Chapter 355: The "Marinated" Second Brother

Ning Qingyuan took two steps with a smile on his face while holding the watermelon in his arms. He vaguely heard some sound. He took a few more steps and the watermelon in his arms made a crackling sound and seemed to be about to split.

"Don't move, brother."

Both the brother and sister heard the voice, the smiles on their faces froze, and they slowly moved their heads and shifted their eyes to the watermelon.

Ning Qingyuan accidentally stepped on the watermelon vine and hit his foot, causing his foot to slide down two steps. The watermelon in his hand shook as a result, and suddenly there was another cracking sound, and the watermelon in his arms cracked with a bang.

"Bang——"

"Brother, be careful, hurry——"

Before Ning Xiyue could finish her words, there was another noise and she could only quickly step back a few steps.

At the same time, a look of shock appeared on her face, her pupils dilated, and her mouth opened wider than an egg. She looked at the watermelon in disbelief as it sprayed all over her second brother's body like diarrhea.

Except for most of the rind of the whole watermelon which was still in the second brother's hand, the rest was hanging on his body.

The black and numerous watermelon seeds and the watermelon juice that had turned into soup covered the second brother's entire face. Oh no, it should be that no part of his body was spared.

Then she saw a fat mouse with watermelon juice all over its body, chewing a piece of watermelon in its hand, looking blankly at the drastically changed environment around it. When it looked into Ning Xiyue's eyes, it seemed to know the environment it was in.

It jumped off Ning Qingyuan's head in a panic and ran away. While running, it did not forget to grab another piece of watermelon pulp from its second brother and held it in its mouth.

Before Ning Xiyue could take any action, the mouse had disappeared in a flash. No one knew how it managed to run so fast with its fat body twisting around.

Reason prevented her from laughing, as this was her second brother, and he looked so miserable. But after seeing the mouse's actions, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

“Hahaha~”

"Little sister, don't laugh."

Ning Qingyuan threw the melon peel in his hand to the ground angrily, and had no energy to care about the mouse that ran away like a gust of wind.

He clenched his fists and shook his body, and the light pink watermelon juice and black watermelon seeds on his body slid down to the ground as he shook.

"Sorry, I just couldn't help it, brother."

Ning Xiyue covered her mouth and tried her best not to laugh, holding back the sound that was about to break out of her throat, otherwise her second brother would turn against all his relatives, and the friendly and harmonious brother-sister relationship would be broken like this watermelon.

Finally suppressing her smile, Ning Xiyue cleared her throat and gave a sincere suggestion from the bottom of her heart:

"Brother, why don't we go back to the bathing area and clean up. I'll fetch you the dried water, and then have Yu Zhiyu go to your room and pack a set of clean clothes and send them to you?"

"I'll go back later. I don't believe that I can't pick a good watermelon today. I have to pick another one."

Ning Qingyuan turned around and went into the watermelon field to pick the watermelons again. He turned over the side of each watermelon that was touching the ground. At the same time, he looked in the direction where the mouse had just escaped and kept muttering to himself.

"We can't let those big rats get away with it. We have to find something to trap the watermelons. They have finally stolen the watermelons and it's our fault. Look at their bodies, they must have grown from eating watermelons. The watermelon is as big as that one, so it must weigh more than ten pounds.

My goodness! There is a big hole underneath that has been eaten by mice. They have even gone in to live and eat. I am so mad! Don’t let me catch them. If I do, I will roast them and give meat to Xiao Hui’s family. ”

"Calm down, calm down, second brother, calm down. This means that our watermelons should be ripe. The mice have been eyeing them. That watermelon should be the most delicious one. Let's choose the biggest watermelon in the field this time. It is almost certain to be ripe. We can talk about the watermelon trap later. You have to go take a shower. It's really, um -" It's too sour and smelly.

A pungent sour smell became stronger under the sun.

Ning Xiyue didn't say it out loud, but she used the action of fanning herself with her hands and her wrinkled face to remind her second brother.

"Is it so obvious? Why can't I smell it?" Ning Qingyuan pulled the clothes and sniffed himself, then sniffed his arm, and wrinkled his nose: "Oh no, I've been pickled."

Ning Xiyue couldn't help laughing, but couldn't hold it in any longer.

“Pfft, hahaha~”

Is the second brother some kind of funny guy? Such a serious joke.

In the end, he didn't pick the watermelon, nor did he continue to check on the other watermelons. Ning Qingyuan ran quickly to the bathroom with the stench of rotten watermelon on his body, shouting as he ran:

"Little sister, please ask Yu Zhiyu to get some clean clothes for me. They are hanging on the kang. I will fetch water myself. Oh, and we can pick out the watermelons after I finish my shower. I don't believe in it today."

"Okay, got it. Go quickly, the stench is getting more pronounced."

Ning Xiyue and Erkang waved their hands, and without stopping on the field, they stood up and walked towards the row of houses for male educated youth in front of the Youth League Courtyard.

He found Yu Zhiyu and conveyed his second brother's words to him, then went back to the kitchen and sat waiting for his second brother to come back.

Ning Qingyuan repeatedly applied soap to his body and washed it, especially the top of his head where rats had been. He even used soap nuts to wash it. After coming out of the shower, the sour smell on his body was finally gone.

He walked towards the kitchen with his clothes and pants in disgust.

Ning Xiyue, who was sitting in the kitchen drinking water, twitched her nose slightly. When she smelled a foul odor, she knew that her second brother was back. She put down the cup of water, walked to the door, and looked at Ning Qingyuan who was walking over with a playful smile.

"Brother, I'm afraid you need to soak your clothes in water before washing them. The watermelon juice is soaked through them."

"Well, it does need to be soaked."

Ning Qingyuan nodded, thinking that everything made sense. He took the wooden basin for washing clothes and started soaking his clothes. He also took out the soap and scraped some soap foam into the basin.

Ning Xiyue wanted to laugh when she saw it. It was so funny that even she herself disliked the stench.

"You should use the strong detergent I made to wash your clothes. It will clean them quickly and ensure that your clothes will not smell bad. If you wash them this way, you may not be able to get them clean even if you soak them for a whole day."

"Okay, I'll go get that and wash it."

Ning Qingyuan went to take out the can of special laundry detergent and said:

"Sister, why did the watermelon explode? Why is there so much water in it? The water is so smelly, it got all over me. The damn rat even stood on my head and ate it. Humph."

Ning Qingyuan squatted beside the wooden basin, still thinking about the watermelon that was spilled all over him and the "little thief" who stole the watermelon.

Ning Xiyue thought about it and felt that it was most likely because of the heavy rain last night, and also because of the main culprit.

I guess the rain water flowed into the watermelon through the holes gnawed by the mice, and when the watermelon juice accumulated in the holes gnawed by the mice mixed with the two, the amount of water became more. In addition, it was sunny today, so the water inside fermented and went bad if exposed to the sun.

What a coincidence that she was chosen by her brother. The watermelon, which was on the edge of collapse, exploded on the spot after her second brother slapped it a few times and then picked it up and shook it.

It was really unexpected that the mouse was squatting inside and stealing food.

To sum it up, her second brother is "lucky".

She will be able to laugh for the rest of her life about her second brother's accident, and she also wants to share it with her parents.

I resisted the urge to laugh again and took a sip of water.