Early the next morning, Sun Chunfeng stayed behind to look after the house and the children, while Yuanchun and Geng Dalin took Geng Xiaowu to the bamboo grove behind the village to harvest bamboo sap and hunt bamboo rats.
The bucket of bamboo sap they had gathered previously had been mostly drunk by the eight of them during the past few days on the road. The remaining few bowls of water had been used to make meat soup last night. This morning, without eating breakfast, they had hurried straight to the bamboo grove.
With Yuanchun around, water was naturally never an issue. The first bamboo tree she cut yielded half a bucket of sap. After cutting four or five more trees and filling two buckets, Geng Dalin shouldered the carrying pole and headed back home. Yuanchun and Geng Xiaowu stayed behind to hunt bamboo rats.
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