Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 189 The Twins

Cheng Xinxin caught up with Cheng Ximei.

Cheng Ximei screamed forward, "Brother, wait for me..."

The two little girls ran behind.

In front were five or six boys in their teens.

All of them put on cotton-padded clothes, carrying hoes in a dignified manner, and some held shovels.

Cheng Xinxin followed behind, eyes full of anticipation and excitement.

These days, children like to play with older children, but older children don't like little kids to follow them.

Cheng Ximei's elder brother was in front, occasionally turning around and shouting to her: "Ximei, go back!"

But his sister was obviously not afraid and still followed.

Seeing Cheng Xinxin so excited, Cheng He couldn't bear to call her back, so he had to follow behind.

The children are used to walking. They used to go to school in the town, and they had to walk a long way to get there.

Now it's no problem to walk on the mountain road for an hour or so.

On the other hand, the girl Cheng Xinxin was always lazy and wanted Cheng He to carry her away.

Well, she's the same age as Cheng Ximei, if she sees Cheng Xinxin being hugged but she isn't, how can she be envious, jealous and wronged to death?
Unable to hold back his coquettish daughter, Cheng He had no choice but to hug her, and Cheng Ximei by the way.

Cheng He knew that there were two brothers and sisters in this family. Their parents were working outside and did not come back. Only their grandparents took them.

Grandparents are old and don't have the strength to hold them at any time.It is estimated that the last time she was hugged was a long time ago.

Just give her a hug today.

One in each hand, two thousand gold!

However, for Cheng He, who is used to holding such a small child, there is no problem.

Cheng Ximei smiled happily with a happy face.

Now Cheng Xin was not happy.She puffed her face and said, "Dad, don't hug her."

The little girl was jealous.

My own father can only hug himself, how can he hug others?
Cheng He sweated profusely, and said, "Then why don't you hug each other, and the two of you can go together, okay?"

"No, I want to hug." Cheng Xinxin said firmly, as if she was afraid that her father would throw her down, her hands were tightly wrapped around her father's neck.

Cheng He had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, let's hug together."

"No, Dad don't hug her."

Cheng He sighed.

This little girl has already forgotten that someone else invited her out to play.Now say turn your face, turn your face.

Cheng Ximei probably knew that she was wronged and took over someone else's father.She didn't say a word, just looked at Cheng He with two dark eyes to see what she would do.

Forget it, why don't we just rest here for a while, and wait for the two little girls to get stronger before leaving.

It's not good to be so troublesome.

Cheng He first put Cheng Ximei on the ground.

As soon as Cheng Ximei fell to the ground, she burst into tears with a "wow".

Just tasted the happiness of being hugged by someone, and was immediately let go.The huge psychological gap made her unable to accept it.

Cheng Xinxin still clasped her father's neck with both hands, looking at Cheng Ximei.

Cheng He also put her down.

"Wow..." Cheng Xinxin also cried.

Alas, Cheng He has one head and two big ones.

Why is this swollen?

He said weakly: "Okay, okay, don't cry, do you see that tree? What's on it?"

The two little girls stopped crying and looked in the direction he pointed.

It was a tree whose leaves were almost gone, and which bore red wild fruits. The two little girls didn't know each other.

Cheng He said: "None of you will stop crying. I picked the fruit and shared it with her."

"Dad, I want to eat."

"Dad... I want to eat too."

Cheng Xinxin was the first to express her opinion, but Cheng Ximei was not slow and blurted out.But he said it too quickly, and almost followed Cheng Xinxin to call him "Dad".

Looking at her expression, Cheng Xinxin became even more unhappy.

Is she going to steal her father?

She seriously emphasized: "He is my father!"

Cheng Ximei didn't make a sound.

Cheng He quickly turned away and said, "Honey, do you want to eat that kind of fruit? That kind of sweet fruit."

"think."

This time Cheng Ximei didn't make a sound, and Cheng Xinxin spoke alone.

Cheng He said: "Okay, if you want to eat, you two just wait here obediently and don't move. I'll pick it for you."

The two little girls nodded.

Cheng He turned around to pick the fruit.

There are many unknown wild fruit trees in the mountains.The wild tree in front of me doesn't know the scientific name, only a very rustic name.

Cheng He knew that this was edible, and after being beaten by Shuang, it was very sweet.

The fruit is not big, about the size of a small glutinous rice ball, and it is so red and purple.Cheng He picked a handful at random, walked back, and said, "Come on, let's find a place with water to wash."

The two little girls were waiting for food, and they didn't mention the matter of hugging, and followed with strides.

There is a creek not far away. Cheng He washed it and gave it to the two children.

The conflict just now is obviously gone, the two little girls are smiling and eating, tasting the sweet and sour juice.

The gap between the teeth is red from eating.

The sweet and sour fruit can stimulate digestion and is rich in vitamins. Eating a few is also good for the human body.

If it is survival in the wilderness, such fruits can save lives.

After eating the fruit, it was almost time to rest. Cheng He pointed to the distance and said, "Sister Xi, where is your brother, should we go?"

"Yes." Cheng Ximei said crisply.

Then he walked over there first, without mentioning the matter of hugging.

Cheng Xinxin also followed quickly, fearing she might get behind.The little girl's competitive spirit is still very strong.

When I arrived at the big team, I saw that they had already started digging.

Cheng He wanted to laugh.

Cheng Ximei's elder brother should be the biggest among this group of people. He pretended to point out to the younger brothers: "When digging this, look at the leaves. Once you find the leaves, look for the vines. See how thick the vines are. The roots underneath are there. how big..."

Then, taking the hoe he brought, he hoeed down hard.

The mountain village has always had a tradition of collecting herbs and selling them for money. Children will naturally follow suit when they see it.

It's just that the vines he's digging now aren't any available vines, and he's still digging them with great vigor.

The point is, seeing how serious he is, the rest of the boys all regard him as an incredible "expert", and they all learn very seriously.

After he dug out a root he didn't recognize, he said with regret: "Oh, it's broken. It should have been a little further back just now."

Then ask the younger brothers to put it away.

Several shrimp soldiers and crabs immediately put the roots into the bags they brought.

There was a seven or eight-year-old child who grabbed this root and looked left and right, and said, "Brother Zhuo, what is this?"

Brother Zhuo is Cheng Zhizhuo, the older brother of Cheng Ximei.

He said solemnly: "This is Getengen. It's very good and sweet. You can cook chicken soup when you go back."

Chicken soup is chicken soup. The village often cooks chicken with some excavated things, such as mountain aconitum, astragalus root, Bihao Shouwu, etc., so the children think so, good things should be cooked in chicken soup.

But in fact he was wrong, this is not.

Hearing it was sweet, the child swallowed his saliva, regardless of the fact that the root had just been dug out and was covered with mud, so he stuck out his tongue to lick it, after all, juice flowed out of the place where it had just been dug up.

"Bah..." It was numb and bitter, and the child quickly vomited it out.

Feeling that there was still sand in his mouth, he wiped his mouth on his sleeve by the way.

For little ones, the sleeves are the rags.

The rest of the children laughed along with them, but it didn't affect their enthusiasm for digging "ginseng".

Cheng Xinxin was happy now, and took her plastic shovel to dig here and there.

With empty hands, Cheng He watched these boys working with interest.

Once upon a time, he also grew up like this.

When the interest came, he simply took out his mobile phone and patted the children digging seriously.

Although ginseng may not be found, they all contain hope.

Fortunately, this group of boys dug up a kudzu root, and they all clapped and laughed happily. It felt like the best harvest of the day.

With the harvest, the boys worked harder and dug some roots.

Some are edible and some are useless.

A kid dug up a bent root, thought it was a good thing, and said, "This is so thick. I'll take it back and give it to my grandpa."

If you make soup, it is estimated that you can eat it for several days.

He gestured with the bent root, then hung it around his neck, and said, "This is a good bend, you can hang it like this, and you don't need to hold it with your hands when you go back."

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether it is dirty or not, and whether the dug out is muddy or not, it just hangs on the body like this.

Cheng He looked amused and said, "Xiao Feng, you've soiled your clothes, aren't you afraid that your grandpa will beat you?"

Only then did Xiaofeng remember, it's too bad, the clothes are about to get dirty, so he took them off immediately, and patted the clothes again.

However, he didn't panic for a long time, and he devoted himself to the great cause of digging "ginseng".

Cheng Zhizhuo found a white worm from a dead tree trunk, and excitedly showed it to his friends: "Look, look, what is this?"

This show immediately aroused the envious eyes of the friends.Everyone looked at him with bright eyes.

The white bamboo worms are fat and white, and they are still alive.Bamboo insects are not only found in bamboo, but also in other branches.

The worm was originally straight, but after being caught, it immediately pretended to be dead, coiled its body into a ball, and remained motionless.

Cheng He teased them: "Zhizhuo, do you dare to eat?"

Before Cheng Zhizhuo could speak, the rest of the friends nodded one after another: "Dare to eat, dare to eat."

"It's sweet and has a lot of water in it."

"It's sweet, I dare to eat it. It's delicious."

"Yes, take a bite and the water inside it bursts out, it's delicious."

Cheng Zhizhuo threw it into his mouth and said intoxicatedly, "It's so sweet."

The friends swallowed enviously.

In the past, when the farming was slack, adults also came to the mountains to find some bugs and go back.Adults have eaten raw insects like these, so they are not afraid of them.

Now, they don't focus on digging roots anymore, and finding bugs is also very interesting.

This kind of bamboo worm grows in the roots or branches of trees, and it is easy to find.

Sometimes the bark grows well, but there is a hole in it, which is empty, and you can tell it by pinching it.

When you get to a hollow place, break off the branch from there, and then break it again, there must be a worm there.

The children pinched the branches carefully one by one, and found one at a time, and found one at another.

At the beginning, I stuffed them into my mouth one by one, but later, I started thinking about saving them up.

So when I found it, I threw it into the small bag I brought.

After a while, I took it back, washed it, fried it with oil, and it was also a dish.Everyone knows this.

Suddenly, a child shouted excitedly: "Oh, there is a twin here! Hahaha... developed."

It turned out that he found two worms inside a branch.Take one away, and there is another one, this is what he calls "twins".

The little guy put it into the bag excitedly.

(End of this chapter)