Eating melons

Liu Aiying, who was standing next to them, shook her head as she watched them. Yesterday, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi also went to the mountain for the first time, and again no one reminded them, but both Wei Wei and Jiang Qi brought dry food and sacks.

Who would cook extra food nowadays? Even if there was some left over from the morning, it wouldn’t be much. Lunch for three people is not too much, but not too little either. Judging from the way they are doing, they should have cakes and biscuits.

They had so much money that they were almost burning it. The money they had saved from buying biscuits and pastries would definitely be more than enough to buy the mountain products they picked up today.

Looking at them like this, you know that it will be impossible to pick up things when the time comes.

Not long after the group left, Zhao Xing's family came over.

"Hello, Sister Wei, Sister Jiang! Hello, Wu Zhiqing, Liu Zhiqing!"

"Hello to you too!"

Zhao Xing: "Wei Zhiqing, Jiang Zhiqing, wow! Wu Zhiqing and Liu Zhiqing are here today too. Why didn't I see Yu Zhiqing today?"

Liu Jiaojiao: "He went back to get something and will catch up soon."

Zhao Xing: “Is that so?”

Yu Xi, who went back to get something, ran all the way and took away a lot of biscuits and egg cakes when he returned to his home and Wu Mei's home.

As for Wu Mei, she opened the door and lifted the lid of the pot, and sure enough, there was something inside, but it was just one sweet potato and four potatoes. However, it was enough to fill Wu Mei's stomach by herself.

After taking the things, he quickly ran to the foot of the mountain.

Yu Xi caught up with the group before they reached the foot of the mountain. On the way, they met many people who were going up the mountain to pick mushrooms.

However, everyone's direction is almost different except for those who travel together. There are plenty of these things on the mountain, and the mountain is very big, so everyone has his own hideout and his own place to hunt in the wild. Generally, everyone does not interfere with each other.

There are not only women and children collecting mountain products, but also many adult men, but they all go up the mountain to chop firewood.

Although the straw and other things in the fields can be burned, a portion must be left to be used as fertilizer next year. Even if all of it is distributed, there are so many people in the team that there is not enough to burn.

It is so cold in winter, the kang must be heated enough, and firewood is essential.

Although no one in the Red Star Brigade had ever frozen to death in winter, although we didn't hear about people freezing to death in other brigades every year, there would be a few lazy people freezing to death every one or two years.

Not to mention all these, every educated youth in the Youth League will buy some more or less, so they can make a fortune.

The group moved to a new place today. Jiang Qi and Wei Wei had already recognized the mushrooms, and Wu Mei, Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi became Wei Wei and Jiang Qi again from yesterday.

When they arrived at the destination, everyone had something in their backpacks, including Wei Wei and Jiang Qi. However, Wu Mei, Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi only had one or two of the same kind in their backpacks, all of which were sponsored by Zhao Xing and Liu Aiying.

When they arrived at the destination, Jiang Qi took Wei Wei's hand and walked away quickly, fearing that the three people would follow them.

The two's main purpose was to pick pine cones and chestnuts. On the way, they asked Liu Aiying and Zhao Xing and found out that there were more pine cones and chestnuts in this direction.

So when they arrived at the place, Jiang Qi took Wei Wei's hand and ran quickly in the direction Liu Aiying said, for fear that if they were a step slower, the three people would catch up with them.

There were indeed a lot of chestnuts and pine cones in this direction. The two encountered two chestnut trees along the way, but did not pick any chestnuts. They planned to pick them up later when they returned, after all, they could not be sold immediately.

There are many chestnuts and even more pine cones on the ground, but many of them have been eaten by squirrels, they just haven't eaten them all.

But neither of them wanted any of these and put them aside. The ones they picked up were relatively intact.

Throw the items you pick up into a sack, put the intact ones together, and the slightly damaged ones together. When there are almost enough, observe the situation nearby. If no one is found, sell them directly.

They would wait until they had picked up most of the pine cones and chestnuts before picking up the ones that had been eaten by the squirrels. After all, they were here to pick up pine cones and chestnuts, and they couldn't take none back.

As for the ones I bake that don’t taste good, I can just send them to the original owner’s home, which saves me some money.

The two of them didn't keep looking for pine cones. They picked chestnuts when they had picked most of them.

Chestnuts have to be peeled before they can be sold. If you say it is difficult to peel, that's not too bad, but if you say it is easy to peel, it is not easy to peel either.

The biggest problem is that it pricks the hands, but they both have work gloves, and most of the ones that fall off are already torn, so they come out when stepped on.

If the flower hasn't opened yet, just step on it and rub it hard to soften the thorns, and then they will come out when you peel them.

However, they collected those that had not opened, and most of the ones that had opened were stepped out and sold directly.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi both wanted to step on them all and sell them, but Liu Aiying and the others were not fools. How could there not be a single open chestnut?

They packed a lot of chestnuts and pine cones, filling up half a sack each, but they didn't pick many mushrooms. Wei Wei and Jiang Qi couldn't even fill a full backpack with their combined chestnuts and pine cones.

But neither of them cared, as long as there was enough fresh food for them to eat.

Judging from Liu Aiying's appearance this morning, she would be more inclined to replace mushrooms with sugar.

This is perfect for Wei Wei. For her, exchanging candy is much more cost-effective than buying it with money. The money in the system account has been increasing rapidly in the past few days.

They had almost picked up everything when Liu Aiying and Zhao Xing's calls rang out again, but this time there were also voices calling Liu Jiaojiao, Wu Mei and Yu Xi.

When Wei Wei and Jiang Qi arrived, everyone was already there and eating.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's eyes almost popped out when they saw the egg cakes in Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi's hands.

What a wealthy family! They must be out here to experience life!

They really don't restrain themselves at all. The money they use to buy those egg cakes can definitely be used to buy the mushrooms they picked.

I looked at the three people's backpacks again and found that there was not much more than Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's.

There was a poisonous mushroom in Liu Jiaojiao's backpack! Even Jiang Qi and Wei Wei could tell at a glance that there were probably too many poisonous mushrooms in it, so Liu Aiying and Zhao Xing planned to eat them before cleaning them out.

Seeing Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's sacks, no one in the Zhang and Zhou families was surprised. As for the small gains of the two, the two families even felt that it was as they expected.

Liu Aiying: "Are there so few pine cones and chestnuts there this year? Just this much."

You know, there were quite a few every year in previous years.

Wei Wei: "No, we were just slow in picking the chestnuts. It took us a long time to peel them and we even watched the squirrels for a while."

When they heard that they had come to see the squirrels for a while, the Zhang and Zhou families didn't know what to say.

Although it was indeed difficult and slow for the two of them to peel chestnuts, it shouldn't be a big deal that they would only harvest so little!

It seems that the two of them have been playing for a long time. I really don’t know what’s so good about a squirrel. You can’t catch it, and if you catch it, you will only get a few pounds of meat.

However, after hearing what they said, the Zhang and Liu families decided to go there again in a few days to pick up the remaining items, and move to another place today.

However, when everyone arrived, there were only some pine cones and chestnuts on the ground, but the imagined scene of them being everywhere was not there.

There was only a pile of chestnut thorn balls on the ground. It seemed that they had been picked up by someone else. No one from the Zhou family or the Zhang family suspected that it was Jiang Qi and Wei Wei who picked them up, but that's a story for later.

In fact, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi did not see the squirrels today. Although they found one, they just took a look and went back to work. Yesterday they were curious, but today, money was more attractive.

Peeling chestnuts is not a difficult job for them. They wear Liberation shoes, not cloth shoes, and they wear work gloves on their hands, so they are not prickly at all.

It was just a little slow at the beginning, but after they became proficient they could do it very quickly.

However, most of the peeled chestnuts were sold, and the ones bought were all good and large. As for the remaining ones, they were all dried and sent to the original owner's family.

They spent a lot of time sorting the pine cones, so there wasn't much in the sack.

Liu Jiaojiao looked at the two people's backpacks, which were half full, and one of them had half a sack in his hand. Is this still not enough?

Liu Jiaojiao: "Auntie, is this not enough? It's quite a lot! Much more than we have."

Yu Xi also nodded, "Indeed, much more than us."

Wei Wei: "Ours isn't all mushrooms. There are pine cones and chestnuts in the sacks."

Wu Mei didn't expect them to pick up those things. "Are there pine cones and chestnuts? Why didn't we see them?"

Wei Wei smiled and said, "Maybe there's nothing over there!"

You can't say you just don't recognize them! The pine cones in their sacks are all defective, and the chestnuts in their sacks are mostly thorn balls. They don't want to open the sacks.

If Liu Aiying and the others saw this, they would definitely ask a lot of questions, asking why I only picked up defective goods.

And unless they open the sack, no one will know how many peeled chestnuts are inside. If they don't open it, all the chestnuts will be exposed.