Alas, the life of children is better, they play and eat all day long, do nothing, and there is no pressure burden, and the life is comfortable.

On this day, Xiaoxi's neighbor, that is, Xiaoxi's uncle's family, planted rice, and Xiaoxi and his younger brother played in the yard with their younger brother and their granddaughter Zhao Juan after breakfast.

After playing with the rope, Xiaoxi really felt too naïve, so he watched his younger brother play with Zhao Juan.

"Xiaoxi, the loquat seeds should be ripe, let's go pick the loquats. Zhao Juan felt a little unbearable after playing for a while, so she ran to Xiaoxi's side and discussed with Xiaoxi.

The loquat that Zhao Juan said is from the mother-in-law next door, the eldest woman is a widow with two sons, both of whom are married and have children, and work in Guangdong. Xiaoxi's village grows fruit trees in every family, but there are not too many types, such as Xiaoxi's family, which has pear trees, apricot trees, walnut trees (dying, no longer bearing fruit), loquat trees (not bearing fruit), and plum trees. The grandmother's family planted loquat trees, cherry trees (a total of 8 trees), peach trees, and cherries are the favorite of the creek!

As the saying goes, cherries are delicious and trees are hard to plant. Xiaoxi remembered that in her previous life, whenever the cherries of the grandmother's house were ripe, there would be small saplings of fallen cherries under the tree.

Every time the loquat cherries are ripe, they will attract Xiaoxi, Chen Yubin, Zhao Juan, and Zhao Bo (Zhao Juan's brother) to pick them, and the grandmother will not say anything, because they don't come to pick them, and no one will come to pick them, because now she is the only one in her family, and her grandson follows her son and daughter-in-law to study in the place where she works.

Xiaoxi hesitated a little, because the loquat tree was quite tall, more than ten meters high, and it would be terrible to fall down, so he shirked and said, "Xiaojuan, that tree is too high to climb up." ”

Zhao Juan pulled the stream and walked into the house, "It's okay, call my brother and let him go up the tree, and we will use a hook to hook below." "Brother, let's go pick loquats. ”

Zhao Juan's brother is two years older than her and is now 5 years old. Zhao Bo was lying on the bed watching TV in the house, and when he heard it, he got up, "Okay, wait for me." ”

Because the trunk of the tree was a little high, the lower section was smooth, and there was nothing to climb, so he put a few stones on the side of the root, and Zhao Bo stepped on the stones, and climbed the tree after a few rubs. After all, he was only 5 years old, so he didn't dare to climb too high, just where he could pick the first layer of branches.

Xiaoxi and Zhao Juan were not idle, and they used hooks to hook the ripe loquat at the low place, and the hook here was made of yellow wattle strips that were forked and hooked. After they reached it, they broke off the branches and threw them on the ground, and then Chen Yubin picked them up on the ground with a bag.

After a while, the loquat that had matured in the lower place was almost all plucked, and Zhao Bo flexibly crawled down like a monkey.

The children sat together on the stones on the ground and shared the fruits of their labor.

They picked the kind of small loquats, which were thin and large, but there was not much meat, but the flavor was very strong and delicious.

After eating a few skewers, Zhao Bo walked in front with a bag, and the three little guys in the back chattered about the interesting things just now.

Before the little guys arrived at the door, they smelled the strong smell of meat, and they stopped making a fuss one by one, and rushed to the stove room of Zhao Juan's house like hungry ghosts.

When my aunt and mother-in-law, who were cooking at home, saw a few children running in, she lifted the lid of the pot, fished out the freshly cooked pork ribs, cut four along the bones, and removed the large pieces of lean meat on them, leaving some uneasy to pick up for each of the four children.

Actually, there is not much meat on the bones, but it is very fragrant, chewy, and there is bone oil. The reason why this rib is so fragrant is because it was last year's wax month to kill the pig for the New Year, and then the meat was evenly smeared with salt on the meat, hung in a ventilated place to dry, and it was not afraid to put it for a year or two.

After Xiaoxi finished eating the meat on the ribs, he asked the adult to smash the bone into two knots with the back of a knife, and then sucked it up with a broken "tsk", Xiaoxi didn't like bone oil very much, so he gave his younger brother and Zhao Juan a section each.

After the little ones finished eating, they didn't go out, so they took a small bench and sat in the kitchen to see when the adults could get another piece of meat. In fact, you can't blame the children for being greedy, basically every family will kill pigs during the New Year, and the net meat is about 200 catties at most, except for the New Year's food, giving away, and the rest is air-dried into bacon, which is almost 100 catties. Like when the farm is busy, it is necessary to invite people to eat with enough oil and water; the old man has a birthday treat; he has to buy fresh meat during the festival, bacon and fresh meat are mixed with eating, and the rest can be eaten every three or five times It is good, the most is the fat bacon, but the children do not like to eat the fat meat. When you come across something as delicious as pork ribs, of course you want to eat more.

Although Xiaoxi didn't like to eat bacon, she liked to drink the soup stewed with bacon, and the taste of the bacon stew was stronger and more fragrant than the taste of fresh meat stew, so she asked her aunt to spoon a bowl of soup for her. Because it is stewed with fresh beans, the soup is moldy, with dried chili peppers added to it, some slightly spicy mouths, plus the cured taste of bacon and the fragrance of beans, um~ absolutely.

After my aunt scooped up a small half bowl of soup for Xiaoxi and each of them, she scooped up the ribs. Tear off the large pieces of meat on the top, slice and fry a dried tofu, and chop the remaining pork ribs into small pieces and throw them back into the pot to stew.

After drinking the soup, a few small children went out. After discussing, he took the loquat to them to play with the seedlings.

The mother-in-law and the two old ladies in the yard were pulling the seedlings in front, and as soon as they arrived at the place, a few little guys began to call people, "big mother", "second mother-in-law", "mother-in-law", "aunt-in-law", and then they diligently gave them loquats.

"Mother, come, I'll peel it for you. Xiaoxi took her brother in one hand and walked towards her mother-in-law with a loquat in the other, and then stretched out her white and tender little hands and began to peel the skin.

"Yo, Xiaoxi, you only peel it for your mother-in-law, not for us! It seems that it only hurts her mother-in-law." Seeing Xiaoxi peeling loquat for her mother-in-law, the mother-in-law quipped.

In fact, the eldest mother-in-law should be called the eldest aunt to be precise, and the second mother-in-law should also be called the second aunt, they are the mother-in-law of Xiaoxi, the Zhao family, and they are considered to be the mother-in-law's mother-in-law's family.

On the side of Grandpa Chen's family, there is an uncle, this is the eldest brother of his grandfather, he has no wife, and there is a grandfather, his wife is still there, and Xiaoxi is called his mother-in-law.

So on the Zhao family's side, except for the uncle and aunt, everyone else omitted to call the stream. These are all from Xiaoxi's grandparents (in Xiaoxi, grandparents' fathers are what they are, and fathers' children are what they are).

"Yes, Xiaoxi, why don't you peel it for us? ”

"Oh, it seems that the grandsons of each family still love each family. ”

Xiaoxi listened to the jokes of the two old men, sped up the movements in her hands, and said, "Oh, the eldest mother-in-law, I also love you, you wait a little longer, you should wait until I finish peeling my mother-in-law." ”

After hearing this, the grandmother pretended to be sad and said, "It seems that this woman still loves her mother-in-law, alas, forget it, I still peeled it myself." ”

Seeing the two old men sad, Zhao Juan and Zhao Bo coaxed one by one, "Eldest mother (second mother-in-law), I'll peel it for you." As he spoke, he got started.

Seeing this scene, the three old men couldn't hold back anymore and laughed.

This is Chen Yubin who also made a lot of fun, and said glutinously: "Mother-in-law, I will also peel it for you." ”

Now, the laughter was even louder.

After a while, the laughter stopped. The second woman pushed the loquat in Zhao Juan's hand, and said sadly: "Alas, forget it, Xiaojuan, you can eat it, you can't eat the loquat peeled by Xiaoxi, it seems that Binbin can't eat it, I won't eat it." ”

The mother-in-law also coaxed, "Binbin, you go and peel it for your second mother-in-law, and your mother-in-law won't eat it." ”

Chen Yubin stood there, not knowing who to peel it for. Zhao Juan and Chen Yubin were both anxious, looking at this and that in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Looking at the three people who were in a hurry, Xiaoxi couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly, the three of you, how old are you, is it necessary to flirt with four children under the age of 5, is it necessary!

Alas~ let out a sigh of relief.

Xiaoxi ran to the grandmother in a few steps, took the loquat in Zhao Bo's hand, quickly peeled it, handed it to the grandmother, and said with a smile: "Grandma, come, this is Xiaoxi peeled for you, you have to eat it." ”

ran to the second mother-in-law again, took the loquat in Zhao Juan's hand, peeled it and handed it to the second mother-in-law, and said with a smile: "Come, second mother-in-law, this is the creek for you to peel, it's delicious." ”

Then he returned to his mother-in-law, picked up the loquat and continued to peel it, while peeling the loquat and looking at the eldest mother-in-law and the second mother-in-law, blinking her eyes, as if to say, "You guys eat quickly, I have peeled it all." ”

The three old men, looking at this quirky little girl, could no longer suppress their laughter.

Xiaoxi looked at them, and also grinned silently, thinking as she laughed: "It's okay now, I'm satisfied with you, and you don't want to toss us anymore." ”

There were no more "twists and turns", and after the three old men finished eating loquats, they began to get busy again, and the four little ones also went to play on the pile of stones on the side.

These stone piles are made up of 20 centimeters long boxy stones, a total of 3 piles, about one meter high, three meters long, this is Zhao Juan's parents spent a lot of money to hire someone to beat the stones on the hillside, and the pieces are good, and then dragged back, for building a house and laying the foundation in the future.

"Xiaojuan Xiaojuan ......"

Xiaoxi pushed Zhao Juan next to him, "Someone is calling you." ”

Zhao Juan raised her head and listened carefully, then stood up and shouted, "Eh, mother-in-law, what are you doing?"

"It's time to call someone back for dinner. ”

"Oh, I see. ”

"Eldest mother-in-law, second mother-in-law, aunt-in-law, my mother-in-law called you to eat. ”

After a few people went back, the people who worked came back, and they were all sitting at the table at this time, and several people quickly washed their hands and went to the table.

Looking at the hearty lunch and pouring the drinks, people began to drink and talk.

It's the same for eating at Zhao Juan's house, there are two tables, one for men and one for women, because it's convenient, they make up a table for men to drink, and women to gossip. It's not ......

"Today, these few made us laugh, the three of us pulled the seedlings underneath, and a few of them came to ......"

That's it, you and I.

Seeing that the adults at the table were laughing, Xiaoxi really wanted to wipe his face, and roared angrily in his heart: "You women, big mouths." ”