Chapter 167: Osmanthus Fragrant Pumpkin Pie Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
Chapter 167: Sweet Osmanthus, Pumpkin Pie, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
There is a special scenery in the countryside in August, and this scenery is most obvious during the Mid-Autumn Festival. k First update. It’s just that you may not be able to tell what’s special about this scenery just by looking at it with your eyes. You have to smell it with your nose.
The osmanthus flowers are blooming, and the fragrance spreads ten miles away.
This old saying is a bit exaggerated, but as long as there is an osmanthus tree in full bloom, it is true that everything nearby is fragrant.
There are many sweet-scented osmanthus trees in Xiaotai'er Village. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rice-sized, beige-yellow flowers bloom to their peak. Overnight, the whole village is immersed in the strong fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.
This is not only a scenery, but also the rich atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival in the countryside.
When everyone woke up on the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they were immediately intoxicated by the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.
Even Fang Rui was a little lost in this long-lost fragrance and smell.
Yaya Nini, who was on a long vacation, was so excited that she clapped her little palms, ran to the osmanthus tree at Grandma Wang’s house next door, broke off several osmanthus branches, and when she got home, she was so excited that she smelled it and gave it to her.
The one who sniffed and said, "Smells, smells".
Fang Rui looked at the two crazy girls who were overjoyed and asked Yaya for a flower.
"Come, little daddy, give it to you... I will give you a flower, and the affection will increase..." Yaya gave a branch of osmanthus to Fang Rui's hand, jumped into his arms playfully, and gave him a pop on the face.
"I'll give you one too, little daddy." Not to be outdone, Nini gave Fang Rui a sprig of osmanthus. She also stepped forward, hugged Fang Rui's arm, and kissed her.
The two crisp sounds made everyone envious and jealous.
Lao Bian said with a flattering smile, "Yaya Nini, don't you give branches to uncle?"
"If you want flowers, pick them yourself!" The two girls didn't want to throw him away.
Lao Bian was bored and didn't say anything. The other girls asked the girls for flowers, but they didn't get them. Even Zheng Zhiqing and Xu Lijiao didn't get them.
"Okay, Yaya Nini, go get your schoolbags." Fang Rui said, touching the girl's head.
"Little dad, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and tomorrow is the National Day. The school has a total of eight days off. I don't have to rush to do this homework." Yaya Nini pouted her little mouth and said aggrievedly.
"Who said I need you to do your homework? Go and get your schoolbag." Fang Rui said with a smile.
When Yaya Nini refused to do her homework, she quickly went to get her schoolbag. Fang Rui took out a Chinese book from Nini's schoolbag, opened a page, picked a few small sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, put them in, and turned the pages again.
Open a few pages and put a few osmanthus flowers.
"Why did my little dad put the flowers in the book?" Nini asked in confusion.
"This will make the books fragrant. When you read and write in the future, you will feel energetic and will not doze off." Fang Rui said.
Putting sweet-scented osmanthus or other petals in books was very popular when Fang Rui was in primary school or even junior high school. When the sweet-scented osmanthus is stuck in a book, although the flower has withered, the fragrance can be retained for a long time.
It refreshes people and makes people feel that the beautiful scenery of the Mid-Autumn Osmanthus blooming is right in front of them, which is quite interesting.
When Yaya Nini heard this, she ran to Grandma Wang's house and folded a large handful of sweet-scented osmanthus branches, filling each book with them.
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After breakfast in the morning, everyone continued to make pumpkin pie.
Yesterday afternoon, I originally made a lot of pumpkins, but because the pumpkins were made from free space, and my mother’s skills were top-notch, the various fillings were mixed properly, and the cakes were so delicious that they were eaten by a group of foodies headed by Lao Bian.
There was not a single thing left to eat.
This pumpkin pie is difficult to make but easy to say, but it is difficult to make it taste great.
First, select a ripe and juicy pumpkin, wash it, peel off the skin and remove the seeds. Don’t throw away the pumpkin seeds here, wash them out of the flesh, dry them in the sun with a bamboo sieve, and then stir-fry them in a pot and they will be fragrant.
The pumpkin seeds cost twenty or thirty yuan per pound, and they are much more delicious than sunflower seeds...
After the pumpkin is clean, cut it into thin slices, steam it in a pot over water for about ten minutes, and take it out when it is almost cooked. While the pumpkin is hot, mash the pumpkin segments into pumpkin puree with a spatula or rice spoon.
, add glutinous rice flour. There is a small amount of glutinous rice flour here, as long as the dough does not stick to your hands.
Then add a certain amount of sugar, which will make the taste sweeter and more exciting. However, Fang Rui's pumpkin comes from space and has a high and pure sugar content. Adding sugar is simply superfluous.
After kneading the pumpkin puree, glutinous rice flour and sugar into a dough, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil, knead the dough for a while, then cover it with a layer of plastic wrap and let it ferment naturally for about a quarter of an hour. The dough is now ready.
The next step is to make the cake.
Take an egg-sized piece of dough from the large dough, roll it into a round shape and press it into a flat shape, then add appropriate amounts of various fillings. This filling can be prepared according to taste, including meat fillings, vegetarian fillings, sugar fillings, etc. One taste will taste good
It's easy to get tired of the taste, so Yu Yinghong mixed various fillings.
After the pumpkin cake is ready, you can dip some white sesame seeds on both sides to make it more fragrant.
Now the pumpkin pie is ready, and then it’s time to fry the pumpkin pie.
It is best to use a frying pan for pancakes. Pour a little oil into it. After it is hot, put the pancakes in. Don't use too much heat, as it will easily burn the outside. Just use medium and low heat. Fry the pumpkin pancakes slowly until
When golden, take it out and let it cool before eating.
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Today, the main battlefield of making pumpkin pie has been moved to the main room. Pots, buckets, etc. take up a lot of space. The main room is spacious and easy to use your hands and feet. Of course, you still have to go to the kitchen for cooking, frying, etc.
Making pumpkin pie today is also a public outing.
But when it comes to saying that everyone is going into battle, there are quite a few Mr. Nan Guo who are pretending.
Like Lao Bian, Lao Yang, Lao Zheng, these three old comrades all rolled up their sleeves and touched here and there. They did nothing real, but their hands were covered with snow-white glutinous rice flour...
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By the way, why don't they continue the hegemony of Chu and Han and fight on the chessboard, just so that when they eat later, they won't be looked down upon and talked about in vain like last night, and they can eat legitimately and confidently... What,
I ate too fast. Did I eat too much? You’re not mistaken. I put in a lot of effort. Shouldn’t I eat two more!
Yaya Nini is also wearing a small bib, and like two hard-working little bees, one person is kneading a small piece of dough.
"Uncle Fatty, go away, you're in the way here... I just know how to eat and don't know how to do anything. It's annoying to look at you!" Yaya rolled her eyes at the No. 1 soy sauce old boy who came over. Her words were too much.
It was so shocking that Lao Bian almost choked on his saliva. In order to avoid being pursued, he quickly stepped aside.
"Dad, Uncle Yang, you are so annoying. I took so much effort to knead the round dough balls, and you made them look like this... Go away and play... Huh, I won't feed you later!"
"Nini put her hands on her waist and yelled at Zheng Zhiqing and Yang Zhicheng who had their hands in the basin in front of them. Old Zheng and Old Yang were so sweaty that they were taught to look down upon by a girl!
The entire pumpkin pie making scene was harmonious and joyful. With the addition of Fang Zhengping, a master, the speed was much faster. Soon Yu Yinghong was carrying the finished pumpkin pie into the kitchen to fry it.
Lao Bian was very jealous. He looked left and right and saw that everyone was busy with what they were doing. He ducked into the kitchen. What were they doing? He must be enjoying the freshly baked pumpkin pie all to himself.
Have you gone? Lao Yang and Lao Zheng looked at the thief with hot eyes. If he hadn't been too old to do so, he would have followed him in.
"Ouch!" A scream came from the kitchen!
"Xiao Gang, this pancake has just been fried and taken out. It's hot. How can it be eaten...are you burnt?"….
"It's okay, it's okay... What are you doing, kidnapping... Be gentle, it hurts..."
A group of women's soldiers rushed into the kitchen, brandishing knives, pots and spatulas, and ferociously pulled out the thief.
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With the joint efforts of everyone, a total of four to five hundred cakes were made in the morning, but nearly half of them were consumed on the spot. After making the pumpkin cakes, my parents went to prepare lunch.
"Uncle, aunt, don't do anything with my food."
Lao Bian burped and said, he didn't make a single cake all morning, but he ate twenty or thirty.
"I won't eat at lunch, just to digest it."
Lao Yang and Lao Zheng said a little shyly. Although the two of them didn't eat as much as Lao Bian, they were almost the same.
"Auntie, I'm full too..."
"..."
Everyone expressed that their stomachs were full.
"Mom, why don't we make lunch? If anyone is hungry, just have a pancake." Fang Rui said.
"Okay, let's not do it anymore. Let's prepare a big table tonight... By the way, Ruizi, give mom your cell phone and she'll make a call." Yu Yinghong said with a smile.
"Mom, I will buy a mobile phone for you and dad tomorrow... You are going to call your uncle and the others." Fang Rui took out the mobile phone and said to his mother.
"Well, I haven't contacted them for more than half a year, and I don't know how the three of them are doing. I don't know where they celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival. Are the three brothers together..." Yu Yinghong showed a little sadness on her face,
Then he said to Fang Zhengping, "Old Fang, why don't we ask the three of them to come to our house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Just tell me, if they want to come, they can come. Don't ask if they don't want to come. Our family's current situation, hum, is not necessarily much worse than theirs..." Fang Zhengping said a little coldly and a little proudly,
It's not that Fang Zhengping is cold-blooded, but that his three brothers-in-law are too realistic and snobbish. To put it bluntly, they are the three villains. Fang Zhengping doesn't want to associate with them at all. He is just asking for trouble.
"Xiao Rui, what do you think?" Yu Yinghong asked her son when she saw that her husband was not very willing. Although the three younger brothers had never asked, cared about or cared about their sister in the mountains, they were still their biological brothers.
This kind of blood connection cannot be given up no matter what.
"Just like what Dad said, you give me an invitation. If you want to come, come. If you don't want to come, don't force yourself." Fang Rui said lightly. They all said that my mother-in-law is the eldest uncle, but for these three uncles, Fang Rui only had a few.
A blurry face. As for those aunts, cousins, etc., I don’t even recognize them.
Yu Yinghong went out to make a phone call, and soon returned to the main room.
"How do you say that?" Fang Zhengping asked.
"The second child said he was busy, the third child said he had no time, and the fourth child said the family was traveling abroad." Yu Yinghong said with a bitter smile.
"That's okay, don't let them affect our mood... That Ruizi, what's the show this afternoon..." Fang Zhengping asked Fang Ruidao.
"Haha, the program has not been arranged yet, let me ask first... Brother Yang, Brother Zhiqing, and all my sisters and sisters, where do you want to go and what do you want to play this afternoon?" It was rare for my father to take the initiative to ask him what program he had.
Fang Rui couldn't help but laugh a little.
While everyone was thinking about where to go, Yaya Nini said, "We are going fishing, to catch bagel."
"Then let's go fishing. I haven't gone fishing for a while." Everyone agreed, including several female generals, including Murong Qian, whose abdomen became more and more erect.
"Then I'll dig up earthworms. Brother Yang, you guys prepare the fishing rods and buckets." After Fang Rui finished speaking, he went to the yard to carry a hoe and went out. As soon as he left the hospital, he ran into the village party secretary Liu Fumin and the village chief Fan Mu'an coming from there.
Come over here.
"Xiao Rui, this is the Mid-Autumn Festival, why are you digging in the ground... Well, you are a good young man, he knows that hard work can make you rich." Liu Fumin joked about Fang Rui...
"Xiao Rui is good, he is a good example worth learning from." Fan Mu'an also teased Fang Rui.
"Two adults, what's the reason for this visit during the Mid-Autumn Festival? The village brought mooncakes, hey, I just didn't buy them." Fang Rui asked with a smile without being annoyed.
"Sending mooncakes, you kid is so sweet. Who else would I like to give them to, old man? Hey... that's fine, it's nothing. Just invite your parents, your mom and you kid to come to our house to have some together at noon.
Let's have dinner." Liu Fumin said, "By the way, Lao Fan and his family are coming too."
"Well, I won't go. A group of people are going fishing... Go call my parents and ask them if they are going... I went to dig earthworms for nothing..." Fang Rui didn't pretend to be polite.
, said that he carried the hoe and went to the house.
"This boy... It seems to Lao Fan that we don't have enough dignity to even invite this boy." Liu Fumin laughed at himself and walked to Fang Rui's house. Before he even entered the door, he shouted, "Old Fang, Lao Fang...
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"Hey, Brother Fumin brother Mu'an is here. Sit in the room... Yinghong, get some tea quickly." Fang Zhengping saw the village party secretary, the village elder, and two adults coming to the door together during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They were busy.
He went over to greet him, took out his cigarette and saluted him.
"Old Fang, congratulations." Liu Fumin and Fan Mu'an took the cigarette with both hands and bowed to Fang Zhengping with clasped fists.
"What's so congratulatory? Come on, come on, sit around." Fang Zhengping said modestly, but he was proud in his heart.
"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's a traditional festival. Isn't it worthy of congratulations... There are still eight acres of land to build a house. Who has such a big deal in Pingyang?" Liu Fumin said.
"It is said that there are eight acres of land, but in fact, it is only that few acres of land to build a house. The rest is not just to build a pool, a piece of land, orchards, etc., Xiao Rui is just messing around... and
, these eight acres of land are thanks to the care of two of you, where else could we get such a large piece of land." Fang Zhengping said.
"What are you taking care of? Your Xiao Rui has just taken care of the village. How much glory did he bring to the village last time when the bridge collapsed... He alone contributed half of the money for the construction of the primary school in the village, which was five to six million yuan. How heroic is this?
Ah...and it was his connection when it came to the approval process...and last time the environment in the village was polluted and damaged by people from outside. It was he who called people from the city TV station and two senior officials.
...Old Fang, for giving birth to such an awesome son, to use a modern buzzword, we are envious, jealous, and hateful of you..." Liu Fumin said.
"Hehe, you're just messing around, just don't cause any trouble to the village..." Fang Zhengping grinned, not to mention how proud he felt. Just as Yu Yinghong made tea and brought a plate of pumpkin cakes over, Fang Zhengping reached out and made the invitation.
He gestured, "Come, have some tea, and this pumpkin cake, freshly fried."
"Hey, this pumpkin pancake is cooked well, it's golden... Xiao Rui's mother is very good at cooking." Liu Fumin was not polite when eating at Fang Rui's house. As soon as the plate was put down, he took one before eating.
After taking one bite, he started swearing, "Damn, the taste of this cake is amazing!"
Fan Mu'an also took one and was full of praise when he tasted it.
"If it's delicious, eat more. It's fried a lot." Fang Zhengping said.
"That's necessary." Liu Fumin smacked his lips and said unceremoniously.
While chatting and drinking tea, the two of them soon finished a plate of more than a dozen pumpkin cakes. Yu Yinghong went to get another plate, and the two of them had another meal. After almost eating, Liu Fumin said,
"Lao Fang hasn't cooked lunch yet."
"It hasn't been cooked yet? You've all eaten it." Old Bian, who was tinkering with a small fishing pole next to him, looked at the two village adults who were eating deliciously and said a little angrily.
"No, Lao Fang, this is your lunch... It's okay, it's just right. Let's go to our house to eat at noon." Liu Fumin said without blushing at all...
Fang Zhengping was about to speak when Lao Bian chuckled and said, "Okay, there are more than a dozen of us here. Party Secretary, you have to make enough food so that the guests don't have enough to eat."
"This... this is good, I'll keep you fed." Liu Fumin wiped his sweat and said. Of course he knew a lot of friends in Fang Rui's family, but he also thought that all those who were older than the Mid-Autumn Festival had gone home.
Well, I didn't expect that they would all spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at Fang Rui's house... He didn't make plans for so many people at lunch. If so many people went together, it would probably be embarrassing.
Lao Bian looked at Liu Fumin's nervous look and laughed.
Fang Zhengping also saw sweat on his forehead and guessed that he must not have made so many plans, so he smiled and said, "Okay, Fumin brother Xiaogang is just teasing you. Didn't we make pumpkin cakes just now?
We’re full, so we won’t make lunch for lunch, we’re getting ready to go fishing.”
"Well, Lao Fang, don't join in the fun of fishing with Xiao Rui. Come to our house for a drink at noon... Let me tell you, yesterday I specially baked a jar of good sorghum wine. It only weighed five or six kilograms. So,
The taste is so good..." Liu Fumin said proudly.
"There's good wine, so I have to go." When Fang Zhengping heard that there was good quality wine, his index finger moved. He originally wanted to politely refuse, but he agreed without thinking.
"Okay, the time is not much different now. My husband and my daughter have been busy cooking food all morning... I will go to our house now." Liu Fumin looked at the old-fashioned mechanical watch on his wrist and said.
"Brother Fumin is so thoughtful, let's go then... Yinghong, let's go to Brother Fumin's house for lunch..." It can be seen that Liu Fumin is sincere, and Fang Zhengping certainly knows that most of them are doing it for their son's face.
, but the son’s face is my father’s face. Is the father more valuable than the son? He didn’t show any pretense and shouted to Yu Yinghong.
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Mom and dad went to Liu Fumin's house.
Fang Rui hung up General Iron on the gate, and a group of people carried fishing gear and buckets, and led the monster Xiaoye Xiaorou to the riverside to kill them.
Today is the first day of the long holiday, and there are many more tourists in Xiaotai'er Village than usual. The majestic bird monster appeared on the main road in the village for the first time, frightening a large number of tourists. But Ono Xiaorou
The two little wolves were ignored because they were thought to be puppy dogs.
"Uh-huh, what kind of bird is this? Is it so big?"
"Such a big bird should be an eagle or an eagle!"
"Wow, this eagle is so majestic. It can compete with the Yang Guo eagle among the divine eagles. How majestic it would be if I had one. I would let it carry me up to the sky and travel through space...
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Tourists gathered around to watch the little monster, marveling at it, admiring it, and even those who had sex started to have sexual intercourse on the spot.
"Handsome guy, this sculpture is yours, can you take a photo with it?" A young girl looked at the little monster, then looked at Fang Rui, who looked like a jade tree in the wind beside her, and her eyes were suddenly filled with peach blossoms and stars.
Fang Ruiben was just worried that everyone had gone out and the little monster was alone at home, so he took it out. He forgot that it was a strange existence. Wherever it appeared, it was bound to cause onlookers and a sensation. Watching the people gathered in a circle.
The tourist in the Western View looked at the little girl who was talking to him again, and Fang Rui frowned.
"Handsome guy, it's just a photo taken together, it doesn't matter." Seeing Fang Rui's lack of response, the little girl smiled sweetly.
"Okay, you ask it to see if it is willing." Fang Rui smiled faintly and said, it's a joke, you guys just took a photo together because you thought our little monster was a plaything.
"How do you ask this?" The little girl blinked her eyelashes covered with eyeshadow and said pitifully.
"Don't ask me, ask it!" Fang Rui pointed at the little monster.
Seeing that Fang Rui didn't help her, the little girl was at her wits' end and tried to talk to the little monster. As a result, the little monster's eyes bulged, and when he poked his neck, he pecked him with his sharp beak. The little girl was so frightened that he said "Mom!"
The peach blossom stars were instantly blown away by the wind, and they turned around and ran away quickly. Several people nearby who also wanted to take photos with the monster stopped thinking when they saw how ferocious the monster was...
The little monster had not finished scaring away the little girl. It was very unhappy to be watched by people. The divine bird stood up the feathers on its neck and roared loudly at the onlookers. Seeing that the onlookers were not impressed by its majesty.
Frightened, the little monster flapped its wings and rushed towards the crowd.
Seeing the menacing and murderous monster, everyone was so frightened that they dispersed like birds and beasts.
The little monster screamed "Woo-Gah-Gah" again and again, and flapped its wings in an air of grandeur.
"Little monster, you can only scare others, don't hurt them!" Fang Rui grabbed the sacred bird by the neck and lectured.
"Woo ga, woo ga..." The little monster nodded his head spiritually and puffed out his chest proudly.
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Everyone came to the edge of Hewanzi. In the area under the willow trees in the highway parking lot, many people were fishing. There were also many tourists watching and taking photos. They were all dressed in uniforms and wearing red armbands.
, wandering back and forth in high spirits.
An old lady's eyes lit up when she saw Fang Rui and the others coming with fishing gear, and she shouted from afar, "Hey, fishers come here to register and pay first."
When Fang Rui saw that it was Mrs. Wang, she walked over with a smile and said, "Grandma Wang, how much do you have to pay for fishing?"
"Hey, Xiao Rui, it's you, you little brat, you're teasing your Second Grandma." Second Grandma Wang saw it was Fang Rui and laughed and cursed.
"Haha, you also joined the village security team!" Fang Rui said with a smile.
"Of course, it's much better than feeding chickens and pigs... Not counting the one thousand yuan salary in the village, your second grandmother and I can earn twenty or thirty yuan a day, and if we're lucky, we can earn fifty or sixty yuan... You
Look at the fines received today!" Second Grandma Wang raised a stack of colorful notes in her hand and said, "Xiao Rui, I heard that you proposed the establishment of this village's environmental protection team, and Second Grandma asked for your blessing.
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"Looking at what your old man said, it's thanks to your village that we have such a clean environment... By the way, have your little flowers and the others come back?" Fang Rui asked.
The smile on Mrs. Wang's face disappeared immediately, and she sighed, "Oh, I'm still back, it's too late to hide."
Fang Rui frowned and said, "What's going on?"
Second Grandma Wang said, "Those people in the town are watching her, saying she is seriously overweight."
Fang Rui said, "Aren't the children we had in the middle all given away to others? How can we count them as superbirths?"
Second Grandma Wang wiped the moist corners of her eyes, "Originally it was fine, but Xiaohua's father offended a big boss in the town, and she became a super-born child... Those damned people in the town cover the sky with one hand."
Fang Rui said, "Then can you contact Xiaohua's parents?"
Second Grandma Wang said, "My phone has been turned off a long time ago and I don't know where I'm hiding in a corner. How can I contact her?"
"It'll be fine if you hide. Once you give birth outside, the people in the town won't dare to do anything." Fang Rui laughed bitterly. He originally wanted to help solve this matter, but now no one can contact him.
There's definitely nothing we can do about it.
"It can't just be like this, alas." Second Grandma Wang sighed heavily.
"Um, when will Da Shuan come back?" Fang Rui changed the subject.
"I don't know. I called you right after I went out for the Chinese New Year. You are so heartless." Second Grandma Wang scolded her again.
"Well... Grandma Wang, you came to our house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the evening and made a lot of pumpkin cakes." Fang Rui knew that the old man lived alone in the old house and was lonely. He must have a lot of things to say in his heart. Fang Rui
But I didn't dare to listen to the old man complaining. His ears were still calloused, so he quickly changed the subject again.
"Well..." Grandma Wang nodded, but her voice was choked.
"Look, the guy with yellow hair over there from the Second Mistress is throwing garbage..." Fang Rui felt a little sad and couldn't bear to look at the old man's face anymore. He happened to see someone over there throwing melon seed shells as if no one was watching. Fang Rui pointed at it.
road.
"Where is he? I'll arrest him! How dare you openly destroy the environment in broad daylight? Punish him to death!" When Mrs. Wang heard someone throwing garbage, her eyes immediately lit up, and she walked away sadly and followed Fang Rui's fingers.
When she saw the man throwing garbage, Mrs. Wang immediately rushed towards him like a fighter jet.
The old man is such a super activist, which makes Fang Rui and the others find it funny.
(Laojiu wishes brothers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and happy every day...)
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