Rebirth of a Little Cannon Fodder

For the next few days, the group's schedule was to take some dry food with them after breakfast and go up the mountain to work. They would have lunch with the dry food and then transport the processed firewood down the mountain before dark.

The firewood transported down the mountain was first placed with Qiao Chuchu and Ma Ning. There was plenty of space here to dry the firewood, and they could transport it back when they had free time.

Finally, after four days, several people prepared firewood for the winter. Although they had been working hard for several days, they did not show any signs of fatigue. Especially the girls were eager to try and couldn't wait to go to the mountains to pick mountain products.

If a few boys hadn't stopped me, I probably wouldn't have taken a day off.

At the strong request of several boys, several girls reluctantly agreed to take a day off tomorrow and go up the mountain to pick products together the day after tomorrow. Seeing that the girls agreed to rest, several boys couldn't help but wipe the non-existent sweat from their faces. To be honest, why didn't they realize that girls had such good physical strength before.

Of course, no matter what questions Ji Shaowen and the others had, they did not dare to seek answers from Qiao Chuchu and the others.

After a day's rest, the group went to the mountain again early the next morning. First, Qiao Chuchu pretended to be casual and just said they had taken the wrong road, and then led a few people to the place indicated by 009.

Looking at the small patch of hazelnut trees in front of her, Qiao Chuchu began to doubt 009 for the first time. Could these be the hazelnut trees that 009 mentioned?

"Chu Chu, there are too many hazelnuts here. We can't pick them all. It would be a shame if they just hang on the trees. Lin Xue looked at the small hazelnut forest and felt that it was shameful to waste them. When she was in the apocalypse, food was very precious, so she hated to see food wasted."

Hearing Lin Xue's words, Qiao Chuchu agreed. These days, supplies are scarce. If there were only a few trees, they could have picked them. After all, mountain goods are first-come, first-served. But this hazelnut forest was clearly too much for just a few people to handle. Since they couldn't pick them all, they might as well tell the villagers about the location and invite everyone to come and pick them together.

After discussing it, a few people decided to let Li Bin call the team leader over, and then the team leader would come over to see how to deal with it.

Li Bin quickly descended the mountain and summoned the team leader, Zhang Jianguo. On the way, when the team leader heard Li Bin mention the hazelnut trees, he'd assumed they were just a few, never considering it a whole forest. After all, the elderly and children in the village who couldn't work in the fields would often head up the mountain to find what they needed. Everywhere on the mountain that produced hazelnuts had already been picked. So, he didn't take Li Bin's words seriously and followed along because he didn't want to dampen Li's enthusiasm.

With this mentality, Zhang Jianguo was shocked when he discovered the hazelnut forest. He never dreamed that there would be so many of them.

"Okay, okay, you guys are all great." Not to mention that Zhang Jianguo himself had a good impression of these people, the fact that they discovered these things without keeping them secret and instead told him made them even more worthy of his love.

Looking at these hazelnuts, Zhang Jianguo decided to discuss how to deal with them, otherwise it would be bad if uneven distribution caused trouble.

"You can pick the fruits here today. I won't inform the villagers yet. After all, you discovered this place. If it weren't for you, the village wouldn't have these extra harvests. Consider today's harvest a reward. I'll organize people to go up the mountain to pick the fruits tomorrow. Then you can divide the harvest among you normally."

Several people hadn't expected the captain to handle it this way, and they were delighted to hear it. Not only could they get a share today, but the captain also said they would get a share tomorrow and beyond, so they could get quite a bit.

"Okay, you pick them today. Be careful when you go back so that you won't be discovered by the villagers." Although the villagers are grateful to several people now because of the wild boar incident, they cannot rule out the possibility that there will be bad people. It would be bad if everyone is unhappy.

Several people understood the captain's meaning and knew he was speaking for their own good. They all promised to pay attention. They didn't want to do something bad with good intentions; that wouldn't be a good feeling.

After seeing that they all understood what he meant, the team leader went down the mountain alone. He was now anxious to go back and discuss with the people in the team headquarters about going up the mountain to pick hazelnuts.

Seeing the team leader going down the mountain without looking back, Qiao Chuchu and her group began to pick hazelnuts frantically. The girls were responsible for picking hazelnuts in places they could reach, while the boys looked for tools or climbed trees.

For a moment, the entire mountain was bustling with activity, leaving no time for banter or conversation. Knowing that Rishangzhongtian and the others were tired and hungry, they finally gathered together to eat. Today's lunch was a hearty one, thanks to the rest yesterday. This gave Qiao Chuchu plenty of time to think about what to eat today.

Qiao Chuchu spent the entire day yesterday cooking. Although it was tiring, she enjoyed the meal today. Pork jerky, dried fish, roujiamo (Chinese steamed buns), and the pre-made brown sugar ginger tea—this meal truly soothed everyone's stomachs and tired bodies.

The meal was eaten up in no time. After the meal, no one started working immediately. Instead, they leaned together to rest for a while. There was no other way because they had worked too hard in the morning and now everyone was very tired.

After a half-hour break, the group finally got going. Seeing the hazelnuts growing, they discussed transporting them down the mountain in batches. It was decided that Ji Shaowen and Li Bin would take some of the hazelnuts back first, while Ning Zheng would stay behind to help the girls pick more hazelnuts, to avoid attracting unnecessary attention if they all went down the mountain together.

The time of picking hazelnuts and transporting them passed by little by little. Every time they transported hazelnuts, Ji Shaowen and Li Bin thought that it was a good thing that Qiao Chuchu and Ma Ning lived relatively close to Dahuang Mountain, so they didn't have to pass by any houses along the way, otherwise the frequency of transportation would have aroused suspicion.

If you didn’t get something good, who would carry it back and forth for no reason?

In the end, the few of them managed to bring all the hazelnuts back without incident. They might have been so busy that they might not have felt tired, but now that they were relaxed, they all felt incredibly exhausted. Only Ji Shaowen and the Ning siblings, who were serving in the military, might not have felt too tired, after all, training was much more tiring than this. Ning Xin, in particular, was still eager to fight another three hundred rounds on the mountain, making Ma Ning call her a monster.

A fruitful day passed with chatting and laughing.