Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 199 Little Squirrel

After the cake was finished, Cheng He asked his daughter, "Honey, should I eat it now or at night?"

Isn't birthday cake usually eaten at night?

However, with such a big cake, I'm afraid it won't be finished in one meal, at least it will be divided into two meals.Anyway, it's not a serious meal, so I don't care about the cakes made by my family.

Cheng Xinxin looked at the cake without blinking, and said, "I want to eat it now."

Zhao Sizai said: "Okay, then just put in the candle."

Cheng He took out a piece of printed paper from the packaging bag, and folded it into a crown that could be worn on the head.He put the crown on Cheng Xinxin's head and said, "Yes, not bad."

Cheng Xinxin was so happy, she thought she was a beautiful little princess.

How nice it would be to have a birthday every day.

Although she had her birthday last year, she had already forgotten it.

Candles are naturally prepared earlier.Four thin candles of different colors were inserted into the cake, and Cheng He lit it with a lighter.

Then he took out his mobile phone and played the music he had prepared a long time ago: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Everyone in the room sang along, even Cheng Xinxin clapped her hands and sang.

"Come on, Xinxin, make a wish and blow out the candles." After singing, Zhao Sizai said to her.

"Auntie, what is making a wish?" Cheng Xinxin asked.

The same question was asked last year, but forgotten this year.

"It's just...it's what you want in your heart, you just say it..." Zhao Si was thinking and said.

Cheng Xinxin tilted her head, thinking, what should she want?

Then she said, "I think..."

"Hush..." Zhao Sizai hurriedly stopped her, "Don't say it, say it in your heart, it won't work if you say it, you know? Come on, close your eyes, and say it in your heart."

Cheng Xinxin seemed to understand, but then she really closed her eyes and said something in her heart.

After finishing speaking, he opened his eyes, looked at his father, and smiled.

Zhao Si was urging her: "Okay, it's ok, blow out the candles quickly. Blow it out in one breath."

Cheng Xinxin grinned and puffed out her mouth, and blew at the candles on the cake.But the mouth was too small, so I didn't finish blowing in one breath, so I had to blow it again.

Cheng He took out a fruit knife and said, "Okay, you can cut the cake."

Zhao Si was thinking of Cheng Xinxin's appearance just now, and asked her curiously: "Xinxin, what wish did you make?"

Cheng Xinxin glanced at her, giggled, and said coyly, "I won't tell you!"

The small and cute appearance made Zhao Sizai couldn't help laughing, and said, "If you haven't told me, I already knew."

"Impossible, you don't know. I spoke very quietly." The little girl retorted seriously.

Zhao Sizai said: "I heard it just now, do you want your father to buy you a lot of candies and pile them up every day?"

"That's not true. You're wrong. What I said is that I want my father to love me forever, and I will always love my father." The little girl said the words out of anger.

Zhao Sizai originally wanted to tease her, but the little girl said it all at once.

What was even more unexpected was that the child actually made such a wish.Don't children always want sugar?

This girl is really caring to her father.

Cheng He cut a small piece of the cake, put it on a plate, put it in Cheng Xinxin's hands, kissed her on the forehead by the way, and said, "Baby, Dad will always love you."

Cheng Xinxin had already picked up her fork and concentrated on her cake.

"Xinxin, is it delicious? Is it sweet?" Zhao Si was looking at her eating deliciously, so he couldn't help asking her.

"Sweet." Cheng Xinxin nodded while busy eating.

The cake is very big and creamy. If you eat too much, you will get tired. I haven't eaten half of this cake yet.

By this time the snow had stopped and the sky was about to clear up.

Cheng He said: "Baby, let's share the cake with your children?"

Cheng Xinxin stared at her cake, and asked with great reluctance, "Who is that going to be?"

"To... Cheng Ximei, Sanpi and the others?" Cheng He said.

The little girl has a few friends in the kindergarten, and when she often comes back, she chatters about who and what.

"But... I don't want to share." Cheng Xinxin looked at her cake and said anxiously.

Cheng He just wanted to laugh.Now she can't eat anymore, and she is still protecting it!
He said: "Let's go, let's go and see what delicious food they have, and exchange it with them, okay?"

"Okay." The little girl was satisfied now.

Zhao Sizai went back by himself, Cheng He hugged Cheng Xinxin, went to visit the neighbors, shared some cakes, and left a piece for the little girl.

After all, you still have to eat dinner.If you eat too much sweets, you will not want to eat.

Seeing that the sky was clear, Cheng He remembered the big rock he brought back from the Yunxiao Mountains yesterday.There's nothing to do today anyway, let's get it back.

He asked someone to borrow a small scooter and walked towards the back mountain.

Although I came back yesterday with a stone on my shoulders, when I got to a place with people, I tried to use some normal methods to get the stone back.

He didn't want to make trouble for himself.

Cheng Xinxin got on the cart excitedly and followed him out.

The snow is clear at the beginning of the day, and there is a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere. Some cold-resistant crops in the ground will be higher, and the trees and roofs are also covered with a layer of white.

Speaking of which, Cheng He hasn't seen the winter scenery of his hometown for many years.I just feel that after the earth is covered, everything is like a new beginning.

The little girl was sitting on the scooter, and felt that such a means of transportation was very interesting.

However, the place where she was sitting had already been padded thickly for her, not only for fear of being too bumpy, but also for fear that she would get cold.

In addition to the thick hay on the mat, there was also a bed of small cotton batting on it, and she was holding a hot water bottle in her hand, so she was fully armed.

When I arrived at the back mountain, I accidentally saw a group of women walking into the mountain.

Cheng He greeted them with a smile.

After asking, I found out that they went into the mountains to pick a kind of wild fruit.

In fact, it is not really a fruit, but a kind of wild vine-bearing seeds, each about the size of a pea.

This kind of vine blooms in autumn, then produces seeds, and will fall off naturally in winter and fall to the ground.After being frozen by frost and snow, it will become harder and sweeter.

These people came to the mountains to pick them up when the snow was just clear.

After the wild vine seeds are cracked, they can be eaten raw, and they are very fragrant when chewed dry.It can also be fried in a pot, like cracking beans.

The most important thing is that it can be used to make tofu.

Many people in the village feel that the tofu made from this kind of wild beans is more fragrant and tender than the tofu made from soybeans and mung beans.

It has almost become a habit of people in this area to look for this kind of beans in winter to go back to make tofu for the New Year.

Cheng He was also in high spirits and followed suit.

In the woods on the back mountain, there are some very thick old trees, almost as thick as the mouth of a basin.The wild vines grew around the tree, and now the vines and the tree are almost fused together.

And those vines were what they were looking for.

Where there are vines, there are seeds underneath.

Although it has snowed, the branches in the woods are dense, and the snow that falls is very thin. Basically, it will be picked off with one foot. The bottom is full of dead branches and leaves, and the beans are mixed in it.

The people who were chatting and laughing along the way started to get serious when they arrived at the place, and everyone picked up the pea-sized seeds like a competition.

Cheng Xinxin looked curious and thought it was fun, and said, "Dad, I'm going to pick it up too."

Cheng He didn't expect to pick this up, and said without a bag, "Then let's pick up a few and go back to play."

A woman handed over a bag and said, "I brought two, you can pack one for you. This beaten tofu is delicious, you've been here anyway, pick up some more."

Cheng He took the bag, thanked him, and picked it up too.

There are a lot of vines entangled in the trees, and each of them occupies an area, squatting on the ground to search carefully.

In previous years, picking up beans saved some money for making tofu.But this year is different. Making bamboo weaving can make money, and picking beans is purely because it tastes good.

Cheng Xinxin squatted on the ground with Cheng He, and picked it up seriously.

However, the little girl became bored after looking for it, and seemed to forget what she was going to do, and ran around.

How can such a big child be qualitative?
Cheng He picked up some casually, which weighed about five or six catties, and felt that they should be about the same.

Then, he greeted the people nearby, and continued to drag the cart.

Big rocks are still behind.

The cart can only be towed on a relatively flat place, but the place where he put the stones is not on the side of the road, and he has to walk up some.

The farther you go to the back of the mountain, the more no one comes, there is not even a footprint on the ground, it is very quiet here.

Faintly hearing rustling voices in front of her, Cheng He hurriedly stopped her daughter in a low voice: "Baby, don't make any noise."

The little girl was walking and singing at the same time, very excited.

Seeing her father looking like he was looking for something, she whispered, "Dad, what's the matter?"

Whispering or something, the little girl likes it the most.

Cheng He pointed not far away and said, "There is a little squirrel hiding behind a tree. You scared it away when you made a loud voice."

Cheng Xinxin looked around: "Where? Where?"

She saw nothing.

"Just behind that tree, there is a head exposed, do you see it?"

"No." Cheng Xinxin looked around for a while, but still didn't see anything.

But it didn't take long, the squirrel seemed to be more courageous, and its whole body poked out from behind the tree, and she saw it.

The little girl asked her father, "Is that a squirrel?"

It's not the same as in the cartoon.

Cheng He said, "Yes, that's the squirrel."

Then, he took out his phone and wanted to take a picture.

There are too few things on Taohua Village's official website. When he sees something interesting, he shoots it and wants to put it on the Internet to enrich the content.

He also took a picture of picking up beans just now.

Cheng Xinxin greeted the little thing: "Squirrel, squirrel, come here, come here..."

As Cheng He expected, that little thing really came over boldly.

　Thank you [Yubinghan 0704] for the reward support, thank you [tongxiang], [Dust Mo 12], [Golden Gate Heroes], [Dandelion Flying in the Wind] for your monthly ticket support, and thank you friends for your recommendation ticket support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)