After eating the persimmons, the grandfather and grandson sat silently in front of the stove for a while.

It wasn't until the water in the pot boiled that Grandpa Ye beckoned Yan Xu to take a bucket of water for a bath.

"Xiao Xu, go and get the bucket, hurry up and take a shower and go to sleep. ”

Yan Xu carried a steaming bucket of water out of the house, went around to the back, and mixed some cold water into the bucket from the vat next to the well.

After testing the temperature of the water with his hands and making sure that it was not very hot, Yan Xu carried the bucket and walked to a small shed built with wooden planks at the back of the house.

Yes, this is where the grandparents usually take a bath.

There are two men on the left and right, and there will be no one in the house against the back mountain, and it is not a big deal to take a bath in the small shed.

After Yan Xu finished washing, he went into the house and went to bed.

The Ye family is considered a two-bedroom and one-living room, and if the house on the other side does not collapse, it can be said to be a "big family" with five bedrooms and two living rooms.

Yan Xu closed his eyes and lay on the bed, listening to the sound of the water dripping outside the house, but what he was thinking about was to go up the mountain tomorrow to pick more sweetness, and there were too many ripe wild fruits in the deep mountains in October. I will go to school the day after tomorrow, get more residual sweetness, make sugar gourds, and then sell them in the county town......

Thinking about it, Yan Xu fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Yan Xu cleaned himself up, boiled some porridge in the pot, and after saying hello to his grandfather, he went up the mountain alone.

There are wild emblica trees on the back mountain, three or four, and they don't grow deep, just halfway down the mountainside, and they can be reached in about ten minutes, so Grandpa Ye is not very worried about what danger Yan Xu will encounter.

This month's amla fruit is ripe, after eating, sour, full of mouth, sweet taste is very strong, it is an appetizing small wild fruit, used to replace hawthorn to make sugar gourd.

This kind of wild Yugan was originally told by his grandfather that Yan Xu could eat it, and no one usually likes to eat these sour things, so they are also cheaper than Yan Xu.

After picking almost half a basket of amla fruits, Yan Xu estimated that he would go down the mountain and go home after touching it.

Making sugar gourds is a very simple job, Yan Xu wiped all the washed amla fruits and put them in a basin, and skewered them one by one with the cleaned thin bamboo slices, and then went to the stove, added some water and put it in the pot to boil.

There is candy at home, and Yan Xu bought it for a few rich children in the school a few days ago.

Ten yuan for a big bag of sugar, Yan Xu poured one-third into the pot, and boiled it over low heat until the sugar water turned yellow and viscous, and then put the strings of amla fruits into the pot and carefully dipped them in sugar.

There was no plastic wrap at home, so Yan Xu could only wait for the sugar gourd to drain and put it on a clean white cloth.

Grandpa Ye was busy chopping wood outside the courtyard, and he didn't know much about what Yan Xu was busy doing in the house.

When Yan Xu was almost busy, he looked at the good-looking sugar gourd in surprise, and he was surprised for a while.

"Xiao Xu, you also took it to the town to sell?"

The grandson suddenly changed a lot during this time, and from time to time he came up with ideas to make some money. Grandpa Ye didn't pay attention to it at first, he just thought that his grandson wanted to make some snack money, but since his grandson went to the city with a basket of mountain goods to sell at a high price, came back to buy some daily necessities, and handed over the remaining hundreds of yuan to him, Grandpa Ye paid attention to what his grandson did.

There was still some sugar water left in the pot, and Yan Xu put them in a bowl, and this bit of sugar was quite delicious when it was pasted into a pot.

"Well, I'll go to school early tomorrow, and I should be able to sell quite a bit at the door. ”

Sweet and sour things, children like to eat a lot, the cost of sugar gourds is low, one sells for two yuan, how much can you earn.

Grandpa Ye looked at his grandson's thin and busy body, and sighed in a complicated mood, "Hey, it's also that grandpa is useless, and he makes your child so happy!"

Sensing the loss and guilt between his grandfather's words, Yan Xu immediately looked at his grandfather and smiled obediently, "No, grandpa has taken care of me for so long to be happy, and Xiao Xu is not tired at all." ”

Grandpa Ye smiled, bitter and relieved in his heart.

How could he not be tired, but he didn't say anything, his grandson is young, sensible and assertive, even if he is not allowed to do this, he will quietly change things to do......

Such a smart child is his grandson!

Grandpa Ye thought about it a lot, and finally looked at the little Yan Xu, and a great sense of pride surged in his heart.

Look at how capable his grandson is! The grandson of the old man next door is ten years old, and he is still a hairy boy who only knows how to ask for candy at home!

His grandson is different, Xiao Xu can support his family!

Yan Xu, who was thought by his grandfather to be able to support his family, saw that his grandfather's emotions had calmed down, so he put a sugar gourd spread on a white cloth on the table.

"Grandpa, I'll go to the back mountain again. Yan Xu came out of the miscellaneous items and put on the big bamboo basket on his back.

Grandpa Ye was sitting in the hall sifting through the medicinal herbs, and when he heard this, he asked, "What are you doing in the back mountain again?"

"I went to the back mountain to pick chestnuts. ”

There are two wild chestnut trees on the back mountain, because the trees are tall and grow a little deep, and no one usually picks them.

After all, if you want to eat this chestnut in your mouth, you have to deal with the thorn wrapped around it first. If you have just picked it from the tree, it will not be green, and the green juice will not be washed off the skin when you peel it. In short, it's a nuisance. Now the living conditions are not the same as before, and no one likes to be so troublesome.

Yan Xu came to the chestnut tree with the frame on his back.

Because there was no one to pick it up, there were a lot of brown chestnut balls that were ripe and fell under the tree. There is nothing unclean about the chestnut balls falling on the ground, after all, the chestnuts inside still have a layer of shells.

Yan Xu picked up a circle nearby, and he picked up more than half a frame, and he had to eliminate some obviously rotten ones.

The frame was placed on the ground, and Yan Xu tried to carry it, but fortunately, it was a little heavy, but he could carry it more.

The ground was gone, and Yan Xu could only climb the tree to pick it.

The tree is quite tall, but fortunately there are stones to tiptoe on, and you can climb to the trunk by grabbing the branches.

The green chestnuts on the tree were very piercing, and Yan Xu also forgot to bring gloves, so he had to pick one after another with his teeth in pain.

A basket of chestnuts was picked up by Yan Xu who could just carry it, and then went down the mountain.

One morning was in such a hurry.

Grandpa Ye was thinking about putting the pickled crabs in the pot at home, Yan Xu put down a basket of hairy chestnuts and took over by himself before the pot.

"Grandpa, I'll do it anyway!"

The old people are very economical, and there is always very little cooking oil, and it tastes strange and tasteless.

The pickled crab was fried until golden brown, and some wild vegetables were stir-fried with eggs, which was the last meal of the grandfather and grandson today.

People in the countryside basically only eat two meals, and the Ye family is no exception.

After eating a delicious meal and feeling the satisfaction in his stomach, Yan Xu cleaned up his rice bowl and went to water the small vegetable patch in front of him again.

After watering, he sat down in front of the door with a small stool and began to peel the chestnuts.

It can be said that Yan Xu is so busy every day, on the other hand, Grandpa Ye only needs to get his herbs.

It's not that Grandpa Ye doesn't help, but Yan Xu doesn't want Grandpa to be tired.

He can do all this work by himself, he is a little tired, but he hopes not to be tired of his grandfather, anyway, he is tired and used to it.

A basket of hairy chestnuts has not been peeled until dark, and the grandfather still can't stand it, so he came over to help finish the peeling together.

"You little kid has done so many things, and when they see Uncle Liu, they will think that I asked you to do it!" Grandpa muttered as if he was complaining.

Yan Xu laughed, "Grandpa used to do more things than me, what am I." ”

Grandpa Ye waved his hand, "Can you compare a child with me?"

This is not good, Yan Xu shrugged his shoulders and did not argue with his grandfather about this topic.

It was already an hour after the grandfather and grandson finished peeling the chestnuts.

"Hurry up and take a shower and go to bed, and let's go to your third uncle's house tomorrow to have a look." ”

Yan Xu was boiling water, and when he heard it, he said, "What's wrong with Uncle Liu?"

Grandpa Ye waved his hand, "When you went to pick chestnuts today, your Third Uncle Liu flashed his waist." ”

Yan Xu was stunned, Uncle Liu flashed his waist?

Uncle Liu is the best person to Yan Xu in the entire Li Village, except for his grandfather.

"Then grandpa, why didn't you say it before!" Yan Xu was a little worried.

Grandpa Ye glanced at him, "Don't you forget this?" ”

Yan Xu was speechless for a while, "Grandpa, you can forget such a big thing." ”

"What's the matter? Your Third Uncle Liu often flashes here or there, just apply two pairs of plasters. "Grandpa Ye doesn't care.

It looks like I'm used to it.

Grandpa's appearance of nothing big made Yan Xu's slightly anxious mood completely gone, and he turned his head and went to take a bath.

If there's anything wrong, I'll go see it tomorrow.

Uncle Liu's flashing old waist is really nothing, that is, it is so green, and it is scary to look at, in fact, it is a bruise ointment.

"Tell you to be careful when you carry water! You just don't listen, look at your waist now." ”

In the hall of the tile house, Grandpa Ye was holding a piece of black self-medicated ointment and smearing it on Uncle Liu's waist, the smell of the ointment was quite big, a little up.

Yan Xu sat next to him and watched, and gestured at the bruise of Uncle Liu.

Just the size of one of his palms.

"Hey, how do I know that slope is so slippery!" Uncle Liu sighed.

"Heh, you don't know, what do you say you know?" Grandpa Ye sneered.

"Hey, I know more! better than you do. ”

"Do you want to say that you read more books than I do, and that you are still an intellectual......

The two of them inexplicably began to argue again.

Yan Xu silently took out a few chestnuts from his pocket and began to knock them.

As long as his grandfather is with Uncle Liu, the two of them will start arguing about some small things.

Yan Xu shook his head and sighed.

This is probably the friendship between the elderly.

After reading Uncle Liu, the grandfather and grandson went home.

Yan Xu still remembers his chestnuts, he will go to school tomorrow, and he will sell fried chestnuts after buying sugar gourds, but it will take some time to sell fried chestnuts.

The freshly peeled chestnuts always carry some moisture, and Yan Xu has already put them under the eaves to blow the wind all night, and it is estimated that they can be fried in the pot after another night.