Recently, there have been people selling watermelons from pushcarts at the entrance of the village.
After finishing work at noon, An Qingbai and Su Mengmeng went to the village entrance and bought a few watermelons to take back. The watermelons were five cents a pound. Su Mengmeng bought two, and An Qingbai bought three.
They all planned to give the watermelon to their partners, and An Qingbai also wanted to bring one for his parents.
Fortunately, Zhuang Zhimeng had some ice, so the watermelon we ate that day was kept chilled there.
Zhuang Zhimeng was very happy to see the watermelon that An Qingbai brought back.
"Hehe, Qingbai, I was just thinking about eating watermelon! I thought I could only eat watermelon when I won a prize in a lottery!"
An Qingbai was happy because she was happy.
"Zhizhi, chill the two watermelons, and take one to my parents tonight."
Zhuang Zhimeng was about to nod when she suddenly thought of Grandpa Shang and her master.
"Brother Qingbai, let's send one to Grandpa Shang and Master too, it's the hottest place in the cowshed!"
An Qingbai thought for a moment before shaking his head.
"We figured they couldn't finish it and had nowhere to put it, so we'll eat half and give them half, cut it for them, and then we'll take the watermelon rind away."
Zhuang Zhimeng agreed, the key issue being the lack of Ksitigarbha.
"That's right, then let's send them half over tonight!"
After finishing work in the afternoon, An Qingbai came to Zhuang Zhimeng's place to take a chilled watermelon home for his parents.
I didn't come over until evening to eat watermelon with Zhuang Zhimeng.
An Qingbai cut the watermelon in half and was about to cut it open when Zhuang Zhimeng stopped him and handed him a spoon.
"Qingbai, here's a spoon for you. You hold the watermelon, and we'll each use a spoon to scoop it out and eat it!"
An Qingbai smiled and did not object.
Holding the watermelon, he scooped out the very center piece with a spoon and fed it to Zhuang Zhimeng.
"Zhizhi, this is the sweetest part of the watermelon, you can eat it!"
Zhuang Zhimeng smiled sweetly at him before opening her mouth and eating the watermelon.
"It's delicious! The watermelon is sweet, cool, and refreshing! Brother Qingbai, you should try some."
An Qingbai affectionately patted her hair before scooping out a spoonful of watermelon to eat himself.
"It's quite sweet. I was worried it was a bit too early and the watermelon wouldn't taste good!"
"Maybe it's because they took good care of it! By the way, Brother Qingbai, doesn't our brigade grow watermelons?"
"No, our brigade grows grains, and the fruits are just those that grow naturally on the mountain."
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Zhimeng made a suggestion.
"Then let's plant these watermelon seeds in my yard. Maybe they'll grow into watermelons next year!"
An Qingbai looked around the courtyard and nodded.
"It's up to you. Plant it if you want. But when we have a new house, will we still plant it there?"
Zhuang Zhimeng shook her head.
"We won't plant anything at the new house. We can just come here and pick what we can find here! We're not taking this house back!"
An Qingbai agreed, saying that the house wouldn't be taken back just because someone got married and was still in the village.
The two of them ate half a watermelon, taking turns spooning it out, and then carried the other half of the watermelon in a basket, covered with another basket, to the cowshed.
As they approached the cowshed, Zhuang Zhimeng suddenly wondered if she would run into Sun Xiaohua again, and whispered gossip to An Qingbai.
"Hey, Qingbai, do you think we might run into Sun Xiaohua again?"
An Qingbai looked around but didn't see anyone.
"Probably not. It's so hot, the area around the cowshed must smell awful! Even if we're doing *that*, we can't stand the stench, can we?"
An Qingbai's guess was correct; Sun Xiaohua and An Shitou had changed locations, mainly because the smell was too overwhelming. They moved their rendezvous to the cornfield.
"Uncle Stone, is this place really safe? I'm so scared! If we get caught, my mother-in-law and my husband will definitely not let us off the hook!"
An Shitou noticed that Sun Xiaohua was hesitant and was about to comfort her.
Unexpectedly, Sun Xiaohua's words were overheard by someone, and that person was the very brigade leader they least wanted to see at that moment.
"Who is it? Come out here! Who's in the cornfield?"
An Shitou and Sun Xiaohua both held their breath, not daring to make the slightest sound.
An Baogen was furious; this was a disrespect shown to him, the captain!
Shout at the cornfield.
"An Shitou, is that you? I heard everything just now, it's definitely you, come out here!"
An Shitou whispered to Sun Xiaohua.
"Xiaohua, don't make a sound. Quietly leave from that side. If the captain can't catch you, we'll be fine!"
Sun Xiaohua's voice trembled with fear.
"Okay, I got it. I'll sneak over there!"
An Shitou patted Sun Xiaohua's hand and stood up.
"Hey, isn't this the brigade leader? Why aren't you asleep yet? Are you having trouble sleeping because of the heat, just like me?"
An Baogen glared at An Shitou.
"Stop talking nonsense! What are you doing in the cornfield? There's another woman there too, isn't there? Who is she? Call her out!"
An Shitou looked at An Baogen with a smile, his hands behind his back waving repeatedly.
"Captain, you misheard me. There's no one else, it's just me!"
Seeing An Shitou's waving hand, Sun Xiaohua crouched down and carefully moved in that direction little by little.
Just when Sun Xiaohua thought she could leave successfully, a flashlight suddenly shone on her.
It turned out that not only the brigade leader was here, but also the militia leader An Huazhong was in the cornfield. The double harvest was about to begin, and they came to check on the cornfield.
"Hey you, woman over there, stand up! I want to see whose wife you are, to be so shameless as to do something like this, having a tryst with a man in the cornfield!"
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