Chapter 66: Picking Wild Fruits

While gnawing on the pears picked from the space, Ruofei picked the hawthorn diligently, but it was not wrong to eat and work, and it didn't take long for a pear to be gnawed by her until only the pear core remained, Ruofei threw it into the grass casually, and then went to pick his own hawthorn.

At this moment, a fishy wind blew, and the pear core that had fallen in the grass disappeared in a blink of an eye, if Ruofei turned around and saw this scene, she would be startled, but coincidentally she did not look back, but lowered her head there and worked hard to pick hawthorn, so this strange scene was naturally not seen.

Gradually, the sun rose high, Ruofei also picked a small half bag of hawthorn, at this time, there was a shout not far away, Ruofei responded and hurriedly ran towards the place where the shout.

Just as Ruofei turned around and ran away, a pair of rice-grain-sized, black pearl-like eyes hid in the grass and stared at her, and her forked tongue spit out one after another, as if to distinguish what smell, and then a small snake of fifty or sixty centimeters of turquoise swam out of a clump of weeds and chased in the direction where Ruofei left unhurriedly.

After a while, Ruofei had already run to Zhao Cuiying's resting place, and saw the two of them sitting under a big pine tree, using a straw hat as a fan to fan the wind and rest.

"Mother-in-law, aunt-in-law. Ruofei ran towards the two.

"How many hawthorns has Xiao Scarlet picked?" Ding Guihua asked first.

Ruofei hurriedly lifted the cloth bag and replied honestly: "Well, that's all." ”

"Scarlet is amazing. Ding Guihua smiled and beckoned Ruofei to come over and sit, Ruofei shook her head, ran to her Zhao Cuiying and squatted down, and put the cloth bag into the back basket.

"Mother-in-law, are you tired, shall I give you a leg beat?" Ruofei leaned on Zhao Cuiying's knees, with some flattery on her face, and said coquettishly.

When Zhao Cuiying saw her granddaughter's style, she felt funny in her heart, but she didn't refuse, but said, "Okay, my mother-in-law also enjoys your blessings." ”

As he spoke, he flattened his leg and motioned for Ruofei to knock it, Ruofei smiled, and covered his small fist and fell on Zhao Cuiying's leg at once, the force was not very strong, but it was also attentive.

Ding Guihua on the side was envious when she saw it, and sighed with a smile: "Ah, how did you say that your granddaughter was raised? ”

Sometimes people are really angry compared to others, to say that she has also brought a few grandchildren, which grandchild can catch up with this granddaughter of my sister-in-law's family.

As soon as her sister-in-law said it, Zhao Cuiying was a little proud, and it was not easy to do too much, so she quickly pulled Ruofei up from the ground, patted Ruofei's pants, and said angrily: "Okay, don't be this pitiful, your uncle is going to die of jealousy, let's eat quickly." ”

As soon as Zhao Cuiying said this, Ding Guihua also went to get the back basket on the side against the tree, took out the rice balls prepared in the morning from it, and handed it over.

Ruofei hurriedly got up and went to pick it up, stretched out her hand and handed one of the big ones to her grandmother, she took a small one, sat down next to her grandmother again, peeled off the dumpling leaves outside and opened her mouth to eat.

With the cold boiled water in the kettle, the three of them silently ate the rice balls in their hands, which were kneaded with the morning rice, and some pickled vegetables were breaded in it, although it was cold, it would not be unpalatable, so the rice balls were wiped out by the three of them after a while.

After eating rice balls, Zhao Cuiying and her sister-in-law continued to go to the woods to pick up chestnuts, etc., this time Ruofei also went to the woods with them, in addition to mushrooms and chestnuts, pine towers, there are other things in the woods.

For example, a ghost jujube tree full of ghost dates, or a wild persimmon tree with a few yellowing persimmons, and then there are wild grapes with some withered branches and leaves, and there are not very good-looking wild grapes left on the vines, some of which are black and shiny, the size of black pearls, and some are shriveled and wrinkled.

Maybe it's after the season, these wild grapes will be uneven, the good ones look round and jade, and the bad ones are like the old women who have been weathered all the year round and shriveled, without any style.

Compared with the hard work of Zhao Cuiying and Ding Guihua, Ruofei is more like frolicking in the forest, shaking the persimmon tree desperately for a while, hoping to drop a ripe persimmon to relieve her hunger, looking up at the ghost jujube tree for a while, sighing that she can't pick it to eat, who makes her not climb the tree.

After a while, he went to the wild vines, picked some late-ripening grapes, and ate his mouthful full of purple-black grape juice, but there he complained that the grapes were not sweet enough.

In the blink of an eye, I found the squirrels jumping around in the treetops, and suddenly ran to see the squirrels in the trees as if I had discovered a new world, which was very strange, but in a moment those squirrels disappeared between the treetops.

Playing around, Ruofei didn't do much practical things, and an afternoon passed like this, because her aunt had to go home to prepare dinner, so before the sun went down, her aunt beckoned Ruofei home.

Back at home, Zhao Cuiying and Ding Guihua separated the chestnuts, pine towers and mushrooms they had picked up, and then poured the chestnuts into the drying field, while Zhao Cuiying began to process the chestnuts, and Ding Guihua went to the house to cook dinner.

The chestnuts picked up from the mountain were not the kind of slick that Ruofei saw outside, but a ball of thorns, and if you wanted to get the chestnuts, you had to pull the chestnuts out of the balls.

So Zhao Cuiying put on a pair of gloves and sat on the pony to pull chestnuts from the thorn ball in the afterglow of the sunset outside.

Ruofei was a little curious, reached out and carefully picked one up, and found that the thorns on the thorn ball on the outside of the chestnut were still quite hard.

"Don't be naughty, be careful with your hands. Zhao Cuiying angrily rushed to Ruofei on the side.

Ruofei secretly stuck out her tongue, and quickly rolled back the thorn balls she smuggled out, and honestly stayed aside to watch her grandmother break those thorn balls with her hands.

"Mother-in-law, aren't you in pain?" Ruofei couldn't help but ask, although she was wearing gloves, Ruofei couldn't help but be a little worried.

Zhao Cuiying shook her head and replied: "It won't hurt if you wear gloves, and when your mother-in-law peels it, I'll let your aunt fry it for you at night. ”

In fact, Ruofei has already seen that the chestnuts peeled out by her grandmother are very small, which is not the same as what Ruofei usually sees, it turns out that this is a wild chestnut, so it is so small.

Thinking of this, Ruofei remembered that when I traveled to Zhejiang in the past, I saw someone picking wild kiwifruit out to sell, and the wild kiwifruit is also very small, is it not a wild thing?

Of course, this answer is incomprehensible at this time, after all, Ruofei has not seen much wild food, so it is naturally unclear.