The time gradually passed the time of lunch, and a few clouds in the sky were a little dull, and the scorching sun penetrated through the faint white, as if it were a needle prick, piercing people's eyes for a long time.

came out in a hurry, everyone hadn't eaten lunch yet, but fortunately, Cai Naizi had bread and some snacks in her backpack, and she shared the food with everyone on the way, but she could also be hungry.

It didn't take long, and it took less than twenty minutes to arrive at the pepper garden of the little girl Yang Juan's house.

Yi Yang looked at the oily pepper garden, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, thinking back to the time when he was just reborn, it was a similar scene, and he helped pick peppercorns at his second uncle's house......

At this time, Jiang Lili and Cai Naizi were a little excited.

"The pepper tree looks like this?"

"It doesn't look very tall......"

"Is it hard to pick this?"

Yi Yang took a sunhat from his bag, walked behind Jiang Lili, and buckled her directly on her head.

"Huh?"

Jiang Lili turned his head, Yi Yang continued to press it with some doting, and said, "Don't be reckless later, don't take off your hat, it's easy to tan." ”

Jiang Lili stretched out his hand to straighten his hat and said, "I'm not here to enjoy happiness." ”

Cai Naizi pretended to rub her arms, and said with an exaggerated expression: "Be careful, be careful!" It's such a hot day, you see that the goosebumps on my hands are about to fall. ”

Jiang Lili responded to her with a smile: "Then you can also find a boyfriend." ”

"Cut ......"

Seeing Yi Yang's operation, Lu Hao hesitated, took off his cap, and walked over......

As if she was aware of it, Cai Naizi suddenly turned around and said to Lu Hao: "You don't come, I don't want your hat." ”

"Okay!"

Lu Hao put on his hat very simply and walked away.

Yi Yang and Jiang Lili immediately laughed.

At this time, there were three people in the pepper field who were busy, two old men, a middle-aged man, seeing so many people coming, they all showed puzzled expressions, squinting at them under the scorching sun, the middle-aged man came over, Yang Juan's mother greeted him, and said something beside him, and then the man frowned, looked at a few people who came, and finally sighed, waved his hand, and continued to go back to busy.

Yang Juan's mother walked up to a few people and said, "I discussed it with my man, and he said that although you came for Yang Juan's business, you can't let you do this work in vain...... It's 5 bucks a basket. As she spoke, she showed an embarrassed and determined expression.

Zhou Huazhang stepped forward and said, "Mother Yang, although I am not very polite when I say this, do you think we are here for money?" As long as you are willing to let Yang Juan finish this last week of classes with peace of mind, we feel that it is worth it! ”

When Yang Juan's mother heard this, she lowered her head slightly, did not answer, and said, "You can go and pick the tree over there." He pointed to the tree where the sun was shining.

Then Yang Juan's mother briefly taught them how to pick peppercorns, and the group who came over were not verbose, and they were busy happily.

Yi Yang soon entered the working state, he did it very carefully, grabbed the branch with one hand, and separated the spikes with the other hand, while grabbing a pinch of peppercorns, this pepper grew extremely tough, and it was not so easy to pull up, saying that it was picking peppercorns, but in fact, it was pinching and pulling.

The position of the spikes is everywhere, hidden in the middle of the branches of the tree, when pinching, you must cooperate with both hands, and there is very little space to be used, although Yang Juan's mother has a few scissors, but when operating, you will find that it is not convenient to use the scissors at all.

The scissors are too big, and reaching out to operate in the branches of the pepper tree is not easy to avoid some spikes.

The peppercorns outside the branches are easy to do, and the more difficult ones are located inside, and the branches have to be pulled apart when pulling, sometimes they are not pinched at once, or they are more forceful, and the hands are thrown out, or the branches are hit by elasticity, and the spikes on it will be pierced mercilessly.

In order to pursue efficiency, Yi Yang has been pricked several times, the oil on the pepper is sticky, full of hands, seeping into the position where it was pierced, itchy and painful, he did it without saying a word, the scorching sun, sweat left from his forehead, into his eyes, but he didn't dare to wipe it off with his hands...... His hands are full of pepper oil.

And Yi Yang also heard other people's voices soon after.

"Ahh Pierced again! ”

"It hurts......"

"It's really hard......"

"Why does this peppercorn have so much oil?"

Yi Yang glanced over there, it was not surprising that it was the sister duo of Jiang Lili and Cai Naizi, but he didn't expect the two of them to pick up much, mainly rich girls, and it was good to come occasionally to experience the hardships of the people.

Jiang Lili and Cai Naizi picked the same tree, the efficiency of the two of them was extremely low, but just now they had already boasted about Haikou aggressively, of course they couldn't admit it at this time, they could only endure it, and pick it little by little, picking it very carefully, fortunately, they didn't wear makeup today, and they didn't have to worry about sweat making up their makeup.

For them, after all, it is experience-based, and the mentality is different from that of real farmers who work for their livelihoods, although it is a little painful, and they are accompanied by someone, but it is not as difficult as they imagined, and the two picked it for a while, and they actually looked at each other and laughed.

"Is it more than that?"

"No, no, let's try to finish picking this tree together......"

The tree that Lu Hao picked was next to the yellow shan, and he began to really work at this time, and only then did he understand that picking peppercorns was really not as easy as he imagined, especially the proud physical strength was not of much use on this occasion, fortunately, as a sports student, he had not suffered hardships and could still persevere, but at this time, he felt a little sorry for Sister Cai over there...... glanced over there, but swept the yellow shirt cedar, and was taken aback.

I saw that there was already a small half basket in the basket of the yellow shirt cedar.

She stared intently at the movements of her hands, the sweat hanging on her forehead and not dripping, refracting the sunlight into a beautiful gold.

Lu Hao couldn't help but say, "Shanshan, you are very skilled!" ”

Huang Shanshan was stunned, tilted his head and smiled: "I used to do this work when I was a child." ”

Seeing this, Lu Hao had an inexplicable desire to win in his heart, and his movements also sped up, and he was pierced by a spike, and suddenly screamed.

Huang Shanshan was stunned, "Are you okay?" ”

At this time, many people glanced at him, Lu Hao's face was a little unbearable, and he shook his head: "It's okay, it's okay......" Then he looked down at his hand, and saw that his thumb was already bleeding, and he sighed slightly, and he couldn't get out of the line of fire with a slight injury, but what if his blood got on other people's peppercorns? I had to slow down the pace.

Huang Shanshan smiled on the side: "I'll help you after picking this tree later." ”

Lu Hao could only laugh dryly.

Huang Shan's movements became more agile.

Of course, they won't look down on or ridicule Lu Hao because of this, their family conditions are excellent, and it is already very admirable to be able to put down their bodies to do this kind of thing, whether they do it well or badly is just a matter of proficiency, and the attitude of the family is ......

Just glanced at Yi Yang secretly, but Huang Shanshan showed a puzzled look.

Yi Yang didn't say a word, he did this very skillfully, the pepper tree was very short, there was no shade to hide from at all, and the sun was shining straight on his face, shining a golden luster on his face.

At his feet was a basket of peppercorns that were about to be plucked.

Huang Shanshan was stunned for a moment, looked down at his basket, Yi Yang's basket was even more than a small half of hers, and his mood suddenly became weird.

What's going on......

In her imagination, Yi Yang should be similar to Lu Hao, at first she made a look like I can, I understand it very well, but then when she started to do this, she immediately found that some of the things she was proud of were actually useless on this occasion...... Of course, Yi Yang may not scream, after all, it doesn't match his personality, so he can only hold on stubbornly......

However, at this time, it is clear that Yi Yang is more skilled than he looks!

When she was distracted, she didn't pay attention to the movements of her hand, and a very long thorn pricked her finger fiercely, and she suddenly screamed in pain.

Yi Yang happened to fill a basket at this time, and was about to carry it over, so he walked to the side of the yellow shanshan and said, "Are you okay?" ”

Huang Shanshan showed an embarrassed expression: "It's okay, it's okay......"

Yi Yang smiled: "I'll finish picking it later, come and help you." ”

Hearing these familiar words, Huang Shanshan's expression was complicated for a while, and when he looked back at Lu Hao, he couldn't help laughing.

After Yi Yang left, Huang Shanshan sighed faintly.

Yi Yang is extremely focused when doing things, and after immersing himself in it, he will not care about the outside world, except for him, everyone else is basically picking peppercorns while chatting.

Liu Jia looked left and right, saw Cai Naizi and Jiang Lili together, and leaned over to talk, "Is it the first time you pick peppercorns?" ”

"yes." Cai Naizi glanced at Liu Jia strangely.

Liu Jia began to talk casually about some things near this area, about the water, soil and people's feelings, etc., but he didn't stay here in vain, and he was quite familiar with Banshan Township.

Cai Naizi wiped her sweat with the back of her hand and said, "Teacher Liu, have you finished picking it?" ”

Liu Jia was slightly stunned and laughed dryly: "Oh, is this...... Because I hurt my wrist the other day......"

"Oh, then Teacher Liu is really hard."

"Haha, nothing...... It's nothing, when I used to help my father work in the factory, I often twisted my wrist and got hurt for a long time. ”

Jiang Lili didn't say a word, and concentrated on picking peppercorns.

Compared with Jiang Lili, Cai Naizi has much more experience in contact with boys, and people like Liu Jia can see what the other party is thinking at a glance.

Of course, they will not belittle each other because of other people's accosting, in a sense, this is a kind of self-confidence, and it is understandable to vaguely deliberately reveal that the family conditions are superior, which in itself is the capital to attract the opposite sex, but unfortunately she can't see any highlights from Liu Jia in addition, she looks ordinary, she can't chat, and she doesn't seem to have a good relationship with her colleagues...... So instinctively I wanted to stay away from him.

Besides, there is a Lu Hao by his side, but he is a rich second generation!

Cai Naizi seemed to suddenly think of something, and shouted to Lu Hao over there: "Lu Hao, come here!" ”

Liu Jia was slightly stunned, he just saw that there was no one around the two girls, and if there was one more person, some things would not be easy to say.

When Lu Hao heard the call, he immediately put down the basket and ran over.

"What's the matter, Sister Cai?"

Cai Naizi smiled and suddenly said, "I suddenly thought of an idea. ”

"What's the idea?"

Cai Naizi said: "Didn't you say that your sister wants to open a hot pot restaurant? ”

Lu Hao nodded: "My dad wanted my sister to know the difficulty of starting a business, so he threw millions of dollars for her to toss...... But I'm still hesitating whether to be a hot pot restaurant or a Chinese restaurant."

Hearing this, Liu Jia's expression suddenly changed slightly.

Millions? Casual toss?

Cai Naizi said: "Whether it's a hot pot restaurant or Chinese food, you have to peppercorns, right?" I think you might as well recommend it to your sister and buy all the peppercorns here! ”

Lu Hao thought for a while, "Is this...... It's not possible, but with the cost of freight, it's not necessarily cheaper than buying from a dealer, so I'll try it. ”

Cai Naizi seemed to remember something at this time, and looked at Liu Jia next to her: "By the way, Mr. Liu, what did you just say?" ”

Liu Jia's expression was a little unnatural, "I'...... Hey, I forgot what I was going to say, what am I going to say? Oh yes, I want to say, kids here, it's not easy to ......."

Lu Hao nodded approvingly: "Yes, yes...... Speaking of which, Yi Yang is also very powerful, I just looked around, but I didn't expect him to be so proficient in picking peppercorns. ”

Cai Naizi said with a smile: "After all, it is a person who can invest tens of millions of dollars in the freshman year of our school, and such people are generally very persevering!" ”

Liu Jia's expression changed again.

Lu Hao smiled meaningfully, "Yes, yes, I want to learn more from Yi Yang." ”

Cai Naizi was stunned and snorted softly.

Jiang Lili heard that there was something in the words of the two, coughed lightly twice, didn't go to talk, simply went to see Liu Jia, and saw that he was in a daze, so he asked, "Teacher Liu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Liu Jiagan laughed twice: "Oh...... That, nothing, nothing......"

Everyone was busy until the sun was almost setting in the afternoon, and finally completed the task.

Putting more than a dozen baskets of peppercorns in front of Yang Juan's parents, Zhou Huazhang was a little proud and said, "You have nothing to say now, right?" ”

Looking at the peppercorns in front of him, Yang Juan's father's expression was a little complicated, and he was silent for a long time.

Seeing this, Zhou Huazhang frowned, "What's wrong?" ”

Yang Juan's mother sighed and said, "Teacher Zhou, actually...... Alas, I'll be honest with you, we don't want our kids to take exams. ”

Zhou Huazhang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but shout: "Why! ”

Yang Juan's mother lowered her head, not knowing what to say.

Yang Juan's father took a deep breath and said, "Let me tell you, Teacher Zhou, you are a good teacher, including everyone is a good teacher!" But you don't know what's going on in our family, we ...... We really don't have the money......"

Zhou Huazhang suddenly became excited and said, "Didn't you say it, if she can be admitted to the town, the tuition and miscellaneous fees will be waived!" ”

Yang Juan's father raised his head: "But...... And living expenses, aren't they? ”

Yang Juan's mother also shed tears: "And...... That's just junior high school, and then there's high school, and college, and we're ...... Can't afford it. ”

Zhou Huazhang: "Now the country's policy is very good, as long as the results are good......"

"But what about bad grades?" Yang Juan's father shook his head: "Teacher Zhou, what we actually know, even if my child has good grades in Banshan Township, what can he be when he gets to the town and the county seat?" Our family...... Just plant some land, this pepper can be sold for only a few thousand yuan, and she has a younger brother...... I will marry a wife and children in the future......"

Hearing these words, Zhou Huazhang opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word.

The wind in the pepper garden was rippling, and a birdsong was heard in the distance.

At this moment, Jiang Lili spoke, "That's it, if my little sister can be admitted as long as I can be admitted, I will sponsor her to go to school, and I will sponsor her to which stage she reads." ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Jiang Lili.

Yi Yang stood beside her and squeezed her hand.

Jiang Lili looked at Yi Yang and smiled.

The sun was about to set, and half of the setting sun was shining on her face, looking extremely warm.