Alas, children's lives are easy. They play and eat all day, don't do anything, there is no pressure or burden, and their lives are comfortable.

On that day, Xiaoxi's neighbor, Xiaoxi's uncle's house, planted rice seedlings. After breakfast and Xiaoxi and his brother played in the yard with Zhao Juan, the granddaughter of his uncle's house.

After playing with it, Xiaoxi felt that it was too naive and watched his younger brother play with Zhao Juan.

"Xiaoxi, the loquats should be ripe. Let's pick the loquats." Zhao Juan felt that she couldn't stay any longer, so she ran to the creek and discussed with the creek.

The loquat Zhao Juan mentioned was from the eldest daughter's house next door. The eldest daughter is a widow, with two sons, both got married and had children, and worked in Guangdong. Every family in Xiaoxi and their village planted fruit trees, but there were not too many species. For example, Xiaoxi family planted pear trees, apricot trees, walnut trees (it was about to die and it would not bear fruit), loquat trees (it didn't bear fruit), plum trees. The eldest daughter planted loquat trees, cherry trees (there were 8 trees in total), peach trees, and cherries are Xiaoxi's favorites!

As the saying goes, cherries are delicious and hard to plant trees. The stream remembers the past life. Whenever the cherries in my grandmother's house matured, there were saplings that fell cherries grew under the tree. The stream was often planted at home, but it was not able to survive, so it had to give up.

Every time the loquat cherries mature, they will attract Xiaoxi, Chen Yubin, Zhao Juan, and Zhao Bo (Zhao Juan’s brother) to pick them. The eldest lady will not say anything, because they don’t come to pick them, and no one will pick them, because now she is the only one in her family, and her grandson will study in a place where she works with her son and daughter-in-law.

The stream hesitated because the loquat tree was quite tall, more than ten meters high, and it was amazing to fall down, so he ruthlessly said, "Xiaojuan, that tree is too high to climb up."

Zhao Juan pulled the stream into the house, "It's okay, call my brother and ask him to climb the tree. We will use hooks below." "Brother, let's pick loquats."

Zhao Juan's brother is two years older than her and now he is 5 years old. Zhao Bo is lying on the bed in the house watching TV. When he heard this, he got up and said, "Okay, okay, wait for me."

Because the trunk of the tree was a bit tall, the section below was bare and there was nothing to climb, so he put a few stones beside the roots of the tree. Zhao Bo stepped on the stone and climbed up the tree after a few strokes. After all, he was only 5 years old, so he didn't dare to climb too high, so he picked a place where he could reach the first layer of branches.

Xiaoxi and Zhao Juan were not idle either. They hooked the loquats that were ripe from the lower part of the hook. The hooks here were made of forked yellow jingle strips. After they reached them, they broke off the branches and threw them on the ground. Then Chen Yubin picked up a bag on the ground.

After a while, almost all the loquats that had been ripe at the low place were picked, and Zhao Bo climbed down like a monkey flexibly.

A few children gathered together on the stones on the ground and shared the fruits of their labor.

They picked the small loquat, which had thin meat and big cores. In fact, there was not much meat, but the taste was very rich and delicious.

After eating a few skewers by one, he went home. Zhao Bo walked in front with a bag, and the three little guys behind him chattered about the interesting things he had just said.

Before the little guys arrived at the door, they smelled the strong smell of meat. They stopped fighting and rushed towards Zhao Juan’s kitchen like hungry ghosts.

My uncle, who was cooking at home, saw the children running in, lifted the lid of the pot, took out the freshly cooked ribs, cut four pieces of lean meat along the bones, and picked off the large pieces of lean meat on it, leaving some difficult-to-cut children to greet each of the four children.

In fact, there is not much meat on the bones, but it is very fragrant, chewy, and bone oil. The reason why this rib is so fragrant is that it was the New Year pig that I could kill in the twelfth lunar month last year, and then evenly spread the meat on the meat with salt, hang it in a ventilated place to dry it. It is not afraid of being left for a year or two. This kind of meat has a cured flavor, which is very delicious.

After eating the meat from the ribs for a few Xiaoxi, he asked the adults to use the back of the knife to smash the bones into two sections, and then sucked them up with a broken mouth. Xiaoxi didn't like bone oil very much, so he gave his brother and Zhao Juan one section to each section.

After the little guys finished eating, they didn't go out. They just brought a small stool and sat in the kitchen to see when adults could appreciate another piece of meat. In fact, it is not a big blame for the children. During the Chinese New Year, each family basically slaughtered pigs, and the maximum clean meat is about 200 kilograms. In addition to the New Year and the gifts, the remaining ones are air-dried into bacon, which is almost a hundred kilograms. For example, during the busy farming season, it takes enough oil and water to invite people to dinner; the elderly treat them on their birthdays; during the holidays, they also have to buy fresh meat. Bacon and fresh meat are mixed together. The rest is good to eat every few days. The most is fat bacon, but children don't like to eat fat meat with bacon. When encountering something delicious like ribs, of course they want to eat more.

Although Xiaoxi doesn't like to eat bacon, she likes to drink soup stewed with bacon. The flavor of the bacon soup is stronger and more fragrant than that of the fresh meat soup, so she asked her uncle to scoop a bowl of soup for her. Because it was stewed with fresh beans, the soup was moldy, with dried chili added inside, which was a little spicy, and the bacon flavor and the aroma of the beans, well~ it's amazing.

My uncle scooped half a bowl of soup for Xiaoxi and the others, then picked up the ribs. He tore off the large pieces of meat on it, sliced ​​them and fry them to dry tofu, and chopped the remaining ribs into small pieces and threw them into the pot to stew. Adults also like to suck bone oil!

After drinking the soup, a few children went out. After discussing, they took the loquats to their place to pull the seedlings to play.

My mother-in-law and two old ladies in the yard were pulling seedlings in front of me. As soon as I got to the place, the little guys started calling people, "Grandma", "Secondma", "My mother-in-law", and "Young aunt", and then they were diligently giving them loquats.

"Mom, come on, I'll peel it for you." Xiaoxi held his younger brother with one hand and walked towards his mother-in-law with the loquat in the other, then stretched out his white and tender little hands and started peeling it.

"Oh, Xiaoxi, you only peel it for your mother-in-law, not for us! It seems that you only love her mother-in-law." Seeing Xiaoxi peeling loquats for her mother-in-law, the eldest woman joked.

In fact, to be precise, the eldest lady should be called the eldest lady, and the second lady is also called the second lady. They are from the Zhao family of Xiaoxi, and they are considered to be the mother-in-law's family. Because they are troublesome, they omit the call.

On the side of Grandpa Chen’s family, there is an old man. He is his grandfather’s elder brother. He has no wife anymore. There is also a young man. His wife is still there, and Xiaoxi is called Xiao Po.

So on the Zhao family, except for the uncle and uncle, the others are omitted to call each other. These are from the grandfathers of the stream (for the streams, the grandfathers are the grandfathers, and the fathers are the fathers).

"Yes, Xiaoxi, why don't you peel it for us? Come and peel two for Erma."

"Oh, it seems that these grandchildren love each family."

Xiaoxi listened to the two old men's jokes, speeded up the movements in his hands, acted coquettishly, and said, "Oh, Grandma Erma, I love you too. You can wait a moment, you should wait for me to finish peeling my mother-in-law."

After hearing this, the old lady pretended to be sad and said, "It seems that this woman still loves her mother-in-law. Oh, forget it, I'll peel it myself."

Seeing the two old men sad, Zhao Juan and Zhao Bo coaxed one of them, "Grandma (Secondma), I'll peel it for you." Then he got started.

Seeing this scene, the three old men could no longer hold it back and laughed.

Chen Yubin also got together for fun and said politely: "Mother-in-law, I'll peel it for you too."

Now, the laughter is even louder.

After a while, the laughter stopped. Erpo pushed the loquat in Zhao Juan's hand and said sadly: "Oh, forget it, Xiaojuan, you can eat it. The loquat peeled by Xiaoxi can't eat it. It seems that the Binbin can't eat it anymore, so I won't eat it anymore."

The mother-in-law also started to make a fuss, "Binbin, go and peel it for your second mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law will not eat it."

Chen Yubin stood there, not knowing who to peel it off. Zhao Juan and Chen Yubin were both anxious and looked at this and that in a daze, but didn't know what to do.

Looking at the anxious three people, Xiaoxi couldn't help rolling his eyes secretly. How old are you three? Is it necessary to tease four children under 5 years old? Is it necessary?

Alas~ let out a long breath.

Xiaoxi ran to the grandma a few steps, took the loquat from Zhao Bo's hand, peeled it quickly, handed it to the grandma, and said with a smile: "Madam, come on, this is what Xiaoxi peeled for you, and you will finish it."

He ran to Erpo again, took the loquat from Zhao Juan's hand, peeled it and handed it to Erpo, and said with a smile: "Come on, Erpo, this is what Xiaoxi has peeled for you, it's delicious."

Then he returned to his mother-in-law's side, picked up the loquat and continued to peel it. While peeling the loquat, he looked at the eldest lady and second lady, blinking his eyes, as if he was saying, "You guys eat it quickly, I've peeled it all."

The three old men could no longer suppress their laughter when they looked at this weird little girl.

Xiaoxi looked at them and grinned silently, thinking while laughing: "Now, I'll satisfy you, don't bother us anymore."

There were no more "troubles and turns". After eating loquats, the three old men started to get busy again. The four little guys also went to play on the pile of stones beside them.

These stone piles are built of 20 cm long and square pieces. There are 3 piles in total, about one meter high and three meters long. This is the stone that Zhao Juan spent a lot of money to ask someone to cut on the hillside. The pieces were made and then dragged back for future construction of houses and foundations.

"Xiaojuan Xiaojuan..."

Xiaoxi pushed Zhao Juan next to him, "Someone is calling you."

Zhao Juan looked up and listened carefully, stood up and shouted, "Hey, mother-in-law, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to ask someone to come back for dinner."

"Oh, I know."

"Grandma, second lady, youngest lady, my mother-in-law has called you for dinner."

After the group of people returned, all the working people came back. They were all sitting on the table now. The few people quickly washed their hands and served them.

Looking at the hearty lunch and pouring wine, people started to drink and chat.

The same is true for eating at Zhao Juan's house. It is divided into two tables, one for men and one for women. Because of this convenience, men gather together to make drinks and one for women and gossip. This is not...

"Today these people made us laugh. The three of us were pulling the seedlings underneath, and a few of them came here..."

That's it, you say one by one and one by one.
Chapter completed!