought all the pastries from that person, and when the people who wanted to buy some later saw that they couldn't get any, they cursed and almost got into a fight with Su Lu.
Qin Xiaoxiao finished preparing, and Su Lu had already picked quite a few peaches. Qin Xiaoxiao quickly ran over to help.
Take a break after working for an hour, have a pot of tea, and then continue working.
There were more than thirty peach trees in this orchard, but we only picked peaches from ten trees before it got dark.
The two were not in a hurry. Qin Xiaoxiao took out a spotlight from her spatial storage, and once the generator was powered on, the peach grove was as bright as day.
Qin Xiaoxiao wasn't afraid of being seen. Not only was this the back of Cat Ear Mountain, where the high mountains blocked the view of people below, but usually no one came here either, let alone now that it was nighttime, so even less likely anyone would come here.
Qin Xiaoxiao wasn't afraid of attracting wolves or wild boars. If it was wild boars, even better, as they could bring her more income. If it was wolves, although it would be more troublesome, it wasn't impossible to deal with. The firearms in her space were no joke; with silencers, they wouldn't make a sound.
Qin Xiaoxiao thought Su Lu was working too slowly by himself, so she joined in with a bamboo basket on her back. In one night, they picked all the remaining twenty-odd peaches.
As dawn broke, the two climbed a large tree, dozed off for a while, ate breakfast, and continued their journey around 10 a.m.
Around 1 p.m., Su Lu led Qin Xiaoxiao more than a kilometer into the deep mountains and finally stopped under a pear tree.
Su Lu pointed to the pear tree and said, "The pears from this tree are quite delicious, very sweet, and big enough. You can keep them for yourself. The other two are not good; they're not very tasty. You should sell them later."
Qin Xiaoxiao looked in the direction Su Lu was pointing and found that the two pear trees were not growing well. The leaves were turning yellow and the wild pears were small, making them unappealing to look at.
Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and asked, "Are there any more inside? Just these few?"
Su Lu shook his head, "There are some outside, but I don't know about inside. This is the farthest place we've come from."
Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and started working.
In the evening, the two finished picking all the pears from the three pear trees and then returned along the same route.
They arrived slowly, but returned much faster. The two of them ran all the way and finally arrived back at the Qinjiagou Youth Quarter in the middle of the night.
They quietly slipped into the courtyard, and after washing up, Su Lu and Qin Xiaoxiao were too exhausted to speak. They hugged each other and fell asleep. (End of Chapter)
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