Wan Qiqi was skeptical, but didn't say much.
After breakfast, Li Chongniang came out of her room, glanced at Wan Qiqi, said nothing, and took her handicrafts into the main room.
Chen Yongxing followed closely behind, immediately smiling apologetically, "Sister-in-law, don't mind her, that's just how Chongniang is, she'll be fine after a while..."
Wan Qiqi didn't have time to pay attention to this. She picked up the bamboo basket and looked back. "Go up the mountain early and come back soon, before the sun gets too high."
She thought that if she went early, there would be fewer people and less contact with others.
The truth is, Wan Qiqi was the one who woke up late.
Before we even reached the halfway point of the mountain, we saw a large group of women and children digging wild grass along the road.
Wild vegetables that were usually overlooked were dug up and put into baskets, leaving the roadside bare.
Some people even parted the grass and dug up all the seedlings hidden inside.
Wan Qiqi was somewhat taken aback. Was this a plague or a famine?
Why do these people seem even more afraid of starving to death than before?
"Sigh, we're too late. We can only go uphill now!" Chen Yongxing sighed, looking at the steep slope ahead with some worry.
Normally, the eldest brother and third brother would do the work of digging wild vegetables and chopping firewood in the mountains. He would find time to lie down under a tree and slack off. But now that his sister-in-law was with him, it seemed he couldn't slack off anymore!
He felt that he might have to rely on himself, since in the past, when his sister-in-law went up the mountain, the basket she brought back only contained octopuses.
Wan Qiqi glanced at the mountainside and said, "You start looking from the top, and I'll start from the bottom."
She wasn't sure if there were crabs up there, so she decided to go back to where she had been before to be on the safe side.
Chen Yongxing had guessed this would be the outcome, and didn't want to argue with her. After exchanging a few words, he headed up the mountain.
Wan Qiqi glanced at the people digging for wild vegetables around her, and then skillfully made her way to the stream.
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