The enthusiasm for picking holly spread from the hamlet to the main village.
Those who could climb the tree were climbing, those who couldn't were designing tools, a scene filled with hustle and bustle.
Every member of the old lady's family, including her son-in-law and her sons, would spend days in the mountain.
Except for Yu Jingting's family who stayed put, the entire village was out on the mountain.
People do tend to follow the crowd, drawn into doing something when they see others doing it, even though nobody was buying the holly they picked, they still swarmed to the mountains.
Witnessing that everyone else was actively pursuing a sideline, Suizi also picked up her own sideline again.
She used a wild rabbit as the main subject, writing a mini-serial novel in the style of Spring and Autumn for the Newspaper Agency.
In this era of literary renaissance, her outstanding writing skills stood out instantly.