"Hey Lao Xu, have you noticed that it's even harder to pick bamboo leaves for zongzi this year? Is someone in the village having a big event or something? Why are all the zongzi leaves picked clean everywhere we go?"
"Of course I noticed, I've noticed for a while now. But I also found something else—even though these leaves are picked, a lot of them are only half-picked, with the other half left behind. Otherwise, we'd have to run to even more places to get enough."
"Sigh, who on earth is being such a jerk? Can't you just finish picking one spot instead of leaving half undone? Now it leaves us stuck: if we pick here, it's not enough; if we don't, we have no idea if the next spot has any, and we end up having to lug a bunch of leaves all over the place."
Chapter 161