At around three in the afternoon, Xiaoqian drove back with Mother Ning and Auntie Wang. The three of them had really gathered quite a haul: three full back-baskets of wild vegetables, plus half a gunny sack.
Old Zhangtou looked at all the produce and said, "These two sisters are truly industrious. How did you manage to carry all this back?"
Mother Ning wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Oh, we harvested it all right at the foot of the mountain, hardly even going inside. The only things you have to go deeper in for are the prickly ash shoots, and Xiaoqian got those all by himself."
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