Chapter 48: Sowing Dissension
After breaking off the corn cobs, the stalks still needed to be pulled out. Fortunately, the soil was very loose and the stalks could be pulled out with a strong pull. Even so, Qiao Mo was busy until midnight before he finished pulling out all the stalks.
After finishing all these, she saw a small pile of rice grains and rice ears piled on the flat land. These were what she picked up in the fields. Although it was only a small pile, it was also food. She pushed it away with her hands and spread it into a thin layer. It would be ready to dry in two days.
The next morning when she was doing morning exercises by the river, Kang Mingyuan and his family had locked the door. She curiously went into the kitchen and saw a note on the kitchen table telling her that they had gone up the mountain to hunt and asked her to rest at home.
"What a pair of warm-hearted men." Qiao Mo smiled and shook his head, then went to the riverside for morning exercise as planned and came to make breakfast.
After breakfast, she took the hatchet and carried the backpack and set off: since Kang Mingyuan and the others didn't call her, she would not look for them. Her goal was to pick mushrooms in the mountains behind Beishan Mountain. She also needed to cut some wooden sticks to make a fence to separate the orchard and the pond, and then find a chance to bring in some chicks and ducklings. Then she would be able to eat authentic local chickens at any time.
These days, the pear tree seeds and orange tree seeds she planted have sprouted and grown to more than half a meter tall. Although there are only two varieties and the quantity is not large, she feels that her orchard has taken shape. She believes that as long as she works hard, her orchard will definitely be perfect.
Although there are not as many mushrooms in autumn as in spring, they are definitely not comparable to those in summer. It’s just that it hasn’t rained in recent days, so mushrooms can only be picked in shady places.
North Mountain and the mountain behind it are places frequented by villagers. Not to mention mushrooms, even wild vegetables are hard to find. Qiao Mo certainly doesn't care. She climbs over two mountains as quickly as possible and reaches the hillside of the third mountain before releasing her spiritual sense to look for what she needs.
She was very lucky. Before she found the mushrooms, she found a large group of quails in the grass. She counted them and found there were about a dozen of them. She locked them with her spiritual sense and walked away. She did not catch them all, but only caught most of them, leaving about twenty to let them continue to reproduce here.
But she picked up all the quail eggs: they are nutritious and inconspicuous, and are best eaten cooked in the morning.
Then she found a few turtledoves and caught them all. Finally, she found a few pheasant eggs. She waited nearby and waited for two pheasants to come and destroy the entire nest.
Perhaps because it hadn't rained for a long time, there were very few mushrooms in the mountains. She exerted great effort to pick half a basket of pine mushrooms and straw mushrooms, and then cut a few bundles of sticks and stored them in the space. Seeing that it was getting late, she had to go down the mountain reluctantly.
"Qiao Mo, are you going up the mountain again?" When they arrived at the educated youth point, Liu Ruoling smiled at her for the first time.
"Well, the team is on holiday, and I'm staying at home anyway, so I went to the mountains to pick some mushrooms." There were only a few mushrooms and a few quails in Qiao Mo's backpack, and he was not afraid of her seeing them.
"You are so capable. You still have the energy to go up the mountain after harvesting rice for a few days." Liu Ruoling saw the mushrooms and quails in her backpack and her eyes turned red with jealousy: Chu Maoshen was exhausted and was still sleeping at home, but she, a girl, went out early in the morning and harvested so much. She is really more manly than any man.
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