On the mulberry trees that passed by the pit, all the ripe fruits had been picked clean. Not to mention the bright red ones, there were not many half-red fruits left.
Tian Minyan sat down on the ground with a slumped face, pursed her lips tightly, and looked at the bare mulberry tree in a daze.
Tian Minrui also bit his lip, very angry, and turned to ask his younger brother: "Xiao Wu, did you let anyone know?"
They waited day and night for these fruits to ripen, thinking that there would be a small amount of income. They came here happily today, but they did not expect that it would be like this.
No one has ever touched these fruit trees, and no one knows that the fruits are edible. Only a few of them know, so why are they suddenly gone?
Tian Minrui is twelve years old after all, and he knows what is good, let alone Tian Minyan, who is a little money-crazy and scheming, and will never tell others about the effects of these fruits.
The only possibility is that Xiaowu accidentally spilled the beans while playing with his friends.
Xiao Wu was startled by his brother's stern look, his eye circles were red, he frowned in grievance, lowered his head and said, "No, I didn't, not even to my dearest Erdanzi." As he said that, he burst into tears.
Big drops fell.
Erdanzi is the younger brother of his neighbor Yan Yin, and among the many friends in the village, he plays best with him. Erdanzi always shares good things with him. Xiaowu once felt depressed about his selfishness.
, but after Tian Minyan warned him in every possible way, he also understood the importance and did not tell anyone about the mulberry fruit, including Erdanzi.
So when Tian Minrui said this, he felt very aggrieved.
Seeing his brother crying in grievance, Tian Minrui felt guilty. He knelt down and hugged him and said, "Brother, I don't blame you, I just asked."
"I didn't." Xiao Wu shook his head and looked at Tian Minyan with tears in his eyes as he pursed his lips and said, "Sister, I didn't tell anyone."
"Sister knows." Tian Minyan came back from her anger and sighed: "Sister doesn't doubt you, I just don't want to give in."
"Nanny, could it be that other people also knew that this fruit was edible and picked it?" Tian Minrui asked with a frown.
"Brother, even if you knew it was edible, you wouldn't have picked it so cleanly, not even leaving a red one for us." Tian Minyan shook her head and said, "I'm afraid someone overheard what we said."
But where she heard it, she couldn't figure it out, and she didn't think about it anymore. Now that the matter had come to this, what else could be done? She was just happy for nothing.
"Is that the end of it?" Tian Minrui was a little angry.
Tian Minyan sneered: "Otherwise, what can we do? Why not beat someone else? This fruit tree does not belong to our family in the first place. It is wild and anyone can pick it."
Tian Minrui pursed his lips and remained silent, gritted his teeth and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have moved it to our vegetable garden."
Tian Minyan shook her head and sneered, then let out a long sigh, stood up and said, "Forget it, I didn't expect this fruit to sell for much, let's go back."
Several brothers and sisters came out of joy and returned in despair. They all walked back dejectedly. Halfway through, they saw Xie Gouzi, a famous scoundrel in the village, leading a few men out of the village with shovels and hoes. They were so happy that they didn't know what to do.
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Tian Minyan saw keenly that Xie Gouzi turned around and glanced at the brothers and sisters, showing a cunning and rogue smile, and couldn't help but frown.
Walking into the village entrance, under the big banyan tree, there were several village wives chatting and chatting.
"I have lived so many years in vain. I didn't know that black worms are edible. I have raised pigs for so many years in vain."
"No, during the famine back then, I didn't even have anything to eat. I didn't pick the black worms to try. If I had known, I would be the one making money today."
"Sangzi, lost son, that is, the old man said that this thing is evil, has a bad name, and is unlucky. We all thought it was the bad one, so we didn't try it. Who knew it would be like this."
"This is life."
"This rogue Xie is really unlucky. I didn't know where I heard that this black insect could come out, but he caught it and how much money he got from selling it."
Tian Minyan and Tian Minrui paused in their footsteps, looked at each other, and walked forward.
"Aunt Laiwang, what are you talking about, black and white?" Tian Minrui asked with a smile.
"Hey, where did Brother Rui go with the basket? Are you cutting pig grass? Why did you come back with the basket empty?" Then Aunt Laiwang smiled and glanced at the baskets carried by their brother and sister, and said: "That's what I'm talking about.
You may not know the mulberry tree by the pit in the back mountain, but those black worms are edible and extremely sweet."
Heizi is actually a mulberry fruit. Because when it matures, it turns purple and black, resembling an insect, so people in Yangmei Village call it Hei Chong.
But I don’t know which old man passed it down, saying that the fruit of this mulberry tree is called mulberry, and it is unlucky to lose a son, and no one is allowed to pick and eat it. As time goes by, no one picks it, and when it is passed down, it is said that it cannot be eaten.
"Then why did the aunt say that the scoundrel got his shitty luck?" Tian Minyan asked.
In fact, there was no need to ask. She already knew that Xie Gouzi was the first to pick those mulberries and sell them. Now she finally understood what Xie Gouzi's glance meant just now.
To gloat, to be proud, to be provocative.
"I heard somewhere that Xie Gouzi was edible, so I picked them off and sold them for money. I got three taels of silver." Aunt Laiwang said sourly, "Isn't this just bad luck?"
Three taels!
Tian Minrui screamed and clenched his hands. He said angrily: "Damn it, I'm going to find him."
"Brother, why are you going? Come back." Tian Minyan quickly pulled him. Seeing Aunt Wang and the others looked over, she pulled him aside and lowered her voice: "Brother, you are crazy!"
"Three taels of silver, girl, if not, if not for him..." Tian Minrui's teeth were itching with hatred, and his eyes were red with anger.
Tian Minyan was also angry. The three taels of silver were the result of her racking her brains and carefully coloring and painting a picture. Originally, these mulberry fruits were theirs, but now someone has taken them first. This is equivalent to snatching food from their bowl.
, how can you not be angry?
But Tian Minyan was angry and angry, but she also knew that there was no way to talk about this matter. Why can you pick it off that others can't?
He was so poor that he thought he would either die or be rich. After he tasted it and thought it was good, he sold it. You can't do anything to him at all.
At least he managed to persuade Tian Minrui, who had exploded into a small universe, to stop. Tian Minyan said again: "Brother, we suffered a loss this time. We consider ourselves unlucky, but that doesn't mean there are no benefits. Do you understand the truth?"
"What."
"To strike first is to be stronger." Tian Minyan smiled slightly and said: "This tells us, don't worry about what we are looking for, strike first to be stronger. If we can put more thought into it, we can put all those mulberry trees under our name.
, will what happened today happen again?”
Tian Minrui gritted his teeth and nodded heavily: "I know everything."
