Chapter 197 A Close Call
Walnuts are not so easy to pick.
They are all hanging on tall trees. If you want to pick them, you have to climb up the tree.
Xiao Xun, the patrol officer, couldn't help out in a big way. There were so many people watching, and it would be bad if he deserted.
But Ye Li didn't care. It was just climbing a tree! She could do it.
"Xiao Mu, Xixi." Ye Li tied up her slightly longer hair and said, "Mommy will pick them from the tree later, and you guys can pick them up from below."
"Yeah." Xiaomu and Xixi nodded obediently.
Ye Li chose a tree with many walnuts, climbed up the tree using both hands and feet, stepped on the trunk and held the branches, reached out to pick the walnuts that were clustered together, and then threw them on the ground.
With a snap, a bunch of walnuts scattered and fell all over the ground.
Xiaomu and Xixi quickly dispersed and picked up the walnuts and put them into the bamboo basket.
Everyone was climbing trees to pick walnuts, so Ye Li's neighbors chose the tree next to hers. After all, they were neighbors, so they could take care of each other if anything happened.
Xiao Xun was holding a gun, wandering around not far away. While being alert to the situation around him, he couldn't help but look at Ye Li on the tree.
The walnuts close to the trunk were quickly picked by Ye Li. She held onto the branches and slowly moved forward a few steps to the walnuts very close to the branches. After picking them, she moved forward again.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a branch breaking. Ye Li looked down and found that the branch she was standing on had cracked. She was so scared that she immediately walked back slowly. The walnut tree she climbed was tall and big. If she fell down, she would have to stay in bed for several months even if she didn't die.
"Mom!" Xixi shouted.
Xiao Xun had been paying attention to Ye Li's movements, and of course he saw Ye Li about to fall from the tree.
He dropped his gun and rushed to the tree as fast as he could.
At this moment, the branch snapped and broke completely. Ye Li didn't have time to walk back and fell down. Everyone was very nervous.
However, Xiao Xun arrived in time and hugged Ye Li safely.
"Are you okay?"
"Huh..." Ye Li breathed a sigh of relief. Now he wouldn't fall to his death!
However, their posture seemed a little ambiguous, so Ye Li quickly got off Xiao Xun and said, "Thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have almost fallen to my death."
"Be careful." Xiao Xun looked up at the walnut tree and said, "I'll help you pick them."
Ye Li almost fell just now. Xiao Xun didn't care about anything else and wanted to help Ye Li immediately, regardless of what others would say about him abandoning his work and helping others pick walnuts.
Xiao Xun climbed up the tree nimbly, picked walnuts and threw them down continuously. Soon Ye Li's bamboo basket was full.
They had finished picking the fruits, but others were still picking, and they hadn't even picked half a basket. Who was as agile as Xiao Xun and not afraid of falling?
The Ye Li family waited until everyone else had finished picking the walnuts, and then they all went home carrying baskets full of walnuts.
On the way, of the neighbors who had been walking together chatting and laughing, only Chong Ling and Zheng Tianning were left walking beside him.
Chong Ling was talking to Ye Li with a smile on his face.
"Sister Li Zi, I see Xiao Xun is helping you so much, is there something going on between you two——"
Ye Li reached out and covered Xiaomu and Xixi's ears, and said to Chong Ling, "Xiaomu and Xixi are here, I don't want to talk about this."
"Oh, okay." Chong Ling hit a snag and immediately slowed down a couple of steps, moving away from Ye Li. She continued gossiping about her boyfriend Zheng Tianning, saying, "I think there's something going on between them."
"This is a matter between them, why do you care so much?"
"Hey, it's not like you don't know him... He's always the focus of discussion among us women."
Hearing his girlfriend's answer, Zheng Tianning shook his head helplessly.
(End of this chapter)
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