Chapter 1890 Together
Bai Shan handed all the fruits to Bai Erlang, rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll pick them with you."
Bai Jilang also wanted to climb a tree, so he threw everything into the basket and found another tree to climb up. He never picked fruits to see if they were ripe, he just picked the ones he liked.
So he picked much faster than Bai Shan and Man Bao who were always comparing themselves, and Mingda handed him a new basket.
Bai Erlang himself couldn't quite tell whether the pears were ripe or not, let alone Mingda. Seeing how quickly Bai Erlang picked them, she pointed to him and said, "There are some over here, too."
Bai Erlang hung the basket on a branch and went among the leaves. He saw the pears she pointed at and pulled them down. When he tried to throw them back into the basket, he found that the leaves blocked his way. He reached under the tree and said, "Here you go."
After saying that, he threw it towards Mingda.
Mingda couldn't help but laugh happily. She reached out to catch them, and even dropped one of them while holding them in her arms. She picked it up and put it in her basket, and continued to point them out to him happily, "There are some here too. There are two particularly large ones..."
On the other side, Changyu was also constantly bending down to pick up pears. From time to time, he would catch the pears thrown by Manbao and Baishan, and occasionally point them in the direction, "There are some over here too. There's a particularly big one here..."
The three of them were squirming around in the tree like monkeys. Because of their big movements, the leaves on the tree fell down. The guards and palace maids stood by silently and watched. They also noticed several loose small fruits falling from the tree.
They all felt sympathy for these wild pear trees.
The five of them worked together to work the three pear trees hard, then filled four baskets with fruit. Bai Shan and Man Bao jumped down from the tree and saw that Bai Erlang had picked two baskets by himself. They couldn't help but pick up the fruit in his and Mingda's baskets and asked, "Can this be eaten?"
Bai Erlang said confidently, "It's all sour anyway. I can just close my eyes and eat it. What's there to not eat?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao actually thought he was right.
Chang Yu came forward carrying her basket and said with a troubled look on her face, "It's sour."
Mingda said happily, "No matter whether it's sour or sweet, I just had a good time."
Chang Yu thought so and said, "Then let's go pick that sweet red fruit. Manbao, what's it called?"
"Prickly bubbles," Manbao said, "I know where there are a lot of them. Let's go."
Manbao led them down the mountain from the other side. When they reached the bottom of the mountain, they saw a cluster of thorny hooks connected together, dotted with red dots and many red fruits.
Manbao came forward and saw a big one, so he reached out and picked it up, took a look, and handed it to Changyu after making sure there were no bugs. Changyu put it in his mouth before the palace maids could stop him in time.
Then his eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "It's really sweet."
It wasn't very sweet, but she was eating it right after picking it. It was a wild fruit she had never eaten before, so even if it was only 30% sweet, she could taste it as 80% sweet.
Mingda also carefully avoided the stones and wood blocks on the ground as he moved forward. Looking at so many red fruits in front of him, he didn't know which one to pick.
Bai Erlang had already reached out and picked several. Seeing that she didn't know how to start, he instructed her, "You can pick any that look intact. When picking, look at the feel. If they feel hard, they must be good. If they are soft, check to see if they are rotten. If they are, they must be sweet."
This is the superficial experience he has accumulated over the years. Although it is not 100% accurate, it is about 60% accurate, so he thinks it is still very accurate.
Mingda nodded and started picking the prickly ash under his guidance, but he picked so many that he didn't know where to put them.
The palace maid quickly brought a purse and came forward to fill it for her. Mingda took it, but couldn't help turning her head to look at Manbao and the others.
Bai Shan picked two large leaves from the other side, gave one to Manbao, and took one for himself to put the fruit.
She turned her head to look at Bai Erlang and saw him holding the fruits in his hands. If he picked too many, he would pick a few big red ones to eat. When there were fewer red fruits in his hands, he would continue picking.
Mingda: ...
Chang Yu didn't care about all this. He just picked them and gave them to the palace maids and eunuchs. Occasionally he would put a few into his mouth and eat them with relish.
The five of them picked all the red fruits, leaving only a few scattered around.
Especially the ones in the middle, which looked bright red, but they didn't pick them. It's not that they didn't want to, but they were powerless.
If he walked in, his clothes would surely be snagged by the thorns. Manbao said, "I should have worn coarse cloth clothes, then I wouldn't be afraid of being snagged."
Although the clothes they were wearing were not particularly good, they were made of fine cotton and were very expensive. Not only Manbao, but also Baishan and Bai Erlang were reluctant to damage the clothes.
The five people were tired, so they found a tree to sit under, sharing the prickly ash they picked and chatting while looking at the fields below the mountain.
A breeze blew, dispersing a lot of the heat. Mingda exhaled, and couldn't help but take a deep breath. He felt comfortable in his lungs and didn't even feel like he had a respiratory attack.
You know, when she goes out, what she fears most is the invisible dust and flying catkins outside. When she breathes deeply, she always feels itchy in the nose and stuffy in the chest.
Mingda reached out and touched the bracelet on his wrist. He turned to Manbao and smiled faintly, asking, "Why are red fruits called prickly bubbles?"
Manbao scratched his head. "Because there are thorns on the vine, these red fruits are like bubbles growing on it?"
Bai Shan laughed heartily upon hearing this. "That's not wrong, I heard it's also called a hook."
Speaking of aliases, who is more familiar than Manbao?
Her encyclopedia contains all the names of this thing. She counted them on her fingers and said, "It's also called raspberry, raspberry, tree plum, raspberry, wild berry, blackberry, blackberry..."
Bai Shan turned his head away and ignored her.
Chang Yu was stunned. "How do you know so many names?"
Bai Erlang said, "Do you think those flowers and plants died in vain? She's loved digging grass and catching insects since she was little. She studies them as soon as she gets them, even breaking them apart to see if they're male or female. How could she not know a lot?"
Changyu shuddered after hearing this and silently moved a little further away from Manbao.
Manbao sat down next to her and stretched out his hand, saying, "My hands have not only touched flowers, trees, insects, fish, birds, and animals, but also people."
"From the outside, the head, hands, feet, and inside, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—I've touched them all."
Chang Yu was so scared that he pushed her away and jumped up and away from her, "Zhou Man, you scared me."
Manbao laughed heartily and said happily, "You're just now thinking of being afraid, are you stupid?"
"You're the fool, you, you," Chang Yu pondered for a moment but couldn't come up with any good words, so he could only shout, "Don't talk about these things anymore. And you, Bai Cheng, if you scare me again, I'll kick you off the mountain."
(End of this chapter)
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