"It can't be a boy! I went to the Mazu Temple this morning to pray. It has to be a girl, preferably a quiet one, otherwise I'll really lose my life!"
Ye Lin was so frightened that he kept wiping away sweat. To be honest, he hadn't thought about it before, but now that his son was older and had more ideas, he felt a headache whenever he saw Ye Zhenxing.
I'd rather be out at sea every day than see that brat!
Fu Wan laughed heartily as she listened. Just then, Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan returned from beachcombing with buckets in their arms. Hearing Ye Lin's words, they were also overjoyed.
"Ah Lin, don't expect girls to be quiet. Boys and girls are the same. Look at our Lingling, she's always running around outside."
In this freezing weather, you went diving with some kids from the village just a couple of days ago. You shouldn't be thinking about girls being quiet and gentle!
In Awan's words, this is prejudice, what kind of thinking is this!
"Inherent thinking!"
Fu Wan couldn't help but add that a few days ago, Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu took Fu Honghong and several children from the village to the beach to play diving.
The weather has turned to autumn, and the seawater is a bit chilly, but these children don't seem to feel cold at all; they jump around more and more excitedly than the last.
Just then, Ye Xiaocui and Jiang Chunlan went to the beach to check the tide, and upon seeing this, they immediately sent the children home.
Not only were Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu scolded, but Fu Wan was also implicated and received a long lecture from Ye Xiaocui.
Fu Wan did not object to Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu going to the beach to dive. After a year of practice and Fu Wan's occasional breath-holding exercises, their swimming skills were already very good.
But in such cold weather, they are still children, and Ye Xiaocui was worried that they would catch a cold and get a fever that could damage their brains.
Therefore, Fu Wan could only make an agreement with the children that they could go diving, but not now, until after May when the weather was warmer.
But Fu Wan turned to Mou Er and asked him to help find two sets of wetsuits for the children. She knew her own daughter well; it was only October, and there were still six months until May next year. It would be strange if they couldn't wait.
Having a wetsuit is better; at least it won't be so cold. If we wait another month, the seawater will be bone-chilling, and then we really won't be able to go swimming.
Ye Lin hadn't paid much attention to Fu Ling and the others before, only thinking that the two children were clever and obedient, but he didn't expect them to be so difficult to manage.
Oh, may Mazu bless him, regardless of gender, that his child won't be a troublemaker, otherwise he really won't be able to control him!
Putting the children aside, Ye Xiaocui beamed with joy when she saw the two bamboo baskets on the ground filled with mountain produce.
Wild kiwifruit and wild pears—these were her favorite foods when she was little.
As for chestnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts, these things can fill one's stomach and also be sold for money. In the past, villagers would scramble to pick these things. Even if they managed to get them, they would carry them to the market to exchange for money to buy food. As for eating them themselves, they really couldn't bear to part with them.
"Ah Lin, these pine nuts and hazelnuts look pretty good. Why didn't you take them to the market?"
As Ye Xiaocui spoke, she grabbed two hazelnuts, bit them with her back teeth, and the kernels inside were exposed.
The hazelnuts are very plump and have a wonderfully fragrant flavor when chewed.
These aren't raw hazelnuts; Li Chunhua must have roasted them.
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Upon hearing this, Ye Lin shook his head frantically and explained, "Auntie, my mother doesn't have time to go to the market, and I'm too lazy to go either. You can't earn much money standing there all morning."
I'd rather work at Awan's factory than waste that time there; at least I'd be protected from the wind and rain. But these are all things my mother specially asked me to bring for you to try.
She's already roasted the pine nuts and hazelnuts. The chestnuts keep well, so you can handle them yourselves. As for these kiwis, I picked out the firm ones; they'll be ready to eat in a couple of days.
After saying that, Ye Lin grabbed a pear from the bamboo basket and promoted it like a precious treasure.
"Try these pears, they're so sweet! Even though Zhenxing and his friends run around everywhere, these things are really good!"
Ye Lin's words revealed a hint of smugness. Although he was annoyed that Ye Zhenxing refused to study properly, he had also disliked attending literacy classes in the past. He could only say that Ye Zhenxing was like him in this respect, and there was nothing he could do about it!
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan and the others picked up the pears, wiped them on their clothes, and took a bite.
"A little dirt won't hurt you," goes the saying. This fruit, which has absorbed the essence of the sun and moon, is just that delicious.
With one bite, the juice of the mountain pear bursts in the mouth, its incredibly sweet taste making Fu Wan and the other two unable to resist taking another bite.
"Oh, this fruit is so sweet! It's even better than the apples Huiping's mother bought a while ago!"
Jiang Chunlan kept praising that a few days ago, Wang Huiping's family came over and brought some apples that they didn't know where they bought. They weren't very big, but they were quite red.
Wang Huiping gave two wild pears to Jiang Chunlan to try. Jiang Chunlan rarely ate fruit, and she thought apples were already delicious. She didn't expect these wild pears to be even sweeter and the skin wasn't hard. They were just a little small, and she finished them after only a few bites.
Ye Xiaocui nodded in agreement, finished the pear in her hand in a few bites, turned around and went back to get a bamboo sieve for washing vegetables, and then began to put the mountain products into it.
"Chunlan, these things are good. I'll pack some for you to take back and give to Huiping and Aliang."
After saying that, she kept stuffing mountain produce into the sieve: pears, kiwis, hazelnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, she didn't miss a single one.
Jiang Chunlan repeatedly stopped her, saying, "That's enough, that's enough! How can we possibly finish all this? There are several people in our family, you should save some for the children!"
"Wow, there's so much! Why are you being so polite with me!"
As she spoke, Ye Xiaocui deftly filled a large sieve to the brim.
Fu Wan ate two mountain pears in a row. When Fu Ming returned from the dock with meat and bones, he saw Fu Wan throw the fruit pits next to the chicken coop by the door.
"Holy crap, where did all these mountain products come from?"
Fu Ming was quite surprised when he saw the two large baskets of things. Without saying a word, he picked up a pear, rubbed it on his clothes, and then took a big bite.
"Oh my, it's so sweet! I'll decorate some and send it to Anning later!"
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan turned around and found a bag.
She also decorated Bai Qianzhou, but not too much. In the blink of an eye, there were only two days left before they went to Guangzhou, and the mountain pears would spoil easily if they weren't eaten.
Old Fu stayed at the hotel construction site early in the morning and didn't return until close to lunchtime.
Logically, meals should be provided for the construction work in the village, but Fu Wanjian's hotel has hired a lot of people, and if meals were provided, Ye Xiaocui would not be able to handle it all.
Fu Wan simply took out some money and gave it to Aunt Hua, who ran a breakfast shop by the dock, and asked her to take over the catering for these people.
It solved the problem of feeding the workers, allowed Aunt Hua to earn money, and didn't tire out her own family too much—a win-win-win situation.
Aunt Hua's cooking skills are really good. Usually, when Ye Xiaocui is in a hurry to go out to work, Fu Ling and the others like to go there to buy breakfast.
Time flew by and the day to go to Guangzhou arrived. Early in the morning, Ye Xiaocui got up to prepare food that was easy to take on the train, worried that Fu Wan and the others would go hungry on the train.
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