"Baby, baby!" Mengmeng shouted. She twisted her little head and looked back and forth, but she couldn't find the baby.
"Dad, where is the baby?" she asked.
Cao Shujie lifted her up and spun her around half a circle: "You are daddy's baby."
"Haha!" The little guy didn't know whether he understood or not. She was not afraid of heights. She shook her body vigorously in mid-air and kicked her calves, as if she had found a new way to play.
"Daddy, it's fun!" she shouted.
But she kicked her father in the face. Cao Shujie didn't notice for a moment and couldn't open his eyes. Fortunately, he kept holding on to his daughter and didn't let go.
Cheng Xiaolin felt worried after seeing it, fearing that her husband would throw her daughter away accidentally. She also said to him: "Husband, are you okay? Put her down quickly."
"Don't worry, it's okay!" Cao Shujie nodded, put down his daughter, and rubbed his eyes a few times before he felt better.
The family of three talked and walked to the top of the mountain. Here was a flat ground, which was quite large but also covered with weeds.
"What a waste!" Cao Shujie shook his head, but he was also secretly happy that this was his opportunity.
Cheng Xiaolin reminded him: "Husband, the distance from the foot of the mountain to here is not short, and it is inconvenient to do anything."
"This would be great!" Cao Shujie pointed to this place and said to his wife: "Wife, you said that if this mountain is planted with various fruit trees, during the harvest season, guests from far away can come to play and climb the mountain to pick a dragon.
What about this idea?”
"Our place is a bit far away, why do people come here?" Cheng Xiaolin didn't understand.
Cao Shujie rolled his eyes at her: "How far is it? Do you remember that the last time we went to the county town, it only took half an hour, and the entire journey was a first-class highway, which is not much worse than a highway."
"Besides, it's only an hour from us on the expressway to the city, and it's not that far from other surrounding counties. Even from remote provincial towns, it only takes an hour and a half. With such a short distance, do you think those Saturdays?
Wouldn’t it be fun for those who have weekends off and those with children to come to our place to pick?”
"Really or not? Don't you grow fruit? Why are you starting to pick again?" Cheng Xiaolin said: "Husband, can we stop throwing hammers here and there? Nothing will happen!"
"Who told you that I would sell fruit?" Cao Shujie painted a beautiful picture in his mind. He waved his hand and drew a circle around him: "I want to be the king of the mountain here!"
"Hehe, dad, I want it too!" Mengmeng shouted.
She didn't even know what the Mountain King was, but seeing how heroic her father said it, she followed suit.
Cao Shujie smiled and nodded: "Okay, our family Mengmeng will be the princess of this mountain from now on. How about Mengmeng riding her mount to patrol the mountain?"
Speaking of this, Cao Shujie suddenly remembered a very funny song: "The king asked me to patrol the mountains. I went around the world, played my drums, and beat my gongs. Life is full of rhythm."
"It sounds good, it sounds good!" Mengmeng was very proud, and then she clapped her hands and applauded.
Seeing that her mother was not giving her face, she shouted: "Mom, that sounds great!"
"Well, that sounds good!" Cheng Xiaolin said perfunctorily.
But Mengmeng was not happy anymore. She leaned out from her father's arms, grabbed her mother's hands, and motioned for her to applaud.
This move made both Cheng Xiaolin and Cao Shujie laugh. Cheng Xiaolin also said to her: "Mengmeng, you are such a little flattery!"
"Flattery!" Mengmeng shouted.
While they were talking, the eagle chirped again in the air. The eagle that had circled far away just now returned to the sky above the mountains, but there was one more trumpet than before.
Cheng Xiaolin frowned: "Why are there so many eagles?"
"Who knows, let's ignore it and go somewhere else." Cao Shujie said.
Cheng Xiaolin said "hmm" and they were about to change directions when Cao Shujie's cell phone rang.
"Dad, phone!" Mengmeng said first.
Cao Shujie nodded: "Mengmeng is so smart. Dad will answer the phone first."
As he spoke, he put his daughter on the ground, took out his cell phone, and saw it was his mother: "Mengmeng's grandma."
The next moment, he answered the phone: "Mom, are you okay?"
After Mengmeng, who was standing on the ground, saw this, she also imitated her father's example, put her hands to her ears and tilted her little head: "Hey, Mom!"
Cheng Xiaolin looked at her daughter who imitated everything she did, and she felt very happy. This child was smart and worthy of being born to her.
"It would be better if you weren't irritating." Cheng Xiaolin thought in her heart.
The mountain was already empty. Listening to her husband and mother-in-law talking on the phone, Cheng Xiaolin also heard some content intermittently, which seemed to be about dogs.
After hanging up the phone, I heard Cao Shujie say: "Honey, our mother just called and said that my brother-in-law's dog has given birth to puppies and asked us if we want them. If so, leave one for us."
"Dog!" Mengmeng's eyes lit up when she heard the word.
She jumped up and grabbed her father's sleeve and shouted: "Dad, I want a dog."
"Okay, okay, let's go down the mountain." Cao Shujie didn't even need to ask his wife's opinion.
Cheng Xiaolin asked: "Is it the husky of our uncle's house that gave birth to puppies?"
Seeing her husband nodding, Cheng Xiaolin was also very happy. She said, "This is good and docile. It's just right to play with Mengmeng."
"Yes, but I will have to get two ferocious dogs in the future. If all the fruits are planted in such a large mountain, people will come up to pick them secretly. There still needs to be a caretaker." Cao Shujie said.
After returning home, his mother had packed her things and was waiting for them.
Since there was no need for the construction team to have dinner in the evening, Wang Yuelan simply went with her.
Cao Shujie and the other three changed their clothes and drove to their uncle's house.
In the car, Cheng Xiaolin also said: "Mom, how can my dad eat when we are gone?"
"Don't worry about him, just let him make noodles and eat some pickles." Wang Yuelan said.
Cao Shujie, who was driving in front, felt sad for his father and wondered if he would be treated like this in the future.
My uncle's house is not far away, it only takes ten minutes to drive there.
The car stopped at the door, but before he got in, his brother-in-law Wang Jialiang came out when he heard the noise.
When she saw Wang Yuelan getting out of the car, she smiled and shouted: "Second sister, why are you here so fast?"
"Shujie drives, hurry up!" Wang Yuelan said.
Cao Shujie also got out of the car: "Second uncle."
"Oh, you naughty kid didn't come to my place to play when I came back. I'm hurting you for nothing." Wang Jialiang scolded him.
Cao Shujie smiled "hehe" and said, "I'm here, aren't I?"
"Shujie, I heard from your mother that you don't plan to go out in the future? What are you planning to do?" Wang Jialiang asked about this matter again.
Cao Shujie said briefly.
When Wang Jialiang heard that he was going to engage in planting, he couldn't help but said: "This is hard work."
"Uncle, it's okay, I think it's pretty good." Cao Shujie sighed, and then said happily: "It's great to be able to make money at home, and my parents take care of the food, so I save on food expenses."
"If we stay in the capital, even if we save more, we will still need 2,000 yuan to eat for a month."
"If we deduct more than 6,000 yuan from the mortgage loan, the more than 8,000 yuan will be gone, and there won't be much left."
Wang Jialiang heard what he said was reasonable and nodded: "It's good to come back and spend more time with your parents. Your parents can also help take care of Mengmeng."
But Mengmeng doesn't need them to take care of her at all.
When the adults were talking, Mengmeng's ears were sharp and she heard the puppy's cry of "woof, woof". She took advantage of her mother's unpreparedness and broke away from her mother's hand and ran quickly towards the house.
"Dog, where's the dog?" she shouted.
When Cheng Xiaolin saw her daughter running away, she quickly chased after her.
Then Aunt Meng Yanmei's surprised voice came over: "Oh, Mengmeng is here, please let me hug you."
"Uncle and grandma, where is the dog?" She has been thinking about this matter and will not give up until she sees it.
Cheng Xiaolin, who followed later, called out: "Auntie."
"Linlin, you are all back, why don't you come and play?" Meng Yanmei said.
"Auntie, we have been busy building a house since we came back, otherwise we would have come here long ago." Cheng Xiaolin said.
