"Good thing I brought two bamboo baskets, or I wouldn't have been able to carry all this."
As the first basket threatened to overflow, he silently congratulated himself on his foresight. He separated the second basket, which had been nested underneath the first, and continued gathering the peppers from the ground.
After he had finished gathering all the fallen peppers within a twenty-meter radius, the ground finally looked much cleaner and tidier.
But he wasn't done yet. After resting for a few minutes, he squatted down again and started collecting the relatively fresh and whole leaves from the ground.
'Chili leaves are edible too. They're rich in calcium, iron, vitamin C, and various amino acids—even more nutritious than the peppers themselves. The only thing to remember is that you can't eat them raw; they have to be blanched or boiled first.'
