"Mom, you go back first. Dad, me, and Xiao Fei will come and pick them. Xiao Fei has brought a lot of fish. You go ask Caixia to kill the fish and see how to do it."

My uncle told my grandmother that Caixia was my aunt's name. My grandpa and grandma ate with my uncle's family, and my grandpa was my uncle's son.

Wu Fei's mother is the eldest, and there is a younger sister under Wu Fei's mother. She was originally married in a town not far away, but later immigrated to the Kurdistan Region and usually came back during the Chinese New Year.

Speaking of which, Wu Fei hasn’t seen his aunt and uncle for a long time. When he was a child, Wu Fei especially liked to go to his aunt’s house in the town because there were delicious snacks in the town. Every time Wu Fei and his cousin

When Liu Tao used to go there, his uncle would buy a lot of snacks for the two of them.

My uncle is the youngest in the family. Speaking of which, Wu Fei and his family are all one boy and one girl. My aunt also gave birth to a son and a daughter, but both of them are younger than Wu Fei.

"Xiao Fei, come and help grandpa pick the oranges on the top of the tree. You young people should be better at climbing trees." Grandpa pointed to the oranges on the top of the tree and said to Wu Fei.

In fact, orange trees are not very tall, most of them are only a little over two meters. The oranges on the top can be picked by stretching out the branches and pulling them down.

However, my grandfather is now over seventy years old, and the straight back in his memory has slowly become curved, and all his hair has turned white.

The orange trees at my uncle's house are more than ten years old, and now is the peak fruiting period.

Generally, orange trees will begin to bear fruit after three to four years of planting, and will officially enter the fruit-rich period after five years.

The fruit-bearing age of most orange trees is as long as 40-50 years. However, the orange trees at my uncle's house should have been cultivated through dwarfing and dense planting. Although they can bear fruit in advance and enter the fruit-rich period in advance, the fruit-bearing life of the orange trees is correspondingly longer.

will be shortened.

"Xiao Fei, put on gloves before picking oranges." Grandpa handed Wu Fei a pair of gloves and a pair of round-head fruit scissors specially used to cut oranges.

When picking oranges, in order to prevent damage to the orange skin, you generally need to wear cotton gauze gloves and use round-head scissors to cut off the fruit together with the stem.

Then cut the fruit base flat, and handle the fruit gently when putting it down. When picking, it is best to pick the fruits in the order from outside to inside, and from top to bottom.

However, the order of picking is generally to pick whatever is easy to pick first, or to pick the best ones first.

Another thing is that the inner wall of the container where the fruit is placed must be smooth. However, in rural areas, bamboo baskets are often used. Usually, a snakeskin bag is placed inside the bamboo basket to prevent the bamboo basket from scratching the fruit skin.

The oranges are almost ripe now. Looking at the orchard from a distance, all the oranges hanging on the trees are golden.

However, if you look closely, you can see that there is still a bit of green on the oranges. In fact, this is the most suitable time for picking oranges. If all the oranges turn yellow, the peels of the oranges will be very soft and easy to break.

And the oranges picked at that time were not storage-resistant, so they were picked when they were not completely yellow, and then underwent antiseptic treatment to preserve them for a long time.

When Wu Fei came up, almost half a frame of oranges had been picked from the bamboo basket under the tree. All the oranges at the lower part of the orange tree had been picked by his grandparents, and now only the oranges high up on the tree were left.

Didn't take it off.

Orange trees are generally about three meters high. The orange trees in his uncle's orchard are probably dwarfed saplings, and their height is usually a little over two meters. Even if there are oranges on the top of the tree, Wu Fei can reach out and grab the branches.

Grasp the oranges on the branches with your hands, and use scissors to cut off the oranges together with the fruit stems. The lengths of the cut fruit stems vary. At this time, you need to cut the fruit stems flat along the peel. In this way, you will not let them fall apart.

Oranges punctured together.

Oranges with pricked skin cannot be stored and will rot quickly. And if one orange in a basket of oranges rots, the oranges close to it will also rot. Therefore, you must pay special attention when storing oranges for a long time.

Pick out the rotten oranges.

Wu Fei has not picked oranges for many years. The last time he helped his uncle pick oranges was when he was in high school. The school was on monthly vacation. When Wu Fei came to see his grandparents, he happened to pick oranges for a day.

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At that time, the orange orchards were much larger than now, and it would take many days to pick all the oranges. Now the orange orchards were only about one acre, and even if they picked slowly, it would only take three people to pick them.

Later, after graduating from high school, I went out to work and never came back to help pick oranges.

On an orange tree, there are generally not many oranges at the top of the tree, but the weight of a single orange is a little larger.

Wu Fei pulled down the oranges from the top of the tree and cut them all in three strokes. The main reason was that pruning the fruit stalks took more time.

Unlike grandpa, two scissors are enough to cut one orange. Even though grandpa is over seventy years old, he picks more oranges than Wu Fei. Wu Fei only cut two, and grandpa has already finished cutting all three.

"Xiao Fei, don't put the basket too full. It won't be easy to pull the cart when you go downhill." Wu Fei soon added a lot to the half-filled bamboo basket. When he saw Wu Fei, he

A box was almost full, and grandpa quickly stopped Wu Fei from putting any more oranges into the box.

"You and your uncle will pull these picked oranges back first. By the time you finish pulling them, it will be almost time for lunch." Looking at the many picked oranges placed under the tree, grandpa said to Wu Fei.

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A large half basket of oranges only weighs about fifty kilograms, and Wu Fei can lift it on the cart alone. However, the cart is not big, and it cannot fit four or five baskets on it.

Wu Fei thought it was easy to go downhill, so his uncle originally asked Wu Fei to pull the cart from behind, while he pulled it in front. But Wu Fei wanted to try it by himself, so he asked Wu Fei to pull it in front.

As soon as the cart was pulled up, Wu Fei was jumped. Before he even pushed forward, the cart moved forward on its own. If his uncle hadn't been pulling him from behind, Wu Fei would have almost been pushed down.

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"Xiao Fei, when you go down, don't pull too hard forward. Just carry it a little. You can lean back a little, but don't pull too hard forward." The uncle who was pulling the cart behind said to Wu Fei.

"On the way down, it says to pull hard. It means to push hard and don't let the cart run down by itself." Although the slope of the way down is not very steep, Wu Fei doesn't need to pull hard in front of the cart. It does.

Be careful not to drive the car too fast, otherwise the speed will increase and the brakes will not be able to stop it, because this bus does not have a braking device at all, and it is completely up to Wu Fei to hold up the car from behind, and his uncle is pulling from behind.
Chapter completed!