Xu Qing's speed was very fast, so after several trips up and down, the fruit of this wild cherry tree was finished.
Xu Qing picked up the half-packed backpack, turned to look over the stool, where the group of monkey children were still laughing and dancing. For them, the fun of picking cherries was greater than the number of them.
Xu Qing smiled, took the basket, and walked to the wild cherry tree next to him. When Xu Qing was almost filling the basket, the stool ran over.
"Brother Xu, I'm done over there, let me help you!"
Xu Qing looked at the basket under the tree, then looked up at the red-faced look of the stool, "Okay, I still have a little bit that I just can't reach, I see that you are very good at climbing trees, you Come help me!"
Xu Qing was not very high on this cherry tree, and he was not afraid of any accidents.
After listening to Xu Qing's words, the stool patted his chest proudly, "Of course, I am the best tree climber among the children in our village, my grandfather said it." Because he often climbs trees, he suffers from his grandfather a lot. beating.
"Okay, then be careful!" Xu Qing moved on the tree, leaving some space for the stool that climbed up the tree, because it was the stool that wanted to help, and Xu Qing didn't move too much, leaving all these opportunities to A stool full of excitement.
With the addition of the stool, the ripe cherry fruits on the tree were not long after they were picked. The two got off the tree, and Xu Qing put the picked wild cherries into the basket.
"You helped me today, so can I invite you to my house for a glass of water?"
Xu Qing looked at the stool that lowered his head by half and said.
The stool scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly, "Can I buy a jar of kimchi from you? But I only have four cents here." He and his brother both like to eat the kimchi from Xu Qing's house. The youngest, that is, the two jars of kimchi bought by the youngest Deng at Xu Qing's house, went home, and it didn't take long for them to be eaten up.
Xu Qing didn't expect the stool to say such a thing. He looked at the wild cherries in the basket, raised his head, and said to the anxious stool, "Of course, you helped me today, didn't you? And you like my family so much. I'm happy too."
After listening to the stool, the anxious expression on his face loosened, and he showed his little white teeth to Xu Qing.
And the group of friends who were with the stool just now had gone home early, so Xu Qing went down the mountain with the stool.
"Come in with me." Xu Qing said, looking at the stool that was a little embarrassed to go in.
The stool shook his head, took out from his pocket, took out a neatly arranged cloth, opened the cloth in front of Xu Qing, inside was four cents of money, and the stool handed the money to Xu Qing.
Xu Qing didn't say much, and freed one hand to touch the head of the stool, took the four cents in the stool's hand, and opened the courtyard door to go in.
Li Changfeng was holding Tuan Tuan, walking back and forth in the main room.
"It's back, yo, so many picks!"
Li Changfeng looked at the basket behind Xu Qing and said in surprise.
"What's so good about this? When the cherry wine is brewed, you'll think it's too little after drinking it!" Xu Qing put down the basket and kissed the sleepy Tuan Tuan with Li Changfeng's hand.
Then he walked into the warehouse, took two jars of kimchi, and walked to the gate of the courtyard to hand over the stool that was waiting for him.
The stool looked at the two jars of pickles in Xu Qing's hand, and his eyes were full of surprise, but he still only took one of them.
Xu Qing grabbed the stool that was about to leave, "Don't rush to leave, this is my reward for helping me today."
"I don't want it," said the stool, blushing. "I'll do it for you for a while. You've already lost a penny from me. I can't ask you for this jar any more."
Xu Qing stuffed the kimchi into the stool's hand, and when the stool was about to be returned to him, he said, "I didn't give you today's, if you don't mind, can you still pick cherries for me tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? ?"
The stool's eyes lit up, helping him pick wild cherries for two days, and he could get a can of his favorite pickles. The wild cherry stool didn't like eating very much. He just got bored, and then he played with the children in the village. He went to pick them, and he gave them all the fruits he got, and occasionally left some to take back to his younger brothers.
"Okay, I'll go pick it up for you tomorrow morning, don't give it to me first, you can give it to me when I'm done picking it up." Saying that, the stool happily hugged a jar of kimchi in his arms and ran back the village.
Xu Qing looked at the kimchi that was stuffed into his arms by the stool, and then looked at the back of the stool away, shook his head helplessly, turned to lock the courtyard door, and went back to the main room.
"Why did you bring it back?" Li Changfeng had just put the sleeping Tuan Tuan into the room, and as soon as he came out, he saw Xu Qing holding a jar of pickles.
"It was originally for the boy from the Deng family, but he didn't want it. He had to pick cherries for me before taking it."
Xu Qing put the kimchi aside, it was for a stool, he had to take it out.
Li Changfeng thought for a while, "Stool? Is that the eldest grandson of Deng Lao Yao's family?" Li Changfeng also knew about the situation of the Deng family. Ah Mo of the stool died of excessive blood loss when he gave birth to his younger brother.
There is only the youngest Deng, his grandfather and a four- or five-year-old younger brother.
"Yes, even when Luo Jiao and the others had an accident, the stool came to report to us. I thought that child was very clever, so I went with the flow and asked him to pick cherries for me for two days, and I would give him a gift. altar pickles."
Xu Qing sighed a little. Regarding the fact that there is no Ah Mei on the stool, Xu Qing has a feeling of pity for each other. He has never seen his parents since he was a child, so he has a feeling that he is unclear about the children who do not have Ah Mei.
"That's fine. Children today are very sensitive, let's go, don't think too much, I'll wash the cherries for you." Li Changfeng patted Xu Qing on the shoulder and said, he thought Xu Qing remembered The late Xu family husband.
On the second day and the third day, the stool helped Xu Qing pick cherries for two days, and he was not lazy at all.
"Here, you can take it now!" Xu Qing handed the kimchi that had been on the table for two days to the stool.
"Thank you, Brother Xu, next time you have anything to do, just tell me. I'll help you. You can just give me a pickle." The stool took the pickle given by Xu Qing and said happily.
"Row."
"Brother Xu, goodbye, I'm going back!"
Li Changfeng looked at Xu Qing who entered the door, smiled and said, "It's alright now, the cherries have been picked, and now you can drink the cherry wine you made when the time is up."
"Of course, just wait and see how great the uncle is!" Xu Qing raised his chin and said proudly.
"What wine? What wine are you talking about?" A familiar voice interjected.
"Uncle Xie, come in and take a seat. I'm trying a fruit wine. I'll definitely bring you a pot when the time comes." Xu Qing quickly brought a stool to Uncle Xie.
"That's a good feeling. I don't care about anything, except for wine and meat." Uncle Xie sat down carelessly and kept talking in a loud voice.
Li Changfeng smiled when he heard this, "As long as a man is a man, this wine and meat are rare, right?"
When Uncle Xie heard this, he shook his head solemnly, "This is not necessarily true. If you look at me, you like wine and meat, but if you look at you, you only eat meat and don't drink alcohol."
"Hahaha, Uncle Xie, what you said is really interesting."
As soon as Xu Qing heard this, he didn't give Li Changfeng a smile at all.
Li Changfeng looked at Xu Qing helplessly, although he didn't say anything, he was muttering in his heart, "Don't you know best whether I am a man or not?"
After a few people chatted and laughed, Uncle Xie looked at Xu Qing and Li Changfeng and said what he meant: "Today I was in town and I met your elder brother, he asked me to give you a message and ask you to come back tomorrow. "Because Brother Xie was pregnant, Uncle Xie and Amo Xie went to the town to see if they were all right, just for fear of any accident.
Xu Qing and Li Changfeng looked at each other, what happened to this Li's courtyard
With that being said, Xu Qing and Li Changfeng returned to Li's courtyard early the next morning.
Last night, Li Changfeng told Xu Qing that no matter what happened to the Li family, the two of them should not interfere. Now he belongs to the Xu family, and he has no reason or qualification to take care of the Li family.
Li Changfeng and Xu Qing were stopped when they arrived at the door of Li's courtyard.
"Second brother, second brother, wait for us."
As soon as Xu Qing and Li Changfeng turned around, they saw Wang Lei and Li Xiaoge coming back in a bullock cart.
"Did Big Brother ask you to come back? Li Xiaoge looked at Xu Qing and Li Changfeng and said, Wang Lei greeted Li Changfeng and Xu Qing respectfully from the side, Xu Qing and Li Changfeng looked at Li Xiaoge and Wang Lei, Xu Qing said : "Are you also called back by the elder brother? "
Brother Li nodded, and Wang Lei continued to say, "It was the elder brother who came to our shop and said that he must go home and look at the face of the elder brother, as if something happened."
"Okay, let's all go in. You'll know what's going on when you go in. After you go in, no matter what the family says, don't interrupt first, listen first." Li Changfeng took the lead and told people to go in together.
Boss Li's eldest son, Daniu, was fetching water by the well. Seeing Li Changfeng and the others coming in, he hurriedly called out, "Second uncle, second uncle, aunt, uncle."
Brother Li looked at the yard and saw that there was no one, except Daniel. He walked beside him and said in a low voice, "Where are your father and the others? And the youngest?"
Daniel's face tightened, and he also said in a low voice: "In the main room, aunt, they want to split up!"
Split up? ! When Li Changfeng and Xu Qing heard it, they understood a little in their hearts. Li Xiaoge rubbed the head of the bull and followed Li Changfeng into the main room.
In the main room, except for children, adults are all there.
Mr. Li, who was sitting in the middle, looked at Li Changfeng and his group who came in, "Oh, they're all back! Did the boss tell you to come back?"
Li Laohan's face is particularly ugly now, and they will not be angry when they look at Li Changfeng. "During the Chinese New Year, please don't come back to you, how can you come back and watch the joke if you say that you are splitting up?!"
"What's this, what kind of joke are we watching?" Li Changfeng pulled Xu Qing who was holding the ball to the side, and also motioned to Li Xiaoge'er and Wang Lei to sit down.
Others saw this scene and said nothing.
Old man Li stood up abruptly: "What joke are you watching? Isn't it just watching the trouble at home, is it about to gossip?!"
"Hehe, you're wrong, my brother and I are married, but we're not single? Besides, we're not in this family anymore, what's going on in this family? , it also depends on who is so tossing so much." Li Changfeng said while teasing the old man without looking at Old Man Li's face at all.
Xu Qing sat on the side honestly and did not speak. This is what Li Changfeng said. He should talk less, otherwise, the Li family will spread fire on him.
The author has something to say: Xu Qing: I don't want a beard!
Brother Xie: "Beard or something, it affects my fairy spirit too much!"
Brother Li: "Beard?!" A look of horror.
Tuantuan: "What is a beard?_? Can I eat it〣( ?Δ? )〣