"There are such big turtles in the reservoir. Why are there two of them? You keep one for yourselves."

After pouring all the fish into the small pond, the two soft-shelled turtles below were exposed. My aunt, who was filling the pond with water, saw two such big soft-shelled turtles and said to Wu Fei.

"A lot of soft-shelled turtles were caught in the reservoir this time, more than twenty of them. My family has eaten soft-shelled turtles several times. I just brought two of them to my grandparents, uncles and aunts to replenish them."

Wu Fei said to his uncle who was about to go up the mountain: "Uncle, let me go up the mountain with you to pick oranges. I haven't picked oranges in many years."

"Okay, I'll call your grandma back later, cook with your aunt, and kill the fish by the way."

Wu Fei took the cart from his uncle and pulled it towards the orange garden.

The orange garden is on the hill behind the house, and there is a simple road leading up to it. The hill is not very high, and most of the orange trees are planted on it.

Wu Fei still remembers that when he was a child, this hilltop was all orange orchards, owned by his uncle and his villagers. But now, looking around, most of the place is no longer filled with orange trees, many of them are planted with fir trees just like his uncle's house.

There are trees and pine trees, I don’t know which family they belong to, and they also planted a large bamboo forest.

"Uncle, how many oranges can you pick from the orange orchard this year? What is the price of oranges this year?" Wu Fei pulled the cart and walked step by step along the road up the mountain.

There are a few bamboo baskets placed on the cart, which is not heavy. However, this road is a dirt road with many potholes and is not easy to walk at all. I didn't feel it when I came up to play in the past, but now it is a bit difficult to pull a cart.

"The price of oranges is not very good. At the beginning, the good-looking ones cost one yuan or two. Now the best ones cost only one yuan per catty. But anyway, I don't have many oranges at home, so I plan to sell some that are not good-looking.

, the others will be put away and sold during the Chinese New Year.”

The uncle told Wu Fei that the purchase price of oranges is still the same as in previous years, and the price is not good.

"We should be able to pick more than 4,000 kilograms this year. More than half of it has already been picked. If we pick another day tomorrow, we will almost finish it. The main reason is that the variety of oranges is a little different now, and they are still planted more than ten years ago."

"Mandarin oranges, navel oranges, and sugar oranges are easier to sell now. I plan to wait for these trees to grow old in a year or two and then try different varieties."

"I plan to plant a batch of orange trees on my mountain next year, but I haven't decided what varieties to plant yet. But uncle, why are you doing so much? My cousin is about to graduate from college now."

Wu Fei couldn't help but said when he heard that his uncle wanted to change varieties for the orange orchard. His uncle has two children, one is a few years older than Wu Fei and has been married long ago. There is also a cousin Liu Tao who is half a year younger than Wu Fei.

This cousin is much better than Wu Fei. He has been studying since he was a child. He took the college entrance examination in the same year as Wu Fei.

Wu Fei did not get anything during the college entrance examination, but his cousin was admitted to the medical school of a key provincial university with high scores.

"No way, it's still too early to graduate. Their school requires seven years of study, and now it's only more than five years. To use your grandfather's words, people will become stupid after studying so many books for so long."

Hearing Wu Fei talk about his cousin Liu Tao, his uncle burst into laughter. He said to Wu Fei: "But now we don't need to pay for tuition at home. I heard that I can work with some tutors and get a lot of subsidies every month.

Now I often go to the hospital with my tutor, and I no longer study in school all the time."

"It takes so long to study. I thought my cousin had already graduated." This was the first time Wu Fei heard that Liu Tao needed seven years to study in college. His high school monitor also went to medical school and is now in the hospital.

Got to work.

The uncle said to Wu Fei: "Now that the family does not have to pay for the tuition, it has relieved a lot of pressure. Last time, I said that I would send money back to my family. But my family requires him to send money. Now I don't have any expenses. I have to pay it back every year."

You can sell something."

"But after graduation, if you work in a provincial capital, you will have to buy a house and a car there, and getting married will cost a lot of money."

"Uncle, don't worry. The salary of being a doctor is high now, so don't worry so much about Liu Tao. Don't you mean that you will have money before you graduate? When he graduates and officially works, he will

The annual salary will be enough to cover you for many years."

The orchard is halfway up the mountain behind the house, not far away, and it takes less than ten minutes to reach the field with a cart.

The orange orchard left now is not big, only about one acre in area. Next to the orange orchard is a large fir forest, which was the former big orange orchard. More than ten chestnut trees were planted in the orange orchard and the fir forest.

In the middle, the leaves on the chestnut tree have begun to turn yellow.

"Grandpa, grandma, let me pick oranges. You guys have a rest first." There are several bamboo baskets under the orange tree, with more than half of the boxes of oranges in them. Grandpa and grandma are standing under the tree with scissors.

There are oranges cut out from the bottom.

"Xiao Fei, you're here. What are you doing here? You can just watch TV at home. Grandma will go back and cook lunch for you. Just let your grandpa and uncle pick oranges here."

Grandma said happily when she saw Wu Fei coming over. Grandma has been very fond of Wu Fei since he was a child. When he was young, his grandma helped to take care of Wu Fei for a long time.

Wu Fei was very naughty when he was a child. He always liked to play around, and often led his cousin Liu Tao around to make mischief. He often made his clothes dirty at the end of the day. But even so, his grandmother never beat or scolded Wu Fei.

Fei and Liu Tao.

But then I went to high school, and I only came to see my grandpa and grandma during the Chinese New Year and during the summer vacation.

Later I went to work in Shenzhen, and rarely visited the two elderly people once a year. Wu Fei was a person who didn't like to call home, so he rarely called his grandparents. Every time the two elderly people celebrated their birthdays, they would

Only after my mother reminded me did I know to make a phone call to the two old people.

Every time I talked on the phone, I was always concerned about whether Wu Fei had eaten well outside, whether he was tired from work, and he had to take care of his health.

Every time after making a phone call, Wu Fei had a very sad feeling. He felt that he was of no use at all and could not spend more time with the old man and see him more.

Many times, although I thought about doing something for my grandparents, when things came to pass, I always did nothing.

Wu Fei's family is passed down from three generations, and the fifth grandfather who is now close to him is about to release the fifth server. The grandparents in the family passed away when Wu Fei was young.

So my grandparents were just like their grandparents. When their parents were busy when they were young, they would leave Wu Fei and his sister at her grandmother's house. Sometimes they would stay there for ten and a half months. The longest time was that Wu Fei stayed at her grandmother's house.

More than half a year.
Chapter completed!