That day, the Yuanchun family also headed up the mountain.
As usual, they divided the labor: the men cut firewood in preparation for the coming winter, while the women took the children to forage for wild produce. Ding Chunli stayed behind to handle the housework.
The periphery of the deep mountains was crowded with people from the nearby villages. Some even began to argue over chestnuts, frustrated because one person would knock them from the trees only for someone else to snatch them up.
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