"You know what you're doing, and tell your child that even if you eat by yourself, you can't eat too much. People have lost weight, so we can't be too conspicuous."
"Yes, I understand. Just now Chunhua told me about that girl Yuanyuan, but I don't know how she is doing now? Daqiang and her are not from the same city, and they don't know any news about her."
"Don't worry, that girl is keeping her safe. Nothing will happen to her."
Xu Chunjiao sighed, "I hope, I just hope that girl can be well."
Zhao Tian's family is worried together. There are still several hundred kilograms of corn at home, but with so many people in the family, this cannot last long. It is simply impossible to count on the canteen.
"By the way, Dad, Yuanyuan once told me that she planted a lot of Japanese melon vines on the mountain. Although she didn't plant them this year, they should sprout on their own, right? Let's go up the mountain and have a look?"
"Going up the mountain?" Zhao Tian frowned. His old uncle just went up the mountain and never came back.
"That girl really said that?"
"Yes, she told me that when she gave me the Japanese melon. Brother, let's go there tomorrow?"
"Okay, let's go together. It's safer this way."
Zhao Tian sighed and said, go ahead, as a family, it is safer in large numbers.
"Master, don't go. You have to go to work tomorrow," Han Lixia said.
"Dad, Mom, don't go. Just the five of us will do. I will keep an eye on them." said the boss, Zhao Qingxiang.
"That's right, you all shouldn't go. Otherwise there's nothing you can do if people ask." Zhao Yanping also said.
The couple was worried about having five children going up the mountain, but they were right.
"Dad, if there are really Japanese melons on the mountain, you can't tell my uncle's family." Zhao Yanli answered quickly. In fact, she really didn't want her parents to come along.
Zhao Tian looked at the five children staring at him and nodded helplessly.
Now the children breathed a sigh of relief, as they were afraid that their father would give the family's food to their uncle's family.
Before dawn the next day, five children went up the mountain with Han Lixia's steamed vegetable buns. Each of them carried a basket. One of them also carried two bags. There was no harvest, but these were not heavy. If they came across something good,
.The worst part is not being able to get it back.
The five of them deliberately avoided the door of Su Yuanyuan's house.
Only when we reached the mountain road did we relax. "Brother, I think we should turn to the road up the mountain from Su Yuanyuan's house. She must have taken that road when she was growing Japanese melons on the mountain."
"Yes, I think Xiaoli is right, let's go that way."
In fact, Su Yuanyuan really threw away a lot of Japanese melon seeds. Last year, a lot of Japanese melon seeds were picked up on the mountain. Some of them were eaten by the livestock on the mountain, but the Japanese melon seeds were also spread to many places.
The five brothers and sisters had been walking for more than an hour when Zhao Qingxiang discovered Japanese melons. This was a patch of Japanese melon seedlings, but because of the drought, the Japanese melon seedlings were not lush. There were more than ten Japanese melons, but they were not big.
This was a surprise to the five brothers and sisters. Zhao Qingxiang grabbed a few of them, then found a branch and patted it a few times. There were no animals. Now the five of them hurried over and picked them off, a total of eighteen.
The five people were dressed separately. The eldest, second, and third each carried an extra one.
Now I feel energetic and not tired anymore. I continue walking upward.
After walking not far, I found another area, with more Japanese melons here.
"Brother, let's take them all off and send them back, and put them directly in the cellar."
Their family also dug a cellar, which was not big, just inside the house of the two boys. This is what Su Yuanyuan accidentally told Zhao Yanli.
"Dad won't go over to see it. How about we leave a few outside. If we don't tell him these things first, it will save him the money. He feels that there is too much food at home and is soft-hearted. What should I do if I leave it to my uncle's family?" Zhao Yanli is the most petty, really.
I really hate my uncle's family.
The other four nodded. Now each of them had their baskets filled and their bags filled. Each of the two boys carried a basket with three bags on it, and the rest of the bags were also filled.
"Let's go back now. What if someone sees us?"
Zhao Yanli thought for a while, "Then carry it to the place where we usually pick wild vegetables, and I'll go back and have a look?"
Zhao Qingxiang shook his head, "There are too many people there. Let's go to the place where we picked Japanese melons for the first time. There won't be any danger there. Xiaojing and Xiaoli will stay, and the three of us will continue to go up the mountain to look for them, and then go home at night.
back."
The younger brothers and sisters were all obedient, so the five of them went down. They put down all the Japanese melons, covered them with Japanese melon seedlings, and told the two younger ones to be honest.
"Brother, let's leave one person behind. The remaining person is carrying two Japanese melons with firewood on his back. He can carry them home faster." Zhao Yanli's head turned quickly. She immediately came up with a solution.
Zhao Qingxiang shook his head, "No. We don't worry about leaving one person behind. You two just stay here."
Just like this, the two little girls were picking up pine cones. They couldn't stay idle anyway.
Zhao Qingxiang and the three of them continued up the mountain. This time they walked a long way until they reached the halfway point of the mountain. This was the place where Su Yuanyuan hunted wild boars for the first time. Here she spread a lot of Japanese melon seeds.
When the three people saw this large area of Japanese melons, they all had surprised smiles on their faces.
Not caring about anything else, the two boys still had one basket and two bags. Zhao Yanping carried one basket and one bag down the mountain.
The three of them carried it five times before they could carry it all.
It is already past three o'clock in the afternoon. But they don't know the time.
They sat down and rested, "You two continue to stay here, and the three of us will go down with the baskets on our backs. We will come back up later."
"Brother, it's time to get off work, right? There are too many people at this time. It will be troublesome if we are bumped into by then. Do we have to suffer in vain and have to return to work?" Zhao Yanli doesn't want this the most. Now this Japanese melon
It belongs to their family, how could they let others take it away?
"Brother, if we can wait until dark, or wait until it's time to eat in the cafeteria, it will be much safer for us to go down."
"It's better not to give it up. Let's wait until dark."
They couldn't bear to part with it, after all, they had memorized it.
The three of them rested for a while, but couldn't stop themselves and got up to pick up pine cones and branches.
"Xiao Li, when you come down the mountain, you will probably finish work soon. Tell your parents so that they don't worry."
Zhao Yanli nodded and carried the pine contamination down the mountain. However, she was cautious and was afraid of running into others. If others saw the pine contamination going up the mountain, they would be suspicious of the Japanese family.
She was lucky. She didn't meet anyone along the way.
When she got home, her parents had not yet left work, so she dried the pine cone in the yard.
