Chapter 170: Planting Rice (2)

"Great!" The six boys answered in unison this time. They had already walked away with Ruan Jiaojiao, and Xu Xu followed behind. The

Ruan family had set out early, and when they came to the fields, many families had not yet come out, so the prickly ash in this area was still intact and had not been picked. Ruan Jiaojiao stood by the ditch, tiptoed and watched her brothers picking the good ones. She put the good ones in her clothes and ate the ordinary ones.

The prickly ash was bright red and sweet. Her brothers were eating it. She was a little greedy and stretched out her little hand to pick a yellow one in front of her. Before her hand touched the fruit, it was wrapped by Xu Xu beside her.

"Prickly hand." Xu Xu said, pointing at the thorns on it.

Ruan Jiaojiao took her hand back hesitantly, pouting her little mouth and saying nothing.

She actually felt that it was most meaningful for her to take action at this time.

But with several brothers around and the little villains staring at her, her chances of taking action were basically zero. She stopped thinking and just stood aside and watched.

When the second group of children came here to pick prickly pears, the Ruan family boys had already picked the best ones and led Ruan Jiaojiao back with satisfaction.

On the way back, Ruan Chi saw that Ruan Jiaojiao was very greedy, so he took out the reddest and largest one from his clothes pocket, blew it in front of his mouth, and handed it to her: "Eat it, it's okay."

It seemed that just blowing it like that was the same as washing it.

Ruan Jie tried to stop them, but Ruan Jiaojiao had already stuffed the prickly ash into her mouth in a flash.

"Sister is so greedy." The youngest Ruan Qing laughed.

"She even ate the leaves at the back." The fat boy also laughed.

Ruan Jiaojiao didn't care. She was already conquered by the delicious food in her mouth and thought the fruit was really good.

Back at the Ruan family's field, Ruan Lin and his family had already started planting rice. The rice seedlings and the field were separated by several acres. Ruan Jiandang couldn't go into the water, so he tied up the rice seedlings that Ruan Jianmin had pulled up with straw stalks on the shore a few acres away. Ruan Jianjun then carried them to the field where rice seedlings needed to be planted on a shoulder pole.

When Ruan Lin saw them coming back, she washed her hands in the water and came over. She collected the prickly ash picked by the boys, put it in a drinking bowl, poured boiled water, and gave it to Ruan Jiaojiao to soak.

She took a piece of cloth and spread it on the ground, picked her up, put on the straw hat she had prepared long ago, and coaxed her, "Just stay here and watch. If you are hungry, eat some biscuits and candies that grandma brought. If you are thirsty, eat some fruit. You can also ask grandma to pour you some water. If you are tired, lie down and sleep for a while. Cover yourself with this coat, don't let it get sunburned, understand?"

As Ruan Lin spoke, she brought a basket, put some snacks and the last batch of plums on the tree in it, and put her coat on her calves, so that she could cover herself when she slept, and not let it get sunburned.

Ruan Jiaojiao looked at her, and then at the other little girls working in the fields. Her face turned slightly red. How could she be out here to work? She was clearly out for a spring outing!

"Grandma, I'm grown up now, and I can also go into the water to plant rice seedlings." Ruan Jiaojiao saw the little girl working in the field next door. She was probably afraid that the rice seedlings she planted would be crooked, so she specially pulled a rope from both ends of the ridge to compare.

Ruan Jiaojiao thought she could do it too.

"Nonsense, how old are you? You don't need to do these jobs." Ruan Lin immediately retorted that she had nine boys at home, so why did she need her little Jiaojiao to go to the fields?

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Wild strawberries are called wild strawberries. I don’t know if you girls have ever eaten them. When Kaka was a kid, he was greedy and would often pick them and eat them without washing them, which often caused his mouth to get rotten (￣ー￣)