Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 319 Notes
After talking about the household chores, Mrs. Yang and Li went directly to the kitchen to prepare lunch. The four people in the house simply tidied up. Chunqiu changed into a set of clothes that are resistant to dirt and scratches for the convenience of going out.

At noon, I ate rice with water. Yang Lishi was afraid that several people would be hungry and uncomfortable, so he didn't have any extra whole dishes. All he ate were green vegetables pulled from the vegetable field, washed briefly, and then stained with Yang Lishi's vegetables Bean paste with rice.

After lunch, Chunqiu hated the taste in his mouth before taking a nap, brushed his teeth with a willow branch dipped in some salt, felt the taste in his mouth was lighter, and then went back to sleep.

The four of them slept for about an hour, when they were called out by Mrs. Yang and Li who came over.

In the afternoon, they will clean up their yard that has been idle for many years. There are fewer people and more work, including Chunqiu Huzi, who was packed by her grandmother into her yard.

Chunqiu stood in the yard, covered his mouth with his hand and yawned, with some tears in his eyes, he was really sleepy.

Her nurse, Yang Li, also sympathized with the hard work of the two children, so she didn't call the two of them in for the work in the house, but just ordered them to clear the weeds in the yard.

As for her mother and her father, as the main labor force, her grandmother would naturally not show mercy, and all the work in the house was done by her father and her mother.

The three of them entered the house with buckets and rags in their hands. Chunqiu stood in the yard, only heard the sound of ping-pong-pong in the room, and raised his eyelids. Chunqiu knew that the three of them were starting to get busy.

"Third Sister, let's work too," Huzi said, and handed Chunqiu the two shovels in his hand. What to do, just cut it twice, which is convenient and fast.

Listening to Huzi's words, Chunqiu said "hmmmm" as an answer, and he and Huzi divided the yard in front of them into two places, each working on one side.

Chunqiu carried a shovel and walked to the side of the apricot tree. The apricot tree in front of her was the apricot her father dug from the mountain before she left. The apricot blossoms have already fallen, and now the apricot tree is full of blue fruits, and the gone fruits have even turned slightly yellow, which is the rhythm of ripening.

Chunhu squatted under the apricot tree, while absent-mindedly clearing the weeds around, while thinking about picking a few apricots from the tree after work to satisfy his hunger.

There seemed to be a lot of weeds in the yard, and the largest part of them was concentrated around the apricot tree. Chunqiu cleaned up all the weeds around the apricot tree, and his own people also completed most of the work.

"Huzi, do you eat apricots?" Chunqiu looked up at the fruit on the apricot tree, then turned to ask Huzi who was working not far away.

After Huzi heard this, he quickly put down the shovel in his hand, looked in the direction of Chunqiu, and replied "eat" with a smile.

In fact, compared to eating, Huzi would rather climb the tree to pick it himself, but he was not prepared enough this time, and the clothes he brought back were basically school uniforms. For difficult things like climbing trees, he wore This suit really doesn't work.

"Third sister, remember to pick and eat more"

Huzi can't go up the tree, so I can only make the best of it and hope that my third sister will pick more.

Chunqiu said "no problem" to Huzi, then turned around and rolled up his sleeves, and held onto the clamping head on the apricot tree with both hands, his arms were tight, his legs were strong, and he jumped onto the tree.

The trunk of the apricot tree is not big, not much thicker than Chunqiu's thigh. In order to prevent himself from falling, Chunqiu could only hold the trunk of the branch on the side with both hands. When he saw a slightly better fruit, he picked it off and threw it to the tiger. By your side, let the tiger put it away.

Spring and Autumn picked more and more, and Huzi picked up more and more underground, and finally he couldn't hold it in his arms, so Huzi quickly stopped, "Third sister, I can't hold it anymore"

Chunqiu looked back at the fruit in Huzi's arms, and asked, "Do you want more?" Chunqiu felt that he had already picked enough to eat, but Huzi asked her to pick more, so Chunqiu was not sure about Huzi. Do you want it? For convenience, Chunqiu didn't come down from the tree directly, just waiting for Huzi to say next.

Huzi shook his head, "No, these are enough."

What he said before was picking more apricots on a whim, and there were a lot of apricots in his bosom, so if you pick too many apricots, don't waste them.

"Well, stay away from me first, I'm going to jump off the tree." After Chunqiu finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to signal Huzi to look aside. When Huzi was almost outside the range covered by the apricot tree, Chunqiu He jumped down from the tree with a "whoosh", at a height of more than two meters, fortunately there were no raised stone and wooden branches on the ground, otherwise his foot would definitely be sprained.

After picking the apricots, Chunqiu didn't let Huzi continue weeding. The two went to the kitchen to get an iron basin, went to the well to fetch some cold water, and washed the apricots briefly. The two sat in the shade under the apricot tree. The place ate up.

Because the apricots picked in spring and autumn are not yet ripe, they don't taste as sweet and soft as ripe apricots.

The apricots Chunqiu ate were hard and crunchy to the bite. The taste was sweet and sour, but not too sour. The two were put down.

"Third Sister, I'm going to work." Hu Zi clapped his hands, then shook off the little drops of water on his hands.

"Go, go" Chunqiu ate the apricots, and told Huzi to leave as if coping.

Huzi squinted at Chunqiu, who was in high spirits, and wanted to persuade the other party to eat less, but also thought that his own words would not work, so he turned around and left without saying a word.

Not long after Huzi left, Chunqiu didn't continue to eat. She ate too fast just now, and her teeth felt a little sour, probably because of the sour "teeth falling down" by Xingzi.

Putting down the small pot of apricots in his hand, Chunqiu picked up the shovel beside him, walked unsteadily to the field full of weeds, bent and squatted down, and started to work.

The weeds that had been removed were cleaned by Chunqiu and his broom and piled up into a pile. Even chickens and ducks would not eat this kind of weed. Feed the cattle, anyway, the old cattle at home will eat any grass.

The yard was tidied up and looked brand new, much better than before. Both Chunqiu and Qiu had completed their tasks, and they were finally able to take a breather.

From time to time there will be a sound of ping-ping-pong-pong in the house, but it is much smaller than the sound at the beginning. Chunqiu thinks this is the reason for the fast-drying and cleaning.

Huzi had already gone back to the house to rest, and Chunqiu was still sitting in the yard, thinking that he was about to have dinner, Chunqiu decided to go to the vegetable garden in the backyard of the main house to see what fresh vegetables were off the shelves at home. Take it off and save it for cooking at night.

Getting up from the shade, Chunqiu turned his head and patted the dust off his buttocks, turned around and walked towards the backyard of the main house...

(End of this chapter)