newbobooks Chapter 196 Wild Fruits
Chapter 196 Wild Fruits
"Hey, hey, Yuan Si's family, let's go together. The kangs in our house are still usable, but I always feel uncomfortable sleeping on them. I always feel itchy. I don't know if there are lice or rats' nests underneath. I have to dig it up and make it again. Since I have to make all the kangs in my house, they are not very stable anymore."
"Tsk, now that you mention it, it's true. This isn't a bed. It's cold and hard to sleep on. After so many years, it always feels damp and uncomfortable to sleep on. I have to make one, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well at night. Let's go find the master and see if we can get it cheaper. Guoguo, isn't the master's craftsmanship very good?"
How would Zhou Guo know? They just started laying the foundation after removing two kangs yesterday. Whether it is good or not can only be seen after the kangs are built.
The women kept asking, so she had to tell the truth. Finally, she promised, "Aunts, when our kang is ready, you can go in and see it for yourself. It's useless for me to tell you whether it's good or not. You have to see it for yourself to know whether you like it or not, right?"
"That's true. We'll go and see for ourselves then. I've been sleeping on this kang for a few days now, but I just can't get used to it. It feels like sleeping on a stone slab. It's uncomfortable everywhere. I wake up with backaches in the morning. I'll have to get a bed to sleep on in the future."
These words really touched everyone's heart. Zhou Guo also nodded. Yes, she thought so too. At worst, she could sleep on a bed when the weather was warm and on a kang when it was winter. At least she wouldn't suffer for half of the year.
Even as she was talking, she continued to chop trees and cut grass. She cut the lush and overgrown jungle grass inch by inch, and it immediately became bare.
Zhou Guo found this process quite relaxing. Seeing the messy place become clean and tidy, the troubles in his heart were swept away. He felt refreshed and comfortable after sweating and working.
This kind of pastoral life is actually not bad.
Besides, there are often surprises while working.
Just then, when I was halfway through cutting the tree, I found a Schisandra chinensis plant. Its vines were entwined around the surrounding bushes, and they were full of fruits. The fruits had turned red, and the red color dotted among the grass and trees was very beautiful.
She happily picked a bunch, picked a red one and put it in her mouth, sucked out the flesh expertly and spit out the skin.
This purple-red fruit no longer has a medicinal taste. It tastes sweet in the mouth and has a fruity aroma. It was the most delicious fruit she had eaten at her grandmother's house during her childhood summer vacation.
She picked all the fruits and put them in a basket. There was not a single wild onion in the field, but she picked up half of the basket of wild fruits.
After picking the fruits, she continued to cut forward and found more than ten bunches of fruits. This vine bears so many fruits. She decided to dig them up and take them home, plant them in the yard, build a rack for them, and apply fertilizer from time to time. Next year, they should be able to bear more fruits.
Even if she had something good, she couldn't eat it all by herself. She carried the basket and walked to the field, calling out to the others, "Aunties, you must be tired after working for half a day. I picked some wild fruits here. Everyone, have some and take a rest."
Holding a basket, he greeted everyone one by one, "Come, help yourself, we picked them all from the fields."
Everyone looked down at her basket and saw half of it was filled with wild fruits. They smiled and said, "Oh, Guoguo, your work is really worthwhile. There are still so many wild fruits waiting for you halfway through."
"You can't say she's blessed, but you forgot that the fruit worth as much as gold was found by her on the road. It's because of it that we didn't starve. Come, I'll have a bunch so I can get some of the blessing. If I eat it, I'll also have good fortune."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "It was just luck that I came across it by chance. I dare not take the credit for it. It was the joint efforts of all of us. Everyone worked hard, and you earned the food by yourselves. At best, I was just a messenger. Aunts, please don't say that again in the future."
She doesn't want to take the blame for this.
The women laughed, their laughter more sincerely. "That being said, you still have to meet us to earn it, otherwise we will leave. Hey, how did you find out?"
Another woman smiled and said, "I remember, I remember, it was their little Su who wanted to go into the forest to poop, and Guoguo went in with him. Before Xiaosu finished pooping, he was hit by fruits that fell from the trees, and that's how they discovered these fruit trees, haha..."
"Cough, cough, cough!!" The others kept reminding them, and the faces of Zhou Guo and his sister had turned black.
The woman couldn't finish what she was saying. Looking at the person next to her who was desperately winking at her, she finally realized what she had said. Xiao Su was lost and hasn't been found yet.
"Hehe, well, we've finished eating the fruit. I'm going back too. If we don't hurry up, we won't be able to finish it before dark. Let's go back."
The women left one by one with embarrassed looks on their faces.
Zhou Guo sat there in a daze for a while and let out a long sigh.
Zhou Mi, who was standing by, didn't even eat the fruit. He held Zhou Guo's hand and said firmly, "It doesn't matter. One day we will find him back, and everyone will be found back."
The last sentence was spoken in a low voice, but Zhou Guo heard it clearly.
She was startled and nodded heavily. She ate the fruit in her hand in a few bites, stood up, returned to her position, and started to cut the wasteland.
If she wants to find someone, she has to wait until her family is stable and she has money and ability. Without money, she can't even walk five steps. It's hard to find someone by herself in such a vast sea of people. She still has to worry about her family.
Let’s get to work first! Get to work!
For the rest of the time, Zhou Guo was busy chopping trees and cutting grass, and Zhou Mi was also very angry. The old man had no one to talk to and no entertainment, so he could only concentrate on working.
When you get tired, you can pull out the bamboo tube from your waist and drink a few sips of wine. This job does not require any skills and is quick to do.
It was not yet noon, but everyone had already gone back to eat, and each of them took back a bundle of firewood.
When Zhou Guo looked up again, he found that it was already past noon. He didn't feel it when he was working, but now that he had some free time, he realized that his stomach was empty.
I was hungry. "Master, Third Brother, let's go back and have dinner. We can finish the rest in the afternoon."
The old man raised his head from the ground with a look of despair. Finally he could go home. He had been hungry for a long time.
The two kids had gloomy faces, each one more ruthless than the other, as if they were ready to kill someone. He didn't dare to say a word.
Zhou Guo straightened out the large pieces of firewood that he had chopped down one by one and tied them up with wild vines, making a very large bundle.
Zhou Mi also tied a small one, which was made of small firewood. The small firewood could be taken back and used as kindling.
The old man had nothing to do, so he ate the wild fruits in the basket, taking a bite of fruit and a sip of wine, drinking happily.