"Brother Yuan is right. Since no one else knows about it, we can leave it for later." Qiao Mo understood his meaning.
"I'll listen to you." Han Yimo just wanted to earn more work points, but he didn't expect it could be done this way.
So they carried baskets and sacks and followed the group into the mountains.
After walking along the northeast corner into the mountains for more than two hours, you will come across small patches of chestnut forests, including chestnut trees and chestnut trees. Some have only a few trees, while others have more than a dozen trees.
Qiao Mo and his friends were fast runners and were the first to find a chestnut forest with about twenty trees. The three of them climbed up the trees with bamboo poles and hit the thorn balls hanging on the branches.
Kang Mingyuan and his companions were accompanied by a bamboo poleman. They stood firmly on the tree branches and hit the branches with their bamboo poles. As the branches swayed, the thorn balls fell like raindrops.
Qiao Mo had special abilities and spiritual awareness, so he fought steadily, accurately, fiercely, and quickly. The three of them knocked all the thorn balls off their respective trees.
After knocking the chestnuts down, they did not rush to pick them up. Instead, they knocked down one tree and climbed up another tree to knock down more chestnuts. They did not do this until all the fruits on that chestnut tree had been knocked down. Then they picked them all up and put them into sacks and baskets.
Although the villagers were not jealous of them for taking over a piece of forest, according to the rules they were not allowed to pick up things that others had knocked down. Apart from a few women who were jealous, no one bothered them.
Shao Lidong and Wang Jiaqi saw what they were doing, and after finding their own targets, they followed suit, abandoning their previous method of picking up the fruits while hitting them, and first knocked the fruits down. Unfortunately, Hua Lili couldn't climb trees, so she could only carry bamboo and hit them under the tree. Tang Xinmei didn't dare to climb too high, so her efficiency was far lower than that of Qiao Mo and the others.
After picking up two loads, Kang Mingyuan and Han Yimo each carried a load back, while Qiao Mo continued to pick the fruits. The chestnut skins were all thorny, and Qiao Mo was afraid of being pricked, so she wore cloth gloves. In order to reduce the load, she would step on the open chestnuts to take out the fruits inside, and she would not carry the shells back.
She filled the sacks and baskets first and piled the rest together to make it easier to pack them later.
Qiao Mo saw that there were too many fruits that she had picked, and wanted to carry them back before dark. Not to mention the three of them, even if she came with four times as much, it would be impossible. She was unwilling to give them to others, so she had to put some of them into the space of the wooden bracelet and take them out quietly after returning.
She didn't pick chestnuts for the rest of the time. Instead, she took out a pair of scissors and sat on a stone to peel chestnuts, watching them pick the chestnuts.
The mountain road was not very steep and the distance was long, so Han Yimo was exhausted and out of breath after making two trips. Kang Mingyuan had no choice but to agree to let Qiao Mo replace him.
Qiao Mo stacked the four sacks together in pairs, tied them together with ropes, and carried them down the mountain.
When Shao Lidong and the others saw her carrying four sacks of things and walking briskly, they admired her in their hearts but also felt ashamed: he, a grown man, felt tired after carrying two sacks, but she, a girl, had to carry four sacks at once. There was really a huge difference between them.
Qiao Mo didn't want to be in the spotlight, but time waits for no one. If they don't want to spend the night in the mountains, they must work hard to transport their things down the mountain. Otherwise, there will be nothing left by tomorrow.
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