Chapter 68: Distinguishing Right from Wrong

"Zhao Yan! Bing Yan! We are here! We are here!" Su Ying shouted loudly.

"Aying, Aying!" Su Bangyan heard his cousin calling him and pulled his cousin to run towards Su Ying.

Fortunately, there were many thorns and vines in the forest, making walking inconvenient, so Su Ying and the others were not too far away from Su Bangyan and the others.

The two children were small in size and ran faster than Su Ying and the others, and soon the two sides met up.

"Zhao Yan, Bing Yan, why are you here?" Su Bucheng was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

If my daughter hadn't heard it, the two children would have gotten lost in the forest. If they encountered a wild beast, how could I face my two younger brothers?

"Uncle!" Seeing their uncle's ugly face, the two children hid behind Su Ying in fear.

"Zhao Yan!", "Bing Yan!" Su Lao Er and Su Lao San chased after them, "Why are you here?"

"Aye! Wow..." Su Zhaoyan hugged his father's thigh and cried loudly.

"Bingyan! Who told you to run around? How do you take care of your younger brother?" Su Laosan pulled his son over and slapped him twice on the butt.

"Aye!" Tears welled up in Su Bangyan's eyes, but he stubbornly refused to let them fall.

"Third Uncle!" Su Ying pulled Bingyan over. "Bingyan is still a child. He's scared too. Why did you hit him?"

The two little guys had their clothes torn and looked miserable.

Su Laosan didn't say anything else. He was afraid. What if the child really got lost? He didn't dare to think about it!

"Don't be so reckless next time, okay?" Su Bucheng took a deep breath.

"Well, that's for sure, uncle! We were wrong!" The two children hurriedly admitted their mistakes.

"Aye, since Zhaoyan and Bingyan are here, let's go together!" Su Ying advised.

Sending it back would be a hassle, not only time-consuming and laborious, but it was also getting late.

"Let's go! Keep up and don't get lost!" Su Bucheng had no choice but to agree.

The two children held their father's hands, forgot their previous fear and terror, and happily joined the large group.

After walking for more than a quarter of an hour, we arrived at the deep mountains and old forests.

Many opened chestnuts with sharp thorns on the outside fell under the chestnut tree.

"Oh! What is this?" The boys had never seen it before, so they picked it up curiously and found it a little prickly.

"Chestnuts! Pick them up quickly! You only want the fruit inside, not the thorny shells!"

Su Ying squatted down, picked up the chestnut, carefully broke open the sharp thorns, and took out the chestnut.

Everyone picked up the trash separately.

"Don't just focus on picking up things, be careful not to lose them! Aye, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, each of you lead a team." Su Ying reminded.

"No need to worry!" The young men followed their fathers.

"Oh, what is this?" Su Zhaoyan picked up a green-skinned fruit. Some parts of it were black, but it didn't seem to be rotten and was still hard.

"Wild walnut!" Su Laoer took a look and said, "Take off the green skin and you'll find the walnut inside."

When Su Zhaoyan heard this, he shouted, "Bingyan, Bingyan, I have walnuts here!"

"Where, where?" Su Bangyan ran over with a dustpan filled with some chestnuts.

"Look, my father said that if you remove the green skin, it becomes a walnut." Su Zhaoyan showed it to Bingyan.

Bingyan looked around and saw quite a few walnuts, which were easy to pick up, unlike chestnuts which were prickly.

The two children concentrated on picking walnuts, and poured them into the backpack when they had almost picked them.

"There are so many things here!" The boys couldn't pick them all up. There was a chestnut tree in the east and a walnut tree in the west.

Su Ying came under the jujube tree. Some of the jujubes that fell on the ground were shriveled, and some were rotten into mud.

There are still quite a few of them hanging on the trees, golden in color.

Su Ying picked up the good sour dates on the ground and found a wooden stick to knock on the tree.

The jujube tree was tall, and Su Ying could only hit the branches that were not high enough.

"Rustle!" The sour jujubes on the trees fell down like a rain of sour jujubes.

"Aying, what is this?" the boys were curious.

"Sour jujube!" Su Ying picked up a golden one the size of a thumb, tore open the skin, revealing the yellow-white flesh.

Feed it into Zhao Yan's mouth, "Try it!"

Su Zhaoyan narrowed his eyes, feeling sour and sweet, which quenched his thirst.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Everyone looked at Su Zhaoyan's sour eyebrows and eyes wrinkled, and their mouths suddenly watered.

"It's both sour and sweet!" Su Zhaoyan spat out the date pit, his eyes sparkling and he looked much more energetic.

"You can try it too!" Su Ying picked up a handful and handed it to everyone.

Su Boyan tasted it and refused to try it again. The other teenagers were curious about how sour it was, so they each took one, peeled it and put it in their mouths.

Then they all made faces and grimaced with jealousy, almost losing their souls.

"Hahaha!" Su Laosan couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw the silly looks of the children.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, is it like when we were picking sour dates?"

Su Bucheng and Su Laoer stopped what they were doing and watched the children playing with a smile on their faces.

"Yes, just like us back then!" Su Laoer sighed.

They were young at that time, and although their family conditions were not very good, the three brothers all worked hard to make progress.

His life gradually improved, and he became well-known in the local area, with many people coming to propose marriage to him.

They are vigorous, energetic, high-spirited and full of fantasies about the future.

Time flies so fast. My children have grown up so fast in the blink of an eye. Time really flies.

"What can these sour dates be used for?" the teenagers were curious.

Compared with their parents' generation, their family conditions were much better when they were born and gradually became more affluent. I have never seen such a thing before.

"What can be done? Don't underestimate it, there are many things it can be done with.

Grinding it into powder after drying makes jujube flour, soaking it in wine makes jujube wine, and fermenting it makes jujube vinegar.

Jujube kernels can be ground into powder and combined with other herbs to make tea. Even the young leaves of this tree can be made into tea."

Su Ying listed a lot of uses of sour dates.

"Ah? It can also make vinegar and wine?" The boy thought it was magical.

The three brothers Su Bucheng had never thought that they could only grind the jujube into powder and use it as food to satisfy their hunger, but they actually knew that jujube had so many uses.

"Of course, if there is sugar, you can also make sour jujube cake. It is sour and sweet and delicious." Su Ying thought of the sour jujube cake she had eaten before.

"Aying, is the sour jujube cake delicious?" The two little guys looked at Su Ying eagerly.

In ancient times, sugar was a luxury and was rarely available.

The children hadn't had sweets for a long time, so they were very craving them when they heard about it.

"Of course it's delicious. If Su He hadn't spit in that jar of honey, we could have made sour jujube cakes when we got back." Su Ying said regretfully.

But if Su He hadn't spit, the jar of honey would not have fallen into his hands.

"Oh!" Su Zhaoyan lowered his head in disappointment and stopped asking Su Ying.

The stupid thing my sister did was so embarrassing that my cousin Boyan had to lend his book out as an apology.

Su Zhaoyan didn't have much education, but he still understood simple principles and could tell right from wrong.

I am ashamed of my sister and mother's nonsense.

"Okay, get to work. These are all treasures. When we have candy in the future, we can make a lot of delicious food!" Su Ying patted her two little cousins.

"Really?" The two little greedy cats' eyes lit up when they heard it.

"Of course! There are flowers here all year round, and bees can make honey all year round, so it's not difficult to eat honey." Su Ying smiled mysteriously.