Chapter 168: Crunchy
"Awen stays with you for a while, I'll go out and pick him up later." Aunt Li calmed down her emotions, looked up at Chaole, and pointed to her grandson who was eating beside her.
He nodded subconsciously, and then came back to his senses after realizing it. He was afraid that Aunt Li was worried about what happened to Wu Fangfang's house and that Li Yanmei would come over to make trouble with her.
Now that her relationship with Lu Jingyan has already had rumors in the village, Li Yanmei has now broken up and ran to the gate of the yard to talk nonsense and make a big fuss. Although it will not cause substantial harm, her reputation may have spread.
"Let me go and have a look first." Lu Jingyan approached Chaole at some point and whispered in her ear.
"Aunt Le, don't worry, my grandma will help you beat the bad guy." Little Awen was happy to eat. He just heard Lu Jingyan's words from the distance. The eight-year-old child had become sensible and immediately spoke to help comfort him.
I have known Aunt Li for so long, and if I can really make this old man beat me, how big a thing would be.
The child spoke in a ruthless manner, so Chaole would not take it seriously. He reached out and rubbed Awen's head, and took another piece of pastry and handed it to him.
Looking at a piece of mung bean cake in his white and slender fingers, he swallowed his saliva. He actually had enough of it and rubbed his stomach, but his other hand also followed his inner thoughts and reached Chaole's hand, took the pastry, and fed it to his mouth.
There was a lot of trouble outside the yard, and Chaole in the yard was not attentive to pay attention to it, so he might as well think about what to eat at night.
The weather is getting hotter and moving tomorrow. Many dishes in the backyard cannot be processed in time, but peppers need to be processed. There will be no one here in the future. Although there is a look next to Aunt Li's house, someone may not be able to sneak in. The vegetables grown in the backyard, especially peppers, have basically never seen them in this era. They may have seen them but are not the knowledge that people around them can have. Just in case, they must be dealt with.
"What are you doing?" Lu Jingyan followed Chaole and saw her go to get the basket, so he asked.
He lifted the basket and smiled at Le, "Pick the peppers, can you help?"
Smile with lips curled.
The two of them headed to the backyard side by side.
The door opened, Mu Huaijin walked out, and looked at a child sitting in the pavilion, eating like a groundhog, and asked strangely: "Child, which one of your family?"
Awen, who heard the sound, raised his head.
Then the appearance was revealed. After living in the courtyard for so long, Awen knew him. He quickly smiled and reached out to rub Awen's head. Although the child was eight years old, they were strangers and were scared by others. Looking back on his tone just now, he was not kind.
Awen, who was stunned, felt his head being touched again, blinking, "Uncle, are you a guest?"
"..." Mu Huaijin chose not to answer this question, and at the same time, he felt that it was not very pleasing to the child. He knew him, but the child didn't even know him. Guest, what kind of guest, he was not.
"Uncle, are you looking for someone?" Seeing Mu Huaijin not answering his words, he looked around and asked in a low voice after blinding the pastry in his mouth.
I nodded casually and answered.
Then I heard the child's voice sound, "Aunt Le and Uncle Lu went to the backyard." Yao Yao added: "I also heard Aunt Le say she wanted to pick chili for seasonings or something."
"Really?" His eyes suddenly lit up, and there was no small awkwardness. He left a sentence "I'll go and see", and then his figure disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.
After rubbing his eyes, Xiao Awen's eyes were filled with little stars, and at such a fast speed, was that the martial arts master mentioned by Mr. Shushu?
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"Have all these peppers been picked?" He Chaole has been living for so long and knows the uses of these peppers more clearly than anyone else, so I heard that they have picked them all, and my heart hurts a little.
Of course, I could feel Lu Jingyan's heartache. I reached out to pick a few peppers and put them in the basket, and said, "What are you afraid of when you are still growing? I really feel sorry for you to pick them every few days."
"It's OK." With this stability, Lu Jingyan's speed of picking peppers increased a little.
"And it's still planted on the mountain?" Chaole added.
Then all the red peppers on the chili tree in front of me were picked, and then I threw the sentence "You pick here, I'll go there", and then ran to the green pepper tree to start picking the chili quickly.
When Mu Huaijin came in, he saw two people who were picking peppers in a good time.
I asked, "What are you doing for picking so many chili peppers?"
"Make dried chili peppers, chili noodles." Chaole replied.
Then, the figure who was standing was still standing followed Lu Jingyan and picked it together.
The place was not big, and the two men were very energetic. They might have never eaten dried chili and chili noodles, so they moved very quickly, as if they could taste the taste after picking it. They were all completed in less than half an hour.
"Pick some more dishes. I will move tomorrow. I plan to invite Aunt Li and Uncle Yang's family to have a meal." The two men were full of energy. Chaole felt that they should add some work to them at this time, and she slowly stood up and walked aside, picked a cucumber and broke it into two ends, and bit it in one bite, and it was crispy.
The two men stopped busy when they heard the sound, turned their heads to look, and saw Chaole creaking and smelling very fragrant by eating alone. They subconsciously swallowed their saliva. After realizing it, they realized that the weather had been dry for so long, and they seemed to be a little thirsty.
"Pick it yourself." Seeing the two men looking at him with pitiful eyes, one of them couldn't help but rush to Le a little, and then rolled his eyes to the two men.
After being yelled like this, the two men were immediately embarrassed.
But then he reacted and Mu Huaijin directly retorted, "You have never told us that this thing can be eaten raw."
"..." Chaole thought this man was a fool, and cucumbers could not be eaten raw? There were cucumbers in this era. Although it may not be widely popular, but after so long contact, these two men must have extraordinary origins, but they didn't know that this thing could be eaten raw, which was simply ignorant.
"No?" Mu Huaijin took one, looked at it for a long time, his eyes tightened, and then subconsciously spoke in disgust.
"Click--"
Then a sound rang in my ears.
Turn around and take a look.
Lu Jingyan squeezed half of the cucumber and ate it happily. After his eyes were cast, he picked up half of the cucumber in his other hand and took it, and didn't even hand it to Mu Huaijin.
Mu Huaijin, who felt that he was disliked, stopped talking nonsense. Without saying a word, he picked up the cucumber and took a bite. Then his expression froze. Then his face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, spit out the melon meat in his mouth in one bite, and shouted at Chaole: "You actually lied to me, can this thing be eaten?"
"Don't worry about him." Chaole didn't say anything, Lu Jingyan's voice sounded faintly.
Chapter completed!