Chapter 90 The taste of happiness!

Ye Zhen was about to go back, Qian Fen was really reluctant to let him go, and asked again while packing her things:

"Ye Zi is really not going to play for a few days?"

Ye Zhen was a little helpless. Alas! This is the bad thing about being too popular. Sister Qian had asked me this question no less than eight times. I could only explain it again:

"Sister Qian, it's so fun here that I don't want to go back, but I have something to do at home, otherwise I would definitely stay for a few more days. How about Sister Qian, come with me to my house and play for a few days?" Ye Zhen thought for a moment and wanted to take Qian Fen away. Isn't reciprocity the right thing to do?

Qian Fen was stunned, as if she had not expected this to happen. However, she was really tempted and didn't know what to do.

Seeing Qian Fen hesitate, Ye Zhen advised:

"There's nothing to do at home anyway, and you haven't been out for a while, right? Just treat it as visiting relatives, and you can also take a look at the strawberries I grow!"

Qian Fen: "How many days will you be gone?"

There has been nothing going on at home recently. We don’t need anyone to help with seafood farming, and my uncle Ye is at home. My son is selling barbecue at a stall there and usually doesn’t come home. As for the issue of eating... forget it, let him solve it himself.

The more he thought about it, the more beautiful it seemed. This time he decided not to persuade Ye Zhen to stay. Now Uncle Ye was dumbfounded!

Looking at Qian Fen packing clothes in the room, Uncle Ye's honest face showed a rare look of confusion:

"No, you're leaving now? What about me?"

Qian Fen happily folded a few sets of clothes and put them into the suitcase. Hearing this, she tutted impatiently and replied with a hint of disdain, "What do you mean by you? Of course you'll stay at home. I want to play with Ye Zi for a few days."

Uncle Ye was a little unhappy: "You went out to play and left me alone at home?" Unbelievable, Uncle Ye came close to Qian Fen and asked a soul-searching question: "Just me?"

Qian Fen rolled her eyes, reached out to push him away, and folded another piece of clothing. In fact, it was almost summer and there was nothing to bring. However, the temperature at Ye Zhen's place was a little cooler than outside, so Ye Zhen specifically asked her to bring some coats.

"Don't you have a son at home? Why don't you stay with him for a few days and help him out? Besides, isn't that what we did before?"

Uncle Ye: "How can it be the same? I go there to help at night and I'm at home during the day. What will I eat when you leave?" In fact, they have been married for so many years and have done everything together. It's a bit uncomfortable to suddenly leave him alone.

Qian Fen had already thought about it: "For noodles, I'll buy a handful of noodles. Can I boil them? If you don't know how to read the tutorial, there are seafood noodles ready if you want. Can you buy some vegetables? If not, we still have eggs at home. You can fry eggs, right? If you still don't know how, you can mix the pickles that Ye Zi brought, right? If not, go out and eat by yourself!"

Qian Fen couldn't tell what was going on in Uncle Ye's mind from his expression, and she became angrier and angrier as she spoke.

Hey! She usually cooks without knowing that her husband is so useless. She has been responsible for the family's food for these years. After the children grew up, she only cooked for two people.

She felt a little guilty for leaving her man alone at home, but when she thought about how she had worked so hard at housework over the years and how he had gotten used to her not even helping her when she fell, she felt even more justified in saying that she was still chattering when she went out:

"Look how lucky you are to have me as your wife, and you can't even cook noodles? I've been the one cooking to support you, so what's your opinion about me going out to play now?"

He didn't say he couldn't cook noodles? He was the one who cooked before they got married. He just...

He stammered a few times, but became timid under Qian Fen's glare: "Then...how many days will it take for you to come back?"

"It'll only be a few days. I'll be back when I've had enough. Besides, Dongzi's parents are back soon. Let's go see our sister and bring them some things."

At this point, Qian Fen also sighed. Dongzi's parents had heard from Dongzi that they were working for free this time. How could country people make money? It was unknown when Dongzi's medical expenses would be paid by selling vegetables. For Dongzi's legs, the couple worked hard to save money. It was all because of the capitalists.

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The next morning

Uncle Ye passed the seafood he had sold to Ye Zhen. Ye Zhen took a look and saw that it was quite a lot. He gave it all to her, but Ye Zhen returned more than half of it.

"Uncle, it's unreasonable for the three of us to catch all the fish together. I can't be so shameless as to take all of it."

Seeing that Uncle Ye was about to say something, she refused immediately: "Don't give it to me, I won't accept it! I'm going to 'plunder' your house later, and giving money would be awkward, right, Sister Qian?"

Qian Fen was preparing some other things. They didn't have much else here, just a lot of seafood and fruits. Ye Zhen drove here, so it would be convenient for him to come back as well.

Hearing this, she put the dried seaweed into a clean plastic bag, looked up and smiled: "Yes!" At worst, she could take some more things with her.

Uncle Ye refused several times before accepting the gift. Thinking that Ye Zhen was driving a big pickup truck, the couple agreed and decided to take more things with them.

All the seafood in the small pond was fished out, and they were still alive. They found a big bucket and put it on Ye Zhen's pickup truck, filled it with water and fish, and put some shrimps and crabs in other large and small buckets. As they were afraid that the pickup truck would be killed by the strong sun with its roof open, Uncle Ye went to the town to buy a sunshade.

After finishing the live seafood, Ye Dong ran to the reef early in the morning and pried back a lot of large oysters and mussels. He piled these things directly on Ye Zhen's pickup truck, a huge pile.

Qian Fen was busy like a little bee, searching inside and outside for dried salted fish, dried shrimps, homemade oyster sauce, as well as seaweed, sea cabbage and other sea vegetables.

As if that wasn’t enough, I picked a lot of fruits from my own yard, including papaya, mango, guava…

Seeing that Ye Zhen's car was not full yet, he took Ye Zhen to the mountain behind the village, where there were some bananas planted, a few jackfruits planted at home, and some other fruits scattered around, which could almost be picked.

Uncle Ye helped cut down a bunch of bananas, thought for a while, and cut down another kind of pink banana that was a little smaller and plump, and said to Ye Zhen:

"You people from other places eat bananas, but these pink bananas have a more delicate texture and are more sticky. Bring some home to share, but they ripen too quickly and are hard to store. Eat these pink bananas first when you get home."

Ye Zhen had never seen pink bananas before. There were even smaller bananas here, but she didn't know what they were called. Seeing Uncle Ye chopping down the third banana tree, she quickly stopped him:

"Uncle, that's enough. We can't finish the extra."

There are a lot of bananas on each tree, with bananas arranged neatly one after another, weighing at least dozens of kilograms. These bananas are planted in places with suitable climate and fertile soil and ripen naturally. With just these three trees, we may not be able to eat all of them even if we take them home to share with our uncles, aunts and other relatives.

Uncle Ye picked a banana and handed it to Ye Zhen.

"Come and try the naturally ripened pink bananas, they are sweeter than those sold on the street."

Ye Zhen took it. The banana was very thick and smelled fragrant. The skin was thinner than a banana and had some small spots on it. It was sweet and soft when you took a bite.

tasty!

Ye Zhen had never seen this kind of pink banana before, so he asked, "Uncle, this kind of pink banana is so delicious, why don't you sell it outside?"

Uncle Ye: "Who here doesn't grow a few pink bananas in their hometown? It's because they can't be sold at a good price. The skin is too thin. The transportation cost is not cheap to sell it outside. Who has the time to sell it outside? Besides, if you want to grow anything, you should grow bananas. Pink bananas are only eaten by locals."

Ye Zhen bit the banana in silence, and roughly understood what Uncle Ye meant.

Uncle Ye stopped chopping bananas and started chopping jackfruits.

There are only a few jackfruit trees. You can smell the rich fruity fragrance before you get close. Fruits of all sizes are hanging on the trunks. Fortunately, the trees are big enough, otherwise all these fruits would have crushed the trees.

Ye Zhen compared them and found that some of the big ones were half the length of her body.

Uncle Ye found a few extra-large jackfruits and started chopping them with a kitchen knife. Ye Zhen was unable to help, so he strolled over to Ye Dong, who was picking some ruby-like wax apples. These wax apples looked really beautiful, hanging on the branches like strings of wine glasses.

After everyone had been busy for most of the morning, Ye Zhen’s pickup truck was already packed to the brim!

A quick look revealed that besides a large amount of seafood, there were also tropical fruits. At this time, there were some early-ripening longans, with branches in large bundles, and many green-skinned and black-skinned coconuts. These were all picked by Uncle Ye from the houses he knew. Not to mention the mangoes, which were yellow, green-skinned, and yellow with red. They were just dumped together without even having to use plastic bags. Not to mention some fruits that Ye Zhen had never eaten before, Uncle Ye also picked quite a few...

According to Qian Fen, these are worthless. A lot of them have to be fed to chickens and pigs every year. The chickens and ducks can't eat them all, and a lot of them rot in the fields every year.

Ye Zhen: ...

Why does this sound a bit wrong?

I can only envy them. In places with abundant fruits, even the chickens and ducks at home are eaten to death. In places with fewer varieties of fruits, they are often only a few dollars per pound.

Fortunately, she has the talent to farm. She will plant it all over the mountain at home. She won’t have to envy other people’s families anymore. Ye Zhen feels a little proud when he thinks about it!

I looked down at a pair of small green eyes, and saw the owner was still pecking at the papaya that fell on the ground! There was no sense of crisis at all!

What a happy little rooster!

In a blink of an eye, Ye Zhen diligently helped Qian Fen tie up the chickens and ducks and threw them into the car.

I'm going to kill one of them later to see what it feels like to eat fruits all year round.

That must be the taste of happiness!