Chapter 37 Wild Fruits

Yesterday, Yunxi spent so much money in town, adding up to several hundred yuan. She urgently needs some income now. If she keeps spending money without earning it, no matter how much money she has, it won't be enough for her.

I really want to buy everything I like when I see it, and if I don't buy it, I'll keep thinking about it.

However, if you buy those things, the amount of money spent will be enormous.

Yesterday was a little better; she bought things that she could actually use. She's just afraid that one day she'll buy things that she can't use, things that are just pretty or whatever, and if she can't control herself, then she'll be in big trouble.

Therefore, she was eager to earn more money so that even if she spent all her savings, she would still be able to earn money for herself and wouldn't have to worry about living a destitute life.

The medicinal herbs picked yesterday haven't been taken out to dry yet. Some things need to be sorted out in advance, and some need to be cut, while others can just be dried directly.

I was busy all day yesterday. I had some time to work on those medicinal herbs. Anyway, they're in my space, so I don't have to worry about them spoiling. I'll just leave them for now and deal with them when I have more time.

After the vines controlled the sickle and cut all the pig feed in that area, they put everything except the basket into their spatial storage.

With the basket on her back, Yunxi didn't feel that it was heavy at all.

With her basket on her back, she prepared to go to other places to look around, mainly hoping to find some particularly precious medicinal herbs.

Valuable medicinal herbs like ginseng and lingzhi can be incredibly profitable once found.

They collected all the firewood they found along the way, and also collected any pheasants and rabbits they occasionally encountered.

The most common thing I encountered along the way was wild eggs. Including the ones I put into my space a while ago, I now have about a hundred wild eggs.

I cooked them all when I got back, and ate two wild eggs every day to supplement my nutrition.

As Yunxi walked, she came to a place she had never been before. In the distance, she saw a round jujube; judging by its size and color, it looked ripe. (The round jujube is actually a wild kiwi.)

I picked one as a trial and tasted it. If it wasn't ripe, I'd leave it for two more days. If it was ripe, I definitely wouldn't let it go.

I peeled off the outer layer, took a bite, and tasted it. It was sweet and sour, with a hint of sourness. It was definitely edible.

Without saying a word, Yunxi quickly picked what she could from below, and for those that she couldn't reach from above, she pulled down all the vines and picked them by hand.

Yunxi never expected to encounter jujubes, and planned to look around to see if there was a second one.

After all, there are very few fruits to eat these days, and jujubes are considered a kind of fruit. The total weight of all the jujubes on the tree just now was almost over 100 jin (50 catties).

You can tell at a glance that this jujube tree has been growing for several years, otherwise it wouldn't have produced so many fruits.

Yunxi even saw jujubes that had fallen to the ground before, already rotten, and even blackened and shriveled.

Yunxi guessed it might be from last year; if it were the year before, it should have been gone long ago.

After searching several times within a 50-meter radius around the spot and failing to find a second one, I could only leave the place disappointed.

But I wasn't too disappointed. Now that I know about this place, I can come back next year.

Moreover, that jujube tree was so big, and it bore so many fruits—over 100 pounds, which is several hundred jujubes. That should be enough for her to eat for a while.

If you eat sparingly, for example, only one or two fruits a day, you can have enough fruit for the whole year.

I don't know if it was just good luck today, but I came across a hawthorn tree not long after I started walking along the stream.

Only a small portion of the hawthorn berries have turned red; the rest are still green, though some are ripe. The rest will ripen gradually in a short time.

Although hawthorn berries are very sour, picking them, slicing them, drying them, and then steeping them in water makes a delicious drink, especially with a little honey or sugar added. The sweet and sour flavor is particularly tasty.

All the red berries were picked, weighing about ten pounds. The remaining unripe berries looked to weigh well over a hundred pounds; there were just too many on the tree.

It was beyond her understanding of wild fruits, and it was quite a large fruit.

In addition, this hawthorn tree must have lived for many years, as the tree has grown exceptionally large, so it's not surprising that it bears so many fruits.

After memorizing this location, I plan to come back here to pick more in a couple of days. I expect there will be plenty of ripe fruit in a couple of days.

Continuing on, we had a pretty good harvest along the way, finding jujubes and hawthorns, so we felt like we wouldn't be short of fruit to eat.

Moreover, as long as you can tolerate the sourness, hawthorn can be eaten as a fruit, as long as you can stomach it.

The rest was just gathering a lot of firewood. At least in the direction I was walking, few people would come by, so relatively speaking, no one else had picked up the firewood.

This makes up for all the firewood we used up cooking meat last night.

I looked up at the sky, but I still couldn't quite make out the time. In the end, I could only roll up my sleeve and glance at my watch. It was almost ten o'clock.

I never imagined that I would waste so much time. It seems I can't dawdle any longer.

After roughly determining the direction, Yunxi quickly headed down the mountain.

As we got closer and closer to the foot of the mountain, we gradually encountered more and more people.

On the way, I saw Sister Lotus again. She was seven months pregnant and carrying a huge basket on her back, but she still looked very capable.

It seems that the child she was carrying didn't hinder her work at all; she could still do it with ease. It seems that the child came to repay a debt of gratitude, which is why it was so well-behaved.

The two huddled together and chatted for a while, mostly about the gossip and family matters in the village.

When Yunxi was a demon, she had never witnessed such a gossip-chat session before. In addition, no one dared to gossip in front of her, so she was getting more and more excited as she chatted with her.

Although she didn't know why Aunt Lotus, a woman in her twenties, liked to chat with her, a 14-year-old girl, she decided to pretend not to know when she couldn't see through the other person's intentions.

They quickly handed in the pig feed, recorded their work points, and then parted ways again.

One continued up the mountain, while the other went straight home to rest, each leaving the other undisturbed.

It's like we were just gossiping. After we finished, neither of us admitted that we were talking about whose gossip.