In the shade under the fruit trees, an old bamboo deck chair was placed next to a small wooden table with a pot of tea.

For the first time, Ruan Tianyan felt that there was a spring of water flowing through the bottom of his heart, like a clear spring under the scorching sun!

"It's really a stealing half a day of leisure! Actually, it's quite good to live in seclusion in such a place!

"I don't think it's possible! It's okay to let you stay here for three or five days, let alone three or five years, even if it's three or five months, you won't be able to stay!" Zhou Yuxuan said with a smile after handing Ruan Tianyan a bag of brown things.

Ruan Tianyan didn't care, and only after stretching his body did he look at the bag of things.

"What is it?"

"No, dried apples! Uncle Hong's family made it himself! It tastes good, there are no additives at all! It's the most suitable for you little girls! You can taste it too?" Zhou Yuxuan said, and threw a piece into his mouth.

Ruan Tianyan looked at the brown slices of dried apples, a little skeptical, but still threw a piece into his mouth.

It's crispy, sweet and sour, and it tastes really good!

"It seems to taste really good! Uncle Hong, do you still have some at home? Later, we will buy some and take it away, I have a younger sister at home, and I like to eat these dried fruits the most!"

"What a beautiful thing to think! Uncle Hong's family does a little bit every year, and people's own children are not enough for tooth sacrifices!

Uncle Hong shook his fan and said, "If you like it, you can take some! I still have it at home! Now the children don't come back often, if I take it to the market under the mountain to sell, it's quite far! I might as well give it to you!"

When Zhou Yuxuan heard this, he immediately looked at Uncle Hong, "Uncle Hong, do you still want to sell these things?"

Every year, after the fruits are harvested, those who are in good condition and big ones are taken away, and those who are crooked and cracked dates, we will leave them to solve by ourselves!

I can't finish eating this food! I just make dried fruits! When there is a market, I sell them! I can also subsidize them for my family! However, there are many families who make dried fruits here, and they can't sell them at any price! If you like to eat them! I still have a big bag there!" Uncle Hong, who was full of vicissitudes of life, said with a smile.

Zhou Yuxuan was a little silent, and Ruan Tianyan was the same, only Shi Tian was quietly counting the money in his wallet, probably calculating, how much would be appropriate!

"Uncle Hong, you are so old and still live in the mountains, will it be very inconvenient to go up and down?" Zhou Yuxuan asked suddenly.

"It's okay! I'm used to it! I live here! The air is good, and I can still look at my fruit trees! Although it's a little hard, but there is something to do, as long as I see the fruit trees hanging fruit, I feel happy and feel that there is hope for the next year!!" Uncle Hong continued.

Ruan Tianyan thought about it and put down the dried fruit in his hand.

She clapped her hands, then looked at Uncle Hong seriously and asked, "Uncle Hong, when I just went up the mountain, I saw that there seemed to be something wrong with those fruit trees on the side of the road! It seems that many branches have been broken, is this the preparation you made before grafting for the better growth of fruit trees? Or is there some other reason!"

As soon as Ruan Tianyan's words came out, Zhou Yuxuan was also stunned, he really didn't find this!, he was only thinking about going up the mountain, and he didn't have time to look at the situation of those fruit trees on both sides!

Uncle Hong was not surprised at all, he sighed, fanned the banana fan in his hand and said, "It's still a little girl's heart! Xiao Zhou didn't find this!"

Zhou Yuxuan shook his head.

Uncle Hong continued to fan the fan, but his tone was much more melancholy.

The main reason is that after the Chinese New Year this year, when the fruit trees began to sprout, there was a cold spring, which was quite powerful, and many fruit trees that had already sprouted were frozen!

We're in a good situation here!

If you go further north, a few days ago, there was a sudden hailstorm, which will make the fruit farmers miserable!

I heard my youngest son say that after the hailstorm, there were branches all over the ground! Many of the fruit growers were squatting on the ground and crying!

Suffer! Pitiful!" Uncle Hong sighed as he spoke.

Ruan Tianyan seems to have a little impression, it was some time ago, when she saw the news, she joked with Yan Moran, saying why didn't she come to Jiangcheng for a hailstorm!

"Uncle Hong, do you think this will have an impact on your apple production this year?" asked Zhou Yuxuan.

"There must be an impact! This fruit tree has been damaged, and the yield will definitely be reduced! We are okay, it is estimated that the yield will be reduced by less than one-third! The places that have been hit by hail are hard to say!

I can't help it, I must have to cut the production by more than half!" Uncle Hong shook his head and said.

"So much? Isn't the price of fruits going crazy this year! Uncle Hong, does it have a big impact on you?" Ruan Tianyan said in a lost voice.

Now, apart from those big planters, who still regards this as their main business! The children in the family are all working outside, and the income will definitely be enough for the family! These fruit trees are also used as a side job!

The price can be a little higher, but how high can it be! In the end, it's just a hard money!

If this fruit is harvested, there are also difficulties, the price is pressed down by those fruit sellers, and it can't be lower, and we still make hard money!

Who is the hardest in the world, and the peasants are the hardest!" Uncle Hong sighed.

Zhou Yuxuan and Ruan Tianyan stopped talking, and what Uncle Hong said was the truth.

The life of a farmer is indeed the saddest, not to mention eating in the sky, if you meet a bad parent official, it will be even more bitter!

"Uncle Hong, it's so hard, you're getting older, why don't you stay at the bottom of the mountain!" asked Ruan Tianyan.

"Little girl, you don't understand this! I've lived most of my life, and almost all of them deal with these fruit trees, and ah, the few families around here are also old neighbors!

When you get used to it, you don't want to leave! Everyone has a response!" Uncle Hong said with a smile.

Zhou Yuxuan didn't speak, just looked at the path in the courtyard that stretched outside.

This kind of road, young people like them have a hard time walking, let alone an old man like Uncle Hong!

And according to the information I just got from chatting with Uncle Hong, these families living on this mountain seem to have the elderly in the family who are about the same age as Uncle Hong!

"Uncle Hong, if the fruit from your fruit tree is picked, how can it be transported down the mountain?

"Xiao Zhou! You think so well! Our fruits, because they don't use pesticides much, are not as good as the fruits in those planting bases!

The big buyers don't look down on our fruits!

Except for the small traders and peddlers, we either get our fruit to sell in the market ourselves or sell it to those people!

How could those people spend any more money to find someone to get the fruit down? We all found someone by ourselves and carried the fruit down the mountain basket by basket!

When people are pressing down on prices, the money from selling fruits is not enough to hire labor!" Uncle Hong explained.

"Then if the price is too low, don't pick it! If it's me, I don't want to work in vain if it's rotten on the tree!" Ruan Tian said angrily.

"Then how can it be done! If this fruit is hung on the tree for a day, it will absorb the nutrients of the fruit tree for a day, and if you don't pick it, after a long time, this fruit tree will be wasted! No matter what, the fruit must be picked!" Uncle Hong said.

Ruan Tianyan's mind suddenly appeared in the picture of clothes, all old men, carrying a basket behind him, containing freshly picked apples, walking cautiously on the mountain road.

At the foot of the mountain, a group of young people smoked cigarettes and checked the fruits that had been delivered.

"Uncle Hong, I have mentioned to the people in your city that these mountain roads will definitely be repaired, and they have all been put on the agenda! Slowly, they will get better!" Zhou Yuxuan said.

"Well, some time ago, someone came to measure, I see, it's almost there!

If this road is repaired, I will also learn from others and ask my son to buy me a small three-wheeler, the kind that can go up the mountain, the kind that burns diesel, and in the future, if I go to the market or sell fruits, it will be convenient!" Uncle Hong said with a smile.

Ruan Tianyan and Zhou Yuxuan looked at Uncle Hong's satisfied smile, they didn't know what was going on, and their hearts suddenly felt a little sour!

"Uncle Hong, everything will be fine! Trust your government!" Zhou Yuxuan also smiled and agreed.