"Well, I thought about seeing if I could dry it to make dried plums, and the sour and astringent taste was also quite thirst-quenching."

Seeing that his mother insisted, Zhang Leier didn't say anything more, after all, it was not too troublesome to go up the mountain to pick a fruit, and he had nothing to do at home.

After lunch, Li Xiaoshuang pulled Zhang Lei'er and hurriedly went up the mountain, as if she was afraid that at the end of the night, the green plums on the tree would disappear.

Li Xiaoshuang's impatience also seemed to infect Zhang Leier, making him feel as if there was some treasure on the mountain.

After packing up everything on the back basket, cloth bag, and flat burden, Zhang Leier hurriedly grabbed Li Xiaoshuang, who was about to go to the main road, and proposed: "Mother, let's go up the hill on the path!" Hurry up. ”

In Li Xiaoshuang's impression, neither the original memory nor her memory of these days has any trace of the mountain path. Li Xiaoshuang has been walking to the mountains these days along the same road that he had taken to hunt pigweed before.

The big guys also seem to be the only trail they take.

The mountain road was walked out by the villagers of Zhangjia Village, and after many generations, the original dense mountain was forced out of a path that is now barren.

Every day, when I go up the mountain to hunt pigweed, chop firewood, and hunt, I seem to be accustomed to walking that road, and even the mud and sand seems to have become a little smooth. Only the dense trees on both sides can vaguely see the prosperity of this place, not the small yellow dirt road that is now bare.

"Oh?" Li Xiaoshuang paused her originally advancing body and looked at Zhang Lei'er with a slight puzzlement.

Zhang Lei'er scratched her head, with a sincere smile on her face, and said: "I went up the mountain before to be in a hurry, and I went up from the mountain behind our house with the bushes, and not far from the green plum forest. ”

"I'm going to die!" After hearing this, Li Xiaoshuang slapped Zhang Lei'er on the shoulder fiercely, and said: "You are not afraid of stepping on the air, or stepping on poisonous snakes, I really thank God for blessing!" ”

"Mother, isn't my son fine? Besides, my son is very careful every time he walks the path. Zhang Lei'er hugged her beaten shoulder, looked at Li Xiaoshuang flatteringly, and said, "Mother, let's set off early!" It's good to catch the sun, and you can catch the sun for half the day by pulling the green plum chop home! ”

"Yes, yes, let's go!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaoshuang hurriedly pulled Zhang Lei'er and walked to the back mountain, and instructed as she walked: "Then you can be careful when you lead the way ahead!" ”

"It's okay, I've walked that road several times." Zhang Leier patted her chest and reassured, with a smile on her face.

Li Xiaoshuang looked at Zhang Lei'er, who was beating her chest, and teased: "Do you also want to take a path like your ancestors?" ”

In addition to the need to pick up the weeds and bushes, the road under your feet is quite flat, not uneven, and you can step on a pit.

The two mothers and sons didn't waste much effort to arrive at the green plum forest where Li Xiaoshuang had been in the morning.

The sun is very fierce at noon, and although there are many places where the sun does not shine in the deep mountains surrounded by dense trees, the hot sun still makes the surrounding air hot, and the dense trees make people feel extremely hot.

When she arrived at the place, Li Xiaoshuang didn't dare to waste any more time, and hurriedly put the burlap bag on the ground and spread it out, while Zhang Leier climbed the tree to shake the branches or pick the fruit.

Before going up the tree, Li Xiaoshuang looked back and forth to confirm that there was no snake on the tree, and told Zhang Leier to be careful before letting him climb the tree.

Whether in modern times or now, being bitten by a poisonous snake is not so easy to treat, and there is really no need to kill yourself for something that you don't know if you can sell.

With the addition of strong labor, it became a little easier to pick green plums.

Many ripe green plums fell to the ground one after another after shaking the branches, some fell on the burlap bags spread on the ground, and Li Xiaoshuang was responsible for picking them up and putting them in the back basket.

In about an hour, the two baskets that came over and the four burlap bags were filled, and this was only the harvest of five green plum trees, and there were no less than a dozen or so green plum trees that bore full fruit.

However, the two of them no longer had the energy and nothing left to load the green plums of the dozen or so trees.

The two of them sat under the tree, panting and resting, their eyes full of joy of harvest.

"Mother, if this green plum is replaced with something else, we will send it." After resting for a while, Zhang Leier happily took the burlap bag beside her with a rope and tied a dead knot.

"If it is replaced by other good things, how can it be our turn!" Li Xiaoshuang rolled up her straw hat and fanned the wind, her face was flushed after exertion, her forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and the sweaty broken hair on her forehead stuck to her face.

Looking at Zhang Lei'er, who was still full of energy, Li Xiaoshuang felt that she was really old, and she really couldn't be compared with a young and strong guy.

I think that when she was her age, she also did all kinds of work up and down the mountain, not at all like Zhang Lin'er at this time, who was so pampered.

Compared with Zhang Lin'er, her heart is more inclined to Zhang Lei'er, such a well-behaved, sensible and hard-working good child, doesn't it make people feel more distressed! This is a little different from Li Xiaoshuang, who loved Zhang Lin'er more.

The original Li Xiaoshuang felt that rough men should do some rough work, and her little girl should be pampered. The original owner also thought that if he could, he would definitely find a good family for Zhang Lin'er, preferably if there was a mother-in-law and slave at home, so that his delicate daughter would not have to do work.

It is much better than reality, not to mention whether there are such people in these seven miles and eight townships, just to say that the villagers of Zhangjia Village, that is, they do not worry about food and clothing, and then they have to live a better life, after all, everyone only has rations and no money to spare.

Who knew that Zhang Lin'er would find a Qin family that could barely solve the problem of food and clothing!

Although their rations were saved for the Qin family's children to study, this kind of living situation was too far worse than the original owner imagined.

As soon as I learned that in addition to hating iron and steel, I was only full of helplessness and worries about my daughter's future, and I had the idea of breaking them up at the beginning, if Li Xiaoshuang hadn't come over, maybe these two people would have been broken up alive!

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoshuang shook her head slightly.

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and the path chosen by the younger generations is up to them! Even as a mother, she is not qualified to obstruct it.

What's more, Zhang Lin'er's posture of not marrying Qin Muhan and vowing not to give up may have broken up the two of them in the end, and the relationship between the mother and daughter was almost ruined!