Chapter 315: Stealing melons

After listening to the gossip about Chen Zhuguo described by Chen Ze and Chen Tao brothers, many of the contents must be fabricated and falsely spread by the villagers, but in general, there should be no difference from the actual situation!

I can't imagine that Chen Zhuguo is a lot older, and he can still find a gentle and virtuous little daughter-in-law, and his life is really beautiful!

Li Liang was happy for Chen Zhuguo, remembering that when he and Zhang Meng carried things to see Chen Zhuguo, Chen Zhuguo's home was chaotic, and there was no place to see the past. Now that he has a little daughter-in-law, the house must be very well tied!

Five teenagers were playing cards under the persimmon tree in the yard, and the chicken soup stewed by Grandma Chenchen gave out a rich aroma, wafting from the kitchen all the way to their noses in the yard!

"Grandma, is the chicken soup stewed, I'm hungry!" Zhang Junjie ran to the kitchen!

"It's almost good, you go out and play for a while, and grandma will fry two more dishes!"

At this time, the old man Chen Sanbai carried a bundle of chopped firewood on his back and slowly walked into the courtyard.

He was very happy when he saw Chenchen, Li Liang and Junjie coming, with a warm smile on his face.

"Chenchen, Junjie, you two haven't been here for a long time, and you miss your grandfather!" Old Man Chen said with a smile, "Liangzi, you haven't been here for a long time!"

"Hello grandpa!"

Gu Yuemei quickly cooked the meal, and when it was close to noon, the yard became hot, and the leaves of the dense persimmon trees blocked the sunlight, leaving only a little mottled shadow under the tree, swaying with the wind!

Five and a half teenagers, an old couple, and seven people sat under the tree, around this eight-immortal table, and had lunch happily!

Li Liang asked, "Why didn't you see Brother Chen Bin and Sister Chen Yun?"

"The two of them went to their grandmother's house for the past two days, and they won't be back until a few days!"

Chen Bin and Chen Yun, together with Chen Li, who works at the Wangkelai head office in the county seat, are the children of the eldest son of the Chen family, Chen Huahan, and Chen Run, Chen Ze, and Chen Tao! Of the six children in the family, Chen Sanbai and Gu Yuemei were heartbroken in their early years. Now that the children have grown up, the two of them are idle as grandparents!

Now the two sons are opening a store, and they won't come back to eat at noon, they all cook their own in the store, and they just need to cook for the children!

Li Liang asked about the whereabouts of Chen Bin and Chen Yun, but he aroused a request from the old man Chen Sanbai!

Old Man Chen asked: "Chenchen, how are you Sister Runrun and Sister Lili working in your store? Since the two sisters went to work in the store, they have come back less, and every time they come back, in addition to bringing a lot of food and drink to the family, they ask them how they are doing, and they both say that they are very good!"

"Sister Runrun and Lily are doing very well now!" Chenchen said while eating, "Now Sister Runrun is the deputy manager of my mother's store, usually when my mother is not there, Sister Runrun is taking care of the things in the store, she may be able to do it, but she is amazing! And Sister Lily is also good, she knows most of the things in the store." My mom said that every time Sister Lily goes to order food for a guest, the guests will order a lot of good dishes, and her mouth will speak!"

Hearing that their two granddaughters were doing well in the city, Chen Sanbai and Gu Yuemei were relieved! Their family, in Huanggang Village, can now be regarded as one of the best families!

The eldest son sells all kinds of bamboo products, and the younger son sells breakfast and yuba, and the business is not bad!

Now the two of them don't have to worry about anything, they just worry about the marriage of their eldest grandson Chen Bin and their eldest granddaughter Chen Run! Chen Bin was born in 63 and turned 19 years old this year. In the countryside, many of their peers of the same age are already married, and some even have children! Chen Sanbai worries about the children's marriages, and often asks his wife Gu Yuemei to go out and walk around more, looking for and finding out where there are suitable people!

Of course, he didn't say these words to the few teenagers present, and he still had something to ask Li Liang: "Liangzi, I heard that you and Zhang Meng have partnered to open a construction company, right?"

Li Liang nodded and explained: "The two of us can only be counted as shares, and there are several shareholders in this company!"

"The company still needs people, can you arrange your brother Chen Bin to work in the company!"

Li Liang said with a little hesitation: "Grandpa, people should be needed, but it is very hard to work in a construction company!"

Old Man Chen smiled and said, "Man, what is the point of hard work! It's better than shaving food at home!"

Hearing what Old Man Chen said, Li Liang vaguely agreed: "Okay, I'll go back and ask Brother Meng!"

It stands to reason that Zhang Meng and Chen Bin are cousins, cousins in this era, and they are still very close, I don't know why Old Man Chen didn't tell Zhang Meng about this, but he told him!

After lunch, the afternoon sun is blazing, and it is the hottest time of the year!

After Chen Sanbai and his wife cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, they couldn't resist the sleepiness and went back to the house to take a nap. The five-and-a-half-year-old teenager couldn't sleep, and I don't know who proposed it, so everyone started the journey of stealing melons!

Stealing melons is something that many people in the city have never done.

Naturally, it will not be cucumbers, bitter melons, or gourds! Moreover, watermelons, muskmelons, and pear melons are characteristic of many seasons! In the rural areas, people who are poor in materials are always indispensable to plant some fruit trees in front of and behind their houses; and in their own fields, they can plant some watermelons, muskmelons, and pear melons!

Of course, what children like to do the most is to occasionally take sheep or secretly pick a few other people's houses, as if picking from other people's houses is more delicious!

When Li Liang was playing at his grandfather's house when he was a child, he followed his uncle Li Shuangyuan to do some things like stealing melons and dates.

In fact, Gu Yuemei planted some pears and melons in her own plot, but Chen Ze and Chen Tao brothers were stubborn, and always said that the pears and melons planted by grandma were not as delicious as anyone's family!

So in the hot afternoon sun, Li Liang, Chenchen and Zhang Junjie each wore a big straw hat and secretly followed behind Chen Ze and Chen Tao brothers, quite a bit of a devil entering the village!

Soon, they were in a watermelon field hidden in a cornfield.

It can be seen that the owner of this watermelon field has worked hard when planting this watermelon, and he has planted a cornfield around the melon field, and the high corn stalks cover all the watermelon fields!

In the eyes of local children like Chen Ze and Chen Tao, it is tantamount to covering their ears and stealing the bell, which is quite the taste of three hundred taels of silver here.

This melon field has more than two acres, Li Liang looked around, and saw melon vines all over the ground, large and small watermelons, along the watermelon vines, dotted among them.

Li Liang asked in a low voice, "Chen Ze, shall we pick one or two?"

"Two!"

"Good!"

So several people acted separately, and soon, Li Liang and Chen Ze each chose the watermelon they wanted. They broke the watermelon guati from the vines, held one by one, and under the guidance of Chen Tao, they quickly walked towards the back mountain!

Everyone is a little nervous, it is said that the owner of this melon field has been a little vigilant, and sometimes the other party will patrol the melon field at noon!

There was no one all the way, everyone quickly ran to the back mountain, and in the downstream of a stream, everyone sat down with a smile!

Zhang Junjie obviously did such a thing with his cousins before, and he couldn't wait to say: "Brother Liang, Brother Ze, let's open the watermelon quickly!"

Li Liang smiled: "Junjie, don't worry, let the watermelon soak in water, it will be cooler and more delicious!"

In the afternoon, the watermelons became very hot under the scorching sun! The small stream left from the mountain, with coolness, two watermelons soaked in the shallow stream water, and soon cooled down.

They first opened a melon, which Li Liang smashed with a stone, and the way of eating it was very barbaric, but it was full of the joy of life! Not a single melon was eaten, and the melon skin was scattered around their hiding place.

Zhang Junjie was satisfied: "Wow, it's so delicious, this is the best watermelon I've ever eaten this year!"

Chenchen eats very gentle, and she was also very wild when she was a child, but when she grew up, she became much more elegant. Today, she followed Li Liang and them out to steal melons, which is something she hasn't done for many years!

A few people were resting under the tree, and at this time, faintly, from the melon field where they stole melons, there was a commotion.

What's going on?

Chen Ze gave his younger brother Chen Tao a look and said, "Taotao, you quietly take a look and see what's going on?" Remember, don't get caught!"

"Got it, brother!"

Li Liang and the others continued to rest under the tree, waiting for news from Chen Tao.

After a while, Chen Tao ran over panting, looking very happy.

"What's wrong?"

"Xuzi and Huhu went to steal melons, and they were caught red-handed by Lao Wang, and now they are being pressed by Lao Wang to go home to find the adults of their two families!" Chen Tao said breathlessly.

Xuzi and Huhu are their playmates in the village, and they often play with Xuzi and Huhu as brothers, and stealing chickens and dogs is a common thing.

"Good thing we went early!"

Everyone is happy!

Li Liang also reacted like this!

In the countryside, it is very common for children to steal something to eat in the field, but if they are caught by the master's family and want to find their parents, it will be an extremely humiliating thing! Ordinary people, even if they catch the children stealing something, they will only drive them away and warn them not to steal in the future.

"Chen Ze, Chen Tao, then if you two go in the future, you have to be careful, don't get caught!"

"Got it!"

After resting in the forest for a while, the mountain breeze blew, and it was much cooler than at home!

Li Liang asked, "Chen Ze, you graduated from junior high school this year, where will you go to study in the second half of the year?"

Chen Ze is just the first session of Li Liang.

His grades were good in the township middle school, but he was still not admitted to the high school of the technical secondary school and Hekang No. 1 Middle School.

Chen Ze said: "No. 2 Middle School, I have already received the admission letter from No. 2 Middle School, Brother Liang, I heard that you and Sister Chenchen are in No. 1 Middle School, and you are studying very well." What university are you going to go to next year?"

Li Liang is now very famous, not only because he studies well, but also with the exposure of the song "The Story of Spring", many of his anecdotes have been passed down from No. 1 and he has become the idol of many peers!

Li Liang said vaguely: "It's such a simple thing to be admitted to a university, it's good to be admitted, but as for what university to go to, I haven't thought about it!"

"That's true, if only I could be admitted to Gangshan Academy in the future!"

Gangshan College is an ordinary college in the Gangshan area, Chen Ze's requirements are not high, as long as he can be admitted to this school!

Time passed quickly, and several teenagers rested in the woods for more than two hours, and Li Liang was going home!

Chenchen and Junjie will stay here for a few days, and Li Liang also plans to go back to his grandparents' house to play for a few days. It's been a long time since I've seen a few of them, so I miss them!

The uneaten watermelon, everyone didn't dare to take it home. At Li Liang's mention, everyone dug a pit by the stream, buried the watermelon in it, pulled out some grass to cover it, made a disguise, and prepared to come back tomorrow to solve it.

Back in the courtyard of Chen Sanbai's house, Gu Yuemei had already gotten up from a nap, and when she heard that Li Liang was going home, she left Li Liang to stay at home for a few more days, but Li Liang refused to accept her!

Gu Yuemei then sorted out some local specialties such as dried beans and dried chili peppers from home and asked Li Liang to take them home.

"Liangzi, grandma doesn't have anything to eat here, you bring some of these back, the stew is delicious!"

Li Liang didn't shirk too much, and happily took over Gu Yuemei's thoughts!

Li Liang rode his sister's bicycle and quickly returned home, and when he got home, he was already sweating profusely!

He said hello to his mother, who was busy in the supermarket, and returned to the second floor of his house, where he blew the electric fan for a while before he could breathe better!

At dinner in the evening, Wang Xiulan saw the bag of dried beans and dried chili peppers brought back by her son, and said with a smile: "Liangzi, it's not easy for your grandmother to do some work, don't take it!"

"Hey, this is a little bit of Grandma Gu's heart, I'm embarrassed to refuse!"

"Hey, I don't know how your aunt is doing in Gangshan?" Wang Xiulan changed the subject.

Since my aunt Wang Xiuyan opened a branch of Meng Meng Beauty Photo Studio in Gangshan, the home has been much deserted. Wang Xiulan is very worried about her youngest sister, she has always regarded Wang Xiulan as a daughter.

Li Liang said with relief: "Mom, don't worry, my sister has opened two branches in Gangshan now, and there are two people in each person, don't worry." And my aunt's shop is just across the street from the compound of the Gangshan Prefectural Committee and the Executive Office, and the security is very good, so there will be nothing wrong!"