I heard that Wen Xu's family was going to collect dates, and early in the morning, some children ran to the yard and waited to eat dates, Wen Xu naturally had to ask the children if they had eaten, who knew that a group of little guys shook their heads like wavy drums, so Wen Xu's side made wontons for the little ones again, and Wen Xu's side of Wen Xu's wontons alone came down more than ten bowls, plus two drawers of buns to make these little devils' bellies full.

When it was about eight o'clock in the morning and almost nine o'clock in the morning, the main force of seventeen or eighteen-year-old real jujube beaters came, and the older ones were embarrassed to come over for breakfast, so they all came over after eating at home. Old people such as Wen Shigui, Wen Shijie, and Wen Shiqing also came over, and for them, tasting the dates of the old jujube tree has a special meaning, so they all came together. The only absentees were the middle-aged people in their forties and fifties in the village, who were now the main force of work, busy in the fields of each family, where would they have time to come and join in the fun.

In addition to the people of Wenjia Village, there are some familiar guests, with children also come to join in the fun, by the way, let their children grow up, there is no such a meeting in the city, even if you can see the jujube, where can you see such a big jujube tree now.

Therefore, the small courtyard of Wen Xu's house has been lively since the early morning, and now it is even more like a market, with a large number of people standing in the courtyard.

"Shixu, why hasn't the fight started yet?" As soon as Wen Shijie entered the courtyard, he said to Wen Xu.

Wen Xu said: "I just finished eating, how can I eat it!" ”

"You've eaten and you've eaten, don't you see that even the monkeys on the wall can't wait?" Wen Shijie said as he stretched out his hand and pointed at the group of monkeys on the wall of Wen Xu's courtyard.

With such a big battle today, even the monkeys knew that this was the Wen Xu family preparing to beat dates, so one by one the monkeys appeared on the wall one by one, and now they didn't dare to come down, for fear that the fame of the two bombardier demon kings would hit them.

However, they also know in their hearts that when they start beating dates for a while, the demon king and his family may not have the energy to take care of themselves, even if they are hit twice, it is not just to endure it, where is it important to eat dates, they can only eat dates on this tree once or twice a year. So at this time, they waited for the yard to start, so that they could go in and get a fresh date to eat.

In addition to the Khan, there are two or three strong monkeys, and the natural function of these monkeys is to go up the tree to do their favorite thing - shaking the tree!

"Khan still looks like he hasn't woken up a bit," Wen Xu reached out and nodded at Khan.

Khan did not wake up at this time, yesterday and the overlord and the two brothers poured a lot of beer, this morning it seems to be a little hangover, but it doesn't matter much if you don't wake up, there is it here to let the other monkeys be obedient. Of course, if you expect monkeys to pick dates, stealing them is indispensable, and if you don't let them eat them, you don't expect them to pick them.

"Hurry up and start, we have a few dates, and there is still work to be done in the field," Wen Shiqing began to urge.

Wen Xu said, "Okay, let's get started!" ”

"Guangcheng, Guanghong......" Wen Xu called a string of names: "You go over there and get a pole and start fighting!" Khan, you take a few guys up to the treetops and shake the dates off for me."

Hearing Wen Xu's shout, Guangcheng and a few young men cut down the green bamboo pole in the yard and copied it in their hands, stood under the tree and began to beat dates, while Khan took a few of his subordinates to climb the tree.

Wen Xu stood under the tree and drank the demon king and the red devil constantly, asking them not to throw a few monkey nuts, and after drinking a few times in a row, the demon king and the red devil put down the nuts in their hands, stood on the branch and looked up at the big monkeys jumping towards the treetops.

With the swing of the bamboo pole, jujubes continued to fall to the ground. At this time, the happiest are the children, they rushed up, began to pick up the jujube on the ground and did not wipe it and put it in the mouth, the little one did not know that it was a jujube anyway and threw it into the mouth, while chewing while picking up the other one, the mouth could not pick it up, so they lifted the gown as a pocket, and after a while, they picked up a full bag.

Older children will pick jujubes, and they will pick up many red jujubes, but they can't be too red, and some of the too red ones will be ripe.

For example, Wen Shigui, who is older, is smiling and happily watching a group of children beating dates, for them, a group of juniors competing to pick up dates seems to remind them of their childhood.

When the monkeys reached the tree, they stood on the branches and squeaked incessantly, holding the branches with both hands and starting to shake while screaming. Their strength is not small, several big monkeys shook together, and suddenly a large area of jujube fell, like a burst of jujube rain in the sky.

Ouch!

Hahaha!

The sound of joy reached its peak at this moment, and taking advantage of this chaos, the monkeys squatting on the wall also rushed down and began to pick up dates on the ground, but they had to guard against the demon king and the red devil while picking up.

This year, the monkeys are more unlucky, because the little squirrels of the demon king's two children have just grown up and have not left the nest yet, so this year's helpers of the two are not only the first-born children who live nearby, but also these little squirrels who have not left the nest. So when the monkeys jumped off the wall, a group of squirrels began to spontaneously protect the jujubes, and one by one they turned their little arms to become javelin warriors, and the sound of dong dong accompanied by the squeaks of the monkeys in pain added a lot of fun to the yard.

Wen Shijie bent down and picked up two or three dates in his hand, turned his head and gave them to Wen Shigui and Wen Shiqing next to him: "Try it!" ”

The old brother and the couple each took a bite and slowly tasted it while chewing.

"How?" Wen Xu also picked up a jujube from the ground at this time, and just fell in love with a red jujube, but unfortunately Wen Xu's side just bent over and a small hand reached over and picked it up, Wen Xu's hand had to change its position in mid-air and pick up an all-green jujube.

The all-green dates are crisp, the all-red dates are sweet, Wen Xu picked up the dates and put them in his mouth, and after taking a bite, he chewed them twice and felt that this year's dates seemed to be sweeter than last year's.

Wen Shigui also felt it: "This year's dates seem to be sweeter than last year's!" ”

"Then there will be no reduction of dates next year" Wen Xu also felt that this year's dates were a little too sweet, and the reduction of dates meant that when the date tree just bore fruit, Wen Xu listened to the words of the old man Chi and beat down some dates with Duzi, in the old man's opinion, the old date tree is too crazy, and reducing some dates is conducive to the better development of the remaining dates.

Now Wen Xu didn't think that the dates were bigger than last year after taking the dates, but the sweetness was too sweet, some people would say that the dates were not good, and the sweetness was good if it was normal, but there had to be a degree of everything, the dates were too sweet in Wen Xu's opinion to not be able to achieve a balance with the crispy, eating one or two was nothing, and eating too much would be a little greasy.

"I think it's okay!" Wen Shiqing likes to eat sweet, and after eating two or three in a row, he thinks this year's dates are good.

"Honey harvested? When to make dates, make a little more this year, your family's dates raise people! Wen Shijie asked Wen Xu while eating dates.

Wen Xu shook his head: "Not yet, I'm going to collect it tomorrow!" ”

"How much can you collect this year?" Wen Shijie asked Wen Xu.

Wen Xu thought for a moment: "How can you say that you can have three or four hundred catties!" I didn't eat much black honey all summer, that is, the last time my daughters-in-law were confined, I got more than ten catties for each of them, and it is estimated that the honey cones are full now."

When Wen Shigui heard Wen Xu say this, he couldn't help but look at him and shook his head: "You are lazy and there is no one left!" ”

"Usually whoever eats this, it's sweet to death," Wen Xu shook his head.

"Then how many of our brothers will help you tomorrow?" Wen Shijie preached.

"Hmmm! Good! Wen Xu nodded.

This job is not suitable for young people, to have some patience to become, generally speaking, the boys are a little hairy, dry up for fear of provoking the bees, although after a year or two of development, the habits of the bees Wenjia Village people are more familiar, but these bees are still very irritable, stronger than the general wild horse bees, if there is no Wen Xu present, the average person passes by the honeyhive side nothing, but if you pick their honey, move their nest, can chase you for several miles, by them stung it is not a joke, Wait for the pain to linger for days.

Wen Shigui said: "I can't go tomorrow, I want to go to my father-in-law's house, the old man's side is about to celebrate his birthday, I have to go here to prepare."

"Why are you going to prepare?" Wen Shiqing was a little puzzled when he heard this, Wen Shigui's father-in-law is in his nineties, and he should be lively on his birthday, but the old man has a son, and there is more than one, where is it the turn of Wen Shigui's son-in-law?

Wen Shida smiled when he heard this: "The second sister-in-law's status in the family has risen."

Wen Shigui shook his head when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "What doesn't go up, that is, he thinks of us when he spends money, and who thinks of us when he usually collects money, anyway, I think the old man may leave when he will go, and the money will be spent!" ”

"It's also a matter of spending the comfort that still falls in my heart!" Wen Shida nodded and said.

Since the pockets of the Wenjia village have bulged, not to mention that the baby in the village is easy to find a daughter-in-law, even the waist pole that finds the daughter-in-law is hard to talk to his father-in-law, or why say that money is a man's waist, and the money has to be a little tougher to speak in front of the brother-in-law, although Wen Shigui was originally good here, but now it is better, because of the money, now several uncles have no ideas when they are waiting for this brother-in-law to come over to get the idea, of course, the most important thing is to take the money, Counting on this grandfather and brother-in-law to give a little more money on the old man's birthday.

"I said, why did everyone talk about jujube again?" Wen Xu said to the elder brothers with a smile.

"Yes, don't talk about that," Wen Shigui smiled.

For Wen Shigui, I don't like this, a few uncles here treat themselves as ATMs, and if they have nothing to do, they just shoot them and let themselves spit out some money, but he is a good-looking person, this time the old man has a big birthday, he has to pay this money, just like Wen Shida said, the old man may leave one day, why not let the old man have a comfortable birthday? So I told myself that my money was a bastard, and I would earn it again when I spent it.

When everyone refocused their eyes on the courtyard, the dates that had fallen under the entire tree formed a cone from the edge to the root of the tree.

"Yo, there are a lot of dates this year, you can't see how there are so many falls on the ground" Wen Shigui looked at the dates on the ground, then looked up at the date trees, and still saw countless dates hanging on the branches, and hurriedly said.

At this time, there are few children who pick up dates on the ground, some of them cleverly send the dates in their coats and pockets home, and some of them sit directly on the ground and eat directly, even the people who were originally under the tree with a pole to beat dates are also standing aside, now is the performance time of a few monkeys, I saw them squeaking incessantly, and then there were dates rolling down from the branches.