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Chapter 230 Picking Oranges

Ye Chenghu sat on the ground and played for a long time before he felt a little bored. Everyone was picking oranges there, and he was the only one sitting there to eat.

It will be sour if you eat too much, and your teeth can't stand it, and he can't sit still.

He used oranges to add another layer to the circle, and after surrounding the two turtles, he climbed up the hillside and got close to his father.

"Father, I want to pick it too."

"Have you eaten enough? Your teeth will be softened by eating. The short one next to you is just right for you to pick. Go!"

Ye Chenghu touched his cheeks, feeling a little sore and limp, so he didn't dare to eat any more.

The kid was not sure about it, so he turned his head to look at his two turtles after a while, and after confirming that they were still inside the oranges, they ran back to continue picking with confidence.

It didn't bother me to go back and forth several times, and I just stopped working honestly after being scolded a few times.

Ye Yaodong and the others called the tractor to deliver them here today, and the speed was a bit faster. It was only nine o'clock when they arrived. After eating snacks, and the time wasted in catching bastards on the way, it was already past ten o'clock when they went up the mountain.

Before picking it for two hours, he heard Mother Lin calling for dinner from below.

Turning her head and looking over, she was carrying two bamboo baskets on a pole. Inside the baskets were two buckets and two soup pots, one bucket of chopsticks, the other bucket of rice, and the soup bowls contained vegetables.

Hearing that it was time to eat, the children wailed and dropped their work, and rushed down immediately, but when Ye Chenghu found that his two bastards were missing, he burst into tears instantly.

"I obviously surrounded it with oranges, why did they crawl away?"

Ye Yaodong also saw that the orange castle he had piled upside down, looked around, but couldn't find it.

"Why are you crying, it's crawling so slowly, it must just look around here."

Everyone searched together, and finally found one in the grass, and the other fell down a small slope, lying there on all fours, waving its limbs wildly, but couldn't turn over.

Ye Yaodong carried both of them into the bamboo basket that Mother Lin delivered meals to, "Put them in there so they won't run away. I'll let your grandma take them back later."

"Leave one here, I will definitely watch him carefully and not let him run away."

"It's up to you. Anyway, if you run away and die, I will beat you."

Ye Chenghu pursed his lips, and he knew how to scare him all day long!Didn't he never get beaten?
"Hurry up and eat, I've been busy all morning, I should be hungry."

Ye Yaodong thought it was alright, he had just eaten dim sum at around nine o'clock, and he only filled half a bowl of rice, and sat on the floor. There were three dishes for lunch, a bowl of potato and pickle soup, a bowl of dried fish he brought, and a bowl of It is leek scrambled eggs.

A group of children reached out to the scrambled eggs with leeks, filled their bowls full, and started to eat after being scolded a few times.

One by one, they quickly picked up the food. After eating, they excitedly ran to the corner to play with turtles.

The grown-ups ate and chatted, mostly around Ye Yaodong, asking him how he went to sea and how he got...

After chatting casually, after the meal, everyone continued to work non-stop.

All afternoon, everyone was picking oranges on the mountain, and there were people shaking their heads on the next mountain, all of them were picking oranges.

Today the weather is fine during the day, the sun came out after nine o'clock, but it was a little windy, it was a bit comfortable to pick oranges while basking in the sun on the mountain.

It's just that in the afternoon, the sun has shrunk into the clouds early, and the wind is also strong, which makes it a bit chilly.

When it was around 4:[-], the elder brother-in-law asked him and the younger brother-in-law to help, bundle up the oranges in bags, and carry them to the trolley down the mountain. He wanted to send the oranges to the commune. Go to the commune to collect.

Others continue to pick, and the rest can be put away for sale tomorrow.

But the children were no longer in the mood to pick them, and they all sneaked away to play crap. The adults also turned a blind eye, and they were not expected to help pick a little bit from the beginning to the end.

It wasn't until it got dark that my brother-in-law called to call it a day.

The children cheered and rushed directly down the mountain.

Ye Yaodong saw that there was still a small half on the top of the mountain, and he estimated that it would take another day or two to pick it all up.

The cart had already been pushed away by my brother-in-law, and it was just right for the four of them to carry the remaining bags of oranges.

A few children jumped up and down in front, fell, rolled over and got up again and continued to run. No matter how the adults told them to be careful and walk slowly, they all fell on deaf ears.

"Ye Chenghu, remember to take the grapefruit you just picked." Ye Yaodong shouted at him.

Ye Chenghu braked instantly, backed up, and held the pomelo that he had just dropped into his arms, but he couldn't hold it even after thinking about it, and he still held the turtle in one hand.

He licked his face again, and asked his cousin Lin Guangyuan to help him get it, and then rushed forward again laughing and joking.

The youngest one had the loudest voice, and even yelled that he would take them to the river to see the big bastard...

Ye Yaodong was carrying oranges in the back and had to trot to keep up, but before he took a few steps, he heard another cry from the front.

"555...my egg...my egg is gone, the egg is broken...555..."

Ye Yaodong heard the sudden pain in his head, and ran up to see Ye Chenghu squatting on the ground, tears streaming down his face, with one hand still picking up his broken egg liquid from the broken eggshell.

"Who do I blame for my carelessness? It's all broken. Get up quickly. There's still one in your pocket. Don't break it again. If it's broken, you won't have anything to eat at night."

He wiped away his tears aggrieved, "I was not careful, it fell out of the pocket by itself."

"If you don't run, can it fall? Walk for me. If you drop the turtle into the water, go back and take off your pants and beat it."

"Father, let's go to the river to look for wild duck eggs later, shall we?"

"Where are you free? Didn't you see that we were carrying oranges, go home first, it's getting dark, hurry home and eat."

I don't know where all the energy comes from. After picking oranges all day, they are still alive and kicking, and they still want to play.

Sister-in-law Lin and Second-sister-in-law Lin also cursed and told the children not to make trouble, so they hurried home for dinner, and then they walked back reluctantly looking at the river.

Then a few whispered there, saying that they would come back to look for wild duck eggs tomorrow, and happily shared the process of their previous trip to the river to look for wild duck eggs...

Ye Chenghu still had a good memory when he passed the section of the river where Dawang Ba was. He stopped and pointed it out to them, saying that it was at the bottom of the river.

Just when they were excited to climb down, they were scolded by the adults again, and they gave up regretfully, and then they could only trot and continue to walk back.

When Lin Xiangyang approached the river, he also took a curious look, and then asked Ye Yaodong, "Did you really see that big bastard?"

"Well, I saw two little turtles when I was passing by in the afternoon, and when I came down to catch them, I happened to see another one the size of a washbasin underneath."

"There have always been rumors in the village that there is a big buffalo in this river to protect us. It has been spread for many years, and I heard that someone caught it before and released it back. I haven't heard of it in the past few years. "

"That should be it! It's so big, it should be a hundred years old."

Ye Yaodong was sure that it was just a turtle from Zhenhe, it was rare to find a wild one that grows so big, old people who are not mature would be more convinced.

"Maybe. The small one can be grasped, but the big one cannot be moved."

"I know."

Didn't you see his empty hands?
A group of people trotted to the house one after another. Lin's mother had already cooked a large table of delicious meals, and she was waiting for them to come back for dinner.

Ye Chenghu took out the wild duck eggs in his pocket with an aggrieved face and handed them to Mother Lin, "Grandma, can you stew the duck eggs for me?"

"And another one?"

When they were on the mountain at noon, they were still offering treasures. She took out two Xuan, and she wanted to bring them back to him, but she refused, saying that she would put them in her pocket.

"It fell out of my pocket on the way down and smashed into pieces."

"If you're so careless, then I'll save the hard-boiled eggs for you tomorrow morning. I have dinner for tonight. Let's eat first."

"Ok."

The Lin family had no fewer children than their Ye family. The two brothers had three children each, and four children each. The table was full of children as soon as they came to the table.

They have been separated for a long time, and they will eat together when they are busy working and farming.

There are many people eating together, and it is also lively. The noise at the dining table is the children's shouts. This one's hands are not long enough to pick up the dishes, and they are shouting there, and the other says that others pick up too much, and he wants to...

The roof of a meal will be lifted, and the adults in the house can eat in peace and peace of mind until the children are full and sit down at the table.

Ye Yaodong had been quiet for a few days after the separation, and now he had dinner with his family again. He felt like his head was about to collapse, and he was in pain all the time. He was relieved only after they all got off the table.

So many children, it's really scary!

Some of the older generation still have seven or eight children, more than a dozen, such as his mother's brothers and sisters, plus the cousins, they are all together during the Chinese New Year... It's terrible...

He quickly shook his head, fortunately he only had three at most!
Take a quick sip of the soup, and calm down.

His mother-in-law stewed sea bass with rice wine. Everyone knew that sea bass was good for wounds, so no one touched the bowl of sea bass soup on the table, only the children ate a little.

Everyone only ate the hot and sour soup cooked with dragon head fish. It was cold, and eating the hot and sour soup was especially appetizing and warming.

He brought everything on the table except vegetables, and Mother Lin also steamed a large plate of starfish.

He had eaten enough at home in the past few days, and he didn't want to eat it for a long time, but he still took one for his wife, just now seeing her only feeding her youngest son.

When I came to my mother-in-law's house, I had to behave well no matter what.

He split the starfish from the middle, divided it into petals, took one petal and split it from the middle, and then saw the starfish's meat, then put it in her bowl, let her eat it directly with soy sauce .

This starfish would have diarrhea if he ate too much, so he only peeled one and didn't do anything else.

Seeing this, Mother Lin began to mutter again, saying why did he send so many over?
How can I finish eating...

Don't bring anything over next time...

(End of this chapter)