After coming out of Dr. Zhu's house, Li Ping'an took people up the mountain directly, the road up the mountain was quite gentle, and Jixiang pulled Xiao Ruyi to walk slowly without worrying too much about Ruyi wrestling.

The first hill is close to Zhutao Village, and there is basically no firewood to pick up.

Little by little, he continued to walk up the mountain, and soon Xiao Ruyi shouted tired, Li Ping'an simply picked her up and put her on his shoulder to let her ride a big horse, and occasionally saw Huang Gardenia, so he asked Jixiang to take it off.

This thing is a natural food coloring, and it also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and the bean cake he wants to make needs to be colored with yellow gardenia, and the bean cake made has a golden appearance, which is pleasing.

Found a place where there seemed to be more firewood, Li Ping'an put down Xiao Ruyi and asked her to pick up small branches on the ground with Jixiang, and he and Zhang Xiaoshan climbed the tree like monkeys with a woodcutter to cut small branches.

auspicious and sensible, the fine firewood picked up is placed neatly, one, two, three...... One pile was almost finished, and another pile was set up next to it.

This is the firewood she picked up for herself, and when she will ask her eldest brother to tie up these two piles of fine firewood, she can carry it home.

Xiao Ruyi didn't know, he was happy to pick it up one by one and throw it up, seeing that there were more and more firewood, he felt that it was beyond his bearing, and Jixiang hurriedly shouted to stop Ruyi.

"Enough is enough, don't pick it up again, I won't be able to carry it later!"

Xiao Ruyi paused, blinked, and finally understood what the eldest sister meant, and rolled her eyes, so she continued to pick up the small branches, but instead of throwing them on the two small stacks of neatly stacked firewood, she put them separately.

Ji Xiang understood at a glance, "Do you want to carry firewood too?" ”

Xiao Ruyi nodded again and again, "The cauldron has it, Brother Xiaoshan has it, the eldest sister has it, and Ruyi has to have it too!" ”

"No, you're too young, the eldest brother said that children don't carry heavy things, they won't grow tall!" Auspicious face objected.

Xiao Ruyi raised his hand to cover his ears, if he didn't listen, he didn't listen, I just wanted to carry firewood!

Jixiang is not used to Ruyi, and broke Ruyi's hand, "If you don't grow tall, you can only be as tall as your big brother's ass, and your big brother's fart makes you smell it, do you still want to grow tall?" ”

Xiao Ruyi didn't say anything, Li Ping'an, who was a few steps away from the tree, didn't like to listen, he shouted dissatisfiedly with a dark face: "What are you talking about, I can still grow taller, you quickly change the reason!" ”

Auspicious sticks out the tongue, slightly.

Xiao Ruyi has the same kind of learning, and also sticks out his tongue, slightly.

Li Ping'an: "I still want to wait until I finish collecting firewood to pick peaches, if you do this, I won't go!" ”

When the sisters heard this, they quickly admitted their mistake.

Li Ping'an was speechless for a while, "Okay, you just sit there and play, auspicious, you are optimistic about Ruyi, and when the eldest brother is done, I will take you to pick peaches." ”

There are a lot of wild peach trees on the mountain, there is a forest, there are also unsociable lonely people who appreciate themselves, after Li Ping'an finished cutting firewood, and Zhang Xiaoshan with auspicious wishes to find a peach tree nearby, there are not many fruits on the tree, some fall to the ground, it is also possible to be picked, pick a few good quality picked, and then go to find other peach trees.

Picking and picking, I walked away unconsciously, a gust of mountain wind blew, and Jixiang was surprised: "What taste?" ”

"What's the smell?" Li Ping'an was stunned.

Ji Xiang: "There is fragrance in the wind. ”

Li Ping'an sniffed, and sure enough, there was a very faint fragrance, he almost couldn't smell it after smelling it so deliberately, and suddenly stared at Jixiang like a ghost, is this girl's nose so sensitive?

I subconsciously calculated whether auspiciousness belonged to a dog.

Ji Xiang was stared at by Li Ping'an like this, he was uncomfortable, and hurriedly said, "Big brother, let's go find out where the fragrance came from, right?" ”

Li Ping'an put away his gaze and looked at the sky, it was not too early but not too late, so he agreed, "Then let's look for it, whether I find it or not in a quarter of an hour, I will go back." ”

Ji Xiang nodded again and again.

"The wind is blowing from the east." Zhang Xiaoshan said.

So he walked to the east, less than a quarter of an hour, he saw a valley, the valley was full of peach trees, Li Ping'an's first reaction was a little regretful, if the peach blossoms bloomed, the scenery here must be picturesque and pleasing to the eye. But this time was not bad, and he found a few flowering laurel trees in the valley, with small yellow flowers hanging in clusters of fine and dense branches, and contrasting with the pointed green leaves.

"It's the osmanthus that is blooming." Zhang Xiaoshan glanced at Li Ping'an, ready to move, "What do you say?" ”

"What else can I say, tomorrow we will inquire in the county seat if there is any osmanthus harvest, and if there is, then we will take it down and sell it for money." Li Ping'an has never made osmanthus cake, he can probably guess the method, but he hasn't done it yet, mainly because this thing is also available in this era, but it is not called osmanthus cake, but called Guanghan cake, he bought it and ate it, and the dim sum shop did a good job, and he had no confidence to compare with those skillful masters.

It's better to sell osmanthus directly, something that grows naturally, zero cost, and don't worry about losing money at all.

Hearing that this can also be sold for money, Jixiang was very happy and invited merit: "Big brother, am I very powerful?" ”

"Well, yes, it's very powerful, if it weren't for your nose, we wouldn't have known that these laurel trees had bloomed for a while." Li Ping'an praised, "If you can sell the osmanthus flowers, the eldest brother will buy you candy, and I will make delicious food for you during the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Jixiang hurriedly waved his hand, "You don't need to buy caramel candy, caramel is so expensive, eldest brother, you should use it to buy a gift for the third brother first." ”

"Children don't have to worry too much, you have to believe that the eldest brother will only buy you candy when he has spare money, and the eldest brother doesn't have much money in his hands in the past two days, didn't he buy it?" Li Ping'an freed up a hand to touch Jixiang's head, he didn't want Jixiang, who was only five years old, to be so sensible, the more sensible the child was, the more distressing it was.

It's good to be like Xiao Ruyi, you will not hide your love for caramel candy, and you will be disappointed because he went to the county seat empty-handed, but you won't mess around, and you can happily hold and gnaw on a wild peach with a slightly sour taste.

At their age, it is enough to know a little thing, and they don't need to be too sensible. At least as his younger siblings should be, selfishly, he feels that if he lets his younger siblings worry so much at a young age, then he, the eldest brother, is not doing a good job, or is not good enough.

Ji Xiang tilted his head and thought for a while, and felt that the eldest brother was right, so he was full of expectations, "Then big brother, you must sell the osmanthus and buy us caramel for us!" And don't forget to make us delicious food during the Mid-Autumn Festival! ”

"What's delicious?" Xiao Ruyi asked curiously with wide eyes.

"Isn't it enough that you have caramel? Don't ask, you can't say if you ask! ”

Xiao Ruyi blinked, "Big ~ pot ~~"

"I won't give you peaches!"

"I was wrong, I won't ask!"

“……”