Chapter 16
Too Many TrufflesWork at night, sleep during the day.
That's what the smugglers did for several nights running. Most truffle hunters would work a few hours just before dawn, but these two were working from the minute the sun set through until about two in the morning, leaving the fields only because they expected the trifolài to be coming out at any moment.
The haul was significant. On the first night they realized that the plan needed a new step. They couldn't hide these truffles in their hotel rooms; the strong aromas would easily attract unwanted questions.
“Don't worry,” she said. She told him to put them in a sack among this stand of trees, cover the sack with dried and decaying leaves, and she would get back to him later in the day.
Ah, day. Time to sleep.
He went st
